Sentences with phrase «at leading film festivals»

She has also received international acclaim for this role at leading film festivals including Telluride, Toronto, London, Tribeca Doha and a host of others.

The institute works directly with filmmakers and artists at leading film festivals, labs, and related events.

Not exact matches

For years he held private screenings of the movie (it's also been shown at a few film festivals), and there was even a moment when he and Stern thought of remaking it with Hopper directing once more and a younger actor in the lead.

But the strongest of the female - led films I've screened so far at the festival is Raw (A --RRB-, Julia Ducournau's beautifully realized, symbolically rich, and disturbingly erotic meditation on primal hungers of all kinds.

AWFJ, a nonprofit organization of leading female film journalists with active members in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, recognizes outstanding achievements by women filmmakers by presenting its prestigious EDA Awards at year's end and at select film festivals.

Because of the way the plot is structured, a blow - out is unavoidable, and it occurs at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas (weirdly graduated into a film's pivot point), where Jon's eagerness to sell out in front of cute, slack - mouthed publicists and Frank's paralysing awkwardness both lead to disaster.

EDA Awards presented at Festivals are often a film's first award, and boosts industry and public awareness of the winner, often leading to sales, other festival appearances and funding for the filmmaker's future projects.

Amy Adams leads Denis Villeneuve's brainy sci - fi drama Arrival, which had its North American premiere at the Telluride film festival on Saturday, but she often prefers being a supporting player.

While its Oscar prospects at the moment still seem remote and to concentrate on leading actress Adèle Exarchopoulos and perhaps the screenplay, Sundance Selects hopes that good word of mouth from the festivals will propel the film from a remote hopeful to a surprise nominee in several categories.

, a small silent black - and - white French film that no one seemed to have heard of, but had been generally well - received at the festival, with its lead actor Jean Dujardin winning the Best Actor Award.

In what is in all likelihood a Sundance first, two films about the same subject matter played at the festival — both examining what led Chubbuck to kill herself for the world to see.

Of the films we have already seen, Chadwick Boseman buffed his stardom in the lead role in Marvel blockbuster «Black Panther,» while Joaquin Phoenix took home Best Actor at Cannes as a brutal killer trying to save a young girl from the sex trade in «You Were Never Really Here,» and Ethan Hawke earned raves as a melancholy priest out of the fall festivals for Paul Schrader's recently released «First Reformed.»

British director Lynne Ramsay is set to lead a quartet of female film - makers into competition at next month's Cannes film festival — the largest representation in the event's 64 - year history.

Earlier this year his film, Birth of a Nation, made impact at Sundance Film Festival 2016, sending shockwaves throughout the world with his riveting performance leading to many accolades at the film festival.

AWFJ, a nonprofit organization of leading female film journalists with active members in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, recognizes outstanding achievements by women filmmakers by presenting its prestigious EDA Awards at select film festivals around the world, and at year's end.

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Inc. (AWFJ) presented juried AWFJ EDA Awards to two female - directed film at the 2014 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world's leading documentary film festival.

Follow this page throughout the year for updated predictions as we traverse film festivals, buzz and precursors all leading up the big night at the Dolby.

Well - received at its New York film festival premiere the week before last, this tense, thematically rich espionage film — buoyed up commercially by Tom Hanks in the lead — is firmly on the Serious Spielberg side of the wall.

Debate still rages over the scarcity of women directors, but many at the festival have been encouraged by the wealth of competition films featuring female leads — not all of them preoccupied with their love lives

We haven't had a satisfying fictional look at the world of Mexican cartels since «Traffic,» but Villeneuve's assembled a killer cast, including a much - deserved leading role for the great Emily Blunt, and if this «dark poem» lives up to the director's promises, this could be one of the most talked - about films at the festival.

Most of it comes from a Q&A led by Harry Knowles at the SXSW film festival.

Writer - director Guillermo del Toro's new movie, the romantic fantasy The Shape of Water, has earned raves from critics at the Venice and Telluride film festivals as an empathetic outsider's love story, which just happens to star a leading man with gills.

Breder continued to lead the Intermedia program until 2000, exhibiting his work at film festivals and museums worldwide — most notably, the Whitney Biennial; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Kitchen.