Sentences with phrase «as a feature film writer»

It's no wonder her debut as a feature film writer and director would be met with a certain level of expectation, but what she delivers with Lady Bird is something even more magical and grander than could have ever be expected.

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Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

With his experience after producing TV commercials for clients such as: Nike, BMW and Mercedes, culminating in the classic «Joga Bonito» World Cup campaign for Nike, Tim Elliott started collaborating with feature film directors as a ghost writer and creative assistant.

Writer and director John C. Walsh based Pipe Dream in part on his own experiences as he was making his first feature film, Ed's Next Move.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven, who makes her feature debut as writer - director after a couple of short films, tells the story exclusively from the girls» point of view — both emotionally, as they have all our sympathy, and physically, as almost nothing happens that one of them could not be seeing.

Joined by a fairly new screenwriter in terms of feature films, Liz Hannah definitely proves herself as a worthy writer as well.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

The feature debut of writer - director Aimee Lagos, the film feels overstuffed and overcooked, as if the filmmaker were trying to get too much out all in one go.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

The film went on to win the inaugural Writers Guild of America best documentary screenplay award as well as garner an Academy Award nomination for best feature documentary.

Writer - director Damien Power advances from his work on short films with his feature debut, a solidly visceral and harshly unforgiving pic that's lean and taut in its plotting and pacing, even as it shakes up linear chronology initially to tell its tale.

Not thinking it could work as a feature film, they finally launched a revival series in the late 1980s with Peter Graves back as the head of the Impossible Mission force, but bad scripts, lack of energy and a writer's strike killed the show after two seasons despite an interesting cast.

From his inspired collaborations with the prolific writer Charlie kaufman in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, to his adapted screenplay of Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are, Jonze continues to prove himself as not only an important film - maker of his time but also a wonderful screenwriter, and his latest feature Her starring Joaquin Phoenix might just be his magnum opus.

The director: Markus Schleinzer (Austria) The talent: An actor and accomplished casting director — whose credits in the latter field include several films by his compatriots Michael Haneke and Jessica Hausner — 39 year - old Schleinzer has cast his debut feature as writer - director with several actors he previously tapped for other directors» films.

The Blu - ray and DVD both includes special features such as an extensive featurette on the eerie true story behind «The Possession,» along with separate audio commentaries with Bornedal and the film's writers.

His latest movie, Baby Driver, is the writer / director's love letter to the great car chase films from the likes of Walter Hill (The Driver), William Friedkin (The French Connection) and George Miller (Mad Max), all driven by a non-stop soundtrack that features both popular and obscure tracks of such diverse genres as rock»n' roll, punk, soul and hip hop.

Her work as a writer includes the short film «Intersection» and the feature film Paper Chase (Gunpowder & Sky) which will shoot this summer.

«Revenge» is the film we need right now, from a filmmaker we need right now: French writer / director Coralie Fargeat, who makes her stunning feature debut with a rape - revenge fantasy that's as brutal as it is thrilling.

There's a lot to like about Leon Ford's debut feature film as writer and director.

Writer / director Howard Weiner (a Neurologist and Harvard professor — thanks Google) delivers his first narrative feature film as a statement on old age, pride and dying.

Loving, a film based on the landmark Supreme Court case of Virginia v Loving, was originally developed as a 2011 HBO documentary, The Loving Story, from writer / director Nancy Buirski who has a producer credit on the feature film.

Special features include feature commentary with Writer / Director Scott Stewart, Producer Jason Blum, Executive Producer Brian Kavanaugh - Jones and Editor Peter Gvozdas as well as alternate and deleted scenes from the film.

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

A kind of subversive take on the traditional Noah story, Take Shelter made good on the promises of writer / director Jeff Nichols» first feature Shotgun Stories, establishing him as a powerful new voice in the film community.

His ventures into the world of feature film have been few and far between, and simply as an actor, not chief writer and executive producer as on «Curb.»

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.»

Two new posters have arrived online for Life on the Road, the upcoming feature film from writer - director Ricky Gervais, which sees him reprising his role as The Office's David Brent.

The fifth feature from About Elly writer / director Asghar Farhadi, and the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin Film Festival (as well as earning best actor and actress awards for the excellent ensemble cast at the same event), A Separation tells a personal tale rampant with politics.

Television and film writer Marti Noxon is making her feature film debut as a writer - director at Sundance with «To the Bone.»

Writer / Director Rian Johnson (Brick) delivers a very entertaining, creative, thrilling and clever sci - fi film that features time travel, dark comedy, romance, metaphysics, and enough action to keep just about any viewer engaged... as long as you enjoy using your brain a bit.

Conceived, written, shot and finished in less than nine months from page to premiere, the film is the second feature from «Eastern Promises» and «Dirty Pretty Things» writer Steven Knight, who made his debut only a few short months ago with Jason Statham vehicle «Hummingbird» (known in the U.S. as «Redemption»).

As the writer and director of the feature films Knocked Up and The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, the producer of the blockbuster comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and the creator of the acclaimed television series «Freaks and Geeks» and «Undeclared,» Apatow has developed a reputation for stories that are equal measures sentimental and unrefined.

The first official image has arrived online from Life on the Road, the upcoming feature film from writer - director Ricky Gervais, which sees him reprising his role as David Brent from The Office... Set some 15 years after The Office, Life on the Road sees David Brent delving into his pension to head out on tour -LSB-...]

Roberts first feature as writer / director is no better or worse than Ryan Gosling's, just films on a different scale, but both have a talented eye (and ear) for filmmaking and I think their second features will be even stronger.

Writer Jason Fuchs and director Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) have created a Peter Pan «origin» story that lacks any touch of whimsy or enchantment from the original books or the numerous film adaptations: the 1953 Disney animated classic, the 1991 Steven Spielberg / Robin Williams / Dustin Hoffman vehicle, the underrated 2003 live action version from director P.J. Hogan, or even last year's Live TV broadcast featuring Allison Williams as Peter.

The script for the musical drama, whose music and lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim, as he composed the Broadway play, was penned by first - time feature film writer, James Lapine.

It's not often that a writer as prominent as Richard Curtis gets involved with the show, and having the man behind Blackadder (as well as several highly successful feature films) contributing an episode was a prospect to savor.

Billed as the first Iranian vampire Western, writer - director Armipour's film certainly borrows heavily from the tropes of that genre, featuring as it does a lone stranger dolling out bloody vigilante justice to those deemed deserving.

Finally, writer - director Kate Barker - Froyland will make her feature film debut with «Song One,» also showing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance and starring Anne Hathaway as another young woman with some growing up to do.

Though most behind - the - scenes features showcase the production process once filming is underway, The Player gives us a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes of the behind - the - scenes process, where the only dreams that come true are for the people up top — the people who feel that anyone can make a story that will entertain millions, while the lowly creators that nurtured the initial ideas are seen as little more then expendable goods hardly worth receiving input from once the studio handlers squeeze their foots in the door, symbolically getting away with murder — the figurative death of the writer in the Hollywood production process.

A must for cinephiles, foodies and wine lovers alike, the five - day «extended weekend» features a premier selection of independent films and hotly anticipated Oscar contenders, as well as conversations with some of the most exciting actors, directors, producers and writers working in movies today.

A documentary portrait of artists, writers, and collectors who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse, this intriguing and beautiful film features Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, Sam Shepard, and others.

Debbie Cerda Debbie Cerda joined Slackerwood in 2009 as a film critic, feature writer, and photographer.

The film features interviews with artists, writers, and collectors (including Tom Hanks, David McCullough and Sam Shepard) who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and a muse.

The movie is a comedy film by director Lucia Aniello as her featured debut movie with the writer Paul and Aniello Downs.

Originally aired in 1986, and featuring Michael Gambon in a tour - de-force performance as psoriasis - deformed writer Philip E. Marlow, The Singing Detective fused three narratives: a present - day drama about a psychiatrist trying to get the root of Marlow's childhood trauma, flashbacks to the writer's past, and a Raymond Chandler - eseque 1940s film noir fantasy.

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.

Writer / director Howard Weiner (a Neurologist and Harvard professor - thanks Google) delivers his first narrative feature film as a statement on old age, pride and dying.

Richard Curtis's third film as director and writer features Hugh Grant or rather, a new hybrid version in lieu of the real deal, writes Catherine Shoard

Good Kill is the latest feature film from Andrew Niccol, who sci - fi fans will know as the writer / director of the cult classic Gattaca (1997) and more recently for In Time (2011).