Sentences with phrase «working as filmmaker»

I'm working as filmmaker out here so naturally I wanted to take some photographs and videos along the way.

It's the first movie Gibson's directed in a decade, since he became more known for his racist rant during a DUI arrest and allegations of domestic abuse than his work as a filmmaker.

Apted is a British sociological filmmaker — his knowledge of particular people, especially his own (as proven by the Seven Up series), has been paramount in his work as a filmmaker.

This segment with Tarantino illustrates what he seeks from exploitation films as a fan and how it informs his work as a filmmaker.

You can follow Collin's work as a filmmaker at Multihead Productions.

Ted Geoghegan is a long - time associate as a publicist and a friend, but I really don't think that colors my opinion of his work as a filmmaker.

Stephen's participation in this community through his work as a filmmaker, film preservationist and writer...

He'll likely make more Oscar friendly work as a filmmaker in the future, but this flick showed another new side to JGL.

While thematically, not the most resonant film in Mann's oeuvre, this is still stellar work as a filmmaker, featuring wonderful character touches, fine performances, a rich sense of period, and an absorbing story to tell.

His work as a filmmaker earned national awards and his feature documentary about George Washington, When the Forest Ran Red, is a genre classic.

In conjunction with the Film Society of Lincoln Center program TALKING PICTURES: THE CINEMA OF YVONNE RAINER, the dancer — choreographer will join novelist and critic Lynne Tillman for a wide - ranging discussion of Rainer's work as a filmmaker.

The film Hit and Run (1977) basically opened the door for me to work as a filmmaker.

A Magnum photographer, Parr has garnered international acclaim and also works as a filmmaker, collector and curator.

Now widely known for his work as a filmmaker («Basquiat», «Before Night Falls», «The Diving Bell and the Butterfly»), Schnabel first received critical attention for his art in the 1980s

His work as a filmmaker is little known but more than 100 hours of films are kept by the Estate of Sigmar Polke.

Here he began his work as a filmmaker.

Comprised of objects and material from the artist's own archives and numerous loans from major American collections, this showcase is the first to examine the his work as a filmmaker.

Pääbo works as filmmaker - composer and artist.

She works as a filmmaker and video artist in London.

Atlas worked as filmmaker - in - residence with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for ten years.

In his work as a filmmaker, Omer Fast defines a new relationship between reality and fiction.

Not exact matches

China's richest man, on a buying spree in Hollywood, urged U.S. filmmakers to work more closely with the Asian country as he unveiled a subsidy meant to lure productions to his multi-billion dollar studio in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao.

Q: As we kind of touched upon in the interview prior to becoming a director you worked with a lot of well - established filmmakers like Siegal and Leone.

The soft - spoken Hawaiian had worked as a writer, actress and filmmaker; her 2006 award - winning documentary, Then There Were None, recounted the colonization of Hawaii.

Filmmaker Steven Schardt debuted Auto at Tribeca's Virtual Arcade, where viewers got to sit alongside Musay, an Ethiopian immigrant who can't find work as a traditional driver and must act as the safety driver for an automated vehicle.

There's perhaps no filmmaker working today who brings as much artistry and thematic weight to massive genre films as Christopher Nolan.

«We have someone who was a veterinarian and who worked as a flight attendant, we have a filmmaker, a draftsman.

Jessicca comes to the summit as a consumer, a clinician, and a filmmaker with the goal of learning from other stakeholders and documenting the ways in which people with differing opinions are working together around a shared agenda.

«In my work as a documentarian, I have witnessed the confidence crisis among girls and the negative impact of stereotypes first - hand,» said Lauren Greenfield, filmmaker and director of the #LikeAGirl video.

Ingrid Dodd, Coastal's president, said in an email that the company's work included «meeting and greeting filmmakers, locations scouts, directors and producers to encourage them to film here in Nassau,» as well as «working with area hotels for lodging crew and talent.»

Another independent film producer «is using Buffalo as his canvas,» said Buffalo Niagara Film Commissioner Tim Clark in describing the work of filmmaker Mac Cappuccino.

NeuWrite functions as a workshop for work - in - progress and as a forum for people who are otherwise rarely in the same room (scientists, writers, filmmakers...).

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.

There's little doubt that Real Steel's biggest problem is its excessively deliberate pace and unreasonably overlong running time, as filmmaker Shawn Levy, working from John Gatins» screenplay, has infused the movie with an incongruously epic sensibility that all - too - often threatens to negate its positive attributes - with the fairly pointless (and surprisingly unpleasant) robot - vs - bull brawl that opens the picture effectively setting a tone of regrettable sloppiness (ie Charlie goes through two robots before settling on his final fighter).

It's a unique premise that's employed to affable (if entirely forgettable) effect by director Howard, as the filmmaker, working from a script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, does an effective job of initially establishing the movie's seedy, New York City - landscape and assortment of oddball characters.

While Keaton's first vehicle for MGM, The Cameraman, was up to his usual high standards, he chafed at the studio's interference and insistence that the filmmaker work within the same boundaries as its other employees.

Such cross-cultural kinships would have likely been illustrated with more finesse by a more seasoned filmmaker; however, Jolie's worldly, non-Tinseltown exploits seem to have palpably informed her work, making her the rare American director of combat cinema whose outlook is as temperate as it is unapologetic.

It's a low - key premise that's employed to almost prototypically deliberate effect by director Julie Lopes Curval, as the filmmaker, working from a script cowritten with Sophie Hiet, offers up an uneventful narrative revolving around the central character's subdued exploits (eg Alice goes to school, Alice deals with her mother, etc, etc).

It's clear immediately that filmmaker Peter Berg is looking to ape the feel and tone of Paul Greengrass» work, as Deepwater Horizon boasts a documentary - like feel that's heightened by its low - key performances and general lack of context - with scripters Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand, in terms of the latter, delivering dialogue that tends to emphasize authenticity over exposition (ie much of this stuff sounds as though it was pulled directly from real - life transcripts).

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.

For those without strong feelings for the Harrison Ford - era Clancy adaptations, which were polished but largely unmemorable, American Assassin works best as a little - league version of one of those or, in more contemporary terms, as an unsurprising origin story for what the filmmakers obviously hope is the beginning of a franchise.

But despite its dry - boned style, it also exudes the same sentimentality as so much of the filmmaker's other work, albeit perhaps in this case as a consequence of telling a story not only whose outcome we know, but feels unlikely to challenge audiences» own values or opinions about the events in question.

It's a promising setup that's employed to curiously (and consistently) uninvolving effect by director Stanley Kubrick, as the filmmaker, working from a script cowritten with Terry Southern and Peter George, proves unable to wholeheartedly capture the viewer's interest right from the get - go - with the movie suffering from a stagy, talky vibe that grows more and more problematic as time progresses.

There's little doubt that Water for Elephants gets off to an exceedingly promising start, as filmmaker Francis Lawrence, working from Richard LaGravenese's screennplay, opens the proceedings with a modern - day sequence revolving around an older Jacob's (Hal Holbrook) arrival at a contemporary circus.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Arthur C. Clarke, has infused 2001: A Space Odyssey with a continuously striking visual sensibility that remains a highlight from start to finish, as the filmmaker suffuses the proceedings with one absolutely astonishing set - piece after another - with, for example, Dave's gravity - defying jog within the spacecraft's interior nothing less than jaw - dropping in its impact.

There are elements of the film that could have worked if the filmmakers had chosen one specific tone or message as opposed to several very different ones.

Then «Just a Guy Leaning on a Wall: Getting to Know Tommy» (7:12) obviously focuses on Wiseau, as a pointless on - set Q&A between Franco and Wiseau is supplemented by talking - heads with cast and crew and some of Wiseau's better - known admirers, as they explore the filmmaker's mystique and work.

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.

Filmmakers John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein have infused Vacation with an almost aggressively episodic narrative that grows more and more problematic as time progresses, as the movie suffers from a hit / miss ratio that is, to an increasingly palpable extent, far more miss than hit and it does consequently become awfully difficult to work up any genuine interest in the protagonists» continuing exploits.

It's immediately clear that At Close Range's most potent weapon is its various performers, as filmmaker James Foley has elicited superb work from a uniformly strong cast that includes, among others, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn, and David Strathairn - although there's little doubt that the film belongs to Penn and Walken from start to finish (ie both actors are, for the most part, absolutely electrifying throughout).