Sentences with phrase «fiction feature film»

It's taken Sharon 15 years to make Brown Girl Begins, the first ever Canadian - Caribbean science fiction feature film.

Directors must be in picture edit on a fiction feature film and must have completed at least a first cut by the start date of the lab.

Eligibility: Filmmakers must be in picture edit on a fiction feature film; by the start date of the residency, filmmakers must have completed a first cut but still have significant time allotted in the schedule before picture lock.

The Post-Production Track has one application that allows a fiction feature film in picture edit to be considered for two programs.

Eligibility: The Screenwriters Lab supports writers, writer / directors, and writer / director teams developing their first or second fiction feature film.

Program Description: The Editing Residency brings the director and editor of two fiction feature films in picture edit to the Directors Lab at the Sundance Mountain Resort for one week in June.

Not exact matches

Lewis wrote, noting that such salted weapons were featured in the 1964 science - fiction Cold War parody film «Dr. Strangelove.»

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

The result is a movie that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, documentary and feature film, telling the story of childhood elation and adult struggle, in a motel where this happens every day and featuring dozens of extras who live within miles of the set.

When Wes Anderson's feature debut Bottle Rocket was released just two years after Pulp Fiction, the market had been saturated with cool, quirky, independent crime films, most of them trying to be the next Quentin Tarantino.

Released in theatres on August 24,1966, «Fantastic Voyage» was not only a film of authentic wonder but a science fiction masterpiece with amazing special effects... the team enters the body of a man where they see first hand the oceans of life within the human body that contains the «corpuscles», «the heart», «the lungs» and other features of the human body through which the crew move through are exquisitely designed in great detail with artistic quality.

Additional feature film credits include SGT. BILKO, PLUMP FICTION, and SOME GIRL.

In his growing years as a feature filmmaker, Arcand would alternate between fiction films and documentaries, at times combining the two in such efforts as 1975's Gina.

The screenplay for this 1985 feature is so riddled with character inconsistencies and unmotivated behavior that it plays like science fiction: the unsuspected presence of body - snatching aliens is the only conceivable explanation for the bizarre twists of psychology the film proposes.

In total, the festival will show 238 fiction and documentary features, including 16 world premieres, 8 international premieres, 40 European premieres and 11 Archive films including 5 Restoration world premieres.

They're both produced by J.J. Abrams and directed by up - and - coming filmmakers (as were the original Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane), and all of the films so far have featured strong casts and high - concept science fiction stories.

With his debut feature, he never misses a beat while infusing the story with quirky insights and pulp - fiction antics that lift this genre film to a new level.

In order to qualify as an international narrative feature film, the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational fiction, and more than half of the project's financing must originate from outside of the United States.

INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of international origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» sFILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of international origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» sfilms that are shot in a «mockumentary» style.

U.S. NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of U.S. origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» sFILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of U.S. origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» sfilms that are shot in a «mockumentary» style.

Mike Cahill's directorial feature - film debut sounds like a science - fiction movie, but it's not.

This is Müller's second fiction feature; Preljocaj is a renowned French choreographer who brings convincing artistry to the film's dance sequences.

Paul Schrader's «First Reformed,» which premiered at Venice and played the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, took home MFF's Fiction Feature prize.

More consciously seeking to recreate an old Hollywood vibe is the latest from Peter Bogdanovich, the refugee from the first golden age of cinephile directors who has found film work increasingly hard to find in recent years (this is his first theatrical fiction feature since 2001's The Cat's Meow).

In addition to running original fiction by major authors (Stephen King was a regular), the magazine contained features about older writers such as Lovecraft and Machen along with book reviews by Thomas Disch, film reviews by Gahan Wilson, interviews and more.»

Science - fiction films are becoming a feature of the current Cruise era.

Just as these three films were eye - opening because of how they allow viewers, 50 years later, to witness the emerging student movement and its rapid radicalisation, so a feature - length fiction film from the same year, Tätowierung (Tattoo, Johannes Schaaf, 1967), proved to be a real discovery and, in my view, one of the festival's true gems.

In 2009, director Duncan Jones gave gaggles of geeks flaming nerdboners with his debut feature «Moon,» a film that dragged science fiction kicking and screaming back into the -LSB-...]

Morris is also beginning preproduction on his next film, Holland, Michigan, a thriller starring Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, and Edgar Ramirez, which will be, «for all intents and purposes,» his first fiction feature.

During our wide - ranging conversation he talked about making his feature debut (he previously helmed the miniseries Top of the Lake), the challenge of casting a child actor, balancing fact and fiction, how he collaborates with his cinematographer, what he learned from test screenings, filming in India, and more.

It's taken eight years, but Gröning has returned, and not just with a new film, but with his first fiction feature in thirteen years in the shape of «The Police Officer's Wife,» which screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival today.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

The program supports 10 to 12 writers or writer / directors developing a fiction feature screenplay and includes a hands - on writing workshop, a screening of a recent Sundance film followed by an in - depth conversation with the filmmaker, and two one - on - one script feedback sessions with creative advisors.

Another speculative - fiction feature, «Gravity,» won in two categories: Alfonso Cuaron received Best Director, and Emmanuel Lubezki's work earned the film Best Cinematography.

Pre-Star Wars director, USC graduate, and writer George Lucas had begun his career as director of the science - fiction film THX 1138 (1971), an expanded version of a prize - winning feature film he made while studying film at USC.

Of his previous seven feature films, three (Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained) did reasonably well with Oscar, netting twenty nominations and four wins among them — including Best Picture nominations for each.

The film, said to be in the vein of «Pulp Fiction», features a subplot about the Manson murders, with Margot Robbie set to play Sharon Tate.

The film does get across the futility of war, and the opening scene, featuring a young Russian soldier asking a psychic how soon before he will die, is a moment that cleverly balances the science fiction with real life tragedy.

«A Walk Among the Tombstones» is the fifth feature - length film made from Lawrence Block's fiction and the fifth time Liam Neeson goes after psychos who take people hostage.

4K Restoration DONNIE DARKO — DIRECTOR»S CUT Sun, April 30 7:45 p.m.; Mon, May 1, 9:20 p.m.; Thurs, May 4, 9:20 p.m. Richard Kelly described his debut feature as «The Catcher in the Rye» told by Philip K. Dick, and the film delivers, combining coming - of - age woes with high - concept science fiction.

His new science fiction film, «Annihilation,» features an almost entirely female cast led by Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Gina Rodriguez («Jane the Virgin»)-- who play smart, resourceful women on a scientific mission to explore a mysterious phenomenon that has overtaken a forest.

Since his first cinematic composition, a collaboration with then - newcomer Richard Band on the low - budget science fiction thriller, LASERBLAST (1978), Joel scored a number of feature and television films throughout the 1980s and «90s, including the sci - fi series SUPER FORCE (1990), Roland Emmerich's early sci - fi thriller MOON 44 (1990), and Jim Wynorski's gentle family comedy, LITTLE MISS MILLIONS (1993).

Along with these were the equally significant audience awards for fiction feature, documentary, short film, and web series.

Sarah Menzies» terrific nonfiction film is every bit as keenly observed, and its visual storytelling every bit as rich, as the most absorbing narrative fiction feature.

After viewing a double feature of Pulp Fiction and Scarface in his early teens, film became his biggest passion.

-- In late June, the call for submissions will open for the second #HometownHeroes rally with The Duplass Brothers, which expands this year to include both fiction and nonfiction feature films.

One doesn't need to dig deep into his body of work to see that the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace had sincere ambivalence about mass media — his much - heralded 1,079 - page novel, Infinite Jest, features a science fiction conceit where a lethal videotape known as «The Entertainment» is so addictive, its viewers lose interest in anything other than endless repeat viewings of the film.

Three years later, Cameron's sophomore feature as writer and director, a small science fiction film, was released to far more distinction.

Following her self - funded fiction debut, I Will Follow (2010), her path to success was eased after she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere.