Sentences with phrase «first film competition»

This is the first film competition I have taken part in, I learnt a lot through the competition.

Not exact matches

Tom Hooper made his first film, a short about a runaway dog, at age 13; a short he made the next year (about a boy who learns that his grandfather had died in WWII) was the runner - up in a BBC young - filmmakers competition.

According to the Sundance press release «115 feature - length films were selected, representing 28 countries by 40 first - time filmmakers, including 25 in competition.

The first of three films scored $ 84.8 million opening weekend, easily taking out the first trilogy's highest earner, «The Return of the King» with $ 72.6 million, and absolutely demolishing the competition.

It'll be with us on 1 June, 2018, a switch from the first film's February arrival, but A) Fox figures the Merc With A Mouth is ready to go up against the crowded summer competition and B) with shooting starting in the coming months, it couldn't conceivably be ready for next Feb..

«Lawless» by John Hillcoat, the first of four American films in the year's competition, premiered this morning.

This film first premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in the competition section.

Among the films premiering in competition since the first edition in 2005: Animal Kingdom, The Maid, Once, Mermaid, Megane, An Education, Madeinusa, Son of Babylon, Drained, Bronson, 13 Tzameti, Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, Little Red Flowers and Happy, Happy.

At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director prize for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere (US Dramatic Competition).

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival presented 119 feature - length films, representing 32 countries and 51 first - time filmmakers (including 27 in competition), and 65 short films.

Nebraska, the new film from Alexander Payne (The Descendants), will be playing in competition, and the first clip has only added to my jealousy of this year's festival - goers.

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.»

Beautifully shot by Berta with a rich but muted color palette, Kadosh was chosen for the official competition at Cannes, the first Israeli film selected since the Seventies.

Coincing with the announcement that Knight of Cups will receive its world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival in February, FilmNation Entertainment has now released the first trailer for the film, which has been directed by acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick.

Our last film, Spring, went to Toronto, but getting to go back to Tribeca [with this film] and also being the first genre film in competition in a very long time felt great.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

The traditional royalty slot of the 7 pm premiere on the first Saturday is reserved this time for French director Eva Husson's sophomore feature GIRLS OF THE SUN, while the first English - language competition film doesn't screen until the second half of the festival.

In fact, PA3 opened bigger and though it had the series» weakest legs to date, it still ended up with a domestic gross close to the first film and a franchise - high worldwide take of $ 203 M. And while the production budget again rose, it was still kept to just $ 5 million, well under the competition and far less than the marketing costs of such a high - profile wide release.

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival recently announced a couple batches of films that will screen at the Fest in January, and today we've got some first images and synopses for a few films that will be playing in competition as...

Alain Guiraudie's «Staying Vertical» becomes first WTF competition film, Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick sing for «Trolls»

Vanessa Redgrave's special documentary presentation «Sea Sorrow,» and competition films «Jupiter's Moon,» and «Happy End» are joined by the first of today's two competition premieres, «In the Fade» by German director Fatih Akin, starring Diane Kruger.

Perhaps the last awards - season film that relied on music to this extent was The Artist, which walked away with both best original score and best picture; though The Shape of Water faces stiff competition, especially from first - time Oscar nominee Jonny Greenwood (for Phantom Thread) and perpetual nominee Hans Zimmer (for his experimental Dunkirk score), expect it to pull off the same trick (and underwater, at that).

In a series of firsts for the festival, there were 51 rookie filmmakers represented, and eight of the 16 films in official competition were directed by women.

However he does admit that things were at the worst a couple of years ago, when Toronto decided to drop any films from the popular first half of its schedule that had premiered anywhere else — but now, he says, the ban is over and it is more relaxed, and there is now less competition between the three festivals.

Its opening film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its competition strand has an impressive list of international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.

It's taken eight years, but Gröning has returned, and not just with a new film, but with his first fiction feature in thirteen years in the shape of «The Police Officer's Wife,» which screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival today.

In the last film, there was a good debate where the more serious acapella singers were being satirised: yes, in the first film, the competition was fun, but as college comes to a close, there are bigger concerns that a singing club.

Among the first films and filmmakers to use these services will be two selections from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival: Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology by director Tiffany Shlain, which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition section and On the Ice, by director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, which premiered in the U.S. Narrative Competition section.

Both films premiered in competition with «Girl» winning the best first film award, the Camera d'Or, while «Lazzaro» nabbed Best Screenplay.

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 Hcompetition 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 HCompetition: 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 HCompetition: 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 HCompetition: João Pedro Plácido, Mor Loushy, David Sington, Walter Salles, Tomer Haymenn, Patricio Guzmán, Sarah Turner and Hanna Polak.

Presenting the world premieres of sixteen narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.

The film played in the Un Certain Regard section (but should have been in the main competition) and is eligible for the festival's Camera d'Or prize (for best first film) and the Queer Palm (for films by or about LGBTQ stories), the only film playing with that distinction.

The past week has been a busy one for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with the revered competition announcing its first batch of programming and a ton of first images from competing films hitting the interwebs.

Cannes has had problems leaning into super-male lineups (even when hugely acclaimed female directors are available) so it's worth noting that three of the first seventeen films announced in competition are from female filmmakers: Lebanon's Nadine Labaki, Italy's Alice Rohrwacher, and France's Eva Husson.

The film's depiction of Harding's oft forgotten major accomplishment in figure skating history, the first landing by a woman of the difficult Triple Axel jump in competition — and fairly defeating Nancy Kerrigan by winning the 1991 US Figure Skating Championship — is one of «I, Tonya's» brightest spots.

Analysts and the studio said the difference can be attributed to the first film opening on a holiday weekend, and could easily be made up with Memorial Day coming, despite the looming competition from «Solo: A Star Wars Story.»

2014's Maze Runner, the first film in the franchise, was faced with mixed reviews, but more on the positive side as the movie itself was able to stand out more than its competition with its more intense sci - fi dystopian action.

Veteran director Daihachi Yoshida, whose offbeat drama «The Scythian Lamb» also screened in competition, later emailed his congratulations to first - time feature director Ueda, adding that he had walked home alone after the «One Cut» screening «feeling envious of your success» and «determined to make a film Udine audiences will like.»

It marks the first time in 50 years that a Polish director has had a film in the feature film competition.

Representation is a little better amongst the Out of Competition films, with five films out of eighteen featuring female directors, one of those being the multi-directed Words With Gods, the first part of the anthology series Heartbeat of the World, which includes director Mira Nair as the only woman out of nine directors including Australian Warwick Thornton.

True Detective's Cary Fukunaga directs British star in the first competition film to screen at this year's Venice film festival — and the first awards contender from Netflix's new cinema division

The film began shooting a year before the festival is due to take place, and so should be ready in time, and though first - time directors sometime struggle to break into the Competition line - up, it could be one to keep an eye on for the sidebar segments.

In addition to these 11 first features in competition, the New Directors section of SFIFF57 includes 14 out - of - competition films, which will be announced at the Festival's press conference Tuesday, April 1.

And of course, that fall trifecta constitutes a competition unto itself, one that threatened to turn nasty three years ago when Toronto, irked by Telluride's early access to some of the season's most coveted films, sought to impose a penalty of sorts by restricting all Telluride - screened titles from screening the first weekend of TIFF.

There is, however, for the first time in many years, a German film in competition called Toni Erdmann, written, directed and produced by Maren Ade.

Annemarie Jacir, the first Palestinian woman to direct a feature film (2008's Salt of this Sea), is in competition with her urban road movie Wajib, while Nora Twomey's The Breadwinner, an animated film about a girl's struggles in Afghanistan, will also compete for the title of best film.

Shults takes what on the surface is just another indie drama about family dysfunction, but he seems to have filmmaking instincts in his bones, even for his first feature, that it is no surprise the film received the Grand Jury Award and Audience Award in the narrative feature competition at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival.

The movie follows Everdeen, victorious in the first film, as President Snow (Donald Sutherland) attempts to disparage and discredit her, leading her to take part in a serious competition.

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In one of the most critically praised films in competition, the jury's Grand Prix winner 120 Beats per Minute, an activist is praised at his funeral as having lived «politics in the first person.»