Sentences with phrase «short film mother»

Orange is the New Black director Sian Heder is the writer and director of Talulah, which was based on her 2006 short film Mother, which was also based her own baby - sitting experience in Los Angeles.

Not exact matches

Told by 10 of our mothers and clients, this short film chronicles their journeys to challenge the conventional hospital birth model to give birth in their own way.

One of the film's key scenes shows the village assembly in Hirut's area carefully debating her case, and when Meaza attempts to leave a meeting with Hirut's parents without staying for a meal, she is brought up short by a mother who insists, «you must not forget our culture.»

With these infamous events as its centerpiece, the film is nothing short of compelling from the very start as we witness Tonya's strained relationship with her terrible mother and abusive husband.

Director Josh Cooley, along with «Inside Out» filmmakers Pete Docter («Up,» «Monsters, Inc.») and Jonas Rivera («Up»), introduced the short, which revisits Riley, who is now 12 and the film deals with both her father and mother trying to figure out if this guy at their door is Riley's first date.

The Eyes of My Mother feels like a short story / film that was inappropriately stretched into a feature.

THE SHORT VERSION: 20th Century Women is a film about Dorothea, a mother (Annette Bening) trying to raise her son (Lucas Jade Zumann) as a good man, even though his father (literally) is out of -LSB-...]

The story's mother - daughter element lends the film a nice infusion of heart, but «Brave» falls short of the eye - misting emotion that marked some of Pixar's more memorable films.

Konstantin, known through her short film career as a kind, reserved, even shy woman, was rousing in Notorious, making each scene she was in memorable for her portrayal of Sebastian's (Rains), dominant and intelligently calculating mother.

The temptation to brand the film as «autobiographical» is hard to resist: Baumbach did grow up in Brooklyn in the 1970's, one of four siblings, to a pair of parents who both wrote for a living (his father Jonathan wrote novels and short fiction, while his mother Georgia Brown contributed regularly to the Village Voice).

And Arnold, who won an Oscar for her shattering short film «Wasp» (2003), also about a neglectful alcoholic mother, deserves comparison with a British master director like Ken Loach.

The staccato cadence of Tim Streeto's editing, which clusters together short scenes that excise the beginnings and ends of interactions, often keeps the impact of Bernard's autocratic parenting from registering fully on impact, but the film's tragicomic punch lands in the final act after an otherwise useless therapy session triggers in Walt a warm memory of his mother — thus spawning a stint of self - analysis that doubles as an occasion for viewer reflection.

Someone must have that on the wall of the BFI offices, as they turn again to the director for his first short film, which celebrates the work of the Mother's Aid institution.

In 2006, Sian Heder, a writer for «Orange Is The New Black,» wrote and directed the short film, «Mother,» about a woman who hires a stranger to babysit her toddler.

An extension of her short, this creepy horror film focuses on a widowed single mother named Amelia (played by Essie Davis, Kent's fellow student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney) whose six - year - old son comes across a mysterious, macabre children's book.

When I teach this film in my class at the University of Illinois, I pair it with «The Yellow Wallpaper,» a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that is also about a wife and mother slowly unraveling under the pressure of her own femininity.

But while 17 - year - old New Zealand actress Alice Englert got her start in «The Water Diary,» a short film helmed by her mother, the great Jane Campion, she's otherwise doing extremely well entirely on her own steam.

In Music, nominees include Sam Smith, Halsey and St. Vincent and there are two Special Recognition awards for JAY - Z's «Smile,» from his album 4:44 about his mother's coming out and In a Heartbeat, the animated short film in contention for an Oscar nomination this coming Tuesday.

Next, Andrew Napier's short film, Grandma's Not a Toaster, where a whiskey - guzzling mother - to - be aims to enlist her neurotic brother in attempt to thieve from their ailing grandmother's fortune.

Note: Sonia Gechtoff's daughter Susannah Kelly is a film maker and is creating a series of short films about her mother and her mother's work and process.

Also on view is Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman (2012), Thomas» first short film, which presents footage of her mother reflecting on her struggles with drug addiction, abusive relationships, and the fashion industry.

In her short film Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1989), which was selected for official competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, she engages with both national and personal history through the complex relationship between an aboriginal woman and her dying white foster mother.

Of particular note was Mickalene Thomas» film documentary about her mother and Martin Creed's humorous short about crossing a New York street.

The talk follows a free screening of Thomas's short documentary film, Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman: A Portrait of My Mother, on view in March and April.