Topic: Roger Ross Williams

Elinor Burkett Oscars

On of the more surreal moments of the 2010 Academy Awards broadcast was when the award for Best Documentary Short was awarded to the film Music by Prudence . Film Director Roger Ross Williams appeared on stage and began giving an acceptance speech ...

Best Documentary Short

The winner at the 2010 Academy Awards for the Best Documentary Short was Music by Prudence . The documentary short was directed by Roger Ross Williams and produced by Elinor Burkett at an early stage in its production. Williams' short focuses mainly on ...

A Film Festival for the Attention Deficient

Between Filmfest DC, Silverdocs, the Environmental Film Festival, the D. C .Independent Film Festival, the Goethe Institute's Film Neu and other suburban events, Washington is hardly lacking in film festivals. At a preview luncheon last month, festival organizer Jon Gann lamented ...
But the story getting the most buzz from Sunday's Academy Awards is producer Elinor Burkett "pulling a Kanye" during director-producer Roger Ross Williams' acceptance speech for Best Documentary Short for their film Music by Prudence.. But there have been all these ...
pulling a Kanye" (after rapper Kanye West's wresting of the microphone from winner Taylor Swift at the VMA Awards last year), co-producer Elinor Burkett derailed the speech of director/co-producer Roger Ross Williams as he accepted the Best Documentary Short Subject ...