Sentences with phrase «black film festival»

The Newark Black Film Festival (NBFF), the longest - running black film festival in the United States, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year with a blockbuster lineup of films and documentaries, including winners of the biennial Paul Robeson Awards.

These events include gospel festivals, black Hollywood movie premieres, jazz / music festivals, arts festivals, black film festivals, national conferences, black heritage tours, and more.

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We're gonna need a minute to process this whole situation... Okay, now we're ready to talk about the purple - and - black - and - teal lace caped gown, which shows a lot of leg and a even more side cleavage at the opening ceremony of the film festival.

The beautiful Marion Cottilard oozed elegance in a black and gold dress at the red carpet of a French film festival.

Then there's the flip side, where a select set of Halloween costumes would actually work perfectly for a premiere, award ceremony or film festival, just with a few minor adjustments (think Kelly Osbourne's glamorous Christian Siriano dress from her turn as Christina Hendricks or Iggy Azalea's black and white ensemble from her Cruella De Vil costume, minus the Dalmatian, of course).

The Weinstein Co. has rushed this unfinished film into holiday release without the extra cred and preparation that a festival like Cannes could provide; both smart house and black audiences will flock to it.

This three - part drama looking at the childhood, adolescence and adulthood of a gay black man from a tough part of Miami has been getting rave reactions out of the Telluride and Toronto film festivals.

Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her alt - cult sensation A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT with her sand - blasted, dystopian love story THE BAD BATCH; Maren Ade delivers what will be the most uncomfortable film of the festival, the desert - dry black comedy TONI ERDMANN; and Julia Ducournau's directorial debut, RAW, takes us on a cannibalistic coming - of - age shock ride that resonates long after its stunning finale.

The film ignited the French Riviera festival with its true tale of a black police detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan.

Although there's the usual selection of premieres, at least half of the screenings this year are retrospectives: a look at 1928, the last great year of silent film; personal selections from the festival's guest programmers over the years, and a salute to black - and - white cinematography.

Cooper's last film, «Black Mass» — starring Johnny Depp as Boston gangster Whitey Bulger — also played the Toronto film festival.

Debuting at the Telluride film festival without a distributor in place, this impressively mounted, intellectually corrupt period piece isn't your traditional Western, and clearly fancies itself a revisionist take on so many black - and - white us - vs.

The Panorama section, on the other hand, clusters more recent titles making the rounds on the festival circuit, usually plucked from the A-listers such as Venice, Berlin or Cannes, in this year's case films such as Quand on a 17 ans (Being 17, André Téchiné), 24 Wochen (24 Weeks, Anne Zohra Berrached), Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson), La mort de Louis XIV (The Death of Louis XIV, Alberto Serra), Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn), Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu), or the black horse of this year's Cannes competition, Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade).

The Warner Bros. film, which screened as a «work in progress» premiere at the Austin film festival, is more than mere mimicry, although Franco turns in an arguably career - best performance as the mercurial Wiseau while sporting astoundingly convincing prosthetics, stringy black tresses and an uncannily spot - on accent.

FFP Alumni showing their new films in the festival included Darren Aronofsky with Black Swan, John Cameron Mitchell with Rabbit Hole, and Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck with It's Kind of a Funny Story.

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Sundance film festival premieres include a shapeshifting Cate Blanchett, Jack Black putting on a show, Scottish horror Bitch and documentaries on gender transitioning, surfing and terror

The festival aims to celebrate black film and explore the diversity within the black communities in Canada.

A black comedy about a man who dreams of being a reality tv contestant, the French / Italian co-production Reality (directed by Matteo Garrone) has attracted rave reviews at a lot of 2012's film festivals, including a Grand Prix win at Cannes, though it's yet to see a wide release in English - speaking territories.

The black comedy crime film directed, written and produced by the siblings won Joel the Best Director Award for the festival.

, 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.

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.»

But, in a festival season that's too often populated by quite literally vanilla awards fare, writer / director Barry Jenkins» astonishing new film is both proudly black and refreshingly queer.

On a film distributor's dime, when an actor rolls up in a sleek black SUV for an interview it's usually in the vicinity of a red carpet at a big film festival or in front of a swank hotel laden with free - loading junket journalists.

Bad Black You hope that at its core a film festival will provide proof of the continued health of cinema.

Two clear highlights from the film festival's third day: «Black Panther» director Ryan Coogler talking about how he loved working with women on his films, and Paweł Pawlikowski's film «Cold War,» which received mostly glowing reviews.

The UK's biggest film festival returns next month or its 61st edition, opening on Wednesday 4 October with the European premiere of Andy Serkis» sterling directorial debut, Breathe, and closing 11 days later with the UK premiere of Martin McDonagh's latest black comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Two days into the Venice Film Festival, and still the only film I consistently hear people talking about is «Black Swan» — even as the film accrues its share of detractors, it seems Venice fest director Marco Müller has broken the traditional curse of festival curtain - raisers, kicking off this year's Lido activity with a film -LSB-...]

A few years back, when I attended a press conference for Palindromes at the Toronto film festival, Solondz explained that he'd decided to carve up his main character among eight actors — ranging from a little black girl to an obese young woman to a boy in drag to Jennifer Jason Leigh — because he couldn't make up his mind which one he wanted and felt that all of them communicated an innocence that was the character's essence.

Sunshine State (John Sayles, 2002): While most theatrical re-releases, or festival screenings, tend to flaunt a new presentation, or even a rarely seen print of the film, this screening at the Rendezvous Film Festival in Amelia Island, Florida, where Sunshine State was predominantly filmed, was from a DVD off a digital projector in a black box theatre, hosted by John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi.

Finding the Gold Within has reached audiences at more than eighty screenings at film festivals, conferences, think tanks, public school districts, colleges, Black Male Summit, etc..

It premiered at Sundance and Berlin, and traveled the international film festival circuit, winning several Best Director awards, the Black Pearl Award in Abu Dhabi, and the New Media Grand Prize in LA.

His collages, photographs, videos and paintings have been exhibited in various group shows and film festivals in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, including Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation, Black Maria Film Festival, New York Director's Club Biennial and The LA Weekly Biennial.

Mr. Harris» deeply personal and innovative films — Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014), Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (2005), E Minha Cara / That's My Face (2001), VINTAGE — Families of Value (1995), — have received critical acclaim at International film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, FESPACO, Outfest, Flaherty, Cape Town and Melbourne Arts Festival and have been broadcast on PBS, the Sundance Channel, ARTE, and more.

At the film festival in Sydney I saw a documentary about an Australian athlete, Peter Norman, who was on the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos when they gave the Black Power salute.

His full - length feature, Double Take, 2009, received the Black Pearl Award at the Abu Dhabi film festival, a Spirit Award, and was an official selection of both the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals.

The expansion of the complex includes a black box theatre, more outlets to eat and drink and increased space for outdoor festivals, films, concerts and panels.

His personal and innovative films - Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2014), Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela (2005), E Minha Cara / That's My Face (2001), VINTAGE - Families of Value (1995) have received critical acclaim at International film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, FESPACO, Outfest, Flaherty, Cape Town and Melbourne Arts Festival.

Screened in dozens of international festivals; winner of awards from Greenpeace, Woods Hole Film Festival, UFVA, the Black Maria Film Festival, and others; and part of the theatrical release The Animation Show of Shows, this film was made with animated clay - painting, oil - based modeling clay brought to life frame - by - frame.

2007 LA CASA ENCENDIDA, CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS screening - retrospective various works, every Tuesday in September 2007, Madrid CINEMATEXAS, Austin, Texas Return of the Black Tower THE HORSE HOSPITAL, Bloomsbury, London Return of the Black Tower screened at the Book Launch of Subversion — the definitive history of underground Cinema CUBE CINEMA Double Dummy & Return of the Black Tower screened as part of OMSK IMAGES 20TH INTERNATIONAL MEDIA FESTIVAL TORONTO, Because of the War NEW YORK UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL, Anthology Film Archives, The Truth and the Pleasure ANN ARBOUR 23RD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL screens Because of the War and Sharony!

2009 LIGHT INDUSTRY, Natural Selections — two person screening of works with Jim Trainor at Industry City art project, Brooklyn New York IMPAKT, festival Netherlands, screens Return of the Black Tower ANTIMATTER FESTIVAL, Canada screens The Man Who Went Outside, October FESTIVAL COTE COURT, France screens The Man who went outside, Seine - Saint - Denis / Pantin, June RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS / BERLIN / MADRID, The Man Who Went Outside at; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Pompodou Centre, Paris EUROPEAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL, Osnabreuck, Germany screens The Man Who Went Outside, April PDX INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Portland USA Return of the Black Tower, May CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL screens Return of the Black Tower, Sfestival Netherlands, screens Return of the Black Tower ANTIMATTER FESTIVAL, Canada screens The Man Who Went Outside, October FESTIVAL COTE COURT, France screens The Man who went outside, Seine - Saint - Denis / Pantin, June RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS / BERLIN / MADRID, The Man Who Went Outside at; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Pompodou Centre, Paris EUROPEAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL, Osnabreuck, Germany screens The Man Who Went Outside, April PDX INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Portland USA Return of the Black Tower, May CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL screens Return of the Black Tower, SFESTIVAL, Canada screens The Man Who Went Outside, October FESTIVAL COTE COURT, France screens The Man who went outside, Seine - Saint - Denis / Pantin, June RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS / BERLIN / MADRID, The Man Who Went Outside at; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Pompodou Centre, Paris EUROPEAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL, Osnabreuck, Germany screens The Man Who Went Outside, April PDX INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Portland USA Return of the Black Tower, May CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL screens Return of the Black Tower, SFESTIVAL COTE COURT, France screens The Man who went outside, Seine - Saint - Denis / Pantin, June RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS / BERLIN / MADRID, The Man Who Went Outside at; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Pompodou Centre, Paris EUROPEAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL, Osnabreuck, Germany screens The Man Who Went Outside, April PDX INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Portland USA Return of the Black Tower, May CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL screens Return of the Black Tower, SFESTIVAL, Osnabreuck, Germany screens The Man Who Went Outside, April PDX INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Portland USA Return of the Black Tower, May CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL screens Return of the Black Tower, SFESTIVAL, Portland USA Return of the Black Tower, May CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL screens Return of the Black Tower, SFESTIVAL screens Return of the Black Tower, September

DOUBLE TAKE received the Black Pearl Award at the Abu Dhabi film festival, a Spirit Award, and was an official selection of both the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals.

A South African Moment in New York As the first solo museum show of work by black South African photojournalist Ernest Cole hangs at the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, Carnegie Hall prepares its Ubuntu festival of South African jazz, classical, and folk music, which will also feature a program of films by William Kentridge.

Sonali Gulati is a feminist, grass - roots activist, filmmaker and educator who grew up in New Delhi, India and has made several short films that have screened at over three hundred film festivals worldwide, such as the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and at film festivals such as the Margaret Mead Film Festival, the Black Maria Film Festival and the Slamdance Film Festival.

Her films have screened in major national and international festivals including the New York Film Festival — Views from the Avant Garde (Jake Seven, Moon Streams, and Montessori Sword Fight), Black Maria Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Denver International Film Festival, James River Film Festival, MadCat Women's Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival.