Sentences with phrase «film competition include»

Not exact matches

Festival director Thierry Fremaux had said he believed Netflix would arrange some kind of cinema release for the two films in competition — The Meyerowitz Stories and Okja — both highly anticipated, with stars that include Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Stiller and Tilda Swinton.

The Chicago Restaurant Pastry Competition has received a number of accolades for its content and film style, including two Chicago Midwest Emmy Awards, a Telly Award, two Communicator Awards and two Hermes Awards.

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.

Below, find out what critics are saying about all of this year's notable festival debuts, including films that screened out of competition or as part of the parallel Directors» Fortnight and International Critics» Week programs.

Winners, announced at a red - carpet event May 10, hosted by United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, are awarded industry mentorships; the opportunity to screen their film at the Los Angeles - based HollyShorts Film Festival (August 9 - 18), an Academy Award - qualifying competition; $ 1,000 grants provided by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group towards their next production; and other prizes, including Dell computers and a Nike gift bag with assorted products, including a pair of shoes from the new FlyEase line!

10) On Her Shoulders Sundance has been known to include many films about what's happening in the middle east throughout its yearly Documentary competition and premieres sections.

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

Other titles announced out of competition include: the closing night film, Therese D, by Claude Miller, the French director who died earlier this month; Me and You, a new drama from Bernardo Bertolucci; and Madagascar 3, which looks to fill the regulation animation spot (previous cartoons to do the honours include Up and Kung Fu Panda).

The following films round out the Berlinale competition lineup including, notably, films from «No» director Pablo Larrain, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Andrew Haigh, Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog and, screening out - of - competition, Kenneth Branagh's «Cinderella.»

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.

Nicole Kidman, who appeared in four films at the festival, including the competition titles «The Beguiled» and «The Killing of a Sacred Deer,» won a special 70th anniversary prize.

«At Berkeley» In theory, the 70th Venice Film Festival was something of a banner one for documentaries: two in competition, one of which, «Sacro GRA,» won the Golden Lion, several others in sidebars or out of competition, and a number of films - about - filmmaking in the Classics strand, including «A Fuller Life,» «Bertolucci On Bertolucci» and «Double Life: James Benning and Richard Linklater» (the latter two we didn't make it to, but heard good things about, and hope to catch up with in the near future).

Add to this new films, split across the Venice Days, Orrizzonti and Out of Competition sidebars, from an array of interesting names including Chantal Akerman («Almayer's Folly»), Mary Harron («The Moth Diaries»), Al Pacino («Wilde Salome,» the cast of which includes — you'll never guess — Jessica Chastain) and even James Franco (here furthering his friendship with American gay culture with a biopic of 1950s teen idol Sal Mineo) and there should be more than enough to explore even once the festival has blown its pre-Toronto load.

This aggressive purchasing strategy continued at Cannes in May, with both services again acquiring multiple titles, but the Croisette marked a significant shift for Amazon Studios: it also had five films in competition, including Woody Allen's Cafe Society for the Opening Night Gala and Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon.

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.

Medienboard chief Kirsten Niehuus gathered together friends and partners to celebrate the films it has backed recently, including Cannes festival films like Kornel Mundruczo's competition entry «Jupiter's Moon,» and Valeska Grisebach's «Western,» which plays in Un Certain Regard.

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.

Other notable films in competition this year include noirish drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, starring Frances McDormand and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), and Paulo Virzi's comedy - drama The Leisure Seeker, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland.

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.

And it's telling that these films came from multiple programs of this year's festival, including U.S. Dramatic Competition, Next, and even a couple Midnights.

Despite the fact that the former film earned some good notices (including from this site) and the latter film received mostly negative reviews, The Perfect Guy ended up slightly above its competition.

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.

The winners of the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced last night at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California with The Revenant pulling off a sweep of top three categories including best drama film, and The Martian hilariously picking up best comedy, while Amazon's «Mozart in the Jungle» and USA's «Mr. Robot» overcame intense competition to nab the highest television honors.

The dearth of opportunities for female filmmakers is one of Hollywood's biggest problems these days, so it's cheering to note that fully half of the films in the U.S. Dramatic Competition were directed by women, including Stacie Passion's Concussion, Lake Bell's In A World..., Jill Solloway's Afternoon Delight, Cherien Dabis's opening - night selection, May in the Summer, and...

And lo, on Day 8 Hou Hsiao - hsien descended from on high to save the day with his long - gestating wuxia period drama The Assassin, which immediately became almost everybody's favorite Competition film (mine included), even if many professed themselves as much mystified as entranced.

Out of the 22 films selected, the favourites for cinema's most prestigious prize include previous winner Michael Haneke, for his film Amour, Ukraine's Sergei Loznitsa for In The Fog, France's Jacques Audiard for Rust and Bone, starring Marion Cotillard, and the young American director Jeff Nichols for his competition debut with Mud.

Foster's timely financial thriller premiered in an out of competition slot and the film's stars, also including Jack O'Connell, were out on show

Muted reviews likely reduced the interest with other films, including Roadside's own «Love & Friendship,» providing strong competition.

Registrants have the opportunity to attend an array of panels including: meet and greets with Conference speakers, roundtables, the 12th annual Pitch Competition, and panels that cater to the art, craft, and business of storytelling through film and television.

The competition panel will be headed by French film composer Alexandra Desplat, and includes Chinese actress / director Joan Chen, German director Philip Groning, Austrian director Jessica Hausner, Indian Writer Jhumpa Lahiri, British costume designer Sandy Powell, British actor Tim Roth, Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, and Italian director and author Carlo Verdone.

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.

Announced yesterday, the 2018 competition lineup includes the highest number of films from female filmmakers since 2011 (17.6 %, three out of 17 currently announced films), and the festival will play home to new works from Nadine Labaki, Eva Husson, and Alice Rohrwacher.

President Jane Campion and her jury including Sofia Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Winding Refn and Gael Garcia Bernal picked the prizes from this year's selection of 18 films in competition.

The complete list of PSIFF films, including entries in the Modern Masters section and the New Voices / New Visions competition, can be found at www.psfilmfest.org.

They enter the Oscars as favorites but Original Screenplay is a much tougher category this year and Jordan Peele will have some stiff competition, including a film that wasn't eligible here — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Fox Searchlight).

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!

Allen is an out - of - competition Cannes regular (11 films, including «Irrational Man» and «Midnight in Paris»).

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.

(Washington, DC, February 22, 2018) The satirical tale of one man's encounter to meet his girlfriend's family captured the imagination of filmgoers having the identical effect on voters as Jordan Peele's horror film, Get Out, towered over the competition garnering seven awards, including Outstanding Picture at the 18th Annual Black Reel Awards tonight.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Afghan Star (Unrated) Post-liberation concert flick chronicles the nationally - televised competition entered into by thousands of aspiring, Afghani pop stars including several women willing to risk incurring the wrath of the Taliban by appearing unveiled on their country's equivalent of American Idol.

The four Academy Award nominations it received included two for Brooks, for his direction and screenplay, suggesting that the film was in the thick of the competition (Jones's score and Hall's cinematography were also nominated).

Whether Solo will be included in the competition film roster, which has yet to be finalized, remains to be seen.

To get the competitive edge, Lassard brings back plenty of ringers from earlier films to help train new recruits for the big competition, including Sgt. Carey Mahoney, a glib, wisecracking lady's man played by Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith's towering Moses Hightower and Eugene Tackleberry (David Graff), the franchise's Rambo figure.

The male competition the three women will be facing includes Everybody Knows, the latest film by Iran's two - time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi.

A psychological drama that registered with audiences and critics alike because of its heartfelt painful story, as this indie flick did itself proud in the award department in the Australian version of the Oscars (won 13 awards, including best film, director, actor and actress) and was viewed in competition at Cannes and at a number of other film festivals throughout the world including the prestigious Edinburgh Festival.

In fact, festival director Thierry Fremaux held a meeting with the press before the festival even began to discuss some of the changes this year, including the selfie ban and the new schedule which won't allow the press to see any of the competition films prior to their red - carpet premier.

Nearly the entire line - up for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival has already been revealed including the Premieres for narrative and documentary films, the Spotlight and Park City at Midnight programming, and the official in - competition selections.