Sentences with phrase «women filmmakers which»

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When I see Almodóvar's pictures, I come into a new perception of life, a fantastic world in which the Spanish filmmaker shows us a new concept of women's feelings and demonstrates he is a master, a genius.

Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in film both as actors and also writers and directors and producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»

WFF, is a significant player within the Canadian film fest circuit, i known for its intimate, casual environment, set by Mishaw's loyal and tireless admin team, consisting mostly of women, most of whom have been with the festival for years, setting the stage for high - quality film - centric hospitality through which filmmakers and industry honchos mingle, and deals are made not only via scheduled one - on - one meetings, but also in the hot tub or on the ski slopes.

The English filmmaker behind the critically acclaimed Berberian Sound Studio returns with The Duke of Burgundy, which explores a strange relationship between two women.

From «Gigi» to «The Last Detail», from «Star Wars» to «Wall Street», from Training Day to just about any recent Al Pacino vehicle («Scent of a Woman», «Donnie Brasco», «The Devil's Advocate», The Recruit), storylines which involve a young man's initiation at the hands of an older father figure into the ways of the world have proven irresistible to filmmakers, combining elements of Oedipal conflict, the crisis of masculinity and the generational gap in a neat coming - of - age package.

Film Fatales is a diverse community of women filmmakers who meet regularly to mentor each other, share resources, collaborate on projects and build a supportive environment in which to make their films.

Jennifer Phang is the 2015 recipient of the inaugural San Francisco Film Society Women's Filmmaker Fellowship, which provides a grant of $ 40,000, office, networking and development support toward a genre project.At Sundance 2015, Jennifer Phang's sophomore feature Advantageous won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Special Jury Prize.

But it is Muriel's deft combination of high modernism and leftist critique — bearing out Gilles Deleuze's comment that Resnais and Straub - Huillet are the most political filmmakers — that has influenced so many subsequent films, including Michael Haneke's Caché and, most extensively, Jean - Luc Godard's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, which JLG called a «partner» to the Resnais, and which features a poster of Muriel as homage, also condemns a criminal war (Vietnam), and similarly parallels a portrait of a woman with that of a city under urban renovation.

Still, this brief court appearance enabled him to re-establish contact with Wuornos, which led to a series of interviews that depict nothing so much as a suicidal woman using a high - profile filmmaker to expedite her death sentence.

Opting for straight - line suspense, the filmmakers had to forgo subjective cutaways like the plainclothes cop's reflections on his tortuous relationship with a Third - World - infatuated feminist; again, Stone writes in a more bedrock commentary on metropolitan backsliding by refusing to reveal which of the hostages is the cop, so that the police monitoring the stolen train are led to wonder whether it's a man or a woman and chauvinistically calculate a woman's chances for taking effective action against the hijackers.

In 2007, the Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta earned an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category for Water, which focused on women issues.

Extras: «Road to Justice» journeys alongside DC comic creators as they explore over 50 years of the Justice League, from comic books to animated adventures to their cinematic debut; «Heart of Justice» in which the cast and filmmakers share their admiration for DC's iconic Trinity: Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman; «Technology of the Justice League»: From Batman's arsenal to Cyborg's alien tech, interface with the Justice League database to learn their most advanced secrets; «Justice League: The New Heroes»; «Steppenwolf the Conqueror»; «Scene Studies: Revisiting the Amazons»; «Scene Studies: Wonder Woman's Rescue»; «Scene Studies: Heroes Park»; «Scene Studies: The Tunnel Battle»; «Suit Up: The Look of the League.»

Chanel will partner with Tribeca Enterprises for the third annual «Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women's Filmmaker Program,» which works to support and promote emerging American women screenwriters and directors of short - form narrative Women's Filmmaker Program,» which works to support and promote emerging American women screenwriters and directors of short - form narrative women screenwriters and directors of short - form narrative film.

«Woman, Thou Art Loosed,» which opens today nationwide, is the first theatrical film in 13 years from Mr. Schultz, one of the first black filmmakers to penetrate mainstream Hollywood in the heady 1970's.

Visser said she was proud that women filmmakers won several of this year's juried awards, including the IDFA Award for Best Feature - Length Documentary, which went to Mila Turajlic for The Other Side of Everything.

Accused masturbator and Woody Allen collaborator Louis C.K. has begun principal photography on a film in which he plays a TV writer - producer whose nubile teen daughter establishes an unclear relationship with an older filmmaker known to prey on young women.

Imagine the clusterfuck of controversy that would've erupted if Deadline had ran an item announcing, «Accused masturbator and Woody Allen collaborator Louis C.K. has begun principal photography on a film in which he plays a TV writer - producer whose nubile teen daughter establishes an unclear relationship with an older filmmaker known to prey on young women.»

This, combined with the women's march last week in which the female members of the jury were joined on the red carpet to recognize that only 82 women have ever walked the red carpet as directors of an in competition film compared to 1,645 men, underlined that while two of the three female directors in competition (out of 21) won prizes but the Palme still eludes a solo win by a woman filmmaker.

The other woman filmmaker is France's Nicole Garcia with Mal de Pierres, in which Marion Cotillard, a badly married middle - class wife and Louis Garel, a wounded veteran, are illegitimate lovers in rural post-war France.

In his upcoming biography, Otto Preminger — The Man Who Would Be King, renowned film professor Foster Hirsch describes how the demanding Austrian filmmaker cast Kim, who was then aged 17, to play one of five nubile young women held for ransom in the nude by Palestinian terrorists in Rosebud, which co-starred Peter O'Toole and Richard Attenborough.

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017) The scene in which Diana realizes how far she can jump and climbs a wall — smashing a new path upward for herself to reach & become the God Killer (big budget female filmmaker allegory alert!)

And then there's the very special «Fast Color» from filmmaker Julia Hart, which stars Gugu Mbatha - Raw as a woman with superpowers on the run who reconnects with her estranged mother and daughter.

Director Bruno Mattei (Shocking Dark) is a highly underrated filmmaker and it shows here in his «women in prison» movie, Violence in a Women's Prison, which embraces the sub gwomen in prison» movie, Violence in a Women's Prison, which embraces the sub gWomen's Prison, which embraces the sub genre.

An invitation to the annual Women at Sundance Brunch, which celebrates female filmmakers presenting their work at the Sundance Film Festival

Hollywood has only grown more dependent on these big blockbusters, which are rarely ever directed by women and people of color, in part because studios keep rewarding filmmakers — like Singer — known for erratic workplace behavior or worse.

Coppola wasn't the only woman lauded this year at the Cannes Film Festival, which has often been criticized for not recognizing female filmmakers enough.

Ahead of its Christmas day release in the US, a new poster and trailer have arrived online for 20th Century Women, which is written and directed by Mike Mills and stars Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup; take a look below... With 20th Century Women, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Mills (the Academy Award ® - winning Beginners) brings -LSB-...]

The film didn't emerge from Tony Richardson and John Osborne's Woodfall Films, which produced «Saturday Night and Sunday Morning», «A Taste of Honey» and «The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner», but it was very much part of the same movement of filmmakers coming to drama from documentaries and theatre, and looking to represent the lives of young working - class men and women more truthfully.

The jury, which is composed of prominent names in the filmmaking industry, including Emirati writer and filmmaker Manal Bin Amro, UAE filmmaker Abdullah Hassan Ahmed, Dr Shahin Yazdani, Professor in the Applied Communications programme at Sharjah Women's College, and Pakistani Shoaib Iqbal, Founder and Director of the Lahore International Children's Film Festival, revealed the main challenges they faced during the judging process and shortlisting of the films nominated for the SICFF awards.

When I began researching her, a whole world opened — and I discovered a truly amazing woman who led two incredible lives, first as a famous filmmaker with her husband, Alan, with whom she shared a magical love and almost unbelievable adventure, and, after their divorce, as a brave and independent woman on her own, who put her life on the line to save the ecologically endangered lake on which she lived.

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It screens here as part of a series about female filmmakers during the New Hollywood era with Marguerite Paris's short All Women Are Equal (1972), which was among the first films to focus on a trans woman.

On June 5, 2018, Otis College will partner with the Hammer Museum to present Shirin Neshat's screening of a film within a film, «Looking for Oum Kulthum,» which depicts the plight of an Iranian woman artist / filmmaker living in exile as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum.

We spoke to artist & filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin about the premiere of her Creative Capital project, «A Woman, A Part» which screens at IFC Center March 22 - 30