Sentences with phrase «docu feature»

list for March as the most anticipated docu feature) and Jim Cummings «Thunder Road (which was our highest ranked male filmmaker with a film project debut on our most anticipated American indies for 2018) were handed the Grand Jury prizes in their respective Comp sections.

Spiky - haired presenter Walton Goggins comes on to introduce the Docu Feature award.

Not exact matches

Jenner's docu - series I Am Cait premieres July 26 on E! — «Put it this way: I'm the new normal,» she says in a promo — while TLC will feature 14 - year - old transgender activist Jazz Jennings and her family in a reality series, I Am Jazz, airing July 15.

Helmed by Chapman Way and MacLain Way and featuring multiple appearances by their uncle and former Maverick himself Kurt Russell, the docu launched in the Documentary Premiere section of this year's Sundance Film Festival on January 20... In play right now with several buyers at Sundance, according to sources close to the film, Battered Bastards chronicles how in 1973 Bonanza actor Bing Russell formed what at the time was America's sole independent baseball team.

Young and optimistic, he seems convinced that change is possible without violence, but Assad's harsh reaction to this movement proves otherwise: The army cracks down, claiming the lives of innocents and children in the process, while detaining suspected dissidents — including activist cameraman Ossama al Homsi, whom Derki had hoped to feature as one of the docu's main characters, until his disappearance.

Five other feature films complete the Best Picture line - up, including the financial crisis comedy - drama «The Big Short,» Cold War - era drama «Bridge of Spies,» coming - of - age tale «Brooklyn,» harrowing drama «Room,» and journalism docu - drama «Spotlight.»

This docu - drama from director Jeff Unay plays like a feature film with a narrative following the real - life story of a fighter named Joe Carman.

It's the intent of Chinese - American filmmaker Chloé Zhao to carve a story out of the real lives of the people she puts on screen; her docu - fiction technique was what distinguished her striking 2015 feature debut Songs My Brothers Taught Me, set among the Lakota Sioux in South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, this film is a «docu - drama» hybrid, meaning it's a fictional feature film but uses real documentary elements.

In the past decade more than 20 first - time feature docu helmers have nabbed an Oscar nom.

Following slain 22 - year - old Bay Area resident Oscar Grant's last day on earth, docu - drama Fruitvale Station is a resounding debut feature from young director Ryan Coogler, who's as prone to take Hollywood by storm as his star, Michael B. Jordan.

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.

A smart, fascinating docu that's at least eighty minutes too short (rejoice, however, as the same year's feature - length documentary Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey is readily available).

After working in film criticism and commencing his filmography in the docu form, Massoud Bakhshi saw his feature debut land a spot at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors» Fortnight with 2012's A Respectable Family.

Other films that we admire, but didn't quite make the cut included Alison Mclean «s «Jesus» Son» featuring awesome performances by Billy Crudup and Samatha Morton as drug - addict adult - lescents in the 1970s, Stephen Daldry «s celebratory boyhood - meets - ballet drama, «Billy Elliot,» Lars Von Trier's comedic docu - like dogme film «Idioterne» («The Idiots,» made in 1998 but only released in the U.S. in 2000), Steven Soderbergh «s economic and no - nonsense «Erin Brockovich,» Stephen Frears «manchild, record store - centered love story, «High Fidelity,» Terence Davies ««The House of Mirth» featuring an excellent Gillian Anderson turn, and perhaps Neil LaBute «s best film, tellingly one he didn't write, the dreamy and odd, «Nurse Betty.»

ABACUS: Small Enough to Jail Steve James's (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters) feature follow - up to Roger Ebert docu Life Itself is this look at the one financial institution that was small enough to criminally indict after the 2008 mortgage crisis.

Taking the hybrid docu - fiction method he explored in his previous features At the Edge of Russia and Fuck for Forest to its limits, Marczak recruited a trio of Polish 20 - somethings to act out versions of themselves as they roved their way around the Warsaw party scene, the director's camera following them in real life.

Dogwoof recently launched a film investment fund - TDog Productions - focusing on the development and production of feature docs and docu - series, gearing up the company towards vertically integration of production, sales and distribution.

Yet Ulrich Seidl would seem to be the most obvious candidate to address this issue: his documentaries and docu - realist fiction features have examined the bizarre and the grotesque side of bourgeois Austria, finding non-professional actors to inhabit his strange worlds - some of truly Diane - Arbus - type weirdness.

Netflix says the Obamas» company will produce docu - series, documentaries and features.

They are creating a docu - series on the tiny house movement across North America, featuring inspiring housing projects that are revolutionizing American housing and redefining home & community.

It strikes me it would also be a good subject for a mini docu «making the paper» feature — AFAIK it is the first one which had it's genesis in a blog discussion?