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96th Academy Awards® Set for March 10, 2024
Submission Dates
Tuesday, August 15, 2023: First submission dead- line for Animated Short Film, Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film and Live Action Short Film categories
Friday, September 15, 2023: First submission deadline for Animated Feature Film and General Entry categories
Monday, October 2, 2023: Final submission deadline for Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film categories
Monday, October 16, 2023: Final submission deadline for Animated Short Film, Documentary Short Film and Live Action Short Film categories
Wednesday, November 1, 2023: Final submission deadline for Music (Original Score) and Music (Original Song) categories
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Filming
VERDICT: The sumptuously photographed documentary depicts the realities of a location film shoot while ruminating on filmmaking with the help of Robert Bresson.
Ben Nicholson, May 2, 2023
In 2019, documentary filmmaker Samuel Moreno Alvarez followed his compatriot Juan Sebastian Mesa into the Southwestern Antioquia region of Colombia in order to capture the experience of Mesa shooting his fiction film The Rust An artistic riff on a behind-the scenes documentary, Alvarez’s resulting medium-length piece, Filming, adorns its patiently observational tone with a selection of quotes extracted from Robert Bresson’s book Notes on the Cinematograph – enriching the act of watching to create a meditation not only on filmmaking but selfexpression and internal reflection. Screening as part of the Burning Lights Competition at Visions du Réel, the verdant environment only serves to amplify Filming’s quietly entrancing milieu.
Many of the sequences in Alvarez’s film are unremarkable in and of themselves. His camera watches the discussions preceding a newly arranged scene, watches crew members lugging equipment through the forest, and watches the prop department preparing the carcass of dead chicken with bright synthetic gore.
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