sugar ( 2013 film )
reviewed at guadalajara film festival (competing), march 2, 2013. running time: 86 min .
darby’s narrative work as a film editor has been celebrated internationally at film festivals worldwide as well as in his native toronto at the toronto international film festival, reel asian international film festival and the canadian film centre’s worldwide short film festival. notable film credits include secret trial 5 (2014), banana bruises (2007), soap (2009) and miklat (2013) .
at the 2013 cannes film festival, hbo’s programming president, michael lombardo, director steven soderbergh and his longtime manager michael sugar were on top of the world .
here’s another film in production about the dangers of eating too much sugar. working title: “that sugar film”. it looks like it could be entertaining enough for quite a few people to see it .
reviewed on dvd, west hollywood, nov. 21, 2013. running time: 93 min .
the tobacco industry has been adulterating cigarettes with sugar for decades, because they know sugar is more addictive than nicotine .
the story follows a fictitious young girl, sugar, who is homeless. the emotional rollercoaster begins early on with sugar' s reflections .
my contention is that putting sugar in everything isn' t like putting nicotine in cigarettes, sugar is what they put in cigarettes to make them addictive .
the first mobile app in canada to help you track your free sugar intake .
as a freelance filmmaker, her work has won major awards at the new york film festival (bronze world medal for best social documentary 2014), the columbus international film festival, and in 2013, at the canadian news and current affairs awards (rtnda’s), two of her short form documentaries won best information program and best long feature .
at the 2013 cannes film festival, hbo’s programming president, michael lombardo, director steven soderbergh and his longtime manager michael sugar were on top of the world. soderbergh’s liberace biopic “behind the candelabra, ” a project the director had tried to make as a feature for years before hbo gave him the greenlight, had a triumphant premiere [ … ]
1) refined grain products are harmful in very similar ways. demonizing sugar will just cause the industry to push
low - sugar
pasta and corn chips. sugar may be the worst thing but it' s not the only bad thing .
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but on valentine’s day 2013 his wife discovered he had been sending flowers to someone other than herself. she confronted him, but he refused to give up miss symonds .
i thought the pimp scene was funny. gratuitous, but funny. i' m much more put off by the film touting oatmeal and pasta, which break down into sugar .
nava rastegar began her career in media production through cmpa’s screen based media production program. under the mentorship of janice dawe and michèle hozer, nava took on both a business affairs and production management role at the cutting factory in 2013. since, she has managed successful funding applications for film, television, and transmedia projects, as well as managing the production of sugar coated .
towards the end of the film the homeless characters clash with some of the community
do gooders .
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steve mcqueen, the director of
12 years a slave ,
narrates a sequence from his film .
sugar coated is michèle' s first solo feature - length documentary in the combined roles of director, editor, and producer, probing the role of sugar in a global healthcare epidemic. the film, in association with tvo and zdf / arte, is set to reach international audiences in 2015 .
one man' s journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. damon gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as' healthy'. through this entertaining and informative journey, damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves .
mark your calendar; the la film festival is moving to the fall! get all the details right here .
also agree that the film as represented here misses the point that carbs break down into glucose in the body .
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actionaid has conducted research into corporate tax avoidance in zambia. their findings show how a major sugar producing company in east africa called zambia sugar is avoiding paying millions of pounds in corporate tax. they are owned by associated british foods, which owns brands such as silver spoon sugar, twinings tea and kingsmill bread
damon gameau embarks on an experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body .
' this is not a film' looks absolutely incredible, and i can' t wait to see it. something tells me that film is worth a post or two of its own, and for reasons other than how it was shot .
it' s a beautiful film with a superb acting ensemble of both professional actors and actual homeless people. known actors in the film include shenae grimes (90210, degrassi), corbin bleu (hight school musical, and dancing with the stars 2013), marshall allman (prison break), austin williams (good shepherd), angus macfadyen (braveheart, saw3), and wes studi (avatar, heat, last of the mohicans) just to name a few .
most recently he wrote the music for sugar coated which is opening to sold out screens at hot docs 2015 .
the sugar industries need spending lots of money on the treatment of waste water treatment to adhere to regulatory standards .
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by the end of the film, i was overwhelmed. i was overwhelmed being forced to face all the questions the film left with me. i was overwhelmed by the enormity of the problem. i was overwhelmed by the thought of how i could help .
with two films on the oscar shortlist, emmy - nomination and gemini - winning michèle hozer has been working as a filmmaker and editor in canada since 1987. to date, she has worked on more than 50 documentaries. her work has received accolades from the most prestigious film festivals in the world, including the sundance film festival and the international documentary film festival in amsterdam. shake hands with the devil: the journey of roméo dallaire won both the 2007 emmy for best documentary and the audience award at the 2005 sundance film festival .
michèle hozer and janice dawe brought nathalie onto sugar coated after signing a development deal with tvo, and she has worked closely with them on all aspects of the project for the last 2 years. most notably, she secured financing for the sugar coated digital media project, including an immersive web experience and a mobile app to become canada' s first tracker of
free sugar
.
his film work includes title design for david cronenberg’s spider, irvine welsh’s ecstasy, william shatner’s the captains and fight like soliders, die like children .
how the food industry sugar - coated science, sweetened the food supply, and seduced a planet, one spoonful at a time .
the very next day, i received an e - mail from eren gulfidan, the creative director of a production and creative consulting agency trying to promote a new independent film called
sugar
released by traverse media. it' s a story based on the true life experiences of its filmmaker, rotimi rainwater who was homeless himself for many years. she wanted to know if i would be willing to write about the film. i said yes .
everyone says they wanna help, but nobody really does anything. i wish someone really was there to help ,
says sugar .
regarding the super 8 thing. the trailer shows that the film is actually made of various media, including modern hd footage. super 8 style seems to be used for some (maybe most) of the' historic' footage. i don' t want to bash iphone image quality, but i would like to point out, that super 8 film has pretty crappy iq and therefore it shouldn' t be a problem for iphone footage to be filtered to resemble super 8 film .
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makes a startling assertion about the “bruising” film business in such a clear - eyed way as to explain why hbo’s lombardo calls him “an elegant, thoughtful man. ”
here, an attempt was made to use the sugar industry waste water after nutritive adjustment for the production of phb using an isolate bacillus subtilis ng220 .
bendjelloul' s film reveals how rodriguez' s south african fans initially assumed that their idol had died – before discovering he was actually working as a builder in detroit .
harvesting sugar cane at zambia sugar plantation, mazabuka. despite being the second largest sugar company in the world, they have reduced the amount of tax they pay to less than 0. 5% in five years. between 60 - 80% of the population live in poverty, and the figure has remained constantly high over the last 10 years. more funding through tax would enable the government to tackle health problems facing communities like those in nakambala .
the success of the film has already helped rejuvenate his singing career. rodriguez was forced to skip the baftas earlier this month because he was playing a concert in cape town .
untreated sugar industry effluent was collected from the saraswati sugar mills, yamunanagar, haryana, india, and was stored at 4°c until used. the effluent was filtered through the muslin cloth to remove the undesired solid materials. appropriately diluted, filtered waste water was used as phb production medium (table 1) .
a well - intentioned attempt to illuminate the plight of homeless youth falls flat in “sugar, ” the dramatically inert narrative debut of director rotimi rainwater. although the film is based in part on the filmmaker’s personal experiences more than 20 years ago, its compassion and careful sidestepping of exploitation tropes can’t make up for a fundamental lack [ … ]
searching for sugar man, bendjelloul' s tremendous debut, heralded the arrival of a bright new talent. his death is a terrible shock, says xan brooks
annually, the million tons of organic wastes are produced from the wide array of industries and in this context, contribution from sugar industries is worst in terms of effluent production—out of all the major sugar manufacturing units, that is, mill house, process house, boiler house, alcohol producing unit, and distilleries [ 3 ]. the quantity of waste water generated ever increasing with sugar production—where a typical sugar mills consume around 2000 litres of water and generate about 1000 litres of waste water per ton of cane—crushed. the waste water contains floor washing waste water and condensate water, sugarcane juice, syrup and molasses, and so forth. the sugar mill effluent has a high biochemical oxygen demand (bod) and if discharged untreated, increased bod effects aquatic ecosystem and has ultimate impact on human health .
only 2 teaspoons of sugar consumed after eating a bowl of oatmeal and a bowl of pasta? i' m thinking that' s wrong... ?
if you don' t know the exact recipe of a food, you can' t know how much added sugar is in it unless added sugar is the only source of carbohydrate. with some research, you might estimate it, but isn' t it easier (and more effective) to just count carbs ?
chris hemsworth kicks off filming for the star - studded men in black spin - off as he cuts a sharp figure in london... 21 years after the first film hit screens
directed by malik bendjelloul, the film charts the life of the obscure 70s singer sixto rodriguez, whose work went on to provide the soundtrack for the anti - apartheid struggle in south africa .
tamara tracz lives in london, where much of her time is spent in the care and company of three children. she can’t break the habit of thinking of herself as a filmmaker, and is currently collecting footage for a project titled seven years watching light move. in 2013 she published a set of artist books, three books, an exploration of memory, trauma, loss and the use of text as image, extending over space and time. she writes on film for senses of cinema and is working on a novel .
as the trending lines for sales in film and tv head in opposite directions, golin says he’s gratified that the company that largely had focused on film is thriving in tv. anonymous also has long been bolstered by its prolific commercial production operation. nonetheless, golin says tv production is poised to eclipse the profits reaped from commercials as anonymous’ shows start to pay their back - end dividends .
while only a few pickups from' searching for sugar man' were actually shot on an iphone with the 8mm vintage camera app (most of the film was shot on super 8mm film), the fact that these scenes blended right in and didn' t detract from the story in the slightest is telling. newer technologies are great, and they help push the industry forward (and they' re fun to argue about), but in the end, it always comes down to telling engaging stories, and utilizing whatever you have at your disposal .
pediatric endocrinologist, dr. robert lustig thinks we’ve all been ‘frucked’ by industry. he’s evangelical, blaming sugar for a waiting room filled with obese kids with fatty livers. his flock of five million online followers grows daily. in the court of public opinion, he’s part of a leading group of experts who are putting sugar on trial .
the isolate bacillus subtilis ng220 from sugarcane field area was able to efficiently utilize the sugar industry waste water as nutrient source for phb production. the first line of impression of this study concludes that the sugar industry waste water could directly serve as an inexpensive nutrient source for production of biodegradable plastic. thus, this study may solve the problem of costly treatment of sugar industry waste water as well as high production cost of biodegradable bioplastic and help in conservation of petroleum products which were used in the commercial production of plastic production .
based on true events, sugar is the story of a young girl with a troubled past trying to survive on the streets of venice beach. sugar suffers from ptsd after losing her entire family in a horrific car crash. she survives with her group of outcast friends on the streets of venice beach trying to find their own place in the world. like so many homeless youth, sugar is running from the pain of her past and will do anything to escape it. however with the help of bishop, her counselor in the youth shelter, she is able to reconnect with her uncle who has been searching for her. sugar' s new world starts to crumble when forced to confront the demons she' s run from for the last two years. sugar is an all too common story of a troubled youth learning how to stop hiding, and to start healing .
her personal pov feature length documentary, the traitor’s daughter is currently in development. she is also a regular collaborator with the cutting factory, as a writer for sugar coated .
the viewer becomes part of the creative process of the film by the active nature of their viewing. this happens because the film is good. by good i mean that the maker is assured. ambiguity, which is what opens the door to the viewer and allows them to enter in to the work, is not vague. it is precise. and this is a very precise film. while the protagonist’s actions lack obvious meaning, there is no doubt that they do have a meaning, even if we never know what it is. akerman feels no need to explain. and why should she? most things, most actions, aren’t explainable. what she does is show, in a particular and certain way. the film is sure enough of itself to absorb the many interpretations it engenders .
searching for sugar man, a swedish - british production about a lost relic of the american folk scene, proved a popular winner of the best documentary oscar at the 85th academy awards .
one must be clear. this is not what i think the film is about. it is not a reading i would fight for. nor is it one i think akerman intended. but i do think that it is valid, and it is this validity, this possibility of multiple – of endless – validities that gives je tu il elle such power. one of the joys of this film is that while simultaneously delighting in my new reading, i can also abandon it. where, for instance, is my infant - navigating - the - world theory in the extraordinary and challenging ten - minute sex scene that comes towards the end of the film, that follows on, indeed, from the reaching forward and opening of buttons that led to my first thoughts about infants? one constantly reconsiders and recalibrates while viewing and thinking about this film .
the film traces the origins of our beliefs about healthful and unhealthful food. experts from all over the world talk about the problems as well as short and long term solutions. among the... see full summary »
imagine how f... .. d up it was where they came from for them to be out here ,
says sugar of her fellow young homeless
family
members .
poor man. going sugar and wheat free is the best thing i have ever done for my health and my happiness. i never, ever, want to go back to the sugarinduced misery .
some readings of chantal akerman’s je tu il elle (i, you, he, she, 1974) assign the character akerman portrays to je (me), the viewer to tu (you), the truck driver with whom she hitches a lift to il (him), and her lover to elle (her) (1). i do not know if akerman endorses such a reading, but it is one i find annoying in its prescriptive nature. this is a film whose power lies in its own ambiguity. to assign anything within the film to such a literal reading diminishes it. to explore this film, one needs to abandon the literal (the explanatory) in favour of a multiplicity of readings without limit and in a constant state of flux. we have to stop thinking of the film as a completed work, but as one that is completed endlessly at each viewing .
i was really shoked that
film people
could think that fake is better than authentic... and shooting on super8 is still cheaper, easier and funnier than using a f - 55 + aftereffects... .
thus the two different problems, namely, the pollution due to synthetic plastic and generation of organic rich waste from sugar industries could uniquely addressed by producing the bioplastic using the organic waste as nutrient source .
in the documentary sphere, darby developed his craft working under one of canada’s finest documentary film director / editors, michèle hozer. it was during these years that darby refined his philosophical approach to post - production while learning the meticulous inner workings of the entire post - production process, working on some of canada’s most widely distributed and recognized documentary films, such as triage (2008), the glenn gould biography the genius within (2009), the team (2010), the west wind (2011) and fight like soldiers, die like children (2013), all produced by the award - winning production company white pine pictures .
“honestly, it’s become kind of a hobby. it’s very difficult to make real money being a movie producer unless you’re producing marvel movies. we love film, and once in a while, we may make some money at it. ”
she worked closely with michèle and associate producer, nathalie bibeau, to finance and create an important and definitive documentary, as well as an exciting iphone app that will contribute to building canada’s first “free sugar” database .
a lot of people have regained their health by just getting rid of fructose, not all carbs. i went a step further and went lchf, but no sugar got rid of 90% of my problems .
the film follows sugar and her homeless friends as they navigate forming their own kind of family living on the streets of los angeles. in a way, it plays like a dramatic mainstream feature film. it could almost be called a fictional documentary, if there is such a thing. what it is not, is a lecture. it doesn' t preach to you. if it weren' t based on such a horrific reality, you could almost call it entertainment. but it certainly wasn' t created to be entertaining. it wasn' t created to preach or to entertain. it was created to bring awareness not only to homelessness in america, but to homeless youth in america .
says. “we love film and once in a while we may make some money at it. it’s part of the dna of our company. (but) i’m glad we have the other segments of our business to balance it out. ”
little is gained by examining the film’s plot. a woman spends time alone in a room, moving furniture, eating sugar, stripping naked, writing and rewriting a letter. she hitches a lift with a truck driver, with whom she has a sexual episode. finally she visits a woman, seemingly an ex - lover, who agrees to sleep with her but tells her she must go in the morning, which she does. that’s it. trying to understand what akerman is trying to say is similarly unhelpful. the film provides neither catharsis not thesis. we have left only the option of looking, listening and asking questions. when the viewer is the person asking, and then also answering, for themselves, questions that they (and possibly only they) are posing, the film comes alive. the apparent banality of the actions represented, the lack of conventional story, the long takes, are transformed into a very real density and richness .
it all starts with a secret pr campaign dating back to the 1970s. for forty years, big sugar deflected all threats to its multi - billion dollar empire, while sweetening the world’s food supply. as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates skyrocket, doctors are now treating the first generation of children suffering from fatty liver disease. the sugar industry is once again under siege. they dodged the bullet once. can they do it again ?
- 5, 000 homeless youth die each year in america. (there were 2, 196 military deaths in the entire war in afghanistan .) - on a single night in january of 2013, 118, 000 youth, under 25, in the u. s. were sheltered and 43, 000 were without shelter. - on that same night, homeless youth, under 18, made up 30% of the sheltered population in the u. s .
the film’s midsection is essentially a chronicle of sarith’s odyssey to find a man that will have and subsequently put up with her, which, despite her beauty and station, is easier said than done. this could have made for an old - fashioned and melodramatic but fascinating story of an independent - minded young woman’s almost paradoxical fight for the right to choose the man who’ll marry her on her own terms in a (white) male - dominated environment. a gone with the wind - light energy and verve is on display here, though by the film’s midpoint, it has become painfully clear that sugar can’t decide who are the protagonists and who are supporting characters — and the subplots and issues attached to these characters likewise swerve in and out of view .
director rotimi rainwater. elliott broidy is a leading los angeles philanthropist supporting initiatives ranging from the arts to empowering disadvantaged children. his most recent philanthropy sheds light on the issues facing homeless youth in los angeles. as an executive producer of the upcoming film sugar, broidy aims to provide hope as well as 10, 000 meals for homeless los angeles youth. elliott broidy' s philanthropic support continues to provide hope to those who otherwise may not have the resources to improve their social or economic situations .
as such there is no report for phb accumulation by microbial cells using sugar industry waste water. in different concentration of sugar industry waste water, growth of bacillus subtilis ng220 was observed (table 5) and the maximum growth was noted in undiluted (100% v / v) sugar industry waste water after 72 h of incubation at 30°c. dilution of waste water not only affected the microbial growth but also phb accumulation. this may be due to the fact that with increasing dilution of waste water the carbon and other nutrient got diluted and was not able to support microbial growth. under unoptimized conditions bacillus subtilis ng220 was observed to accumulate about 4. 928 g / l of phb after 72 h .
“ the knick ” went into production nine days after cannes. and with that, anonymous, a company known mostly for its film work, began a run of fielding distinctive tv projects at a rate that rivals the track record of any major studio in recent years .
another critical example of content over tech: jafar panahi' s this is not a film - shot on phones and dv, smuggled out of his house in tehran in a usb stick baked in a cake while he was living under house arrest. a masterpiece - urltoken
what i do know, is that the film, to me, didn' t seem to have the intent on making me call myself into action. it didn' t seem to want to guilt me into submission. what it did do, was raise my awareness of the issue. what it did do, was make me question what can be done and who can do it. i highly recommend americans see this film. i recommend you see it for the purpose in which it was made - to bring awareness to the problem .
the optimization for maximum phb production by bacillus subtilis ng220 was carried out under stationary conditions of growth using sugar industry waste water as production medium. the sugar industry waste water was filtered through muslin cloth and then rough filter paper before any study to remove any type of debris or solid waste. several cultural parameters were evaluated to determine their effect on biomass and phb production using sugar industry waste water. the optimized value for each parameter was selected and kept constant for further experiments. the fermentation was carried out in 250 ml erlenmeyer flask containing 50 ml sugar industry waste water as production medium, under stationary as well as shaking condition of growth. several cultural parameters like time of incubation (24–120 h), temperature of incubation (20–50°c), supplementation of various carbon and nitrogen sources, inoculum age and size (12–42 h, 1–3 %), effect of ph (4–8), and so forth, were evaluated to determine their effect on biomass accumulation and phb production .
miss symonds regarded morgan as her sugar daddy – and duly gave him the nickname ‘rich pete’, to distinguish him from her boyfriend, whom she called ‘poor pete’. she made no bones about the fact that she was in it for the money .
pulling back the curtain on the sugar - coated tactics of an industry once again under attack, this documentary will give you a chilling feeling of déjà vu. today the industry is back sweetening the message. but this time, history comes knocking .
foul - mouthed and emotionally guarded runaway sugar (shenae grimes) has formed a makeshift family with a group of boys in venice beach, calif. , including ex - mormon b. f. marshall (marshall allman) and baby - faced surrogate brother ronnie (austin williams). kindly social worker and former street kid bishop (wes studi) wants to learn more about sugar’s troubled past, but his efforts go nowhere until her uncle (angus macfadyen) shows up and spills her secrets in the hopes of bringing her home .
dailess mwiinga runs a nutrition workshop for mothers at nakambala urban health clinic, mazabuka. mazabuka is known as the sweetest town in zambia, being rich in the natural resource of sugar. however the reality of the situation couldn' t be more different where malnutrition and poverty are rife .
the situation is difficult
, she says ,
the children always appear to be malnourished, underweight with swollen bodies. i urge zambia sugar company to be helping all the clinics in mazabuka because their workers always come to these clinics .
the film tears at your heartstrings. it forces you to ask all the questions i was asking when i saw the homeless guy i wrote about, when i see the train station homeless every day, and when i saw the homeless on our short walk from the swanky four seasons to the upscale whole foods .
when the doors closed at the great western sugar company in colorado in 1976, someone forgot to sweep the floor. gathering dust in the archives were 1500 pages of internal documents exposing how the sugar industry used tobacco - style tactics to dismiss troubling health claims against their products. denver dentist turned postdoctoral scholar at the ucsf school of medicine, cristin kearns, knew she’d stumbled on something big: the industry’s secret playbook. her mentor, stan glantz, the superstar professor from san francisco who brought down big tobacco warns, it’s going to get dirty .
that' s what i thought too. . i think it is important to talk about sugar in the diet in all its forms... especially since the push to eat vast amounts of grains is so powerful and comes from many so - called
experts
on the subject. sounds like they are focusing only on added sugars and may simply perpetuate the myth the of the
magical
whole grain. a footlong sub roll at subway (part of bigger guy' s regular diet) has a minimum of 72 grams of carbs all by itself, that = 14 teaspoons. the medium pineapple chicken pizza he ate is around 200 grams, that = 40 teaspoons. already over 54 teaspoons per day just on those two bready items alone. the smaller guy. . one cup of cooked oats is over 20 grams = 4 teaspoons of sugar. a typical serving of pasta is 30 - 40 grams of carbohydrate = to 6 - 8 teaspoons of sugar, so he is over 10 teaspoons on just those two items. the movie appears ready to ignore the sugar from grains. unfortunate .
not only did i love searching for sugar man, but it and many other recent films (especially docs) drive home the point that content is indeed king. too many aspiring filmmakers get caught up in esoteric obsessions with technology without any real focus on or talent for fundamental storytelling .
a great story well told
is far more dependent on narrative skills that technical skills. and if you have the storytelling chops, then all the easy - to - master new technilogy makes it easy to create a film that will find an audience. that' s the magic in the equation .
the complicated political situation in dutch guiana, which was going through the boni wars that pitted maroons against white settlers, is also touched upon but never fleshed out in a subplot involving mini - mini’s hunky if token black love interest, caesar (rapper maurits delchot), who’ll instigate the film’s low - key finale .
i saw this film last night after reading about it here. its amazing! ! you guys should really see it. yes, the filming is very well done and the mix of a high end camera (don' t know what he used) and the iphone app was done very well. really the shooting is well done. but what really sings is the story! the story is just absolute gem material. to think that this could' ve happened - and to such a humble gentle spirit who really has kept nothing at all for himself in life. very touching and good production quality film. a must see !
anonymous’ fortunes also will serve as a larger test of how content companies prosper in the “peak tv” era, when the economic fundamentals of primetime series production are in flux. anonymous is still dependent on studios and networks to finance its shows, which means it doesn’t own the copyrights. but even with guggenheim surveying prospective investors, golin is not chasing capital to get into financing and distribution. he’s turned down those offers many times on the film side. “the idea of administering a film fund does not appeal to me, ” he says. “we’re in the management - production business. if we get the right material, we’ll get the project made. ”
in 2012, the director’s guild of canada (dgc) awarded the allan king award for excellence in documentary to michèle and team for west wind: the vision of tom thomson. at the same time, she picked up both the amsterdam international documentary film festival editing award and top honours from her peers at canadian cinema editors .
mr. rainwater is currently continuing his mission to help the homeless with a new documentary ,
lost in america ,
which is currently in production. i look forward to seeing the completed documentary and hope that it will answer some of the questions that
sugar
brought to light, yet left unanswered .
the cost of sugar has been playing on about 100 screens locally and has amassed a tidy if not exceptional $ 1. 1 million in three weeks. released to coincide with the abolishment of slavery by the dutch in suriname 150 years ago this year, it will premiere in the south american nation in december .
a whole paper could be written about the use of this song in je tu il elle. a traditional song for children, the chorus translates as join in the dance see how they dance jump, dance, kiss whoever you like with such lyrics one could formulate an argument that the film is indeed about the entrance into life, as well as the blurring of sexuality and even gender. however, the roots of the song are decidedly un - child - like, referring to the brothels that grew in the versailles forest during the building of the chateau de versailles by louis xiv, and which he later closed down, alarmed at the growth of venereal disease. meaning is so elusive and layered in this film that one could go on and on .
2) there still is this religious attachment to the notion that fruit is healthy. is fructose suddenly good for you when it' s contained in a banana or a bunch of grapes? of course not! fruit should not get a free pass. demonizing sugar but excepting fruit is undermines the whole scientific basis for this documentary .
it’s a brilliant strategy that recognizes the seductions of movies that draw you wholly into their narratives and that finds mr. mcqueen appropriating the very film language that has been historically used to perpetuate reassuring (to some) fabrications about american history. one of the shocks of “12 years a slave” is that it reminds you how infrequently stories about slavery have been told on the big screen, which is why it’s easy to name exceptions, like richard fleischer’s demented, at times dazzling 1975 film, “mandingo. ” the greater jolt, though, is that “12 years a slave” isn’t about another scarlett o’hara, but about a man who could be one of those anonymous, bent - over black bodies hoeing fields in the opening credits of “gone with the wind, ” a very different “story of the old south. ”
amid the burst of tv activity, anonymous is also smack in the middle of the film awards season as a producer and key catalyst for the much - praised dramas “ spotlight ” and “ the revenant. ” “ ‘ spotlight ’ would not have been made without them, ” says director tom mccarthy, who is not repped by anonymous. “they served the roles as producers very, very well. ”
the production of poly β - hydroxybutyrate (phb) by bacillus subtilis ng220 was observed utilizing the sugar industry waste water supplemented with various carbon and nitrogen sources. at a growth rate of 0. 14 g h −1 l −1, using sugar industry waste water was supplemented with maltose (1% w / v) and ammonium sulphate (1% w / v); the isolate produced 5. 297 g / l of poly β - hydroxybutyrate accumulating 51. 8% (w / w) of biomass. the chemical nature of the polymer was confirmed with nuclear magnetic resonance, fourier transform infrared, and gc - ms spectroscopy whereas thermal properties were monitored with differential scanning calorimetry. in biodegradability study, when phb film of the polymer (made by traditional solvent casting technique) was subjected to degradation in various natural habitats like soil, compost, and industrial sludge, it was completely degraded after 30 days in the compost having 25% (w / w) moisture. so, the present study gives insight into dual benefits of conversion of a waste material into value added product, phb, and waste management .
it' s far too easy to get caught up in the technological aspects of filmmaking, whether it be with new cameras, lenses, nles, or anything else. focusing on gear is easy when something new comes out practically every day, but all of this technology is in place for the purpose of helping us tell better stories. what better way to remind ourselves of this than to see a great story made with what is widely considered to be
less than adequate
equipment? such is the case with searching for sugar man, the academy award winner for best feature documentary at this year' s oscars, part of which was shot on, as you might have already guessed, an iphone. check out the trailer for this fascinating film below :
actionaid tax campaigner chris jordan describes how his team, over the last 12 months, uncovered a complex corporate structure that allowed zambia sugar, a subsidiary of associated british foods, to avoid paying tax in the south east african state. between 2007 and 2012 it paid a rate of corporation tax of less than 0. 5% . the standard rate in zambia is 35 %
after this viewing of je tu il elle, when i think of the title i tumble back to the idea of the baby, of the self beginning to understand the idea of its own self and its separation from its mother, between i / je and you / tu, and the huge, imposing figures of father and mother: il and elle. it also reminds me of small children learning their grammar, reciting their verbs by rote, an image echoed by the handwritten titles and the youthful voices singing in call and response at the end (4). or the title could be an indication of choice, of the multiple possibilities of what or who the film is about. all i know, though, is that the title was given to the film by its maker, and given for a reason. what that reason is – you decide .
soderbergh’s liberace biopic “behind the candelabra, ” a project the director had tried to make as a feature for years before hbo gave him the greenlight, had a triumphant premiere at the festival, marking a rare cannes splash for a tv movie. with spirits high, sugar and his business partner, veteran movie producer steve golin, seized the opportunity to make an unconventional pitch to lombardo .
like fat, there are good and bad carbs. i don' t particularly like this doco, but they do appear to focus on added sugars rather than natural sugar. if you wonder through any shopping mall in any city and observe what the fat people are consuming, where would the bulk of their calories be coming from - fat, protein or carbs? most will be stuffing their faces with high fat, moderately high carb and low nutrition highly processed junk food. they' re not binging on apples and bananas or steamed potatoes and rice or tomatoes or broccoli - all have the bulk of their calories from carbohydrates. any diet that cuts refined sugar is a good start. add some movement and you have the perfect mix, people are so damn lazy these days .
sugar moved to new york for the production of “the knick. ” chad hamilton, esmail’s manager, did the same for season one of “mr. robot” and will return for season two. keith redmon, an anonymous partner and a producer on “ the revenant, ” relocated his family to berlin earlier this year to be on the set of “berlin station, ” the upcoming spy thriller for epix .
golin and sugar assured lombardo that hbo was the first stop with the glossy package. but the caveat was that owen and soderbergh had carved out a tight window in their schedules for production. lombardo had to say yea or nay quickly to a straight - to - series pickup. the project could not go through a lengthy development process — a big ask given the typically long gestation of most hbo programs .
the purity of a boy’s puppy love acts as a shield against the harsh reality of plebeian mexico city in “sugar kisses, ” the sophomore directorial feature of carlos cuaron (who co - penned the oscar - nommed screenplay of “y tu mama tambien, ” directed by his brother alfonso). cute kidpic - with - a - message is well executed technically but predictable, plot - wise, though an [ … ]
“the quality of the experience people have working with us is important, ” sugar says. “it’s philosophical, but it’s also strategic. josh singer wrote ‘spotlight’ for us because he had a good experience with us on something else. amiel and begler gave us ‘the knick’ because they had a good experience with us. the more we create that feeling the more likely we’re going to continue to work with great people. ”
prisca monga collects water near her house at mulonga extension on the outskirts of mazabuka. her husband, a carpenter by trade, stopped working for zambia sugar in 2003, and cannot find work. prisca sells vegetables at the mulonga extension market, but it often isn' t enough to cover the rent. as a result, it is sometimes impossible to pay her children' s pta fees and her son has had several spells off school .
i' ve been using the app for a couple of years and have found it to be excellent. it has actually stifled any desire i' ve had to shoot on actual 8mm. i' ve got a new music video coming out which is dslr with a bit of the 8mm app thrown in. but here is something entirely shot on the 8mm iphone app. 8mm chronicles: urltoken also really looking forward to seeing sugar man .
that said, i agree that content is more important than technical aspects. there are far more well shot films than there actually are films with
good content
. it never ceases to amaze me how the technical side of films is advancing (cheap quality cameras, vfx, 3d etc .), while the screenplay and acting often suck really really bad. i mean if technicians / artists can make film look good, why can' t
the other people
make the rest to be good. .
the waste water had a high cod (mg / l) and bod (mg / l). the nitrogen and phosphorous concentration in the sugar industry waste water were recorded as mg / l and 4. 36 mg / l, respectively. the waste water has acidic to neutral ph and have high load of suspended solid. this waste water was used for phb accumulation studies by the isolate with or without supplementation of different carbon and nitrogen sources .
the authors express their sincere gratitude to the department of science and technology, government of india, for providing the financial aid for this research work. the authors also acknowledge the saraswati sugar mills (ssm), ltd. , yamuna nagar, for providing the untreated waste water. the authors are very thankful to the department of chemistry, kurukshetra university, kurukshetra, for providing the necessary facilities for nmr, ftir, and dsc analysis of the polymer .
the maximum phb production has been achieved after 72 h when the sugar industry waste water was inoculated with 18 h old inoculum (1% v / v), at 40°c (figure 3 (d) ). kumbhakar et al. [ 19 ] also reported that root nodule bacteria have produced maximum phb with 12 h and 16 h old inoculum. ramadas et al. [ 20 ] achieved the maximum phb production by bacillus sphaericus when production medium was inoculated with 16 h old inoculum .
golin ascribes the company’s growth to the intense focus his team puts on what he feels is the neglected art of being a pure producer. that means being proactive in brainstorming, packaging and selling projects, keeping a laser eye on troubleshooting and problem - solving, and planting yourself on the set, day in and day out, while a tv show or film is in production. anonymous faces an added hurdle in battling the stigma that talent managers who receive screen credits as producers only ride their client’s coattails, and as such only leech money out of the budget.
sugar is an american film released on november 8 , 2013 in conjunction with homeless youth awareness month . the film was directed by rotimi rainwater , written by tony aloupis and rotimi rainwater , and stars shenae grimes , marshall allman , corbin bleu , and austin williams . the film is based on the experiences rainwater had when he himself lived on the streets . 
sugar is an american film released on november 8, 2013 in conjunction with homeless youth awareness month. the film was directed by rotimi rainwater, written by tony aloupis and rotimi rainwater, and stars shenae grimes, marshall allman, corbin bleu, and austin williams. the film is based on the experiences rainwater had when he himself lived on the streets.
sugar is an american film released on november 8, 2013 in conjunction with homeless youth awareness month. the film was directed by rotimi rainwater, written by tony aloupis and rotimi rainwater, and stars shenae grimes, marshall allman, corbin bleu, and austin williams. the film is based on the experiences rainwater had when he himself lived on the streets.