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June 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band: Film

Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band Director: Tod Lending Nomadic Pictures / Documentary Edge Festival Did you follow through with that lifelong artistic dream during the recent paid 8-week vacation of Lockdown? Did you pick up the drum-sticks for the first time, or first time in years? Did you write that novel, or paint a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Doc, Doc Edge, Doc Edge Fest, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge Festival, Documentary Review, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Holocaust, https://festival.docedge.nz/film/saul-and-rubys-holocaust-survivor-band/, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Poland, Ruby, Saul, Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band, Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band: Film, This year’s Documentary Edge Festival is all online – Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band  is part of the program, Tod Lending ·

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December 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 216 – Howl, Wellington, 2010

When I was introduced to the poem Howl and the poems in that book and any other things by Allen Ginsberg it blew my mind. Right time. Right place. University – first year, eager, hungry. And this madness, these lines, this attitude, it infected me. And I’ve been a fan of the Beat poets and […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2010, Allen Ginsberg, Beat Poet, Film, Film Festival, Howl, James Franco, Movie, Poem, Poems, Poet, Stub, Stubs, Stubs # 216, Stubs: # 216 – Howl, Wellington ·

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August 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 76 – Tamzin Beazley

Welcome to episode 76 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one arrives a day or two early – timing it with the film’s current run around the country as part of the Festival – a conversation with Tamzin Beazley; she is the wife of Booga Beazley from Head […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged A Bit Brutal But Very Truthful, Addiction, Band, Booga Beazley, Chat, Conversation, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Drug Addict, Drug Addiction, Drugs, ep.76, Episode Seventy-Six, Family, Film Festival, Head Like A Hole, History, HLAH, Interview, Julian Boshier, Le Petite Chocolat, Lewis Tennant, Manager, Mental Health, Nigel Beazley, Nigel Regan, Podcast, Shihad, Swagger of Thieves, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 76 – Tamzin Beazley, T Leaf T, Tamzin, Tamzin Beazley, Yeastie Boys ·

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August 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 75 – Gaylene Preston

Welcome to episode 75 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I was lucky to have a chat with legendary Kiwi film director Gaylene Preston. We talked about her career, her work, many of her films but in particular the focus was on her brilliant new film, My Year With […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged "Washboard" Breezy Peyton, Chat, Conversation, Director, Doco, Docs, Documentary, England, ep.75, Episode 75 – Gaylene Preston, Episode Seventy-Five, Feminism, Film, Film Festival, Filmmaker, Films, Gaylene Preston, Helen Clark, http://www.gaylenepreston.com/, Interview, Jan Preston, Le Petit Chocolat, Movie, Movie Making, Movies, Mr Wrong, Music, My Year With Helen, PM, Podcast, Politics, Ruby and Rata, Simon Sweetman, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 75, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 75 – Gaylene Preston, T Leaf T, The Five Obstructions, UN, United Nations, Utu, Wellington, Yeastie Boys ·

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August 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

My Year With Helen: Film

My Year With Helen Director: Gaylene Preston Gaylene Preston Productions The aim of this film, initially, was to tag along with Helen Clark as she visited some countries, flew the diplomatic flag; a window into the idea of kindness and compassion within geo-politics (it’s still there if you search, as Preston and crew were planning). […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Doc, Documentary, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Gaylene Preston, Kiwi, Movie, Movie Review, My Year With Helen, My Year With Helen: Film, PM, Secretary General, UN, United Nations ·

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July 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Swagger of Thieves: Film

Swagger of Thieves Director: Julian Boshier Niche Cameras Ltd. “Head Like A Hole is the sweaty beast of NZ rock’n’roll music…” – that comes from a quote I wrote for a poster of the band; I look at that poster every day, it’s above my desk – it’s there because I had to create the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Andrew Durno, Beautiful Machine, Booga Beazley, DiG!, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Drugs, Film Festival, Film Review, Head Like A Hole, HLAH, Julian Boshier, Junkies, Mark Hamill, Mike Franklin-Browne, Music, Niche Cameras Ltd., Nigel Beazley, Nigel Regan, Rock-Doc, Shihad, Swagger of Thieves, Swagger of Thieves: Film, Tamzin Beazley, Tom Watson ·

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July 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Bill Direen – A Memory of Others: Film

Bill Direen: A Memory of Others Director: Simon Ogston Bellbird Pictures Simon Ogston is making the New Zealand music/arts docos where you can’t believe your luck – your favourite cult act, finally, is being correctly, lovingly examined. At a previous film festival it was his take on The Skeptics – and his work returns to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Memory of Others, Academic, Art, Artist, Arts, Bellbird Pictures, Bill Direen, Bill Direen - A Memory of Others: Film, Bill Direen: A Memory of Others, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Dunedin, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Guitar, International Film Festival, Movie, Movie Review, Musician, NZ Film Festival, NZ Tour, Poet, Sheen Of Gold, Simon Ogston, Skeptics, Songwriter ·

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July 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Simon Ogston

Simon Ogston is an Auckland-based producer, director and camera-operator.  Among other things, Simon has made a number of feature-length films about New Zealand bands.  These include Rumble & Bang, Gone With The Weird, Antarctic Angels and the Unknown Blues and Sheen of Gold. His latest film is about Bill Direen, A Memory of Others and it screens at this year’s New […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Memory of Others, Antarctic Angels and The Unknown Blues, Back To The Future, Bell Bird Pictures, Bill Direen, Cherry 2000, Director, Doco, Documentary, Film, Film Festival, Filmmaker, Five Albums I'm Loving Right Now, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Simon Ogston, Gone With The Weird, http://www.bellbirdpictures.co.nz/, Movie, Movies, NZ International Film Festival, Raising Arizona, Rumble & Bang, Sheen Of Gold, Simon Ogston, Special Guest, The Trump Presidency ·

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May 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Pulitzer at 100: Film

The Pulitzer at 100 Director: Kirk Simon Marblemen Productions/Simon + Film Released last year to coincide with the anniversary, The Pulitzer at 100, is an independent look at the prestigious prize – in all its variations – and though you could claim it (almost) as some sort of hagiography, gushing over its subject and its […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Doc, Doc Edge, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge, Documentary Film Festival, Film Festival, Kirk Simon, Pulitzer Prize, The Pulitzer at 100, The Pulitzer at 100: Film ·

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May 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

This Is Everything – Gigi Gorgeous: Film

This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous Director: Barbara Kopple SelectNext Gregory Lazzarato was any young Canadian boy – a gifted diver on track for Olympic Games consideration. He also loved make-up and growing up in the age of YouTube found himself as a beauty and fashion vlogger with a growing fanbase connected to a YouTube channel. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Barbara Kopple, Barbara Kopple SelectNext, Beauty, Celebrity, Doc, Doc Edge, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge, Fame, Fashion, Film Festival, Gigi, Gigi Gorgeous, Gigi Lazzarato, Gregory Lazzarato, Make Up, This Is Everything, This Is Everything - Gigi Gorgeous: Film, This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, Trans, Transgender, Transition, vlogger, YouTube ·

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May 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Whitney, Can I Be Me: Film

Whitney, Can I Be Me Director: Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal Lafayette Films/Passion Pictures/Showtime Networks A subtly powerful documentary that gets its strength and credibility through the use of footage from a never-before-seen fly-on-the-wall 1999 tour doco (that’s Dolezal’s footage, hence the co-directing credit), it seems important to get out of the way, right away, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bobby Brown, Can I Be Me: Film, Can I Be Me?, Cissy Houston, Clive Davis, Diva, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge, Documentary Edge Festival, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Movie, Movie Review, Nick Broomfield, Pop Music, Robyn Crawford, Rudi Dolezal, Soul Train, Whitney, Whitney Can I Be Me, Whitney Houston ·

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January 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 45 – Dean Hewison

Welcome to episode 45 of Sweetman Podcast – my conversation with Dean Hewison. Dean is a Wellington-based theatre and film writer and director. He co-wrote and directed the 2012 feature film, How To Meet Girls From A Distance. He has been a regular participant and – regularly – award winner in the 48 Hour Film […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged 48 Hour Film, Chat, Conversation, Dean Hewison, ep.45, Episode Forty-Five, Film, Film Festival, Head of the House, How To Meet Girls From A Distance, Interview, Judgment Tavern, Lungs, Play, Podcast, Short Film, Simon Sweetman, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 45 - Dean Hewison, Theatre, Weta ·
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