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Dan Brown, a teacher in the SEED charter school featured in the film, points out that successful schools involve teachers in strong collegial conversations.

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She is also featured in Free for All: Fixing School Food in America by Janet Poppendieck (California Studies in Food & Culture, 2010) and Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children, by Ann Cooper and Lisa Holmes (HarperCollins, 2006), has been a guest on PBS's To The Contrary, and appears in the documentary film Two Angry Moms.

The series» main character is based on Krosoczka's childhood school lunch lady, and the series is now in development to become a feature film.

Rian Johnson's first feature was the well received, low - budget indie titled «Brick» (2005), which told a high - school story in a film noir style, narrated by Gordon - Levitt.

The highest - grossing anime film in history, Makoto Shinkai's fifth feature is based on his own novel detailing the star - crossed relationship between Mitsuha, a high school girl living in rural Japan, and Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, who swap bodies.

Back in his feature debut, Brick, writer - director Rian Johnson was content to bring deep shades of film noir to the hallways of high school.

As someone currently pursuing a master's in film producing, I'm immensely impressed by film school students who go on to make their first features a reality, and so is the case with Andy Viner and his movie, «Dick Night.»

Since «George Washington» (2000) opens with a teenage girl's dreamy, wise - beyond - her - years narration as the camera floats in slow - motion through waving fields of grass and glides along railroad tracks, you probably don't need to be told that first - time feature director David Gordon Green, then just twenty five and fresh out of film school, was a big Terrence Malick fan.

The film, written by and co-starring Quentin Tarantino, is a fast - paced old - school creature feature with an in - his - prime George Clooney as the sexy criminal Seth Gecko.

Keith Gordon, who had a popular run playing nerds in the»80s («Back to School») before directing a bunch of TV series episodes, including «Dexter,» and helming several respectable feature films, including «A Midnight Clear.»

In film school they usually advise students making first features to avoid period pieces at all costs because they're difficult to make and hard to get financing for.

The Toby Maguire films featured a Peter Parker that was a Teenager in high school for all of about 20 minutes of the first movie before a time jump happened and he became a college student and then later seemingly just an adult.

The Amazing Spider - Man films featured a High School Parker but he was played by an actor pushing, and looking, 30 years old and his being in high school was tangential to the overall film atSchool Parker but he was played by an actor pushing, and looking, 30 years old and his being in high school was tangential to the overall film atschool was tangential to the overall film at best.

After bringing you a look at lead Aaron Paul preparing for his role in a «driving school» featurette yesterday, we've an official look at the feature film adaptation of video game, NEED FOR SPEED in another mini video.

The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.

With only a few summer camp and school plays under her belt, Hayward not only got an opportunity to star in a feature film, but the chance to lead Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom.

Not un-clever by any grammar school criteria, it's lamentably shallow as the basis for a feature goes, leading to a film that's basically every single teen formula in the history of teens (homecoming dance date intrigue, parties while the folks are away, old friends abandoned for cooler friends then reconciled, and so on) punctuated with horrible special effects and superhero puns.

But when watching this mostly disappointing novelty film, I spent more time wondering (1) why someone like Mr. West can be allowed to bore us with his «slow rising tension» when American Movie subject filmmaker Mark Borchardt still hasn't released his own feature, or, (2) I was trying to figure out what Mr. West's average grades must've been in film school.

But this year's slate also featured several films centered on relationships between older women and younger men: Hannah Fidel's A Teacher, which concerns an affair between a high school teacher and a student; Liz W. Garcia's The Lifeguard, in which Kristen Bell takes up with a teenage boy; and Two Mothers, in which Robin Wright and Naomi Watts are friends who each get with the other's teenage son.

Boxcar Bertha (Twilight Time, Blu - ray)-- Martin Scorsese was just another college film school grad with a student feature under his belt (Who's That Knocking at My Door) when producer Roger Corman tapped him to direct AIP's entry in the Bonnie and Clyde craze of depression era gangster films.

Featuring stills from Ender's Game, the much - anticipated film directed and written by Gavin Hood, this official 16 - month calendar follows the story of Andrew «Ender» Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent — 70 years after a horrific alien war — to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.

The film opens in limited release tomorrow and got a big boost from Oprah Winfrey earlier this week when she brought Guggenheim, D.C. school district chancellor Michelle Rhee (who features prominently in the film) and recent tag - along Bill Gates onto the show to spread the message to an obviously gigantic audience in her farewell season.

I am a Jersey boy, but currently reside right outside Philly so it's pretty unique to see a film that features several of the landmarks that I drive past each and every day including Eagles Stadium, the Llanerch Diner, and the middle school that is right next to the high school in Upper Darby, which my girlfriend works.

Screenwriter and producer Diablo Cody's second feature film, an ersatz horror story set in a small town high school, provides the first real test as an actor for internet - manufactured hottie Megan Fox, until now lost among giant robots and special effects in the Transformers franchise.

Along with Peter Weir, Gillian Armstrong, and Bruce Beresford, Schepisi was a key figure in the renaissance of the Australian film industry, making the acclaimed features The Devil's Playground (1976), a semi-autobiographical account of adolescent life in a religious boarding school, and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), based on Thomas Keneally's novel.

Always a spirited devotee of old - school Hollywood genres, Guillermo del Toro achieves in his latest film, «The Shape of Water,» an inspired melding of creature feature, spy thriller and wondrously perverse love story, the latter sustained by Sally Hawkins» achingly delicate performance as Eliza, a mute cleaning lady who immediately bonds with the imprisoned merman (played, naturally, by Del Toro's prosthetic - happy muse, Doug Jones).

That title might even be a stretch, since the titular vehicle doesn't make much of an impact in the film besides serving as a shiny prop for the laid - back soundtrack featuring blues, R&B, and old - school hip - hop from artists including Bobby «Blue» Bland, Erick Sermon, and Marlena Shaw.

It's very heartening, too, that the DVD features such a robust slate of bonus material, anchored by 50 minutes» worth of behind - the - scenes footage that includes interviews with all the cast and crew, and charts the movie from inception (producer Ian Birkett was a film school classmate of Andrews, and his older brother Paul worked up the script) through pre-production work, shooting up in Canada, and post-production.

Coto, who bombed with Dr. Giggles (1992), his last feature outing, filmed this project about a year ago as The Warrior of Waverly Street, a dual reference to self - conscience seventh - grader Spencer Griffith (Joseph Mazzello), who attends the Waverly Street School, and «Cy,» the seven - foot Phase One Assault Cyborsuit that crash lands on earth in the small town of Crystal Bluff one autumn evening.

I had interviewed the stars and the director Sean Baker (of Tangerine fame) earlier in the day, where I nerded out HARD and told every A24 rep I saw that they were my all - time favourite studio in the game right now (I was really into New Line in elementary school and tried to see EVERY Focus Features film in high school.

In addition to Super Troopers and Super Troopers 2, Chandrasekhar's credits include the feature films Puddle Cruiser, Club Dread, The Dukes of Hazzard, Beerfest and The Babymakers; the movies for television Held Up and Schooled; the pilots for the series The Rebels and Really; and episodes of the series Undeclared, Arrested Development, Chuck, Psych, Community, Royal Pains, The Goldbergs and New Girl.

It is a character, not me, but since it was [my] first feature film that I was writing when I was in school it is based on what I have lived.

Set in the Sixties at an exclusive all - boys prep school, The Emperor's Club is immediately recognizable as another iteration of Dead Poets Society, even more so when one realizes that the film features the same quartet of student types (the troubled one, the trickster, the bookish one, the gregarious one — also the same breakdown you'll find in Stand By Me, come to think of it) and the same crinkly - eyed inspirational professor who finds a lesson for young lives in the heartening words of dead versifiers.

The film features an impressive cast that includes Wannell himself along with The Faculty star Elijah Wood returning to horror in a high school setting in the story of a virus that hits a small Illinois town and turns the young children into deadly little monsters little monsters.

They started collaborating on shorts in film school, and Ihre has shot all of Trier's features to date.

Alice Cooper's «School's Out», «Lowrider» by War, and «Rock & Roll All Night» by Kiss are just some of the songs featured in the film.

A film so definitive in the teen - flick canon that it's even inspired a recent feature - length documentary («Beyond Clueless»), this whip - smart, high - school - set adaptation of Jane Austen's «Emma» remains the gold standard for snarky teen romance.

Known for his acting chops in Art School Confidential, The Social Network and more recently, a stint on «The Handmaid's Tale,» Max Minghella got into the vocation of filmmaking with Teen Spirit — a feature film debut he also wrote and which becomes one of several 2018 projects for American independent swiss army knife actress Elle Fanning.

It features all the classic markings of a quality film noir (dark shadows, red herrings, a detective protagonist and a femme fatale) and plops it smack down in the middle of the unlikeliest of places: high school.

Kenneth Branagh «s glorious mustache is not the only thing that the actor - director is doing old - school in his feature film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.

Prior to the film's release, supporting player Jim Carrey (A Christmas Carol, Yes Man) generated some headlines due to his decision to not promote Kick - Ass 2 citing his change of heart in doing violent films featuring children following school shooting incidents like Sandy Hook.

The feature itself runs under 80 minutes, but bonus features include a clutch of trailers and a 12 - minute making - of featurette in which director Maloney sits for an interview and answers questions about the genesis of the project, which was (unsurprisingly) his first right out of film school.

With «Ten Minute Cooking School» (6 minutes), Rodriguez goes all HGTV on us and shows how to cook puerco pibil, a dish which is prominently featured in the film.

He also starred in other indie films, including «Party Girl,» Nigel Finch's acclaimed film «Stonewall,» «200 Cigarettes,» «High School High,» and appeared in studio features «The Terminal,» for director Steven Spielberg, and» Cop Out,» opposite Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan.Read More

campaign will feature a wide range of brand new education resources, including easy to follow lesson plans, two new films co-created with school children and a song in a bid to make teaching road safety lessons easier and more accessible.

Including the director and producers of the film, the post-film panel discussion will feature current HGSE doctoral candidate Clint Smith, a graduate of New Orleans public schools whose poems and essays on race, justice, and education have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, and The Guardian.

Not In Our School, a program of Not In Our Town (NIOT), is dedicated to combat hate, bullying, and intolerance with over 70 free films and lesson plans featuring students taking action to address hate and bridge differences.

The result is this short and spirited documentary about school lunch that has been discussed by numerous news outlets and featured in several film festivals.

It was featured in the 2010 film Waiting for Superman and in 2011 was named one of the Top 10 Most Transformative Schools in the country by Newsweek.

Another highly praised school that is featured in the film is the SEED charter boarding school in Washington, D.C. SEED seems to deserve all the praise that it receives from Guggenheim, CBS's 60 Minutes, and elsewhere.