Sentences with phrase «women filmmakers live»

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Janel is a woman of rare vision, a passionate filmmaker, and dauntless advocate for giving babies the best possible start in life.

It may be interesting to watch the film «Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York» by filmmaker Elena Beloff, a Russian woman who has lived in New York for ten years.

When I see Almodóvar's pictures, I come into a new perception of life, a fantastic world in which the Spanish filmmaker shows us a new concept of women's feelings and demonstrates he is a master, a genius.

Multiple female filmmakers nabbed top prizes, while a tale of a woman reasserting control over her life scored the festival's highest honor.

This low - key character study from filmmaker Joshua Marston is built around a woman who prefers to make up her life as she goes along — one new, invented identity at a time.

Yet when the filmmaker came across an article in The New Yorker about the citizen journalist outfit Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, he realized that the war he would cover would not be fought with bullets, as much as the men and women who file dispatches from ground zero risk their lives, but instead with information as he followed the network built by RBSS to share their testimony with the rest of the world to rival the propaganda machine created by ISIS to recruit new soldiers from inside the country.

For the third year, the IFP is also presenting the euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers «Live the Dream» grant, a $ 25,000 cash award for an alumna of the IFP's Independent Filmmaker Labs.

«Smithereens» (Oct. 9 at the Music Box Theatre; www.musicboxtheatre.com) Three years before she directed Madonna in 1985's «Desperately Seeking Susan,» filmmaker Susan Seidelman's debut feature was this raucous look at a young woman in New York with a messy love life and punk rock aspirations.

Written, directed by, and starring actress - turned - filmmaker Noël Wells, this indie romantic comedy is about a woman who returns to her hometown of Austin, TX and encounters her ex-boyfriend, who is now living with his new girlfriend in their old house.

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Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, who was recently awarded the Academy Award ® for A Fantastic Woman, brings to life a taboo romantic drama within a cloistered community in his English - language debut.

Officially hosted by both WIF President Cathy Schulman and Oscar - winner Emma Stone, on Friday night, Women In Film celebrated some of the year's most lauded women nominees, including Best Actress contender Margot Robbie, «Lady Bird» filmmaker and Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig, Bes Cinematography nominee Rachel Morrison, double nominee Mary J. Blige, Best Documentary contender (and living legend) Agnes Varda, and Best Original Screenplay nominee Emily V. Gordon (plus husband and co-nominee) Kumail NanjWomen In Film celebrated some of the year's most lauded women nominees, including Best Actress contender Margot Robbie, «Lady Bird» filmmaker and Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig, Bes Cinematography nominee Rachel Morrison, double nominee Mary J. Blige, Best Documentary contender (and living legend) Agnes Varda, and Best Original Screenplay nominee Emily V. Gordon (plus husband and co-nominee) Kumail Nanjwomen nominees, including Best Actress contender Margot Robbie, «Lady Bird» filmmaker and Best Director nominee Greta Gerwig, Bes Cinematography nominee Rachel Morrison, double nominee Mary J. Blige, Best Documentary contender (and living legend) Agnes Varda, and Best Original Screenplay nominee Emily V. Gordon (plus husband and co-nominee) Kumail Nanjiani.

Filmmaker Michael Haneke has approached the task by depicting the slow decline of Anne (Emmanuelle Riva), an elderly woman living in Paris whose husband Georges (Jean - Louis Trintignant) looks after her as her body and then mind start to fail.

Here, the filmmaker assembles an impressive cast spanning three generations for a slice of life production focusing on the relationships of a woman and her recently - divorced mother and father.

The feature debut from the Palestinian filmmaker looks at three different Arab women living in Tel Aviv and trying to juggle their jobs, romance and faith.

I don't think any filmmakers have been greater than Hitchcock, fabulously represented in the Criterion Collection by The Lady Vanishes and a great box set, Wrong Men & Notorious Women; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, represented by many films, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (one of their very best, also made during World War II); and of course Mike Leigh.

Learning to Drive is a metaphor for learning to live in filmmaker Isabel Coixet's absolutely delightful and smart take on how a modern woman (Patricia Clarkson) survives her mid-life crisis.

In adapting Terence Rattigan's 1952 play of an upper - class woman who forsakes her marriage and secure life for a man she quickly learns can't love her, the scrupulously retrospective filmmaker Terence Davies may surprise skeptics who'd see this material as a confirmation of his fustiness.

It comes from a dream team of women — filmmaker Sarah Polley, novelist Margret Atwood and Mary Harron of American Psycho fame handled the directing — and reaffirms the ability of a downtrodden female to reclaim her own life.

The young Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski came to London to make his second film — and first in English — and cast 21 - year - old Catherine Deneuve as Carole, a fragile young Belgian woman living in South Kensington with her sister and working in a local hairdressing salon.

The film didn't emerge from Tony Richardson and John Osborne's Woodfall Films, which produced «Saturday Night and Sunday Morning», «A Taste of Honey» and «The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner», but it was very much part of the same movement of filmmakers coming to drama from documentaries and theatre, and looking to represent the lives of young working - class men and women more truthfully.

When I began researching her, a whole world opened — and I discovered a truly amazing woman who led two incredible lives, first as a famous filmmaker with her husband, Alan, with whom she shared a magical love and almost unbelievable adventure, and, after their divorce, as a brave and independent woman on her own, who put her life on the line to save the ecologically endangered lake on which she lived.

On June 5, 2018, Otis College will partner with the Hammer Museum to present Shirin Neshat's screening of a film within a film, «Looking for Oum Kulthum,» which depicts the plight of an Iranian woman artist / filmmaker living in exile as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum.

«Looking for Oum Kulthum is the plight of an Iranian woman artist / filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendry female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum.»

In his film Shirley: Visions of Reality, Austrian filmmaker, architect and experimental artist Gustav Deutsch recreates 13 of Edward Hopper's paintings, bringing them to life by telling the story of a woman whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations give us a glimpse of a fascinating era in American history.

Seductive Subversion includes Marisol's John Wayne sculpture, commissioned by Life magazine for an issue on movies; the French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle's eight - foot - tall Black Rosy, one of her «Nana» sculptures exploring the role of women; Rosalyn Drexler's oil and acrylic work Chubby Checker, inspired by the poster for the movie Twist around the Clock, and Home Movies, based on frames from old gangster movies; the Times Square — inspired Ampersand, a multilayered, stylized, and illuminated neon ampersand in a Plexiglas cube by Chryssa, one of the first artists to utilize neon in her work; and a seventeen - foot - long triptych by Idelle Weber.