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James Michael Spione is an American director, producer, writer and editor of both documentary and fiction films. Early on in his career, he developed a reputation for suspenseful dramatic shorts; his later career, however, has been marked by a new focus on short and feature-length documentaries for both theatrical release and public television broadcast.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Our Island Home''/Biographies )〕 His film, ''Incident in New Baghdad'', was nominated in the Documentary Short Subject category of the 84th Academy Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Nominees for the 84th Acacemy Awards'' )〕 ==Life and career== A native of the Hudson Valley region of New York State, Spione graduated with Honors in 1985 from the Film Directing program at the State University of New York at Purchase. He first achieved national recognition in 1987, when he received a Student Academy Award for his dramatic thesis film ''Prelude'', about an adolescent boy's solo journey into the Adirondack Mountains.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Student Academy Award Winners )〕 During the 1990s, Spione wrote and directed several other notable dramatic shorts, including ''Garden'' (1994), which starred fellow SUNY alumni Melissa Leo (2010 Best Supporting Actress winner for ''The Fighter'') and Matt Malloy (''Six Feet Under''). An eerie period drama about a disturbed father's homecoming, ''Garden'' was featured in the Shorts Program at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival and played at numerous other national and international film festivals. Spione next wrote and directed ''The Playroom'' (1996), starring Pamela Holden Stewart (''The Reception''), which was shown at the Walter Reade Theatre in New York City as part of the "Independents Night" series and broadcast on the national cable program "Reel Street."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''American Farm''/The Filmmakers )〕 Spione also produced and co-edited John G. Young's first feature, ''Parallel Sons'', which premiered at Sundance in the Dramatic Competition and was later distributed by Strand Releasing. During the 2000s, Spione began to produce and direct nonfiction films. In 2005, he made ''American Farm'', a feature-length documentary that focused on the predicament of his family's 5th-generation dairy farm in central New York State. The film premiered at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, and went on to play theatres from the Berkshires to the Midwest. Spione often toured with the movie and would hold frequent Q&A sessions at each regional premiere to engage the audience directly in discussions about the state of family farming in America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Upstate Films/Guest Speakers )〕 In 2008, Spione collaborated with The Barrier Islands Center in Machipongo, Virginia on a historical documentary, ''Our Island Home'', about the last surviving residents of a vanished settlement on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. ''Our Island Home'' premiered at the Barrier Islands Center and was subsequently broadcast by WHRO-TV in Norfolk, Virginia.11 Like ''American Farm'', Spione released the DVD version of the movie through his own production and distribution company, Morninglight Films. Released in 2010 was ''Inauguration'', a verite documentary concerning the events on the streets of Washington, D.C. leading up to the swearing-in of Barack Obama.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Inauguration: Spirit of the Crowd'' )〕 Spione's Oscar-nominated film ''Incident in New Baghdad'', a first-person account of the infamous July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike that killed two Reuters journalists, along with about a dozen other mostly unarmed individuals, in a suburb of Baghdad during one of the most violent and chaotic periods of the Iraq War.1 The film premiered theatrically at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, where it won the prize for Best Short Documentary.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Awards_Announced_2011_Tribeca_Film_Festival'' )〕 The director is currently working in collaboration with Naked Edge Films on a new feature documentary called ''Silenced'', about the Obama Administration's crackdown on U.S. national security whistleblowers including Thomas Andrews Drake and John Kiriakou.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Silenced'' )〕 The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Silenced/Tribeca Film Festival 2014'' )〕 Concurrent with his film directing career, Spione often worked as a film and video editor on independent dramatic and documentary features (Darien Sills-Evans' ''X-Patriots'', Spencer Mandell and Raymond Pagnucco's ''God's Open Hand'', as well as numerous award-winning videos for national educational producer Human Relations Media. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Spione」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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