Sentences with phrase «narrative feature debut»

Director Joshua Z. Weinstein discusses how he created an authentic portrait of Hasidic Jewish life in his narrative feature debut, Menashe.

His narrative feature debut, Bilitis (1977) was an arthouse sensation; the follow - up, Laura (1979) a worldwide hit.

Meanwhile, Magnolia Pictures has acquired «All Good Things,» the narrative feature debut of «Capturing the Friedmans» director andrew Jarecki.

It's not often that a sincerely made, completely uncynical film should turn out to be awful, but that's the case with «Paris Can Wait,» the narrative feature debut from Eleanor Coppola.

At it's most visceral and true, Jeremiah Zagar's narrative feature debut is about the breath, blood and life of a child artist who is beginning to hone their passion in order to understand and survive, yes, but then also to heal, to grow, and to share.

Two years ago, Derek Cianfrance made his narrative feature debut with the emotionally - charged, uncomfortable - yet - beautiful romantic drama Blue Valentine, which was about the despair and devastation of romantic relationships and the pain they leave behind.

The most recent addition to his series is Chilean director Marcela Said's 2013 narrative feature debut, The Summer of Flying Fish, which he first discovered while serving on a jury at a film festival.

While promoting Megan Leavey (which is a solid rental), she talked about how she brought Blackfish director Gabriela Cowperthwaite on board to direct that movie in her narrative feature debut.

Director Fabien Constant, in his narrative feature debut, finds a momentum in that knowledge that propels the film forward, as Vivienne explores her fate (while never disclosing it) in encounters with friends, family and strangers.

It's been six long years since Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris» narrative feature debut, the much beloved «Little Miss Sunshine.»

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 Globes.

Director Max Joseph (MTV's Catfish) makes his narrative feature debut here and while he is keen on tapping into that younger audience he knows so well, at thirty - three this drama of young angst feels more manufactured than authentic.

There's more substance than pastiche in performance artist and documentarian Camille Thoman's ambitious narrative feature debut.

Not exact matches

If «Sugar» is one clear standout in what looks like a weak and uneven year for narrative features at Sundance, Lance Hammer's debut «Ballast» is the true critic's darling, a work of minimalist technique and emotional generosity.

Documentary director John Maringouin's debut narrative feature stars David Zellner (the director of Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter) as a Texan hoping to acquire riches in China's booming economy.

Fabien Constant's debut narrative feature spends 24 hours with jazz singer Vivienne Carala (Sarah Jessica Parker) as she copes with the news of having a terminal illness.

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Wringing every sweat - bead of tension from its fiercely concentrated narrative, acclaimed TV director Yann Demange's debut feature covers one night in the life (and potential death) of a young British soldier stranded by his unit in a riot - blasted IRA stronghold at the zenith of the Northern Ireland nationalist conflict.

Ondi Timoner, the director of the documentaries, We Live in Public 69 and Cool It 61 will make her feature narrative debut with the latter film.

Wringing every sweat - bead of tension from its fiercely concentrated narrative, acclaimed TV director Yann Demange's debut feature covers one night in the -LSB-...]

This impressive debut feature by Stacy Title has its wobbly technical moments and one or two underdeveloped narrative strands, but it's brimful of provocative ideas and moral dilemmas as well as being extremely funny.

Somewhere between his debut feature Badlands and this year's Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick peeled conventional narrative from his films; his work became unashamedly naked.

Sofia Djama's debut feature employs this multi-layered narrative to craft a stirring drama that illuminates the generational states of unrest left in the wake of the Algerian Civil War.

The slate includes a number of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.

After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her feature - narrative debut State Like Sleep (which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival) starring Katherine Waterston as a photographer trying to find answers to her husband (Michiel Huisman)'s recent death; co-starring Michael Shannon and Luke Evans.

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

Lou Andreas - Salomé: The Audacity to Be Free is a debut narrative feature from filmmaker Cordula Kablitz - Post.

Writer - director Boris Rodriguez's feature - film debut starts out reasonably well, sketching in the principal characters and rural setting with broad but compelling strokes, even doling out some perceptive laughs, before the narrative loses steam when it bogs down in repetition and predictability.

This is the second narrative feature film by writer / director Derek Cianfrance, who followed his little - known, Sundance - playing 1998 debut Brother Tied (made at age 23) with a number of shorts and music documentaries.

Theater auteur Martin McDonagh's debut feature, In Bruges, thrives on these stylistic clashes with its narrative of two sympathetic hitmen who seek refuge in a European wonderland full of tourists and irony.

As her debut narrative feature, Wadjda is impressive beyond the circumstances of its production.

After directing the acclaimed documentaries Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memphis, Amy Berg is set to make her narrative helming debut with Every Secret Thing, a feature adaptation of Laura Lippman's 2004 mystery novel that will star Diane Lane, reports Variety.

Jersey Village native Robbie Pickering's feature directorial debut snagged multiple awards at the SXSW festival Tuesday night in Austin, including the jury and audience awards for best narrative feature.

She gained international prominence with her debut narrative feature Suzaku in 1997.

Kristen Stewart's directorial debut, «Come Swim,» has already been shown to audiences at Sundance and Cannes this year, but now it's time for the world to discover what the indie darling has come up with in her first time behind the camera for a narrative feature.

Los Angeles, CA — May 14, 2018 — The Orchard announced today that the company has acquired North American rights to Eva Vives» feature directorial debut All About Nina, which had its world premiere in the U.S. Narrative Competition at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival last month.

After the film's Fantastic Fest debut, we sat down with Pesce to discuss the influences behind his first feature, the surprising personal history that was woven into the film's narrative, and more.

Beginning with an airplane landing and ending with another taking off, Patrick Stettner's sterling feature - length hyphenate debut boasts of a surprising maturity both in terms of its narrative completeness and the consistency of its photographic compositions.

Premiering as part of the narrative competition at the South by Southwest Film Festival, the movie is the feature debut from writer - director Nijla Mu «min.

A directorial debut charmed but not necessarily win over critical mass but nonetheless did not go unnoticed (helps when your directorial debut wins the Best Narrative Feature award), CBS Films have acquired the U.S. rights to Dean.

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The debut narrative feature for Israeli - born Oren Shai shows much affection for all things pulp, but a less steady hand with performance and pacing.

It follows a young nun in training who struggles with issues of faith and sexuality in the 1960s and marks Maggie Betts» narrative feature directorial debut.

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.

For those familiar with Eskil Vogt's screenplays for the Joachim Trier directed Reprise and Oslo, August 31st, Vogt's own feature directorial debut carries with it the same sensitive, melancholic touches of Trier's work, with a greater penchant for the narrative byzantine and bizarre.

Bart Layton's audacious feature debut uniquely tacks together documentary and narrative styles to tell the stranger than fiction tale of a notorious art heist gone horribly wrong.

This low - budget «retro - futuristic steampunk thriller» from filmmaker Vladan Nikolic — credited as «experiment supervisor & creator» rather than director — resembles Darren Aronofsky's debut feature, «Pi,» complicated by its intercutting of two separate narrative time streams.

EXCLUSIVE: The Office alum Paul Lieberstein's feature directorial debut Song of Back and Neck is making its world premiere today in the U.S. Narrative Competition section at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Granik, who made her debut in 2004 with the addiction saga Down to the Bone (the titles of her first two features give the amusing impression that she has taken the term «body of work» very literally), skillfully sustains the atmosphere, climaxing with a viscerally eerie light - of - the - moon boat scene that more resembles the work of the French festival - circuit lightning rod Philippe Grandrieux than a thuddingly well - intentioned American life - on - the - margins narrative like Frozen River.

Never Here is an ambitious debut narrative feature from writer and director Camille Thoman.