Sentences with phrase «short narrative film»

A $ 30,000 cash grant for a short narrative film or feature - length documentary that celebrates the deep connection to French and Francophone culture in Louisiana.

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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.

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.

As this film progresses in its short narrative, we find out deeper elements of the real addiction of the few characters that we get to know.

There's a certain kind of film I see at many festivals: oblique, short on narrative and incident (or filled with repetitive incident), shot in a style that favors long (distance and time) shots of people doing nothing, or doing mundane things like crossing the street in real time.

For a faithful adaptation of a short story, the film is packed with plot twists and narrative surprises and the challenge faced by the Spierig Brothers is obscuring details that would give away the twists without making it obvious.

The 2017 lineup, which kicks off with Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game, will screen a total of 131 films, including 33 narrative films, 16 documentary films and 82 shorts, most of which are already beginning to build momentum for award season.

With six narrative features, five documentaries, and several short films, Vincenzo Marra is one of Italy's leading writer / directors.

A few unexpected minor pleasures: the time - travel flick Predestination, an adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minute.

She has produced short narrative and documentary films, music videos, and web series and her work have shown at festivals including Virginia Film Festival and Tampa International LGBT Film Festival.

At times, this congeals into intoxicatingly energetic and disturbingly violent moments of survival play, but whenever the narrative returns to moments of static calm the film has a nagging sense of perfunctory ornamentation, it's more important elements given short shrift in an effort to balance a variety of odds and ends.

In addition to presenting year end awards during the annual movie awards season, AWFJ partners with select film festivals throughout the year to present EDA Awards for best female directed films in the documentary, narrative feature, and short categories.

The festival nominated female - directed films for the EDA Awards in three categories: Best Female - Directed Narrative, Best Female - Directed Documentary and Best Female - Directed Short.

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.

Ground rules: One, we're not talking about his documentaries, short or otherwise — narrative film works are the game.

Certain Women takes several short stories by Maile Meloy and uses them to create three only very loosely connected narratives, which are presented one by one through the bulk of the film, before revisiting them all briefly in the finale.

The Sally Menke Editing Fellowship is designed to support an emerging narrative editor who has edited at least one narrative film (no more than four), and any number of shorts, documentary films, industrial films, or webisodes.

After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her feature - narrative debut State Like Sleep (which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival) starring Katherine Waterston as a photographer trying to find answers to her husband (Michiel Huisman)'s recent death; co-starring Michael Shannon and Luke Evans.

Without a complicated villain to add nuance to the otherwise utterly conventional surface, though, the film falls short by relying too much on Elliot's anxieties to fuel the narrative.

l found this film depressing and soulless.Down and out woman and child (both obnoxious) make no effort to better themselves but just keep digging their own holes before falling into it.The scenes are unrelenting, short and downbeat again and again.The narrative is simplistic.It is hard to watch..

In the end, it is by no means a truly awful piece of work, but the big problem is that it was originally conceived as a short film, and has clearly suffered from the expansion of the narrative that has led to it cropping up on the big screen.

For the Full Slate of films including Narrative Features, Documentary Features, Shorts and Special Presentations go here.

The film recently won Best Narrative short at the Gold Coast International Film Festival.

The 23rd annual Austin Film Festival is now accepting applications for this year's film competition in eight categories including feature - length narrative, short film, and narrative student short.

Based on a short film of the same name, it's arguable that Amirpour puts a greater emphasis on mood and atmosphere than she does narrative, and «AGWHAAN» does not possess the layered existential laments and insights that Jarmusch's film does.

Based on a book of short stories by James Franco (who co-stars in the film), the film features interconnected narratives involving a soccer player (Emma Roberts) getting...

But though it could be viewed as a series of short, fun, film pitches - Channing Tatum's happy sailor tap - dancing routine was a favourite - wrapped up in the larger narrative of a movie star being kidnapped, its so beautifully put together, well - performed, tightly - scripted and deliberating making fun of itself that it works.

Despite these shortfalls, the film does successfully manage to explore some interesting themes of diplomacy and leadership along the way, and even though it could be argued that the narrative itself is bland and unimaginative, barely moving from its starting point to its conclusion, the weight, intensity and emotional journey Caesar and his comrades evoke, more than make up for its few short comings.

BeFilm is a New York Based film festival that focuses on short form documentary, experimental, narrative, animation and 3D films.

The short film Cutting Grass was awarded Best Narrative at BeFilm The Underground Film Festival in New York.

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This is the second narrative feature film by writer / director Derek Cianfrance, who followed his little - known, Sundance - playing 1998 debut Brother Tied (made at age 23) with a number of shorts and music documentaries.

The ultimate haptic heroine of the AFI FEST was the unnamed protagonist of Krotkaya (A Gentle Creature), the third narrative film of the Berlin - based Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitza.45 The Russian title is that of the original short story by Dostoyevsky (1876) about a meek young woman inexplicably committing suicide, but, in its country of production (France), the film is called Une Femme douce — like the 1969 adaptation of the same story by Robert Bresson directed.

First - time writer and director of a narrative short film, German - born Monika Petrillo jumps into the filmmaking waters with Wink.

As well as creating the basis for the cross-continent antics that follow — run - ins with a drug baron (Tomer Sisley, Sleepless Night) and his enforcer (Matthew Willig, The Employer), and unlikely friendships with fellow travellers (Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman, The Dictator's Kathryn Hahn and Castle's Molly Quinn) among them — this short scene also provides the foundation for the film's thematic arc, one as obvious and over-stated as its narrative.

Chanel will partner with Tribeca Enterprises for the third annual «Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program,» which works to support and promote emerging American women screenwriters and directors of short - form narrative film.

Unfortunately the narrative is let down by writing that constantly makes short cuts at the expense of the overall film.

The festival will also feature Short Film Programs: 8 Lounge Shorts: 20 Narrative Shorts; 21 Documentary Shorts; and 12 Short Features (short films that have a run time between 25 and 50 minuShort Film Programs: 8 Lounge Shorts: 20 Narrative Shorts; 21 Documentary Shorts; and 12 Short Features (short films that have a run time between 25 and 50 minuShort Features (short films that have a run time between 25 and 50 minushort films that have a run time between 25 and 50 minutes).

The anticipated lineup of over 125 films will include U.S. Dramatic and Documentary Features, World Cinema, Premieres, Red Carpet Screenings and Studio Sneak Previews, Narrative Shorts, the Animated Shorts Film Category, sponsored by Amazon Web Services and Intel, and Documentary Short Subjects.

Refinery 29 is doing good work with its Shatterbox Anthology series, which puts the focus on female directors directing their first narrative short films.

While the lack of information does make for compelling Real Steel 2 potential, there's no doubt the current narrative gets short - shrift and some of the established plot lines could've been more fully realized in this film.

The problem is that Forshaw spends only a page or two on each film; by the time he's given a rough summation of the narrative, his attention to its subversive social qualities is short changed by his self - admitted «celebratory» stance on the subject matter.

Based on their 2013 short film, Cargo isn't totally free of narrative stretch marks, with some of its intriguing world - building elements, including references to fracking and land exploitation, coming off slightly under - imagined.

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

But where recent films like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and A Most Wanted Man are absorbing, smartly crafted espionage dramas, Red Sparrow only manages to bring the same amount of intrigue in short bursts and does so without making any significant statements about the current political landscape, despite how deeply ingrained the Russian narrative is in today's 24 - hour news cycle.

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.

A wide selection of films reflecting contemporary society have been screened, including alpine documentation, archival footage, adventure cinema, experimental shorts, commentaries, anthropological narratives and narrative feature films.

It's an incredibly interesting narrative, because the film is so short and... for the most part, most of the characters are only recognizable by their faces, not by names.

Varda has experimented with all forms of filmmaking from shorts to documentaries to narrative feature films during her more than 60 - year career, including such works as the New Wave classic Cleo from 5 to 7, and Le Bonheur.

The Collection is specifically devoted to the preservation of independent documentaries, narratives and short films supported by Sundance Institute and has grown to nearly 2,300 holdings representing 1,800 titles, including recent additions such as El Mariachi, Winter's Bone, Paris is Burning, Johnny Suede, Working Girls, Crumb, Groove, Better This World, The Oath and Paris, Texas.