Sentences with phrase «shorts festival debuts»
The Disposable Film Festival: The sixth annual competitive shorts festival debuts here before traveling the world.
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Tipping makes his feature directorial debut and is regarded as one of the independent and festival space's hot emerging talents after his Student Academy 2012 bronze medal - winning short Nani and Swimming In Air earned plaudits.
However, that splashy debut is being met with a big hurdle that might cut short the streaming platform's future at the festival.
Filmmakers Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein made a short version of The Strange Ones, which debuted at Sundance and later at SXSW film festivals in 2011.
Today's Edinburgh talk may have centered on festival opener «Away We Go» (more on that to come), but the day's real delight was «Mary and Max» (*** 1/2), an alternately disarming and disconcerting feature debut from claymation maestro Adam Elliot, who won a 2003 Academy Award for his short «Harvey Krumpet,» and carries that film's decidedly -LSB-...]
But after premiering a short at the festival last year, and directing two episodes of the excellent «Children's Hospital,» she's back in Park City for her feature debut, which delves into the competitive world of voiceover artists.
A few short takes on SIFF offerings on the debut weekend of the biggest, longest film festival in the United States.
For the 2018 edition of the festival, 37 percent of the 122 feature films premiering are directed by women, a slight uptick from last year when 34 percent of all films were helmed by female directors (in years past, the average has hovered around 25 percent), and their contributions were prominent across all sections, with women debuting films in not just the competition sections, but also in the forward - thinking NEXT section, the wild Midnight category (which played home to the long - gestating anthology «XX,» featuring four shorts directed by women), and even the starry Premieres docket.
Other standouts at the festival include Robin Wright's expertly mordant black - and - white first short «The Dark of Night,» which debuted at Cannes and stars Leslie Bibb and Sam Rockwell; the BBC 3 series «Five by Five,» starring Idris Elba; British writer - director Nick Frew's hilarious 1999 Christmas - in - L.A. movie, «Perfect Roast Potatoes,» starring Catherine Tate; and widescreen comedy «Super Sex,» from writer - director Matthew Modine, starring Kevin Nealon, Edward Asner, Elizabeth Perkins, and Efren Ramirez.