Sentences with phrase «smaller film festival»

Would it show up unannounced at a smaller film festival, like There Will Be Blood did?
Freestyle Digital Media has debuted an official trailer for an indie comedy titled Bernard and Huey, from director Dan Mirvish (co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival), which premiered at a few small film festivals last year.
Freestyle Digital Media has released an official trailer for an indie psychological thriller titled A Good Dream, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Mahum Jamal, which premiered at a few smaller film festivals last year.
The small film festival that takes place each year in college town Columbia, Missouri, has built itself into one of the best destinations to see documentary film.

Not exact matches

We have a small update today, with a final box office analysis, one more film festival and some cool production images.
I see all the commercial releases, and almost all of the imports, and at the Cannes, New York, and Chicago film festivals, I see a good cross section of the smaller films, domestic and foreign, that are worthy of festivals but not commercial enough for wider release.
SXSW started off as a small music festival but has quickly morphed into this huge event that now not only celebrates music but film, television, social media, technology, education, and comedy as well.
Each year, a small percentage of films are selected for programming at festivals.
Although only a small portion of the festival's content is in the scifi / fantasy / horror / science arena, there are still a lot of films worth pointing...
The truth is that festivals are not an absolute priority for all producers, which means that some films simply don't show up anywhere, or only at smaller festivals that are considered useful for distribution reasons.»
Barbera is all diplomacy when it comes to commenting on his rivalry with Toronto: «I always underline they are two different kinds of festivals; ours is a much smaller festival, and we have a reduced number of films.
Inspired by a nightmare, Twixt — filmed in 3 - D, but never widely seen outside film festivals, and now making a belated debut on home video — drifts between the waking and sleeping hours of down - on - his - luck horror novelist Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), whose book tour takes him to the small town of Swann Valley and to a poorly attended signing held at a hardware store.
, a small silent black - and - white French film that no one seemed to have heard of, but had been generally well - received at the festival, with its lead actor Jean Dujardin winning the Best Actor Award.
Jean - Pierre & Luc Dardennes) Cast: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione Belgian writer - directors Dardenne Brothers are such Cannes mainstays that we're surprised no one's named a street after them so far: every one of their films since 1999's «Rosetta» has premiered at the festival, and they've in the very small club of those who've won the Palme D'Or twice (for «Rosetta» and 2005's «The Child»).
Synchronicity — Sci - fi can be a tricky bet at smaller festivals like this (especially when you hear them being compared to much larger budget and classic films like Blade Runner), but TAD has chosen a few good ones the last couple of years and with director Jacob Gentry's track record of The Signal behind him, there's at least some solid talent involved.
There isn't anything wrong with either kind of consciousness, and in fact my favorite films of the festival were intimate, small - scale dramas that derived their power to move from their strong sense of personality and human experience.
Collectively we — Kurt Halfyard, Matt Brown, Matthew Price, Ryan McNeil, Bob Turnbull, Mike Rot, Ariel Fisher and Sean Kelly — saw almost half of the 350 films shown at the festival and hopefully this post can act as a «rough guide» for films that will be finding distribution on some platform, whether on the big screen, or small internet enabled screen, in the next 18 months.
Collectively we — Kurt Halfyard, Bob Turnbull, Courtney Small, Mike Rot, and Sean Kelly — saw a sizable chunk of the films shown at the massive public festival.
This is precisely the sort of small, quiet film that festivals lust to discover — which is certain to happen with Barrett's charming debut during the upcoming festival season.
Nowhere Boy did have a much smaller release, getting sent by The Weinstein Company to just 215 theaters last October after opening in the UK and various other markets and making the US film festival circuit.
As a festival, Nantucket has the built - in advantage of being «small» — which is to say, accessible and easy to navigate — but due to the island's status as an elite destination, it attracts films and filmmakers that might otherwise be above its punching weight.
A majority of the films they program at the festival are small features made on extremely limited budgets that become the breakout project for many people.
A small, rapturously reviewed film that won best feature at the Independent Spirit Awards and has cleaned up on the festival circuit, this second feature from director Chloe Zhao explores the world of a South Dakota cowboy (played by Brady Jandreau) who has to find a new way of life after suffering a head injury.
It is the largest and most important in North America, and to Hollywood is now more important than Cannes (although Hollywood films are only a small percentage of the whole festival).
Sundance has grown from the small American independent film festival it was 30 years ago, and now has about a dozen sections with some presenting films in competition, and other sections presenting films out of competition.
There is a great narrative associated to Thunder Road: it serves as a brilliant proof of concept project as it was based on the Sundance Grand Jury prize winning short, and serves as a reminder that in this era, regardless of a small budget or limited means — that if you've got a great idea and a team of creative collaborators, you can make a feature film in the month of November and win a major film festival five months later.
If you look closely at trailers for all the different genres of Hollywood blockbuster movies, television series and even small - scale film festival offers you'll quickly notice a common pattern to each.
The film takes place at a middle school during the evening of the culture festival on a small and isolated island.
It's analogous to the film industry, where small independent producers, directors and writers have made low budget films and shown them at film festivals.
Small and Personal and Tranquil is a short documentary filmed during the 2017 Creative Coast Festival, written, directed and edited by Bram Ruiter, and examines a festival in Sweden that's doing things a little bit differently:
A 2015 survey found some 60 cli - fi films, including major theatrical releases, smaller festival films, and made - for - TVmovies: Svoboda (2016).
South By Southwest 2013 is just around the corner and there's quite a lot of online buzz about it... What started out as a small festival back in 1987 is now a giant mega-conference catering to lovers of music, film and all - things - interactive.
The festival was founded by a small group of local filmmakers and film enthusiasts.
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