Sentences with phrase «competition slate»

Fourteen (14) pupils of the Delhi Public School (DPS) International Ghana, an international standard educational institute in Tema, have been deemed the favourites among the group selected to represent the Tema Region at the national level of «The Spelling Bee» Competition slated for February 2017 in Accra.

The strongest work at Cannes this year came from all over the place, in the main competition slate as well as the more adventurous sidebars, Directors» Fortnight and Critics» Week.

As mentioned in the previous post on the 2013 edition of the Los Angeles Film Festival, the centerpiece competition slates are split between narrative and documentary.

The Cannes competition slate is full of auteurs who get invited back year after year after year, but the latest from Atom Egoyan, a director who's slumped since his 1990s peak, suggests it's time to put some out to pasture.

Yet again, the festival will not evade criticism for its historically gender - imbalanced selection, with only three films in the 2016 competition slate directed by women (one more than last year), two in the Un Certain Regard sidebar (the lowest since 2012), and one Out of Competition.

As has become commonplace for the annual event, the Cannes Film Festival's competition slate continues to be dominated by male directors.

It's been a good year on the Lido, with a balanced and compact Competition slate that avoided the rollercoaster feeling of recent years and was capped off by some truly uninspired verdicts from the Jury led by Annette Bening.

The comedy - thriller I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore has taken the top honor at this year's Sundance Film Festival, proving victorious in a jam - packed competition slate.

Mark Andrews) Cast: Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, Craig Ferguson Remember, while Cannes is all about the arthouse, their out of competition slate usually skews heavily mainstream.

Of the French films in competition, the best was unfairly squeezed out of the main competition slate and ended up in Directors» Fortnight.

It's just a reasonably good yarn, heavier on incident than psychological acuity, and I suspect it'll get a kinder reception once it's not weighted down with the lofty expectations of Cannes» Competition slate.

The competition slate is the main focus but they don't actually decide each of the awards you hear about.

Regardless, even with one of these filmmakers taking either of the festival's top two prizes, it seems as if a very clear message will be sent to the festival about how it should go about programming its competition slate in the years to come.

The primary lineup for the competition slate at the 2012 Cannes has been unveilend, and it is a very strong list of films.

The competition slate is packed with heavyweights, including Pedro Almodovar's return to female - centric narrative with Julieta; Jeff Nichol's Loving, an interracial romance starring Australia's Joel Edgerton (our only contribution to the festival thus far); and Sean Penn's The Last Face, with Charlize Theron.

France and Canada will battle it out at the 67th Cannes Film Festival this May with both countries getting heavy representation in the Competition slate this year.

The under - appreciated director behind «Reprise» and «Oslo, August 31» hits the Competition slate with his latest, and the first images have arrived.

World Premiere Notable: «Life After Beth's» writer and director assembles another great comedy cast and make it to the competition slate.

Last year's Competition slate was a bit of a drag, but this year's should turn that around with six films in this list of twenty coming from that program (and several others, including «Sorry to Bother You» and «Nancy») that just missed the cut.

Besides Sofia Coppola, the competition slate includes new films from Lynne Ramsey (You Were Never Really Here), and Naomi Kawase (Radiance).

The competition slate also brings out Michael Haneke, with a film called Happy End.