Sentences with phrase «more skilled a director»

More accurately, its ambitions and wildly clashing tones feel like they require the touch of a far more skilled director and writer, one more attuned to a sense of rhythm and character.

Not exact matches

«Our applicants realize the global energy industry is undergoing profound change and that they need more skills and knowledge to prosper,» says Claire Dixon, Haskayne's director of MBA programs.

«Their basic thought is robotics and A.I. are going to weave their way into more and more skills that used to be human skills,» says Lee Rainie, Pew's director of internet, science, and technology research.

Do we as a whole have the right competencies and skills, but more importantly do we have courage to replace those directors who do not?

Executive director Kara Kennedy says, «Painting a school or building a playground can be fun but volunteers feel their contributions and time is more meaningful when it is skill - based.

Directors whose skills do not support value creation; and ossification, complacency and atrophy more broadly, will also be targets.

«The assumption is what they are measuring matters but often what they're not measuring might matter more,» such as individual people and the qualities and skills of directors, says Leblanc.

Hopefully, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee will be more diligent in its review of the 2009 - 10 Public Accounts and press the Ministers of Finance and Human Resources and Skills Development Canada on this issue, as well as the directors of the CEIFB as to how they perceive their role in the setting of EI premium rates.

«Globalization of markets and new channels of digital engagement are causing senior corporate marketers to seek new internal skills and capabilities, and re-direct spend towards more inventive and localized go - to - market programs,» notes Donovan Neale - May, executive director of the CMO Council.

However, according to Erika Dolan, President of the School Nutrition Association of Vermont and a School Food Service Director in Waterbury / Duxbury, the new nutrition rules have encouraged Vermont schools to, «add more variety to school meals, and strengthen school food service staff cooking and customer service skills,» such that Vermont schools now lead the nation in implementing best practices in school meals.

«I am often asked... whether primates that innovate new skills become more popular,» said Lydia Hopper, the assistant director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, who was not part of this research.

► In this week's Science editorial, Joanne Padrón Carney, the director of government relations at AAAS, wrote about the relationships among science, advocacy, and policy, and outlined the skills scientists need to become more effective advocates for science — namely, communication skills and knowledge about how science policy is made.

Rick Cherwitz, associate dean at the University of Texas and director of the PDP program, believes that one way to win support from more of the university's established academics is to crank up the conversation about the importance of communication skills outside the university.

Gregory O'Shanick, chairman and past national medical director of the Brain Injury Association of America in Vienna, Va., says that patients recover some skills rapidly in the six months that follow an injury, but subsequently recover more slowly.

Negotiators (oestrogen) are imaginative, intuitive and compassionate and they have good people skills while directors, who are ruled by testosterone, are more direct, decisive, competitive and often musical.

Director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies, Driving Miss Daisy) is a lot more skilled than Marshall, and Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene), who plays Grace's granddaughter, is a lot more engaging than Lohan.

Corbet clearly wants to be more than just an actor... and has the skills and vision to make a name for himself as a filmmaker; he has an ear for dialogue, unique artistic vision and technical skills proving he has the making of a great writer - director.

Thanks to Kore - eda's skill as a director, and Fukuyama and Yakusho's committed performances, these scenes are less a battle of wits and more a battle for understanding on both sides.

Trained as an engineer and apprenticed to film noir great Maurice Tourneur for seven years, Brown learned his craft in the silent era and brought those visual skills to Universal and MGM, where he became known, along with the far more impressive George Cukor, as a woman's director.

The fact that it is so much more is a testament to the skills of director Steven Spielberg and the talents of Meryl Streep («Florence Foster Jenkins») and Tom Hanks («Sully»), working together for the first time.

applies his compilation skills to a far broader and artier canvas of more than 200 different movies from 130 + different directors, where mainstream filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock are outnumbered by experimental artists like Jonas Mekas and Bill Viola, and where the closest thing to voices of the mainstream comes from David Lynch and Robert Altman.

For Franklin, Out of Time is something like a return to form but more like a skilled director trying hard to find his way back to the true path.

Though the contrivances and implausibilities in the script tend to pile up - Craig and Vince are not the brightest dudes on the planet - skilled director E.L. Katz keeps the proceedings taut as the couple's dares get more outrageous.

Affleck (the director) has an edge on Clooney (the filmmaker) in this area, as the latter tends to get by more on the strengths of his cast and script (see: The Ides of March)-- rather than his skills behind the camera (in this writer's opinion, anyway).

For a directing debut, Mr. Gilroy has really outdone himself proving that he has the skill and audacity of a writer / director and I certainly hope to see more of him behind the camera.

Director Noah Baumbach pieces each snapshot together with utmost skill, forming a unique cinematic experience that plays out more like a relic of the 1940s or 50s.

This doubtlessly registers as the director's best work since 1997's The Game, though the improvement seems more the result of a better script — one not marred by preposterous twists, gimmicky thrills, or postmodern waxing — than new heights of skill.

A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking was presented to: The Bad Kids / (Directors: Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe)-- At a remote Mojave Desert high school, extraordinary educators believe that empathy and life skills, more than academics, give at - risk students command of their own futures.

The Room, of course, is director / writer / star Tommy Wiseau «s cult midnight classic, a movie made with significantly more passion than skill.

«Get Out» is Peele's big - screen directorial debut, but he's been honing his skills as an actor, writer, director and producer for more than a dozen years.

Mikael Håfström doesn't lack ambition from the director's chair, but his skill sets are far more suitable for smaller genre fare than a big scaled project like this one.

Director Lawrence Sher, making his feature debut after a career as a cinematographer, brings the skills he established shooting movies for Todd Phillips (including the Hangover trilogy, with Helms), which is to say he uses better lighting and more textured visuals than a typically overlit studio comedy while still neglecting to frame, cut, or pace scenes for actual laughs.

Director Scott and screenwriter Bian Helgelaland suppress a good deal of the merriment that most Robin Hood stories inject (they were called the «Merry Men», after all), to present more grit and violent action, where Robin is just as comfortable slashing men with swords or a punch to the gut as he is utilizing his archery skills and ability to gain the upper hand through trickery.

While this could be seen as damning proof that technology does not have the capability to improve educational outcomes, and instead provides a platform for students to be become distracted from learning, Andreas Schleicher, OECD director for education and skills, concluded that schools systems «need to find more effective ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning».

Although wider press coverage of the OECD's report focused on the findings that heavy investment in ICT failed to improve results, Andreas Schleicher, OECD director for education and skills stated that the key to success was to «find more effective ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning to provide educators with learning environments that support 21st century pedagogies and provide children with the 21st century skills they need to succeed in tomorrow's world».

Dr Nick Smith, Courses Director and founder of Oxford Open Learning Trust, said: «Modern GCSEs are great for teaching a more vocational set of skills, but core subjects are still extremely important to overall education and job prospects.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

In the words of Hasan Bakhshi, executive director of creative economy and data analytics within the leading think tank NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), «this makes it all the more important that we set learning priorities for young people today that are grounded in a rigorous assessment of what skills will be required of them when they enter the workforce».

Andreas Schleicher, the OECD's director of education and skills, said it was «more the exception than the rule» for education policies to be evaluated by governments.

Pete, is a certified Master Somatic Coach, and has designed and delivered many programs that support teachers, administrators and directors of technology in developing the skills they need to be more effective in their work and to have their technology vision embraced by those they serve.

«Advocates of public schools are needed now more than ever to ensure that all our students are learning the skills they need to pursue college and careers and thrive in a 21st century environment,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, executive director of the National School Boards Association.

She previously served as Project Director at Worcester Community Action Council, Inc. where she developed and implemented a federal ARRA - funded program that provided employability skills, job development, and academic preparation for low - income... More»

In a July 22, 2014, article «Poverty and the perception of poverty — how both matter for schooling outcomes,» Andreas Schleicher, director of education and skills at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), argues that perceptions often matter more than reality, with distressing consequences.

«Businesses are most concerned about basic levels of numeracy and it's alarming that more than one in five 16 - 19 year olds are considered functionally innumerate,» said Susan Anderson, the body's director for education and skills policy.

Neil Carberry, the CBI's director for employment and skills, said: «There's no better or more strategic way for business to support and influence the education system and our future workforce than through school governance.»

While your school is implementing the Core Practices, our program directors can help establish mentoring programs, work directly with Scholars on college and career readiness or Essential Skill building activities, connect your school with college campuses and build additional partnerships, help you establish goals and milestones, and much more.

Neil Carberry, Director for People and Skills CBI said: «There's no better or more strategic way for business to support and influence the education system and our future workforce than through school governance.

Neil Carberry, the CBI's director of employment and skills said: «Businesses want more rigorous exams but we're concerned that these changes aren't being linked up with other reforms, especially to GCSEs.

So I paid $ 34k for the car, I was assured was in great condition and within minutes of being off the truck (and in reality while it was coming off the truck) it can't be driven!!!! I have never been a party to a more fraudulent, unjust, deceptive transaction and the service / parts director Joe Deitrick just doesn't seem to care... specifically service / parts manager Joe Deitrick has shown zero sympathy, and zero customer service skills, and just doesn't return phone calls, and has taken no initiative to make it right in any way shape or form.

They are involved directly in the patient care and are supportive of the students as they continue to develop their skills and knowledge as aspiring young veterinarians,» said Dr. Doug Allen, director of the College of Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital, where more than 97 technicians are employed.