Sentences with phrase «independent film director»

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is an independent film director, screenwriter and film producer from Thailand whose films address nature, sexuality and dream states.

Todd Haynes (born January 2, 1961) is an American independent film director.

Independent film director Alex Ross Perry has a full slate of upcoming projects, including a new feature film and a yet - to - be-titled live - action «Winnie the Pooh» project, but he found the time to co-direct a music video for the duo Sleigh Bells with the band's Derek E. Miller.

The film is a collaboration of international independent film directors, multimedia artists, and animators who came together to create the longer montage film.

Featuring both long and short - form films from Belize and around the world, BelizeIFF is one of the best ways to see the unique creativity and worldview of Belizean and other independent film directors.

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-- Richard Herskowitz, Artistic Director, Houston Cinema Arts Festival & Ashland Independent film Festival

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

U.S. filmgoers were by and large unaware that Arau had long been a popular vaudeville, theater, and TV performer, and had built his Mexican film reputation as an independent producer / director, beginning with 1969's The Barefoot Eagle.

John Ford had several bitter disputes with RKO Pictures while making The Plough and the Stars, especially after the studio re-shot several scenes with another director to tone down the film's politics; while he distributed several independent productions through the studio, he never shot another picture for RKO.

Director Steven Soderbergh had created a film that is truly one of the worst films in cinema, but he is also someone who hates Hollywood and loves the independent Film Industry.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

He went on to starring and supporting roles the independent films BLACK CLOUD and BLIND DATING with Chris Pine for director James Keach; and larger studio films like STOMP THE YARD 2: HOMECOMING, and the hit film JUMPING THE BROOM.

The director James Gray and others on what the conversion from film to digital means for independent theatres, as exemplified by the Fairview Cinema 3 in Hudson, New York.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

Noah Arkwright, a successful, hard living and indulgent independent British film director, finally decides to try and defeat the many addictions that are destroying him, his career and the people who care for him.

Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American film director of independent and gay films.

In the world of live - action films, changing a director when a film is already in production is rare, though it happened this year on the independent western «Jane Got a Gun,» when Gavin O'Connor replaced director Lynne Ramsay after she failed to show up on the first day of shooting in New Mexico.

Twice nominated Independent Spirit Award director Sean Baker, in his fourth feature film, shows us the development of...

Yet, there is a very real risk that you will be lableled as a racist for criticizing black panther, or the work of the 29 year old director who was given the keys to a $ 200,000,000 budget after making only 2 independent films.

The New York — born — and — raised directors Josh and Benny Safdie's films have earned them awards from around the world, including FIPRESCI prizes and Independent Spirit and Gotham awards.

«Independent film, even documentaries, can be a joyous and triumphant experience,» said Alexandra Lipsitz, director of the wildly entertaining documentary «Air Guitar Nation,» which opens Friday.

BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM An Education Fish Tank In The Loop Moon Nowhere Boy BEST DIRECTOR Andrea Arnold...

It's a film that has been a long time in coming, with many independent drafts being written up and subsequently discarded over the years, while several big name directors (Tim Burton, Brett Ratner, McG) have come and gone.

Festival organisers have revealed the slate of films by American and international directors that will be in competition at the independent film showcase, which runs from January 22 to 31.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (R for profanity, nudity, violence, drug use and graphic sexuality) Legendary director Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men, Network, The Verdict) assembles a talented ensemble for this suspenseful crime thriller about two brothers (Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke) whose perfectly planned heist of their parents» (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris) jewelry store goes horribly wrong when their accomplice improvises with disastrous results during the botched robbery.

BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM - Pride BEST ACTRESS - Gugu Mbatha - Raw — Belle BEST ACTOR - Brendan Gleeson — Calvary BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION - The Goob BEST DIRECTOR - Yann Demange --»71 BEST INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM -...

But distributor XLrator Media is heartened by performance of writer - director John Ridley's independent film in key markets

Voting is open until December 12 at 11:59 p.m. Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).

She made her feature film debut in director Todd Graff's CAMP, a favorite at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, for which she earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

Nominated for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing at the 2018 Independent Spirit Wards, Ms. Zhao is following up her highly - lauded 2015 film debut «Songs My Brother Taught Me» with another important story, once again centered on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation inSouth Dakota.

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.

John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, also weighed in, saying, «Fueled by wild creativity, fresh perspectives and a deep understanding of the craft of storytelling, independent film is evolving.

This isn't the first time that the media giant has gone from left field with their choices, hiring directors famous inside the world of independent film but not much farther than that.

John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, said, «The films at our Festival this year truly reflect the unbridled passion, immense talent and diverse stories coming from the independent filmmaking community.

And since independent film is where social progress typically finds its earliest, least compromised expression, we're now seeing more richly observant films like «Return,» a sensitively rendered drama that marks a promising debut for writer - director Liza Johnson, in rewarding collaboration with underrated actress Linda Cardellini.

(l - r) Actor Robert LaSardo and actress Tiffany DeMarco star in writer - directors Devon Downs and Kenny Gage's independent horror film, «Anarchy Parlor.»

Debra Granik, Romain Gavras, Ciro Guerra and Gaspar Noe are among the directors whose films will be included in the 50th Directors» Fortnight, an independent sidebar that will run concurrently with the Cannes Film Festivadirectors whose films will be included in the 50th Directors» Fortnight, an independent sidebar that will run concurrently with the Cannes Film FestivaDirectors» Fortnight, an independent sidebar that will run concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival in May.

(l - r) Actress Tiffany DeMarco and actor Robert LaSardo star in writer - directors Devon Downs and Kenny Gage's independent horror film, «Anarchy Parlor.»

Now the race is wide open, and is expected to go at a dizzying pace, with announcements to come from the Golden Globes, the Directors Guild, the Producers Guild, SAG - AFTRA, the Independent Spirit Awards and many film critics» associations from across the nation, leading up to the actual announcement of the Academy Award nominations.

An auspicious breakthrough for Mitchell (who scored a Best Director nomination last week from the Independent Spirit Awards), the film excels through harmonious design elements that serve an open metaphor that dynamically allows various interpretations — and also rattle even the toughest of nerves.

Writer - director Sara Colangelo expands her 2010 short film Little Accidents into her first full - length feature, which recently received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay.

The animation recurs throughout the film at various intervals, mostly to supplant stunts and effects that would have probably been too pricy for this independent movie to handle, or which writer - director Erik MacArthur hadn't the talent to know how to shoot properly.

We are interested in not just those directors who are long venerated — although there is no lack of passionate support for figures such as Robert Bresson, judging from the entries so far — but, equally, the major figures (criminally little - known as they may be) in any sector or mode or geographical region of cinema: animation (Chuck Jones), independent (Todd Haynes), film - essay (Chris Marker), «new Asian cinema» (Edward Yang), experimental, «third cinema», B - films, underground, women's cinema...

In effect, two lands of films are being produced these days in the United States: the products churned out by the large production companies, which are most often repetitive although there are exceptions, and the films that certain independent directors manage to make.

Anymore, the Sundance imprint is a promise that a movie is going to be self - satisfied, laborious, and incompetent in that special way that independent films have become since getting co-opted by big money and directors looking to make a résumé instead of a film.

Emile Hirsch and Paul Rudd are two darkly funny actors who have joined together for a new kind of film with director David Gordon Green, who appears to be retreating to his independent roots.

Parties and screening events hosted by Institute program directors for friends and alumni, as well as private screenings for members and supporters, provide an insider's view of the newest discoveries and conversations in independent film, theatre, and digital media.

Joe Swanberg is the writer and director of the independent American films Kissing on the Mouth, LOL, Hannah Takes the Stairs, Nights and Weekends, and Alexander the Last.

Once you see footage from the surreal horror vacation from hell, you'll wonder just why or how Disney isn't doing everything they can to stop this movie from getting released, but maybe they respect director Randy Moore's efforts in independent film.

: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's THE FANTASTIC FOUR, a feature length documentary directed by Film Studies professor and independent filmmaker Marty Langford and executive produced by LA - based casting director / witness to the The Fantastic Four's 1994 filming: Mark Sikes.