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Los Angeles, CA — Sundance Institute has selected eight first - time filmmakers for its signature Directors Lab, which helped launch the careers of award - winning filmmakers Cary Fukunaga, Dee Rees, Marielle Heller, Benh Zeitlin and Quentin Tarantino.

The Sundance Institute has selected eight first time filmmakers for the Directors Lab (May 30 - June 23) and in the rare case, we might actually see one of these eventual films break into the Park City line - up as early as next January (rest assured we'll be keeping tabs).

Not exact matches

Award - winning filmmaker Ken Burns is responsible for some of the most moving and powerful documentary series of our time.

Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos said at the Television Critics Association press tour that the company wasn't in the market for a true - crime series at the time it picked up «Making a Murderer,» but he was impressed by the filmmakers.

There's even one point when Harding's mother criticizes the filmmakers for keeping her out of the story for a long stretch of time.

Noel Murray at The Los Angeles Times also wasn't much of a fan, but wrote that we should «give credit to the filmmakers for making a faith - affirming picture that aims to be more thoughtful than maudlin.»

We don't know if the trailer, which is made by Jewish filmmakers, is completely kosher, but we guess there's enough time for the rabbis to sort it out in time for the next Thanksgivukkah.

Actor - filmmaker Ron Perlman recently used the film hub for the third time, but the facility has not been heavily used by film production companies since its opening in 2015.

A federal judge who spared Dinesh D'Souza prison time for illegal - campaign contributions shot down the conservative filmmaker's nervy request to push back reporting to a halfway house until after January...

Chelsea resident Tina DiFeliciantonio, a documentary filmmaker and CB4 member, said after she cast her vote for Hoylman that his face time in the district mattered to her.

Summer is a busy time for filmmakers in Western New York.

Malin Akerman was spotted having a whale of a good time while at the Apple Soho Store for the «Meet the Filmmaker» event for her upcoming film last Tuesday night.

Twenty - five million views in two days — that's the viral pull of this video of 20 strangers asked to kiss for the first time on camera by filmmaker Tatia Pllieva for Los Angeles - based fashion brand Wren.

There is a lot to learn from Alfred Hitchcock's work, his narrative was close to perfect and the skill to create suspense by depriving us of the payoff and restricting our view forcing us to imagine how bad the situation was, for the longest time just to deliver it at the peek of our attention, and that my friends, that is a gift for the film fanatic as for the filmmaker.

American actor and filmmaker Benjamin Géza Affleck - Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California, and was raised in Cambridge, It's that time of year: for drinking and partying and then making New Year's resolutions.

Though the movie doesn't exactly open with a lot of promise - Hemsworth's character is, for example, first glimpsed seducing a nurse à la James Bond - Rush eventually settles to become a consistently engrossing drama that boasts a handful of genuinely exciting racing sequences (although, by that same token, it's hard not to wish that filmmaker Ron Howard had spent a little more time on the individual races).

Directed by Kiwi filmmaker Taika Waititi (of Hunt for the Wilderpeople, What We Do in the Shadows), Thor: Ragnarok finds the son of Odin in a race against time to prevent Ragnarok — the end of the universe — at the hands of Hela (Cate Blanchett), the Goddess of Death.

The filmmakers know how to craft a solid actioner, even at times if it's not truly perfect, there are a lot of things going for this film that surpasses the low points.

By the time the interminable, seemingly endless climax rolls around, Battleship has definitively established itself as nothing less than an intolerable and flat - out reprehensible waste of time - which is surprising, certainly, given the presence of Berg behind the camera (ie the filmmaker is, after all, responsible for such entertaining fare as Hancock and Very Bad Things).

It's clear almost immediately that filmmaker Shawn Levy just doesn't have the right sensibility for this material, as the director, known for his fluffy, decidedly comedic offerings, has infused This Is Where I Leave You with a terminally lightweight feel that grows more and more problematic as time progresses - as the absence of authentically heartfelt moments ultimately proves disastrous (ie the film possesses the feel of a glorified sitcom, for the most part).

The filmmakers make the time - honored mistake of going too far with animal fart and poop humor, and it takes away from the hoped - for effect of inuring Mr. Popper, and the audience, to the waddling animals.

To me, it all seemed that the filmmakers didn't care about the end result of the film, and this is a film that is not worth your time, and should be avoided if you're looking for something funny.

For the second time in as many years, a French female filmmaker has upended a horror sub-genre, flipping it upside down and injecting fresh blood with such force that it might never be the same.

She worked for a time as a designer and model before making her screen debut in 1931 in a comedy by Marc Allegret, who made his own debut as a feature filmmaker that same year.

Like the entertainingly bad film that inspired it, «The Disaster Artist» has an appeal all its own, but this time, for reasons its filmmakers actually intended.

«Contest» more than makes up for some first - time - filmmaker shortcomings with its sincerity and unexpected strengths in the storyline and cinematography.

That gap, though, seems as if it was enough time for the filmmakers of «The Strangers: Prey at Night» to get it right.

It's a seemingly foolproof premise that's employed to distinctly (and consistently) underwhelming effect by director Johannes Roberts, as the filmmaker, working from a screenplay cowritten with Noel Clarke, Dave Fairbanks, and Marc Small, offers up a narrative that's been jam - packed with generic, hackneyed elements that slowly - but - surely drain one's interest - with, for example, the movie's absence of sympathetic characters growing more and more problematic as time progresses.

Although, for a time, Downey's stormy offscreen life and personal problems threatened to challenge his public image, he quickly bounced back and overcame these setbacks, with a continued array of impressive roles on the big and small screens that never sacrificed his audience appeal or affability.The son of underground filmmaker Robert Downey, Downey Jr. was born in New York City on April 4, 1965.

Despite Wiseau's hard - hitting dramatic intentions, The Room is a film that provides shared happiness and joy Wiseau has been touring The Room for some time and it's always been complicated deciphering to what extent we're laughing with vs. at the filmmaker.

The film is another showcase for the filmmaker Zahler, he really delivered something interesting in 2015 with Bone Tomahawk and wastes no time with the next film.

I disagree with the assessment that they are caricatures rather than characters; if the film took the time to develop each soldier into fully fleshed - out three - dimensional characters, we'd end up with Band of Brothers, and at slightly under three hours the filmmakers just didn't have the time for that.

The filmmakers have clearly spent time carefully designing the motions for each of the characters and I don't understand why it's filmed so fast, wasting all that effort?

One of the foremost American filmmakers of our time, Richard Linklater achieved cult immortality with the «90s classic Dazed and Confused, won critical respect for the sublime Before trilogy, and redefined cinematic storytelling with the groundbreaking Boyhood.

Now, I'm aware that this is parody, and I'm all for the more offensive forms of parody — a lot of the time it's the only honest way to get a point across — but when the filmmakers themselves become fixated on it, then it doesn't play right at all.

Another victory for a first - time, full - length feature filmmaker with a curious, inventive eye and an unsparing point of view.

The filmmakers were abel to skip the world - building required for first films, but they don't spend their time on anything more interesting here.

Somehow, even the jokes that worked in the trailer don't work anymore; it's as if the guy who cut the trailer had more of a knack for timing than the filmmakers behind this sloppy mess.

Indeed, given the Hasidic community's not - exactly active embrace of documentary filmmakers, this is likely to be the closest look we get at their world for some time.

The fest also awarded a number of other prizes, including giving Benh Zeitlin's Sundance favorite Beasts of the Southern Wild the Camera d'Or, top prize for first - time filmmakers.

You get the feeling filmmaker Andrew Bujalski might have had a few sessions with a personal trainer, or maybe spent some time with a Crossfit WOD when inspiration hit for Results.

The fictional filmmaker earned praise from the critics, too: Roger Ebert said that «Smithee, a name I'm not familiar with, allows his story to unfold naturally,» while the New York Times added that Smithee «has an adroit facility for scanning faces and extracting sharp background detail.»

Yet, despite costing a meagre # 400» 000 to make, this first time feature filmmaker, along with an incredible cast and crew, have managed to push through the boundaries of their financial constraints to produce a calibre of film that rivals many of its Hollywood mainstream siblings, giving them a real run for their money.

At the same time, Uchida is responsible for some of the most remarkable swordplay films of the 1950s and»60s; his five - film Musashi Miyamoto epic (not screened at MOMA), starring Kinnosuke Nakamura in the title role and Ken Takakura as his arch-nemesis Kojiro, surpasses the better - known Inagaki Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune in terms of both drama and swordplay, yet remains little - known in the West (despite its availability on DVD in the U.S.) After the BAM retrospective (and others) in 2008, most of Uchida's films remained unscreened and undistributed in America, so with MOMA's bigger series recently ending, it's time again to encourage distributors like the Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and Arrow Video to bring out more of the director's masterpieces, both for critical reconsideration and for those whom the veteran filmmaker will be a major new discovery.

There is just something about the idea and setting that intrigues me and I think seeing something made by a first time feature length filmmaker is a must for everyone when attending a film festival.

Affleck's first time at bat as a filmmaker is more than promising, it's strikingly assured, showing a keen eye for the exact moment when action defines character.

First time director Eddie Mullins was a film critic for a decade prior to becoming a filmmaker, and as a result has an encyclopedic pool of filmic reference from which to pull from.

I like the rule of thumb for first - time filmmakers, is always write something near and dear to you.

Following a teenage filmmaker with only one friend, Earl, forced by his mother to befriend a girl with leukemia, and was described by Time Out's David Ehrlich as, «The Fault in Our Stars for Criterion Collection fetishists + an Eno soundtrack».

After shooting, Lanthimos began preparation to shoot The Favourite but then turned back to The Killing of a Sacred Deer after the filmmaking team watched footage and figured the feature could be finished in time for a premiere at Cannes, where the filmmaker's previous films The Lobster and Dogtooth debuted.