Sentences with phrase «debut feature premiered»

Brad Anderson returns to Sundance over two decades after his debut feature premiered there.

Rungano Nyoni's debut feature premiered at last year's Directors» Fortnight in Cannes, and immediately marked the Lusaka - born, Wales - raised director down as a figure to watch.

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Colbert's new show debuted last Tuesday night with a premiere that featured actor George Clooney and Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush as guests, garnering ratings that crushed the late - night competition.

Religion News Service: «Scandalous» evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson gets star turn on Broadway Boadway openings often feature a first - the debut of a new star, the premiere of a new playwright's work.

Audiences saw him co-star in Christine Lahti's feature film directorial debut, MY FIRST MISTER, opposite Albert Brooks and Leelee Sobieski, which Paramount Classics premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001.

When it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year, writer - director John Maclean's debut feature won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize.

It's a film that you expect to open in limited release and expand, but after a Sundance premiere, Focus Features is actually debuting it wide today, the Friday that used to launch the summer movie season (which the moving of Avengers: Infinity War kicked off a week early this year).

As for The Danish Girl, his timely period drama about the first known trans person, Focus Features — the company distributing the film — has by all accounts made the surprising decision to debut the film in Venice (it's listed as making a North American premiere in Toronto).

Zach Braff premieres his second feature as a director, Wish I Was Here, at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival a decade after his debut Garden State.Zach...

«Woody Allen said to Rebecca Hall once in a scene, «Do it once happy, do it sad, and do it indifferent, because I don't know where I'm going to be when I'm editing this,»» Messina, who premiered his feature debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

That was born out on Sunday night at the world premiere of the Next title «Lemon,» the tartly sweet feature debut for director Janicza Bravo.

After shooting, Lanthimos began preparation to shoot The Favourite but then turned back to The Killing of a Sacred Deer after the filmmaking team watched footage and figured the feature could be finished in time for a premiere at Cannes, where the filmmaker's previous films The Lobster and Dogtooth debuted.

Focus Features has debuted an ass - kicking red band trailer for David Leitch's Atomic Blonde, which is premiering at the SXSW Film Festival this weekend.

Following its world premiere at SXSW, IFC Films has released a trailer for director Fritz Böhm's feature directorial debut Wildling.

Norwegian helmer Joachim Trier burst on to the scene with his 2006 feature debut Reprise and while he has had a tendency to keep audiences waiting a bit since then - sophomore effort Oslo, August 31st arrived five years later and third effort Louder Than Bombs four years after that - he has firmly established himself as one of the premiere talents on the arthouse circuit.

After the premiere screening at Sundance of his wonderful debut feature «Kings Of Summer,» director Jordan Vogt - Roberts — responsible for the short «Successful Alcoholics» and a veteran of «Funny Or Die Presents...» — told the audience his influences for his first feature included early Amblin films like «The Goonies» with «elements of [Terrence] Malick,» and most surprisingly, «Bad Boys II.»

NEON made Reinaldo Marcus Green's feature directorial debut Monsters And Men one of the bigger pickups of this year's Sundance Film Festival, where the drama had its world premiere in competition.

The World Cinema Dramatic competition featured two world premieres today: from Georgia, directors Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross introduced the world to «My Happy Family»; from South Africa, co - writer / director John Trengove made his feature debut with «The Wound.»

«Vergine giurata» (Sworn Virgin) Italy / Switzerland / Germany / Albania / Kosovo By Laura Bispuri — Feature debut With Alba Rohrwacher, Lars Eidinger, Flonja Kodheli, Luan Jaha, Emily Ferratello World premiere

The Chicago Cinema Society in association with Shudder is proud to present the Chicago premiere of Kuso, the debut feature film from Flying Lotus, at the historic Davis Theater!

6 The Club Pablo Larraín just made his U.S. directing debut with Jackie, a ghostly portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy in the week after the president's assassination, but this 2015 Chilean feature, which premiered in Chicago earlier this year at Gene Siskel Film Center, shows the filmmaker working closer to home both geographically and psychologically.

The Danish director's feature debut, made with eight girls she found on the social media, will have its world premiere in Critics» Week at Venice

Barnz's feature directorial debut, the award - winning PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND, starring Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson and Elle Fanning, premiered in competition at Sundance 2008, and was released nationally in 2009.

The film — which had its world premiere at the Toronto International, receiving critical acclaim — marks the feature directorial debut for Michael Pearce and stars Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn; watch it here... Moll (Jessie Buckley, TABOO, WAR AND PEACE) is 27 -LSB-...]

Kieran Darcy - Smith's debut feature, Wish You Were Here, premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

This Kickstarter reward will be the DIGITAL PREMIERE for Rockwell's debut «Hero» (1983)-- the rangy, offhandedly eccentric U.S. Film Festival (now known as Sundance) award - winning debut feature.

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.

Both his short and feature debuts, «La Vie des morts» and «La Sentinelle,» premiered on the Croisette in the early 1990s, and all of his films, bar 2004's «Kings and Queen,» have played the fest, with 2008's «A Christmas Tale» being the most recent.

Her debut feature film It Felt Like Love premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in NEXT and the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Tiger Competition in 2013.

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

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.»

Anchor Bay Films announced today the acquisition of all North American distribution rights to director / writer Richard Bates, Jr.'s debut feature film, Excision (review), which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.

Making its world premiere at the LA Film Fest, Runoff is a remarkable debut feature from director Kimberly Levin.

I hope it lasts... Focus Features has debuted the first official trailer for Thumbsucker director Mike Mills» new film Beginners, starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer, that first premiered at the Toronto Film Fest last year.

Premiering all the way back at TIFF in 2006, Jonathan Levine's debut feature has just about been released everywhere else in the world, except his home country.

This past week, we were so proud to see Atsuko premiere her feature debut Oh Lucy!

A low - key highlight of the recent South by Southwest Film Festival now making its L.A. premiere, Stella Meghie's appealing debut feature focuses on three generations of Jamaican American women, including the endearingly indecisive young New York writer (an excellent Taylour Paige) who gives the movie its title.

Conceived, written, shot and finished in less than nine months from page to premiere, the film is the second feature from «Eastern Promises» and «Dirty Pretty Things» writer Steven Knight, who made his debut only a few short months ago with Jason Statham vehicle «Hummingbird» (known in the U.S. as «Redemption»).

His short film Through an Open Window screened at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, his debut feature Judy Berlin premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and he is an alumnus of the Feature Film Program's Screenwriters and Directorfeature Judy Berlin premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and he is an alumnus of the Feature Film Program's Screenwriters and DirectorFeature Film Program's Screenwriters and Directors Labs.

A great mix of old and new cinematic gold, this year's lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss's powerful debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's fiction feature debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Biček «s The Family, a compassionate portrait of a young man's life over the course of 10 years; and experimental artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.

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.

But after premiering a short at the festival last year, and directing two episodes of the excellent «Children's Hospital,» she's back in Park City for her feature debut, which delves into the competitive world of voiceover artists.

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.

His next project, «The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears,» premiered at Berlin in February, and he's just gotten underway on his English - language feature, debut, the Oren Moverman - scripted Hammer horror «The Quiet Ones,» with Sam Claflin and Jared Harris, which has made us infinitely more excited to see that particular project.

Daly's debut feature The Other Side of Sleep premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival Directors Fortnight.

And Jordan Vogt - Roberts more than justified all that this year when his debut feature, «Toy's House,» premiered and became one of the best - liked films of the festival.

Highlights include the new Keanu Reeves - fronted film from director Eli Roth, Knock, Knock and the feature directorial debut of new The Crow director Corin Hardy, The Hallow, as well as Spotlight consideration for films that have previously premiered elsewhere like the Andrew Garfield - fronted housing crisis drama 99 Homes and the historical drama» 71, starring Jack O'Connell.

Ryan Gosling's directorial debut will make its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival shortly, but today the first Lost River clip has landed online to give the rest of us an idea of what to expect from the ambitious feature.

Los Angeles, CA — May 14, 2018 — The Orchard announced today that the company has acquired North American rights to Eva Vives» feature directorial debut All About Nina, which had its world premiere in the U.S. Narrative Competition at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival last month.

With just two weeks to go until Last Flag Flying receives its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, the first poster has debuted for Richard Linklater's upcoming adaptation of Darryl Ponicsan's 2005 novel featuring Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne; take a look below... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Last Flag Flying here -LSB-...]