News
DocumentingIan to Screen and Lecture at Stanford
After remaining largely silent on social media for the post six months, today DocumentingIan announced an upcoming week of guest lectures and screenings at Stanford University. The post on the DocumentingIan Blog also teased the announcement of the World Premiers of two new films and the promise of details of more screenings coming soon.
BFS and FLB News
Upcoming screenings of the DocumentingIan-produced Boys for Sale in Germany, Slovakia, Switzerland and the Phillippines will bring the total number of festival screenings for the documentary to 40! Meanwhile, a test screening of the new DocumentingIan-directed short documentary The Father’s Love Begotten, about a boy who was sexually abused by a Catholic priest, will be held near Detroit on November 2. Details about all of these screenings can be found on the DocumentingIan Blog.
Two new films directed by Ian announced
This week two new documentaries directed by Ian were announced. The first is the feature-length version of his 2016 program about end-of-life care, and the second is a short documentary about a young man who was sexually molested by a Catholic priest as a child. More information about these two films can be found on the DocumentingIan Blog.
Films
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おみおくり〜Sending Off〜
79 min/ Japan/ 2019
When the time comes, the villagers gather to send off their dead. -
父なる愛生せば
The Father’s Love Begotten17 min/ Japan/ 2019
A young man struggles with the effects of abuse he suffered as a child. 子供時代に受けた虐待によるトラウマに苦しむ青年の話 -
売買ボーイズ
Boys for Sale76 min/ JAPAN/ 2017 (dir: Itako, prod: Ian)
男の子たちが売るセックスを買うのは・・・？Boys are selling in Japan. Who is buying? -
Suturing Cultures
28 min/ Japan (NHK World)/ 2017
Japan’s future doctors navigate culture, religion and sexual orientation…in English. -
Dying at Home
28 min/ Japan (NHK World)/ 2016
Dr. Kaoru Konta is on a quest to help people who wish to die at home rather than in hospital. -
-1287
70 min/ US & Japan/ 2014
Over the course of four years, Kazuko discusses love, marriage, money, life…
and her own death. -
A2-B-C
71 min/ Japan/ 2013
Eighteen months after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, children who were not evacuated are found to have thyroid cysts and nodules. -
グレー・ゾーンの中
In the Grey Zone89 min/ Japan/ 2012
The children of Minamisoma City, Fukushima, living inside the radiation zone head back to school after the nuclear meltdown. -
Jake, not finished yet
ジェック、まだ終わってない81 min/ Japan & UK/ 2010
The story of two mothers and two sons whose chance meeting seven years earlier changes their lives forever. -
the ballad of vicki and jake
84 min/ UK/ 2006
A family struggles with drug abuse, homelessness and their relationship with the filmmaker.