The KFC wins Best Short Documentary
The KFC has picked up another festival award, winning Best Short Documentary last night at the 2020 Carpathian Mountain International Film Festival.
The KFC is now streaming on Prime Video and Vimeo On Demand.
Speechless: The Polar Realm is now available to stream on Amazon’s Prime Video
In addition to Vimeo On Demand, Speechless: The Polar Realm is now available to stream on Prime Video.
Elementa wins top prize at Mosaic World Film Festival
Richard Sidey’s final chapter in his Speechless trilogy, Elementa, was awarded the Spotlight Award for Best Feature Film at the 2020 Mosaic World Film Festival in Rockford, Illinois.
Festival Director Jerry Labuy described Elementa as ‘…a tremendous piece of work.’
View the full awards presentation here.
Elementa awarded at Doc Edge Festival
Elementa had a successful night at the 2020 Doc Edge Festival awards, just a day after the film’s world premiere, winning the Best New Zealand Feature and Best New Zealand Cinematography awards, the former qualifying the experiential film for Oscar consideration.
Jury comments:
Part nature film, part art film, a rhythmic ebb and flow of images and sound tell a moving story about the breath-taking beauty and precarious fragility of the state of our planet. The artful blending of music with the natural soundscape and the choice to show images in triptych to balance an interplay of perspectives work to create story momentum without the use of narrative. The unexpected choice to limit the colour palette to black and white evokes an ultrasound image, showing what is skeletal and essential about the natural world. ELEMENTA stands out as a film that pushes the boundaries of the documentary form through innovative artistic and stylistic choices to create a story that leaves a lasting emotional impression.
Elementa stands out as a film that pushes the boundaries of the documentary form through innovative artistic and stylistic choices that leave a lasting emotional impression.
Doc Edge Festival Jury
ELEMENTA Soundtrack – Released today
Boreal Taiga‘s ELEMENTA soundtrack has been released today on iTunes and Spotify.
Listen now on Spotify”
Listen now on iTunes:
Richard Sidey and Aliscia Young document nature, together
Written by Britt Mann | Published July 06, 2020
Richard Sidey, 37, and Aliscia Young, 33, are Wanaka-based documentary film-makers and photographers who met in 2010. Their work, which focuses on the natural world, takes them to some of the most remote and extreme terrains on earth. Richard’s film Elementa, a five-year-long project that creatively documents some of the wilder places he’s visited, premieres in this year’s Doc Edge International Film Festival...
The KFC wins ‘Best NZ Made Film’
The KFC has won the Hiddleston-MacQueen Award for the best New Zealand film at the 2020 NZ Mountain Film and Book Festival.
The KFC will have its world premiere as part of the festival in Wanaka and Queenstown, as well as online (due to Covid-19) at the end of June.
Read the story in the Otago Daily Times.
Silent Filmmaking in the age of Lockdown
An interview with Lynn Freeman on Standing Room Only
Aired 31 May, 2020 on RNZ National
Wanaka filmmaker Richard Sidey’ is offering us the chance to reconnect with the world’s wilderness areas, in his ambitious documentary spanning seven continents and filmed over 5 years.
Elementa is the third in his trilogy called Speechless. There’s no narration, he places his trust solely on his images and on an ambient soundtrack. Richard also goes against the tide by filming in black and white.
He’s safely back home in picturesque Wanaka – and looking forward to Elementa is being shown as part of the upcoming and now on line DocEdge Film Festival.
Wānaka filmmaker to feature at first major online film festival
A short piece in today’s Wānaka Sun about Elementa and the 2020 Doc Edge Festival.
Links: The Wānaka Sun | Elementa | Doc Edge Festival
A new ambient drone video, flying over the enormous Ilulissat Icefjord.
This video is part of my new Wilderness Escapes YouTube Series
