Sentences with phrase «human interest films»

I have over a decade of experience working in adventure travel films, documentary, and human interest films.

Not exact matches

For reasons that are difficult to perceive, someone had decided that this sorry spectacle would make a great human - interest scene for the film as Arthur, the famous, rich black American athlete, nobly descends to the lower levels of life and plays table tennis with poor little African children.

Help the film Tigers roar Put human rights above business interests Protect children, mothers and their...

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Composed of field testimonies and hidden camera footage, the film also features interviews with Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Raymond Joseph, the U.S. Department of States» Ambassador John Miller from the Office of Human Trafficking, renowned anthropologist and sugar historian Sidney Mintz, Carol Pier from Human Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher HarHuman Trafficking, renowned anthropologist and sugar historian Sidney Mintz, Carol Pier from Human Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher HarHuman Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher Harhuman rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher Hartley.

The script is phoned in and rather than focus on the Autobots like in the cartoon the film focuses on the poorly written human characters who aren't that interesting.

With its bijou period trappings and Enya - lite score, it's easy to dismiss the film as another pat, issue - ducking weepie, but on closer inspection it offers interesting and cohesive musings on the illogical nature of the human character, and how that fits with the responsibilities of scientific discovery.

This film also gave hints of the director's interest in human connections and the ripple effects of one's actions, which he would explore more abstractly in his following projects.

In their attempt to give a woman a diverse part, they end up flipping the film back in the direction of the male character, by default, because human beings aren't interested in one - dimensional assholes like Mavis.

The idea of shooting an intimate human drama in 3D is interesting but ends up adding nothing, bar making Benoit Debie «s photography feel muddier and dimmer in a film already rendered in a low - contrast palette of browns and greys.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

By the rules of teenager - centric action films this makes him Sam's natural arch-nemesis, and «Dark of the Moon» runs with that by the genuinely interesting idea of secret Decepticon collaborators among the human race, helping them with their plans.

The original 2001 film wasn't particularly scary either, but it did succeed in delivering some interesting social commentary on the nature of electronic means of communication, and how it is separating us from actual human contact, leaving those who succumb to it as empty shells who sit in lonely rooms with nothing much to live for.

Following a single father who works as a human billboard in Taipei, and his left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the presence of their mother represented by three different actresses, the film has the barest thread of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series of shots that last upwards of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.

Released in 2003 and director Len Wiseman's feature film debut, the film casts Kate Beckinsale as Selene, a vampire who, in an effort to save her race, partners with a human who is of valuable interest to the vampires» enemy, the Lycans.

The film tries to reel us in with some corny human interest material.

All very interesting, no doubt, but this film tells its story in stilted fits and starts, and is oddly tasteful and decorous in its treatment of what one presumes was a human triangle born of deep passion.

Lynch isn't interested in wallowing through sadness, it's about a moment in human life rarely explored on film.

What makes this film so interesting to me is the premise which based on the official press release is about «a reckless loner named Kiya (Addison Timlin) that is desperate for human connection.

Leon (Olgierd Lukaszewicz) and Wojtek (Adam Ferency), perhaps the most interesting human characters in the film, are both introduced before they encounter the bomb.

It's certainly theatrical, and as with the animated film they're not likely to appear as humans for too much of the movie's screentime, but it's certainly interesting to get a look at their get - ups.

Unfortunately, in Morten Tyldum's (The Imitation Game) newest film, it's the ship that is more interesting than the two humans, played by Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence.

And as updates come through on the film's official site, its interesting to note that nowhere are the main characters referred to as their superhero monikers: Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch or The Thing.

However, the film does pull off some mildly interesting forced - perspective gimmicks with the gods, as they stand several feet taller than the human characters.

Lanthimos, who co-wrote the film alongside his usual collaborator Efthymis Filippou, is «somebody who is interested in the push - pull of what it is to be a human being — in the loneliness, in how we learn through example and through observation, in how we follow or break rules, in whether rules are a service or disservice to us.»

Whereas in Up we begin by being overwhelmed with truths about the human condition, then descend into a comparative banality that improves as the film goes on, ending in a close approximation of the beauty of the prologue, in Inside Out we start with silly fun that threatens to go nowhere interesting, and then slowly move towards profound meditations on the meaning of life.

«Cinderella Man» — Jim Braddock's incomparable human - interest story — continues Nick Rogers» look back at the best films of 2000 - 2009.

Blu - ray Highlight: Though fans will probably get a kick out of the short film «Survivor,» which explores the human resistance forming around the world, the «Visualizing an Invasion» featurette is an interesting look at designing the aliens, their unique POV shots and the cool «shred» effect that happens when you come into contact with them.

This suggests such highly stylised modern forms as the detective story and the cowboy film where, because of a withdrawal of human interest which leaves the action naked, we witness death and pain lightheartedly....

Her unmanned camera panning indiscriminately through the backlots of a film studio, pulling in and out of focus, swinging side to side, is an interesting idea (although of course the viewpoint never settles on anything the human eye could find interesting)- until you learn that it is spelling out the letters of the word Cinematography.

Anyone interested in why I'm so obsessed with the balance of environment and human development, my thoughts on problems with media coverage of climate, and the genesis of Dot Earth might enjoy the interview below, filmed by Brook Silva - Braga for his new Web TV effort The Interviewpoint.