The Wachowskis — whose follow - up Jupiter Ascending suffered a similar fate as this film — are some of the most earnest, daring and original
filmmakers working on a large scale today, their films teeming with more ideas than an entire phase of Marvel films.
Not exact matches
Arguably among the top five American auteur
filmmakers who
works on the
larger scale, Paul Thomas Anderson has proved once before (with Punch - Drunk Love) that he is comfortable
working in comedy.
Having been
on the Croisette before with his debut film Un 32 août sur Terrre (Un Certain Regard), and the Directors» Fortnight was home for his epic short Next Floor and sobering Polytechnique, the Quebecois helmer saw his critically lauded Incendies and Enemy receive a pass from the fest, but it was this
work that ultimately convinced backers with deep pockets to have the auteur
filmmaker move onto
large -
scale productions (Prisoners, Story of Us, the Blade Runner sequel), and in turn Sicario is now among the hopefuls for the Palme d'Or.
Even after winning an Academy Award for the epic Traffic (2000) and continuing to
work on bigger - budget Hollywood films like Ocean's Eleven (2001), this high - profile
filmmaker has never lost his drive to make compelling independent cinema, whether
large -
scale (2008's Che) or small (2010's And Everything Is Going Fine).
They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist
filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning
filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses
on large -
scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose
work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who
worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's
largest online credit marketplace
working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.
; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning
filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses
on large -
scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose
work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who
worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's
largest online credit marketplace
working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.
Sonic Acts: Vertical Cinema February 20 — 23, 2014 During four consecutive days, ten
large -
scale commissioned film
works by internationally renowned experimental
filmmakers and audiovisual artists will be presented
on 35 mm celluloid and projected vertically with a custom - built projector in the monumental staircase of the Stedelijk.
Italian architect Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, partner at OMA
working on preservation, scenography and curation, is both leading OMA Urban Studies, as well as the team of creative mediators, which includes the Swiss contemporary art curator Mirjam Varadinis, who
works in Kunsthaus Zurich and was co-curator of TRACK, a
large scale city - wide international exhibition in the tradition of «Chambres d'amis» in Ghent, Belgium; Spanish architect, artist and scholar based in New York and Madrid, Andrés Jaque, the founder of the Office of Political Innovation,
working on the intersection of research, politics and design; and Dutch
filmmaker and journalist Bregtje van der Haak, who has been directing international documentaries and transmedia projects
on long - term social change with a special focus
on urbanisation and technological culture.