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On Feb. 2 the AUBG Documentary Movie Club welcomed students to the screening of “112 Weddings” – a documentary movie by the American independent director Doug Block. The movie, produced in association with HBO Documentary Films, is a story about love, soul mates, marriages, and all aspects of a human relationship. "112 Weddings" won the EBS Audience Award at EIDF-EBS International Documentary Festival.
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A frame from the movie. Photo by: http://hardworkingmovies.com/coming-soon/112-weddings-1-heather-sam-5/[/caption]
Doug Block is a documentary director, cameraman, and producer, however, part of his job has been videotaping wedding ceremonies. After being in this business for two decades, he decided to investigate whether the couples he shot are still in love today and how their marriages have turned out. Even though Block has videotaped 112 weddings during his career, he got in touch only with the most memorable couples.
Prior to the screening Block introduced his documentary to the audience via Skype, explaining that most of the messages he would like to convey are self-explanatory in the movie.
The movie contains footage of the couples' weddings and their present-day lives. They talked about the ups and downs of their
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Doug Block, the filmmaker. Photo by: http://www.zimbio.com[/caption]
relationships, and how they managed (or did not) to stay together through the years. Each of the couples had its own unique story but what they had in common was the strength to cope with all the hardship that they had to face. Some marriages turned out to be more successful than others. Several of the couples shared that they stayed together only because of their children, while others admitted that they are still in love. Block managed to show the great variety of personalities in our world, proving that despite the great differences between two people, love is able to keep them together.
The reactions after the movie were mixed: some people were at the verge of crying, while others seemed to be sunk in thoughts on the importance of marriage. "I saw some perfectly looking marriages facing difficulties and falling apart. It was the heartbreaking side of reality and I simply couldn't hold my tears," said Marina Penkova, a freshman at AUBG. At the Q and A session that followed the screening Block shared that the access he had to the personal lives of all those people was “a documentaries filmmaker's dream come true”. He also gave advice to the young filmmakers, to follow their instincts in filming documentaries and to allow their teachers to navigate them through the process of their dreams becoming reality on the big screen.
A frame from the movie. Photo by: http://hardworkingmovies.com/coming-soon/112-weddings-1-heather-sam-5/[/caption]
Doug Block is a documentary director, cameraman, and producer, however, part of his job has been videotaping wedding ceremonies. After being in this business for two decades, he decided to investigate whether the couples he shot are still in love today and how their marriages have turned out. Even though Block has videotaped 112 weddings during his career, he got in touch only with the most memorable couples.
Prior to the screening Block introduced his documentary to the audience via Skype, explaining that most of the messages he would like to convey are self-explanatory in the movie.
The movie contains footage of the couples' weddings and their present-day lives. They talked about the ups and downs of their
[caption id="attachment_24899" align="alignright" width="165"] Doug Block, the filmmaker. Photo by: http://www.zimbio.com[/caption]
relationships, and how they managed (or did not) to stay together through the years. Each of the couples had its own unique story but what they had in common was the strength to cope with all the hardship that they had to face. Some marriages turned out to be more successful than others. Several of the couples shared that they stayed together only because of their children, while others admitted that they are still in love. Block managed to show the great variety of personalities in our world, proving that despite the great differences between two people, love is able to keep them together.
The reactions after the movie were mixed: some people were at the verge of crying, while others seemed to be sunk in thoughts on the importance of marriage. "I saw some perfectly looking marriages facing difficulties and falling apart. It was the heartbreaking side of reality and I simply couldn't hold my tears," said Marina Penkova, a freshman at AUBG. At the Q and A session that followed the screening Block shared that the access he had to the personal lives of all those people was “a documentaries filmmaker's dream come true”. He also gave advice to the young filmmakers, to follow their instincts in filming documentaries and to allow their teachers to navigate them through the process of their dreams becoming reality on the big screen.