Sentences with phrase «debut at film festivals»

The movies currently debuting at film festivals and gearing up for the fall awards season were largely filmed either before or during the 2016 election — but that doesn't mean they can't reflect modern politics.

Not exact matches

The movie drew raves from critics following its January debut at the Sundance Film Festival, prompting Fox Searchlight to pay a festival - record $ 17.5 million to obtain the worldwide distribution rights to the film.

The movie is touring the country, mostly at Jewish congregations and film festivals, including in Atlanta, where it debuted on opening night.

Written, directed, and produced in Wake County, the documentary, «Certain Proof: A Question of Worth,» debuted in April at Colorado's Vail Film Festival and is slated for screening at four other film festivals.

In 2011, tech firm Sensum debuted its interactive horror film Unsound at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

The question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a festival - circuit hit this year.

Below, sample the critical response to over a dozen key films (and a few TV series) which debuted at this year's festival.

Below, our editors have picked out the most notable films debuting at the festival, and sampled the critical consensus for each one.

Below, we recap the reactions from critics to the major films screening at this year's Telluride, Venice, and Toronto International Film Festivals, considered the most prestigious events of the season and the locales where many future Oscar nominees first debut.

Also excluded are films that first debuted at other major festivals earlier this year; you can find reviews for those films in our Cannes Recap and our Sundance Recap.

From Humpday and Touchy Feely director Lynn Shelton, her first feature based on a script she didn't pen (that credit goes to first - time scribe Andrea Seigel), Laggies debuted at this year's Sundance film festival to mostly positive reviews.

That's a pure Sundance - ready inciting incident; no surprise the film debuted at Utah's premiere film festival this past January.

In fact, nearly every Best Picture winner in recent memory made its debut at one of the major fall film festivals.

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 Globes.

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.

Freestyle Digital Media has debuted an official trailer for an indie comedy titled Bernard and Huey, from director Dan Mirvish (co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival), which premiered at a few small film festivals last year.

Lionsgate has debuted a trailer for The Limehouse Golem, a new gothic horror film that premiered at the Toronto and Sitges Film Festivals last year.

The film has won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for the festival's Palm d'Or Cannes and now it's making its DVD and Blu - ray debut March 12.

The film debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, followed by other festivals including the Hamptons, London, Tallgrass, NewFest and Philadelphia.

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: After debuting at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, James Gray «s long - awaited follow - up to his indie hit «Two Lovers,» had its showing with press and industry folks at the New York Film Festival today.

The film debuted at the fall film festivals and was released in the United States at the tail end of last year.

A new trailer has been released giving audiences a more in - depth look at the story months after it debuted in the film festival circuit.

«You don't need to go ride today...» Sony Classics has debuted the second official trailer for the phenomenal film The Rider, which premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival and played at every other major film festival - Telluride, Toronto, Sundance.

Phang's award ‐ winning debut feature Half - Life premiered in 2008 at the Tokyo International and Sundance film festivals.

Also at the festival are under - the - radar pictures like the Clive Owen / Juliette Binoche film «Words And Pictures,» Andre 3000 - starring Jimi Hendrix biopic «All Is By My Side,» comedy - drama «You Are Here,» the feature debut of «Mad Men» creator Matthew Wiener, Biafra war film «Half Of A Yellow Sun» with Chiwetel Ejiofor, the James Corden - starring «One Chance» (which has the Weinstein Company «s backing, but seems more «Unfinished Song» than «Silver Linings Playbook «-RRB- and, perhaps most importantly, Stephen Frears ««Philomena,» which could see Judi Dench being in contention.

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.

Initially unable to secure complete funding, the project was temporarily shelved, but would thankfully go on to film nearly a year later (meanwhile, screenwriter Eskil Vogt enjoyed his own festival tour with his acclaimed directorial debut, Blind, which premiered at Sundance 2014 and picked up a Screenwriting award).

The 69th Festival de Cannes is less than eight weeks away and word is starting to leak about what films will make their debut at, arguably, the world's most famous film festival.

This year is no different with the aforementioned Allen and Assayas films as well as Sean Penn's The Last Face, which will give us Charlize Theron (and some possibly awkward moments between the two former paramours), no less than four French films in competition and Jeff Nichols» Loving making its debut here at the festival on its way to the Oscars.

Writer / director Justin Simien's first film «Dear White People» debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, where it received the festival's Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent.

Filmmakers Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein made a short version of The Strange Ones, which debuted at Sundance and later at SXSW film festivals in 2011.

Inspired by a nightmare, Twixt — filmed in 3 - D, but never widely seen outside film festivals, and now making a belated debut on home video — drifts between the waking and sleeping hours of down - on - his - luck horror novelist Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), whose book tour takes him to the small town of Swann Valley and to a poorly attended signing held at a hardware store.

Jeremy Lovering («In Fear») If you went to Sundance looking for the next Christopher Nolan or Rupert Wyatt (who both had films premiere at the festival early in their careers), you'd be hard pressed to find a better candidate than Jeremy Lovering, whose feature film debut «In Fear» has been scaring the living shit out of people in the Midnight strand of the festival.

In fact, if an indie movie does become a breakout hit at the box office, chances are it most certainly debuted at Robert Redford's three decade old film festival.

A special Sisters Portrait will make its debut at the Cannes film festival to celebrate the entire Hunger Games franchise.

Guests at the festival will include actress / director / producer Trudie Styler, who will present her directorial feature debut, «Freak Show»; Canadian director Denis Côté, who will serve as a mentor in the festival's Future Frames section; Byelorussian director Sergei Loznitsa, who will present his film «Austerlitz»; and Belfast - born director Mark Cousins, who will come to the festival with «Stockholm, My Love.»

The film won its first rave review when it debuted at US festival South By Southwest, in March 2018.

The week's other debuts include five other films that premiered at the most recent Toronto, Sundance and South by Southwest film festivals, some of which also are showing on video on demand.

This will be Guadagnino's NYFF debut; the film marked its world premiere at this year's Sundance, was screened in Berlin, and is scheduled to appear at Toronto and Melbourne's festivals as well.

After winning a Tiger Award at the 2011 Rotterdam film festival, Sergio Caballero's sui generis feature debut Finisterrae, with its tale of two...

Vertical Entertainment has debuted an official trailer for an animated movie titled Bilal: A New Breed of Hero, which premiered back in 2015 and 2016 at film festivals but is just getting a theatrical release in the US in February of 2018, this year.

Paramount has debuted another official trailer for Alexander Payne's Downsizing, which has been playing at film festivals over the past few months.

Freestyle Digital Media has released an official trailer for an indie psychological thriller titled A Good Dream, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Mahum Jamal, which premiered at a few smaller film festivals last year.

After a world premiere at the 2016 Melbourne international film festival, the film's theatrical release arrives not long after Ben Young's ostentatious, soul - sucking debut Hounds of Love, making this a vintage year for hotshot homegrown spooksters.

Debuting on DVD and Blu - ray this week with the look of a direct - to - video movie, Lightkeepers actually received an Oscar - qualifying one - week run in Los Angeles last December along with a two - week engagement in Cape Cod that broke the modest records of one theater on the peninsula before turning up at a couple of 2010 film festivals.

For this year's TIFF Live Read, he selected another film that made its debut at the festival back in the»90s, Paul Thomas Anderson «s «Boogie Nights.»

The AMD Next Wave competition films will debut at Fantastic Fest, many in world and U.S. premiere screenings and compete for the highest honor of the festival.

Kwedar's script asks important questions, while at the same time delivering a thrilling suspense film that is easily among the best and most effecting work debuting at the 2016 SXSW film festival.

The filmmaker was a last minute edition at the 2015 edition of the Sundance film festival with her debut film (we called it «too convenient, and ultimately, not very provocative, Little Accidents feels like a dysthymic version of classical tragedy, with a bright streak of classism threaded throughout.»

The most recent addition to his series is Chilean director Marcela Said's 2013 narrative feature debut, The Summer of Flying Fish, which he first discovered while serving on a jury at a film festival.