Sentences with phrase «age white filmmakers»
Last year's embarrassing Academy whiteout (#Oscarsowhite)-- rightly blamed on systemic guild imbalances favoring middle - age white filmmakers — has all but been forgiven, if not forgotten, in the wake of several black - themed Oscar frontrunners, including «Loving,» «Moonlight,» «Hidden Figures» and Denzel Washington's powerhouse adaptation of August Wilson's «Fences.»
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Other high - profile titles screening at the festival, which opens Friday, include «Ginger and Rosa,» filmmaker Sally Potter's coming - of - age drama with Elle Fanning; «Midnight's Children,» director Deepa Mehta's adaptation of the novel by Salman Rushdie, who wrote the screenplay; and «Frances Ha,» a black - and - white look at a young dancer directed by «The Squid...
Tellingly, one of the most moving — and visually dazzling — moments in the film is an image of an ageing, blind filmmaker fondling a giant display of old, pixellated black and white celluloid.
Having explored the risks to western Canada's waterways created by the Alberta oil sands in White Water, Black Gold (a Planet in Focus selection in 2011), filmmaker David Lavallee now turns his attention to the wider impact of oil and gas extraction in the «new energy» age.