Episode #44 - Welcome to the sixth Fresh Air Award! Four cinephiles continue a Fourwind Films tradition of awarding a film that pushed cinema forward the most as an artform during a particular decade. To be nominated, a motion picture has to have advanced cinema in some way and made a lasting impression on how movies are made. This episode delves into the decade frought with the greatest war ever known to humanity, World War II.
To start the episode, our host, Justin Joseph Hall goes through a quick history lesson on what was happening in cinema business during the decade.
The four cinephiles who select the nominees in this panel are cinephiles Kevin Cecil, Justin Joseph Hall, John Robert Hammerer, and Kevin Hinman. Any moving images that came out in the appropriate decade is eligible for nomination. Nominations spanned documentaries, shorts, animated films, and feature films. They featured cinema with thoughtful use of the first green screen, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome patients, and maybe the most immediately influential film in all of cinema’s history.
Here is the link to all the nominations: 1940’s Fresh Air Award Nominees - Letterboxd list
There were several overlaps, but here are the main nominations made by each panelist:
Kevin Cecil’s nominations
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Justin Joseph Hall’s nominations
Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Von Gogh (1948)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Begone Dull Care (1949)
John Robert Hammerer’s nominations
Citizen Kane (1941)
Cat People (1942)
Fantasia (1940)
Fireworks (1947)
Rome, Open City (1945)
Kevin Hinman’s nominations
Citizen Kane (1941)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Let There be Light (1946)
Fireworks (1947)
The Red Shoes (1948)
We hope you enjoy this episode! Share with us your own lists, comments, arguments, and films that we left out via social media @fourwindfilms. We’re on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn.
Thank you to our cinephiles who did joined this out of their passion.
Credits for podcast:
Production Company - Fourwind Films
Fresh Air Award Contributors for 1940’s Decade - Kevin Cecil, Justin Joseph Hall, John Robert Hammerer, & Kevin Hinman
Host, Producer - Justin Joseph Hall
Sound Mixer - Hans Bilger
Intern - Olaf Jiménez
Special Thanks - Laura Davi
The theme song of Season 6 is New Tires by Silent Partner.
Additional Music - One Machine at a Time & Driving Nowhere by Shonali.
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Episode #44 - Welcome to the sixth Fresh Air Award! Four cinephiles continue a Fourwind Films tradition of awarding a film that pushed cinema forward the most as an artform during a particular decade. To be nominated, a motion picture has to have advanced cinema in some way and made a lasting impression on how movies are made. This episode delves into the decade frought with the greatest war ever known to humanity, World War II.
To start the episode, our host, Justin Joseph Hall goes through a quick history lesson on what was happening in cinema business during the decade.
The four cinephiles who select the nominees in this panel are cinephiles Kevin Cecil, Justin Joseph Hall, John Robert Hammerer, and Kevin Hinman. Any moving images that came out in the appropriate decade is eligible for nomination. Nominations spanned documentaries, shorts, animated films, and feature films. They featured cinema with thoughtful use of the first green screen, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome patients, and maybe the most immediately influential film in all of cinema’s history.
Here is the link to all the nominations: 1940’s Fresh Air Award Nominees - Letterboxd list
There were several overlaps, but here are the main nominations made by each panelist:
Kevin Cecil’s nominations
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Justin Joseph Hall’s nominations
Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Von Gogh (1948)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Begone Dull Care (1949)
John Robert Hammerer’s nominations
Citizen Kane (1941)
Cat People (1942)
Fantasia (1940)
Fireworks (1947)
Rome, Open City (1945)
Kevin Hinman’s nominations
Citizen Kane (1941)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Let There be Light (1946)
Fireworks (1947)
The Red Shoes (1948)
We hope you enjoy this episode! Share with us your own lists, comments, arguments, and films that we left out via social media @fourwindfilms. We’re on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn.
Thank you to our cinephiles who did joined this out of their passion.
Credits for podcast:
Production Company - Fourwind Films
Fresh Air Award Contributors for 1940’s Decade - Kevin Cecil, Justin Joseph Hall, John Robert Hammerer, & Kevin Hinman
Host, Producer - Justin Joseph Hall
Sound Mixer - Hans Bilger
Intern - Olaf Jiménez
Special Thanks - Laura Davi
The theme song of Season 6 is New Tires by Silent Partner.
Additional Music - One Machine at a Time & Driving Nowhere by Shonali.
Episode #37 - Ellen Goosenberg Kent is an Oscar winning documentarian who knows how to produce a compelling story first and foremost. She is always interested in the price paid by common people going against difficult odds, often fighting government systems often unintentionally. She is incredible in her long and varied work. We had the pleasure to talk with her at Nitehawk Cinema - Williamsburg in front of a live studio audience while we screened the documentary.
For her short, Ellen brought MTV short Anastasia. Activist Anastasia Shevchenko was accused of being a threat to Russian state. She was kept under house arrest for two years. Sarah McCarthy’s short documentary tells the story of a civil rights advocate and single mother who longs to see her children grow up in a free society in a deeply personal account of her family and the sometimes unseen cost of activism. The movie is a deeply humanizing tale of the price paid by a woman struggling for freedom and her family’s safety and peace of mind
The feature Ellen chose is her latest, Afghan Dreamers also courtesy of MTV. During the screening Nitehawk’s chefs served a mouthwatering combination: Sheer Chai, an Afghani Salad, and Kabuli Palaw.
Through the story of a robotics team in Afghanistan, Afghan Dreamers recounts the advancements of women in the country since the American invasion and the effects of the Taliban taking over after the Americans left. Using various stock footage of government officials, the story of these high school students is a rollercoaster of joy, pain, hard work, and the country’s struggle for women’s rights in a conservative society.
Credits:
Host - Justin Joseph Hall
Editor - Billie Joe Laitenin
Sound Mixer - Brian Trahan
Sound Mixing Assistant - Hans Bilger
Lead Marketing Agent - Isabel Restrepo
Event Space - Nitehawk Cinema - Williamsburg
Photographer - Piper Werle
Sponsors: Documentarian Emanuele Mengotti & the documentary Stranger at the Gate by Joshua Seftel.
The theme song of Season 6 is Getting It Done by Kevin MacLeod.
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Episode #44 - Welcome to the sixth Fresh Air Award! Four cinephiles continue a Fourwind Films tradition of awarding a film that pushed cinema forward the most as an artform during a particular decade. To be nominated, a motion picture has to have advanced cinema in some way and made a lasting impression on how movies are made. This episode delves into the decade frought with the greatest war ever known to humanity, World War II.
To start the episode, our host, Justin Joseph Hall goes through a quick history lesson on what was happening in cinema business during the decade.
The four cinephiles who select the nominees in this panel are cinephiles Kevin Cecil, Justin Joseph Hall, John Robert Hammerer, and Kevin Hinman. Any moving images that came out in the appropriate decade is eligible for nomination. Nominations spanned documentaries, shorts, animated films, and feature films. They featured cinema with thoughtful use of the first green screen, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome patients, and maybe the most immediately influential film in all of cinema’s history.
Here is the link to all the nominations: 1940’s Fresh Air Award Nominees - Letterboxd list
There were several overlaps, but here are the main nominations made by each panelist:
Kevin Cecil’s nominations
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Hellzapoppin’ (1941)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Justin Joseph Hall’s nominations
Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Von Gogh (1948)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Begone Dull Care (1949)
John Robert Hammerer’s nominations
Citizen Kane (1941)
Cat People (1942)
Fantasia (1940)
Fireworks (1947)
Rome, Open City (1945)
Kevin Hinman’s nominations
Citizen Kane (1941)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Let There be Light (1946)
Fireworks (1947)
The Red Shoes (1948)
We hope you enjoy this episode! Share with us your own lists, comments, arguments, and films that we left out via social media @fourwindfilms. We’re on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn.
Thank you to our cinephiles who did joined this out of their passion.
Credits for podcast:
Production Company - Fourwind Films
Fresh Air Award Contributors for 1940’s Decade - Kevin Cecil, Justin Joseph Hall, John Robert Hammerer, & Kevin Hinman
Host, Producer - Justin Joseph Hall
Sound Mixer - Hans Bilger
Intern - Olaf Jiménez
Special Thanks - Laura Davi
The theme song of Season 6 is New Tires by Silent Partner.
Additional Music - One Machine at a Time & Driving Nowhere by Shonali.
