Sentences with phrase «best narrative feature films»

I saw three of the best narrative feature films I have seen all year at the Sarasota Film Festival, and two of them are getting a theatrical release, which means other viewers will be able to catch them, too.

Not exact matches

But the narrative already has the makings of a feel - good Hollywood movie — so it should come as no surprise that a feature film dramatizing Ma's rags - to - riches rise is already in the works.

It's not, though, because this is one of those «too good to be true» tales perfectly suited for a narrative feature film and one helmed by a maestro of visual effects and other technical facets.

The Canadian film premiered at Slamdance 2013 and took home the Best Narrative Feature prize, initiating a successful festival run...

The film was written and directed by Noah Buschel, who also wrote and directed Glass Chin, nominated for 2014 Tribeca's Best Narrative Feature.

Between his narrative and documentary features, director Kevin Macdonald is well on his way to banging out six films in the span of three years, and we now have our first look at the Last King of Scotland helmer's 2014...

Later, the film won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Hamptons International Film Festival.

His narrative feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.

For 2016, the festival nominated six films for the EDA Award for Best Female - Directed Narrative Feature.

The jury statement: «The Alliance of Women Film Journalists presents the EDA Award for Best Female - Directed Narrative Feature to a film in which we are observers in a story told with a fully naturalistic approach.

In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categories.

The indie has taken several notable prizes at domestic film festivals, including a special jury prize for breakout performance from the Los Angeles Film Festival for star Auden Thornton, as well as the narrative feature audience prize from the Austin Film Festival.

«We have chosen a film that we believe encompasses the beauty, aesthetic, as well as the powerful themes of love, struggle, life, death, and womanhood that are the spirit of this year's festival,» said the jury for best narrative feature.

Trying to improve upon my last film, I headed to another feature narrative after a recommendation by a well - known critic.

Writer - director Boris Rodriguez's feature - film debut starts out reasonably well, sketching in the principal characters and rural setting with broad but compelling strokes, even doling out some perceptive laughs, before the narrative loses steam when it bogs down in repetition and predictability.

Inspired by «80s adventure films like THE GOONIES and LEGEND and the big - screen work of Jim Henson and Ray Harryhausen, the film has won a number of festival awards, including the Slamdance Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.

Directors of films in competition for Best U.S. Narrative Feature participate in NVFF's unique Artists - in - Residence Program presented in partnership with the incomparable Meadowood Napa Valley.

«The Judgment,» a $ 1.8 million film that won the $ 45,000 Best Narrative Feature prize at the Indianapolis Heartland Film Festival, does not focus on the refugees being smuggled and killed.

Voting by jurors Cathryn Atkinson, Monika Bartyzel, Nikki Baughan, Katherine Brodsky, Laurie Coker, Cynthia Fuchs, Jennifer Merin and Jeanne Wolf resulted in the dual presentation of EDA Awards for Best Female Directed Film awards to two films, a documentary and a narrative feature.

This year, the best narrative feature category sees 12 films battling it out for the prestigious prize, while 12 documentaries from around the word will compete to be named best documentary feature.

When Lee cooks up a stew this heady, one best recognize... the right film at the right time, Lee's most creatively fertile and socially immediate narrative feature in years.

Initially, these Transformer - like creatures that sound as though they could be voiced by Liam Neeson, or even Peter Cullen himself, feel as though they came from a completely different movie — and genre — but not only does Aronofsky eventually go on to integrate them into the narrative well enough to make them feel like a natural part of this world, but he also adds backstory and character features that make them one of the most curious and enjoyable parts of the film.

DuVernay's first narrative feature, the 2010 drama, «I Will Follow,» was hailed by Ebert as «one of the best films I've seen about the loss of a loved one.»

Blackshear directed from his own script as well serving as one of the film's editors and cinematographers.The film won the Jury Honorable Mention Award for Narrative Feature at this year's Slamdance Film Festival.

The 16th Annual Tribeca Film Festival announced the top winners in all five feature categories were presented to women - directed films, including Keep the Change (Best U.S. Narrative) Son of Sofia (Best International Narrative) and Bobbi Jene (Best Documentary).

The Nora Ephron Prize jurors also gave a Special Jury Mention to writer / director Rachel Israel for her film Keep the Change (without additional comment), although Israel's enjoyable romantic comedy (an unusual story with a male character at its center) captured The Founder's Award for Best Narrative Feature (and $ 20,000 sponsored by AT&T).

They join previously announced films such as Opening Night film Kick - Ass, as well as narrative features Cold Weather and Elektra Luxx, and documentaries Hubble 3D, Lemmy, SATURDAY NIGHT and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights.

Written by Meg LeFauve, with her, Sohn, and others credited on story, The Good Dinosaur features the most mundane narrative of any Pixar film — mundane because it so blatantly aspires to mythic resonance.

Nobody's Watching Guillermo Pfening was awarded Best Actor in an International Narrative Feature Film «for a performance of extraordinary vulnerability and commitment that anchored the film» as a gay Argentinian telenovela actor trying to find personal and professional fulfillment at home and abroad.

Her film won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature at Outfest.

The film won awards for US Narrative Feature and Best New Narrative Director at Tribeca last year.

The film's breakout star Dominic Rains won Best Actor in a U.S. Narrative Feature at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.

After her success at the 25th Galway Film Fleadh, winning the Best Irish Feature Award for her film Run & Jump; here's a chance to catch Steph Green's Oscar - nominated short New Boy, which won Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar.

The film is a surrealist combination of Hitchcock's trademark cameos, in this case by doppelgängers of the famous director, as well as Grimonprez's first reference to Hitchock's The Birds and the actress Tippi Hedren, all critical narrative devices in his subsequent full - length feature Double Take.

Winner of the best narrative feature at the SXSW Film Festival, TINY FURNITURE is a hilarious and endearing film that explores the depths of romantic humiliation and the heights of post-college confusion.

In the latter part of 90s, Dodge co-wrote, directed, edited and starred in (with Silas Howard) a narrative feature film, By Hook or By Crook, which premiered at Sundance in 2002 and went on to garner five Best Feature feature film, By Hook or By Crook, which premiered at Sundance in 2002 and went on to garner five Best Feature Feature awards.

For her current exhibition at Honor Fraser, Crow made a series of paintings as well as a feature film entitled Madame Psychosis, both of which depict a fictionalized historical narrative through the exploration of a mysterious babushka woman who witnessed and filmed John F. Kennedy's assassination.