Sentences with phrase «debut writers face»

Not exact matches

The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.

Moroccan writer - director Meryem Benm» Barek tearfully accepted the Best Screenplay award for her debut feature «Sofia»; a Casablanca - set drama about a 20 - year - old woman facing arrest after giving birth to a baby out of wedlock, it draws heartfelt attention to the lack of women's rights in the filmmaker's home country.

Verdict: Easily our favorite film of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, the fantastic directorial debut of cinematographer / writer - turned - feature filmmaker Daniel Patrick Carbone, «Smiling Faces» may have been the most striking debut we saw all last year (though not mentioned on our Breakout Directors list because it wasn't released in 2013).

He is also one of four attributed with the screenplay, sharing credit with seasoned scribe Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, The Mirror Has Two Faces), stand - up comic and roast dais staple Jeff Ross, and event comedy writer Lewis Friedman (who has been scarce in film since his 1998 debut BASEketball).

Debut writer - director Chris Eigeman does an about - face here from the familiar, drily quipping lounge - lizard characters he made familiar in a series of Whit Stillman films (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco).

The feature - length debut of DP - turned - writer / director Daniel Patrick Carbone, «Smiling Faces» definitely announces DPC as a bold new filmmaker to keep an eye on.

It is not every day that a writer makes the move from best - selling poetry to suspense fiction, and I suspect it's rarer still for the transition to be as successful as that of British author Sophie Hannah, who has penned a clever and original debut in Little Face.