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Alex Garland received the award for first - time feature director for Ex Machina.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves and instead give first - time feature director Gabrielle Demeestere her due.

And throughout, as the story shifts gears between the dryly amusing and the wistfully romantic, first - time feature director Lorene Scafaria struggles to keep the narrative engine on track, as though she were learning how to drive a manual transmission.

Like last year's entertaining Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, sexual orientation is moot in first - time feature director Jim Fall's breezy, single - day - spanning romantic comedy.

Much of the humor in the late Stan Seidel's script derives from the three men's differing perceptions of Jewel, nicely brought to visual life by first - time feature director Harald Zwart.

One reason the film works so well is that first - time feature director Kevin Asch manages to capture the look and feel of a traditional Hassidic household and community, as well as the exotic night world of drugs, booze, and women that Sam comes to know — and like.

First - time feature director Phil Traill (formerly a television director), writer Kim Barker (previous credit: License to Wed), and editors Rod Dean and Virginia Katz, seem to have slapped together the scenes, with angles that don't correspond between cuts and pauses that run several beats too long — resting for laughs but yielding tepid groans.

Nor would I mind if Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird») or Jordan Peele («Get Out») pulled off an upset, less for the history - making implications than for the satisfaction of honoring a first - time feature director who knocked it out of the park.

First - time feature director Dan Trachtenberg milks a simple, succulent premise for everything it's worth in 10 Cloverfield Lane, a quasi-sequel to 2008's found - footage urban thriller Cloverfield.

On the other hand, the cast of powerhouse performers could certainly help to boost the first - time feature director's credentials and the story may dig deeper than the (largely) surface material featured in the teasers so far.

Now he's at it again with Slow West, this time with first - time feature director John Maclean (the pair teamed up for Maclean's first two shorts, Man on a Motorcycle and the very fun Pitch Black Heist).

It was really great for me as a first time feature director to be working with such talents.

The drama was helmed by first - time feature director, Jesse Gustafson, and written by Guy Stevenson.

For a music - video director, Klasfeld is shockingly indifferent about matters of style, and as a first - time feature director, he makes the mistake of telling rather than showing.

Proudly and narrowly, «12 Strong» is a good - news war story, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by first - time feature director Nicolai Fuglsig, of Denmark.

A faithful adaption of Marvel's comic book property in spirit if not in tone (we'll get to that in a bit), first - time feature director Tim Miller and producer / star Ryan Reynolds's long - in - gestation love - child is a unique, welcome entry into a genre about to explode in what some would argue is over-population.

With a first time feature director it seemed wise to look for a more experienced actor.

First - time feature director Anja Marquardt, however, never loses control, delivering a stylish, deeply unnerving, and profound film on an intangible modern issue.

Music video veteran and first - time feature director Anthony Mandler has been desperate to bring Monster to the screen for years, and now he's done so with a cast that includes such heavyweights as Jennifer Ehle, Jeffrey Wright, and Tim Blake Nelson, as well as musicians - turned - actors like Oscar - winner Jennifer Hudson, Nas, and A$ AP Rocky (real name Rakim Mayers) as Harmon's co-defendant.

The body count quickly increases, although the established thread of the facility employees» attachment to Morgan means that first - time feature director Luke Scott approaches the ensuing violence with a surprisingly regretful tone.

First time feature director - writer Benh Zeitlin simply lays out a rather loose narrative and lets Hushpuppy guide you through it as she pleases.

With a cast mostly made up of rising, but still likely unfamiliar stars, and a first - time feature director at the helm, the film's been mostly under the radar until it premiered at the BFI London Film Festival today, but though it might appear familiar on the surface, the film proves to be more than worth investigating.

«Mustang» is one of those little miracles: a film from a first time feature director that arrives fully - formed, distinct of style and vision and utterly fearless.

Should we survive the intervening weeks, SIFF climaxes with Sundance fave Get Low, a bluegrass - flavored backwoods folk tale from first - time feature director Aaron Schneider.

First time feature director Ben Love pieced together a remarkable and savage thriller made all the more fascinating by the attention given to the psyche of its central players.

First time feature director Ben Love pieced together a remarkable and...

In a genre more and more dominated by in media res character pieces and verisimilitude, first time feature director Gillian Robespierre has found the best way to naturally draw the audience into her world.

Derek Cianfrance is actually a three - time feature director, but his first movie Brother Tied is so unobtainable (it played at festivals in 1998 but hasn't seen the light of day since, the print now collecting dust in Cianfrance's father's basement) that we only have his second and third films, Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines, to judge him by.

That was an incredible experience for me, as a first - time feature director, as I spent my life watching movies and playing video games.

The first - time feature director attempts to merge the mundane with the unbelievable in a way that leaves both kind of flat.

First - time feature director Ron Underwood (The Adventures of Pluto Nash, In the Mix) keeps the pace brisk, while the screenwriting team of Wilson and Maddock (Wild Wild West, * batteries not included) serve up an always interesting array of situations and confrontations with which to engage us with some good laughs and good scares, sometimes simultaneously.

It's rare that a first - time feature director can make as competent a film as Brooklyn - based Daniel Patrick Carbone with Hide Your Smiling Faces.

What makes Gere's off - key performance all the more frustrating is that first - time feature director Rob Marshall gets so much so right otherwise; in translation to stage to screen, Chicago has retained all of its deliciously mean spirit without a hint of Hollywood dilution.

Variety reports that Jordan Peele won the first - time feature director award at Saturday night's ceremony for his socially conscious thriller «Get Out.»

A low - key, yet sincere approach by the actors helps fuel these moments, a notable accomplishment of restraint for a first - time feature director.

Meet Leigh Janiak, a first - time feature director who's also the sole female filmmaker behind a SXSW 2014 Midnight Program official selection.

Radiance is a screen adaptation of Louis Nowra's stage play by first time feature director Rachel Perkins.

First - time feature director Carl Erik Rinsch and writers Chris Morgan and Hossein Amini present these events not as a straightforward period piece but as a work of Chushingura, a fictionalized account of the popular story complete with witches, mythical beasts and magical monks.

The subject is still in place, after all, and the filmmakers — writer John Romano («The Lincoln Lawyer») and first - time feature director Ewan McGregor — can replace the diatribe with dialogue.

With celebrity producer Peter Jackson in his corner, first - time feature director Neill Blomkamp is riding a wave of hype that may help his scrappy District 9 get seen.

First time feature director Can Evrenol has a firm handle on the tone and style, and the satanic dungeon is disturbingly rich and detailed, but it's all for naught because Baskin is gore for the sake of gore and nothing more.

McCarthy, heretofore a Broadway actor who has also been a series regular on Boston Public and appeared on Ally McBeal, The Practice, and Law & Order: SVU, makes a surprisingly assured debut as a first - time feature director - writer.

This is fantastic piece of horror, especially considering it comes from a first - time feature director.

LMD: What was it like as a first time feature director to work with Ms. No, who's written quite a few hit films?

First - time feature director Eva Vives (who co-wrote «Raising Victor Vargas») has a lot to say and finds some provocative ways to express it all.

This Zambian drama garnered strong reviews on the festival circuit, with first - time feature director Rungano Nyoni acclaimed as an important new voice in African cinema.

Well, if you're first - time feature director Gary Shore, you begin by spinning a tale about children heisted from Transylvania by some dastardly Turks and molded into a gruesome child army, all of which is visually expressed by very inventive almost - still - but - almost - moving tableaus of kids being taught to slaughter.

Tim Grierson at Screen International: «In some ways, The Good Dinosaur is one of Pixar's most conventional films... But that template sets the stage for a mythic, visually resplendent treatment of familiar material, as first - time feature director Peter Sohn wrings considerable emotion from a tale that's part Western, part Incredible Journey - style adventure.»

In the contemporary horror tradition of Wolf Creek, Snowtown and the yet - to - be released Hounds of Love comes Killing Ground, a dusty journey into hell courtesy of first - time feature director Damien Power.

When Augustine Frizzell's buddy - girl comedy Never Goin» Back bows Monday at midnight, it will mark the culmination of a four - year endeavor — an odyssey of sorts mined from Frizzell's own unconventional childhood, and one that required the first - time feature director to completely scrap her original film before re-writing, re-casting, and re-shooting her Sundance debut.