Sentences with phrase «feature film competition»

The feature film competition this year was almost as interesting for what's not in the running vs. what is.

On the heels of his recent Best Cinematography feting from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for his work in Children of Men, Emmanuel Lubezki took top honors in the feature film competition last night at the 21st annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.

It marks the first time in 50 years that a Polish director has had a film in the feature film competition.

Juried by film professionals, the winner of each of these 5 feature film competitions will be announced at the Golden Space Needle Awards on June 12 and will split the proceeds of a $ 32,500 cash prize - pool ($ 5,000 for features and $ 2,500 for shorts).

Not exact matches

All of the films also have the unenviable task of going up against Croods 2 — an animated film that features the voice of box office competition - crusher Nic Cage...

The 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival began with another Netflix controversy, as the upstart studio pulled its films (including Alfonso Cuarón's Roma and Orson Welles» recently completed final feature, The Other Side of the Wind) from the competition in response to Cannes banning any film that does not get a theatrical release in France.

Sundance will premiere 16 American narrative feature films, and 26 films in the world cinema dramatic and documentary competitions.

In the Documentary Feature Competition one film stands out to me.

Continuing our coverage of images from films that will be featured at January's Sundance Film Festival, we bring you images from two of the higher profile dramas that will be screened in - competition at the festival: The Ledge and Like Crazy.

In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

Half the Competition films feature a criminal act of some type.

According to the Sundance press release «115 feature - length films were selected, representing 28 countries by 40 first - time filmmakers, including 25 in competition.

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

Searchlight's main competition has been Focus Features, the prestige film division of Universal, which this year racked up an impressive 14 nominations for «Phantom Thread» and «Darkest Hour.»

Only films that are world premieres are eligible for our U.S. Dramatic Competition program, but U.S. narrative feature films that have previously screened at up to two other festivals anywhere in the world are still eligible for our out - of - competitioCompetition program, but U.S. narrative feature films that have previously screened at up to two other festivals anywhere in the world are still eligible for our out - of - competitioncompetition programs.

At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director prize for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere (US Dramatic Competition).

When the film premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival in March where it took home the Audience Award for Narrative Feature Competition, nobody could have predicted just how timely it would be upon the release in early November.

Thankfully, amidst the glamour and spectacle that frequently serve as distraction during film festivals, the atmosphere at TIFF remains unmistakably Canadian, by avoiding competition in favor of admiration and by featuring an assortment of Canadian filmmakers within its program.

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival presented 119 feature - length films, representing 32 countries and 51 first - time filmmakers (including 27 in competition), and 65 short films.

Gervasi's previous work includes the cult classic ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL, and the feature film THE BIG TEASE, which ripped the lid off hairdressing competitions.

Of the other films I saw, the only real enthusiasm I felt was for the Inarritu's «Biutiful,» Bertrand Tavernier «The Princess of Montpensier,» the first Chad feature «A Screaming Man,» the South Korean «Poetry» and the out - of competition documentary «Inside Job.»

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.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

The traditional royalty slot of the 7 pm premiere on the first Saturday is reserved this time for French director Eva Husson's sophomore feature GIRLS OF THE SUN, while the first English - language competition film doesn't screen until the second half of the festival.

The 23rd annual Austin Film Festival is now accepting applications for this year's film competition in eight categories including feature - length narrative, short film, and narrative student short.

Highlights of the Kerry Film Festival include an international short film competition, a curated programme of features films, a showcase of Kerry talent, live film music events and niche film events in unique venues.

The Commissioned Films competition at the 2018 edition of the Annecy Film Festival and MIFA market will feature 31 commissioned animated short films, chosen from 417 submissions.

Stavier Films have announced that Anthony Renwick McGill, a writer living in Dublin and co-founder, along with Savio Sequeira, of Stavier Films and The Da Vinci Theatre Company, has won the 2016 FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY AWARD in the New York Short Film and Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970's Ireland.

Its opening film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its competition strand has an impressive list of international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.

It's taken eight years, but Gröning has returned, and not just with a new film, but with his first fiction feature in thirteen years in the shape of «The Police Officer's Wife,» which screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival today.

The site includes film reviews, photo galleries, feature articles, a «Fab Five» section («Every month we select our five favourite films from a particular decade or on a certain theme» — such as five top romances), and an Interactive page with polls, competitions and TV listings.

Additional filmmaking talent attending for films in competition include: for Official Competition: Jerzy Skolimowski, Cary Fukunaga, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Jonás Cuarón, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Lenny Abrahamson, Brie Larson, Terence Davies, László Nemes, Sean Baker; First Feature Competition: Mai Masri, Eva Husson, Magnus von Horn, Trey Edward Shults, Yared Zaleke, Esther May Campbell, Nitzan Gilady, Ariel Kleiman, Eugenio Canevari, Robert Eggers, Piero Messina; Documentary Competition: João Pedro Plácido, Mor Loushy, David Sington, Walter Salles, Tomer Haymenn, Patricio Guzmán, Sarah Turner and Hcompetition include: for Official Competition: Jerzy Skolimowski, Cary Fukunaga, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Jonás Cuarón, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Lenny Abrahamson, Brie Larson, Terence Davies, László Nemes, Sean Baker; First Feature Competition: Mai Masri, Eva Husson, Magnus von Horn, Trey Edward Shults, Yared Zaleke, Esther May Campbell, Nitzan Gilady, Ariel Kleiman, Eugenio Canevari, Robert Eggers, Piero Messina; Documentary Competition: João Pedro Plácido, Mor Loushy, David Sington, Walter Salles, Tomer Haymenn, Patricio Guzmán, Sarah Turner and HCompetition: Jerzy Skolimowski, Cary Fukunaga, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Jonás Cuarón, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Lenny Abrahamson, Brie Larson, Terence Davies, László Nemes, Sean Baker; First Feature Competition: Mai Masri, Eva Husson, Magnus von Horn, Trey Edward Shults, Yared Zaleke, Esther May Campbell, Nitzan Gilady, Ariel Kleiman, Eugenio Canevari, Robert Eggers, Piero Messina; Documentary Competition: João Pedro Plácido, Mor Loushy, David Sington, Walter Salles, Tomer Haymenn, Patricio Guzmán, Sarah Turner and HCompetition: Mai Masri, Eva Husson, Magnus von Horn, Trey Edward Shults, Yared Zaleke, Esther May Campbell, Nitzan Gilady, Ariel Kleiman, Eugenio Canevari, Robert Eggers, Piero Messina; Documentary Competition: João Pedro Plácido, Mor Loushy, David Sington, Walter Salles, Tomer Haymenn, Patricio Guzmán, Sarah Turner and HCompetition: João Pedro Plácido, Mor Loushy, David Sington, Walter Salles, Tomer Haymenn, Patricio Guzmán, Sarah Turner and Hanna Polak.

Presenting the world premieres of sixteen narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.

Finally, writer - director Kate Barker - Froyland will make her feature film debut with «Song One,» also showing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance and starring Anne Hathaway as another young woman with some growing up to do.

Continuing our coverage of films that will be featured at the Sundance Film Festival in January, today we're bringing you two films that will premiere in - competition at the festival: Another Earth and Pariah.

Directors of films in competition for Best U.S. Narrative Feature participate in NVFF's unique Artists - in - Residence Program presented in partnership with the incomparable Meadowood Napa Valley.

For the fifth consecutive year, the directors of the twenty films in our Narrative Features and Documentary Features Competitions will stay at Meadowood Napa Valley while participating in our innovative Artists - In - Residence program.

Veteran director Daihachi Yoshida, whose offbeat drama «The Scythian Lamb» also screened in competition, later emailed his congratulations to first - time feature director Ueda, adding that he had walked home alone after the «One Cut» screening «feeling envious of your success» and «determined to make a film Udine audiences will like.»

Representation is a little better amongst the Out of Competition films, with five films out of eighteen featuring female directors, one of those being the multi-directed Words With Gods, the first part of the anthology series Heartbeat of the World, which includes director Mira Nair as the only woman out of nine directors including Australian Warwick Thornton.

Among a clutch of films receiving their world premiere in the competition section of the festival are The Dinner, which features Gere alongside Steve Coogan, Laura Linney and Rebecca Hall in a thriller about two married couples who meet to discuss what to do about a crime apparently committed by their children; and political fable The Party, written and directed by Sally Potter, whose cast includes Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer and Cillian Murphy.

Three other films in competition represented «promotions» for their directors, who had all had their previous outings featured in other sections of the festival, but the results were uneven at best.

Additional guest voice cast includes celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay and Alton Brown as cooking competition participant Bolton Gramercy and host Yum Laboughé, respectively; Daniel Henney («Criminal Minds») and James Cromwell («The Young Pope») reprise their feature film roles as Hiro's brother Tadashi and Professor Callaghan, respectively; Susan Sullivan («Castle») as Fred's mother; John Michael Higgins («Pitch Perfect») as Fred's sidekick robot Mini-Max; Diedrich Bader («American Housewife») as pompous local TV reporter Bluff Dunder; Sean Giambrone («The Goldbergs») as Fred's geeky archrival Richardson Mole; Naoko Mori («Mamma Mia!

The 18th Costume Designers Guild awards, hosted by Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad, Masters of Sex) were handed out last night in feature film, television and commercial categories and Mad Max: Fury Road, The Danish Girl and Beasts of No Nation bested their competition in their categories.

In addition to these 11 first features in competition, the New Directors section of SFIFF57 includes 14 out - of - competition films, which will be announced at the Festival's press conference Tuesday, April 1.

Jury protocol entails some discretion about what I saw, but I can honestly say that, between the three feature juries doing duty this year — the others being Arturo Ripstein's international competition jury and the «Cineasti del Presente» jury under Dario Argento — most of the films that I valued, in whatever section, were honored one way or another.

It's an impressive feature debut for French filmmaker Xavier Legrand (an Oscar nominee in the short film category), who duly won the Venice jury's Silver Lion for best director, and who stands a shot at winning another prize in Toronto's Platform competition.

Annemarie Jacir, the first Palestinian woman to direct a feature film (2008's Salt of this Sea), is in competition with her urban road movie Wajib, while Nora Twomey's The Breadwinner, an animated film about a girl's struggles in Afghanistan, will also compete for the title of best film.

Kristian Levring's new feature film The Salvation is headed to Cannes shortly in the Out of Competition section, as part of the Midnight screenings.

Porco Rosso follows the title character, a WWI pilot cursed with porcine features, as he agrees to participate in an aerial battle with a flashy rival, with the film detailing the character's various exploits in the buildup to the competition (as well as his growing friendship with a spunky mechanic).

Shults takes what on the surface is just another indie drama about family dysfunction, but he seems to have filmmaking instincts in his bones, even for his first feature, that it is no surprise the film received the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award in the narrative feature competition at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival.