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And from our very own backyard, Canadian author Wab Kinew, winner of this year's Kobo Emerging Writing Prize — shining a spotlight on debut writers — graces the list with his debut work, The Reason You Walk.

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Amid a discussion of the writer - producers» Ultimate Fighting Championship fandom, Benioff and Weiss were asked when fans can expect Game of Thrones «s next - to - last season to debut on HBO.

• Head writer Chris «DJ» DeJoseph touched on the behind - the - scenes features of tonight's 101th episode of Lucha Underground, which will see the in - ring debut for ring announcer Melissa Santos.

Award - winning writer John Powers debuts OSV Distinguished Speakers Series STURBRIDGE, Mass. (Oct. 25, 2012): Sportswriter John Powers, co-author of the 100th anniversary commemorative book, Fenway Park: The Coolest, Cruelest and Longest Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America, will speak in the Stephen M. Brewer Theater at Old Sturbridge Village on Thursday, Nov. 8, launching the...

Bold and brutal in shocking spurts, the indie horror drama from writer - director O'Shea is a startling debut that leaves a fresh mark on the genre while celebrating its forbears.

The debut feature from writer - director Nicholas Smith, who surely will go on to more compelling work.

Writer - director Ryan Coogler's debut feature Fruitvale Station was a low - budget drama based on the true story of the shooting of a young African - American man at a railway station in Oakland, California, on New Year's Day 2009.

The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.

That's not much of a story to build a film on, but writer - director Rachel Lang and star Salome Richard manage to craft an intriguing feature debut filled with keen observations and slices of dark humor.

Writer - director Damien Power advances from his work on short films with his feature debut, a solidly visceral and harshly unforgiving pic that's lean and taut in its plotting and pacing, even as it shakes up linear chronology initially to tell its tale.

This debut feature from writer - director David Veloz, based on a 1995 autobiography, starkly retells Stahl's rise and fall in LA - LA - land over the course of a multi-day shack - up with ex-addict Kitty (E.R.'s Maria Bello), a sucker for rehab patients who coaxes him away from a dead - end job (in, appropriately, Phoenix) in favor of sex (initially as frigid as the frozen chicken he was hacking at only hours earlier at his fast - food outpost) and conversation.

Debut writer - director Chris Kelly, a writer on «SNL,» digs in rather than relying on contrived, movie - ready set pieces (as in the similar «The Hollars»), making this gay «Garden State» rich with naturalistic comedy as well as beautifully touching moments.

Talk about redemption: After dazzling us with his debut, You Can Count on Me (2000), writer - director Kenneth Lonergan got into studio trouble with Margaret — a neutered film that triggered a massive Twitter campaign (#teammargaret).

The actor recently wrapped production on Farming, the directorial debut from Nigerian - British writer - director Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje, opposite Damson Idris and Gugu Mbatha - Raw.

It almost gets there, thanks primarily to a carefully intense performance from Radcliffe, but writer - director Daniel Ragussis, making his feature debut, fails to engage on a level deep enough to leave a lingering mark.

Tackling difficult subject matter head on in a clinical style that recalls the works of Michael Haneke, writer / director Carmel Winters» debut feature Snap is an often impressively mounted though rather dour and over determined examination of the far reaching psychological effects of abuse.

Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett, follow up their debut home invasion thriller You're Next (also on Netflix) with The Guest.

Making his feature debut, writer - director Yan England, who scored an Oscar nomination for his 2011 short «Henry,» has a solid - enough feel for the stresses of adolescence, particularly when the cruelty of the many bears down on the few.

Already a prolific actor and experienced writer, this film — his directorial debut — is on its way to making $ 200 million worldwide off the back of a $ 4.5 million budget, not to mention a 99 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Marking the feature - length debut of writer - director Pearce, it stars Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn and Geraldine James and centers on a small island community where a troubled young woman falls for a mysterious outsider who empowers her to escape from her oppressive family.

What You Need To Know: Jason Statham fans are spoilt for choice in 2013; the bald British bruiser has three films, starting off with Taylor Hackford «s «Parker» in the near future, with «Hummingbird,» the intriguing directorial debut from «Eastern Promises» writer Steven Knight following on later in the year (we've heard some good buzz, and it apparently stretches The Stath's acting muscles more than most).

While Other People is Chris Kelly's debut feature, he's got a prestigious résumé as the former co-head writer of Saturday Night Live, a writer / producer on Broad City and creator of a number of Funny Or Die shorts.

At Sundance, writer - director Robert Eggers won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Directing Award for his debut feature about a Puritan family in 1630s New England who leave their community to start their own farm on the edge of a forest.

After testifying against her abusive father, Shelly finds herself rehoused on a sink estate in this powerful directorial debut from acclaimed writer Helen Walsh.

After making a striking debut with 2013's based - on - fact, tragically devastating drama Fruitvale Station and following that up with the stunning, Oscar - nominated Rocky spin - off Creed in 2015, the young writer / director was seemingly given the keys to the kingdom by Marvel as it pertained to Black Panther, the studio apparently feeling comfortable to let him do whatever he wanted with this story of an African superhero from the secluded fictionalized nation of Wakanda.

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

On paper, co - writer / director Brad Baruh's debut sounds like the perfect recipe for a fun midnight feature.

Star Xander Berkeley and writer - producer Albert Kim talk about juggling several storylines on this Blu - ray and DVD set, debuting October 2.

Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (U.S. Dramatic) and actress / writer / director Lake Bell's debut feature, In A World is the sassy portrait of the unsung community of voiceover artists and voice coaches, living on the fringe of the «industry», never basked in Oscar glory, but with its own rules, hierarchy and Life Achievement ceremonies.

Entertainment One has debuted the official trailer for David Brent: Life on the Road, which sees writer - director Ricky Gervais reprising his role from The Office as we catch up with everyone's favourite «chilled - out entertainer» as sets out on tour in an effort to fulfill his dream of rock stardom.

From his lead role on the NBC comedy «Scrubs» to his directorial debut, «Garden State,» the writer / director / actor seems capable of just about anything — including undertaking the role of music producer and launching the careers of his musician friends in his spare time.

The film is the feature - length debut of writer - director Jonathan van Tulleken, based on his BAFTA - nominated short, and is set in the harsh, frozen Canadian tundra.

Dan Mazer cut his teeth as a writer on «Da Ali G Show» and other Sacha Baron Cohen projects like «Borat» and «Brüno,» so it comes as no surprise that his directorial debut relies just as heavily on that brand of inappropriate comedy.

There are many ways in which Rogen and co - writer / director Evan Goldberg's feature - directing debut could have gone horribly wrong, whether it be leaning too much on the inside jokes or half - assing the special effects.

Verdict: Easily our favorite film of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, the fantastic directorial debut of cinematographer / writer - turned - feature filmmaker Daniel Patrick Carbone, «Smiling Faces» may have been the most striking debut we saw all last year (though not mentioned on our Breakout Directors list because it wasn't released in 2013).

The Escape of Prisoner 614 is both written and directed by writer / filmmaker Zach Golden, making his feature directorial debut after working as a writer for «Gigi Does It» on TV.

In his debut feature Fruitvale, writer - director Ryan Coogler goes into the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, who was infamously shot by BART police officers in Oakland, California on New Year's Day, 2009.

There is something definitely intriguing about a movie that boasts the Working Title production name (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually) and Dan Mazer, the writer of Borat (Mazer has collaborated with Sacha Baron Cohen on multiple projects and I Give It a Year is his directorial debut).

Radcliffe is a magical sidekick to Paul Dano's stranded protagonist in Swiss Army Man, the offbeat feature debut of «Daniels», a pair of unrelated writers - directors who have previously collaborated on a number of shorts, music videos, and television episodes.

Andrew Stanton, a writer on Pixar's first five hit films, the director of the biggest of those hits (Finding Nemo) and a Burroughs fan from childhood, successfully pitched the project at Disney, which would become his live - action directing debut.

Yet, while that connection's undeniable (tonally and visually, it's closest to Terrence Malick's bucolic debut), writer - director Michael Pearce's first feature has a distinct heart and identity, rooted in his own upbringing on the island and filtered through the legacy of Jersey's real - life «Beast»,»60s serial sex offender Edward Paisnel.

Working closely under the tutelage of Terrence Malick for several years now, editor and second - unit director turned writer / director A.J. Edwards (who has logged time on «The New World,» «The Tree of Life» and «To the Wonder «-RRB-, might have been better advised to get out from under the shadow of his mentor for his feature - length debut, «The Better Angels.»

«Community» directors Joe and Anthony Russo landed the upcoming «Captain America» sequel, «Game of Thrones» director Alan Taylor just crushed the global box office with «Thor: The Dark World,» and on a smaller scale, earlier this year «Six Feet Under» and «United States of Tara» writer / producer Jill Soloway made her big screen debut with «Afternoon Delight.»

A low - key highlight of the recent South by Southwest Film Festival now making its L.A. premiere, Stella Meghie's appealing debut feature focuses on three generations of Jamaican American women, including the endearingly indecisive young New York writer (an excellent Taylour Paige) who gives the movie its title.

This year it will go to Toronto writer - director Daniel Cockburn, whose wildly original feature debut, a wry cosmic puzzle called «You Are Here», has been winning raves on the festival circuit.

Based on his own recurring nightmares, and spiked with a sense of what he terms «interactive anxiety», writer / director David Robert Mitchell's follow - up to debut drama The Myth Of The American Sleepover (2010) knows the work of Craven, Carpenter and Argento as surely as it knows what it's like to be young and afraid.

Actress Laurie Metcalf and writer and actor Tracy Letts for a feature on Greta Gerwig's directorial debut «Lady Bird,» opening Friday, in which they play the parents of a feisty teenager (Saoirse Ronan).

The lengthy sermon the actor delivers in the previous film got cut down massively after its Sundance debut, but here the writer - director gives Parks another opportunity go on, and on, at length.

Carl Foreman Award (for debut British writers, directors and producers) Simon Chinn (producer), «Man on Wire» Judy Craymer (producer), «Mamma Mia!»

The first trailer has debuted for writer - director Adriana Trigiani's upcoming romantic comedy Big Stone Gap which stars Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg.Watch it below after the official synopsis... Based on her best - selling novel of the same name, writer / director Adriana Trigiani brings the story of a coal mining town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains -LSB-...]