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Meanwhile, Magnolia Pictures has acquired «All Good Things,» the narrative feature debut of «Capturing the Friedmans» director andrew Jarecki.

Not exact matches

If «Sugar» is one clear standout in what looks like a weak and uneven year for narrative features at Sundance, Lance Hammer's debut «Ballast» is the true critic's darling, a work of minimalist technique and emotional generosity.

Documentary director John Maringouin's debut narrative feature stars David Zellner (the director of Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter) as a Texan hoping to acquire riches in China's booming economy.

Director Max Joseph (MTV's Catfish) makes his narrative feature debut here and while he is keen on tapping into that younger audience he knows so well, at thirty - three this drama of young angst feels more manufactured than authentic.

Fabien Constant's debut narrative feature spends 24 hours with jazz singer Vivienne Carala (Sarah Jessica Parker) as she copes with the news of having a terminal illness.

Wringing every sweat - bead of tension from its fiercely concentrated narrative, acclaimed TV director Yann Demange's debut feature covers one night in the life (and potential death) of a young British soldier stranded by his unit in a riot - blasted IRA stronghold at the zenith of the Northern Ireland nationalist conflict.

Ondi Timoner, the director of the documentaries, We Live in Public 69 and Cool It 61 will make her feature narrative debut with the latter film.

Wringing every sweat - bead of tension from its fiercely concentrated narrative, acclaimed TV director Yann Demange's debut feature covers one night in the -LSB-...]

This impressive debut feature by Stacy Title has its wobbly technical moments and one or two underdeveloped narrative strands, but it's brimful of provocative ideas and moral dilemmas as well as being extremely funny.

Somewhere between his debut feature Badlands and this year's Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick peeled conventional narrative from his films; his work became unashamedly naked.

Sofia Djama's debut feature employs this multi-layered narrative to craft a stirring drama that illuminates the generational states of unrest left in the wake of the Algerian Civil War.

The slate includes a number of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.

One of the breakout films from the festival circuit this year was the unexpected narrative debut from Maggie Betts (who received high praise for her documentary feature

This is the second narrative feature film by writer / director Derek Cianfrance, who followed his little - known, Sundance - playing 1998 debut Brother Tied (made at age 23) with a number of shorts and music documentaries.

Theater auteur Martin McDonagh's debut feature, In Bruges, thrives on these stylistic clashes with its narrative of two sympathetic hitmen who seek refuge in a European wonderland full of tourists and irony.

As her debut narrative feature, Wadjda is impressive beyond the circumstances of its production.

After directing the acclaimed documentaries Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memphis, Amy Berg is set to make her narrative helming debut with Every Secret Thing, a feature adaptation of Laura Lippman's 2004 mystery novel that will star Diane Lane, reports Variety.

Beginning with an airplane landing and ending with another taking off, Patrick Stettner's sterling feature - length hyphenate debut boasts of a surprising maturity both in terms of its narrative completeness and the consistency of its photographic compositions.

Premiering as part of the narrative competition at the South by Southwest Film Festival, the movie is the feature debut from writer - director Nijla Mu «min.

The most recent addition to his series is Chilean director Marcela Said's 2013 narrative feature debut, The Summer of Flying Fish, which he first discovered while serving on a jury at a film festival.

Two years ago, Derek Cianfrance made his narrative feature debut with the emotionally - charged, uncomfortable - yet - beautiful romantic drama Blue Valentine, which was about the despair and devastation of romantic relationships and the pain they leave behind.

It follows a young nun in training who struggles with issues of faith and sexuality in the 1960s and marks Maggie Betts» narrative feature directorial debut.

For his narrative feature film debut, Oranges and Sunshine, director Jim Loach chose to tackle a sprawling tale of warped governmental policy, spanning three decades and involving the forced deportation of British kids to Australia.

For those familiar with Eskil Vogt's screenplays for the Joachim Trier directed Reprise and Oslo, August 31st, Vogt's own feature directorial debut carries with it the same sensitive, melancholic touches of Trier's work, with a greater penchant for the narrative byzantine and bizarre.

At it's most visceral and true, Jeremiah Zagar's narrative feature debut is about the breath, blood and life of a child artist who is beginning to hone their passion in order to understand and survive, yes, but then also to heal, to grow, and to share.

Bart Layton's audacious feature debut uniquely tacks together documentary and narrative styles to tell the stranger than fiction tale of a notorious art heist gone horribly wrong.

This low - budget «retro - futuristic steampunk thriller» from filmmaker Vladan Nikolic — credited as «experiment supervisor & creator» rather than director — resembles Darren Aronofsky's debut feature, «Pi,» complicated by its intercutting of two separate narrative time streams.

EXCLUSIVE: The Office alum Paul Lieberstein's feature directorial debut Song of Back and Neck is making its world premiere today in the U.S. Narrative Competition section at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Granik, who made her debut in 2004 with the addiction saga Down to the Bone (the titles of her first two features give the amusing impression that she has taken the term «body of work» very literally), skillfully sustains the atmosphere, climaxing with a viscerally eerie light - of - the - moon boat scene that more resembles the work of the French festival - circuit lightning rod Philippe Grandrieux than a thuddingly well - intentioned American life - on - the - margins narrative like Frozen River.

A debut narrative feature from writer and director Margaret Betts, Novitiate explores the secret world of nuns and would - be nuns, and of what motivates their choice to stay in convents their entire adult lives.

Klinger's cine - literacy is well known to those familiar with his writing and programming, but what's special about Porto, especially as a debut narrative feature, is the relative internalization of its influences, which feel secondary to its larger grappling with a timeless emotional enigma: namely, infatuation, and the question of how such a mighty force can also be so fleeting.

Danish director Isabella Eklof's feature - length debut stands out in Sundance's international narrative competition for its seductive premise — the story of a drug lord's girlfriend, and an ensuing love triage set against the backdrop of a port side along the Turkish Riviera.

Vigalondo, returning to the type of breathless, twisting narrative he mined so well in his feature directorial debut, 2007's Timecrimes, uses Hitchcock as a starting point, blending genre influences and nicking moments of inspiration from other master filmmakers.

In The Burning Plain, Oscar - winning screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga makes his narrative feature directorial debut with a scenario of his own creation.

Director Joshua Z. Weinstein discusses how he created an authentic portrait of Hasidic Jewish life in his narrative feature debut, Menashe.

Making his feature narrative debut, director William Oldroyd takes a minimalist approach to things, allowing a series of slow, steady transitions and dissolves to help depict both the passing of time as well as Katherine's shifting psychological state of being.

Glenn Barr «Glitterland» In his debut exhibition with KP Projects / MKG Glenn Barr's narrative backdrops feature women embroiled in the subtle complexities of everyday life.