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is the debut feature documentary from Mitchell Kezin produced in collaboration with Daniel Cross, Mila Aung - Thwin & Bob Moore of EyeSteelFilm Inc., along with Jeffrey Kline of Darby Pop Productions.

Martin DiCicco's debut feature documentary follows the day - to - day lives of track workers in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Theo Anthony's debut feature documentary RAT FILM looks at Baltimore through a discursive documentary lens akin to Harun Farocki and Chris Marker.

I met with director Jon Kasbe on Saturday, April 21, at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, to discuss his debut feature documentary When Lambs Become Lions (which I also reviewed, and which won the festival's Best Editing in a Documentary Film Jury Award).

Her award - winning debut feature documentary Memories of a Penitent Heart, about her uncle Miguel's untimely death from AIDS, was called «exceptional» and «profoundly affecting» by The Village Voice.

Not exact matches

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

Documentary director John Maringouin's debut narrative feature stars David Zellner (the director of Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter) as a Texan hoping to acquire riches in China's booming economy.

In their debut feature directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard fuse drama and documentary, weaving a staged day in Cave's life with never - before - seen verité observation of his creative cycle.

This documentary features Egyptian - American comedian Ahmed Ahmed, in his directorial debut, along with a host of critically acclaimed international stand - up comedians.

Ondi Timoner, the director of the documentaries, We Live in Public 69 and Cool It 61 will make her feature narrative debut with the latter film.

Colin Hanks makes his feature directing debut with this irresistible documentary about the evolution of the music business.

The fiction feature debut from award - winning documentary filmmaker Andrew Jarecki is as schizoid in many respects as its main character.

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

-- Sundance Selects has acquired the U.S. rights to Jeff Unay's documentary and feature - length directorial debut «The Cage Fighter.»

Elsewhere on the blog I review Black Orpheus (Criterion) and Orlando (Sony), and also released this week is L'enfance Nue (Criterion), the debut feature from French director Maurice Pialat, and this DVD debut includes Pialat's first film, the 1960 short L'amour existe, and the 1968 documentary Autor de L'enfance nue, among its supplements.

The original A Nightmare on Elm Street also gets a Blu - ray debut this week, featuring all the supplements from the earlier DVD «Infinifilm Special Edition» release (two commentary tracks, alternate endings, three documentary featurettes), plus the Blu - ray exclusive interactive «Focus Points» mode, which allows instant access to alternate takes and behind the scenes footage while watching the film.

«Get Out» directed by Jordan Peele: For white viewers, this debut feature from «Key & Peele» star Jordan Peele offers a glimpse at how the other half lives; for everyone else, it's more of a documentary in body horror movie drag.

The slate includes a number of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.

With this bracingly original debut feature, artist Barnard creates one of the most involving and moving documentaries in memory.

After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her feature - narrative debut State Like Sleep (which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival) starring Katherine Waterston as a photographer trying to find answers to her husband (Michiel Huisman)'s recent death; co-starring Michael Shannon and Luke Evans.

The true story of the Wainuiomata exorcism provides the basis for David Stubbs» striking debut feature, a documentary exploring the tragic death of Janet Moses in a traditional Maori exorcism ceremony.

Freak Show is directed by English filmmaker Trudie Styler, an actress / producer making her feature directorial debut, after also co-directing The Sweatbox documentary.

Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow — Zero Dark Thirty Best Debut Director: Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva — Amour Best Actor: Daniel Day - Lewis — Lincoln Best Ensemble Cast: Argo Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones — Lincoln Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway — Les Miserables Best Cinematography: Life of Pi — Claudio Miranda Best Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty — Mark Boal Best Use of Music: Django Unchained — Mary Ramos Breakthrough Performance: Quvenzhane Wallis — Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Animated Feature: Chico and Rita Best Documentary: The Central Park Five Best Foreign Language Film: Amour

Writer - director Maggie Betts (who made the documentary «The Carrier») does sometimes wander too far afield in her feature debut.

Her feature debut as a producer and editor, Hip - Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, also premiered at Sundance, in 2006, and was named in the Chicago Tribune's «Best Documentaries of 2007.»

«Finding Vivian Maier,» co-directed by Maier's chief curator, John Maloof, debuted last November at DOC NYC and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Miami Film Festival (tying with «The Overnighters» by Jeff Moss), the audience awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best New Director at the Portland International Film Festival, a Founder's Prize at the Traverse City Film Festival and the John Schlesinger Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Best Film: Manchester by the Sea Best Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight Best Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea Best Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival Best Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water Best Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, Moonlight Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea Best Adapted Screenplay: Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence Best Animated Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings Breakthrough Performance (Male): Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea Breakthrough Performance (Female): Royalty Hightower, The Fits Best Directorial Debut: Trey Edward Shults, Krisha Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman Best Documentary: O.J.: Made in America Best Ensemble: Hidden Figures Spotlight Award: Creative Collaboration of Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Cameraperson

One of the breakout films from the festival circuit this year was the unexpected narrative debut from Maggie Betts (who received high praise for her documentary feature

The film is written by Peter Craig, who recently penned Ben Affleck's «The Town» with director Asger Leth making his dramatic feature directing debut after his 2006 documentary «Ghosts of Cite Soleil.»

Ranging from debut to valedictory work, most of these fiction and documentary features have American distribution and will be presented at other festivals.

Best Film: HER Best Director: Spike Jonze, HER Best Actor: Bruce Dern, NEBRASKA Best Actress: Emma Thompson, SAVING MR. BANKS Best Supporting Actor: Will Forte, NEBRASKA Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, FRUITVALE STATION Best Original Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Best Adapted Screenplay: Terence Winter, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Best Animated Feature: THE WIND RISES Breakthrough Performance: Michael B. Jordan, FRUITVALE STATION Breakthrough Performance: Adele Exarchopoulos, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR Best Directorial Debut: Ryan Coogler, FRUITVALE STATION Best Foreign Language Film: THE PAST Best Documentary: STORIES WE TELL William K. Everson Film History Award: George Stevens, Jr..

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

This is the second narrative feature film by writer / director Derek Cianfrance, who followed his little - known, Sundance - playing 1998 debut Brother Tied (made at age 23) with a number of shorts and music documentaries.

Her debut feature The Arbor was a mesmerising look at the life of playwright Andrea Dunbar, blurring the line between documentary and performance.

The disc debut of the film is complemented by Rogosin's fourth feature Black Roots (1970), a 1978 interview with Lionel Rogosin, an introduction to Come Back, Africa by Martin Scorsese, and three documentaries.

Other highlights in this section include: the European Premiere of Choi Dong - hoon's colourful period bullet opera, ASSASSINATION; the European Premiere of Daniel Junge's thrill - a-minute BEING EVEL about the legendary daredevil Robert Craig «Evel» Knievel; the European Premiere of David Farr's crafty and suspenseful study in paranoia, THE ONES BELOW starring David Morrissey and Clémence Poésy; Atom Egoyan's latest drama REMEMBER, offering a provocative study of the nature of evil as well as serving as a stark reminder of the atrocities of 20th century history, starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau; Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna's gripping documentary STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN & LE MANS, featuring unseen archive footage, contemporary interviews and previously unheard commentary from McQueen himself; Stephen Fingleton's thrilling, post-apocalyptic debut THE SURVIVALIST; Sebastian Schipper's exhilarating one - shot sensation, VICTORIA; and THE WAVE, Roar Uthaug's high - octane and nerve - shredding portrayal of a potential catastrophe.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

; the World Premiere of Chanya Button's debut feature BURN BURN BURN starring Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael, which takes the road trip buddy movie on its own smart, female - centric spin; Ali F. Mostafa's FROM A TO B, a «dramedy» following three estranged childhood companions who embark on a road trip to commemorate the fifth anniversary of a friend's death and offers a new perspective on life in the Gulf and Middle East; Paul Weitz's GRANDMA, a supremely enjoyable «road movie» starring Lily Tomlin as the gloriously profane septuagenarian whose curt words and emotional armour can't quite mask her broken heart; Bao Nguyen's Saturday Night Live documentary LIVE FROM NEW YORK!

He began making short documentaries and shot second - unit footage for Star Wars before making his feature directorial debut with this astoundingly beautiful children's film.

The Criterion debut of the film features a new video interviews with Ballhaus and the original featurette «Outsiders» featuring new interviews with actors Margit Carstensen, Eva Mattes, Katrin Schaake, and Hanna Schygulla, plus a new interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc about director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the film, and the 1992 documentary Role Play: Women on Fassbinder, originally made for German TV and featuring interviews with Carstensen, Schygulla, and actors Irm Hermann and Rosel Zech.

Some of this year's competitors include Vera Farmiga's directorial debut Higher Ground, Paddy Considine's feature directorial debut Tyrannosaur, Matthew Chapman's thriller The Ledge, Michael Rapaport's documentary Beats,...

After scoring an Oscar nomination for her documentary feature 13TH, Ava DuVernay (with Participant Media, Harpo Films and Tribeca Productions) will re-team with Netflix for a five - part series on the Central Park Five set to debut in 2019.

James Cameron's romantic epic, at the time the most expensive film ever made and the biggest moneymaker of all time, winner of a record - tying 11 Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director), and the film that made Cameron the self - proclaimed «king of the world,» makes its long - awaited Blu - ray debut in both Standard Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D sets, both of them numbering four discs and both featuring two new, exclusive documentaries.

After directing the acclaimed documentaries Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memphis, Amy Berg is set to make her narrative helming debut with Every Secret Thing, a feature adaptation of Laura Lippman's 2004 mystery novel that will star Diane Lane, reports Variety.

Animation documentary hybrid «Liyana» marks a staggering feature debut for «The Hunting Ground» cinematographer pair, Aaron and Amanda Kopp.

Often described as «the godmother of the French New Wave,» though she is more properly thought of as a member of the Left Bank movement, she made her feature directing debut with «La Pointe Courte» (1955), a portrait of a crumbling marriage set in a Mediterranean fishing village, steeped in documentary and neorealist techniques.

According to Deadline, the list features world premieres for several films, including indie flick «Josie» starring Sophie Turner («Game of Thrones»), Dylan McDermott («Stalker») and Jack Kilmer («The Nice Guys»), Tim Newfang's «Sons of St. Clair,» a documentary following Krayzie Bone and Bizzy Bone from the hip - hop group Bone Thugs - N - Harmony, and Jennifer Morrison's directorial debut «Sun Dogs.»

Best Film: A Most Violent Year Best Director: Clint Eastwood — American Sniper Best Actor (TIE): Oscar Isaac — A Most Violent Year; Michael Keaton — Birdman Best Actress: Julianne Moore — Still Alice Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton — Birdman Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain — A Most Violent Year Best Original Screenplay: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller — The Lego Movie Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson — Inherent Vice Best Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon 2 Breakthrough Performance: Jack O'Connell — Starred Up & Unbroken Best Directorial Debut: Gillian Robespierre — Obvious Child Best Foreign Language Film: Wild Tales Best Documentary: Life Itself William K. Everson Film History Award: Scott Eyman Best Ensemble: Fury Spotlight Award: Chris Rock for writing, directing, and starring in — Top Five NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Rosewater NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Selma

A trailer has debuted for the snowy indie horror titled Cold Ground, a creature feature about a team of documentary filmmakers who venture into the mountains.

Douro, Faina Fluvial was followed by more documentary shorts, from 1932 to 1941, until he made his feature debut with the aforementioned Aniki - Bóbó in 1942, an allegorical tale shot in a spare, direct manner, with a cast composed for the most part of children.