Sean Fine
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Sean Fine is a documentary
filmmaker whose War/Dance
about child soldiers was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007.
/director and a film editor
/director. Although he grew up with the various tools of the trade, it was not until he took a summer film course at NYU that he realized he wanted to make films for a living. After graduating from college, he went to work for National Geographic, where he met his wife. Within a year after starting to work for National Geographic, he was directing his first documentary, which won two national Emmy Award
s. Fine credits National Geographic for teaching him how to "get the shot the first time" in very difficult locations.
The Fine's decided to make a documentary about the twenty-year old civil war
in northern Uganda
after having been contacted by a non-profit, Shine Global
. Their son was a year old at the time of filming, causing them to stay in separate parts of Uganda during filming because of the danger involved.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007 for his film, War/Dance, which he produced with his wife, Andrea Nix Fine.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
filmmaker whose War/Dance
War/Dance
War/Dance is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine and produced by Shine Global's Susan MacLaury, a professor at Kean University, and Albie Hecht...
about child soldiers was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007.
Biography
Fine was born into a family that made documentary films, the son of a cinematographerCinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
/director and a film editor
Film editing
Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. It is an art of storytelling...
/director. Although he grew up with the various tools of the trade, it was not until he took a summer film course at NYU that he realized he wanted to make films for a living. After graduating from college, he went to work for National Geographic, where he met his wife. Within a year after starting to work for National Geographic, he was directing his first documentary, which won two national Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
s. Fine credits National Geographic for teaching him how to "get the shot the first time" in very difficult locations.
The Fine's decided to make a documentary about the twenty-year old civil war
Lord's Resistance Army
The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency is an ongoing guerrilla campaign waged since 1987 by the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group, operating mainly in northern Uganda, but also in South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo...
in northern Uganda
Uganda
Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...
after having been contacted by a non-profit, Shine Global
Shine Global
Shine Global Inc. is a 501 non-profit film production company that was founded in 2005 by Susan MacLaury, a licensed social worker and health professor at Kean University, and her husband, Albie Hecht, an entertainment executive and founder of Worldwide Biggies. Shine Global produced War/Dance, a...
. Their son was a year old at the time of filming, causing them to stay in separate parts of Uganda during filming because of the danger involved.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007 for his film, War/Dance, which he produced with his wife, Andrea Nix Fine.