Sentences with phrase «director of short films»

Only 30 years old, writer - director Patrick Vollrath is already a prolific director of short films (according to his IMDB page, this is his seventh), and he's a filmmaker I plan to keep an eye on.

He is even more prolific as a director of short films than as a director of feature films, so we suggest a double that mixes the two.

It's been a long time since Bill Paxton was a director of short films, and award - winning ones at that.

Ronnie del Carmen, head of story for Up and director of the short film Dug's Special Mission, sat down to answer some questions about Up, available on DVD and Blu - ray on November 10.

Not exact matches

On Monday, New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Academy Award - winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, announced that it was partnering up with a collection of YouTube stars to fund and develop 14 short films, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Vacation rental service Airbnb partnered with up - and - coming director Miles Jay to create a short film out of six - second Vine videos crowdsourced via Twitter.

Placing real consumers and nightlife enthusiasts in the spotlight, the short film, directed by Grammy - winning director Melina Matsoukas, features a never - before - heard track from the electronic music duo, Empire of the Sun.

The Director of Communications and Audience Engagement will work closely with the CEO to create, curate, and market an expansive collection of film clips (full episodes and movies as well as short clips) focused on bringing light escapist pleasure to the (mostly female) masses.

Join HUB seventeen and Rooftop Films for an evening of short films directed by female directors to celebrate our March month long celebration of women!

But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends of «wellness» in his new short film Connected, starring Pam Anderson as Jackie, a lonely spinning instructor who wants to feel more, well, connected — so she joins a wellness cult and gets wifi shot into her brain so that Jane Fonda (no, really, she does a voiceover cameo) can tell her how «limitless» she is all the time.

But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends of «wellness» in his new short film

Giorgio Armani prefaced his spring 2015 runway show with a short film by Oscar - winning director Paolo Sorrentino that showcased the rugged landscape of Lipari and Stromboli, two of the Aeolian islands off the coast of Sicily.

The director Meghann Artes, produced a wonderful short film with the technique of stop - motion and elements of animation.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven, who makes her feature debut as writer - director after a couple of short films, tells the story exclusively from the girls» point of view — both emotionally, as they have all our sympathy, and physically, as almost nothing happens that one of them could not be seeing.

The film, which won the top prize this year at the Director's Fortnight sidebar, is primarily concerned with the body and brain of Brady (Brady Jandreau) a rising rodeo champ whose career is cut short by a major head injury.

Director Robert Schwentke taught her much about the film business.Just a few short months after completing «Flightplan» she booked the role of Kelly Beardsley, Dennis Quaid's daughter, in the comedy «Yours, Mine and Ours.»

Movie 43 is an anthology film composed of allegedly funny, scatological shorts from a dozen directors — like Paris, je t» aime, minus the city and the love.

Directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth were previously commissioned by Cave to film 14 short making - of documentaries packaged with the recent reissue of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds» discography.

Coming just a few short months after the release of Paul Greengrass» 9/11 film United 93, World Trade Center immediately establishes itself as a completely different animal than its counterpart - as director Oliver Stone eschews the jittery authenticity of United 93 in favor of a far more traditional, thoroughly cinematic sort of vibe.

The future director studied history at the University of Montreal, and it was there that he would produce his first short film, Seul ou Avec d'Autres, in 1962.

Although she had appeared in several films earlier, Cheng's first starring role in a martial arts film came, like Hsu Feng's, courtesy of director King Hu during his short - lived stint with the studio.

Every October for most of the last two decades, director Adam Green and his production company Ariescope have released a new Halloween - themed short film, resulting in classics like Jack Chop (2009) and the hilarious Halloween «deleted scene» Driving Lessons (2012), and this year's 18th annual film, Don't Do It, has just arrived.

From one of the most distinct and celebrated directors of contemporary Taiwanese cinema, Tsai Ming - liang, comes Walker, a formally rigorous and meditative short film that observes a monk as he ambles through the bustling streets of Hong Kong at his own VERY slow pace.

Luke Wilson first came to fame as one of the stars of the 1996 indie «Bottle Rocket,» which was based on a short film he made with his older brother Owen and director Wes Anderson.

With six narrative features, five documentaries, and several short films, Vincenzo Marra is one of Italy's leading writer / directors.

ABCs of Death 2 features 26 brand new shorts from 26 new directors of acclaimed genre films like Cheap Thrills, Inside, A Lonely Place to Die, American Mary, Big Bad Wolves and many more.

Modeled after Toshiro Mifune's towering performance in Akira Kurosawa's «High and Low» (the first of the film's many nods to Japan's most famous director), the villainous bureaucrat suggests relocating every single one of the dogs in Uni Prefecture to a place called Trash Island, starting with his own Short - Haired Oceanic Speckle - Eared Sport Hound, Spots.

From British / Irish director Martin McDonagh, who'd already had massive transatlantic success with plays like «The Beauty Queen of Leenane» and «The Cripple of Inishmaan» and had already won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» the hitman black comedy was not just the arrival of an exciting new director, but also marked a refreshing change of pace for Farrell, whose split personality of rugged charm, soulfulness and hair - trigger volatility found its most perfect vehicle to date.

«Paris Je T'aime» (opening date to be announced): Twenty - one directors are credited for this omnibus of short films that purport to show Paris off the tourist beaten track.

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.&raquof 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.&raquOf 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.&raquof «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.&raquof [Terrence] Malick,» and most surprisingly, «Bad Boys II.»

The Big Short director says «deification of Reagan» is responsible for backlash against the Will Ferrell film plans

Clocking in just under two hours, the Deadpool sequel runs shorter than most big - budget superhero films, with Leitch estimating twelve minutes were edited out of his initial «director's cut.»

Criterion's Blu - ray release includes five of director Carroll Ballard's early short films, each with an introduction from the filmmaker.

To Ron Hutchinson, co-founder and director of The Vitaphone Project, which since 1991 has collected and restored countless original soundtrack discs for early sound short films and features, including the recent Warner Bros. restoration of William A. Seiter's 1929 «Why Be Good?»

Adapted from the short film by director David F. Sandberg and adapted by horror - centric screenwriter Eric Heiserrer, Lights Out may be a quick, simple, and slightly familiar piece of PG -13-level horror, but it's also a well - made and unexpectedly engaging thriller as well — with an ending that's sure to generate at least a small amount of debate among horror fans.

With the director of Titus and Across the Universe taking on one of Shakespeare's greatest works with such talented actors as Helen Mirren, Alan Cumming, Chris Cooper and Djimon Hounsou, how could the film be anything short of spectacular?

As easygoing as a country ballad (and its laconic star), director John Carroll Lynch's film is short on dramatic incident but long on mood and heavy with philosophical substance, as Stanton's Lucky grapples with issues of realism, happiness and what awaits us after we shuffle off our mortal coil.

Following a string of acclaimed short films, commercials and video work, Venezuelan director Carl Zitelmann makes his feature debut with The Lake Vampire - the true life tale of a true life vampire, namely serial killer Zacarias Ortega known for...

Blu - ray extras include audio commentary by directors Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen and producer Jonas Rivera; a making - of featurette; deleted scenes; Lava, the animated short that preceded the film in theaters; and the new animated short Riley's First Date?

Writer - director John August's serio - comic The Nines is made up of three overlapping short films, each starring Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis and Melissa McCarthy.

They are short featurettes centered on Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, and writer - director Taylor Sheridan, unfolding with a standard mix of talking head interviews, film clips, and footage from the location production.

ScreenPicks has an exclusive interview with Jimmy Keyrouz, the writer / director of «Nocturne in Black,» one of ten live action short film Oscar finalists.

Director Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil, Alien Vs. Predator, and a lot of films like those two) shoots for the sensory overload of a Michael Bay movie and falls short.

An alumnus of Harvard and NYU, he was an adjunct film professor at the latter and Columbia University when an old student short of his caught the eye of director Lee Daniels.

The film will be directed by Nora Twomey from Cartoon Saloon, co-director of the Academy Award ® nominee for Best Animated Feature The Secret of Kells and director of the multiple award winning shorts From Darkness and Cúilín Dualach (Backwards Boy).

Son of a Gun comes from writer and director Julius Avery, who makes his feature debut with this project following a decade of short films.

Oscar - nominated director Norman Jewison founded CFC, which also produces shorts and feature films, and it runs the WorldWide Shorts Film Festival (one of only three festivals accredited by the Ashorts and feature films, and it runs the WorldWide Shorts Film Festival (one of only three festivals accredited by the AShorts Film Festival (one of only three festivals accredited by the AMPAS).

ScreenPicks has an exclusive interview with Oualid Mouaness, the writer / director of «The Rifle, the Jackal, the Wolf, and the Boy,» one of ten live action short film Oscar finalists.

ScreenPicks has an exclusive interview with Kristóf Deák, the writer / director of «Sing» («Mindenki»), one of ten live action short film Oscar finalists.

Chastain said she makes a point of working with a female director at least once a year — even if it's only a short film.