Sentences with phrase «film school work»

Coogler's film school work won him a meeting with Forest Whitaker and his Significant Productions shingle, and when he pitched the idea of a film based on Grant's murder, Whitaker agreed to produce it on the spot.

During film school I worked in the digital production lab on campus.

Not exact matches

After graduating from NYU's Tisch School of Arts in 2011, O'Brien started working in the film industry and was «appalled» by the waste epidemic on set.

It's a school designed for students who want to work in the film, game, broadcast and media industries and who are in a hurry to get started.

Co-owners Yamaguchi and Walker met while working at a sushi joint together in the early 2000s — she had moved from Japan to NOLA to study English, and he was in grad school for film.

Jamal studied game film of his brother, and he spent most of his middle - school years working out with him before John left to play football at Carson - Newman.

The reason he is filming his work in the schools and creating this show is because we, as working parents, don't always have time to go into the school and see what it is our children are eating there.

I was a subject of the film due to my work with Better School Food which existed long before Amy made her movie.

«It was heartbreaking to see working - class people lose essential things,» said McPartlan, a Wantagh High School art teacher, who teared up as she watched the film.

Thys also continues doing academic work through collaborations with people she knew from graduate school, mostly between films, which she admits is difficult.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

45 - minute Brain Rules film featuring John Medina Take a lively tour of the 12 original Brain Rules for home, work, and school — from «Exercise boosts brain power» to «Sleep well, think well.»

I go between doing recipe development in my kitchen to picking up my son from school to working on marketing promotions, visiting our stores across the country and filming Cupcake Wars.

My name niecey i am a single mother i go to school and work i am a good person i do nt get out much cause i have to go to school and work i am getting my aa dergee in theater arts and film i have two boys that i love to every much just tryin to meet new people and make friends nothing sexual or...

I am crazy enough to decide after many years of work for the same company that life is about making dreams come true - which led me to becoming a film school student at the age of 30; — RRB - This is what I am actually loo..

I am going to be going to school soon for Medical Billing & Coding or digital film and video, I'm working on creating a stable life.

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Upon graduating i worked as a film lab tech, went to bar tending school, managed a convenience store for 6 years, etc i love photography and the out doors i also enjoy studying plants and animals, i...

As the Golden Age of Hollywood faded, glorious old - school films like Ben - Hur began to give way to the grittier, wised - up work of those like Billy Wilder, creating a tension between impish youth and pompous elders.

Some of his more notable work came from his collaboration with director Spike Lee; over the course of the 1990s, Washington starred in three of his films, playing a jazz trumpeter in Mo» Better Blues (1990), the title role in Lee's epic 1992 biopic Malcolm X (for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination), and the convict father of a high - school basketball star in He Got Game (1998).

Fresh from film school, an enthusiastic young runner starts work on a low budget zombie movie only to run into the first day from hell as a mystery illness starts to turn the extras on set into the bona fide undead.

This frontline skirmish in the culture wars [over school textbooks] is the subject of Scott Thurman's engrossing documentary... It's a symbolic fight of our times, making [the film] a compelling and involving work.

Born in Hackney and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, his film work includes THE OXFORD MURDERS (Alex de la Iglesia) starring Elijah Wood, SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY (Aisling Walsh) starring Aidan Quinn, TIMECODE II (Mike Figgis) and HARDBOILED SWEETS (David Hughes) starring Ian Hart.

After making her film debut in That Night (1992), Heigl balanced movie work with high school, playing a small role in Steven Soderbergh's Depression - era drama King of the Hill (1993), starring as Gérard Depardieu's difficult daughter in My Father the Hero (1994), and Steven Seagal's niece in the action sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995).

In addition, one of the organization's core values is identifying new talent and nurturing young filmmakers by awarding promising talent with «Directorial Debut» and «Breakthrough Actor» awards as well as grants to rising film students and by facilitating community outreach through the support of organizations such as The Ghetto Film School, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, and Educational Video Center.

With little resemblance to the classical literary work of Jonathan Swift, this is one film that should never show up in a high school English class as a study aid.

I think the best part of being an actor is that to me it feels like I've been in the best film school for the last twenty years because not only do I see the director work on set, I see how the producers work, I see how the DPs work, I see how the gaffers work, I see how the costume department works, I see how the production office works.

My first thought was that this was a sequel to a Roland Emmerich film which shouldn't really come as much of a surprise considering that both he and Bay work in the school of «blow shit up real good».

«I was a big theatre nerd at the time, I went to drama school and I was all wrapped up in stage work and wanting to do Tennessee Williams - but I watched that movie and I realised what the power of film was.»

And so, of course, the film boils down to having to choose between the hard work and boredom of school or the fun and thrills of David.

It's not the most promising way to kick things off (Brewer uses it to illustrate the deadly, post-party car crash that incites the no - song - and - dance law in the film's setting of Bomont, Tennessee), but its poor impression doesn't last long, as Brewer makes quick work of establishing a liberal and plausible adolescent atmosphere in which Big & Rich can be listened to just after Wiz Khalifa, an antagonist is offhandedly chewed out for using the word «fag,» and the black students nearly outnumber the white students in the high school hallways.

«My dad was a huge supporter of my work over the years, down to when I was in film school, he put all the equipment in the van and drove all the equipment down to the location.

Haneke films the family's activities — eating, grocery shopping, at work or school, watching TV, going through a car wash — with the director's trademark patient long takes.

The 85 year old filmmaker is probably more well - known for his examinations of public institutions in films like Welfare (1975), Titicut Follies (1967), At Berkeley (2013) or High School (1968, followed by a sequel in 1994), but he's also one of cinema's great chroniclers of art as work.

What makes it more unusual is that Lay the Favorite is not the work of fringe filmmakers or fresh out of film school novices.

The week before Thanksgiving we screened Creed with writer - director Ryan Coogler, a loyal USC alumni, and his colleagues, most of whom attended school with him and worked on his first feature, Fruitvale Station: co-writer Aaron Covington, composer Ludwig Göransson, and film editors Michael Shawver and Claudia Castello.

After school, he did work on the stage, including a run with Liev Schreiber in Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio — here's Stan doing a Bogosian monologue — as well as on film and TV, highlighted by a recurring role on Gossip Girl and parts in Black Swan and Rachel Getting Married.

Within a very few years, artists like John Carpenter, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Bob Clark, Dan O'Bannon, Sean S. Cunningham, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stan Winston, Larry Cohen, and on and on and so on, were working in and reinvigorating the horror genre — many under the tutelage of Roger Corman, still others the initial products of formal film school training, almost all the consequence of a particular movie geekism that would lead inevitably to the first rumblings of jokiness and self - referentiality - as - homage that reached its simultaneous pinnacle and nadir with Craven's Scream.

From the dichotomous twin poles of the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès to the perceived new nouvelles vagues of Olivier Assayas and Christophe Honoré, a majority of the country's greatest films and filmmakers have belonged (however broadly) to one school or another; or, at the very least (as in the case of, say, Jean - Pierre Melville or, more recently, Danièle Thompson, Mathieu Kassovitz or Pierre Salvadori), they have worked within a genre that has had contemporary currency and visibility.

While the film works as a weird, trippy, tongue in cheek horror film set at Disneyland, it's nothing more than a film school - made B - movie.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Essentially, Pixels is a movie that's trying to fuse old school video games with comedy in order to create a film is something that I could have always seen working.

Based on Jesse Andrews's novel of the same name and directed with a restless visual dexterity that always serves its characters (Gomez - Rejon used to work for Scorsese, and it shows), Dying Girl refuses to accept the common wisdom that high - school films should be graded on a curve.

His comedic vision expands to his work with extras, who provide some of the film's best jokes with off - screen voices or aside images of middle schoolers being their ruthless, goofy selves.

That's one reason why I was impressed by a film that may not have come on your radar yet, although it has played at various American festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems at home and at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.

I've always looked to his work because, more true for his films that he directed than those he just wrote, he told the story of high school teenagers better than most.

The film, which Gerwig also wrote solo following several previous screenplay collaborations including two with Noah Baumbach on her starring films Frances Ha and Mistress America, is set in 2002 Sacramento, California where Christine attends a Catholic school while also dealing with the shaky bond between her and her domineering, impossible to please mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf) who is trying to hold the family together by working double shifts as a nurse after her husband Larry (Tracy Letts) has lost his job.

I'm in my own little film school now, [only] instead of going to classes I get to work with these directors I respect and pester them with questions.»

Disney has paired female directors with a male director on their big animated features but Boden and Fleck have apparently been working together since film school.

«We're also working with mental health groups, though we're [treading carefully] with that because this is a [broader story], so we don't want it to sound like a «medical school film.»