Sentences with phrase «including film scholars»

122 industry professionals took part in the survey, including film scholars, festival programmers, film directors, actors and producers.

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In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

Included are video interviews with director Mike Leigh (whose film Topsy Turvy dealt with the original genesis of «The Mikado») and with Gilbert & Sullivan scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail Jr..

That includes an insightful feature - length commentary from scholar Glenn Erickson, who spends the bulk of his breathless offerings analyzing character types, production details, and commenting of the film's importance as an unorthodox film noir.

Bonus materials on the Blu - ray release include a Wurlitzer organ score by Gaylord Carter, audio commentary by film historian Toby Roan, booklet essay by film scholar Matt Hauske, and the one - reel 1932 spoof, The Pie - Covered Wagon, starring Shirley Temple.

Bonus features include I Was Born, But..., Ozu's 1932 silent comedy with a 2008 score by Donald Sosin; new interview with film scholar David Bordwell; new video essay on Ozu's use of humor by critic David Cairns; a fragment of A Straightforward Boy, a 1929 silent film by Ozu; and a critical essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

FFF films were selected and presented by an esteemed crew of guest directors, film critics and scholars including: CBC Arts guru George Anthony; Mary Corliss, writer for Film Comment and Time.com and former head of the MOMA's Film Stills Archive; Richard Corliss, Time magazine critic; famed film critic Roger Ebert of Ebert & Roeper at the Movies; Jim Emerson, Editor of RogerEbert.com; veteran programmer for the Dubai & Bangkok film festivals, Hannah Fisher; Ross Johnson, arts writer for the L.A. Times and Esquire magazine; and Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun film critic.

Extras on The Immortal Story include audio commentary by film scholar Adrian Martin; an interview with co-star Norman Eshley; and the 1968 documentary Portrait: Orson Welles.

Also included is a Collectible Illustrated Booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Neil Sinyard.

Blu - ray extras include Weir's 1971 film Homesdale; a making - of piece; a vintage behind - the - scenes featurette; an interview with Weir; and an introduction to the film by film scholar David Thomson.

Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other major publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public service ad campaign that ran in Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.

Hosted by Elvis Mitchell, LAMCA Muse presents its 13th annual Young Directors Night showcasing eight short films selected from among 160 submissions, including «Boys of Soweto» directed by UCLA Fulbright scholar Meja Shoba, followed by a conversation with the filmmakers, moderated by Mitchell.

A comprehensive schedule of educational events throughout fall 2013 will be open to the public free of charge, including an international Symposium on September 28th; a screening of the film which documents the project, produced by The American History Workshop Brooklyn; along with lectures, panel discussions, and gallery talks with scholars and artists.

The essay authors include independent film critic Ela Bittencourt (São Paulo), Sara Reisman from the Shelly and Donald Rubin Foundation (New York) and Todd Shalom of Elastic City (New York), with and introduction by independent scholar David A. Goldfarb (Honolulu).

Presenters are Mark Dean Johnson, professor of art at San Francisco State University and director of the Martin Wong Foundation, who also moderates; Julia Bryan - Wilson, professor of modern and contemporary art and director of the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, whose Fray: Art and Textile Politics includes a chapter about the Cockettes and Wong's design work for them; Sergio Bessa, director of curatorial and education programs at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and scholar of concrete poetry; Marci Kwon, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University; and artist and filmmaker Charlie Ahearn, who introduces his 1998 film portrait of Wong, whom he knew personally.

It includes essays by the curator Jens Hoffmann, the scholar José Luis Barrios, and the film critic Ernesto Diezmartínez Guzmán as well as information on all the participating artists and their works, extended notes on the classic films selected by the artists, and a special insert featuring a newly commissioned photographic project by Fernando Ortega depicting abandoned or repurposed movie theaters in Mexico City.

This year's recipients include: in media, the film production company TNEG, founded by Elissa Blount Moorhead, Arthur Jafa, and Malik Sayeed; in writing, poet and scholar Fred Moten; and in theater and performance, Tarell Alvin McCraney, who adapted his play for the Oscar - winning film Moonlight, and the performance art collective My Barbarian, which is composed of Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, Alexandro Segade.

An event, on 21 August from 6 - 8 pm, will draw the summer school to a conclusion and will include film screenings, durational performance and readings by the Scholars, to supplement the exhibited works.

Each year a lively programming series including lectures and gallery talks, visiting artist / scholar Learning Associates and a film series, compliments exhibitions.

The catalog includes essays from poet Christian Campbell on SAMO ©; curator Carlo McCormick on New York / New Wave; writer Glenn O'Brien on the downtown scene; academic Jordana Moore Saggese on Basquiat's relationship to film and television; and music scholar Francesco Martinelli on Basquiat's obsession with jazz.

In conjunction with the exhibit were lectures and a symposium by scholars, including Pamela Robertson of the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow art gallery owner Roger Billcliffe, and architect J. Stewart Johnson, and screening of documentary films about Mackintosh.

In addition, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is also commissioning unrealized components of Endless Dreams and the Water Between, which include short films, drawings, banners, a window installation at street level, and an experimental publication in the form of a compendium including texts by scholars, artists and theorists.

Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who heads the firm's appellate practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the film, television, music and finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California based on the misappropriation of a film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial litigation.