Sentences with phrase «on film funds»

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On Monday, New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Academy Award - winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, announced that it was partnering up with a collection of YouTube stars to fund and develop 14 short films, The Los Angeles Times reported.

The film was shown in movie theaters and the song was sold on iTunes, with 60 cents from every purchase benefiting the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation, which funds initiatives that support sustainable agriculture and family farming.

British Columbia's film industry, which for most of the past two decades commanded the lion's share of foreign - funded service production in Canada, has fallen on

British Columbia's film industry, which for most of the past two decades commanded the lion's share of foreign - funded service production in Canada, has fallen on lean times.

Originally launched with a focus on film, Indiegogo pivoted to include funding for literally anything and is becoming known for financing personal and cause - related campaigns such as that for the bullied bus monitor, which raised over $ 700,000.

VC investors will never be interested in funding indie art films, a major set on Kickstarter, for example.

On Thursday, Trump confirmed that Cohen had paid $ 130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her allegations of an affair with Trump, although the president stressed that the payment was from his personal funds, rather than from the campaign's coffers.

Most of the top funded projects on Kickstarter are consumer products, like smart watches and clothing, or creative projects, such as TV shows, films and video games.

Jimmy Kimmel rallied support on Thursday for the legal fund of Stephanie Clifford, the former pornographic film actress known as Stormy Daniels.

I offered to provide films, literature, speakers and even promotion funds to help them put on a conference on the church and aging.

Insideworldfootball has previously reported on the depth of the issues that as many as 1,000 former players across England could face (see UK footballers from Rooney to Durie hung out to dry in film fund tax dodges).

They've struggled to get funding or get it shown in cinemas and on television: who would want to see a film about stillbirth, after all?

Yes, Omalu found CTE in Webster's brain while personally funded his quest, but the film's lack of placing Omalu on the shoulders of those who came before him, leave one feeling that the film is telling less than the truth.

In Media and Entertainment, her focus is on various programs to provide women opportunities in film and onstage, including a $ 5M fund for women filmmakers and playwrights.

COR was the only bidder on a SUNY Polytechnic Institute contract to build the Central New York Hub for Emerging Nano Industries, also called the film hub, and has received millions in funding from the Cuomo administration for other projects.

Science Cinémathèque, a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, features reviews of recent movies such as Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man and a series of short student films on such topics as wormholes, the patterns in pinecones and sunflowers, and Ignaz Semmelweis, the 19th - century Hungarian physician whose campaign to promote hand washing among doctors was met with near - universal scorn.

Now, if you will, imagine yourself on the set of a low budget independently funded horror film and this is your first scene.

She's Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Filipino teen romantic comedy - drama film based on the best Pop Fiction book of the same name originally published on A gangster's ex-wife has been spared jail after she told a court she had no idea her luxury life was funded by his drug money.

Also included, Anderson's American Express commercial that remains a fun homage to Truffaut, a loving speech by Oakley Friedberg, the young son of set designer Mark Frienberg, who spent time on location with his family raising funds for charity organizations, a silly trophy case application making fun of the film's lack of critical awards, deleted and alternate scenes, a stills gallery, and the theatrical trailer.

When Hollywood tackles terrorism, it rarely offers the degree of ambiguity on display in In the Fade and I have never seen a studio - funded film opt for this kind of uncompromising ending.

Maresco is not interested in making a political film but simply in riffing on the notion that powerful men who come out of nowhere have to be funded by someone with a clear intent to intervene in politics.

«I don't think I would have had anything like the variety of work I have been privileged to do without working on U.S. funded films» considered Jenny Beavan on her own migration to Hollywood.

This year, Earth Hour and the hero of the highly anticipated motion picture The Amazing Spider - Man 2 — along with the film's stars, Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx and director Marc Webb — are throwing their support behind Earth Hour Blue, which aims to harness the power of the crowd to raise funds for on - the - ground environmental projects from across the world.

Because a feature film was easier to fund than an experimental online interactive, some of this footage went on to become The Forbidden Room, to help enable eventual delivery of the website.

The IDA Enterprise Doc Fund provides production and development funds to feature - length documentary films taking on in - depth explorations of original, contemporary stories and integrating journalistic practice into the filmmaking process.

Shot over four years, from 2013 to 2017, the film follows former Kiribati president Anote Tong on his world tour — with stops at the UN and multiple climate change conferences — to educate foreigners about the situation in Kiribati and to encourage climate change adaptation funding.

It's an instant cult classic that I can see a lot of people discovering on the home video front and not so much theatrically, which is a shame, because films like this need audiences support to help fund future projects for talented filmmakers like Martin McDonagh.

The film was crowd - funded for $ 3 million, but the production doesn't look like it was put together on the cheap.

Directed by Mel Gibson (Braveheart)-- who funded the film himself and co-wrote the screenplay — The Passion of the Christ uses flashbacks to substantiate a handful of pertinent moments in Jesus» life and teachings, such as the Sermon on the Mount and the Last Supper, as well as his relationships with his mother and his disciples.

Broken Lizard, the comedy team behind the original film, raised more than $ 4.5 million to fund Super Troopers 2 during a crowd - funding campaign on Indiegogo last year, shooting past their initial goal of $ 2 million.

The Star Trek: To Boldly Go campaign will support the cast's personal selection of nine global causes, which will each receive equal portions of the funds raised when fans enter for a chance to win a walk - on role in director Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond, the third film in the blockbuster franchise, which will be released on July 8, 2016.

But with a partly Kickstarter - funded animation based on his play «Anomalisa» currently filming — Kaufman is listed as co-director — probably the film we're anticipating even more from him as writer / director is his much - touted «examination of celebrity as a mental illness» (according to star Jack Black) «Frank or Francis» a musical, which also stars Nicolas Cage, Kevin Kline and Steve Carell.

Initially unable to secure complete funding, the project was temporarily shelved, but would thankfully go on to film nearly a year later (meanwhile, screenwriter Eskil Vogt enjoyed his own festival tour with his acclaimed directorial debut, Blind, which premiered at Sundance 2014 and picked up a Screenwriting award).

«While we couldn't help fund the movie at the time, we got involved as early as we could and came on board having only seen a few minutes of the film,» noted The Orchard's Paul Davidson.

The For the Love of Film Blogathon is now in its third year, with bloggers focusing on a specific aspect of film preservation, with the intent to raise awareness and funds for the National Film Preservation Foundation.

The funds raised will support the costs of the NFPF streaming the film (that is, the four reels of it that still exist) on their website for four months.

The pilot, based on David Michôd's 2010 Australian film of the same name starring Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver and Joel Edgerton, follows the 17 - year - old Joshua «J» Cody, who moves in with his California relatives and discovers that they're funded by criminal activities.

He recently signed on to produce and voice act in Ralph Bakshi's latest film «Last Days of Coney Island», which is currently trying to become funded via Kickstarter.

Girls on Top has donated sales proceeds to Amanda Eliasson's animated film Favourite Thing for Channel 4's Random Acts; Nia Childs's debut short, The Other End, offers the chance to win T - shirts in exchange for funding via Indiegogo, and the brand's website will become a platform for female - led film criticism.

Surprisingly enough in those conservative times, a film based on a transvestite murderer who collected human remains for fun, was not a hit with the Studio heads — so Alfred decides to go it alone and fund the film himself.

Whereas the commentary track for «Patrick» focused on the production, director Hardy and producer Ginnane both present a broader lecture on the film as an example of a film made within the tight time and financial requirements of government funding, and a movie that helped develop native talent.

With Hollywood studios backing away from even funding prestige awards films — this year the major Oscar players «Moonlight,» «La La Land,» «Manchester,» «Arrival» were all not funded by a studio — rumors of Hope and Price knocking on the door of $ 25 - 60 million films with an awards angle only seems like the natural next step.

An awesome looking documentary about the fans of the Evil Dead films is coming via DiggerFilms, which is currently raising funds on Indiegogo and needs to reach its goal of $ 30,000 to make it happen.

The conservative American Family Association launched a media attack on the film when it was revealed that it was in part funded by a grant from the NEA and conservative politicians joined the fray.

He has recently finished production on a new short film funded by the Arts Council England, as his next short film LOVE HOTEL premieres at London Short Film Festival in 2018.

Unfortunately she's also been dully conceived as a punky trust - fund rebel with unresolved daddy issues, something the film explores at great length by sending her on an origins - establishing mission to find out what really happened to her missing - presumed - dead father (Dominic West, reliably terrible).

Doug Jones, Morgan Mead and David Hamilton were honored with The Hoosier Award for their work on «My Name Is Jerry,» a film shot in and around Muncie and partially funded by Ball State University.

Dogwoof recently launched a film investment fund - TDog Productions - focusing on the development and production of feature docs and docu - series, gearing up the company towards vertically integration of production, sales and distribution.

«Raging Bull: Before the Fight» (26:01, SD) focuses on Robert DeNiro's passion, the development of the script, the film's funding, and casting, with comments from Chartoff, Winkler, De Niro, Scorsese, Martin, Schrader, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, and Frank Vincent.

She cobbled together funding, shooting the film on a shoestring.