Sentences with phrase «film funded by»
He has recently finished production on a new short film funded by the Arts Council England, as his next short film LOVE HOTEL premieres at London Short Film Festival in 2018.
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On Monday, New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Academy Award - winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, announced that it was partnering up with a collection of YouTube stars to fund and develop 14 short films, The Los Angeles Times reported.
They worked with hedge fund manager and star short seller Steve Eisman (named Mark Baum in the film and played by Steve Carell).
One statistic backing up this claim: $ 3 million in funds crowdsourced through Indiegogo helped bring startups, films and bands to this year's South by Southwest Festival in Austin.
New Form Incubator, the studio's name for the creative venture, will develop and fund 14 short films, three to 10 minutes in length, produced by YouTube stars such as Joey Graceffa, Joe Penna of MysteryGuitarMan and Sawyer Hartman, who have 3.6 million, 2.8 million and 1.7 million subscribers, respectively.
It's an unseemly request by a movie, to ask us to root for the lying, scrambling but extremely well - coiffed hedge fund billionaire weasel played by Richard Gere in the new film «Arbitrage.»
She and her now - fiancé had talked about her wishes for a rock that wasn't mined by exploited workers or used to fund endless internecine conflicts, as highlighted in the 2006 film starring Leo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond.
By contrast, ships, films or wind farms are predominantly managed as closed - end funds.
The funding is raised by interested investors, within a limited time frame, during an event, which is filmed and broadcast live through the Internet.
The movie within a movie tells the story of idealistic film director Sebastian, who has finally managed to fund his dramatization of the conquista by shooting in cheap and politically corrupt Bolivia.
Shaba is Joy Adamson country, established largely through funding provided by her from the profits of her popular book Born Free, films and money raised by the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal.
And he now joins the ever growing list of celebrities to be caught out by investing in film funding company Ingenious.
«There are over 400 organisations affected by the government's proposals, including the UK Film Council, instrumental in funding the multi-Oscar nominated film, «The King's Speech», and the Forestry Commission, where plans to sell - off land have been opposed by 460,000 people in an online petition so far,» she added.
The budget included other goodies popular with Democratic fund - raisers, including the continuation of $ 445 million in tax credits for film and television — a move praised by Hollywood donors.
Funded by the School of Social Sciences at The University of Manchester, some of Britain's top academics and journalists in politics will appear in the film.
The film is funded by the School of Social Sciences at The University of Manchester, with other contributions from the BES leadership team based at the Universities of Manchester, Oxford and Nottingham.
The film was part - funded by the now abolished UK Film Council.
Michael Novakowsky, a budget division unit chief, said Percoco pushed for the release of funds for a central New York film hub being developed by COR Development in both a phone call and a series of emails calling for the division to get money that «can be processed done asap.»
This film was funded by AT&T and supported by Squeaky Wheel and BCAT.
Four Oscar - nominated films, including best picture nominee «Manchester by the Sea,» reaped taxpayer - funded benefits from New York, according to the state's economic development arm.
According to the SEC complaint, the $ 100 million investment from the New York pension fund came only after the Quadrangle executive arranged for a Quadrangle affiliate to distribute the DVD of a low - budget film called «Chooch,» which was produced by the brother of former New York state deputy comptroller David Loglisci.
The champagne was flowing as hedge fund executive Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah hosted a reception during the Cannes Film Festival last May to promote «Clinton Cash,» a film by their political adviser Stephen K. Bannon and the production company they co-founded, Glittering Steel.
The $ 14 million film hub was followed in 2015 by a taxpayer - funded manufacturing plant in the same business park.
Initial funding for the program was donated by David Evans Shaw, a Maine - based entrepreneur, AAAS treasurer and executive producer of the film «Second Century Stewardship: Science Beyond the Scenery in Acadia National Park.»
The first film was funded by the National Science Foundation.
Science Cinémathèque, a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, features reviews of recent movies such as Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man and a series of short student films on such topics as wormholes, the patterns in pinecones and sunflowers, and Ignaz Semmelweis, the 19th - century Hungarian physician whose campaign to promote hand washing among doctors was met with near - universal scorn.
The Trinity scientists are funded by SFI to improve the method by which a laser beam, similar to that used for eye surgery, removes a thin film from the surface of the crystals.
She's Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Filipino teen romantic comedy - drama film based on the best Pop Fiction book of the same name originally published on A gangster's ex-wife has been spared jail after she told a court she had no idea her luxury life was funded by his drug money.
Also included, Anderson's American Express commercial that remains a fun homage to Truffaut, a loving speech by Oakley Friedberg, the young son of set designer Mark Frienberg, who spent time on location with his family raising funds for charity organizations, a silly trophy case application making fun of the film's lack of critical awards, deleted and alternate scenes, a stills gallery, and the theatrical trailer.
Maresco is not interested in making a political film but simply in riffing on the notion that powerful men who come out of nowhere have to be funded by someone with a clear intent to intervene in politics.
Funded by the Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen and by Derry City and Strabane District Council, Foyle Film Festival delivers a comprehensive programme of documentaries, short films and feature films from all over the world; a full programme of educational events for schools, youth, and adults and a variety of industry networking events and panel discussions.
WHITE LIES (TUAKIRI HUNA), the New Zealand Film Commission funded Maori language feature film written and directed by Dana Rotberg, has been submitted as the official New Zealand...
Reservoir Dogs was also premiered at the festival, and Quentin Tarantino's film was partly funded by the Sundance Institute.
This was the first European animation ever funded by Japan's Studio Ghibli and shares with that studio's films a sense of nature's mysterious power.
Sundance has been absolutely amazing to me as a filmmaker and an artist, starting with Documentary Film Fund grants for my previous film Escape Fire [co-directed by Susan Froemke], which premiered at the Festival.
Directed by Mel Gibson (Braveheart)-- who funded the film himself and co-wrote the screenplay — The Passion of the Christ uses flashbacks to substantiate a handful of pertinent moments in Jesus» life and teachings, such as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper, as well as his relationships with his mother and his disciples.
He wrote the script after graduating from college and it made The Black List (a list of the best unproduced screenplays of the year) back in 2013, but years went by before he found funding for the film.
After four years of providing more than 36 fellows with deep support, we are delighted to announce the addition of a new granting fund, graciously sponsored by LUNA ®, the first nutrition bar for women and creators of the LUNAFEST ®, an annual film festival and fundraiser that has been championing female filmmakers for more than 15 years.
The decision to wear black was orchestrated by powerful British women in film and yesterday, a group of actresses from the UK and Ireland, including Saoirse Ronan, who pledged their support for the new UK Justice and Equality Fund in an open letter published in The Observer.
The Lobster is being financed by Film4, Bord Scannan na hEireann / Irish Film Board, the BFI Film Fund (the first film through its minority co-production strand), Eurimages, Greek Film Centre, CNC, the Dutch Film Fund and Canal +.
A lot of films have been made from TV series, but very few have come together quite like Veronica Mars, a grassroots project funded by fans through a Kickstarter campaign.
After moving to Los Angeles together and failing to hit the big time as actors, they decided to make a film of their own — written, funded, directed by and starring Wiseau, with Greg playing his best friend.
As the Times reports, «Warner Bros. will not renew its $ 450 - million co-financing agreement with Brett Ratner's film funding company, cutting its remaining ties with the embattled director, who has been accused of sexual misconduct or assault by several women.»
This week saw the Cannes Film Festival reception held by Medienboard, the film funding agency for the Berlin - Brandenburg region of Germany, at the Grand Hotel.
Cinephilia and Beyond claims to have gotten hold of a 1999 note written by the auteur to fellow filmmaker James Brooks, who helped Anderson fund his first feature - length film, Bottle Rocket, and wrote an introduction to Anderson's Rushmore screenplay, which was published by Faber & Faber.
Kristen Stewart and Twilight author Stephenie Meyer made a surprise appearance to introduce a group of young female filmmakers who won the opportunity to make short films inspired by the Twilight series with funding and guidance from industry professionals.
The pilot, based on David Michôd's 2010 Australian film of the same name starring Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver and Joel Edgerton, follows the 17 - year - old Joshua «J» Cody, who moves in with his California relatives and discovers that they're funded by criminal activities.
The star of that film, Matthias Schoenaerts, returns for this, alongside Noomi Rapace and Tom Hardy, who co-stars with Gandolfini as owners of a Brooklyn bar used as a drop - off for illicit funds by local gangsters.
-- Akira Yamaoka (@AkiraYamaoka) October 19, 2014 The Sandman, starring Iggy Pop, is an film by Dario Argento that is currently seeking funding...
Fresh off the set of the film that was funded by over 90,000 devoted fans through Kickstarter, attendees will have an opportunity to see exclusive footage, hear details about the production, and ask the cast and producers questions about this upcoming movie.