Sentences with phrase «attend film school»

Things come full circle when Tamara, the third generation, is able to actually attend film school and build a career.

He attended film school in Belgium but was expelled for poor attendance in his second year.

Blacklisted from the National Film School in Łódź due to her father's arrest in 1961, Holland attended film school at FAMU in Prague where she was taught by the leading filmmaker of the Czechoslovakian New Wave, Milos Forman (10).

Wenders is also the only «member» of the 1970s German film movement to have attended film school (the then theatre director / playwright Rainer Werner Fassbinder was turned down by Munich's Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen, from which Wenders and his long - time cinematographer, Robby Müller, and long - time editor, Peter Przygodda, graduated).

In the video above, he shares stories about some of the movies most near and dear to him, including Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and John Frankenheimer's Seconds — which he first saw while attending film school at USC, where he also worked as a projectionist — and Mike Nichols's The Graduate and Bob Fosse's All That Jazz, which brought home to him the «power of editing.»

Growing up he kept himself busy with gaming, performing in hardcore bands and studying film by first absorbing as much as possible before even attending film school.

After attending film school in the 1960s, Fisher worked as a commercial film editor, and his short experimental films often draw upon the behind - the - scenes aspects of filmmaking, such as the editing and storyboarding processes.

Not exact matches

He plans on attending graduate school in the Fall to pursue his masters in film and television production.

It's proving to be an exceptionally busy day for the 40 - year - old: He's already attended four fashion shows; later, he'll give a talk at NYU's Stern School of Business, and attend another show and a swanky after - party, all while a film crew from New York magazine buzzes around him for an online video piece.

Since the release of my three films I have attended Harvard law school and hired a locution tutor who has improved my speaking abilities rather dramatically, therefore I can now say, I too am white!

I arrogantly declined to attend the local high school and college games; and with eyes narrowed and brows aloft I flipped from the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday TV battles to the public broadcasting channel for a film by Ingmar Bergman or a lecture from Chicago on recent trends in Bulgarian poetry.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

She attended Windlesham School and Brighton College and had been planning to study at Nottingham University when she was cast as Georgina Darcy in Joe Wright's film adaptation of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005).

Noah Taylor repeats his «Danny» characterization from the earlier film, while Thandie Newton plays a Ugandan exchange student who attends an Australian girls boarding school.

A native of Trinidad (with East Indian ancestry), Bednob originally attended the University of Toronto as a sociology major — a field far removed from acting, though Bednob had naturally played the role of class clown in school for years, which seemed to predestine him for stage and film.

The younger Castle attended the USC film school, where he befriended fellow aspiring director John Carpenter.

Along with on - set tutoring while filming the Harry Potter films, Watson attended Headington School, a private all - girls academy in Oxford.

Concerning a young vegetarian girl attending veterinarian school, the film follows her through the initiation week of ridiculous co-ed hazing.

But the film — the story a young jazz drummer (Miles Teller) who attends one of the best music schools in the country under the tutelage of the school's fearsome maestro of jazz played by J.K. Simmons — would have to be a breakout hit to make the increasingly mainstream ranks of Oscar's big category.

Pegged by some as this generation's «Hoop Dreams,» this nonfiction film documents the senior year of a girls» high - school step dance team set against the background of inner - city Baltimore, as each member tries to become the first in their families to attend college.

In addition to presenting our Annual Awards and Top Ten List, members of the Indiana Film Journalists Association stay active throughout the year serving on film festival juries, attending and sponsoring special screenings, appearing at film and genre - specific conferences, and speaking to civic groups, schools, media outlets and many other places.

The younger Davis sibling attended the Arts Educational School while continuing to get roles on - screen, and in 1947 portrayed Jean Siimmons» character as a child in the film Woman In The Hall.

It plays like one of those films based on a true story, but it's really a fiction film that draws from some personal experiences of actor (and former pro soccer player) Andrew Shue (The Rainmaker, «Melrose Place») growing up and attending Columbia High School, the South Orange, New Jersey school depicted in the School, the South Orange, New Jersey school depicted in the school depicted in the movie.

The week before Thanksgiving we screened Creed with writer - director Ryan Coogler, a loyal USC alumni, and his colleagues, most of whom attended school with him and worked on his first feature, Fruitvale Station: co-writer Aaron Covington, composer Ludwig Göransson, and film editors Michael Shawver and Claudia Castello.

The film begins in the fall of 2002 and is set in Sacramento, California, which is where Gerwig was born; she attended an all - girls Catholic school and her mother was a nurse, just like the fictionalized lead characters.

The movie, «Dear White People,» centers on mixed - race film major Samantha White (Tessa Thompson), who attends a prestigious predominately white school of Winchester and has self - published a book called «Ebony and Ivy.»

The film, which Gerwig also wrote solo following several previous screenplay collaborations including two with Noah Baumbach on her starring films Frances Ha and Mistress America, is set in 2002 Sacramento, California where Christine attends a Catholic school while also dealing with the shaky bond between her and her domineering, impossible to please mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf) who is trying to hold the family together by working double shifts as a nurse after her husband Larry (Tracy Letts) has lost his job.

Coogler then went on to attend the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, where he directed short films that received critical acclaim, including the Jack Nicholson Award for Achievement in Directing.

Raw combines the body horror of cannibal films with a sexual coming - of - age story about a young woman attending veterinarian school, where a hazing ritual awakens all manner of new appetites.

That's according to the East Bay Times (via / Film), which reports that a retro - style Bay Area AC Transit bus is being built for a sequence in the film where we see a young T'Challa — before he's the Black Panther — attending Saint Mary's College High School in Berkeley.

, with his former sidekick Bobby McCurdy while attending Austin's Bowie High School, and later became the chief film critic and movies editor at INsite Magazine and Study Breaks Magazine, as well as the film critic for Austin's Fox affiliate, KTBC (Fox 7 News).

Coto, who bombed with Dr. Giggles (1992), his last feature outing, filmed this project about a year ago as The Warrior of Waverly Street, a dual reference to self - conscience seventh - grader Spencer Griffith (Joseph Mazzello), who attends the Waverly Street School, and «Cy,» the seven - foot Phase One Assault Cyborsuit that crash lands on earth in the small town of Crystal Bluff one autumn evening.

While I have no experience with Catholic school myself, it's clear from the little moments and details that color Lady Bird's daily life that Gerwig has filled the film to the brim with the sorts of cultural touchstones that are universal to those with that shared experience, evidenced by the little audience chuckles as she endures the various rituals that come from attending a school like that.

The Final Master Director Xu Haofeng scheduled to attend A Wing Chun master must singlehandedly take on a town full of martial - arts schools jockeying for dominance through realistic, bone - crunching hand - to - hand combat in this action - packed film from the writer of Wong Kar - wai's The Grandmaster.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

The film opens with the audacious birth of Oscar Wilde, who drops from the heavens from a flying saucer and later declares while attending boy's school that he'd like to be a pop idol when he grows up.

The film begins at Emily's youth and attending a school for girls, at which she was unhappy and did not follow the religious tone of that time.

Unlike Lady Bird, the spunky, Sacramento - raised heroine of Greta Gerwig's critically lauded coming - of - age feature, the film's star, Saoirse Ronan, did not attend American high school.

The film director Steven Spielberg is helping underwrite a program that will give thousands of California high school students a chance to attend free screenings of his movie about the Holocaust, «Schindler's List.»

In a particularly cringe - inducing exchange captured on film, Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo of the Bronx accuses Ms. Moskowitz of lying when the charter school leader talks about being a parent in Harlem (the neighborhood where she grew up, where she attended public school, and where she is raising her children, who attend the charter).

Students will attend a special screening of the film I Learn America, which follows the stories of five immigrant students from around the world at Newcomers» High School as they navigate a new school, a new country and the desire to find a sense of beloSchool as they navigate a new school, a new country and the desire to find a sense of beloschool, a new country and the desire to find a sense of belonging.

Dr. Rich is a former filmmaker and writer who worked in the film industry for 12 years, including two years in Japan as assistant director to Akira Kurosawa on Kagemusha, before attending medical school at Harvard.

The film, directed by Daniel Barnz, premiered Sunday night at the Ziegfeld and was attended not only by the cast, but by the New Yorkers for Great Public Schools Coalition, an umbrella group of parents that gathered across the street.

The high school senior and aspiring documentary filmmaker longs to attend the film program at NYU and has been accepted to the highly competitive program.

This book inspired him to write his first novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain, most of which was written while he attended writing programs at John Hopkins University and the University of Houston (having dropped out of film school early) from where he earned an MA and MFA respectively.

Daisy Goodwin, a Harkness scholar who attended Columbia University's film school after earning a degree in history at Cambridge University, is a leading television producer in the United Kingdom.

A graduate of the Music Academy of Tel Aviv in his native Israel, Zur relocated to the United States and attended the film scoring programs at Dick Grove School of Music and UCLA, studying under such luminaries as composers Henry Mancini and Allyn Ferguson and orchestrator Jack Smalley.

A graduate of Northwestern University and the film program at Temple University, J. attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in summer 2014 and will be in residence at RAIR Philly in fall 2015.

Mutu talks about how her upbringing in Kenya and how that experience — particularly attending Catholic schools — has figured into her work with collage and film.

Inspired by the 1952 film Moulin Rouge about the artist Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec, he spent his free time attending evening classes at Harrow School of Art (now part of the University of Westminster).