Oscar chat: Petra Costa talks to Alex Pritz, Bitaté Uru Eu Wau Wau (The...
Oscar nominated Brazilian docmaker Petra Costa got to grips with Alex Pritz, director of The Territory, and the rain forest activist and Indigenous leader Bitaté Uru Eu Wau Wau. In the Academy Award short-listed feature doc, when a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, Bitaté and his mentor must fight back in defense of the land as well as other Indigenous peoples living deep within the forest.
Oscar chat: Leo Chiang and Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine (Hallelujah…)
Docmaker Leo Chiang sat down with Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine to discuss the pair’s Oscar shortlisted Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, an exploration of the life of the singer-songwriter as presented through the prism of his much covered and much renowned modern-day hymn. The film was a long time in gestation, maybe even as far back as 2009 when the pair saw Cohen in concert for the first time, suggests Goldfine…
