Our goal is to recognize and honor the outstanding work of women directors
of narrative features, documentaries and shorts.
This would be fine if it were a documentary instead
of a narrative feature film.
Winner
of the Narrative Feature Prize, SXSW Film Festival.
«The Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award honors a filmmaker whose main body of work falls outside of the realm
of narrative feature filmmaking.
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.
The tag line, in one concise sentence, has a sort
of narrative arc,
featuring a character who transforms from being a non-Starbucks drinker to a new, enlightened coffee connoisseur.
These are the mom - and - pop stores off which the industry tends to make the highest margins — and which have
featured prominently in the
narrative of West Virginia's opioid epidemic.
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.
The juicy
narratives driving Kipnis's four archetypal cases — lovelorn astronaut Lisa Nowak is
featured, as is disgraced judge Sol Wachtler, memoir fabulist James Frey, and the dynamic duo
of Tripp and Lewinsky — keep things on the zippy side, but the subject matter is worth taking seriously.
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.
But upon reflection, the most remarkable
feature of this ill - considered intervention concerns the accusation that Douthat makes Catholicism «unapologetically subject to a politically partisan
narrative.»
Another
feature of Matthew invites the attention
of those who want to invest discipleship with new meaning: The Gospel is structured
of five large chunks
of Jesus» teaching, each preceded by
narrative.
In later chansons de geste, however» such as Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Enfances Roland, and Entrée en Espagne» the details
of Roland's earlier life were filled in, with a variety
of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent
features of the
narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure
of the hero
of legend.
The once - regnant ideal
of history — that it
features elite males as the main actors in political and military
narratives — is now in tatters.
In fact, the number
of theologians and exegetes is increasing who consider that nothing more is expressed in this
feature of the biblical
narrative than the important truth that Eve is
of the same equal nature with Adam, «made
of the same stuff», as we might say today, using a similar figure
of speech to the dramatic one in Scripture.
Featuring a truly all - star voice cast back when stars were less inclined to do voice work (Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Sandra Bullock, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Jeff Goldblum and even Steve Martin got in the game), Prince
of Egypt is largely faithful to the biblical
narrative and even manages some real moments
of human drama.
Although White is absolutely right about the tendency
of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects
of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated
features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point
of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and
narrative power from specifically Christian aspects
of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.
Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several
features which divide it so sharply from the Passion
narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation
of that in the stage
of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first
of which can exist as an independent story, but the second
of which can not, for it depends upon the first.
I was struck by the resemblances between our growing church and bonding
features I had earlier seen in African villages: the critical importance
of narrative, a coalescence
of world view, the link
of myth and ethos.
Note also in this prelude to kingship, I Samuel 1 - 8, the following
features of the
narrative.
Though I have written this book in part to set forth what I think is a neglected perspective among scholars, researchers, and consultants who study congregations, at the end
of the ministerial day it matters less whether private analysts understand the
narrative features of the congregation than whether the congregation itself understands those
features.
Matthew's portrayal
of Joseph bears a resemblance to the Old Testament patriarch, but the corresponding
features have not been derived from the original
narrative in Gen. 37 - 50.
The Abraham - Isaac - Jacob and David cycles are brought back in Chapter Four as evidence that Biblical
narrative together with lyric is in fact rich in figures
of speech and can afford insight into characters» internal and external
features.
But this absorption
of narration into prophecy runs the risk
of voiding the specific
feature of the
narrative confession — its aiming at God's trace in the event.
These
features characterize not only the later Nazoraean belief and practice, but also the earliest traditions preserved in the Gospel
of Mark — for example the words to the rich man, and the
narrative of the Transfiguration.
The sermon itself conrextualizes them and thus alters their meaning by placing them polemically in relationship to other arguments, by selecting some
of their
features at the expense
of others, by incorporating them into
narratives, and by presenting them in a way that evokes a certain response or identification from the listener.
These indications, it is true, are found in the editorial and traditional framework
of the
narratives, but the picture
of Jesus as one who «came eating and drinking,» quite willing to join high or low, rich or poor, at the table, seems to be a fixed
feature of the tradition.
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.
Based on a qualitative study
of resiliency in low - income breastfeeding mothers, this book
features fourteen
narratives that show the problems faced by the mothers, the support they received and why they persevered.
The troupe will
feature an array
of narratives; holiday stories and other tales for guests
of the Holiday Open House to delight in.
She researched the Internet to find the
featured artists and developed a
narrative to accompany their pieces, explaining the relationship
of functional vessels to art today.
«The aim
of our study was to investigate the frequency distribution
of these
features, both globally and according to the position
of features in
narratives, as well as the most frequently reported temporality sequences
of the different near - death - experience
features.»
The supernatural
features of the
narrative were then layered onto reality.
Over time, the Camerons» environmentalism — which
features heavily in the ecological destruction
narrative of Avatar — has become more and more centered around food.
Paralyzed after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her CONSUMED (previously FOOD) is the first major
narrative feature film to tackle head on the complex world
of Genetically Modified food and its potentially
One particularly moving
narrative thread
features Sterling K. Brown, a tremulous, vibrantly sensitive actor who conveys entire chapters
of grief.
It's the first
feature - length
narrative film shot in a single take (on digital video, using a specially designed disc instead
of tape).
If «Sugar» is one clear standout in what looks like a weak and uneven year for
narrative features at Sundance, Lance Hammer's debut «Ballast» is the true critic's darling, a work
of minimalist technique and emotional generosity.
STAY is a game that requires dedication, both to its digital protagonist and its puzzle solving, and
features the kind
of narrative that's best digested via discussion with others who've played it.
A typical example
of the mid -»80s «Rat Pack» film, Oxford Blues
featured a soundtrack with several forgettable rock songs written expressly for the movie, interjected at intervals into the
narrative through music video - style sequences.
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.
Hitchcock / Truffaut director Kent Jones» first
narrative feature won Best Narrative Feature, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography in the U.S. Narrative Feature Film section of the
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It's been the subject
of numerous documentaries and three
narrative features, while inspiring or being referenced in more still.
It's far from innovative as other games
feature superior
narratives and better multiplayer modes, but it's still an edge
of your seat and bullet riddled extravaganza that begs to be experienced by anyone with a PS3.
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.
Director Max Joseph (MTV's Catfish) makes his
narrative feature debut here and while he is keen on tapping into that younger audience he knows so well, at thirty - three this drama
of young angst feels more manufactured than authentic.
Fabien Constant's debut
narrative feature spends 24 hours with jazz singer Vivienne Carala (Sarah Jessica Parker) as she copes with the news
of having a terminal illness.
This
feature length
narrative film follows the emotional and psychological journey
of a young, black, gay artist as he discovers the hidden legacies
of the gay and lesbian subcultures within the Harlem Renaissance.
Wringing every sweat - bead
of tension from its fiercely concentrated
narrative, acclaimed TV director Yann Demange's debut
feature covers one night in the life (and potential death)
of a young British soldier stranded by his unit in a riot - blasted IRA stronghold at the zenith
of the Northern Ireland nationalist conflict.
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.