Sentences with phrase «feature narrative drama»

In many ways, Mercury 13 feels like a blueprint for a feature narrative drama film.

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Featuring a truly all - star voice cast back when stars were less inclined to do voice work (Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Jeff Goldblum and even Steve Martin got in the game), Prince of Egypt is largely faithful to the biblical narrative and even manages some real moments of human drama.

Director Max Joseph (MTV's Catfish) makes his narrative feature debut here and while he is keen on tapping into that younger audience he knows so well, at thirty - three this drama of young angst feels more manufactured than authentic.

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.

Sofia Djama's debut feature employs this multi-layered narrative to craft a stirring drama that illuminates the generational states of unrest left in the wake of the Algerian Civil War.

EXCLUSIVE: The edgy distributor has picked up Canadian rights to Justin Tipping's coming - of - age drama and winner of the best cinematography in a US narrative feature prize at Tribeca.

By: Jeremy Kay EXCLUSIVE: The edgy distributor has picked up Canadian rights to Justin Tipping's coming - of - age drama and winner of the best cinematography in a US narrative feature prize at Tribeca.

Kent Jones» intimate drama «Diane» landed a leading three awards at the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival, including best narrative feature.

James Tynion IV has done remarkable work crafting compelling drama around the Bat - family with his Detective Comics run, taking cues from the Chris Claremont school of superhero storytelling to build a dense narrative featuring a big cast of characters, each with their own subplots.

Now, Focus Features is looking at this very issue: written by Daniel Kunka and bought for Smokehouse and Spotlight producers Blye Pagon Faust and Nicole Rocklin, the drama is inspired by a number of different stories, including a piece sourced by the Center for Investigative Reporting, to put together a narrative for what is tentatively titled (and aptly named) Trading In Starvation.

The story, which could easily have been too convoluted to follow for someone who doesn't understand British laws and government agencies, is relatively easy to follow, and features a nicely developed script by acclaimed screenwriter Steven Knight (Redemption, Dirty Pretty Things), though some all - too - convenient narrative shortcuts are taken to keep the story moving briskly, which may annoy some who prefer courtroom dramas without all of the contrived thriller elements.

These are the only films among his 17 features and TV dramas in which Leigh focuses the narrative on a single character.

Grand Jury Award: Will Canon, Brotherhood Best Feature: Tanya Hamilton, Night Catches Us Audience Choice Narrative: Bob Meyer, Drunkboat Audience Choice Documentary: Adrian Grenier, Teenage Paparazzo Best Documentary: Matthew Groff and Ami Horowitz, U.N. Me Best Short Comedy: Jordan Vogt - Roberts, Successful Alcoholics Best Short Drama: Dan Hannon, The Pond Best Screenplay: Tim Steed, «Dance of the Spike» («Spike Driver Blues») MyTV's New England Film of the Year: Andy Mitton, YellowBrickRoad Van McLeod Award: Ken Burns

Myers is slated to appear in the drama Terminal with Margot Robbie, potentially being released sometime this year, as well as the comedy biopic Del, where he will play famed improvisational comedy mentor Del Close, but otherwise, he hasn't made a narrative feature since Shrek Forever After in 2010.

Originally aired in 1986, and featuring Michael Gambon in a tour - de-force performance as psoriasis - deformed writer Philip E. Marlow, The Singing Detective fused three narratives: a present - day drama about a psychiatrist trying to get the root of Marlow's childhood trauma, flashbacks to the writer's past, and a Raymond Chandler - eseque 1940s film noir fantasy.

Two years ago, Derek Cianfrance made his narrative feature debut with the emotionally - charged, uncomfortable - yet - beautiful romantic drama Blue Valentine, which was about the despair and devastation of romantic relationships and the pain they leave behind.

M Feature Narrative Country: France Director: Sara Forestier Writer: Sara Forestier Starring: Liv Andren, Jean - Pierre Léaud, Redouanne Harjane, Sara Forestier Written by, directed by, and starring César Award winner Sara Forestier, this steamy drama explores the passionate relationship between a girl with a crippling speech impediment and an undereducated drag racer.

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.

Putting the «alien» in «alienating,» Glazer's third feature fuses a cryptic stranger - in - a-strange-land narrative, guerrilla shooting approach, and a tightly contained audiovisual scheme that makes for a claustrophobically seamless and unnerving drama of self - awakening.

DuVernay's first narrative feature, the 2010 drama, «I Will Follow,» was hailed by Ebert as «one of the best films I've seen about the loss of a loved one.»

Brad Pitt and Emma Thompson, will narrate the film... Marcel Ophüls is planning a film about Ernst Lubitsch to star Dustin Hoffman, with Jeanne Moreau as Lubitsch's private secretary... Errol Morris is underway on Holland, Michigan, a narrative feature starring Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, and Edgar Ramirez... David Fincher is re-teaming with producer Scott Rudin and writer Aaron Sorkin on a Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson's biography and structured around three pivotal moments in Jobs's life... Hot from HBO's True Detective, Cary Fukunaga is directing Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation, a drama about child soldiers in Ghana...

Unusually for randomly generated roguelikes, Death Road To Canada features a heavy emphasis on narrative, its Interactive Fiction events making or breaking friendships, all the while adding character - driven drama to the blood and guts chaos of combat.

Spanning five sections, the core narrative of 500 Years Later features key players speaking candidly and at length on the high stakes pressures, cutting edge tech and human dramas that surrounded the creation of Final Fantasy VII.

Most recently, her paintings have been featured as a focal point and narrative vehicle in the ABC tv drama, The Catch.

Self - described as an exhibition with the «foundational characteristic of über - felicity» or «a narrative strategy revealing disenchant», Bright Like a Diamond will feature Congost's 2014 single - channel video work The Artist Behind The Aura and Sarah & Charles's latest video titled Props For Drama: Suspension of Disbelief.

Over one hundred additional works from the Scull collection are illustrated in the 288 - page catalogue that features Judith Goldman's revelatory narrative, based on hitherto unpublished sources, of the dramas that accompanied Robert and Ethel Scull's ever - shifting relationships with artists, dealers, the press and each other.