Christopher Campbell of Thrillist has listed City of Ghosts as one of the Best Documentaries of 2017. Matthew Hamachek began his career working on the Oscar-nominated documentary STREET FIGHT with Marshall Curry and went on to collaborate with Curry on three films including IF A TREE FALLS which won the Documentary Editing Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2012. It could even win the golden guy. In this world of extremely polarized media, there’s no more important story to tell than the story of people fighting for truth.”, City of Ghosts wins the Grand Jury Prize win at Sheffield Docs Film Festival. And, as always, Victoria’s writing is so very beautiful and lyrical. Editorial Reviews. City of Ghosts has received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for The Producers Guild of America Awards. NY Press Inquiries: ryan@cineticmedia.com “City of Ghosts” is ultimately a story of heroism, documenting the courage of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently,” a group of citizen journalists who risk their lives to bring footage of ISIS’s atrocities in Syria to the wider world. Parents need to know that City of Ghosts is an animated documentary series about the history of Los Angeles, framed around a ghost hunting adventure.Creator Elizabeth Ito is best known for her work directing the popular Cartoon Network series Adventure Time. “Propaganda is one of the evilest tools that human beings have used throughout history. City of Ghosts has been nominated for the St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary. “A battle-group of modern Muslim men fighting for the truth. View production, box office, & company info, Nat Geo Sets NYC Covid-19 Documentary ‘The First Wave’ From Matthew Heineman, Everything Coming to Netflix in March 2021. An orphan girl, Earwig, is adopted by a witch and comes home to a spooky house filled with mystery and magic. Editor and Co-Producer Matthew Hamachek joins Greg Baker and Julie Goldman at the DOC NYC Festival to discuss observational filmmaking. In addition, CARTEL LAND was nominated for a Gotham Award, Critics’ Choice Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, and was recently presented with the 2015 Documentary Award by the prestigious George Polk Awards in Investigative Journalism. Gibney has been called “the most important documentarian of our time” by Esquire Magazine and “one of America’s most successful and prolific documentary filmmakers” by The New York Times. Salon speaks with City of Ghosts director Matthew Heineman and Aziz Alhamza of RBSS about the continuing fight against ideological extremism. The "ghosts" in the series are interviewed by Zelda and other members of their neighborhood clan dubbed the Ghost Club. Award-winning composer, H. Scott Salinas has contributed towards an impressive variety of notable projects including Bruce Lee action fable BIRTH OF THE DRAGON, Aaron Sorkin's smash hit The Newsroom, TNT's dark thriller Murder in the First, and the Oscar-nominated documentary film CARTEL LAND. Zelda starts out their adventures by talking to Chef Jo in Boyle Heights. Cloudpunk: City of Ghosts is an adventure game, released in 2021 by ION LANDS. “[The film] puts a human face, a point of contact, on the often overwhelming enormity of Syria’s national tragedy.”, Full Story: “I don’t script what’s going to happen in the future.”. It doesn't insult their intelligence and we really like the quirkiness of the show. Matthew Heineman: “One of my goals with the film is to celebrate journalism, but also to provoke empathy for what’s happening in Raqqa and what’s happening to the Syrian people.”, “A powerful reminder of how essential freedom of the press really is, and how easily it can be taken away.”, “So-called heroes sling into action just about every weekend of the summer movie season, but if you want to see the genuine article, you’ll have to make your way to “City of Ghosts,” Matthew Heineman’s documentary about the Syrian citizen journalist collective of Raqqa.”. A group of kids discover stories around their city by communicating directly with the ghosts who inhabit it. Two best friends go to a magic sleep-away camp, where nothing is what it seems. City of Ghosts has been nominated for three Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. Matthew Heineman is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker based in New York. Antonia Blyth of Deadline lists City of Ghosts as one of the top contenders for the 2018 Oscar Award for Best Documentary Feature. Best Documentary, Best Director – Matthew Heineman, and Best Political Documentary. Decider has listed City of Ghosts #1 on their list of the 10 Best Documentaries of 2017. Jordan Hoffman speaks with Matthew Heineman and Abdalaziz Alhamza about the film and the work of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently. It's been a great five years writing and performing together as close friends and brothers. Listen to Matthew Heineman speak with BBC Radio London Live! This timely movie is heartbreaking.”, ““City of Ghosts” director Matthew Heineman is speaking out against the executive order President Donald Trump signed Friday restricting visits and immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.”. “City of Ghosts is as much about the immigrant experience and the strength of brotherhood as it is about ISIS and those who report on them.”. “Ghosts becomes a portrait of true, and terrifying, heroism – but with a devastating personal and emotional price.”, “Mathew Heineman follows up his Oscar-nominated Cartel Land with this piercing, effective look at these brave truth tellers… With intimacy and a deft touch, Heineman’s portrayal is stellar, always focusing on the subjects rather than the subjectivity of the filmmaker…there are few films of such heart and intelligence that will be seen.”, “Much of Syria suffers from the debilitating effects of ISIS strongholds; fortunately, a few citizen journalists have sought grassroots strategies to fight back. This year, [Matthew Heineman] is back at Sundance with City of Ghosts, a powerful cinematic experience that follows the journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” (RBSS) – a handful of anonymous activists and unwitting journalists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014 on a mission to get their stories out to the world undercover, on the run and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the great evils in the world today. City of Ghosts is a middle grade novel that has such a perfect spooky atmosphere, and it’s set around scary places in Scotland. “We are left with a heartfelt look at some of the noblest people in the journalism profession, and with sharply edited film honing right in on the anarchy unleashed by a group that has superseded Al Queda and the Taliban for their fervor, their brutality, and their successes.”, “An important and moving film that crystallizes the purpose and power of journalism, the courage and sacrifice of those fighting to get the truth out, and the human impact of a war being waged across the ocean.” – Shelly Hepworth, “It’s an homage to real journalism, to seeking the truth, to fighting for the truth, especially as quote unquote journalism is under fire…. "The Quiet American" was based on Graham Greene's novel about America's illegal activities, circa the mid-'50s, in Vietnam. Dive into new adventures with the happy-dancing, high-flying, big-dreaming beagle, who's joined by best friend Woodstock and the rest of the "Peanuts" gang. City of Ghosts (120) IMDb 7.4 1 h 32 min 2017 UHD R City of Ghosts follows the journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” – a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. Watch this exclusive short about a day in the life of Douglas aka T-Kash, a monster trying to fit in at his high school. Hammer to Nail talks interviews subject Abdalaziz Alhamza and director Matthew Heineman about the making of City of Ghosts. Little White Lies, 4/5 stars! The film was made in Cambodia, in locations that include Phnom Penh and the Bokor Hill Station. CITY OF GHOSTS is his second film with director Matthew Heineman, following 2015’s Sundance prize-winner CARTEL LAND (also nominated for a 2015 Academy Award). The film was released theatrically nationwide by The Orchard in July 2015 and had its broadcast premiere on A&E in January 2016. Heineman won the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary Award from the Director’s Guild of America for the film, as well as the Courage Under Fire Award from the International Documentary Association “in recognition of conspicuous bravery in the pursuit of truth.” He was also named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015. Matthew Heineman speaks with Matthew Carey of Deadline about his work on City of Ghosts and the continuing battle against ideological extremism and propaganda. Exposing the horrors of what’s happening in their city of Raqqa and their country of Syria. Some of those efforts are chronicled in “City of Ghosts,” Matthew Heineman’s Sundance-acclaimed documentary about the journalists in Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, a collective that uses a variety of innovative methods to leak stories about ISIS oppression to the rest of the world.”, Interview with Matthew Heineman about City of Ghosts by Gabrielle Canal, “Matthew Heineman’s ravaging, essential doc profiles citizen journalists’ attempt to blow the whistle on Islamic State atrocities in Syria.”, “Cut together with gut-wrenching intensity and packed with footage that feels equal parts remarkable and horrifying, Cartel Land director Matthew Heineman returns to Sundance with City of Ghosts…”, “Heineman would constantly move, trying to switch up coverage and find ways to cinematically capture the raw emotions and tension inherent to his stories of men risking everything to inform the world of the slaughter happening to their neighbors. Pax Wassermann is a film editor and producer with twenty years in documentary and fiction features. Heineman collaborated for two years with a team at HBO on the groundbreaking, Emmy-nominated HBO series, The Alzheimer's Project, which aired in May 2009. Check out our editors' picks for the movies and shows we're excited about this month, like Mortal Kombat, "Them," and Stowaway. The City of Ghosts world, as a whole, is incredibly colorful, with the aesthetic of a pop-up book. The world's most iconic dog is ready for his close-up. She also serves as executive producer for documentaries produced under the History Films banner, such as the Emmy®-nominated BEING EVEL (2016), and for narrative features from Lifetime Films, including Eleanor Coppola’s PARIS CAN WAIT (2016), starring Diane Lane and Alec Baldwin. . Certificate: G Molly Thompson is founder of A+E Networks’ documentary feature production arm, A&E IndieFilms. A con man (Matt Dillon) travels to Cambodia (also on the run from law enforcement in the U.S.) to collect his share in … City of Ghosts finds the director capturing a group of journalists who were in exile after ISIS took over their homeland in 2014. We have buried two of them found in the mass graves," he said. I think this [film] is an homage, to some degree, to the importance of truth seeking and truth telling.”, “Heineman reveals delicacy and sensitivity while filming his subjects up close. The Evening Standard. Filmmaker Matthew Heineman established connections with both sides to tell two stories, embedding himself directly into the conflict, and he deservingly won the Best Cinematography award at Sundance 2015. The best film I saw at the [BIFF] festival was Matthew Heineman's documentary "City of Ghosts," … Given the subject, the film can't help but be moving, yet, it never consciously manipulates our emotions, just depicts this media war against ISIS's repression and terror in a powerfully understated manner. “This timely documentary is a stirring testament to courageous journalism and the virtue of and sacrifice for truth”, Full Story: This year, he brings “City of Ghosts,” to Park City, which could be described as “ ‘Cartel Land’ but with ISIS,” however Heineman’s too sophisticated a filmmaker for that facile comparison. Internally, it’s quite dynamic; externally, we see them leaning over a laptop or talking on cell phones.”, “From its first ethereal tones, Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman’s … CITY OF GHOSTS music score and sound design achieves a hauntingly simultaneous balance of nearly-imperceptible presence and atmospheric poignancy.”, Watch Matthew Heineman and Shaul Schwartz “discuss their 2017 Sundance Film Festival docs, how they go into filmmaking in the first place, and the films their mothers would like them to tackle next.”. Wander's friendliness often angers Lord Hater, who is bent on galactic domination, and his army of Watchdogs. Alex Gibney is an American documentary film director and producer. Each tree, pedestrian, and car like a snowflake -- none created or painted the same. . In Cloudpunk downloadable content “City of Ghosts,” you play as both Rania and new character Hayse in a more dangerous, more tense city of Nivalis. City of Ghosts has been nominated for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary. With astonishing, deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today. Nick Schager of Esquire lists City of Ghosts as one of the best films of 2017. The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine. Full Story: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. “A film like this is more vital than ever to prove exactly how important the profession [journalism] is.”, ““City of Ghosts” demonstrates, in Hamoud’s phrase, that “the camera is more powerful than a weapon,” but it also shows the horrible price it extracts from those who wield it.”. With Matt Dillon, James Caan, Natascha McElhone, Gérard Depardieu. To celebrate the announcement of City of Ghosts, the main game Cloudpunk is also currently on Sale on Steam with 40% off. Matthew Heineman), and HOT GIRLS WANTED: TURNED ON (Netflix, April 2017). Film Journal International. The British Academy has nominated City of Ghosts for Best Documentary. “City of Ghosts” is documentarian Matthew Heineman’s third film to bow at Sundance, after 2012’s health care doc “Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare” (co-directed with Susan Froemke), and 2015’s searing “Cartel Land,” an immersive, bone-rattling film embedded on the front lines of the drug cartel war in Mexico. 0 of 0 people found this review helpful. Documentary Competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where Heineman won the Best Director Award and Special Jury Prize for Cinematography. I hope there's more to come. In doing so, Heineman may have made the definitive contemporary documentary about the tragedy of Syria, as well as an epoch-defining piece on modern media tactics. Where his previous film was a journalistic masterclass in taking access to the extreme, City of Ghosts instead turns the camera on heroic journalists themselves. Full Story: St. Louis Film Critics Association. His other work includes DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND, PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER, KNUCKLEBALL! This FAQ is empty. Anna Maria Tremonti interviews Abdel-Aziz Al-Hamza and Matthew Heineman from Hot Docs Film Festival. These men and women are risking their lives to expose what ISIS is doing. Previously, he directed and produced a feature-length documentary ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare. With “City of Ghosts,” he dares to embed himself with a band of Syrian activists working to combat ISIS. The Week mentions City of Ghosts as one of the leading contenders for the 2018 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Mickey and his best pals - Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto - embark on their greatest adventures yet, navigating the curve-balls of a wild and zany world where the magic of Disney makes the impossible possible. Mr Saad doesn't know where his other brothers are, but he believes they are dead. The Candescent award was created by actress-producer Lilly Hartley in partnership with the Sundance Institute documentary film program. A whimsical supermarket with friends and aspiring chefs hop aboard a magical shopping cart to seek out ingredients all over the world. Chris Osterndorf reviews City of Ghosts for The Daily Dot. City of Ghosts brings the past of Los Angeles to a new generation of children. Coming off the Oscar-nominated Cartel Land, director Matthew Heineman is returning to Sundance and has once again embedded himself into a vital part of global conflict. Its focus is the here and now…”, Full Story: ", “City of Ghosts asks us to see something of ourselves in these activists.”, “[Matthew Heineman] once again proves his expertise as the messenger of important (and dangerous) stories that need to be told.”, Full Story: Pripyat (/ ˈ p r iː p j ə t, ˈ p r ɪ p-/ PREE-pyət, PRIP-yət; Russian: При́пять, romanized: Pripyatʹ) or Prypiat (Ukrainian: При́пʼять, romanized: Prypiat, IPA: [ˈprɪpjɐtʲ]) is a ghost town in northern Ukraine, near the Ukraine–Belarus border. “City of Ghosts” is ultimately a story of heroism, documenting the courage of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently,” a group of citizen journalists who risk their lives to … Matthew Heineman joins six other nonfiction filmmakers to discuss their films at The Hollywood Reporter's Documentary Roundtable, Scott Feinberg of THR predicts City of Ghosts as one of the five Oscar nominations for this year's Best Documentary Feature, The International Documentary Association has nominated City of Ghosts for Best Feature at this year's IDA Documentary Awards, City of Ghosts has been nominated Best Feature for the 2017 IDA Documentary Awards. The Guardian’s film critic Peter Bradshaw lists City of Ghosts on his shortlist for the most awards-worthy films of the year. It feels organic with the audio of the characters. In Cloudpunk - City of Ghosts, you play as both Rania and new character Hayse in a more dangerous, more tense city of Nivalis. “Heineman does not pull any punches.”, “City of Ghosts is an extraordinary film that manages to convey an inspirational message out of the cauldron of horror and slaughter created by ISIS.”, “Heineman finds beauty in his subject, whether it’s gorgeous cinematography of the Syrian landscape or powerful portraits of the men he’s profiling – elevating his documentary expose to art.”. His most recent film, AMANDA KNOX, premiered in the fall of 2016 to critical acclaim. Abdalaziz Alhamza speaks to The Wrap about the work of RBSS and the continuing ideological battle against extremism. Matthew Heineman and Abdalaziz Alhamza talk with Reason TV about City of Ghosts and the war in Syria. 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