It's taken Sharon 15 years to make Brown Girl Begins, the first ever Canadian - Caribbean science
fiction feature film.
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: Filmmakers must be in picture edit on
a fiction feature film; by the start date of the residency, filmmakers must have completed a first cut but still have significant time allotted in the schedule before picture lock.
The Post-Production Track has one application that allows
a fiction feature film in picture edit to be considered for two programs.
Eligibility: The Screenwriters Lab supports writers, writer / directors, and writer / director teams developing their first or second
fiction feature film.
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.
Not exact matches
Lewis wrote, noting that such salted weapons were
featured in the 1964 science -
fiction Cold War parody
film «Dr. Strangelove.»
At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science -
fiction and horror
film festival
featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.
The result is a movie that blurs the lines between fact and
fiction, documentary and
feature film, telling the story of childhood elation and adult struggle, in a motel where this happens every day and
featuring dozens of extras who live within miles of the set.
When Wes Anderson's
feature debut Bottle Rocket was released just two years after Pulp
Fiction, the market had been saturated with cool, quirky, independent crime
films, most of them trying to be the next Quentin Tarantino.
Released in theatres on August 24,1966, «Fantastic Voyage» was not only a
film of authentic wonder but a science
fiction masterpiece with amazing special effects... the team enters the body of a man where they see first hand the oceans of life within the human body that contains the «corpuscles», «the heart», «the lungs» and other
features of the human body through which the crew move through are exquisitely designed in great detail with artistic quality.
Additional
feature film credits include SGT. BILKO, PLUMP
FICTION, and SOME GIRL.
In his growing years as a
feature filmmaker, Arcand would alternate between
fiction films and documentaries, at times combining the two in such efforts as 1975's Gina.
The screenplay for this 1985
feature is so riddled with character inconsistencies and unmotivated behavior that it plays like science
fiction: the unsuspected presence of body - snatching aliens is the only conceivable explanation for the bizarre twists of psychology the
film proposes.
In total, the festival will show 238
fiction and documentary
features, including 16 world premieres, 8 international premieres, 40 European premieres and 11 Archive
films including 5 Restoration world premieres.
They're both produced by J.J. Abrams and directed by up - and - coming filmmakers (as were the original Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane), and all of the
films so far have
featured strong casts and high - concept science
fiction stories.
With his debut
feature, he never misses a beat while infusing the story with quirky insights and pulp -
fiction antics that lift this genre
film to a new level.
In order to qualify as an international narrative
feature film, the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational
fiction, and more than half of the project's financing must originate from outside of the United States.
INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE
FEATURE FILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of international origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» s
FILMS: Any narrative work of
fiction of international origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including
films that are shot in a «mockumentary» s
films that are shot in a «mockumentary» style.
U.S. NARRATIVE
FEATURE FILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of U.S. origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» s
FILMS: Any narrative work of
fiction of U.S. origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including
films that are shot in a «mockumentary» s
films that are shot in a «mockumentary» style.
Mike Cahill's directorial
feature -
film debut sounds like a science -
fiction movie, but it's not.
This is Müller's second
fiction feature; Preljocaj is a renowned French choreographer who brings convincing artistry to the
film's dance sequences.
Paul Schrader's «First Reformed,» which premiered at Venice and played the Telluride and Toronto
film festivals, took home MFF's
Fiction Feature prize.
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).
In addition to running original
fiction by major authors (Stephen King was a regular), the magazine contained
features about older writers such as Lovecraft and Machen along with book reviews by Thomas Disch,
film reviews by Gahan Wilson, interviews and more.»
Science -
fiction films are becoming a
feature of the current Cruise era.
Just as these three
films were eye - opening because of how they allow viewers, 50 years later, to witness the emerging student movement and its rapid radicalisation, so a
feature - length
fiction film from the same year, Tätowierung (Tattoo, Johannes Schaaf, 1967), proved to be a real discovery and, in my view, one of the festival's true gems.
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-...]
Morris is also beginning preproduction on his next
film, Holland, Michigan, a thriller starring Naomi Watts, Bryan Cranston, and Edgar Ramirez, which will be, «for all intents and purposes,» his first
fiction feature.
During our wide - ranging conversation he talked about making his
feature debut (he previously helmed the miniseries Top of the Lake), the challenge of casting a child actor, balancing fact and
fiction, how he collaborates with his cinematographer, what he learned from test screenings,
filming in India, and more.
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.
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.
Among the other
fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut
feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror
films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.
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.
Another speculative -
fiction feature, «Gravity,» won in two categories: Alfonso Cuaron received Best Director, and Emmanuel Lubezki's work earned the
film Best Cinematography.
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.
Of his previous seven
feature films, three (Pulp
Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained) did reasonably well with Oscar, netting twenty nominations and four wins among them — including Best Picture nominations for each.
The
film, said to be in the vein of «Pulp
Fiction»,
features a subplot about the Manson murders, with Margot Robbie set to play Sharon Tate.
The
film does get across the futility of war, and the opening scene,
featuring a young Russian soldier asking a psychic how soon before he will die, is a moment that cleverly balances the science
fiction with real life tragedy.
«A Walk Among the Tombstones» is the fifth
feature - length
film made from Lawrence Block's
fiction and the fifth time Liam Neeson goes after psychos who take people hostage.
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.
His new science
fiction film, «Annihilation,»
features an almost entirely female cast led by Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Gina Rodriguez («Jane the Virgin»)-- who play smart, resourceful women on a scientific mission to explore a mysterious phenomenon that has overtaken a forest.
Since his first cinematic composition, a collaboration with then - newcomer Richard Band on the low - budget science
fiction thriller, LASERBLAST (1978), Joel scored a number of
feature and television
films throughout the 1980s and «90s, including the sci - fi series SUPER FORCE (1990), Roland Emmerich's early sci - fi thriller MOON 44 (1990), and Jim Wynorski's gentle family comedy, LITTLE MISS MILLIONS (1993).
Along with these were the equally significant audience awards for
fiction feature, documentary, short
film, and web series.
Sarah Menzies» terrific nonfiction
film is every bit as keenly observed, and its visual storytelling every bit as rich, as the most absorbing narrative
fiction feature.
After viewing a double
feature of Pulp
Fiction and Scarface in his early teens,
film became his biggest passion.
-- In late June, the call for submissions will open for the second #HometownHeroes rally with The Duplass Brothers, which expands this year to include both
fiction and nonfiction
feature films.
One doesn't need to dig deep into his body of work to see that the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace had sincere ambivalence about mass media — his much - heralded 1,079 - page novel, Infinite Jest,
features a science
fiction conceit where a lethal videotape known as «The Entertainment» is so addictive, its viewers lose interest in anything other than endless repeat viewings of the
film.
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.