The Directors Lab supports first - time
fiction feature directors; application to the development track is the best way to put your project into the pipeline of eventual consideration for the Directors Lab.
Priority will be given to first - and second - time
fiction feature directors.
Not exact matches
Source Code In his 2009 debut
feature, Moon,
director Duncan Jones established himself as an impresario of mind - blowing science
fiction.
Truer Than
Fiction The 21st annual Truer Than
Fiction Award, sponsored by LensCrafters is presented to an emerging
director of non-
fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition.
The slate includes a number of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative
feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new
feature from
director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and
fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner»
director Chad Hartigan, who will debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.
More consciously seeking to recreate an old Hollywood vibe is the latest from Peter Bogdanovich, the refugee from the first golden age of cinephile
directors who has found film work increasingly hard to find in recent years (this is his first theatrical
fiction feature since 2001's The Cat's Meow).
Director Dee Rees accomplishes a breathtaking tour de force with her third
fiction feature.
In 2009,
director Duncan Jones gave gaggles of geeks flaming nerdboners with his debut
feature «Moon,» a film that dragged science
fiction kicking and screaming back into the -LSB-...]
The development track application allows writers, writer /
directors, and writer /
director teams to submit a
fiction feature in the development phase to be considered for the following programs:
Last year, she won the Emerging Canadian
Director Award for her
feature debut, a micro-budget
fiction called Never Eat Alone (2016).
Best
Feature: «The Wrestler» Best
Director: Tom McCarthy, «The Visitor» Best Male Lead: Mickey Rourke, «The Wrestler» Best Female Lead: Melissa Leo, «Frozen River» Best Supporting Male: James Franco, «Milk» Best Supporting Female: Penelope Cruz, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Screenplay: «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Cinematography: «The Wrestler» Best First
Feature: «Synecdoche, New York» Best First Screenplay: «Milk» Best Foreign Film: «The Class» Best Documentary: «Man on Wire» Robert Altman Award: «Synecdoche, New York» John Cassavetes Award: «In Search of a Midnight Kiss» Lacoste Truer Than
Fiction Award: Margaret Brown, «The Order of Myths» Piaget Producers Award: Heather Rae, «Frozen River» Someone to Watch Award: Lynn Shelton, «My Effortless Brilliance»
A great mix of old and new cinematic gold, this year's lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss's powerful debut
feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's
fiction feature debut Gutland,
featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian
director Rok Biček «s The Family, a compassionate portrait of a young man's life over the course of 10 years; and experimental artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.
In addition to this guarantee of interest, Kaurismäki's seventeenth
fiction feature, The Other Side of Hope (2017), which was awarded the best
director prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, is also one of his most affecting.
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.
Eligibility: The Screenwriters Lab supports writers, writer /
directors, and writer /
director teams developing their first or second
fiction feature film.
The program supports 10 to 12 writers or writer /
directors developing a
fiction feature screenplay and includes a hands - on writing workshop, a screening of a recent Sundance film followed by an in - depth conversation with the filmmaker, and two one - on - one script feedback sessions with creative advisors.
Program Description: The Editing Residency brings the
director and editor of two
fiction feature films in picture edit to the
Directors Lab at the Sundance Mountain Resort for one week in June.
The Screenwriters Intensive is for first - time
fiction feature writers or writer /
directors who come from underrepresented communities, including women, artists of color, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities.
First - time
feature writer /
director Axelle Carolyn is certainly no stranger to dark
fiction.
For
fiction feature writers, directors, writer / directors, or writer / director teams, there are two tracks to apply for support from the Feature Film Program: the development track (for projects in the screenplay development stage) and the post-production track (for features in picture
feature writers,
directors, writer /
directors, or writer /
director teams, there are two tracks to apply for support from the
Feature Film Program: the development track (for projects in the screenplay development stage) and the post-production track (for features in picture
Feature Film Program: the development track (for projects in the screenplay development stage) and the post-production track (for
features in picture edit.)
Another speculative -
fiction feature, «Gravity,» won in two categories: Alfonso Cuaron received Best
Director, and Emmanuel Lubezki's work earned the film Best Cinematography.
Eligibility: Applicants must be a writer /
director or
director developing their first or second
feature - length
fiction project.
The Screenwriters Lab is for first or second - time
fiction feature writers, writer /
directors, or writer /
director teams.
Directors must be in picture edit on a
fiction feature film and must have completed at least a first cut by the start date of the lab.
Eligibility: The Screenwriters Intensive supports writers, writer /
directors, and writer /
director teams from underrepresented communities who are developing a first
fiction feature screenplay.
Pre-Star Wars
director, USC graduate, and writer George Lucas had begun his career as
director of the science -
fiction film THX 1138 (1971), an expanded version of a prize - winning
feature film he made while studying film at USC.
The
Feature Film Program offers four directors in post-production on a fiction feature the opportunity to pair up with one of the composer fellows to collaborate and explore the role of music in thei
Feature Film Program offers four
directors in post-production on a
fiction feature the opportunity to pair up with one of the composer fellows to collaborate and explore the role of music in thei
feature the opportunity to pair up with one of the composer fellows to collaborate and explore the role of music in their work.
With the
director's first two
features, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp
Fiction, he favored using rock and roll tracks that played on the radios or loudspeakers that the characters were listening to.
21st TRUER THAN
FICTION AWARD — The 21st annual Truer Than Fiction Award is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recog
FICTION AWARD — The 21st annual Truer Than
Fiction Award is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recog
Fiction Award is presented to an emerging
director of non-
fiction features who has not yet received significant recog
fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition.
CinemaBlend.com —
Director Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya is very upfront about the weird and contradictory nature of the true story behind its narrative — but it also
features no shortage of «stranger than
fiction» moments.
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.
4K Restoration DONNIE DARKO —
DIRECTOR»S CUT Sun, April 30 7:45 p.m.; Mon, May 1, 9:20 p.m.; Thurs, May 4, 9:20 p.m. Richard Kelly described his debut
feature as «The Catcher in the Rye» told by Philip K. Dick, and the film delivers, combining coming - of - age woes with high - concept science
fiction.
22nd TRUER THAN
FICTION AWARD (Presented to an emerging
director of non-
fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition.
Best Debut as
Director — New York Film Critics Online Breakout Filmmaker — Las Vegas Film Critics Best Original Screenplay — Final Draft Screenwriters Choice Awards Breakthrough Performance for Alicia Vikander (tie)-- New York Film Critics Online Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Los Angeles Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Toronto Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Southeastern Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Phoenix Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Chicago Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Vancouver Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Kansas City Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Austin Film Critics Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress for Alicia Vikander — Central Ohio Film Critics Best Supporting Actor for Oscar Isaac — Online Film Critics Society Best Supporting Actor for Oscar Isaac — Florida Film Critics Circle Best First
Feature — Toronto Film Critics Association Best First
Feature — Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Best First Film — Austin Film Critics Best Science
Fiction Film — Phoenix Critics Circle Best Horror / Sci - Fi Film — Las Vegas Film Critics Best Horror / Sci - Fi / Fantasy Film — Kansas City Film Critics Best Sci - Fi / Horror Film — Critics» Choice Award
The first disc also houses a pair of
feature - length commentary tracks, the second of which, from filmmaker Roger Avary (one half the team that wrote Pulp
Fiction and
director of the underestimated Rules of Attraction), is disposable fanboy fare indicated by a lot of fawning and reverential silence.
Three years later, Cameron's sophomore
feature as writer and
director, a small science
fiction film, was released to far more distinction.
Following her self - funded
fiction debut, I Will Follow (2010), her path to success was eased after she became the first African - American woman to win the Best
Director Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second
feature film, Middle of Nowhere.
• James Cameron's science
fiction film «Avatar» (his first
feature film since «Titanic») set to be released in December 2009, is described by the
director as «an old - fashioned jungle adventure with an environmental conscience.»
His most recent
feature documentary, The Kill Team, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Truer than
Fiction Independent Spirit Award, and a nomination from the
Director's Guild of America.
But Rees, whose debut
fiction feature Pariah announced her impressive talent as a
director in 2011, has a gift for smaller, multilayered moments, like Henry's transgression in asking Hap to help bury his father.
«Pulp
Fiction» finally gets the Blu - ray treatment thanks to Lionsgate, and it's every bit as good as the movie deserves, with a
director - approved high definition transfer that looks amazing, a 5.1 DTS - HD Lossless Audio track, and two brand new special
features: a 43 - minute retrospective titled «Not the Usual Boring Getting to Know You Chit Chat» that includes interviews from several key cast members about making the movie, and a film critic roundtable («Here Are Some Facts on the
Fiction») moderated by Elvis Mitchell.
In
Fiction Factory's brand - new interview
feature THE WOMAN IS DANGEROUS, filmmaker Vanessa Wanger Hope talks passionately about her grandparents — Hollywood star Joan Bennett and producer Walter Wanger — and the pair's collaboration with
director Fritz Lang on no less than four films: MAN HUNT (1941), THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (1944), SCARLET STREET (1945) and SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR (1947), the latter two produced by Diana Productions, a company founded and run by the star / producer /
director trio.
20th ANNUAL LENSCRAFTERS TRUER THAN
FICTION AWARD (Presented to an emerging
director of non-
fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition) Dan Krauss, «The Kill Team»
One of cinema's greatest
directors began with short documentary works that foreshadowed the visual precision of his
feature - length works of
fiction.
Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best
Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best
Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best
Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson,
featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories
Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper
Cynthia Wade is an Academy Award - winning
director whose films include Monday at Racine and Freeheld, which was adapted to a
fiction feature starring Julianne Moore and Steve Carrell.
Designed by Books Are Nice, the 86 - page catalog
features an introduction from Girls» Club creative
director Michelle Weinberg, an essay on feminism and science
fiction by Claire Evans, a work of
fiction by Vanessa Garcia and an interview with the curators Monica and Tasha Lopez de Victoria of TM Sisters.
Designed by Hello Gusto, the 86 - page catalog
features an introduction from creative
director Michelle Weinberg, an essay on feminism and science
fiction by Claire Evans, a work of
fiction by Vanessa Garcia and an interview with Monica and Tasha Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters.
Designed by Hello Gusto, the 86 - page catalog
features an introduction from creative
director Michelle Weinberg, an essay on feminism and science
fiction by Claire Evans, a work...