This year, the
best narrative feature category sees 12 films battling it out for the prestigious prize, while 12 documentaries from around the word will compete to be named best documentary feature.
Here in his
first narrative feature, he utilizes some of the same characteristics that a documentary has in order to achieve the same feel of authenticity.
Our goal is to recognize and honor the outstanding work of women directors
of narrative features, documentaries and shorts.
I actually started in filmmaking with a narrative short and thought that I'd
make narrative features, but the documentary format is a really good fit, obviously, with my training.
As is true
with narrative features, those «based on» and «inspired by» included, documentaries are only as compelling as its protagonists, if you will.
Not a single drop of blood is wasted here, and the film's elegantly tragic
narrative features not one moment of wasted motion.
The action - adventure murder mystery will be discounted for launch, and the company has released a new trailer which highlights some
more narrative features of the game.
Candidates must have produced at least one short or feature - length narrative or documentary film, but no more than two
narrative features total as lead creative producer.
The documentary and full -
length narrative feature films are open to filmmakers globally while the other categories are restricted to filmmakers in the region.
While I wasn't thoroughly impressed with Clio Barnard's
narrative feature debut about two tween boys living on an English estate, everyone else sure seems to be floored by this coming - of - age film done in the Brit's social realism tradition reaching as far back as Ken Loach, and more recently to the likes of Andrea Arnold.
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.
But you have to wonder about the wisdom of returning, with no significant new contemporary perspective, to events covered multiple times
in narrative features including Victory at Entebbe, Raid on Entebbe and Operation Thunderbolt, not to mention several documentaries.
It was the basis for Disappear, which picked up the audience award for best
narrative feature at SXSW back in March of this year.
Lou Andreas - Salomé: The Audacity to Be Free is a debut
narrative feature from filmmaker Cordula Kablitz - Post.
Libresco adds that two years ago there seemed to be a breakthrough at Sundance, with 50 per cent of
U.S. narrative features in competition being directed by women.
The Best Female -
Directed Narrative Feature Award went to Valerie Weiss» A Light Beneath Their Feet for its outstanding, nuanced, empathetic performances by Taryn Manning and Madison Davenport and its sensitive portrayal of a mother - daughter relationship.
For her first
narrative feature since Winter's Bone (the Ozark - set documentary Stray Dog was made in the interim), writer - director Debra Granik adapts Guggenheim recipient Peter Rock's 2009 novel My Abandonment, about a father (Ben Foster) and his 13 - year - old daughter (newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), homeless yet living in surprisingly peaceful fashion in empty urban wilderness on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, until a small mistake derails their lives in shattering fashion.
A new independently produced Irish feature film «Trampoline» has just won the Best
Narrative Feature award in New York.
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.
Lead hausfrau Marie Leuenberger was awarded Best Actress in an International
Narrative Feature Film for «a performance of extraordinary vulnerability and commitment.»
Brick Lane — Sony Pictures Classics, 101 min — Sarah Gavron directs this moving
narrative feature about Nazneen (Tannishtha Chatterjee), a Bangladeshi girl who is sent from her village to London to marry Chanu (Satish Kaushik), a kind but bumbling man whom she's never met and is much older than she, and after twenty - something years of marriage, learns to honor her own human needs and desires.
In addition to these short categories, additional categories in competition
include Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature, Comedy Vanguard Feature, Dark Matters Feature, and Narrative Student Short.
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.
They join previously announced films such as Opening Night film Kick - Ass, as well
as narrative features Cold Weather and Elektra Luxx, and documentaries Hubble 3D, Lemmy, SATURDAY NIGHT and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights.
Beasts of the Southern Wild can add another award win to it's impressive arsenal of wins with the Audience Award for Best
Narrative Feature win it picked up here.
EXCLUSIVE: The edgy distributor has picked up Canadian rights to Justin Tipping's coming - of - age drama and winner of the best cinematography in a US
narrative feature prize at Tribeca.
That era looks to be coming to an end, as «Jimmy's Hall» is said to be the
last narrative feature from the veteran British director.
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.
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.
Sundance will premiere 16
American narrative feature films, and 26 films in the world cinema dramatic and documentary competitions.
Denis's films are often beautiful, but I guess I was surprised both because it's her first
narrative feature shot digitally and because the content of the film is so ugly.
The 2018 Grand Jury Award for
Narrative Feature went to «Thunder Road,» writer - director - star Jim Cummings» heartfelt indie about a police officer delivering a eulogy at his mother's funeral.
By: Jeremy Kay EXCLUSIVE: The edgy distributor has picked up Canadian rights to Justin Tipping's coming - of - age drama and winner of the best cinematography in a
US narrative feature prize at Tribeca.
Audience Awards include
Favorite Narrative Feature, Favorite Narrative Short, Favorite Documentary Feature, Favorite Documentary Short, Favorite Short Feature, Favorite Actress and Favorite Actor.
LOS ANGELES (January 26, 2015)-- Participant Media and Golden Globe ® nominee Ava DuVernay have teamed to develop a
new narrative feature film chronicling a sweeping love story and complex murder mystery during the time of Hurricane Katrina.
«The Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award honors a filmmaker whose main body of work falls outside of the realm of
narrative feature filmmaking.
Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Keith Stanfield, and Rami Malek on getting cast in Destin Cretton's
SXSW narrative feature winner.
At last year's Flyway Film Festival, Matt and I were honored to be among jury members for the fictional
narrative feature category.
CONSUMED (previously FOOD) is the first
major narrative feature film to tackle head on the complex world of Genetically Modified food and its potentially I'm Still Not Over... Julia Louis - Dreyfus» powerhouse performance in The New Adventures of Old Christine
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.