Sentences with phrase «turned feature filmmaker»

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Also around the turn of the decade, Stipe and longtime friend and filmmaker Jim McKay created C - Hundred, a film collective devoted to producing videos, public - service announcements, and micro-budgeted shorts and features.

The following year, Garofalo appeared in no less than five films, with a supporting part in the ensemble piece 200 Cigarettes, a starring role as an unconventional action heroine called the Bowler in Mystery Men (which also featured Stiller), and prominent turns in Kevin Smith's eagerly awaited Dogma, Hampton Fancher's psychological thriller The Minus Man, and the satirical comedy Can't Stop Dancing, in which she acted alongside fellow comedienne Margaret Cho.In 2001, Garofolo took on the role of Catherine Connolly in The Laramie Project, HBO's docudrama chronicling the aftermath of the death of Matthew Shepard, and filmmaker David Wain's comedy Wet Hot American Summer.

Novelist - turned - filmmaker Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty, about a young prostitute (Emily Browning) whose clients prefer her to be unconscious, perfectly melds its formal rigor to notions of social and gender - specific enslavement; it's the incredible debut feature of 2011.

The acclaimed third feature by Noah Baumbach marked a critical development for the filmmaker as he turned toward an increasingly personal style — a move that garnered him an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay.

The filmmaker was inspired by the various «girl gangs» she saw around the Paris suburbs, and «Girlhood» focuses on one such girl: Marieme (Karidja Touré, hailed for her breakout turn in the feature).

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.

Culinary road trip series turned feature film The Trip marks the duo's third collaboration with the filmmaker, and their second instance of playing exaggerated versions of themselves under his watch.

The weekend takes a terrifying turn when a meteorite crashes the party forcing everyone to face the darkest, screaming extraterrestrial nightmare imaginable... The Gracefield Incident is written and directed by up - and - coming filmmaker Mathieu Ratthe, making his feature directorial debut after a number of short films previously.

Actor - turned - filmmaker Paddy Considine expands his 2007 short Dog Altogether into his first feature, and it's a remarkably powerful drama.

Verdict: Easily our favorite film of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, the fantastic directorial debut of cinematographer / writer - turned - feature filmmaker Daniel Patrick Carbone, «Smiling Faces» may have been the most striking debut we saw all last year (though not mentioned on our Breakout Directors list because it wasn't released in 2013).

Terence Davies, an actor turned filmmaker who directed his first short film in 1976, has made a mere six features since 1988, when he released his debut feature Distant Voices, Still Lives.

Feature: Julia Montejo, Jesus Nebot, No Turning Back Documentary: Bill Holloway, Go the Distance Short Drama: Jeff Bemiss, The Book & The Rose Short Comedy: Vengeance Animation: The Last Mouse Screenplay: Richard Guimond, The River Pirates Granite State Filmmaker: Bobby Owen

About midway through filming, she was served an eviction notice and for us as filmmakers, that was a major story arc that turned it into a feature.»

Mr. Roosevelt is written and directed by actress - turned - filmmaker Noël Wells, making her feature directorial debut.

I'm lousy at keeping track of pre-production news, so if you'd asked me an hour ago what British artist - turned - filmmaker Steve McQueen was tackling for his sophomore feature, I'd have answered, «Oh, I know — that Fela Kuti biopic starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.»

The filmmaker made his name with music videos, before turning to the feature film world, dropping his sizzling debut «Sexy Beast» in 2000, followed four years later by «Birth,» which, in this writer's opinion, is one of the best films of the 2000s.

«I'm working with various writers and filmmakers, one guy [ex-Beta Band member turned filmmaker] John Maclean that I've done two short films with already («Man on a Motorcycle,» and «Pitch Black Heist,» the latter of which Fassbender exec - produced) and we're working on a feature script at the moment.

Soon his whole world turns upside down... Life After Beth is both written & directed by American filmmaker Jeff Baena, making his feature directing debut after co-writing the I Heart Huckabees screenplay in 2004 with David O. Russell.

Venice Film Festival If «Hunger,» artist - turned - filmmaker Steve McQueen's remarkable debut feature, was a study of a body strenuously denied its fundamental needs, his satisfyingly rigorous, explicit follow - up, «Shame,» traces the very different damage done by a body over-gifted with wants.

Focus Features «has released the first look photos from actor - turned - filmmaker Joel Edgerton's «Boy Erased» which is already considered a potential player in next year's awards race.

Underworld: Blood Wars is directed by filmmaker Anna Foerster, a cinematographer turned director making her feature debut after work on «Outlander» and «Criminal Minds».

The Ghoul is both written and directed by British actor - turned - filmmaker Gareth Tunley, making his feature directorial debut after a short and some TV work previously.

Come and Find Me is directed by American filmmaker Zack Whedon, originally an assistant turned story editor («Southland») turned writer («Halt and Catch Fire») turned filmmaker, making his feature directorial debut.

Exclusive to the Berlinale competition, however, is African - American actress - turned - filmmaker Victoria Mahoney's debut feature «Yelling to the Sky,» which offers Gabourey Sidibe her first post - «Precious» big - screen role.

The actor - turned - filmmaker on the universality of addiction, Doug Liman's toolbox, and his outrageous debut feature Assholes.

There are so many leaders in history who need their story told and notable filmmaker, Antoine Fuqua, will reportedly be turning a passion project into a feature film.

It has been close to a decade since commercials and music video director turned filmmaker Jonathan Glazer released his sophomore feature film, «Birth.»

As you can probably guess, this invitation turns out to be a trap, as Tully — along with cinematographer Wyatt Garfield (who shot the filmmaker's previous feature, Ping Pong Summer)-- tirelessly endeavors to deliver an aura of menace with every misty frame.

An awesomely prolific filmmaker (he turned out seven features in 1970 alone), Fassbinder became the height of Euro - American fashion during the mid-70s, then went into nearly total eclipse after his death from a drug overdose — reminding us that the fate of a fashionable filmmaker is often to be discarded (as, more recently, have been David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino).

Breathe is directed by English actor - turned - filmmaker Andy Serkis, making his first feature directorial debut.

«Lay the Favorite» Synopsis: A ditzy thirtysomething stripper - turned - cocktail - waitress (Rebecca Hall) becomes involved with a group of geeky fiftyish men who have found a way to work the sportsbook system in Las Vegas to their advantage What You Need To Know: Directed by Stephen Frears («The Grifters,» «The Queen» «Tamara Drewe «-RRB-, a filmmaker who has admittedly had a hit - and - miss career, but featuring a pretty much all - star cast of Bruce Willis (always good in the hands of a real filmmaker), Rebecca Hall, Catherine Zeta - Jones, Vince Vaughn, Laura Prepon and Joshua Jackson, it's hard not to be intrigued by a mid-sized dramedy that's not being made by either a major studio or a mid-sized indie.

The feature - length debut of DP - turned - writer / director Daniel Patrick Carbone, «Smiling Faces» definitely announces DPC as a bold new filmmaker to keep an eye on.

It's arguably the best directed film here, with video - artist - turned - feature - filmmaker Steve McQueen along with DoP Sean Bobbitt never wasting a frame, never shifting the composition of a single frame in the wrong direction.

Prisoners is directed well, apart from its length, by French - Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Maelstrom), from a sometimes nifty, sometimes turgid screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband), which features narrative twists and turns to keep the audience guessing as to what might have happened to the two young girls, and also who holds the key to the answer of their whereabouts.

I honestly didn't anticipate the Best Director award for well - regarded Iranian photographer - turned - filmmaker Shirin Neshat (for her debut feature «Women Without Men»), not least because it was one of the Competition titles I missed and I didn't hear much talk about it on the Lido.

«Thoroughbreds,» which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and opens in limited release March 9 from Focus Features, is the debut of 29 - year - old New York - based playwright turned filmmaker Cory Finley.

The Ranger is directed by producer - turned filmmaker Jenn Wexler, making her feature directorial debut after a few short films previously.

Puzzle is the second feature film from veteran producer - turned - filmmaker Marc Turtletaub (Gods Behaving Badly), and it's just perfect.

Actor - turned - filmmaker Karen Gillan premiered her first feature, The Party's Just Beginning at Tribeca Film Festival.

But the movie opts to downplay incidents of plagiarism in favor of featuring appearances by artists who employed such colorful sobriquets as Abstract Rule, Born Allah, Pigeon John, Riddlore, Big Al, Wreckless, Ellay Khule, Medusa, Q., MYKA NYNE, Busdriver, Ganjah K, Big Baby, CVE, Tray - Loc, Cut Chemist, Volume 10, Jyant, Ronda Ross, 2 Mex, Fat Jack,T - Love, Peace, Chali 2NA and F Stl, and perhaps most notably Eve, aka Ava Duvernay, a rapper - turned - filmmaker with a very bright future behind the camera.

When invited to exhibit at the Armory Show this past spring, the gallery featured a major sculpture by 30 - year - old Paul Gabrieli that was snapped up in the first few minutes by filmmaker - turned - artist - and - tastemaker John Waters.

Laudan turned to the real estate business six years ago, attracted both for practical reasons (in Canada there's «not much» financial security in being a feature filmmaker, he points out) as well as by fond memories of his mother becoming a real estate agent back when he was a teenage math whiz finishing high school in Vancouver, where he grew up.