Sentences with phrase «as feature film director»

She began her career as an artist making video, performance and multimedia performance and went on to train as a feature film director and writer at the Canadian Film Centre.

He began as a feature film director, but is now seen as an artist working in film, video and photography.

The Guilt Trip, Last Vegas) debuts his first foray into comedy as feature film director.

Next year will be his 25th year as a feature film director.

While most obviously known as a feature film director, Polanski has embarked on a number of other creative projects.

Filmmaker Dan Mazer gives the rom com genre a fresh spin in his debut as a feature film director.

ROB REINER»S debut as a feature film director with the mock «rockumentary» This Is Spinal Tap was as invigorating as his second film, The Sure Thing, is depressing: not since Michael Cimino followed The Deer Hunter with Heaven's Gate has there been such a dramatic comedown.

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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.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

This 90 - minute feature film by Oscar - winning director, Danis Tanovic, tells the true story of a former Nestlé salesman who took on the company with the help of IBFAN when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

Chocolate Milk: The Documentary counters this habitually negative narrative as award - winning director and producer Elizabeth Bayne, MPH, MFA explores the racial inequities of breastfeeding in her first feature - length film.

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.

These are some reviews of the features released in 2005 that have generated the most discussion and interest among film critics and / or the Batman begins making a name for himself just as the flamboyant Joker takes over the Mafia in director Tim Burton's adaptation of the comic book.

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

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.

Fabled is the first feature film from Ari Kirschenbaum, who served as director, screenwriter, and editor.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staAs schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

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.

Less Is More, More is Less: In his second feature film, photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn tries his best to match Clooney's hostile stillness with distance of his own, but his attempts at visual nuance inadvertently come off as conspicuous filmmaking choices overly fraught with meaning.

This is Anderson's feature film debut as a director, after work on television.

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.

The year 1997 featured Sutherland as Joey in a modern film noir called The Last Days of Frankie the Fly, and as director of the psycho - thriller Truth or Consequences, N.M..

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.

Jeunet, the imaginative French director behind such films as Amélie, Micmacs, and The City of Lost Children, turns to Reif Larsen's novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet as the source for only his second English - language feature (the first being Alien: Resurrection) and first shot in 3D.

Sandbox was nominated for a Juno Award, East Coast Music Awards, and a Casby Award.Smith has mixed sound for such films as The Weight of Water and Serendipity.He had been a long - time friend of Trailer Park Boys director Mike Clattenburg, and met Robb Wells (Ricky), and John Paul Tremblay (Julian) while sound mixing on the original TPB feature.

Angelina Jolie's second feature as director is another film expected to be an awards contender.

The Grandmasters stars the director's frequent collaborator Tony Leung as the legendary martial arts master who instructed Bruce Lee, and features action sequences choreographed by Yeun Woo - ping (the man behind The Matrix, Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and countless other films).

In 2001, Probst made the transition into feature films as the director of Finder's Fee — a drama concerning a man who finds a wallet with a winning lottery ticket.

The former music video director's first feature film since 2004's Birth is based on the satirical debut novel by Michel Faber, which centers on an extraterrestrial who comes to Scotland to pick up unsuspecting hitchhikers and bring them to her corporate bosses for use as meat.

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is perhaps most notable as the debut of Macon Blair as a director, who gained notoriety primarily as an actor featured prominently in the films of Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), to which this film attempts to emulate to some degree.

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.

Suicide Squad director David Ayer explains why a particular scene featuring Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn was cut from the film.

Special features include audio commentary with director Michael Ritchie and actress Jean Louisa Kelly, as well as an isolated score track and original cut of the film in standard def.

Swanberg has 17 feature film credits as a director on his IMDb page, and he hasn't even been directing for a decade.

From his early days as a fresh and creative music video director for artists such as Fatboy Slim, The Beastie Boys, and Björk, Spike Jonze has continued his unique style and original approach with his feature length films, effectively carving out niche in the film industry for himself.

This is Stuart Baird's first attempt at directing a Star Trek feature, but his career as editor and also as director for decent films like Executive Decision and U.S. Marshals prove he has the talent necessary to bring it all together.

She comes to Shelter as VP of National Film & Television Publicity from senior director of publicity and awards at Focus Features where she worked on such films as Loving, Nocturnal Animals, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Beguiled, Victoria & Abdul, Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread.

Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.

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.

When film director Wong Kar - Wai, who has been hired as the artistic director of the exhibit, points out that placing a gallery focused on the Mao era in a room featuring statues of the Buddha would be offensive, Bolton argues that the publicity from such controversy might be worth it.

Like their previous film Lenny Cooke, sibling directors Benny and Joshua Safdie focus on a true story in Heaven Knows What, only this time they shoot it as a feature narrative instead of a documentary.

The sixth feature film of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, «L'Avventura» will probably be even more controversial than its French and Swedish predecessors, which have been conveniently misunderstood as problem tracts of old age, childhood, juvenile delinquency, miscegenation, nuclear warfare, or what have you.

They'd been friends with the film's director, David Gordon Green, for nearly a decade, ever since he gave the Austin, Texas - based experimental - rock instrumental quartet its first significant movie placement in his 2003 film All The Real Girls (which happened to feature a young Zooey Deschanel as a co-lead).

Comignsoon.net got their hands on this super low - res photo featuring Jaimie Alexander as Sif in the upcoming film «Thor» by director Kenneth Branagh (Frankenstein) and starring Natalie Portman (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), Anthony Hopkins (The Wolfman), Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek), Samuel L. Jackson (The Avengers, Iron Man 2) and Kat Dennings.

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

As explained in one of the film's special features, Director Derek Cianfrance tried to use natural lighting whenever possible.

As the first big - budget feature from director Julius Onah, he acquits himself well, and almost every single problem the film has comes down to a script that, by Uziel's own admission, was re-written on - the - fly during production.

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.