Sentences with phrase «on film festival juries»

As a member of the London Film Critics» Circle, Fipresci, Online Film Critics Society and Galeca, he has served on film festival juries in North America, Europe and the Middle East.

In addition to presenting our Annual Awards and Top Ten List, members of the Indiana Film Journalists Association stay active throughout the year serving on film festival juries, attending and sponsoring special screenings, appearing at film and genre - specific conferences, and speaking to civic groups, schools, media outlets and many other places.

Not exact matches

It was a night of surprises at the 68th Cannes film festival, with many critics» favourites thwarted and the jury — who are only allowed to award one prize per film — exhibiting eclectic taste and a pronounced accent on the celebration of French acting talent.

Greeted by a rapturous standing ovation at its Sundance premiere — which precipitated it becoming one of the highest - selling acquisitions in the history of the festival, and the third consecutive film to win both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award — this slick, funny and bruising high - school saga transcends its YA trappings by dropping the full weight of film history on a thoroughly modern milieu.

Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK film market for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).

The sci - fi film that centers on the discovery of a second Earth was one of the more buzzed about films at the festival this past January, winning the Special Jury Prize and securing distribution from Fox Searchlight.

Baumgarten has served on past film juries at the Seattle, Slamdance, SXSW, and Dallas International Film Festivals.

None on the international jury of this year's festival, which included Frances McDormand, Bent Hamer, and Alex de la Iglesia, seems ready to retire, and I can think of worse tasks than judging films in the elegant Basque city of San Sebastián, known as Donostia to the locals.

Alongside her academic work, Rich has been International Curator for the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival; has served on juries at the Sundance, Toronto, San Francisco, Oberhausen, Havana, Sydney, and Guadalajara film festivals; and is a member of the advisory board of the Provincetown Film Festival and previously of the Sundance Selection Committee.

Under the jury president, Jane Campion, the best films so far in main competition here have revolved around female characters — complex, imperfect, beautifully drawn these leading roles offer up a counter to the majority of films that get paid attention to here in the US, on the festival and awards circuit leading up to the Oscars.

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She has served on festival juries at the Sundance, Toronto, San Francisco, Oberhausen, Havana, Sydney, and Guadalajara film festivals.

Of the documentaries (in recent years, Searching for Sugar Man and Twenty Feet From Stardom began their journeys at the festival before going on to Oscar glory), the frontrunner out of the new batch is Weiner, winner of the US documentary grand jury prize, which tracks Anthony Weiner's disastrous mayoral bid in 2014, followed closely by Life, Animated, an incredibly moving film that explores how films helped an autistic person communicate with the outside world.

Naomi Kawase) Cast: Makiko Watanabe, Hideo Sakaki, Jun Murakami, Tetta Sugimoto, Miyuki Matsuda The sole female director to have won the Palme d'Or, Jane Campion might be heading the jury this year, but once again, the festival looks like it could be very thin on the ground when it comes to films directed by women.

The most recent addition to his series is Chilean director Marcela Said's 2013 narrative feature debut, The Summer of Flying Fish, which he first discovered while serving on a jury at a film festival.

The pair became friends when they were on the jury for the Berlin film festival and catch up every so often for dinner in New York.

On stage at the festival's awards ceremony on Saturday, fellow juror Kirsten Johnson — the accomplished cinematographer and director (Citizenfour, The Oath)-- noted that our jury spent eight hours on Friday night deliberating the prizes that we would present to five films to cap the festivaOn stage at the festival's awards ceremony on Saturday, fellow juror Kirsten Johnson — the accomplished cinematographer and director (Citizenfour, The Oath)-- noted that our jury spent eight hours on Friday night deliberating the prizes that we would present to five films to cap the festivaon Saturday, fellow juror Kirsten Johnson — the accomplished cinematographer and director (Citizenfour, The Oath)-- noted that our jury spent eight hours on Friday night deliberating the prizes that we would present to five films to cap the festivaon Friday night deliberating the prizes that we would present to five films to cap the festival.

Fresh off of sold - out festival screenings at Tribeca, AFI, the Viennale, and Torino (where it won the Special Jury Prize), GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH was ranked # 3 on the indieWIRE annual critics» poll of best undistributed films and was named «The Best Undistributed Film of 2009» by writers from Film Comment, Variety, Time Out New York, and New York Daily NewON A PARK BENCH was ranked # 3 on the indieWIRE annual critics» poll of best undistributed films and was named «The Best Undistributed Film of 2009» by writers from Film Comment, Variety, Time Out New York, and New York Daily Newon the indieWIRE annual critics» poll of best undistributed films and was named «The Best Undistributed Film of 2009» by writers from Film Comment, Variety, Time Out New York, and New York Daily News.

MOONRISE KINGDOM, the new film by American Wes Anderson, will open the 65th Festival de Cannes on Wednesday, 16 May in the Grand théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals, with the Jury presided over by Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti in attendance.

On the eve of the opening ceremony Wong Kar - wai led the jury members including actor Tim Robbins, Oscar Winning Danish director Susanne Beir, Venice Silver Lion prize winning Iranian director Shirin Neshat and others to meet the media and kicked off the 11 day long film festival.

In Cannes, all of the major US and European trades publish daily news magazines, and some create their own juries tracking favourites for the completion as the festival rolls on at the rate of two competition films a day.

Based on Tobias Schneebaum's book, the film went on to play in over 37 international film festivals winning many major awards, including the Independent Spirit Award for Best New Director (2001), the Special Jury Award at IDFA (2000), Best Documentary Feature at the Hamptons Film festival (2000) and a Special Critics Award At LAFF (2000).

Cannes Film Festival 2018 Jury Chair Cate Blanchett and Palme d'Or - winning director Agnes Varda stood among 82 women in film who gathered on the red carpet at the Lumière Theater to protest the 71 year old festival's exceptionally poor record on inclusion of women in all areas of festival programming, and demand greater equality for women in the film industry.

The latter award is one I predicted (not with any great enthusiasm, mind) the moment the credits started rolling on the film: as well as it being the kind of showily «brave» work that festival juries often fall for, it always seemed likely Gallo would get some kind of pat on the back for bringing two features (plus a short) to Venice this year.

Director Keith Maitland's animated documentary Tower won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the doc categories at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, going on to win other festival nods in Dallas, Montclair and RiverRun film festivals.

There is a great narrative associated to Thunder Road: it serves as a brilliant proof of concept project as it was based on the Sundance Grand Jury prize winning short, and serves as a reminder that in this era, regardless of a small budget or limited means — that if you've got a great idea and a team of creative collaborators, you can make a feature film in the month of November and win a major film festival five months later.