Sentences with phrase «first documentary feature film»

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While the creators first set out to make a feature film - length documentary, things changed when 16 - year - old Dassey was arrested for helping his uncle.

The first two chapters, documentary Beyond the Gates of Splendor and feature film End of the Spear, were effective accounts of the story, but this third film adds little to the saga.

Chocolate Milk: The Documentary counters this habitually negative narrative as award - winning director and producer Elizabeth Bayne, MPH, MFA explores the racial inequities of breastfeeding in her first feature - length film.

June to October at the Wiener Library Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry This documentary is the first feature - length film to give a detailed insight into the life of internationally renowned Chinese activist Ai Weiwei.

The real value of the documentary from Douglas McGrath lies in charting Nichols» creative trajectory from the staging and improvisation lessons learned with comedy partner Elaine May, through collaborations with playwright Neil Simon on «Barefoot in the Park» and «The Odd Couple,» and the director's first two feature films, both legendary — «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?»

Between his narrative and documentary features, director Kevin Macdonald is well on his way to banging out six films in the span of three years, and we now have our first look at the Last King of Scotland helmer's 2014...

To spotlight a few of those 7 percenters, BFF included in its five - day run an all - female From the Director's Chair panel featuring Oscar - nominated director Jennifer Yuh Nelson («Kung Fu Panda»), actor - filmmaker Maggie Kiley («Caught,» «We Own the Night»), documentary director Elisa Paloschi («Driving Selvi»), and Meera Menon, director of the fest's opening film «Equity,» the first female - centered Wall Street story (Anna Gunn stars opposite Alysia Reiner, Sarah Megan Thomas, and James Purefoy.)

Elsewhere on the blog I review Black Orpheus (Criterion) and Orlando (Sony), and also released this week is L'enfance Nue (Criterion), the debut feature from French director Maurice Pialat, and this DVD debut includes Pialat's first film, the 1960 short L'amour existe, and the 1968 documentary Autor de L'enfance nue, among its supplements.

The studio, which is a distant first in feature film output, has released a 3D IMAX documentary between the months of February and April for the past four years.

(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.

Of the other films I saw, the only real enthusiasm I felt was for the Inarritu's «Biutiful,» Bertrand Tavernier «The Princess of Montpensier,» the first Chad feature «A Screaming Man,» the South Korean «Poetry» and the out - of competition documentary «Inside Job.»

The first disc includes the theatrical release of the film, along with an interesting feature commentary track by director Marshall and screenwriter Bill Condon, as well as the deleted musical number «Class,» and a 27 - minute documentary on bringing the musical to the big screen («From Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago»).

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The other three features are First Name: Carmen (1983), Detective (1984), and Helas Pour Moi (aka Oh, Woe Is Me, 1993), and the disc features the half - hour documentary «Jean - Luc Godard: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma,» with film critics and historians Kent Jones, Winston Wheeler Dixon and David Sterritt.

It's packaged up with the original Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior (1981), and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1987), along with a 4K UltraHD copy of Mad Max: Fury Road and bonus discs featuring the previously - available feature - length documentary The Madness of Max (on the making of the first film, DVD only) and a new documentary on the making of the Road Warrior.

The filmmaking team behind post-WWII documentary Naples ’44 approached First Run Features about releasing the film this past June.

As I fly to Canada to meet Sarah Polley, I think about the glimpses of her in Stories We Tell — her first full - length documentary feature, which bowled over critics at Sundance and the Venice film festival and has won Canada's Film of the Year award.

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Netflix nabbed its first feature film Oscar at the 2018 Academy Awards last night, with Icarus winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Writer / director Lake Bell «s second feature, I Do... Until I Don't is her follow - up to the delightful 2013 film, In a World... While her first film was about the world of voiceover actors and a daughter and her father, her second is about marriage and a documentary filmmaker creating a little chaos.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

Additional filmmaking talent attending for films in competition include: for Official Competition: Jerzy Skolimowski, Cary Fukunaga, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Jonás Cuarón, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Lenny Abrahamson, Brie Larson, Terence Davies, László Nemes, Sean Baker; First Feature Competition: Mai Masri, Eva Husson, Magnus von Horn, Trey Edward Shults, Yared Zaleke, Esther May Campbell, Nitzan Gilady, Ariel Kleiman, Eugenio Canevari, Robert Eggers, Piero Messina; Documentary Competition: João Pedro Plácido, Mor Loushy, David Sington, Walter Salles, Tomer Haymenn, Patricio Guzmán, Sarah Turner and Hanna Polak.

Dark Instagram satire Ingrid Goes West won best first feature, Faces Places was named best documentary and Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman picked up best international film.

After working on television series and a documentary, Ana Kokkinos has returned to the feature film format for the first time since 1998's Head On.

According to the festival, 2,051 dramatic films and 1,573 documentaries were submitted, of which 121 features — 58 by first - time directors — made the cut.

See Riz Ahmed's first feature film role, Julia Stiles in a brand new Sundance Now original series, and James Franco fight it out with collaborators in a combative documentary.

The film's first third features a ton of asynchronous editing that likens the events happening within the plot to nature documentaries and other parallel events, which gives Lucy an experimental feel.

Release: Friday, June 12, 2015 (limited)[Netflix] Directed by: Crystal Moselle Short film director Crystal Moselle's first feature - length documentary probably would have never happened if she weren't on the right street corner at the right time of day.

The debut feature - film of documentary filmmaker David Gelb (Jiro Dreams of Sushi), The Lazarus Effect takes an overdone horror / thriller movie premise and manages to make it into something fresh and creepy... for about its first half.

Over its first seven years, the awards twice gave their top honor to the film that went on to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

The first part will be at 5:30 a.m. PT, and Cuaron and Abrams will be announcing the nominees for film editing, animated feature film, documentary short subject, original song, production design, animated short film, documentary feature, live - action short film, visual effects, sound editing, sound mixing and sound editing.

Summer Catch is the first feature film by Michael Tollin (Radio), whose only real previous work of note was a documentary about Hank Aaron, who coincidentally makes a cameo appearance in the movie.

Spotlight Features and Commentary: Andrea Arnold on Wuthering Heights (Moira Macdonald at Seattle Times) «Secret Festival» Rebellion (David Schmader for The Stranger) Updated Release Dates for SIFF films (Moira Macdonald for The Seattle Times) Just Before Dawn: The First SIFF (Richard T. Jameson for Straight Shooting) Interview with director Drew Denny of The Most Fun I've Ever Had With My Pants On (Twitch) Q&A with Lynn Shelton (Brian Miller for Seattle Weekly) Lynn Shelton: «I never imagined I could be a filmmaker» (Moira Macdonald for Seattle Times) Scriptless in Seattle: A Filmmaker's Map (Lynn Shelton profile at The New York Times) Interview with Megan Griffiths at SXSW (Indiewire) Rick Stevenson's 10 - Year Documentary (Sean Axmaker for Seattle Weekly)

Two film - length commentaries join Evelyn on disc, the first featuring director Bruce Beresford (who's all business, discussing production details), the second Pierce Brosnan and his producing partner Beau St. Clair, who attenuate stories they tell in the bonus documentaries.

Among the 29 feature film World Premieres are The Night Stalker from Seattle filmmaker Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them) with Lou Diamond Phillips, The Architect from director Jonathan Parker (Bartleby) with Parker Posey, Middle Man from first - time filmmaker Ned Crowley with Jim O'Heir, and the documentaries Full Court: The Spencer Haywood Story about the Seattle Supersonics basketball legend and Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell, a follow - up to Streetwise from filmmaker Martin Bell.

Picture and sound are first - rate, as expected, and there is a new documentary that is high quality for a bonus feature, though not overwhelmingly specific to the film.

It's Not Dark Yet Documentary on Simon Fitzmaurice, an Irish filmmaker with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, as he directs his first feature film, «My Name is Emily.»

Emmy winner Madeleine Sackler, however, has the rare opportunity of screening two of her films at Tribeca this year: her latest documentary, It's a Hard Truth, Ain't It and her first narrative feature, O.G.

In addition to SIFF's longstanding juried competitions for New Directors, Documentary Features, the New American Cinema Competition and short films, SIFF 2016 for the first time will also feature a brand - new Ibero - American Competition, which aims to highlight the increasing power, creativity, and influence of storytelling from two continents.

Should you give the first option a spin, you'll get the theatrical version of the film plus a making - of documentary called Spirit of Vengeance, and two commentaries (one with director / writer Mark Steven Johnson and VFX Supervisor Kevin Mack, and the other featuring producer Gary Foster).

Netflix scored its first feature - film Oscar, with best documentary going to «Icarus,» Bryan Fogel's investigation into doping in sports, aided by the assistance of Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of the Russian anti-doping laboratory who candidly discussed the doping scheme under Vladimir Putin.

(Jarret Gahan, 2015) Lesbo - A-Go-Go, the film that this film documents, should appear as an extra on the disc release of this first fine feature documentary from filmmaker and complete trash enthusiast Jarret Gahan.

Finally, the sibling of the documentary on the first disc is here: the 50 - minute «Fantasia Continued» entailing the making of Fantasia 2000, featuring returning narrator and interviewees from the first doc, plus conversations with the Disney animators who worked on the various segments of the new film.

That's where Sundance Institute's first Filmmakers Lab was born, and over the last thirty years has grown into year - round artist development programs that have expanded from feature filmmaking to documentary, film music, and theatre.

«Based around an English woman's attempt to overcome her intimacy issues, and ranging across everything from disability to sex clubs, Touch Me Not blends fiction and documentary and is Adina Pintilie's first feature film.»

Fine Line Features, the distributor of «Hoop Dreams,» has spent thousands of dollars to persuade academy members to make the film the first documentary ever nominated for best picture.

«The OverDrive collection of Hollywood feature films, documentaries, self - help and beloved children's titles permit the public library to offer a first - stop destination for what to watch online.»

After studying film in Uruguay and Cuba, and receiving her Master's in Screenwriting in Spain, she has just completed her first feature film, a documentary co-produced with the United States, which will premiere this year.

This solo show, featuring more than 100 of his unfired clay objects and two documentary films, is the first major presentation of his work since his death in 1993.

Wildness, her first feature film, premiered at the Museum of Modern Art's 2012 Documentary Fortnight and won the Outfest 2012 Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary.