Sentences with phrase «short film audience»

Our vision is to continually grow the community of short film audience to enable a wide and accessible market reach for short films and become the leading micro - cinema / shortfilm platform for India.

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Eager to draw the millions of viewers that some uploaders were getting, Boivin put some of his short films up on the site, only to be disappointed when the big audiences didn't come.
As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.
The Director of Communications and Audience Engagement will work closely with the CEO to create, curate, and market an expansive collection of film clips (full episodes and movies as well as short clips) focused on bringing light escapist pleasure to the (mostly female) masses.
For my own short film, Many Worlds, algorithms use brainwaves, muscle tension, perspiration and heart rate in a selection of the audience to adjust the story in real time, choosing the most appropriate of the film's four narratives to maximise intensity.
When Pixar screened a computer - animated short film called «Tin Toy» in 1988, test audiences hated the sight of the pseudo-realistic baby named «Billy» who terrorized the toys.
Participants were treated to a multimedia event involving a photographic exhibition, short films and an audience - panel discussion with a group of stem cell scientists.
«The Sundance Film Festival brings the most original storytellers together with the most adventurous audiences for its annual program of dramatic and documentary films, shorts, New Frontier films, installations, performances, panel discussions, and dynamic music events.
In past seasons, big - budget cinematic - style epics, snappy dance - driven shorts and films propelled by humour have typically attracted the largest audiences.
As tempting as it is to encounter «Mudbound» as a sociopolitical text, that reading sells short a film that unfolds with the time, space and scope audiences rarely see anymore.
But there's absolutely no flow to the film's screenplay - which is based on a series of short stories by J.T. LeRoy - as it lurches from one vignette to the next, without any thought to keeping the audience engaged.
Our best fables and fairy tales are the ones that speak truth, and this version of Pete's Dragon easily takes its place on any short list of the great films for young audiences as a result.
With this honor to his name, Biggs segued into film a short time later, debuting in the 1997 Camp Stories.In 1999, the unequivocal hit that was American Pie came along, and Biggs, portraying Jim, one of the more perpetually humiliated members of a group of four friends trying to lose their virginity by high - school graduation, made an undeniably distinct impression on critics and audiences alike.
In short, The Magic Roundabout is an enjoyable family film that will delight young audiences and is liable to send nostalgic 30 - somethings on a (sadly, futile) quest to find the original series on DVD.
The short - statured, middle - aged Haven, who throughout the film is always dressed in white with rhinestones and gaudy designs, is distracted by the unauthorized entrance into the control room audience of a BBC journalist Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), a flea - market dressed, tattered, nit - wit, opinionated reporter who is «doing a documentary on Nashville» and lugging a tape recorder at her side.
What separates «Gosford Park» from films like «Nashville» and «Short Cuts,» however, is the lush set direction and costume design, which helps build the completely immersive period setting for the audience to get to know the characters in.
After enjoying the screening of the film, the audience moved a short walk away to Santos Party House where guests were welcomed by staff members in Adam's «Dr. Faust» scrubs offering a spicy taste of blood at the door.
After the premiere screening at Sundance of his wonderful debut feature «Kings Of Summer,» director Jordan Vogt - Roberts — responsible for the short «Successful Alcoholics» and a veteran of «Funny Or Die Presents...» — told the audience his influences for his first feature included early Amblin films like «The Goonies» with «elements of [Terrence] Malick,» and most surprisingly, «Bad Boys II.»
As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.
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In short, men dominate the reviewing process of films primarily made by men featuring mostly males intended for a largely male audience.
Among other things, the filmmaker spoke about where he came up with the inspiration for «Citadel,» how having a limited budget and short shooting schedule place restrictions on what he could shoot for the film and how he reacted when he heard he won the Midnighter Audience Award at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival.
Emeke's work is assured, and she has created the kind of short film which will leave audiences wanting to know more.
Con artist films always work best, when they are short and sweet, played at a pace almost too quick for the audience to keep up with.
Adapting his short film, first - time feature filmmaker Damien Chazelle grabs hold of the audience and never lets up, pounding us...
When: August 22nd Why: It's been nine years since the first «Sin City» captured audiences with its innovative storytelling, but this long - awaited sequel is at least five years too late, with many fans giving up hope of another installment when Robert Rodriguez decided his time was better spent directing garbage like «Shorts,» «Spy Kids 4» and the «Machete» films.
4 — Pioneers of African - American Cinema (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray, DVD) is the first comprehensive effort devoted to collecting and preserving feature films and shorts produced between 1915 and 1946 for black audiences, most of them made by African - American filmmakers.
He's been the picture of charm during the Call Me By Your Name press tour, a seemingly unending traveling road show where Hammer, his co-star Timothée Chalamet, and director Luca Guadagnino take turns relating disarming anecdotes about filming that manage to both satiate the film's rabid gay audience while stopping short of pandering, all while credibly evincing a perpetual Kinsey 3 vibe.
A hugely diverse range of original and exciting short films that will captivate audiences span the festival strands this year.
Before then, there were hit music documentaries like «Woodstock» but most other nonfiction films could expect short runs in few theaters before dutiful audiences.
After screening 123 feature - length films and 60 short films over the last week or so, the 2015 Sundance Film Festival juries and audiences have selected and revealed their winners.
Wizardry of the technological kind broke the film out of the mold of the standard Marvel movie and turned the tale of Doctor Strange's supernatural awakening into a breathtaking spectacle, ranging from ever - shifting urban geographies to a high - speed multidimensional flight that can leave audiences almost as short of breath as the film's protagonist.
Milwaukee Film also announced the winners of the Allan H. (Bud) and Suzanne L. Selig Audience Awards for feature film and short film.
While two of his films have played in Park City previously (though one was a short segment in «V / H / S»), Swanberg and his zeitgeist - defining mumblecore movement (read: indie filmmaking with a cute name and perhaps even lower budgets than audiences were used to at the time), were actually embraced by the SXSW Film Festival and not the indie - defining organizers in Utah.
Although the series lives on in shorter form, the final 20 minutes of Toy Story 3 is something of an emotional trip through the wringer (that is, if the film works as intended to the audience).
These depictions fall short of explicit (explaining the film's PG - 13 rating, as opposed to an R) but they will make this movie inappropriate for most pre-adult audiences.
The Sundance Film Festival has always been proud to treat short films with the highest regard and to give a home to new (and old) projects for audiences to discover and celebrate.
is the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change, annually producing up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and over 40 hours of digital short form programming through SoulPancake
In the short - term, the nature of domestic terrorism and identity will likely not be at the forefront of most audiences» minds as they flock to see Downey Jr's charismatic performance and the film's action set pieces.
Participant Media is the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change, annually producing up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and over 40 hours of digital short form programming through SoulPancake.
The Festival has always treated short films with the highest regard and gives a home to both established and new filmmakers with shorts for audiences to discover and celebrate.
This is a playful short, with the film toying with the audience as much as the main characters do with each other and the two strong central performances go a long way to making this film a satisfying affair.
Considering how audiences have become more savvy about the art of animation, it's easy to take for granted the technological advances Walt Disney employed for the film, namely the use of a multiplane camera to create an illusion of depth; while addressed in the main documentary, the technique is further explored in a «Tricks of the Trade» excerpt from the old Disneyland television series as well as the 1937 nature - themed short The Old Mill, in which Disney and his crew not only tried out the new multiplane camera but also honed their skills at drawing and animating animals.
Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a major global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), home to premier global media brands that create compelling television programs, motion pictures, short - form content, apps, games, consumer products, social media experiences, and other entertainment content for audiences in more than 180 countries.
Annual free - admission weekend public program featuring films (features and shorts) for audiences of all ages.
Along with these were the equally significant audience awards for fiction feature, documentary, short film, and web series.
Best Wishes of Millwood was Austin Film Festival's 2015 audience award winning short film.
This week it became a more straightforward American Idol - style show, with the short films playing before a studio audience and viewers at home voting.
Members submit 1 film they feel strongly was given distributional short shrift and deserve a wider audience.
Keaton had been a star of shorts, in case audiences wouldn't accept him in a feature film, they could break up the three eras and release them separately.
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