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.