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‘Endurance’ Filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi on Retelling the Tragic Antarctic Journey of Ernest Shackleton (Video Interview)

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel In recent years, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi have become two of the foremost documentary filmmakers after winning the Oscar for their 2018 doc, Free Solo, about mountain climber Alex Honnold. That was followed in quick succession by docs The Rescue (recreating…

Steven Spielberg to Produce ‘Jaws’ 50th Anniversary Docufilm with National Geographic

Photo by mptvimages.com Fifty years after directing Jaws, Steven Spielberg is collaborating with National Geographic to produce a documentary as an anniversary tribute. Tentatively titled Jaws @ 50, the film will be directed by Laurent Bouzereau under NatGeo’s Amblin Documentaries banner. It will include archival footage and images from Spielberg’s archives, as well as materials…

Documentary About Astronomer and ‘Cosmos’ Author, Carl Sagan, in Development by National Geographic and Seth MacFarlane

@NASA Cosmo Studies National Geographic Documentary Films is working on an upcoming documentary feature that will focus on the life and career of legendary astronomer, Carl Sagan, Deadline is reporting. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and scientist is known for expanding scientific understanding of the universe. Throughout his life, he also helped millions of people appreciate…

The Territory | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films

Sundance Award-Winning Documentary About Amazonian Indigenous Environmental Activism From First-Time Feature Filmmaker Alex Pritz and Award-Winning Producers Sigrid Dyekjær and Darren Aronofsky **WINNER – Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft and World Cinema Documentary Audience Award – Sundance FF 2022** **WINNER – Best Documentary – Seattle Int’l FF 2022** **WINNER – John Schlesinger Documentary Award – Provincetown Int’l…

EarthX Film Festival: Fire Of Love, An Alchemic Eruption Of The Volcanic Couple

Fire of Love is a documentary film, directed, written, and produced by Sara Dosa, that had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival — where it won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award in the U.S. Documentary category. It also also screened at South by Southwest and it is currently part of the EarthX…

DOC NYC Film Review – ‘The First Wave’ Shows How COVID Transformed New York City

It’s difficult to be able to fully process the impact of something while still in it. As time goes on and cases continue to spread, the reality continues to set in that COVID-19 is here to stay, and society will need to evolve to account for its existence. Early on, however, that wasn’t as apparent,…

The Rescue :An Exclusive Interview with Academy Award-Winning Filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi 

Synopsis : The Rescue chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. Using a wealth of never-before-seen material and exclusive interviews, E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin keep viewers on the edge of their…

Becoming Cousteau |Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films

BECOMING COUSTEAU  SYNOPSIS : Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau was one of the 20th century’s great explorers, a filmmaker and beloved adventurer who documented the exotic wonders below the ocean with pioneering equipment that  yielded a Cannes Film Festival-winning film, two Academy Awards , and a pair of iconic and long-running  television shows, “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau” and “The…

An Exclusive Interview with Pioneer Scuba Diver Valerie Taylor Who Helped to Make the First Blockbuster Film, “Jaws”

A true pioneer in both underwater filmmaking and shark research, Valerie Taylor is a living legend and an icon in the underwater world whose life’s work has become the basis for much of what we know about sharks today. Through remarkable underwater archival footage, along with interviews with Valerie herself, “Playing with Sharks,” from twice…

Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story, Reverses The Stigma Towards The Marine Predators

There are several visionary women who have inspired the world about the wonders of our planet, from Rachel Carson with her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the sea, to Jane Jacobs who championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building; from Alice Waters who advocated for local sustainable agriculture, to Jane…