Sentences with phrase «received at the film festival»

«My Beautiful Laundrette» was made with TV in mind, shot in the then - cheaper format of 16 mm, but the response it received at film festivals quickly proved that it warranted a theatrical release.

Presuming it's well received at the film festival, a U.S. distributor likely won't be far behind.

The film has also been well received at film festivals such as the Fest CineAmazônia, where it won a popular jury award for best picture!

Not exact matches

The film received critical praise at the major film festivals at Sundance, Tribeca, and was the Teddy Award winner at the Berlin Film Festival.

Irons adds the credit of executive producer and featured actor in TRASHED, a Blenheim Production feature documentary directed by Candida Brady, which received a special screening at the 2012 Cannes film festival.

Lenny Abrahamson's much anticipated film What Richard Did will receive its world premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival, which is widely considered to be one of the top film festivals in the world.

After I saw it at the Toronto film festival last September — where Rudolph and Willis said they were proud of having made it even if nobody saw it — it received nominal runs in New York and Los Angeles, cities where viewers and critics are regarded by distributors as being more demographically significant than those in Chicago, and then early this year it came out on video.

As previously announced, Wenders will also be receiving an honorary Golden Bear at the festival, with 10 of his films screening as tribute, including 1984 Palme d'Or winner «Paris, Texas» and his latest documentary, the Oscar - nominated «The Salt of the Earth.»

It looks set to be a woozy slice of southern gothic, packed with atmosphere and sensuality and will receive a high - profile premiere at this year's Cannes film festival.

It received a surprise premiere at the Overlook film festival earlier this month and was greeted with a set of rapturous reviews which, like its superbly assembled trailers, suggest one of the scariest films of the summer.

PABLO LARRAĺN TO RECEIVE VARIETY INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2016 AT THE 39TH MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL SAN RAFAEL, CA (October 3, 2016)-- The Mill Valley Film Festival is proud to honor director Pablo Larraín with the Variety International Director of the Year Award, which will be presented to him following a just announced screening of his...

I am so happy to hear the film is getting a wide release after playing at numerous film festivals and receiving extremely positive reviews.

The film industry has a «problem» with transgender actors, with many unable to secure roles despite a «huge pool of talent», according to film director Tom Hooper, whose latest film The Danish Girl — starring Eddie Redmayne as a pioneering recipient of gender - reassignment surgery — receives its world premiere at the Venice film festival.

Agnes Varda, director of «Visages Villages (Faces Places),» which many considered the best film at this year's Cannes festival, where it played out of competition, received the Silver medallion from Telluride in 1977 (the fourth year of the Festival).

The films, financed by Roger Corman (who had also produced Hellman's Los Angeles stage production of «Waiting For Godot»), were well received at European film festivals but tossed into legal limbo when its European distributor went bankrupt and ended up being sold directly to American TV.

It had its premiere last month at the Telluride film festival, where it received largely positive coverage.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

Writer / director Justin Simien's first film «Dear White People» debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, where it received the festival's Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent.

The pair's upcoming film Our Souls at Night — another Netflix - produced effort — will also receive its world premiere at the festival in an out - of - competition slot.

Now in his eighties, he's convinced by an old friend (Chase) to accept an invitation to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at a two - bit film festival in Nashville.

Yet to be invited to the Sundance ball with his trio of films as a director Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest State (2006) and Seymour: An Introduction (2014) all receiving preems at other prestige fests, Ethan Hawke «s Blaze might altogether follow a different festival narrative.

Of all the films at this year's festival, none received more love / hate than Brigsby Bear, so of course Sony Pictures Classics acquired it for $ 5 million after a heated bidding war.

Labor Day received good word from critics at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals, so here's hoping that the film lives up to the expectations.

You can forget your Palme D'Or winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, because they'll only be one film on everyone's sunburnt lips with the surprise announcement that Solo: A Star Wars Story will receive its world premiere at the festival.

5 - time Oscar nominee Adams received very good reviews for Arrival at both the Venice and Telluride film festivals but some pundits believe the film, and Adams, aren't really «Oscar» players.

The Telluride film festival kicks off today with Fur, the Diane Arbus - based film starring Nicole Kidman that is due to receive its official world premiere at the inaugural Rome film festival in October.

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, a small silent black - and - white French film that no one seemed to have heard of, but had been generally well - received at the festival, with its lead actor Jean Dujardin winning the Best Actor Award.

Inside Out received an incredible reception at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday, with those in attendance at the screenings stating that the film received what will easily be one of the strongest receptions at the festival.

In fact, the film was so well received that it even won its first time director an award at the festival.

Cruz was in and out of the after party at festival president Jeff Barbakow's home in Montecito, but she did say she's very excited by the nominations she's received for her role in Allen's film.

Every film receiving a gala premiere brings the audience to its feet (at least, once the houselights go up and the spotlight shines on the stars sitting in the mezzanine), even so - so films that no one particularly adores such as this year's festival opener, «The Fifth Estate.»

She has also received international acclaim for this role at leading film festivals including Telluride, Toronto, London, Tribeca Doha and a host of others.

Debuting on DVD and Blu - ray this week with the look of a direct - to - video movie, Lightkeepers actually received an Oscar - qualifying one - week run in Los Angeles last December along with a two - week engagement in Cape Cod that broke the modest records of one theater on the peninsula before turning up at a couple of 2010 film festivals.

According to Deadline, the second Star Wars anthology film will be receiving a special screening at the annual film festival, which will be taking place from May 8 until May 19.

It's another amazing film from Ms. Zhao that has been winning over fans at all the festivals where it has played, and it also received four Independent Spirit Award nominations.

It received near - universal praise at the Venice and Toronto film festivals.

For the sake of debate, let's just say the film will be well received — not thinking in terms of whether it's a Sundance hit — just that it's funny and heartwarming and cozy and the filmgoers and critics who caught it at the festival walked away satisfied.

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A number of well - received films premiered at this year's Sundance film festival, but none caused a stir like Nate Parker's directorial debut, The Birth of a Nation.

Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul receives the Palme d'Or award during the awards ceremony at the 63rd international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, on Sunday.

He's received major honours at some of the world's biggest film festivals and is regarded as one of America's most exciting filmmakers.

Well - received at its New York film festival premiere the week before last, this tense, thematically rich espionage film — buoyed up commercially by Tom Hanks in the lead — is firmly on the Serious Spielberg side of the wall.

Release Date: This received its world premiere debut at the Sundance film festival and should be picked up for distribution fairly soon.

When it debuted at various festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, «Skeleton» received mostly positive reviews, with Variety critic Geoff Berkshire writing that «the biggest surprise for audiences expecting plenty of laughs will be just how effectively both thesps handle the weightier dramatic material in the screenplay... «The Skeleton Twins» captures the way siblings develop their own unique comedic shorthands in a way few films ever have.»

World Premiere Notable: Campos» first film since the bidding received «Simon Killer» debuted at the festival four years ago.

SIFF 2011 Short Film Jury Awards As a qualifying festival of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, short films that receive the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative short film and Best Animation short film awards at SIFF may qualify to enter the Short Films category of the Academy Awards ® for the concurrent season without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.

The newest example of this trend is The Witch, from first time feature writer / director Robert Eggers, Eggers won the directing award at Sundance in 2015 for the film, and after a year on the festival circuit, it finally receives a wide release this weekend.

The film received an overwhelmingly positive reception when it premiered at Sundance earlier this year and was quickly picked up by Amazon Studios, making it one of the biggest sales at the film festival.

Iris, his profile of fashion icon Iris Apfel (and a film seemingly akin to his iconic Grey Gardens), has recently been released in cinemas in the United States, whilst his final film, In Transit, has gone the festival route, premiering at Tribeca, where it received a Special Jury Mention in the World Documentary section of the festival's program.