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The festival was founded by a small group of local filmmakers and film enthusiasts.

Although the announcement of the full schedule for the 38th Mill Valley Film Festival won't be revealed until mid-September, more early confirmations on the upcoming slate are here, after the recent reveal of the Local Filmmakers and Documentaries lineup.

Not exact matches

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However, that does not mean they know what colors are statistically proven to whet a diner's appetite, what requirements are imposed by local health code ordinances (a contributing factor to the downfall of pop star Britney Spears» Nyla), how to ensure repeat customers (a fatal problem for filmmaker Steven Spielberg's Dive!)

He was joined on the film by local independent filmmaker Bhawin Suchak, the founder of YouthFX in Albany.

A beautiful short film made by activists and filmmakers in Liverpool, featuring a wide range of local Labour members explaining why they support # JeremyForLabour.

The ceremony also featured «Surge: A City Recovers,» a 15 - minute documentary by local filmmakers that showcased scenes and stories of survival and provided a retrospective of restoration efforts.

«White Shadow,» the first feature from Berlin - based Israeli filmmaker Noaz Deshe, which plays Sundance this weekend having already picked up the Best Debut award in Venice, mired us deep in this quandary, being a story, bruisingly told, set in the horrifying world of «albino hunting» in Tanzania, where local superstitions have led to a lucrative trade in albino body parts believed by witch doctors to have mystical properties.

According to Focus Pictures, the filmmakers went to some trouble to shoot in Abruzzo (also the setting of the novel) to stimulate the local economy and encourage tourism after the devastation of the 2009 earthquake.

If imagination could be harnessed as an energy source, I suspect local filmmaker Robert Rodriguez could power a small nation all on his own, but after 90 minutes immersed in the video - game world of Spy Kids 3 - D: Game Over, one wishes he had diversified that imagination some.

This year, Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return, Elena) returned to Cannes with his drama Leviathan, the story that is described as a gripping parable of class, faith and corruption, centering on a land dispute between a small - time mechanic and his local authorities that reaps unimaginable consequences.

Local New York - based filmmaker Noah Baumbach has two new films coming out this year, the first being the wacky While We're Young about a couple growing older (see the trailer), and the other being Mistress America, a sort - of - sequel to his 2012 film Frances Ha.

On the local side of things is a special screening of Soul of a Banquet, a documentary by filmmaker Wayne Wang about celebrity chef Cecilia Chang.

Compliance - A fellow local critic warned the rest of us about the «deepy troubling» nature of filmmaker Craig Zobel's Compliance even as he encouraged us to look at it.»

The festival has hosted five of the last six Best Picture Oscar winners, rolling out the red carpet for A-list actors and filmmakers while heavily supporting local filmmakers as well.

Were any local to have followed the mysterious groups moving between screenings, though, they'd have found venues — a handful of small cinemas, theaters, city halls — bulging with filmmakers, press and prospective buyers.

In addition to the SFFS - supported projects, local filmmaker and longtime San Francisco International Film Festival favorite Sam Green (the Oscar - nominated «The Weather Underground,» «The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller,» «Utopia in Four Movements») is premiering «The Measure of All Things,» a new collaboration with yMusic in Sundance's New Frontier program.

Through our annual Film Festival, our goal is to create new and exciting film experiences, create a hub of film creativity and appreciation in Kerry, champion the work of local and national emerging filmmakers and promote the county as a major filmmaking destination.

- Greenland - With sub-zero shoots on glaciers and frozen rivers, travel with the filmmakers to Greenland to meet the locals and experience the magnificent landscapes captured for the powerful opening of the film (Blu - ray only)

Briefly, Taking recalls the early sequences of Blair Witch in which the student filmmakers interview Maryland residents about the local legend.

The truth is that «Slumdog» would likely be a BAFTA favourite even if it weren't primed for Oscar glory — a true British success story, from a popular but largely unsung hometown filmmaker, featuring a British lead actor from a high - profile Channel 4 TV drama, it's been a massive local box - office success, and has enjoyed nearly the same level of critical adulation here as in the States.

Although vastly different in style, the political thriller and romantic drama will provide local audiences with a glimpse at the breadth of the emerging Korean industry, as well as the latest from renowned filmmakers Ryoo Seung - wan and Hong Sang - soo.

The organization, which champions local independent filmmakers, supported the development of «Fruitvale Station» with $ 200,000 in grants.

Corneliu Porumboiu's charming, dryly comic The Second Game sees the filmmaker — a lynchpin of the so - called Romanian New Wave — sitting down with his father Adrian, an ex-football referee of considerable note, to intone their commentary on the titanic, snow - swept 1988 clash between local teams Dinamo and Steaua from a crudded - up VHS tape.

«Environmental filmmakers continue to be hassled at the local level — Wang said he has been chased by dogs, threatened and punched — but their work apparently is being tolerated nationally because it aligns with the Communist Party leadership's new priority of fighting pollution.

The screening improved not only by the presence of the filmmaker and the huntress herself, with her mother, father and (local) eagles, but also a brief featurette that revealed the actual difficulty of the stunning photography, which was so flawless in execution that it looked misleadingly easy.

On the mainland the government's film bureau has introduced new legislation that would discourage foreign financing of local production, and it's blacklisted many of the best (and best - known) independent filmmakers and video artists, including Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Blue Kite), Zhang Yimou (To Live), and Zhang Yuan (Mama).

Things go meta, in the best traditions of Scream and Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys, once Jackie clocks in at her job at the local movie theater, where of course they are showing a slasher flick called Sleepover Slaughterhouse III, giving the real life filmmakers a fun opportunity to show off a very differently toned movie within the tightly wound world they have already created around Jackie.

For all its rough edges, this has an air of authenticity that only a local filmmaker could bring, and it's certainly a curiosity worth seeing.

I guess the filmmakers missed the part where similar movies like «The Host» (2013) and «The Giver» (2014) were franchise non-starters despite their success in the teenage fantasy fiction section of your local bookstore.

Once again this year, we here at Seattle Screen Scene asked a selection of local critics, programmers, and filmmakers to send us their Top Ten lists for the year and in an extremely close race, Paul Verhoeven's Elle just edged out Barry Jenkins's Moonlight.

Adrian Danks discusses the interventionist strategies at work in the «home experimental films» of local and international female filmmakers including Merilee Bennett and Su Friedrich.

An overview of the work of filmmaker John Smith, and an appreciation of its humble, earthly qualities, its fine - tuned probing of the «local» world, the artist's relationship to this world and the film form itself.

When you contribute, remember that, in addition to championing celebrated storytellers in our programming, On Story supports filmmakers behind the camera, employing local filmmakers - writers, directors, production and post-production crews, animators, and more - in the process of making the shows, thus promoting the creative process and local film industry while celebrating the creators and their movies and TV shows.

The work of important filmmakers like Fruit Chan, Manoel de Oliveira, Sally Potter, Barbet Schroeder, Takeshi Kitano, Fernando Trueba, Tsui Hark, Stan Brakhage, Chantal Ackerman, Philippe Garrel, Abel Ferrara, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Youssef Chahine, Arturo Ripstein, Béla Tarr, Tsai Ming - liang, Im Kwon - Taek, Hou Hsiao - hsien, Edward Yang and Agnès Varda — all way passed the early stages of their career and all still active today — remain largely unknown to the majority of the local film community.

The filmmakers are seeking four - legged LA locals (and their humans) to be a part of this epic photo shoot and GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title attempt — no film experience is needed.

This year's festival featured a local filmmaker, Kacey Klonsky, and I had the privilege of meeting and interviewing her for a podcast.

Todos Santos Film Festival A film festival offering an impressive collection of films that reflects the excellence of Latino cinema throughout the world featuring local and Mexican filmmakers.

Cinema Sunday, Bushwick Open Studio's resident film showcase, presents two short film programs screening features from local filmmakers, many of which have had national releases.

April 5, 2014 @ 7 p.m. LAMCA Celebrates Young Filmmakers, Los Angeles The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is showcasing films by emerging local fFilmmakers, Los Angeles The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is showcasing films by emerging local filmmakersfilmmakers.

The Centre also encourages visiting artists and filmmakers to give presentations or screenings of their work to local visitors.

The Gugulective has collaborated with a variety of groups from high school students in Cape Town and in Berlin, to local artists, poets, filmmakers and musicians.

The fest launches June 5 with a party presented by the folks at Tumblr (who know how to throw a party), continues the next day with family - friendly arts and wellness performances and demos in Maria Hernandez Park (if you're looking for a less healthy, family - friendly option, check out this rooftop barbecue that Sugarlift is throwing with Arrogant Swine), and closes down Sunday at Bushwick Community Darkroom with a party where there'll be a screening of shorts by local filmmakers.

Nancy Holt Film and Video October 16 at 4:00 Introduced by DeeDee Halleck Video activist and filmmaker DeeDee Halleck collaborated with Nancy Holt as editor on several of her films, including Sun Tunnels (1978), which documents the making of Holt's major site - specific sculptural work in the northwest Utah desert; and Pine Barrens (1975), a film that evokes «a barren wilderness in south - central New Jersey... (with) the voices of the local people, the «Pineys,»»..

For the filmmakers, this seemingly pre-existing slippage between the real and the constructed was further activated by an episode of teenage vandalism, which left the local archive flooded beyond use.

Holten is also collaborating with local documentary filmmaker and writer Rebecca Snedeker on a water map of New Orleans for Rebecca Solnit's book, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (UC Press, 2013)- the follow up to her acclaimed book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas.

The conference kicks off this Friday with a preview of the museum's Judy Chicago exhibition and is followed by two days of talks, with artists, writers, and filmmakers joining forces with local leaders, activists, elected officials, and the public to explore art and politics in a series of lectures, panel discussions, and performances.

The program includes two days of workshops, presentations, rituals, film screenings, interactive installations and special performances from local and national artists, scientists, social activists, filmmakers, writers, poets and more at Icebox Project Space.

Despite this formidable reputation, the festival remains close to its East End roots — and with a special focus on local filmmakers, this year's programme is a superb showcase of British filmmaking — particularly in the realm of artist film.

Artist, filmmaker and theatre director Christoph Schlingensief is represented by a video installation, one that uses footage that the artist gathered in 2005 as part of his project The African Twin Towers — the story of a megalomaniac theatre director attempting to stage the 9/11 story in Namibia, shot on location with a cast of locals as well as Schlingensief's regular «family» of performers.