Documist

12/01/2024

Wow, what an honor to be recognized with the Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, for "profound social impact, significant innovation of form, and remarkable mastery of filmmaking technique." Not bad!

As always, thanks so much to .97 for collaborating with us on this film, and for your tireless work protecting your land and the rainforest. This award is for all of you!

Thank you for making sure the film is seen all over the world and has the maximum impact possible.

13/10/2023

On any given night, tens of thousands of fishermen in China's distant-water squid fleet perform an industrial ballet thousands of miles out on the high seas. With unprecedented access to the extremely remote fishing grounds, SQUID FLEET is a poetic exploration of the motivations of the fishermen, the brutality of systemic labor abuses in the Chinese fishing industry, and the destruction wrought by the commodification of people and nature in our globalized world. It is based on two years of rigorous investigative journalism from the Pulitzer Prize-winning team of The Outlaw Ocean Project.

28/07/2023

Nuisance Bear has received two Emmy Nominations!

⭐️ Outstanding Cinematography: Documentary
⭐️ Outstanding Sound

Historically it’s been difficult for short films to break into craft categories and we are so honoured to be recognized amongst friends and filmmakers we admire greatly.

Congratulations!
Cinematographers: Gabriela Osio Vanden (), Jack Weisman (), and Sam Holling
Sound Designer: David Rose
Mixer: James Bastable ()

28/11/2022

✨ Nuisance Bear is an nominee for Best Short Documentary ✨

IDA Documentary Awards is the world's most prestigious award event solely dedicated to documentary film recognizing the most groundbreaking documentary films of the year.

If you’re an IDA member please considering voting for any of these wonderful films!

Nuisance Bear also received this year’s Honorable Mention for a Pare Lorentz Award. Films bestowed with this award exhibit the highest production values and artistry in its directing, writing, music composition, camera work, editing and research, and exemplifies the spirit and tradition of Pare Lorentz's work—his passion for people and the land and his quest for a more fruitful coexistence between the two.

This is the first time a short film has been given this honor! Thank you 🙏🏼

29/09/2022

Congrats to , , and for the Emmy! 🎉

Big shout-out to for the beautiful music, and and the whole Outlaw Ocean team for championing the film and making sure it was widely distributed all around the world!

24/06/2022

Hello from Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ❤️

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24/03/2022

Copenhagen, come find us for our European premiere 9pm Sunday March 27th at the Grand Teatret! We will be there in person with some very special guests.

Many thanks to for highlighting this film and bringing the crisis in the Amazon to light.

02/03/2022

Who's coming to True/False Film Fest this weekend?! The teams from both THE TERRITORY and NUISANCE BEAR will be there! Cya on the dance floor.

https://truefalse.org/program/films/
https://truefalse.org/program/shorts/
https://truefalse.org/

March 3 - 6, 2022

17/02/2022

NUISANCE BEAR is a Canadian Screen Awards Nominee for Best Short Documentary! We couldn’t have imagined anyone would love this film as much as we do. We’re so grateful.

09/02/2022

We're really excited to be going to True/False Film Fest with both "The Territory" (feature doc directed by Alex Pritz) and "Nuisance Bear" (short doc directed by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden) !!

Let us know if you'll be there!

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03/02/2022

The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks, Self-Portrait, and Nuisance Bear are among the Canadian documentaries slated for the 2022 SXSW festival.

02/02/2022

Excited to share Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden's short film about the most majestic of pests has been selected for the SXSW Film Festival. NUISANCE BEAR is going to Austin! The New Yorker

https://schedule.sxsw.com/2022/films/2054018

29/01/2022

Didn't get a chance to watch THE TERRITORY? Well, you're in luck. Two more screenings were added at Sundance Film Festival. But just today and tomorrow! Click the link to get tickets.

Join us for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival

29/01/2022

One of the newest members of the National Geographic Documentary Films family, THE TERRITORY has taken home TWO Sundance Film Festival awards for World Cinema Documentary: Audience Award and the Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft

In THE TERRITORY “the moving image is truth, truth is power, and picking up a camera is an act of reclamation. Set at the explosive intersection of technology, politics, and indigenous persecution, the film is gorgeously and sometimes ingeniously conceived, painting an intimate first-hand portrait of joy, pain, and community, before bursting with rip-roaring intensity as it captures a high-stakes struggle for survival unfolding in the moment.”
— IndieWire

29/01/2022

2x awards at Sundance!!

"The Sundance awards are very significant because historically our existence has been erased and marginalized, but now we're changing it. Our film is not only about the Amazon, it is also made by the Amazon. This is very important for our work, for our struggle and for the protection of the forest." - Bitate Uru-eu-wau-wau

27/01/2022

We are so honored to be working with National Geographic to bring this story to the world in a big way! We could not ask for a better partner to help further the conversation and raise awareness around Indigenous people's fight to protect the Amazon rainforest.

Sundance Film Festival

National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired “The Territory,” a timely look at indigenous-led land defense in the Amazon rainforest, following its premiere at the virtual Sundance…

23/01/2022

Thank you, IndieWire!!

"Set at the explosive intersection of technology, politics, and indigenous persecution, the film is gorgeously and sometimes ingeniously conceived, painting an intimate first-hand portrait of joy, pain, and community, before bursting with rip-roaring intensity as it captures a high-stakes struggle for survival unfolding in the moment. More than just a chronicle of events, however, it’s also a bold statement about the lens through which indigenous peoples are often brought to the silver screen."

Sundance: Alex Pritz’s real-time documentary lets the Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe tell its own story.

20/01/2022

Hi friends and family! Today is the first day of Sundance Film Festival 2022. Reminder to buy your tickets for the World Premiere of The Territory! Links below ↓

The Territory || World Premiere at Sundance (virtual) - available anywhere in the USA || 8:15 ET

Purchase Tickets:
https://festival.sundance.org/program/ -info/61ae125b14aef702e81c0e97

Since Sundance is virtual you can watch the film from anywhere in the US. There will be a live Q&A after the screening with director Alex Pritz and two of the film's participants!

Look out for more exciting news coming soon. So excited to share this moment with you all!

If you're having trouble purchasing or transferring tickets:
https://www.sundance.org/blogs/how-to-purchase-transfer-and-select-tickets/ #:~:text=Navigate%20to%20our%20ticketing%20page,click%20%E2%80%9CAdd%20to%20Cart.%E2%80%9D

Prod: Darren Aronofsky, Will Miller, Gabriel Uchida, Lizzie Gillett Sigrid Dyekjær

, TIME Studios, Passion Pictures Films, Doc Society, , , International Documentary Association, Jack Weisman, Danfung Dennis, , , ,

09/12/2021

We are thrilled to officially announce that Documist's first feature The Territory has been selected for a World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Competition in January 2022! We are so, SO excited.

This project has been an incredible team effort, and we are beyond grateful to everyone who has been part of it over the last 3+ years. Most importantly, thank you to all the people who let us into their lives, and to those who risked so much to help capture this story. As much as the film itself, we are proud of being a part of this journey of co-creation.

This is a moment of celebration, but also reflection and re-dedication. Our deepest hope is that this film can be more than just a statement about the world as it is, but can provide a useful tool in advancing urgent conversations and action on climate justice and Indigenous territorial rights around the world.

Dir: Alex Pritz
Prod: Darren Aronofsky, Miller, Gabriel Uchida, Lizzie Gillett Sigrid Dyekjaer

, TIME Studios, Passion Pictures, Doc Society, , , International Documentary Association, Danfung Dennis, , , ,

21/09/2021

TIFF 2021: Nuisance Bear directors Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden on their short that observes bears and the humans who watch.