Sentences with phrase «shot on shoestring budgets»

The nominees for the 2011 Independent Spirit Awards were announced this morning from Los Angeles, once again honouring the year's best independent films shot on shoestring budgets (specifically under $ 20 million).

Shot on a shoestring budget on the quick, neither were aware that it would go on to gross close to $ 100 million and become one of the most successful small - scale indies in history.

Fireproof appears in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and though blandly shot on a shoestring budget, it looks rather terrific on DVD.

Shot on a shoestring budget in just 16 days, «Blood Stripe» has already garnered several awards: It received the U.S. Best Fiction Feature Film Award at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival; the Audience Award at the 2016 Austin Film Festival; the John Schlesinger Award for First - Time Filmmaker at the 2016 Provincetown International Film Festival; and both the Audience Award and the Indie Vision Breakthrough Performance Award at the 2016 Twin Cities Film Festival.

You know that Happy Christmas must have been shot on a shoestring budget.

In Search of a Midnight Kiss is an indie comedy romance story shot on a shoestring budget that was written and directed by Alex Holdridge.

Not exact matches

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master GEORGE A. ROMERO, is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

«Boyhood,» director Richard Linklater's experimental coming - of - age film that was shot over 12 years on a shoestring budget, followed with three nominations for its ensemble cast and for Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.

Given the extreme low budget (the film was shot on a shoestring in Budapest), the special effects look pretty credible, with Petty wisely deciding to spend most of the time with the creatures in the background or swathed in shadow, understanding that Sentinel is a picture of ideas — an unusually faithful recreation of Hitchcock's film possessed of a similar, mordant sense of humour, if an understandable surfeit of corresponding depth.

, About a Boy) makes his debut as a director, shooting his modest film in 16 days on a shoestring $ 300,000 budget.

Night of the Living Dead (1968) Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, «Night of the Living Dead,» directed by horror master George A. Romero, is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

Thus, the director decided to take advantage of the presence of his crew and most of his cast and shot a full second feature, Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus on a shoestring budget while waiting to complete principal photography on the film he was supposed to make in the first place.