PRESS
Affecting and tenderly realized by Gunther, “Sunset and the Mockingbird“ is a portrait not only of dementia but of those individuals who must continue to care not only for the patient but also look after their own well-being. Bring tissues.
Screen Comment
Sunset and the Mockingbird beautifully portrays a great artist and brilliantly shows us the extraordinary power of music and love in taking care of a person with Alzheimer’s . From music lovers to caregivers, all will cherish and adore this amazing film.
Dr. Rudy Tanzi, Dir. Genetics and Aging Research, General Hospital
Sunset and the Mockingbird is a loving and thoughtful tribute to the caregivers, especially those who watch their loved ones slowly disappear before them, infused with the music of jazz great Junior Mance, whose music lives in him as all else fades.
Filmmaker Magazine
A raw but beautiful journey through music, fading memories and all that jazz. It’s also a deeply moving account of unconditional devotion, mourning and human dignity. In this doc, legendary pianist Junior Mance and his wife Gloria show that even when the brain falters, the heart beats on. A true New York love story.
New York Post
‘Predators’ review: Busted for social good (and maybe ratings)
The Dateline NBC series “To Catch a Predator,” which aired from 2004 to 2007, largely adhered to a straightforward formula: Hire an actor who looks younger than his or her age to lure an adult who is seeking a sexual encounter with a child.
Seattle Times
‘Predators’ Review: Good vs Evil Isn’t so Black and White
'Predators' challenges us to examine this uncomfortable topic in order to find humanity in its complexity.
Cinemacy
‘To Catch a Predator’ Ended Almost 20 Years Ago. Its Grim Legacy Lives on.
“Our age-old love of participatory punishment — an impulse that’s manifested in everything from stocks and pillories to public executions — remains fully intact.”
NY Times
‘Predators’ Review: David Osit’s Quietly Trenchant Documentary Asks What Truth Came Out of a True-Crime Phenomenon
Examining the ghoulish NBC hit 'To Catch a Predator' and its cultural legacy over the last two decades, Osit sharply queries its ethics, its insight and its effectiveness as an instrument of justice.
Variety
‘Predators’ examines the tactics of a reality TV phenomenon that may have gone too far (Copy)
Predators director David Osit and To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen discuss why the early-aughts show became so popular — and at what cost
Rolling Stone Magazine
‘Predators’ examines the tactics of a reality TV phenomenon that may have gone too far
A sting-operation-meets-hidden-camera-prank, the show had a riveting hook: Men engaging in erotic online conversations with people they thought were minors got invited over to the children’s houses, welcomed inside by a young-looking actor and then surprised — and publicly grilled — by news anchor Chris Hansen, who had already won two Emmys for a piece on sexual trafficking in Cambodia.
LA Times
“Emotional Ping-Pong”: David Osit’s ‘Predators’ Moves Beyond True Crime Binaries
To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), a periodic segment on the TV newsmagazine Dateline NBC, was one of the biggest nonfiction sensations of the 2000s. The show collaborated with various local law enforcement agencies around the U.S. to entrap would-be child predators, having decoys posing as minors speak with them online and luring them to houses for promised sexual encounters, where the cameras and police would be waiting for them instead.
IDA - International Documentary Association
‘Abject horror’: the troubling history of paedophile-hunting TV shows
A man would arrive at a house after chatting to someone he believed was underage, with a plan to have sex or engage in a sexual act. The house would be rigged with hidden cameras and the child would be an actor of age, playing the role of an excitable pre- or young teen, maybe even suggesting they both drank alcohol as a further illicit act.
The Guardian
An Alarming Documentary on the Power of Far-Right Social Media Influencers
Swedish director Simon Klose's latest feature follows investigative journalist My Vingren as she tracks an elusive online agitator stirring up hate across the globe.
The Hollywood Reporter
Documentary, Politics, Journalism.
Hacking Hate’s no-holds-barred approach soberingly uncovers the epidemic of hate that manifests itself online (as well as in plain sight) and starkly highlights the vulnerability of democracy.
Tribeca
A Voyeuristic Documentary Infiltrates Online White Supremacy
A tense documentary that winds its way through online right-wing politics, Simon Klose‘s “Hacking Hate” is a detailed (if occasionally disconnected) exposé of contemporary extremism.
Variety
Juan Palacios on ‘As the Tide Comes In,’ a Metaphor of Where We Are as Human Beings
“It is a metaphor for where we are as human beings and the challenges that we’re facing with climate change,” says Palacios about his observational pic, sparkled with humorous touches, such as in the main character’ introductory scene, where we see him trying to enter TV2 Denmark’s reality show “Farmer Wants a Wife.”
Variety
The mudflats in their countless shades of brown and grey; the water in which endless skies are reflected; the birds which also provide the soundtrack together with the ever-blowing wind.
Gregers is a wonderful, tragic protagonist whose history is told in a subtle and highly distinctive way. In the car he listens to the radio programme Farmer Seeks Love, for which he has signed up. He gets a call about his possible participation, asking what he has to offer women. Gregers gets no further than a stammering: “um … nature…”
Business Doc Europe
Thrusts the viewer directly into this isolated community
Residents on the tiny Danish island of Mando confront the realities of climate change in this immersive documentary
Screen Daily
Fire danske dokumentarfilm udtaget til IDFA
IDFA 2023. Dansk dokumentarfilm er flot repræsenteret på verdens største dokumentarfestival. ’Før Stormen’, instrueret af Juan Palacios og ko-instrueret af Sofie Husum Johannesen, får verdenspremiere i hovedkonkurrencen.
The Danish Film Institute
Carpet Cowboys Review:
Finding Melancholy in the Dashed Hopes of the American Dream
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