Sentences with phrase «feature film director»

Most of the time I can spot a first time feature film director without looking.

The filmmaker admitted that making the transition from being a reporter to a first - time feature film director on the anticipated thriller was both exciting and terrifying.

But with these two projects announced he's now a full time feature films director again.

Bone Tomahawk marks Zahler's debut as feature film director, and, to his credit, the marks of an amateur are easily hidden here.

Like Barry Sonnenfeld, Wally Pfister and many more before her, Reed Morano is making the jump from esteemed cinematographer (her work includes «Frozen River,» «Kill Your Darlings» and more) to feature film director with the upcoming drama, «Meadowland.»

The nominees for OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF A FIRST - TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR FOR 2017 are (in alphabetical order):

It's from documentarian recently turned feature film director James Marsh, who doesn't do much for the story besides move it along.

First - time feature film director James Bobin does a respectable job keeping all of the mayhem together without losing much in the comic timing, similar in tempo to his own time spent directing «Flight of the Conchords» for HBO.

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

First - time feature film director Max Farberbock has given a terrific visual style, resonance, sense of hope and power to the material.

Actually, first - time feature film director Anna Rose Holmer draws a very thin line between «special» and «disposable.»

Faults is a mysterious little gem from first - time feature film director Riley Stearns.

Matt Reeves and Drew Goddard, the helmer and writer of «Cloverfield,» returned to produce the follow - up with Abrams, allowing first - time feature film director Dan Trachtenberg to take over the helm.

First time feature film director Tim Miller also deserves credit for his handling of the films action scenes and with a budget that would barely cover costs of catering on an Avengers film, Miller gives Deadpool a unique feel when it comes to dispatching of the cookie cutter bad guys.

The transition from cinematographer into feature film director is trickier than you'd think.

I'll give a small amount of credit to first - time feature film director Kosinski for dishing out a slick film that also balances out the adrenaline - filled confrontations with more contemplative moments, and «Lost» screenwriters Kitsis and Horowitz for at least trying to make the film about something more than an effects showcase, even though it obviously is.

Elder, a journalist and film columnist, gathered together 35 established feature film directors, many of them among some of the best known names in the business, in brief but stimulating series of tete - a-tetes, giving them a chance to defend what Elder calls «outcast classics»: films that come nowhere near the traditional Best Of lists; hidden gems that the interviewees are keenly interested to see acknowledged and given due consideration.

The trailer featured film director Guillermo del Toro, and his character was wearing a lapel pin with an interesting symbol on it: an image of the 48 contiguous U.S. states, with a spiderweb spreading outward from the vicinity of Washington, D.C..

The nominations for outstanding feature film directors were announced on Thursday, with Gerwig and Peele joining the ranks of Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water), Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), and Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk).

Like the moonlit water, the film is beautiful but turgid and at times untamed in the hands of first - time feature film director Rowan Joffe.

The whole thing looks and feels like an extended episode of some Starz series, and you almost get the sense that first - time feature film director Aleksander Bach is attempting to ape the Resident Evil movies, another franchise with bad writing, silly action and only the most tenuous connection to the video games that inspired it.

The way screenwriter Luke Davies and first - time feature film director Garth Davis («Top of the Lake») have adapted «Lion» from the page (the 2013 memoir, A Long Way Home) to the screen is nothing short of fascinating, boldly combining all the basic human emotions — love, sadness, grief, anger, joy and hope to produce one of the year's best films.

The Guilt Trip, Last Vegas) debuts his first foray into comedy as feature film director.

When the actors were asked what their experience of working with Trachtenberg as a first - time feature film director on ’10 Cloverfield Lane,» Goodman admitted that «It takes a few days to get used to anybody who you're working with.

As a playwright turned feature film director, Finley adapts to the new medium as if it was his calling all along.

This allows first time feature film director and JJ Abrams protege Dan Trachtenberg to create his own entity free of the expectations that the next...

With his experience after producing TV commercials for clients such as: Nike, BMW and Mercedes, culminating in the classic «Joga Bonito» World Cup campaign for Nike, Tim Elliott started collaborating with feature film directors as a ghost writer and creative assistant.

ROB REINER»S debut as a feature film director with the mock «rockumentary» This Is Spinal Tap was as invigorating as his second film, The Sure Thing, is depressing: not since Michael Cimino followed The Deer Hunter with Heaven's Gate has there been such a dramatic comedown.

Is writer Simon Kinberg about to become a feature film director?

The Eyes of My Mother, directed by music - video prodigy Nicolas Pesce, who carves his name indelibly into the psyche with one of the most memorable horror films in recent memory; and Under the Shadow, from first - time feature film director and MIFF guest, Babak Anvari.

Filmmaker Dan Mazer gives the rom com genre a fresh spin in his debut as a feature film director.

This allows first time feature film director and JJ Abrams protege Dan Trachtenberg to create his own entity free of the expectations that the next chapter would harbor.

Filming actually began in October 2014, with «Independence Day» writer Dean Devlin in the feature film director's chair for the first time.

While most obviously known as a feature film director, Polanski has embarked on a number of other creative projects.

«Morgan» was helmed by first - time feature film director, Luke Scott, and written by «Peepers» scribe, Seth Owen.

«It's an extraordinary and rare pleasure to be in the company of our feature film director nominees as they share the stories of their individual journeys in bringing their films to life,» said DGA President Thomas Schlamme as he welcomed the standing room only crowd packing the Guild's Los Angeles Theater.

The impeccably designed and visually innovative creations of Joseph Kosinski, merging live action with purely digital elements, have quickly made him a highly sought - after commercial and feature film director.

MS: You went from directing one of the most popular television films of all time («The Boy in the Plastic Bubble») to helming the most popular movie musical as a first time feature film director.

Made for just $ 4.5 million, «Get Out» has taken in more than $ 160 million at the box office, earning Peele the distinction of becoming the first African - American debut feature film director to cross the $ 100 million mark.

Actress Katie Holmes optioned the book which would become the feature All We Had and her first outing as a feature film director.

«Every Secret Thing» director Amy Berg reflects on the differences of making a documentary and a feature film

He began as a feature film director, but is now seen as an artist working in film, video and photography.

She began her career as an artist making video, performance and multimedia performance and went on to train as a feature film director and writer at the Canadian Film Centre.

Like previous Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen, Islam could be a feature film director.