Sentences with phrase «social issue film»

Part social issue film, part thriller, the doc is full of complexities and gray areas that are embodied by a truly bizarre and elusive character.

Betty is currently on the Board of Directors of Deep Dish TV and Third World Newsreel, two progressive media arts centers that distributes and exhibits social issue films.

Not exact matches

In 2014, he founded Participant Media, a production company that finances and produces social - issue films and documentaries.

«Formula One has issued a new set of social media guidelines allowing teams and drivers to film and record their activities to bring the sport closer to the fans.

It also included an evening session going beyond economics and political science to look at how times of fiscal austerity were reflected in film, cartoon and gallery art, with experts exploring these issues from the perspective of social history.

The group used media, such as television adverts, Disney films, press articles, image bank photography to social media, to stimulate debate about the particular issue being explored.

* documentary filmmaker - I make films about social issues * teacher - I teach socially conscious filmmaking to children...

Not to say that there isn't other talents who tackle similar projects and important social issues in film (Shane Meadows and Mike Leigh spring to mind) but there really isn't anyone quite like Ken Loach.

Both films integrated social issues into their narrative fabric quite naturally, even though Creed was angled more as a sports drama.

Despite an arc that feels reminiscent of similar films that came before it, the film's focus on timely social issues make it stand out from the pack.

A lot of my peers have been incredible with embracing social issues but I would like to see more of it in US film.

But films in 2017 offered explorations of far more pressing issues, even when not directly dealing with the world's increasingly fractious social order.

«Black Nativity» juggles a variety of contemporary social issues, and at times it's hard to tell who the film is pointing its fingers at.

The very fact that this movie tries, dynamically, to do the same will itself outrage some viewers: Social - issue films are supposed to be square, dull, and single - note.

If we can say that the 48th New York Film Festival offered films that were for the most part concerned with social issues, we certainly can not accuse the selection committee of putting together a one - note program, or of being restricted only to socially conscious films produced within the traditions of film realism.

One of the reasons that I love fantastic genre film is that it can often find the most relevant and interesting metaphors for dealing with issues of social life, be they cultural, political, or sexual.

«Get Out» director - producer Jordan Peele received the Stanley Kramer award for a film that raises awareness of social issues.

The IDA also presented the career achievement award on Saturday to Lourdes Portillo in recognition of Portillo's body of work which spans nearly 40 years and includes films about Latin American experiences and social justice issues.

The film seems to live up to its «cultural phenomenon» praise as a visual masterpiece, with an emotional story arc, women empowerment, social and political issues, and Oscar - worthy performances especially from Michael B. Jordan's Erik Killmanger.

Aguilar: The film focuses on the issue of obesity, do you think this is a real social problem in Mexico or are the unrealistic beauty standards placed by the media what turn into a problem?

The latter, in particular, seems underdeveloped with Dag and his co-writer Ladinigg seeming to throw it into proceedings for the sake of reminding the audience that this is an important film dealing with serious social issues.

I did not expect the film to touch on as many social issues and dilemmas as it does and these issues are inhabited by a great side cast including Aidan Gillen, Chris O'Dowd, Domhnall Gleeson and Kelly Reilly.

Yet for all the film's interest in race and social issues, Changing Lanes demonstrates a level of respect for its audience rare and gratifying, with speeches untainted by proselytizing and themes presented with an even - handed regard for reality and logic.

Every year, the SR Socially Relevant (TM) Film Festival New York highlights films using the medium to raise awareness for vital social issues of the day.

IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY is the winner of the Producers Guild of America's 2012 Stanley Kramer Award, which honors films whose «achievement or contribution illuminates provocative social issues in an accessible and elevating fashion.»

It's a film that is more concerned about creating mood, atmosphere, symbolism and metaphor with its images and sounds, than a strong narrative or character exploration, and therefore lacks that sucker - punch it perhaps requires in highlighting these political and social issues.

Four of the nominated films lean hard on pressing social issues, always a plus, and no two overlap in subject matter, but the best documentary in this category, Lucy Walker's Waste Land, doesn't lean hard on our social issues.

Also, the film tries to address some kind of political and social issues about big corporations in bed with world governments regarding natural resources like clean water.

While showcasing New York's issues with homelessness, poverty, social unrest, and a slew of other issues that were plaguing the city in the late 80s, the film still retains Chaplin's sense of humor, albeit in a much darker and grittier tone.

GATTACA brought up many social issues while also being an entertaining film, and this is exactly what GOOD KILL is.

It is impossible to discuss the best films of the year without considering some big social and cultural issues.

A romantic comedy, yes, but the film had a lot more to it than just the main genre it fit into; the soundtrack was fun and complemented the scenes well, as well as the fundamental social issues addressed in modernized and traditional South Africa.

Notably absent the kind of condescension that can occur when an experienced filmmaker takes on a high school story, here Famuyiwa doesn't just reorient the high school film around the experience of a young black self - confessed geek, but riffs on social and class issues, and the riddles of perception versus reality during those difficult teenage years too.

Although Black Star is not intended as a direct response to the current social climates in the UK and US, Clark says that a number of the films in the programme speak directly to what's happening today: «John Singleton's seminal Boyz n the Hood is a prime example: it's impossible to watch the film and not see very clear connections to contemporary issues of police brutality and gentrification.

But this year a choice selection of such films have found their way to Sundance, at a time when the period film has gained considerable currency as an illuminator of contemporary social issues.

It's a sequel that has all of the laughs of the first film with the added depth of a social issue picture.

October 5, 2016 • Filmed live at OPB in Portland, Ore., the long - running rock group tackles social and political issues with firebrand zeal.

Stray Dog is not one of those single - issue documentaries dealing with a big public social issue, but many of these issues come up naturally, and the film presents them in a way that leaves it up to the viewers to come to their own positions.

That leaves some of the other social justice / hot button issue films perhaps on the outside looking in.

This is, after all, a film based on the Gene Roddenberry television series from the 1960s that used its futuristic setting as a way to comment on the social and global issues of the time.

The picture was an unexpected surprise hit, but instead of tackling big - budget franchises for an encore, Blomkamp decided to create a big - budget sci - fi film once again tackling many of the same social issues, this time hovering around healthcare and immigration.

There's a nice go at social issues, but it feels like a stretch in an attempt to give the film some sort of reason to exist outside of bringing in easy money for the studio.

The jury only wishes that German feature films would portray burning social issues and events with a similar lightness of touch and craftsmanship.

«It manages to confront important cultural and social issues, but is, at its core, an incredibly suspenseful and entertaining film.»

The graphic brutality, the warped sexuality, the disconcerting twists on revenge and redemption seem completely out of character for the filmmaker behind such seminal work as «She's Got ta Have It» and «Malcolm X.» Yet that is precisely what makes this jagged film from a director usually bound up in social issues so interesting to consider.

And that's what Luis Buñuel did in that film was to take a huge social, cultural issue and reduce it to a single room.

Although the film does tackle some gender issues (Kildare's profession has not progressed as he is «not the marrying kind», while Elizabeth is determined to prove women can make it without the help of a man) The Limehouse Golem is more a riveting Victorian thriller than feminist social commentary.

«We wanted to make the film entertaining and funny at the same time as we're dealing with complicated social issues,» says Ostlund of his film, about a suave museum curator (Claes Bang) whose life unravels when his wallet and phone are stolen.

In 100 Years of Japanese Cinema he basically turns himself into an academician, and not a very good one at that, giving us a pocket social history of 20th - century Japan in relation to film, in which aesthetic issues play almost no role at all.

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