In today’s world filmmakers not only have to find within themselves the creativity necessary for making widely acclaimed movies, but also follow their artistic conscience. Like many other directors, Roger Spottiswoode<\/b> has divided his career between films for the wider audience and others which appeal to a more specialized audience. We are pleased to announce that during the 20th edition of the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography PLUS CAMERIMAGE<\/b>, Roger Spottiswoode<\/b> will be the Head of the Jury of Directors’ Debuts Competition<\/b>. <\/p>\n
<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today’s world filmmakers not only have to find within themselves the creativity necessary for making widely acclaimed movies, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiadomosci-plus-camerimage-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Roger Spottiswoode<\/i>
Spottiswoode<\/b> started his career in the 1970s as an editor for Sam Peckinpah, for whom he edited Straw Dogs<\/i><\/span>, The Getaway<\/i><\/span>, and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid<\/i><\/span>. Afterwards he edited The Gambler<\/i><\/span> for Karel Reisz and Hard Times<\/i><\/span> for Walter Hill. He wrote the original script of 48 Hours<\/i><\/span> and soon afterwards started to direct. In the 70’s, Arthur Krim, Eric Pleskow and Mike Medavoy had left United Artists to form Orion, a new company that continued the tradition of supporting filmmakers. Under Fire<\/i><\/span>, a vision of politics and photojournalism in Nicaragua during the civil war, was financed and distributed by them. Spottiswoode’s<\/b> career has included a number of politically and socially engaged films interspersed between more commercial Hollywood films. And the Band Played On<\/i><\/span>, made for HBO, was the story of the politics behind the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the early 80s; Hiroshima<\/i><\/span> was an exploration of the events and decisions in Tokyo and Washington leading to Hiroshima. Shake Hands with the Devil<\/i><\/span> tells the story of UN involvement in Rwanda before and during the genocide, while The Children of Huang Shi<\/i><\/span> was based on the life of a little known English journalist in China at the time of the Rape of Nanjing. Beyond Right & Wrong<\/i><\/span> is a series of recent interviews in Rwanda, Palestine, Israel and Northern Ireland and looks at questions of reconciliation and justice. <\/p>\nStill from “Under Fire”<\/i>
In short, Roger Spottiswoode<\/b> has found a number of topics which are not always considered popular. He has also made films about unusual characters such as God’s Favorite<\/i><\/span>, about the fall of Manuel Noriega and Spinning Boris<\/i><\/span>, a behind the scenes look at American political consultants as they achieved in the impossible to get Boris Yeltsin re-elected in 1984. We are honored that Roger Spottiswoode<\/b> will be again our guest, and that he agreed to be the Head of the Jury of Directors’ Debuts Competition<\/b>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n