Sentences with phrase «world of film festivals»

There's a wide world of film festivals beyond the major international fests.

No, the truly original and interesting horror films come from the indie world, the world of the film festival; it is here that I think horror's future lies.

Not exact matches

Keep in mind last year at Sundance, we produced the film that won the jury prize [«I Don't Feel at Home In This World Anymore»], and we acquired «Mudbound» in the biggest acquisition of the festival.

The many causes of the housing crisis in Vancouver and how people are dealing with it are explored in the documentary, Vancouver: No Fixed Address, which had its world premiere at the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto.

The Cannes film festival on Monday denounced an attempt to thwart the world premiere of one of the most cursed films in history, standing by its director, Monty Python's Terry Gilliam.

See long term that film festivals will be nothing but a celebration of the art and craft but in today's world I'm still tying my reality together with shoelaces and this just simply has to stop.

Less than twenty years later, the hotel established by Lucien Barrière on the Croisette was at the forefront of the beginnings of a cinematic event that became the most important film festival in the world — the Cannes Film Festival.

With 22 screenings across 19 Australian venues the festival will showcase some of the world's most inspiring and moving ocean short films.

Families Like Yours, a new documentary «exploring the love, compassion, sacrifice, and success of LGBT families in America,» premiered in New York City yesterday, and will soon make its way to LGBT film festivals and conferences around the world.

Film - maker Vicky Jewson speaks of her recent visit to the world's most famous film festival, the British film industry and why going straight to DVD isn't all that bad

The festival trophy was given to Izu Ojukwu, the Director of 76 and Moses Babatope who represented the film in the absence of the film Director, Kemi Adetiba in a closing ceremony that was followed by the World Premiere screening of Ctach [dot] er by the Director Walter Taylaur.

The movie has premiered at a number of prestigious film festivals across the world and scheduled to premiere in the United States of America on October 16 on Netflix and in selected theaters.

There are also meetings and film festivals where science producers gather, such as the World Congress of Science Producers, the Wildscreen Festival in the U.K., and the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, all of which are good places to go to learn about filmmaking and to meet people.

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Now audiences can watch her new film on the opening night of the festival with features and documentaries that include 12 world and 15 U.S. premieres.

Lenny Abrahamson's much anticipated film What Richard Did will receive its world premiere at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival, which is widely considered to be one of the top film festivals in the world.

The aftermath of the Soma mine disaster, the Glasgow School of Art fire, the Cannes film festival — the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week

You say that film festivals show you the world, but they could just show you the inside of VIP lounges.

If you're not lucky enough to be at South by Southwest film festival this week, then you're missing out on the world premiere of the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi production documentary The Director and the Jedi.

A Telluride world premiere (even if the festival refuses to use that term), «Lady Bird» received one of the festival's most rapturous responses, where «Moonlight» director Barry Jenkins introduced the film and it received a string of positive reviews.

The movie has been making the rounds of film festivals around the world, gobbling up awards at every stop, about 40 in all thusfar.

Perhaps it's the prestige, perhaps it's the chance to see these films at their world premiere, perhaps it's just my love for the Côte d'Azur and the experience of a festival in the South of France.

Luckily, September also marks the arrival of fall film festival circuit, which provides viewers the opportunity to view an abundance of movies from across the world and thus celebrates the diversity of cinema.

However, if this sounds as if the most important film festival in the self - proclaimed cultural capital of the world is basically just a bunch of leftovers, we challenge anyone not to be tempted by the delectable, if familiar, offerings.

MUBI is heading to Cannes once again this year, with the world's biggest film festival taking over the subscription service to offer a collection of Croisette favourites.

Only films that are world premieres are eligible for our U.S. Dramatic Competition program, but U.S. narrative feature films that have previously screened at up to two other festivals anywhere in the world are still eligible for our out - of - competition programs.

The Muestra Internacional de Cine offers the best of the world's cinema and it is considered to be the city's most important film event, aside of the bigger film festivals.

2017's festival also reinforced its status as the home of politically charged cinema with a line - up that addressed the refugee crisis (and a bold new step into the world of virtual reality cinema), dystopian social experiments, mental health, and AIDS activists: there were more than enough fine caliber films to chew on for this year's audiences.

The festival will give world premieres to a number of other films (see list below) and the North American premier to Brad Silberling's An Ordinary Man starring Ben Kingsley.

There are some truly excellent films making their world premieres at the festival, a number of which we profiled in our preview series (part 1 part 2 part 3).

From 3D cane toads on opening night (Cane Toads: The Conquest) to John Woo kung fu to close the program (Reign Of Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and olOf Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and olof links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and old.

In 2013, five films made possible in part by the Filmmaker360 array of grants and services had their world premieres at the festival, all in competition.

VF.com will be covering all of Cannes — from the films to the parties to the backroom deals — throughout the festival, so continue to check in with us for reviews, reports, and exclusive photos from the world's premier cinematic event.

The film industry has a «problem» with transgender actors, with many unable to secure roles despite a «huge pool of talent», according to film director Tom Hooper, whose latest film The Danish Girl — starring Eddie Redmayne as a pioneering recipient of gender - reassignment surgery — receives its world premiere at the Venice film festival.

But I've been reading about them for decades, most often (and earliest) from the pen of Roger Ebert, who called Telluride «one of the best experiences a film lover can have,» and dubbed Toronto «the world's top festival for — well, for moviegoers.»

The version that world premiered at the South by Southwest film festival was presented as a «work in progress» — where it killed to a room full of «The Room» obsessives, many of whom stuck around for a midnight screening of Wiseau's disasterpiece.

The division, part of billionaire Haim Saban's media empire, racked up five total by the end of the festival: the Gerard Butler psychological thriller «Keepers,» Keanu Reeves» romantic thriller «Siberia,» «Berlin, I Love You» with Kiera Knightley and Helen Mirren, Nicolas Cage's «Between Worlds» and the historical action film «Viking Destiny.»

Performing at prestigious film festivals and venues around the world, including the Telluride Film Festival, the Louvre, Lincoln Center, and the National Gallery of Art, Alloy has helped revive some of the great masterpieces as well as little - known gems of the silent era.

It seems as if nothing with George Miller's «Mad Max: Fury Road» is as it should be: It's a relentless action movie that played at one of the world's most prestigious film festivals.

The Chicago Film Critics Association, of which I am the Vice President, is the only critics group in the world to curate its own film festival, an event designed to share our love of cinema with you, and build buzz throughout the summer for films we truly admire.

The people, the films, the place, the atmosphere, and the joy of covering the world's greatest festival; all combine for one unforgettable ride.

In this age where festivals show films from all parts of the world, with all accents, social nuances, and behaviours captured onscreen, an accent like that is hard to forgive.

Frantic horse - trading in recent years has seen scuffles over one title after another, with films often premiering within 24 hours of each other in different events and — most seriously of all — both festivals being scooped by the boutique Telluride event that screened films that had been booked as world premieres.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

Especially if you consider its recent near - eclipse by the Toronto film festival, the near - simultaneous North American event that has in recent years become a powerhouse of international dealmaking and a magnet for world - premiere film launches.

That's right, it's festival season in the world of film.

The film festival has become one of the most important celebrations of cinema in the world, and I put that down to the efforts over the years of LFF's artistic chief Sandra Hebron — one of the unsung stars of the movie world.

After a slow first few days wheeled out a platter of surprisingly mediocre films given this is the most prestigious film festival on Earth and can cherry - pick from the cream of world cinema, Festival de Cannes clicked into gear.

The pair's upcoming film Our Souls at Night — another Netflix - produced effort — will also receive its world premiere at the festival in an out - of - competition slot.

It turns out the biggest film festival in the world can't resist the likes of X-Men, Jedi, and animated fairy tale characters.