Matthew Heineman

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Matthew Heineman at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival

Matthew Heineman (* in Washington, DC ) is an American documentary filmmaker , film director and producer, and cameraman .

Life

Matthew Heineman was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Darien and New Canaan, Connecticut. He attended the New Canaan Country School and the Brunswick School in Greenwich. His mother, Cristine Russell, works as a science journalist, and his father, Ben Heineman, as a lawyer.

After graduating from Dartmouth College in 2005, where he studied history, Heineman made his first documentary, Overcoming the Storm, about some of the New Orleans residents. His 2015 film Cartel Land was nominated for best documentary at the 88th Academy Awards and won three primetime Emmys, was named best documentary by the DGA and received the Courage Under Fire Award from the International Documentary Association. In this film he was about the drug war in Mexico. Heineman had previously directed and produced the Emmy-nominated documentary Escape Fire .

In his documentary City of Ghosts , which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2017 , he sheds light on the work of a group of Syrian citizen journalists in Raqqa called “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”, which tries to expose human rights violations committed by the Islamic State and combat the terrorists' misinformation campaigns in their home country.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

British Academy Film Award

Critics' Choice Documentary Award

  • 2017: Nomination for Best Documentary (City of Ghosts)
  • 2017: Nomination for Best Director (City of Ghosts)
  • 2017: Nomination for Best Political Documentary (City of Ghosts)

Directors Guild of America Award

  • 2018: Award for Best Documentary (City of Ghosts)

Munich Film Festival

International Documentary Association Award

  • 2017: Nomination for Best Documentary (City of Ghosts)

Montclair Film Festival

  • 2017: Awarded the Special Jury Prize in the documentary film competition (City of Ghosts)
  • 2017: Nomination for the Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Films (City of Ghosts)

Oscar

Primetime Emmy Award

  • 2016 : Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Nonfiction Program (Cartel Land)
  • 2016: Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking (Cartel Land)
  • 2016: Nomination for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program (Cartel Land)
  • 2016: Nomination for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming (Cartel Land)

Sundance Film Festival

  • 2017 : Nomination for the Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary Film Competition (City of Ghosts)
  • 2017: Award with the candescent Award (City of Ghosts)

Web links

Commons : Matthew Heineman  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/78974035/inside-cartel-land-with-director-matthew-heineman
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  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tribecafilm.com
  4. ↑ https://www.dga.org/Events/2017/July2017/DocSeries_CityofGhosts.aspx
  5. ^ Second Annual Critics' Choise Documentary Awards Nominations unveiled In: criticschoice.com, October 9, 2017.
  6. ↑ Gregg Kilday: DGA Awards: Guillermo del Toro and 'The Shape of Water' Take The Best Film Prize In: The Hollywood Reporter, January 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ Prize winners 2017 In: filmfest-muenchen.de. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  8. ^ FD News: Dastardly Disney; IDA nominees; Snapchat shakeup; Spielberg's on a roll ( Memento of the original dated November 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / filmdaily.co archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: filmdaily.co, November 8, 2017.
  9. ↑ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lady-macbeth-strong-island-award-winners-at-montclair-film-festival-2017-1002004
  10. ↑ http://variety.com/2017/film/festivals/sundance-documentary-city-of-ghosts-candescent-award-1201963293/
personal data
SURNAME Heineman, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American documentary filmmaker, director and producer, and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC , United States