Sentences with phrase «on local actors»

Instead, we could rely on local actors who have more contextual knowledge about school or program quality.

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The intense physical demands are just one facet of the experience; campers must also avoid up to 100 «scare actors» — Ten Thirty One repertory players and local hired guns authorized to forcibly handle, capture and exact simulated torture on ticket holders.

For long - time residents, supermarkets are paradoxical actors appealing to, as well as, challenging the narrative of a community whose economic strength was based on the surrounding natural environment and local people's endeavours.

One of the most striking aspects in the current debate on devolution in the North of England is that the main actors (local governments, leaders» boards, political parties, business organisations, etc.) seem to work in isolation — each devising their own plans, often irrespective (or wary) of the positions of the others.

BY NATHAN RILEY Right in Cynthia Nixon's backyard, just weeks after the actor and activist announced her Democratic primary challenge to Andrew Cuomo, the Hell's Kitchen Democrats — a progressive newcomer on the local political club scene — voted Thursday night to endorse the two - term governor for reelection.

In my view, member states should put emphasis on areas such as mediation and let the UN step back from traditional development and humanitarian assistance, as plenty of other actors are now involved in this work — state agencies, NGOs, local communities, foundations and companies.

On June 16, Grimm took part in «Will on the Hill», an annual event hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington D.C. in which congress members join actors on stage in a performance to benefit local theater, art and humanities programs that serve 23,000 studentOn June 16, Grimm took part in «Will on the Hill», an annual event hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington D.C. in which congress members join actors on stage in a performance to benefit local theater, art and humanities programs that serve 23,000 studenton the Hill», an annual event hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington D.C. in which congress members join actors on stage in a performance to benefit local theater, art and humanities programs that serve 23,000 studenton stage in a performance to benefit local theater, art and humanities programs that serve 23,000 students.

Popular Kumawood actor, Kwaku Manu has slammed those who look down on Kumawood and its actors just because the language of communication is a local dialect.

Vinal said his goal is to help build a local film industry - a network of actors, stage hands, electricians, gaffers and others whom producers can call on when they undertake projects in Central New York.

«Because of the political realities playing out in the United States, the state and local elements are supercharged,» he said, adding that they can pass on lessons learned to nonstate actors in other countries that must also play a role.

To meet these needs, the new Climate Services for Resilient Development partnership will harness the experience, unique capabilities, and resources of a broader set of societal actors and institutions, relying on collaboration between the partners and local stakeholders to ensure long - term ownership and sustainability of the partnership's impact in focus countries.

In 1976, Bruce became a volunteer apprentice at Traverse City's Cherry County Playhouse in northern Michigan working long hours behind the scenes on the playhouse's productions from erecting sets, assistantThe youngest of three boys, Bruce Campbell wanted to be an actor as young as eight - years - old after witnessing his dad's enjoyment while performing in local community theater.

The actor stopped in a local Richmond, Virginia diner for lunch during a break in production on the Steven Spielberg biopic.

If you're suddenly taking more of an interest in the oft - ignored, chubby rent - a-cops at your local superplex, that's because actor Kevin James also has an ’09 flick on deck called Mall Cop.

Once in the backwoods, Melanie: reunites with sour Ma (Mary Kay Place) and dour Pa (Fred Ward), both actors modeling their characters on Grant Wood's necessarily two - dimensional painting «American Gothic»; «outs» poor Bobby Ray (Ethan Embry)-- in the real world, they'd probably have been hung from the same pole flying the Confederate Flag outside the local watering hole; and delivers the most embarrassing monologue since Phoebe Cates's in Gremlins to, of all things, a license plate marking the burial spot of a «coon dog» named after legendary Crimson Tide coach Paul «Bear» Bryant.

Cage reveals the same general desire to be taken seriously as an actor again here that was already on display in the recent «Joe» and «The Dying of the Light,» right from an early scene in which his Colin Pryce makes an emotional testimony before Congress about the impact of the BP spill on local fishermen and tourist business.

Ray falls for a local woman (Clémence Poésy) working on a film shoot, and one of its actors, Jimmy, a belligerent dwarf (Jordan Prentice), is featured in a number of scenes that are real head scratchers.

While they wait, Ken tries to take in the sights like a tourist, while Ray befriends cute Chloe (Clemence Poesy) and dwarf actor Jimmy (Jordan Prentice), both working on a local movie shoot.

Having heard that local swellguy Barreller (Michael Gambon in a ridiculous wig) owes some serious mullah to a big - time gangster, O'Malley persuades bit - part actor Tom (Dylan Moran) to put on the performance of a lifetime in order to snatch the loot for themselves.

He shot Beasts of the Southern Wild on location using mostly local actors, and created a poetic fairy tale most seasoned directors couldn't produce.

Babbitt's tale was initially put on film in 1981 by first - time director Fred Keller, a local Rochester, New York group of actors (including his co-screenwriter father), a 7 - person crew, and a budget of $ 60,000.

«It says a lot about an actor who has worked with Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Cruise that he still wants to come back to Australia to work on local projects,» Edgerton says.

According to the local news outlet The Atlanta Journal on the film actor William Hurt is actually in the film.

Enter the remaining cast of characters, both major and minor: the janitorial staff of the classified underground wing of the compound, Zelda Fuller (Octavia Spencer in a role written for her by del Toro) and the mute Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins, radiant in a star - making role); the attending government scientist Dr. Robert Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg), also a Russian double - agent; and, of course, Elisa's next door neighbor, Giles (Richard Jenkins, deserving of a Supporting Actor nomination), who frets about growing older and his hair loss, pines for love with a local pie shop employee and shares his passion for musicals with the equally besotted Elisa (they sit side - by - side on the sofa performing a quick soft shoe).

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Gus Van Sant Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara Plot: Based on a true story: a slacker survives a near - fatal car accident and, on the path to sobriety, finds a talent for drawing irreverent, often controversial, comics for the local paper.

Shot in a stark black and white, with the actors repeatedly isolated in their own frames, some really creepy images of crazy nuns (the long early sequence wherein the nuns are interrogated and exorcised is a miniature masterpiece) and a series of subjective tracking shots implicating the audience in the chaos, the film reaches a high point when the priest consults the local rabbi (also played by Voit) in a series of head - on medium shots.

Language: Korean Genre: Crime / Drama MPAA rating: R Director: Joon - ho Bong Actors: Bin Won, Ku Jin, Hye - ja Kim Plot: When her mentally disabled son is accused of murder, his over protective mother takes on local hoods and a corrupt police department to find the killer.

Many criticized the film on its initial release for largely ignoring the plight of the locals while focusing on a privileged European family, while others lambasted it for further Anglicizing the project by casting Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor instead of Spanish actors as the parents.

A theatrical troupe arrives on an island off the coast of Florida, where Alan (Alan Ormsby, who also co-wrote the film and created its makeup effects), the group's preening and tyrannical director, wastes no time in pulling pranks on his unsuspecting actors and, for added kicks, holds a séance in an attempt to bring to life one of the corpses (Seth Sklarey as Orville) dug up from the local cemetery.

I've hosted tributes to prominent actors and directors for decades at the SBIFF, with locals packing the huge, historic Arlington Theater on State Street.

The movie will recount the tale of a rabbit (Peter played by actor - host James Corden) and his gang of friends who will take on the local villain Mr. Thomas McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson), the farmer who can not stand the furry creatures and does his best to get rid of them.

Though the actor is terribly miscast in the role, he's hardly to blame for some of the script's more perplexing decisions — like having his character narrate the story as if he's a detective in a film noir, or the fact that he barely speaks a lick of Japanese despite being the military's expert on the local culture.

From now on every movie should just send their actors to a local news station to do the weather.

This put each «actor» in the ideal role, with good ideas being developed at the state and local level, and the federal government encouraging and supporting early adopters, disseminating the lessons learned, and shining a light on successes.

Rather than relying on test results anyway and making potentially disastrous decisions to close schools or shutter programs on bad information, we should recognize that local actors — including parents — are in a better position to judge school quality.

The exercise of soft power focuses a chief's attention on what local actors, under combinations of support and pressure, can do.

Instead of trying to use public policy to develop training programs for the workforce of the future, let's instead rest our hopes on a vast array of small - scale, nimble, local solutions crafted by civil - society actors.

So it might be the case that the most promising approach to training is one that relies on the basics of conservatism: Concede our inability to perfectly foresee what's around the corner; avoid centralization; don't assume the government will have all of the answers; and rely on a vast array of small - scale, nimble, local solutions crafted by civil - society actors.

Similarly, when asked to select the most and least important actors in informing their position on an education policy, nearly all state education policy makers selected «local school teachers» as one of the most important actors (see Figure 2).

The study will also examine how school - based actors understand and respond to the impacts of neighborhood gentrification on local schools.

In «Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart,» Makkai brings together a local Chicago actor who suffered a breakdown on stage and his friend, the narrator, who is determined to provide Peter with a chance at redemption.

While in New Hampshire, he wrote a story on a local theatre company, auditioned for the role of the telegraph boy in their production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, and went on to become a full - time actor.

Like actors Jon Hamm, Jane Lynch, Allison Janney, Katherine Heigl and Edie Falco before her, the star signed on as host for the sixth installment of Shelter Me: Hearts and Paws, and a new episode of the inspiring national PBS series that celebrates shelter pets with uplifting stories, premiering May 22 (check ShelterMe.TV for local listings).

Guests to want to opt in on the «Kinsella Experience» will not only stay in the house's one bedroom upstairs, but also receive a «Field of Dreams» commemorative baseball, a bottle of wine plus two wine glasses and a picnic tablecloth, a DVD of the movie (with popcorn to enjoy it with), actor Dwier Brown's (he played Kevin Costner's dad) book, «If You Build It,» and a $ 25 gift card towards a breakfast at a local Dyersville country breakfast spot.

 The actors are several local police officers, who use their experiences to create compelling dramas whilst simultaneously raising awareness on a huge variety of local community issues.

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Renowned choreographer and dancer Stephen Galloway (Ballet Frankfurt) and actor Vanessa Myrie (Baltimore) figure as «trickster / phantom» and «witness» in this carefully composed meditation on the denationalised, de-territorialised spaces born of the encounters between local and global cultures, where the ghosts of history linger amid the realities of the day.

Filmed on location in Lisbon with a cast of local actors, the feature - length The Secret Agent, 2015, restages the plot of Joseph Conrad's novella — a story of espionage, double - crossing and murky political entanglement — within the aftermath of Portugal's «carnation revolution,» which overthrew Europe's oldest dictatorship, in April 1974.

«My process is a result of personal cross-cultural experience and research which takes shape in interactions, dialogue, and participation with non actors in local communities focusing on a critical and socially engaged perspective.

In 1964, McCollum moved to Essex, England, pursuing the idea of being an actor, and joined a local theater group in Southend - on - Sea; but he changed his mind about a career in theater and returned to California in 1965, moved into a small mobile home park in Venice Beach, California, [5] and attended Los Angeles Trade Technical College for five months, attempting to learn the trade of restaurant management and industrial kitchen work.