Sentences with phrase «film explored this issue»

In addition to providing an inside look at the BUGSS lab, the film explores the issues surrounding DIYbio community labs in general, including how they secure funding, where they find their equipment, and how they address concerns about biosafety.

Recorded over 12 years of the boys» journey from kindergarten through high school graduation, this film explores issues of race, class, and opportunity in America and raises provocative questions.

Many of Ottinger's films explore issues of metamorphosis and inclusion.

In recreating the modern experience of fragmentation and spectacle, both art and film explore issues of human perception and understanding of reality that were part of the intellectual climate of their day.»

Not exact matches

This snippet set the tone for «Tigers» (directed by Oscar - winning director Danis Tanović) as the film explored the contentious issue of corporate bullying, whistle blowing, the method of artificial feeding and the continued global dominance of multi-national companies (MNCs) in an emotive and raw manner.

I felt it was essential to give this film over to the people who are affected by the issues it explores, and we are currently arranging free screenings for people on estates and in local communities.

It also included an evening session going beyond economics and political science to look at how times of fiscal austerity were reflected in film, cartoon and gallery art, with experts exploring these issues from the perspective of social history.

The group used media, such as television adverts, Disney films, press articles, image bank photography to social media, to stimulate debate about the particular issue being explored.

The genesis of District 9 is contained within Blomkamp's impressive 2005 short film Alive in Joburg, where he first introduced the idea of using an alien and human encounter to explore issues of discrimination.

Following a young woman as she awkwardly makes her way through her senior year of high school, Lady Bird explores popularity, family issues, jealousy, and numerous other issues that teenagers face on a daily basis, so if you go into this film having already experienced those years of your life, I guarantee there will be a section of this movie that you can relate to.

For a film exploring heady issues surrounding class struggles, it doesn't always traverse the best avenues to its destination.

One of my biggest issues is that the last film forgot to focus on character development / relationships and these are some very cool comic book characters in the Lantern Corps., we just didn't get a chance to see this properly explored.

These are the kinds of issues dealt with in the indie drama Brightest Star, and while the film doesn't have any revelatory answers, it at least gets points for thoughtfully exploring the issue.

While Araki's previous films, such as Totally Fucked Up and The Doom Generation, were self - consciously trashy tales of teen angst and chic nihilism, Mysterious Skin explores the difficult, painful and frequently sensationalised issue of child sexual abuse.

The film is an excellent and wildly entertaining effort from writer / director Edgar Wright, co - writer / star Simon Pegg, and star Nick Frost that uses elements from the sci - fi genre to explore issues of friendship, adulthood, and growing up.

«Our events in Hong Kong and London are steps toward bridging this gap and show the openness of international audiences to exploring these films and issues.»

Not only is this film elegantly shot, with a gorgeous sense both of internal textures and wide - open spaces, but it also features knockout performances from an especially fine cast while exploring serious issues from a...

There will be better science fiction films that explore these issues, but there will be many, many more worse.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS I for India (Unrated) Sandhya Suri explores the issue of assimilation in this bittersweet memoir about her family's migration from India to England in 1965, well documented due to her father's having filmed them for the past 40 years with the help of a couple of Super 8 cameras and a tape recorder.

With an approach that emphasises internal feelings and character journeys, over more obvious things like narrative structure and story arcs, this Brazilian - German film challenges audiences to explore a series of important issues in ways movies...

I Feel Pretty is a film that explores, highlights, and celebrates issues of self - confidence.

Through the film, Andô, adapting her own novel, explores issues of gender and aging in the context of contemporary Japan.

As with Berg's film and HBO's television documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God (2012), which explore similar cases in Northern California and Wisconsin, Spotlight raises questions about Church - run «treatment centres» and the role of wider celibacy issues on its attitude to self - preservation.

It seems appropriate enough then that both actors were cast in the new thriller The Circle — a film that explores the issue of constant surveillance.

Unemployed art school graduates Mingming and Yue take turns filming each other with a small camera, exploring a range of issues rarely shown in any national cinema with such deadpan accuracy — from the complex waters of female friendship to «pussy» as a commodity, from the desire to use filmmaking as a weapon to the decision to make a baby — an up - in - your face, playful, sassy deconstruction of what it means to be a young woman now.

In Between begins as an enjoyably light drama about three Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv, and then transitions into a more serious film to explore issues of religion, gender and sexuality.

A dry film, exploring immigration issues with warmth, satire and charm.

The film often looks like it wants to explore certain avenues of tension and humour, with the theme of arrested development being the main issue, but like its main character Knocked for Six plays it safe in all areas.

Dramatic film has long been fascinated with issues of identity, but they've rarely been explored with the degree of eloquence and heartbreaking beauty as in Barry Jenkins» masterful «Moonlight,» one of the essential American films of 2016.

Marketed as an intelligent rumination about artificial intelligence, Ex Machina actually carries a mean exploitation streak: it uses science fiction as a lure for nerds, but halfway through the film suddenly switches sides to explore a few older and darker issues.

Paul Bettany makes a strong impression with his first film as a writer - director, exploring the big issue of homelessness from a variety of pointed angles.

Unfortunately she's also been dully conceived as a punky trust - fund rebel with unresolved daddy issues, something the film explores at great length by sending her on an origins - establishing mission to find out what really happened to her missing - presumed - dead father (Dominic West, reliably terrible).

The programmers try to choose locations without ready access to independent films and filmmakers as part of the Film Forward initiative to spread awareness of the issues explored in the films.

The Hype: Aside from both films exploring very timely issues, both have gotten praise for handling their subject matter in sharp, sensitive ways.

Johnson clearly was a forward thinker, knowing that the Civil Rights Act was a necessary positive step for this nation but the film never really explores the depth of this perspective on this issue.

Issues surrounding the real - life 1970 plane crash that killed most of the Marshall University football team are explored in only the most cliched manner in this disappointing film, which is filled with even more overwrought dialogue and simplistic messages than the typical sports film.

Minervini never shows an ounce of judgment towards his subjects» lifestyle either, and by doing so he opens the film up to explore fascinating issues delving well below the surface.

As the title suggests, his film wants to explore the relations between blacks and whites, namely the influence of hip - hop culture on white youths — this issue in addition to telling a crime story as a hook.

The project recently conducted focus groups with senior students to explore the issue of internet pornography on adolescent relationships, and from their responses created the film «Impression that you get».

In The Graduates / Los Graduados, a two - part bilingual film from Quiet Pictures, important educational issues are explored through the eyes of three Latino and three Latina students from across the United States.

His film «First Steps to Recovery», explores illness and death and the ways in which faith can be a great source of strength and solace to those facing these issues.

Each faculty member admitted to taking away something different from the documentary — for instance Mapp was pleased to see a mostly positive portrayal of parents and their concern for their children's education; however, they all agreed with Mehta that the film missed the opportunity to more fully explore issues of inequity and poverty, as well as some long - standing problems within the teaching profession.

They work for six month semesters with local teachers to implement a project - based curriculum through which students produce films that explore issues of personal, social, and environmental importance.

A practical online safety toolkit for educators with films and lesson plans to explore online issues with pupils aged 11 - 14 years old.

The New York Times compiled this list of short films and resources teachers could use in their classroom to explore issues pertaining to identity.

The film explores the steps that have already been taken to address these issues and the need for united action in order to ensure that the progress continues in 2012.

Moten will discuss Black and Blur and talk with Jafa about his films, which often take the form of essayistic semi-documentaries that explore race - related issues.

Her practice is dedicated to exploring ways that films can bring to light issues of control in the public, personal, and social aspects of our lives.

Fairfax Dorn is the co-founder and artistic director of Ballroom Marfa, a non-profit cultural art space dedicated to exploring varied perspectives and issues through the visual arts, film, music and performance.

Recent projects include Another Utopia (2015), a year - long project culminating in an installation and film exploring the squatting and housing co-operative movement of the 70's and 80's in London, and The Potential Space (2014), a film looking at parallels between making utilitarian objects and artistic practice, developed with members of Friends of Cathja, a charity that supports people experiencing mental health issues.