Sentences with phrase «festival main competition»

Not exact matches

The festival is so popular, and the competition so fierce, that the main sponsor, Coca - Cola, produces both red and blue colored cans for the event to broaden their appeal and ensure supporters of both teams buy its products.

People from around Wales come to take part in the competitions, ceremonies as well as to relax, socialise and enjoy the main Welsh - language event of the year, which is considered one of the largest cultural festivals in Europe.

The two main - competition films from Netflix, Bong Joon Ho's «Okja» and Noah Baumbach's «The Meyerowitz Stories,» also went unrewarded amidst controversy over the streaming service's presence at the festival.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

Aronofsky, who chaired the main competition jury at the 2011 festival, presents his psychological horror Mother!

The film played in the Un Certain Regard section (but should have been in the main competition) and is eligible for the festival's Camera d'Or prize (for best first film) and the Queer Palm (for films by or about LGBTQ stories), the only film playing with that distinction.

Under the jury president, Jane Campion, the best films so far in main competition here have revolved around female characters — complex, imperfect, beautifully drawn these leading roles offer up a counter to the majority of films that get paid attention to here in the US, on the festival and awards circuit leading up to the Oscars.

With the lack of star power in the main competition (even Andrew Garfield was unable to attend for David Robert Mitchell's delirious neo-noir Under the Silver Lake as he was performing on Broadway), speculation was rife that the festival was losing its relevance, particularly among the American press.

Cannes 2017 is already a notable edition thanks to the festival's inclusion of auteur helmed television entries, and (to the chagrin of some traditional minds) the appearance of Netflix properties in the main competition.

It left that festival with no major prizes from the main competition but recently took five European Film Awards and the NY Film Critics» Circle's nod in Foreign Language.

With so many acclaimed female directors returning with new works in 2018, we're hoping for a more even spread in the main Competition than the festival has managed in previous years.

Directed by Ben and Josh Safdie, the film was a highlight of the festival, with our own A.A. Dowd declaring Pattinson's performance as a twitchy bank robber attempting to engineer his brother's release from police custody the most deserving for the Main Competition's best actor prize.

Meanwhile, Terence Stamp, who is starring in Steven Soderbergh's The Limey, has criticised the festival for not including the film in the main competition.

I'm not really sure what the reasoning was behind accepting Atom Egoyan's Captives into the main festival competition, especially after the hoopla around there being no female directors.

The festival's organizers are reporting that IGF 2010's main competition has experienced a 30 % increase in entries from last year, receiving a grand total of 306 submissions, many of which are new titles from a multitude of distinguished indie developers.

The BitSummit main stage is also used to host game demos and competitions during the festival.

Following record entries for IGF's Main and Student competition, IGF Mobile organizers are reminding of a December 1st deadline for the third annual festival honoring handheld indie games.

In total, the GDC 2013 co-located festival attracted 589 Main Competition entries from both already renowned indie developers and first - time entrants, just topping the record - breaking 567 games that the show saw in 2012.