Sentences with phrase «narrative feature filmmakers»

The Labs are the centerpiece of the Institute's year - round work with narrative feature filmmakers and are part of 24 residential labs the Institute hosts each year to discover and foster the talent of emerging independent artists in film, theatre, new media and episodic content.

The AFS Artist Intensive is a three day weekend of work, focus and mentorship for emerging Texas narrative feature filmmakers poised for career leaps.

The newly - revamped No Borders program offers both narrative feature filmmakers and series creators the opportunity to attend Film Week and meet with various members of industry in an effort to help move their projects forward, broaden their networks, and find a level of career sustainability.

Not exact matches

It's a fairly stupid premise that's employed to progressively unwatchable effect by filmmaker Eli Roth, as the director, along with coscreenwriters Nicolás López and Guillermo Amoedo, proves utterly unable to elevate the narrative above its persistently one - note sensibilities - with the movie, by and large, coming off as a five minute short that's been clumsily, brutally expanded to feature length.

An upgrade also makes a dramatic difference with «Night Tide,» a slow - moving, richly atmospheric supernatural tale from 1961, closer in spirit to M. R. James than EC Comics, that was the first feature - length narrative directed by the avant - garde filmmaker Curtis Harrington.

Jennifer Merin: In her first narrative feature, filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite does a beautiful job of bringing the true story of a heroic woman to the screen.

With Shirkers, Sandi Tan (also a first - time filmmaker) revisits the long - lost footage from her unfinished narrative feature shot in Tan's native Singapore in 1992, also called Shirkers, and in the process reckons with both why the film was never finished and how several relationships were forever changed in its wake.

The slate of HD extra features comprises the usual studio - sponsored assortment of interviews and B - roll highlighting what the filmmakers feel were the most impressive aspects of the production and post, plus some narrative material that didn't make it into the finished film.

Bill and Turner Ross are documentary filmmakers who intriguingly blur the line between standard conventions of documentary and narrative feature techniques...

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.

«A Private War» is BAFTA, DGA and Academy Award - nominated filmmaker Matthew Heineman's first narrative project after helming feature documentaries including «Cartel Land» and «City of Ghosts.»

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

We justified pairing them, though, on the grounds that both are directed by the same woman (German filmmaker Maren Ade), feature the same actors playing the same characters within the same narrative, and have been seamlessly edited together into a nearly three - hour seriocomic epic.

Co-sponsored by Brookfield Place and The Lincoln Motor Company, Spotlight is destination for today's most talked about themes and filmmakers and will feature 40 films: 23 narratives and 17 documentaries with 24 of those films being world premieres.

Whenever a documentary filmmaker makes the transition to narrative features, there is some concern over whether they can handle the change.

The Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, who made his first narrative feature thirty - five years ago, is a model auteur: from the very start, his films have been firmly marked by a strong directorial personality.

Among the winners are feature - length narrative filmmakers Kelly Daniela Norris and T. W. Pittman's for «Nakom,» Daniel Levin for «Bagatelle,» Daniel Laabs for «Jules of Light and Dark,» and Paul Gordon for «Wolves,» which was also given the new Powered by Dell Technology Grant which includes state - of - the - art equipment from Dell.

An especially intriguing facet of these films emerges in the»60s and»70s as filmmakers more known for narrative features try their hand at documenting the Games.

Lucrecia Martel is one of the most exciting and unique filmmakers working today, but because her output has been so infrequent — «Zama» is her first narrative feature in nine years — she is often left out of the conversation of great international auteurs.

An older title brought back into circulation is All Day's expanded DVD release of Ganja and Hess (1983), which features an overly appreciative commentary with the director, co-star, cinematographer, and the film's composer, Sam Waymon, bubbling about a seminal work by independent black filmmakers that's either a lost masterpiece, or an indulgent, narrative mess to some.

Blake Williams Former IONCINEMA.com contributor and short filmmaker Blake Williams embarks on his first narrative feature, Prototype, which premiered at Locarno and has received comparisons to Lynch.

The Gist: It's been well over a decade since seminal American filmmaker (and sometime Indiewire blogger) Bogdonavich directed a narrative feature, and even as he's remained busy with journalistic pursuits and documentary work, it's hard not to wonder what sort of stories the man behind «The Last Picture Show» could tell today.

The Tehran - born filmmaker came to the labs with his second narrative feature.

The grants are awarded twice annually to filmmakers for narrative feature films that will have significant economic or professional impact on the Bay Area filmmaking community.

Prisoners is directed well, apart from its length, by French - Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Maelstrom), from a sometimes nifty, sometimes turgid screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband), which features narrative twists and turns to keep the audience guessing as to what might have happened to the two young girls, and also who holds the key to the answer of their whereabouts.

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.

«Everything Else» («Todo lo demás»), the first narrative feature from the documentary filmmaker Natalia Almada, is a low - key character study whose gently repetitive rhythms mask an unusually keen sense of nuance and subtlety.

EMERGING VISIONS Innovation and creativity from new and emerging feature filmmakers, showcasing raw talent in documentary and narratives of varying premiere status.

Audience member Chris Rock's question about Lee making the film outside the studio system prompted a lengthy, expletive - filled rant from a filmmaker clearly stymied by his hiatus from mainstream filmmaking (his last narrative feature, Miracle at St. Anna, came out in 2008).

Vigalondo, returning to the type of breathless, twisting narrative he mined so well in his feature directorial debut, 2007's Timecrimes, uses Hitchcock as a starting point, blending genre influences and nicking moments of inspiration from other master filmmakers.

The German filmmaker also crafts narrative features.

The inaugural New Works - in - Progress Forum sparked a new format of conversation between filmmakers, audience, and industry with two narrative and two documentary features in the midst of their creative process.

This weekend the Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of its exhibit «Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945,» is presenting not only Chantal Akerman, one of the finest filmmakers working anywhere, but also the two features I would describe as her greatest achievements — the 200 - minute narrative Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and the 107 - minute documentary From the East (D'est, 1993).

Brooklyn - based filmmaker Sophia Takal won a Chicken & Egg Emergent Narrative Woman Director Award on Tuesday night here at South by Southwest, and, for the most part, her debut feature Green bears out that honor.

Al - Mansour became the first female filmmaker in Saudi Arabia when she directed her first narrative feature «Wadjda» in 2012.

«The Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award honors a filmmaker whose main body of work falls outside of the realm of narrative feature filmmaking.

Comprising three works spanning short - and feature - length films, and a documentary, produced by independent filmmakers and artists, this selection addresses concerns of belonging, border crossing, and otherness in the diasporic journey through various visual narratives.