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.»
«Howl,»
the dramatic feature directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, which opened the festival, pivots on the famous Allen Ginsberg poem and stars James Franco, surprisingly well cast, as the young poet.
Not exact matches
An upgrade also makes a
dramatic difference with «Night Tide,» a slow - moving, richly atmospheric supernatural tale from 1961, closer in spirit to M. R. James than EC Comics, that was the first
feature - length narrative
directed by the avant - garde filmmaker Curtis Harrington.
Infernal Affairs, a 2002 gangster film from the
directing team of Andrew Lau (aka Lau Wai - keung) and Alan Mak, was less a return to form than a new direction: an ingeniously scripted tale of cop and gangsters
featuring the top talent of the Hong Kong film industry and
directed with a
dramatic intensity and gritty realism that had been absent from most recent Hong Kong crime films.
At Sundance, writer - director Robert Eggers won the U.S.
Dramatic Competition
Directing Award for his debut
feature about a Puritan family in 1630s New England who leave their community to start their own farm on the edge of a forest.
This includes
directing for
feature films as well as
dramatic and comedic television.
Her second
feature, Beach Rats was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and premiered in U.S.
Dramatic Competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, where she was given the
Directing Award.
The Excellence in Cinematography Award: US
Dramatic was presented to Beasts of the Southern Wild,
directed by Benh Zeitlin,
featuring cinematography by Ben Richardson.
Its sequel,
directed by John Woo,
featured all of the filmmaker's trademark visual style (balletic slo - mo gunfights, pigeons flapping their wings also in slo - mo before all hell broke loose) without any of the poignancy or
dramatic heft of his best Hong Kong - set films.
U.S. DOCUMENTARY Grand Jury Prize: The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle
Directing Award: Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman Special Jury Award — Social Impact: 3 1/2 Minutes, Marc Silver Special Jury Award — Verite Filmmaking: Western, Bill Ross, Turner Ross Special Jury Award — Break Out First
Feature: (T) ERROR, Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe Special Jury Award — Cinematography: Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll Audience Award — U.S. Documentary: Meru, Jimmy Chin, E. Chai Vasarhelyi Audience Award — World Cinema
Dramatic: Umrika, Prashant Nair Audience Award — World Cinema Documentary: Dark Horse, Louise Osmond Audience Award — NEXT: James White, Josh Mond
In 2011,
feature filmmaking debutant Sean Durkin proved the toast of the festival, with Martha Marcy May Marlene missing out on the Grand Jury Prize to Like Crazy, but taking home the U.S.
dramatic directing award.
The drama,
directed by Alfonso Gomez - Rejon, won the grand jury prize and audience award for best U.S.
dramatic feature at the Sundance Film Festival last month.
In his
dramatic feature debut, documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, who wrote and
directed Arbitrage, manages to bring superficial credibility to a highly contrived story.
Director Hyde's debut
feature 52 Tuesdays won the
directing award in the 2014 Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema —
Dramatic competition and the Crystal Bear for best film in that year's Berlin Film Festival's Generation 14plus strand.
Upon entering the private gated area you will encounter a stunning 5,200 sq Mediterranean beach home - with a
dramatic double door leaded glass entry that leads you into the first floor which
features an amazing recreation room that includes a billards table, HD projection with big screen,, views of the gulf and
direct access to the beach (please keep in mind that this is similar to a basement and does not have central AC, but does have a portable unit).
Programs in the drill hall include the North American stage premiere of Louis Andriessen's De Materie,
directed by composer Heiner Goebbels and
featuring the International Contemporary Ensemble in a visually
dramatic production incorporating music, dance, and spoken word; a new commission by visual artist and musician Martin Creed that marks his largest installation in the U.S. to date and reimagines the Armory's drill hall and period rooms in a surprising meditation on existence; a major new work by artist Taryn Simon that explores rituals of grief and mourning; and Circle Map, a program of ambitious spatial works by composer Kaija Saariaho that
features the New York Philharmonic.