SlamNation
SlamNation is a documentary film by director Paul Devlin.
The film follows the National Poetry Slam in Portland, Oregon.
It follows the 1996 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team( Saul Williams, Beau Sia, muMs da Schemer and Jessica Care Moore) as they competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam held in Portland, OR.
The film also features performances by Marc Smith, Patricia Smith, Taylor Mali, Alexandra Oliver and Bob Holman, among many others.
The film is one of the first films to document the art and competition of the poetry slam: a spoken word competition where judges, randomly chosen from the audience, score poets on a scale from one to ten and the poet with the highest score at the end of the evening wins.
" SlamNation" premiered at the 1998 SXSW Film Festival and was awarded Best Documentary at the 1998 Northampton Independent Film Festival.
" SlamNation" was broadcast on Cinemax/ HBO and Starz/ Encore, 2000- 2002.
Though it would only enjoy a limited theatrical run, the film was nonetheless critically well received.
Roger Ebert wrote a glowing review, calling the poetry slam" a pop culture phenomenon".
In her book" Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam", author Cristin O' Keefe Aptowicz calls the film" slam's second bible"( behind the Nuyorican anthology" Aloud") and writes,
Peter Levin
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Hanro Smitsman
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Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
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Ben Cura
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Black Bread
Black Bread is a 2010 Catalan- language Spanish drama film written and directed by Agustí Villaronga.
The screenplay is based on the homonymous novel by Emili Teixidor, with elements of two other works by him," Retrat d'un assassí d'ocells" and" Sic transit Gloria Swanson".
The film won thirteen Gaudí Awards, nine Goya Awards, including best film, best director and best adapted screenplay.
It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards being the first Catalan- language film to do so.
Agustí Villaronga
Agustí Villaronga Riutort( born 4 March 1953) is a Balearic Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor.
He has directed seven feature films, a documentary, three projects for television and three shorts.
His film" El niño de la luna" was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2011 he won the Goya Award for Best Director for" Pa negre( Black Bread)".
The film was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Ian Barry (director)
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Paul Devlin (filmmaker)
Paul Josiah Devlin is a sports editor and documentary filmmaker.
A five- time Emmy winner for his work on NBC's Olympics and CBS's Tour de France, Paul Devlin's films include" Power Trip", which screened in 60 countries, theatrically across the United States and on PBS's Independent Lens, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and has won 10 film festival awards, including top prizes at Berlin, Hot Docs- Toronto, and Florida.
Paul also made the award- winning film" SlamNation", which follows the fierce competition at the National Poetry Slam and helped popularize the dynamic genre with its release in theaters and on HBO/ Cinemax and Encore/ Starz.
An interview with Devlin compromises an entire chapter in the book" Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour through the New York City Poetry Slam," which refers to the movie as" Slam's Second Bible."
Paul's second film-" Power Trip"- captures a clash of culture that combusts, when an American energy company, AES, must transform the dysfunctional electricity distribution system in Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.
Power Trip was nominated for the 2004 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary.
Power Trip is available on home and educational DVD, as well as for download on iTunes.
Paul's film" BLAST!" follows a team of international astrophysicists led by Paul's brother, Dr. Mark Devlin, as they attempt to launch a telescope on a NASA high- altitude balloon.
" BLAST!" is currently available on DVD for home and educational release.
" BLAST!" is the first film to ever partner with the website ArtistShare- a website that allows fans to support the work of their favorite artists.
Devlin's latest film,
The Front Man, is a documentary which follows the rock- and- roll career of the Loaded Poets, a band from North Brunswick, NJ.
The film documents the band's struggle for success and the member's continued dream of rock and roll fame.
The band also appeared in Devlin's first film Rockin' Brunswick, which documented the 1980s New Brunswick, NJ music scene.
Paul's other credits include his fiction film" The Eyes of St. Anthony" and his work as producing editor on the Organic film" FREESTYLE: The Art of Rhyme", broadcast on VH1 and winner of the Special Jury Award for Documentary Filmmaking at the Florida Film Festival.
As an editor, Paul ’s credits include commercials, music videos, television shows, and major sports broadcasts, including CBS's Super Bowls and ABC/ ESPN's World Cup Soccer.
Mr. Devlin is a B.A. graduate of the University of Michigan
Jason Moore (director)
Jason Moore( born October 22, 1970) is an American director of film, theatre and television.

Question: Do director of film SlamNation and director of film Black Bread have the same nationality?
Answer: no