Sentences with phrase «american writer director»

It's a big budget mainstream Marvel movie that not only features a nearly all - black cast, but it also has an African - American writer director (Ryan Coogler) and co-screenwriter (Joe Robert Cole).

It's a big budget mainstream Marvel movie that not only features a nearly all - black cast, but it also has an African - American writer director -LRB-...

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Already the king of animated comedies, this summer saw the writer - producer - director - animator - star of such shows as American Dad!

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Then Jackie returned to her native Ireland, where she worked for International Living for seven years before joining the American Writers and Artists Inc, as Director of Marketing for their Travel Division.

International Living works closely with The American Writers and Artists, Inc. (AWAI), whose Travel Division is led by Director, Lori Allen.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Ann Hart Coulter (/ ˈ k oʊ l t ər /; born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist Tom Harris is executive director of the Ottawa - based International Climate Science Coalition, which challenges the hypothesis that carbon dioxide emissions

American producer / director / writer David Swift cut his professional teeth as an animator at Walt Disney Studios before becoming a radio and television writer.

The show's direction, by American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron, is elegant, and the script, by Away from Her writer / director Sarah Polley, is crisply modern in its understanding of characters» psychological realities yet blurry enough on the margins to allow in delicious ambiguity.

Writer - director Ryan Coogler's debut feature Fruitvale Station was a low - budget drama based on the true story of the shooting of a young African - American man at a railway station in Oakland, California, on New Year's Day 2009.

Charlie Plummer plays a working - class teenager making his way through the American West in writer - director Andrew Haigh's drama «Lean on Pete.»

This juxtaposition feels like a very calculated move on the part of writer / director Scott Cooper, giving a justification for the past actions of the story's American soldiers and an opportunity for those soldiers to seek forgiveness for those actions.

This look at the brief life of troubled American poet Hart Crane is a real one - man show as its star James Franco also serves as writer, director, producer, and editor.

American writer / director / producer Norman Lear was a graduate of Emerson College.

It has been argued that Jackson's performances in Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown served to sanction his writer - director's fetishizing of certain stereotypes pertaining to African - American movie characters — and also his co-opting of subcultural postures and attitudes well beyond his real - life experiences (if not, it goes without saying, his VHS collection).

The retired patriarch of a New York - based Chinese - American family finds that escaping the insanity of his decidedly dysfunctional clan is more difficult than he anticipated in a thoughtful family drama from writer / director Georgia Lee.

Among the more notable recognition: winning the Golden Globe for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical), picking up BAFTA and Writers Guild nominations for Jon Lucas and Scott Moore's original screenplay, winning a comedy / musical editing award from American Cinema Editors, and having its production design nominated by the Art Directors Guild.

But writer - director Anna Rose Holmer's debut feature carves out its own unique place in this specialised sub-genre of oestrogen - soaked uncanny dramas, for a start by unfolding without fanfare in an entirely African American milieu.

Lee then talks with this month's guest, actor and writer Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer, Ed, This Is 40, Another Period), to look at the films of writer / director / actor Sylvester Stallone.

Before he knows it, the young man, who is African - American in a presumptively all - white part of town, instigates the storyline in writer - director Jordan Peele's satirically shrewd, sensationally effective thriller.

Its writer / director Oliver Stone actually fought in Vietnam, as an American infantry soldier.

Panelists include producer - director Irwin Winkler (Rocky, Raging Bull, The Right Stuff, De-Lovely), writer - director Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right, Laurel Canyon, The L Word, Six Feet Under), and TriStar Productions President Hannah Minghella (Baby Driver, American Hustle, The Amazing Spider - Man 1 and 2, Skyfall).

Coming on the heels of Margin Call and All Is Lost, the movie establishes J.C. Chandor as perhaps the most talented American writer / director still operating largely beneath the public radar.

We have high hopes, however, for Role Models writer - director David Wain, who is putting the box office disappointment of Wanderlust behind him by putting two of his Wet Hot American Summer ensemble, Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd, back together for They Came Together.

This is the writer - director's take on the promise of American ideals, even more so than Django Unchained, for which it was originally intended as a sequel.

David Benjamin Wain (born August 1, 1969) is an American comedian, writer, actor and director.

This one has the cast (Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong) but writer / director Rowan Joffe (writer of The American, 28 Weeks Later) is relatively untested behind the camera.

The writer - director behind In Bruges turns his lens to the American heartland where an angry, grieving mother calls out the cops — via billboard — in her small Missouri town after the investigation into her daughter's rape and murder stalls.

With top production values, an inviting landscape and a character - driven plot (based on Laura Hillenbrand's best - selling book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend), writer and director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) spins Seabiscuit's tale as a parallel to American history.

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American writer / director Charles E. Roberts spent most of his career at RKO Radio, where he began in the short - subjects department in the 1930s.

This is one of many uncomfortable moments writer Steven Rogers and director Craig Gillespie stage for an audience primed to either love or hate American sports antiheroine Tonya Harding.

Fans of writer - director David O. Russell like to compare his films to those of Preston Sturges, who in the 1940s produced the most singular run of movies in the history of American comedy, including The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, and Hail the Conquering Hero.

In A Quiet Place, John Krasinski's third film as a writer - director - actor (The Hollars, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men), a cheaply made, disposable children's toy, a plastic and metal reproduction of the space shuttle — a symbol of both triumph and tragedy in American culture — portends an abrupt, premature end for the unfortunate member of a...

We also laud Pizzo for making the jump into the director's chair for the first time after three decades as a writer and producer with this year's «My All American.

Young, black Muslim - Americans are not often featured in American cinema, so writer / director Nijla Mu» min's directorial debut, «Jinn,» is a welcome change.

With twelve different comedy genius directors including Peter Farrelly («Dumb & Dumber», «There's Something About Mary», «Shallow Hal»), Steve Carr («Daddy Day Care», «Dr Dolittle 2»), Steven Brill («Little Nicky») and Brett Ratner («Rush Hour») to name but a few and eight different writers, this jaw - droppingly crude and often obscene movie features a diverse star - studded cast, both British and American, who have banded together to shock you in the most hilarious ways you can think of.

An Ordinary Man North American Premiere Writer / Director: Brad Silberling Starring: Ben Kingsley, Hera Hilmar, Peter Serafinowicz Logline: The life of a fugitive war criminal takes a turn for the unexpected in An Ordinary Man.

Hughes Andrew Rothschild The story of writer - director John Hughes, whose emotionally honest high school movies helped to define American culture in the 1980s — but who, at the very height of his success, abruptly abandoned filmmaking for reasons that have never been fully explained.

Writer / director Scott Cooper («Crazy Heart») has given us a beautiful, spare vision of the American West on the cusp of the 20th century.

Panel guests include Jimmy Palmiotti (Jonah Hex), co-creator and co-writer of Time Bomb; Rick Remender (Punisher), creator and writer for The Last Days of American Crime, soon to be a major motion picture produced by and starring Avatar's Sam Worthington; Peter Milligan (Hellblazer), writer for After Dark, co-created by director Antoine Fuqua and Wesley Snipes; Arvid Nelson (Rex Mundi), writer for the upcoming Oblivion from Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski; Nick Percival (Judge Dredd), creator and artist for Legends, soon to be a major motion picture from Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment; David Hine (Spider - Man Noir), writer of Ryder on the Storm and FVZA; Matthew Cirulnick (True Crime: New York City), creator and co-writer for Earp: Saints for Sinners; and Keith Arem (Call of Duty series), one of the gaming industry's leading director / producers as well as co-creator for the upcoming Exile.

Self - taught writer - director Richard Linklater was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s.

While Ted 2 never reaches the turgid lows of A Million Ways to Die in the West, the writer / director's misguided western spoof from last year, it also demonstrates yet again that his brand of comedy is far more suited for the half - hour television format of his series like Family Guy and American Dad than it is for a two - hour picture that requires more narrative heft and character development.

FILM COMMENT caught up with the English - born, Iranian - American writer - director to talk about her movie, which opens New Directors / New Films tonight at MoMA, and why filmmaking is like dancing naked.

During a press conference at the film's press day, co-stars Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford, along with writer / director Brian Helgeland, talked about the influence of Jackie Robinson in both his own era and today, what made them want to be a part of this film, how much involvement Rachel Robinson (Jackie Robinson's widow) had, and how they hope the positive portrayal of African Americans in this film will inspire other filmmakers.

Mudbound By Ashley Clark Leaping to another level of incisive historical cinema, writer - director Dee Rees creates a World War II — era American epic from a perspective all too often ignored

Labor Day is certainly a change of shade for writer / director Jason Reitman, who previously unearthed the humor in his American character dramas, however dark their content (such as with the dark but funny soul erosion of Charlize Theron's non-matured mean girl in Young Adult).

Touched North American Premiere Writer / Director: Karl R. Hearne Starring: Hugh Thompson, Lola Flanery Logline: A ghostly, psychological drama about a young woman who disappears from her building and her solitary landlord who tries to track her down.

Anchor Bay Films announced today the acquisition of all North American distribution rights to director / writer Richard Bates, Jr.'s debut feature film,...