During the 2017 #HometownHeroes crowdfunding rally
for narrative feature films, the Duplass Brothers put up a $ 25,000 no interest loan and joined two projects as executive producers.
The grants are awarded twice annually to filmmakers
for narrative feature films that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community.
It's not, though, because this is one of those «too good to be true» tales perfectly suited
for a narrative feature film and one helmed by a maestro of visual effects and other technical facets.
For his narrative feature film debut, Oranges and Sunshine, director Jim Loach chose to tackle a sprawling tale of warped governmental policy, spanning three decades and involving the forced deportation of British kids to Australia.
Not exact matches
A typical example of the mid -»80s «Rat Pack»
film, Oxford Blues
featured a soundtrack with several forgettable rock songs written expressly
for the movie, interjected at intervals into the
narrative through music video - style sequences.
The
film was written and directed by Noah Buschel, who also wrote and directed Glass Chin, nominated
for 2014 Tribeca's Best
Narrative Feature.
This is perfectly in keeping with the style of the Broadway production, which
features much more of this style than the
film does, with Condon beefing up the dramatic dialogue
for purposes of an easier
narrative and deeper characterizations.
Later, the
film won the Audience Award
for Best
Narrative Feature at the Hamptons International
Film Festival.
His
narrative feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden
feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international
film festivals in 2001 and was nominated
for Best First
Feature at the Italian Golden
Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.
A $ 30,000 cash grant
for a short
narrative film or
feature - length documentary that celebrates the deep connection to French and Francophone culture in Louisiana.
For 2016, the festival nominated six films for the EDA Award for Best Female - Directed Narrative Featu
For 2016, the festival nominated six
films for the EDA Award for Best Female - Directed Narrative Featu
for the EDA Award
for Best Female - Directed Narrative Featu
for Best Female - Directed
Narrative Feature.
The jury statement: «The Alliance of Women
Film Journalists presents the EDA Award
for Best Female - Directed
Narrative Feature to a
film in which we are observers in a story told with a fully naturalistic approach.
It is quite an unfortunate trend of late
for the standout gay
narrative feature films to be of a higher quality than the key lesbian
narrative features.
In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select
film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards
for best female directed
films in the documentary,
narrative feature, and short categories.
The movie doesn't just
feature quirky characters, which could have been found in any
film of the time, but flat - out weird characters whose actions don't serve the
narrative — they are simply weird
for weird's sake.
Only
films that are world premieres are eligible
for our U.S. Dramatic Competition program, but U.S.
narrative feature films that have previously screened at up to two other festivals anywhere in the world are still eligible
for our out - of - competition programs.
When the
film premiered at the 2017 SXSW
Film Festival in March where it took home the Audience Award
for Narrative Feature Competition, nobody could have predicted just how timely it would be upon the release in early November.
International
narrative feature films that have previously screened at any festival outside of the
film's country or countries of origin are not eligible
for open submission to the Institute
for Festival consideration.
The indie has taken several notable prizes at domestic
film festivals, including a special jury prize
for breakout performance from the Los Angeles
Film Festival
for star Auden Thornton, as well as the
narrative feature audience prize from the Austin
Film Festival.
In many ways, Mercury 13 feels like a blueprint
for a
feature narrative drama
film.
«We have chosen a
film that we believe encompasses the beauty, aesthetic, as well as the powerful themes of love, struggle, life, death, and womanhood that are the spirit of this year's festival,» said the jury
for best
narrative feature.
Tangerine Entertainment produces
narrative feature films by female directors, consults on various aspects of the filmmaking process, and works to create audience and community
for work by women.
For the Full Slate of
films including
Narrative Features, Documentary
Features, Shorts and Special Presentations go here.
And so it's difficult to remember that Weekend, the last remotely traditional
narrative feature he'd produce until the release of Every Man
for Himself, in 1980, isn't the
film of a man at the end of his artistic rope, but rather of a man intent on taking a match to it.
One of the breakout
films from the festival circuit this year was the unexpected
narrative debut from Maggie Betts (who received high praise
for her documentary
feature
The San Francisco
Film Society (SFFS) and Kenneth Rainin Foundation (KRF) have selected 15 finalists
for the latest round of SFFS / KRF Filmmaking Grants; more than $ 300,000 will be awarded to one or more
narrative feature film projects at any stage of production.
The 23rd annual Austin
Film Festival is now accepting applications
for this year's
film competition in eight categories including
feature - length
narrative, short
film, and
narrative student short.
Co-sponsored by Brookfield Place and The Lincoln Motor Company, Spotlight is destination
for today's most talked about themes and filmmakers and will
feature 40
films: 23
narratives and 17 documentaries with 24 of those
films being world premieres.
No release date
for the album has been announced, but certain screenings of Marvel's Black Panther will
feature a brief Dirty Computer teaser along with what Pitchfork described as «
film narrative» about the project.
An especially intriguing facet of these
films emerges in the»60s and»70s as filmmakers more known
for narrative features try their hand at documenting the Games.
Inspired by «80s adventure
films like THE GOONIES and LEGEND and the big - screen work of Jim Henson and Ray Harryhausen, the
film has won a number of festival awards, including the Slamdance Audience Award
for Best
Narrative Feature.
Directors of
films in competition
for Best U.S.
Narrative Feature participate in NVFF's unique Artists - in - Residence Program presented in partnership with the incomparable Meadowood Napa Valley.
The
film won the Grand Jury Award
for Narrative Feature.
Previously, the pair co-wrote and co-directed the
feature film Fort Tilden, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature at the 2014 SXSW Film Fe
feature film Fort Tilden, which won the Grand Jury Prize
for Narrative Feature at the 2014 SXSW Film Fe
Feature at the 2014 SXSW
Film Festival.
For the fifth consecutive year, the directors of the twenty
films in our
Narrative Features and Documentary
Features Competitions will stay at Meadowood Napa Valley while participating in our innovative Artists - In - Residence program.
Actor / director / producer Jim Cummings appears shocked moments after his
film «Thunder Road» is announced as the SXSW Grand Jury Award winner
for Narrative Feature.
The festival has 181
films set
for its two - week run, including 66
narrative features, 36 documentary
features, 51 countries represented and 57 female directors.
Voting by jurors Cathryn Atkinson, Monika Bartyzel, Nikki Baughan, Katherine Brodsky, Laurie Coker, Cynthia Fuchs, Jennifer Merin and Jeanne Wolf resulted in the dual presentation of EDA Awards
for Best Female Directed Film awards to two
films, a documentary and a
narrative feature.
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.
This year, the best
narrative feature category sees 12
films battling it out
for the prestigious prize, while 12 documentaries from around the word will compete to be named best documentary
feature.
A summer movie event that has literally been a decade in the making, Avengers: Infinity War is the new capstone of Marvel Studios» ambitious master plan to bring the majority of their comic book heroes to cinematic life — not in separate, stand - alone
films, but rather in an intricate web of interlocking
narratives, each of which
features various plot points and isolated moments (some buried within or after the closing credits) that have laid the groundwork
for the events depicted here.
This kind of collaboration with students wasn't entirely new
for Professor Sarris, who had already worked with a group of students on Sultan Sharrief's
feature - length
narrative film
Blackshear directed from his own script as well serving as one of the
film's editors and cinematographers.The
film won the Jury Honorable Mention Award
for Narrative Feature at this year's Slamdance
Film Festival.
A release date
for the album has yet to be announced but Gizmodo reports that Marvel's Black Panther will
feature a brief teaser along with what is described as
film narrative.
The Nora Ephron Prize jurors also gave a Special Jury Mention to writer / director Rachel Israel
for her
film Keep the Change (without additional comment), although Israel's enjoyable romantic comedy (an unusual story with a male character at its center) captured The Founder's Award
for Best
Narrative Feature (and $ 20,000 sponsored by AT&T).
That knowledge makes the already graceful cinematic language of Lynne Ramsay's
film adaptation (the Scottish director's third
feature, and her first in a regrettable period of nine years) all the more remarkable: altering not a jot of
narrative detail, Ramsay and co-writer Rory Kinnear have ingeniously hollowed out Shriver's wordy text into a largely tacit, imagistic memory collage that substitutes sound and vision
for dialogue as extensively as possible.
Nobody's Watching Guillermo Pfening was awarded Best Actor in an International
Narrative Feature Film «
for a performance of extraordinary vulnerability and commitment that anchored the
film» as a gay Argentinian telenovela actor trying to find personal and professional fulfillment at home and abroad.
Her
film won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize
for best
narrative feature at Outfest.
The
film won awards
for US
Narrative Feature and Best New
Narrative Director at Tribeca last year.
Then came The Bourne Ultimatum, which
featured atrocious dialogue (a first
for the series) numerous plot points that made no sense, and a
narrative that was little more than an addendum to the second
film.