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The story of «Batkid» Miles Scott, the 5 - year - old leukemia patient who got to live his dream to be a superhero courtesy of the Make - A-Wish Foundation and much of San Francisco, is both the subject of a documentary, Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Round the World, and an upcoming narrative feature film in which Julia Roberts is set to star and produce.

Not exact matches

But the narrative already has the makings of a feel - good Hollywood movie — so it should come as no surprise that a feature film dramatizing Ma's rags - to - riches rise is already in the works.

Pollock, whose documentary, «Strange Fruit,» premiered at the South by Southwest Festival on Saturday, claims the new security tape featured in the film points to a cover - up of evidence on the part of Ferguson police, and a false narrative painted about Brown by city officials.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

They claim that their movie is the first feature length narrative film to give the public an opportunity under the new rules to invest in it.

Chocolate Milk: The Documentary counters this habitually negative narrative as award - winning director and producer Elizabeth Bayne, MPH, MFA explores the racial inequities of breastfeeding in her first feature - length film.

It's the first feature - length narrative film shot in a single take (on digital video, using a specially designed disc instead of tape).

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.

In the end, there is just about enough narrative to hold interest, while the lyrical camerawork, constantly in motion, blurred images and all, offers a single emotion that is impossible to stretch over a feature - length filIn the end, there is just about enough narrative to hold interest, while the lyrical camerawork, constantly in motion, blurred images and all, offers a single emotion that is impossible to stretch over a feature - length filin motion, blurred images and all, offers a single emotion that is impossible to stretch over a feature - length film.

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

This is perfectly in keeping with the style of the Broadway production, which features much more of this style than the film does, with Condon beefing up the dramatic dialogue for purposes of an easier narrative and deeper characterizations.

Between his narrative and documentary features, director Kevin Macdonald is well on his way to banging out six films in the span of three years, and we now have our first look at the Last King of Scotland helmer's 2014...

Like their previous film Lenny Cooke, sibling directors Benny and Joshua Safdie focus on a true story in Heaven Knows What, only this time they shoot it as a feature narrative instead of a documentary.

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 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 Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.

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.

A $ 30,000 cash grant for a short narrative film or feature - length documentary that celebrates the deep connection to French and Francophone culture in Louisiana.

The jury statement: «The Alliance of Women Film Journalists presents the EDA Award for Best Female - Directed Narrative Feature to a film in which we are observers in a story told with a fully naturalistic approach.

In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categorieIn addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categoriein the documentary, narrative feature, and short categories.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

In order to qualify as an international narrative feature film, the submitted project must be either scripted or improvisational fiction, and more than half of the project's financing must originate from outside of the United States.

The movie doesn't just feature quirky characters, which could have been found in any film of the time, but flat - out weird characters whose actions don't serve the narrative — they are simply weird for weird's sake.

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.

The music - driven feature film combines a bold narrative and spectacular live - performance footage of one of the most popular and influential rock bands in history to produce a bracing, raw andvisceral cinematic experience.

INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of international origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary&raquNARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of international origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» sFILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of international origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary&raqunarrative work of fiction of international origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» sfilms that are shot in a «mockumentary» style.

These are some of the questions raised by writer / director Julia Loktev in her second narrative feature film The Loneliest Planet.

The fractured identity and Hollywood - as - exploitive - nightmare - factory themes were pushed even further in Inland Empire (2006), Lynch's final narrative feature film to date, as much as it can be regarded as a narrative film.

U.S. NARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of U.S. origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary&raquNARRATIVE FEATURE FILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of U.S. origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» sFILMS: Any narrative work of fiction of U.S. origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary&raqunarrative work of fiction of U.S. origin with a running time of 50 minutes or more, including films that are shot in a «mockumentary» sfilms that are shot in a «mockumentary» style.

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 - competition 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.

In many ways, Mercury 13 feels like a blueprint for a feature narrative drama film.

I was frustrated by Loktev's first narrative feature, Day Night Day Night, because her decision to elide the specific political motivations of her central character, a would - be suicide bomber, turns the film into a prolonged exercise in Hitchcockian suspense.

Goodman also discussed the process of starring in such an action - driven film that only features three characters throughout the majority of the narrative, after starring in movies that have featured notable ensemble casts.

And so it's difficult to remember that Weekend, the last remotely traditional narrative feature he'd produce until the release of Every Man for Himself, in 1980, isn't the film of a man at the end of his artistic rope, but rather of a man intent on taking a match to it.

These are the only films among his 17 features and TV dramas in which Leigh focuses the narrative on a single character.

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.

Based on a book of short stories by James Franco (who co-stars in the film), the film features interconnected narratives involving a soccer player (Emma Roberts) getting...

Hopefully it will find an audience on DVD and, appropriately, online, because Blackhat is a sublime merging of form and content, a film about the experience of living in our interconnected world on a psychological, political and philosophical level that conveys this experience beautifully through its narrative, stylistic and generic features.

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.

We wanted it to feel Grindhouse in that way, not Grindhouse in a comedic way but Grindhouse in the down and dirty simple, narrative, you appreciate it, you could pair it with an A film and see it as a double feature.

Although in one instance — a party sequence featuring a rather clichéd depiction of Catherine's feelings of claustrophobia in a crowded space — the film falls victim to a heavy - handed narrative choice and unsubtle execution, more often, smaller moments such as Catherine's interactions with Rich, or her reminiscences about the past with Ginny, become crucial in expressing her emotions.

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.

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.

Director Lav Diaz's slow, patient approach opens the film up in a way that lets viewers feel every small detail of the world Diaz creates, teleporting them into characters» lives in ways a more traditional narrative feature couldn't do.

WACO will be the first narrative feature film to explore the events of the ATF raid on Mt. Carmel, TX, the 51 - day siege that followed, and the devastating compound fire that resulted in the deaths of 81 civilians.

It's a dialogue - focused film that concerns the type of multi-character-connection narratives that Anderson would go on to explore in his second and third features.

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.

But as with her queerness, her pop inclinations are a feature, not a bug, and it is difficult to separate Dirty Computer from the larger narrative of resistance across the arts today; from A Wrinkle in Time, a film dedicated above all else to instilling wonder and empowering young viewers; from Gabby Rivera's (now sadly discontinued) America comic book series, one centering a young, queer Latina, America Chavez, who repeatedly declares she is America; from An American Marriage, Tayari Jones's latest novel that emphasizes to be black is to be American.

Originally aired in 1986, and featuring Michael Gambon in a tour - de-force performance as psoriasis - deformed writer Philip E. Marlow, The Singing Detective fused three narratives: a present - day drama about a psychiatrist trying to get the root of Marlow's childhood trauma, flashbacks to the writer's past, and a Raymond Chandler - eseque 1940s film noir fantasy.

The music - driven feature film combines a bold narrative and spectacular live - performance footage of one of the most popular and influential rock bands in history to produce a bracing, raw and visceral cinematic experience.