“Searching for Sugar Man” nominated for Producers Guild of America awardDecember 1, 2012 - 19:32 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Producers Guild of America has nominated five films, ranging from Aaron Yeger's A People Uncounted to Malik Bendjelloul's Searching for Sugar Man, for its Documentary Motion Picture Award. The nominees also include Dror Moreh's The Gatekeepers, Jon Shenk's The Island President and Marius A. Markevicius' The Other Dream Team,The Hollywood Reporter said. The nominees tackle a range of social issues and feature a number of striking personalities. A People Uncounted looks at the history of the Roma people of Central and Eastern Europe, also known as gypsies, who faced annihilation under the Nazis, while The Other Dream Team, which is being distributed by Lionsgate and Film Arcade, tells the story of the 1992 Lithuanian basketball team. Samuel Goldwyn Films' The Island President profiles Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives, and his efforts to save his island nation from the surrounding seas. Sony Pictures Classics has two films among the nominees: The Gatekeepers, which offers interviews with six former heads of Israel's domestic secret service agency, the Shin Bet, and Searching for Sugar Man, which tells the story of the '70s singer/songwriter Rodriguez, who became a huge star in South Africa even while remaining an unknown in his hometown of Detroit. The nominations in all the other categories at the PGA Awards will be announced Jan. 2. The awards themselves, at which special honors will be presented to Bob and Harvey Weinstein, J.J. Abrams, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner and Russell Simmons, will be held Jan. 26 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. Byblos Bank Armenia celebrates Students' Day with scholarship recipients YSU students who received scholarships from Byblos Bank Armenia gathered in a casual setting to meet with the Bank's CEO, Hayk Stepanyan. Azerbaijan extends Rune Vardanyan’s arrest by 5 months A court in Azerbaijan has extended the arrest of former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan by five months. Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |