Podcast appearances and mentions of joan churchill

Michael M. Pessah, ASC and Buddy Squires, ASC talk about the art, history, and current practices of documentary filmmaking.

In the sixteenth episode of Season 5 (Dystopia Myopia) Kyle is joined by fellow podcaster Ben Thelen (of the Dead Reckoner podcast) and screenwriter David Gutierrez to discuss Peter Watkins' visceral docu-realist encapsulation of emerging 70s revolutionary ire and frustration in the eerily prescient Punishment Park

Aaron Weisblatt has cut a wide swath in the film and television industry, working as an editor, sound editor, cameraman, producer, director and writer. Currently finalizing LAND OF LITTLE RIVERS (www.landoflittlerivers.com) a feature documentary on fly fishing, he is busy developing feature film stories and television series from his screenplays. In 2018 his short film, ROOSTER AND THE QUEEN was screened at the Woodstock Film Festival, and will be screened in 2019 at Dances With Films in Los Angeles, CA, among others.  His first documentary, SAM, was nominated for an Academy Award. It aired on The National Geographic Explorer Series and the UK's Channel Four. He co-produced the critically acclaimed BBC documentary FEAST OF DEATH, about the best-selling author, James Ellroy and later produced and directed an award-winning feature documentary, BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, which won numerous awards on the film festival circuit. He was a picture editor on The History Channel's 10-part award-winning series, WWII IN HD and a cameraman on the first season of A&E's TATTOO HIGHWAY and on an episode of INTERVENTION. He has produced non-scripted reality/docu-soaps, HELLER ON WHEELS, WOODSTOCK LOGGERS and co-produced a series pilot called AMERICAN TURBO with the producer of ORANGE COUNTY CHOPPERS. Additionally, Aaron produced concert footage of some of the last historic concerts at Levon Helm’s MIDNIGHT RAMBLE. He has also worked on the documentaries Evocateur, Disturbing the Universe and Earth Days.  Aaron began his career in New York City working as a P.A. on commercials, television series and industrials while attending New York University. Upon graduating, he became an apprentice picture editor and later became an assistant picture editor and a sound editor after moving to Los Angeles where he worked on many features and television shows. He has had the opportunity to work with many talented producers, directors and actors such as Dustin Hoffman, Volker Schlondorff, Sam Rockwell, RobbieBenson, The Hughes Brothers, Joel Schumacher, Peter MacGregor- Scott, and documentary filmmakers Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield, Vikram Jayanti and Joan Churchill.  imdb.me/aaronweisblatt  cinetrope.com www.landoflittlerivers.com

In 1992, Aileen Carol Wuornos, an itinerant sex worker, was arrested for the murders of seven men in or near Volusia County, Florida in 1989 and 1990: all of them shot while Wuornos was on the job, all of them shot at point-blank range. She became, in the view of the public, according to the filmmaker Nick Broomfield, who made two documentaries about her and about the media storm that surrounded her, a "man-hating lesbian prostitute who tarnished the reputations of her victims,” a useful foil for family-values string-em-up-dead politicians who wanted to show that they were tough on crime–and an unlikely lesbian hero. Visit our website for T-shirts, an episode archive, and more information about the show. ----more---- SOURCES: Barrett-Ibarria, Sofia. “How Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos Became a Cult Hero.” Vice (blog), September 19, 2019. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm3j4/how-serial-killer-aileen-wuornos-became-a-cult-hero.   Broomfield, Nick. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer. Documentary, Crime. Channel 4 Television Corporation,  Lafayette Films, 1994.   Broomfield, Nick, and Joan Churchill. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer. Documentary, Crime. Lafayette Films,  Channel 4 Television Corporation, 2003.   chesler, phyllis. “A Woman’s Right to Self—Defense: The Case of Aileen Carol Wuornos.” Off Our Backs 23, no. 6 (1993): 6–15.   Levina, Marina, and Diem-My T. Bui, eds. Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.   Pearson, Kyra. “The Trouble with Aileen Wuornos, Feminism’s ‘First Serial Killer.’” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4, no. 3 (September 2007): 256–75. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420701472791.   Vronsky, Peter. Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters. 1st edition. New York, N.Y: Berkley Books, 2007.   Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.  

In this edition the Rock N Roll Archaeologist digs very deep into the events of the Altamont Music festival held on December 6th, 1969. Our special guest is author Saul Austerlitz whose latest book is “Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont”. Saul is a long time music journalist who has had work published in the LA Times, NY Times, Boston Globe, Slate, the Village Voice, The New Republic, the SF Chronicle, Spin, Rolling Stone, and Paste. He is the author of several previous books, including Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video from the Beatles to the White Stripes. In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of “Woodstock West,” where the Rolling Stones hoped to end their 1969 American tour triumphantly with the help of the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, and 300,000 fans. Instead the concert featured a harrowing series of disasters, starting with the concert’s haphazard planning. The bad acid kicked in early. The Hells Angels, hired to handle security, began to prey on the concertgoers. And not long after the Rolling Stones went on, an 18-year-old African-American named Meredith Hunter was stabbed by the Angels in front of the stage. The show, and the Woodstock high, were over. Austerlitz shows how Hunter’s death came to symbolize the end of an era while the trial of his accused murderer epitomized the racial tensions that still underlie America. He also finds a silver lining in the concert in how Rolling Stone’s coverage of it helped create a new form of music journalism, while the making of the movie about Altamont, Gimme Shelter, birthed new forms of documentary. Using scores of new interviews with Paul Kantner, Jann Wenner, journalist John Burks, filmmaker Joan Churchill, and many members of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, as well as Meredith Hunter's family, Austerlitz shows that you can’t understand the ‘60s or rock and roll if you don’t come to grips with Altamont. Join Christian and Saul as they discuss the book in great detail. Get the book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250083197

Writer and critic Saul Austerlitz moderates a panel with GIMME SHELTER cinematographer Joan Churchill, producer Porter Bibb, editor Mirra Bank, and Judy Maysles. The event came on the occasion of the publishing of Austerlitz's new book, "Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont." This podcast is brought to you by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Film Lives Here. www.filmlinc.org

Cinematographers Natasha Braier, Ashley Connor, Agnès Godard, and Joan Churchill discuss the notion of a "Female Gaze" over opening weekend of our series of the same name. "The Female Gaze" continues here at the Film Society of Lincoln Center through August 9th with films by directors like Claire Denis, Jacques Rivette, Chantal Akerman, Ryan Coogler, and Lucrecia Martel. This podcast is brought to you by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Film Lives Here.

Dokumentärfestivalen Tempo pågår för fullt i Stockholm. På kvinnodagen, den åttonde mars, var det passande nog biopremiär för Alla Vilda. Den första dokumentärfilmen som någonsin gjorts om författaren och kvinnoförebilden Birgitta Stenberg. Hon som lämnade konventioner och svensk tristess bakom sig på femtiotalet, drog till Paris och sedan skrev flera självbiografiska romaner om sina upplevelser. Filmarna Marianne Gustavsson och Lisa Belfrage bestämde sig för att ta med den snart åttioåriga Birgitta Stenberg på en resa tillbaka i tiden för att träffa vännerna från förr, och det blev ett tre år långt äventyr helt i Birgitta Stenbergs anda. Ett högt tempo och med en partynivå som passade författaren perfekt men som var utmattande för de betydligt yngre dokumentärmakarna. En av Tempo-festivalens hedersgäster är den brittiske filmaren Nick Broomfield. Mannen bakom dokumentärer som Kurt & Courtney, Biggie & Tupac och två filmer om seriemördaren Aileen Wournos. Men i början av veckan åkte Broomfield in akut till sjukhus, och istället fick hans fotograf och medregissör på många av filmerna, amerikanska Joan Churchill ensam ta över strålkastarljuset på Tempo. Helt rättvist också, för även om Nick Broomfield gärna tar plats i filmerna och kastar sig över folk med sin mickbom så är det ju Joan Churchills bilder som ju blir själva filmen. En av de som talar sig varm för finansiering via nätet, så kallad crowdfunding, är den amerikanska regissören Jennifer Fox. Kvinnan bakom "Flying, confessions of a free woman" som gick på tv för några år sedan. Hugade filmskapare kunde i veckan höra Fox berätta om alternativa finansieringsmetoder på ett seminarium. Men när Kinos Lisa Bergström träffade regissören kom det fram att hon från början inte alls var förtjust i det här sättet att finansiera film på. Det var en ren nödåtgärd när pengarna till filmen My reincarnation försvann iväg med en producent. Att crowdfunding slagit igenom brett kunde man också se på årets filmfestival i Berlin där flera filmer avslutades med gigantiska listor på människor som donerat och investerat pengar under eftertexterna. Men hur mycket pengar kan man få ihop, och hur viktiga är donationerna för projekten? En av filmerna som tävlar i Tempo Documentary Award är Ewa Cederstams Våga minnas. Filmen där regissören försöker undersöka sin egen och andras tystnad kring den våldtäkt som hon utsattes för för 25 år sedan... Programledare: Roger Wilson Producent: Lisa Bergström

Shortly after moving to Florida, longtime prostitute Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron) meets young and reserved Selby Wall (Christina Ricci) and a romance blossoms. When a john (Lee Tergesen) attempts to brutalize Aileen, she kills him and resolves to give up prostitution. But supporting herself and her new girlfriend through legitimate means proves extremely difficult, and she soon falls back on old ways. More johns die, and Selby can't help but think her new friend is responsible. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer - In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with Wuornos herself, and his crew films her trial as well as her interactions with religious fanatic Arlene Pralle, who gives Wuornos dubious advice and legally adopts her. The cameras also roll as the accused's attorney ignores the case at hand to negotiate a deal to sell his client's story. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer - British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial. Watch Monster: https://amzn.to/2Xlv1nA Watch Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer: https://amzn.to/2xfoOi5 Watch Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer: https://amzn.to/34mMsWk Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/mfrbooksandfilm?fan_landing=true

Shortly after moving to Florida, longtime prostitute Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron) meets young and reserved Selby Wall (Christina Ricci) and a romance blossoms. When a john (Lee Tergesen) attempts to brutalize Aileen, she kills him and resolves to give up prostitution. But supporting herself and her new girlfriend through legitimate means proves extremely difficult, and she soon falls back on old ways. More johns die, and Selby can't help but think her new friend is responsible. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer - In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with Wuornos herself, and his crew films her trial as well as her interactions with religious fanatic Arlene Pralle, who gives Wuornos dubious advice and legally adopts her. The cameras also roll as the accused's attorney ignores the case at hand to negotiate a deal to sell his client's story. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer - British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial. Watch Monster: https://amzn.to/2Xlv1nA Watch Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer: https://amzn.to/2xfoOi5 Watch Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer: https://amzn.to/34mMsWk