Sentences with phrase «in the feature film competition»

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

On the heels of his recent Best Cinematography feting from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for his work in Children of Men, Emmanuel Lubezki took top honors in the feature film competition last night at the 21st annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.

Not exact matches

The 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival began with another Netflix controversy, as the upstart studio pulled its films (including Alfonso Cuarón's Roma and Orson Welles» recently completed final feature, The Other Side of the Wind) from the competition in response to Cannes banning any film that does not get a theatrical release in France.

Sundance will premiere 16 American narrative feature films, and 26 films in the world cinema dramatic and documentary competitions.

In the Documentary Feature Competition one film stands out to me.

Continuing our coverage of images from films that will be featured at January's Sundance Film Festival, we bring you images from two of the higher profile dramas that will be screened in - competition at the festival: The Ledge and Like Crazy.

In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noiIn this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noiin the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

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

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

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 - competitioCompetition 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 - competitioncompetition 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.

Thankfully, amidst the glamour and spectacle that frequently serve as distraction during film festivals, the atmosphere at TIFF remains unmistakably Canadian, by avoiding competition in favor of admiration and by featuring an assortment of Canadian filmmakers within its program.

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.

Her debut feature film It Felt Like Love premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in NEXT and the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Tiger Competition in 2013.

«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 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.

Highlights of the Kerry Film Festival include an international short film competition, a curated programme of features films, a showcase of Kerry talent, live film music events and niche film events in unique venues.

Stavier Films have announced that Anthony Renwick McGill, a writer living in Dublin and co-founder, along with Savio Sequeira, of Stavier Films and The Da Vinci Theatre Company, has won the 2016 FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY AWARD in the New York Short Film and Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970's Ireland.

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.

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.

Finally, writer - director Kate Barker - Froyland will make her feature film debut with «Song One,» also showing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance and starring Anne Hathaway as another young woman with some growing up to do.

Continuing our coverage of films that will be featured at the Sundance Film Festival in January, today we're bringing you two films that will premiere in - competition at the festival: Another Earth and Pariah.

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.

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 prograin our Narrative Features and Documentary Features Competitions will stay at Meadowood Napa Valley while participating in our innovative Artists - In - Residence prograin our innovative Artists - In - Residence prograIn - Residence program.

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.»

Among a clutch of films receiving their world premiere in the competition section of the festival are The Dinner, which features Gere alongside Steve Coogan, Laura Linney and Rebecca Hall in a thriller about two married couples who meet to discuss what to do about a crime apparently committed by their children; and political fable The Party, written and directed by Sally Potter, whose cast includes Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer and Cillian Murphy.

Three other films in competition represented «promotions» for their directors, who had all had their previous outings featured in other sections of the festival, but the results were uneven at best.

The 18th Costume Designers Guild awards, hosted by Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad, Masters of Sex) were handed out last night in feature film, television and commercial categories and Mad Max: Fury Road, The Danish Girl and Beasts of No Nation bested their competition in their categories.

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 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 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.

Jury protocol entails some discretion about what I saw, but I can honestly say that, between the three feature juries doing duty this year — the others being Arturo Ripstein's international competition jury and the «Cineasti del Presente» jury under Dario Argento — most of the films that I valued, in whatever section, were honored one way or another.

It's an impressive feature debut for French filmmaker Xavier Legrand (an Oscar nominee in the short film category), who duly won the Venice jury's Silver Lion for best director, and who stands a shot at winning another prize in Toronto's Platform competition.

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.

Kristian Levring's new feature film The Salvation is headed to Cannes shortly in the Out of Competition section, as part of the Midnight screenings.

Porco Rosso follows the title character, a WWI pilot cursed with porcine features, as he agrees to participate in an aerial battle with a flashy rival, with the film detailing the character's various exploits in the buildup to the competition (as well as his growing friendship with a spunky mechanic).

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.

Okja, one of the two Netflix films playing in competition (to great controversy), featured characters twisting language and capitalizing on linguistic differences for their own ends.

One of three female directors (versus 17 men) in the main competition, Andrea Arnold makes grimy, tough movies; her first film set in the United States deals with a runaway teenage girl and features Shia LaBeouf.

Featured in five different competition categories are 67 individual films that will be showing at world's greatest, snowiest film festival in January.

The eligible films were those in the narrative feature and documentary feature competition categories; the Audience Awards, to be announced March 16, are culled from all feature categories save headliners and special events.

In addition to 34 narrative and documentary feature - length films in competition, and eight shorts programs, the festival will feature panel discussions and workshops including «The Finest Hours» author Casey Sherman (and my former WBZ - TV colleague) who'll tell you how he got from «From Page to Screen» and turned his book into a major studio film shot in MassachusettIn addition to 34 narrative and documentary feature - length films in competition, and eight shorts programs, the festival will feature panel discussions and workshops including «The Finest Hours» author Casey Sherman (and my former WBZ - TV colleague) who'll tell you how he got from «From Page to Screen» and turned his book into a major studio film shot in Massachusettin competition, and eight shorts programs, the festival will feature panel discussions and workshops including «The Finest Hours» author Casey Sherman (and my former WBZ - TV colleague) who'll tell you how he got from «From Page to Screen» and turned his book into a major studio film shot in Massachusettin Massachusetts.

Continuing our coverage of films that will be featured at the Sundance film festival in January, today we bring you two films that will premiere in the out - of - competition category at the prestigious festival: The Devil's Double and Life in a Day.

With the theatrical release of Doug's 1st Movie in March of 1999, Disney began a new annual tradition of releasing a second - rate animated feature film early in the year, when there is less box office competition.

«Sorry to Bother You,» which also features Terry Crews, Omari Hardwick, Steven Yeun, Jermaine Fowler, and Danny Glover, is one of the 16 films in Sundance 2018's U.S. Dramatic Competition.

For the 2018 edition of the festival, 37 percent of the 122 feature films premiering are directed by women, a slight uptick from last year when 34 percent of all films were helmed by female directors (in years past, the average has hovered around 25 percent), and their contributions were prominent across all sections, with women debuting films in not just the competition sections, but also in the forward - thinking NEXT section, the wild Midnight category (which played home to the long - gestating anthology «XX,» featuring four shorts directed by women), and even the starry Premieres docket.

Spike Lee's new film is one of the most notable projects in competition at Cannes this year, and today the first trailer for it has arrived courtesy of Focus Features.

12 movies are featured in the Official Competition, with local films and international releases duking it out for the top prize of $ 60,000.

Unfairly disposed to doomed distribution prospects and perhaps unfortunate dismissal during its initial reception comes Lucrecia Martel's long - awaited fourth feature, Zama an epically staged period piece, which premiered out - of - competition at the 2017 Venice Film Festival after over four years in the making and arriving nearly a decade after her last film, 2008's The Headless Woman.

Two of Netflix's upcoming narrative, feature films — The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) and Okja — have been programmed in Official Selection, and will mark both their world premieres In Competition at the 70th Edition of the Film Festivain Official Selection, and will mark both their world premieres In Competition at the 70th Edition of the Film FestivaIn Competition at the 70th Edition of the Film Festival.