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It's another strong lineup at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival (May 13 - 24 2015), with filmmakers including Paolo Sorrentino, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant and Jacques Audiard all presenting new films in the competition for the Palme d'Or.

Not exact matches

Winners, announced at a red - carpet event May 10, hosted by United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills, are awarded industry mentorships; the opportunity to screen their film at the Los Angeles - based HollyShorts Film Festival (August 9 - 18), an Academy Award - qualifying competition; $ 1,000 grants provided by Universal Filmed Entertainment Group towards their next production; and other prizes, including Dell computers and a Nike gift bag with assorted products, including a pair of shoes from the new FlyEase line!

Some help could come in the back half of the year, however, if a new Bourne film (though without Matt Damon), an adaptation of the musical Les Miserables, and Judd Apatow's Knocked Up sequel manage to break through some tough competition.

New for 2011, films in competition were also eligible for Jury Awards for Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Score / Music, Best Screenplay (narratives) and Breakthrough Performance (narratives).

This week on GeekScholars Movie News, presented by Eclipse Magazine, the crew debuts a new segment called the Casting Competition Challenge where the GeekScholars must attempt to recast classic films in the modern era.

Perhaps if the film had concentrated more on introspective elements, such as Rashad and his internal difficulties in growing from a boy into a man, instead of constantly distracting us with side stories — Esquire's quest for the path to success, New New's fence - sitting between the ghetto and the mansion, Ant's seduction into materialism, and the roller skating competition that never really materializes — it would have been a more compelling movie about Atlanta's lower class areas, and the ups and downs of life there.

New films by Michael Haneke, Jacques Audiard, Lee Daniels, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach and Wes Anderson are in competition at this year's festival

Hotel Transylvania — $ 26.3 million [$ 85 million in total; 2nd week]-- The family animated film continues to check - in new audience members and held up well despite competition from a well - respected director who enjoys dabbling in animated films.

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

The Sundance Film Festival gets underway in Utah today, with two new Irish films in competition.

On one side of the coin, collaborations with indie filmmakers and esteemed auteurs like Bong Joon - ho, whose new film Okja plays in competition in this year's Cannes Film Festival, ensure that more and more diverse creative voices are being heard.

The director — who died of cancer last year — won the Palme d'Or for Taste of Cherry in 1997, premiered his last Competition film Like Someone in Love at Cannes five years ago, and finished work on this new project just shortly before his death in July last year.

Nebraska, the new film from Alexander Payne (The Descendants), will be playing in competition, and the first clip has only added to my jealousy of this year's festival - goers.

Outrage from exhibitors over the selection of films not set for theatrical release prompted the festival to issue a new directive: all future competition films must also be screened in French cinemas.

It's been in a sort of dispute with Cannes over the festival's decision to disqualify films that don't receive theatrical releases from its vaunted Competition; last year Netflix had two movies in Competition: Noah Baumbach's «The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)» and Bong Joon - ho's «Okja.»

Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky's (Happy, Happy) wonderful new film, Homesick, screened at the Sundance Film Festival this week in the World Dramatic Competition.

The nationwide search is on for actors to play the leading roles in the new sci - fi Steven Spielberg film about video games and competition.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

The new trailer for Paul Verhoeven's next film Elle has just landed online, just hours after it was announced to play in - competition at this...

One of the films that didn't blow us away at Sundance, but offered a solid film full of jokes made just for cinephiles, was In a World... The film directed by actress Lake Bell follows a young female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talenIn a World... The film directed by actress Lake Bell follows a young female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talenIn a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talenin Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talent.

Stavier Films have announced that Anthony Renwick McGill, a writer living in Dublin and co-founder, along with Savio Sequeira, of Stavier Films and The Da Vinci Theatre Company, has won the 2016 FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY AWARD in the New York Short Film and Screenplay Competition for his screenplay Amazons Inc., a comedy thriller set in 1970's Ireland.

It's taken eight years, but Gröning has returned, and not just with a new film, but with his first fiction feature in thirteen years in the shape of «The Police Officer's Wife,» which screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival today.

In the competition, they're showing new films from Andrea Arnold, the Dardennes Brothers, Xavier Dolan, Jim Jarmusch, Jeff Nichols, Park Chan - wook, Paul Verhoeven, and Nicolas Winding Refn.

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.

The 69th Festival International du Film de Cannes will launch with a screening of Woody Allen's new film, Café Society, on Wednesday 11 May in the Palais des Festivals's Grand Théâtre Lumière as an Official Selection Out of Competition title.

Her new film Blindness, which opened the competition at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday, is based on a book by Nobel Prize - winning author Jose Saramango with director Fernando Meirelles, tells the story of humanity in the grip -LSB-...]

The jury, of course, is too busy watching the 17 films in the main competition to follow some of the other sections such as «New Directors,» a complete retrospective of that whimsical purveyor of modern fairy tales, Jacques Demy, and «The American Way of Death,» a vast program of 40 crime movies from 1990 to 2011.

The complete list of PSIFF films, including entries in the Modern Masters section and the New Voices / New Visions competition, can be found at www.psfilmfest.org.

True Detective's Cary Fukunaga directs British star in the first competition film to screen at this year's Venice film festival — and the first awards contender from Netflix's new cinema division

Netflix had two films in Competition last year: Noah Baumbach's «The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)» and Bong Joon - ho's «Okja.»

There are even, in a rare occurence, two docs in competition, and while we're intrigued by Italian entry «Sacro GRA,» we're positively breathless in anticipation for «The Unknown Known,» the new film from Errol Morris.

We just saw a trailer this week for Lars Von Trier «s new film Melancholia, which will premiere in competition at Cannes this May.

«One is in our New Directors Competition called «Life Guidance,» an Austrian film by Ruth Mader.

In addition to these 11 first features in competition, the New Directors section of SFIFF57 includes 14 out - of - competition films, which will be announced at the Festival's press conference Tuesday, April In addition to these 11 first features in competition, the New Directors section of SFIFF57 includes 14 out - of - competition films, which will be announced at the Festival's press conference Tuesday, April in competition, the New Directors section of SFIFF57 includes 14 out - of - competition films, which will be announced at the Festival's press conference Tuesday, April 1.

(His new film, «The Wild Pear Tree,» plays in competition at Cannes 2018.)

Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the U.S., is pleased to announce the 2012 AMD Next Wave competition, which recognizes outstanding new talent in genre film directing.

The newest film in George Miller «s wonderfully manic saga, Mad Max: Fury Road, is scheduled to premiere out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film premiered in competition at the Cannes International Film Festival this past May — to standing ovations, and will screen at the current edition of the New York Film Festival.

Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the U.S., is pleased to announce the 2012 AMD Next Wave competition, which recognizes outstanding new...

In response, the festival created a new rule that takes effect this year: in order to qualify to play in competition at Cannes, a film must have theatrical release in FrancIn response, the festival created a new rule that takes effect this year: in order to qualify to play in competition at Cannes, a film must have theatrical release in Francin order to qualify to play in competition at Cannes, a film must have theatrical release in Francin competition at Cannes, a film must have theatrical release in Francin France.

Kristian Levring's new feature film The Salvation is headed to Cannes shortly in the Out of Competition section, as part of the Midnight screenings.

The big winner this year is beloved Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore - eda, whose new film Shoplifters won the Palme out of 21 films in competition.

This year's forthcoming Festival de Cannes will open with a screening of Asghar Farhadi's new film Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) in Competition at the Grand Théâtre Lumière in the Palais des Festivals on Tuesday 8 May.

This year, it was Netflix that was the gorilla in the room, flexing its brawny muscles with its backing for two films in the competition, Bong Joon - ho's Okja and Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected).

In fact, festival director Thierry Fremaux held a meeting with the press before the festival even began to discuss some of the changes this year, including the selfie ban and the new schedule which won't allow the press to see any of the competition films prior to their red - carpet premier.

The list of films for the 68th Cannes Film Festival came with the expected and the snubbed, as it usually does, with new films from Todd Haynes, Gus van Sant and Denis Villeneuve among the In Competition films.

With the Sundance Film Festival premiering in a little over a month (48 days to be exact), new images from the films in competition have begun to emerge.

With the theatrical release of Doug's 1st Movie in March of 1999, Disney began a new annual tradition of releasing a second - rate animated feature film early in the year, when there is less box office competition.

These films have higher pedigrees than a section like Next, and usually come with enough of a known quality that they don't really belong in Dramatic Competition, which is designed to reward new talent.

Today, they've announced the next slice of their line up — 57 out of competition films in the Premieres, Next, Spotlight, New Frontiers and Midnight categories.