Sentences with phrase «film festival audiences»

Most recent anthology films have typically played primarily to film festival audiences so perhaps keep an eye out for «The Turning» to surface sometime during the fall next year.

No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's film is the sort of thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.

Not exact matches

And now, after months of showings to audiences all over North America, from the AmDocs film festival in Palm Springs to Hot Docs in Toronto, acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger's buzzed - about documentary is now available on Netflix, streaming to its 75 million members worldwide.

Over 700 films screened from 20 + countries since 1995 The main goal of the festival is to provide a forum by which new, filmmakers and unsigned musical talents are showcased before an international audience of film and music industry professionals and fans.

Adds Prashita: «I set out to make films that would be lauded not just at international festivals but also be loved by the common audiences.

Russian actresses, singers, and dancers managed to impress the audience at concerts and even international film festivals with exquisite designer clothes.

The Weinstein Co. has rushed this unfinished film into holiday release without the extra cred and preparation that a festival like Cannes could provide; both smart house and black audiences will flock to it.

Backwoods would not be my first choice for a horror film festival, even for it's genre it is unbelievable and assumes it's audience will be too dumb to pick up on it.

Test - marketed on the film festival circuit throughout 2002, Searching for Debra Winger received its largest audience when it aired over the Showtime cable channel on August 18, 2003.

Now audiences can watch her new film on the opening night of the festival with features and documentaries that include 12 world and 15 U.S. premieres.

It's gone down a storm with audiences at the big late - summer film festivals.

For those who enjoyed Radnor's first effort, this is leaps and bounds better in writing and direction while still retaining what made his Audience Award Winning film from Sundance 2010 such a beloved festival film.

It's the latest episode in which the film has effortlessly charmed festival audiences.

The New Orleans Film Festival is a proven brand with a highly engaged regional and film festival circuit audience.

Emerging from the 2014 Toronto film festival with ecstatic reviews, audience buzz and a $ 12.5 m deal from Paramount, Rock's major comeback film, which he also wrote and directed, seemed as if it would be a box - office hit, too.

The Whistler Film Festival Society (WFFS) is a cultural charitable organization dedicated to furthering the art of film by providing programs that focus on the discovery, development and promotion of new talent culminating with a must attend festival for artists, the industry and audiences in Whistler.

Her follow - up film, Eden, won the Audience Award at SXSW 2012 and was showered with rave reviews on the festival circuit and its brief theatrical run.

The festival controversy dividing audiences this year was between Netflix (which produced both Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories this year) and the professional association for movie theater owners, arguing over Netflix's refusal to open the two films in theaters as part of their «exclusive content» strategy.

«LFF have been fantastic in supporting the films I've made (me and an army of hundreds) and I can't wait to show Free Fire to the festival audience!»

The indie has taken several notable prizes at domestic film festivals, including a special jury prize for breakout performance from the Los Angeles Film Festival for star Auden Thornton, as well as the narrative feature audience prize from the Austin Film Festival.

A Film with Me in It's bound to find a niche audience thanks to the presence of Dylan Moran (who's sold out the Melbourne International Comedy festival here for the third year in a row), but thankfully is a strong film in its own right.

«Many audience members made it a point to see the film two or three times, which is a rare occurrence at the festival where attendees try to see as many films as possible over the weekend.»

2017's festival also reinforced its status as the home of politically charged cinema with a line - up that addressed the refugee crisis (and a bold new step into the world of virtual reality cinema), dystopian social experiments, mental health, and AIDS activists: there were more than enough fine caliber films to chew on for this year's audiences.

«Audience awards help bring film lovers together, while building momentum for the filmmakers in this year's festival.»

The festival will present two classic French films by master director Jean - Pierre Melville, Léon Morin, Priest and The Red Circle, as well as a number of school matinees with Educational Kits organised by the festival in partnership with the Irish Film Institute (IFI), which provide an ideal French cinematic experience to the young audience.

At this year's SXSW festival, Mark Duplass delivered a terrific keynote speech before answering questions from audience members, one of whom just happened to be Gail Bean, star of Kris Swanberg's wonderful film, «Unexpected.»

«Room» has been chosen by the audience as the best film at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, winning the festival's Grolsch People's Choice Award at a ceremony in Toronto on Sunday.

This drama about a young mother and her 5 - year - old son held prisoner by a sexual predator has been collecting audience prizes at just about every film festival it has played, including the bellwether People's Choice Award at Toronto.

While it's entirely possible that «Demon» will appeal more to U.S. audiences after its June 24 release than it did to critics who saw the film at Cannes, at the festival, Refn said his intention was to make a «primal» movie that featured heightened reality in a way that could provoke drastically different reactions from viewers.

A new trailer has been released giving audiences a more in - depth look at the story months after it debuted in the film festival circuit.

One such film struck such a chord with viewers that it took out the festival's audience award, with The Intouchables exuberant and empathetic within its heartfelt, humorous buddy comedy mould.

King Jack premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival where it took home the Narrative Audience Award and was called, «A stylish, sensitive coming - of - ager,» by Variety.The film will continue its festival run during 2015, with an international premiere in London in September.

General audiences won't get the chance to see Hong Chau's breakthrough performance in Alexander Payne's «Downsizing» until the film is released on Dec. 22, but film festival viewers have already been raving about her heartfelt comedic turn.

TIFF doesn't go overboard with awards, but because it is a public festival in the middle of a big city, the Audience Award is one of the most important awards they give out because it not only indicates which film is truly spectacular, but it means it also plays very well with general audiences.

At the film festival's press conference, Martel revealed she was inspired by science fiction movies that wrongly imagined the future to change how audiences see history.

What marks a film festival as a truly unique cinematic experience is the audience.

Some of these launched at prestige fall film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad reviews or audience reaction, or both.

The festival here provides the (mandatory) service of bringing the most talked about international titles on the festival circuit (mostly from Cannes) to the local audience, often as domestic premieres, as is the standard of mid-sized European film festivals.

However, Sono's current 4 hour opus «Love Exposure» is not plagued with such woes, as it is currently on a rampage winning audience awards at festivals (and is one of my most anticipated films for 2009).

Having a big Hollywood film is part of the tradition of the festival, what our audiences expect.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

For 20 years, audiences in Hollywood and in other cities have thrilled to Noir City, the premier cinema festival devoted to what we call film noir — the movie genre that introduced us to a lot of the images above, and many more.

Greeted by a rapturous standing ovation at its Sundance premiere — which precipitated it becoming one of the highest - selling acquisitions in the history of the festival, and the third consecutive film to win both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award — this slick, funny and bruising high - school saga transcends its YA trappings by dropping the full weight of film history on a thoroughly modern milieu.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

A sharply different film, Breathe, from Bleecker Street, was embraced by festival audiences but dismissed by critics» rating services.

Also, good friend of the show Christopher Jason Bell sits down for a snack - «n» - chat with Bernard to talk about what it's like to be an independent filmmaker presenting a movie at a film festival and conducting a Q&A with a (sometimes tiny) audience.

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Female directors should fight film - industry sexism by making movies that appeal to as wide an audience as possible, Venice Film Festival jury president Annette Bening said Wednesday, the first day of a festival that has been criticized for a lack of...

A hugely diverse range of original and exciting short films that will captivate audiences span the festival strands this year.

Then he unveiled the film — though termed «unfinished,» only technical aspects remain to be completed — to an appreciative if not overwhelmingly loud festival audience.