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71st edition of the film festival features big names and a global outlook, but only three out of 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or have female directors

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.

Pratt Institute and The National Book Foundation, the presenter of the National Book Awards, have partnered to present an inaugural film festival featuring the following three National Book Award - nominated books that were adapted to film:...

SheSays and The Voice of a Woman present a film festival featuring work made by women over the last year

Not exact matches

Essence's wildly popular Essence Festival, held in New Orleans and featured prominently in last year's summer film Girls Trip, is the biggest magazine - sponsored festival in the world.

«We have had films like Tunde Kelani's Abeni feature at the festival as well as Half of a Yellow Sun, which is a collaboration between Nigeria and the UK, but I think this is an opportunity to do more and to go bigger.

Lagos State Government on Monday said that the State's tourism and entertainment potentials will in the spotlight at this year's edition of the City to City Toronto Film Festival, as eight films produced in the State would be selected to feature at the festival.

This year's rally will feature former New York state Assemblyman Michael Benjamin and Cage Fury Fighting Championships President Rob Haydak, as well as an MMA documentary film festival that evening in conjunction with Madison Square Garden which will be free to attend.

Her works have been featured on the Huffington Post, MTV, Nashville Public Radio, Guernica Magazine, and at film festivals around the U.S..

But as an ideological jukebox movie about 20th century art, this film should interest festivals and spaces in the art world that haven't yet featured the 13 - screen version.

She is currently developing a feature film about women's fear of commitment, for which her short film, Loose Ends, is currently making festival rounds.

Irons adds the credit of executive producer and featured actor in TRASHED, a Blenheim Production feature documentary directed by Candida Brady, which received a special screening at the 2012 Cannes film festival.

Director, Producer, and Actor Kasi Lemmons had the film world buzzing in 1997 when her feature - length debut «Eve's Bayou» hit art - house screens and racked up film festival awards along the way.

The Canadian film premiered at Slamdance 2013 and took home the Best Narrative Feature prize, initiating a successful festival run...

Continuing our coverage of images from films that will be featured at January's Sundance Film Festival, we bring you images from two of the higher profile dramas that will be screened in - competition at the festival: The Ledge and Like Crazy.

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.

From Humpday and Touchy Feely director Lynn Shelton, her first feature based on a script she didn't pen (that credit goes to first - time scribe Andrea Seigel), Laggies debuted at this year's Sundance film festival to mostly positive reviews.

There is just something about the idea and setting that intrigues me and I think seeing something made by a first time feature length filmmaker is a must for everyone when attending a film festival.

Cannes favorite son Jim Jarmusch was welcomed back with open arms at this year's festival, as the press finally got a glimpse of his latest feature film «Paterson» on Monday.

The film, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice festival earlier this year, is the second feature by cinematographer - turned - director Warwick Thornton.

His narrative feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.

Lee's latest film went to the festival with distribution already in place — in April, Focus Features set the fact - based feature for an August 10 theatrical release date, picked to reflect the one - year anniversary of the Charlottesville protests, which took place on August 12, 2017.

For 2016, the festival nominated six films for the EDA Award for Best Female - Directed Narrative Feature.

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.

She said at the festival where the film premiered in May that she views her feature as the flip - side of the original, telling the story from the standpoint of the women.

Below are some of the biggest trends shared between the 70 feature - length films playing at the festival this year.

This year's festival featured a lot of new shorts by SCAD film students, and the premieres of new features such as Bill Condon's «Kinsey» and «Undertow,» by David Gordon Green, who found many of his crew members at SCAD.

In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categories.

In a banner day for the festival, featuring premieres of new work from several well known international filmmakers, the best film I saw was one that premiered elsewhere, Cannes in» 07.

Other polarizing films included Darling, Bone Tomahawk, Follow and Demon (which won best horror feature at the festival to many people's surprise

It's been eight years since Medicine for Melancholy, Jenkins» first and only previous feature, a gap all too illustrative of what awaits film - festival darlings who aren't young white men eager to make the next Jurassic Park.

Only films that are world premieres are eligible for our U.S. Dramatic Competition program, but U.S. narrative feature films that have previously screened at up to two other festivals anywhere in the world are still eligible for our out - of - competition programs.

One of my favourite films on the festival circuit last year, from Sundance to Toronto After Dark, was the debut feature from Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska.

Thankfully, amidst the glamour and spectacle that frequently serve as distraction during film festivals, the atmosphere at TIFF remains unmistakably Canadian, by avoiding competition in favor of admiration and by featuring an assortment of Canadian filmmakers within its program.

The Chicago Film Critics Association's 6th annual film festival (May 4 - 10) features some of the year's best films that might otherwise fly under your radar.

International narrative feature films that have previously screened at any festival outside of the film's country or countries of origin are not eligible for open submission to the Institute for Festival consideration.

2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his feature film debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael FassbenFILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his feature film debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbenfilm debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender.

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.

It's hard to find a film festival these days that doesn't feature some sort of VR / AR programming and the tech - heavy SXSW is of course no exception.

It's one of the biggest dates in the international film festival calender, as both Hollywood and the international film industry at large take a keen interest in the new emerging acting and filmmaking talent featured at the festival.

The festival features nine days of film screenings, along with 200 presentations including keynotes, conversations, panels, workshops, mentor sessions, and more.

I heard a lot of buzz from the festival circuit about how Evan Katz «s debut feature was a top - notch horror film, so imagine my surprise when it turned out to be something entirely different.

The trailer for this year's New York Film Festival has gone online, and it features two or three clips from the Thomas Pynchon adaptation, nestled in amongst footage from the rest of the festival's high - profile films.

There are more than 100 films screening, including short films as well as features, and screenings take place in venues in what the festival calls «walkable villages» in Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga.

Oscar - nominated director Norman Jewison founded CFC, which also produces shorts and feature films, and it runs the WorldWide Shorts Film Festival (one of only three festivals accredited by the AMPAS).

From 3D cane toads on opening night (Cane Toads: The Conquest) to John Woo kung fu to close the program (Reign Of Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and old.

Otis at Monterey, with uncompressed stereo soundtracks Alternate soundtracks for all three films featuring 5.1 surround mixes by recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in DTS - HD Master Audio Two hours of performances not included in Monterey Pop, from the Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Blues Project, Buffalo Springfield, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, the Electric Flag, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, the Mamas and the Papas, the Steve Miller Blues Band, Moby Grape, Laura Nyro, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and the Who Audio commentaries from 2002 featuring Pennebaker, festival producer Lou Adler, and music critics Charles Shaar Murray and Peter Guralnick New interviews with Adler and Pennebaker Chiefs (1968), a short film by Richard Leacock, which played alongside Monterey Pop in theaters Interviews from 2002 with Adler and Pennebaker and with Phil Walden, Otis Redding's manager 1987 interview with Pete Townshend on Monterey and Jimi Hendrix Audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby Photo - essay by Elaine Mayes Festival scrapbook Trailers and radio spots PLUS: A book featuring essays by critics Michael Chaiken, Armond White, David Fricke, Barney Hoskyns, and Michael Lydon

Paul Schrader's «First Reformed,» which premiered at Venice and played the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, took home MFF's Fiction Feature prize.

«We have chosen a film that we believe encompasses the beauty, aesthetic, as well as the powerful themes of love, struggle, life, death, and womanhood that are the spirit of this year's festival,» said the jury for best narrative feature.

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.