Sentences with phrase «writer and director based»

Nia DaCosta Writer / director Nia DaCosta is a writer and director based in New York City.

Janicza Bravo is a writer and director based in Los Angeles.

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Loosely based on writer - director Cameron Crowe's adventures as a teenager writing for Rolling Stone, «Almost Famous» follows a young man's journey into 1970s rock and falling in love along the way.

Terry is a researcher, course instructor, director at Forefront, a non-profit focused on innovative solutions to sustainability in underdeveloped countries, and a Ph.D. student studying historical approaches to understanding the racial inequalities in education in the U.S. I am an education policy consultant, writer, and co-founder of Guardians of Our Sons, a Philadelphia based non-profit for boys of color.

Hollywood writer - director Jeremy Garelick plans to transform the 89 - year - old building into a movie - based learning facility and studio, which will be known as the Liverpool School of Cinema.

«It's not a political film that will beat you over the head with moral lessons,» insists writer and director Neill Blomkamp, who grew up in South Africa and created the thought - provoking 2005 short Alive in Joburg, on which the feature film is based.

Alex Harvey is a Colorado - born director, writer, filmmaker, musician, teacher and producer based out of Brooklyn.

http://itsallaboutfood.podbean.com/mf/web/4xraee/itsallaboutfood081711.mp3Podcast: Play in new window Download 08/17/2011: Part I: Mia McDonald Executive Director, Brighter Green Based in New York, Brighter Green is directed by Mia MacDonald, a public policy analyst and writer who has worked as a consultant to a range of international non-governmental organizations — including the Ford Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, the...

Lebanese born and Cyprus based Remi Sabbah has established herself as an international Fashion designer, creative director, image consultant and writer.

Sydney About Blog Margaret Zhang is a Chinese - Australian stylist, photographer, director and writer based in New York.

Ann Hart Coulter (/ ˈ k oʊ l t ər /; born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist Tom Harris is executive director of the Ottawa - based International Climate Science Coalition, which challenges the hypothesis that carbon dioxide emissions

Writer and director John C. Walsh based Pipe Dream in part on his own experiences as he was making his first feature film, Ed's Next Move.

Collaborating with author Lawrence Wright, on whose 2013 book this documentary is based, director Alex Gibney follows a chronology of the church, beginning with Hubbard's origins as sci - fi pulp writer and world traveler, his development of Dianetics in the 1950s, and how his ostensible breakthrough in modern mental health slowly, and by design, metastasized into the legally protected, tax - exempt religion that exists today.

The peculiar mutual dependence of the comic book protagonist / antagonist relationship and the strange emptiness that arises upon its dissolution forms the basis of Dreamworks» Megamind an exuberant new animated comedy from director Tom McGrath (The Madagascar films) and writers Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons.

Paul Schrader has always been a faith - based filmmaker in the truest and most challenging sense, and «First Reformed» is the sort of stimulating work that a writer - director of a certain age can deliver when he returns to his creative sweet spot; rejoice, Schrader fans, rejoice.

Director James Mangold and writers Mark Bomback and Scott Frank (basing their work on a comic book arc by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller) have taken Jackman to Japan, where Logan / Wolverine confronts his past and a possible new future.

Morgan Spurlock is a New York based writer, director, and producer.

This debut feature from writer - director David Veloz, based on a 1995 autobiography, starkly retells Stahl's rise and fall in LA - LA - land over the course of a multi-day shack - up with ex-addict Kitty (E.R.'s Maria Bello), a sucker for rehab patients who coaxes him away from a dead - end job (in, appropriately, Phoenix) in favor of sex (initially as frigid as the frozen chicken he was hacking at only hours earlier at his fast - food outpost) and conversation.

Based on a 2011 Icelandic film, writer - director David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche tells the story of stick - in - the - mud Alvin (Paul Rudd) and horndog Lance (Emile Hirsch).

The upcoming biographical drama «Steve Jobs,» based on the famed founder of Apple Inc., is helmed by award - winning director Danny Boyle and writer Aaron Sorkin.

Based on writer / director Zachary Wigon's previous short film Someone Else's Heart, the film impresses with its gentle touch and beautiful cinematography.

«For me, it's just cool to be a middleman to some characters that people might relate to,» said writer - director Cameron Crowe, whose characters have included the likes of the quintessential stoner Jeff Spicoli in «Fast Times at Ridgemont High,» the boombox - hoisting Lloyd Dobler in «Say Anything,» the driven agent Jerry Maguire in the movie that bears his name and the teenaged rock journalist William Miller (based on Crowe's own adventures) in «Almost Famous,» for which he won a screenwriting Oscar.

Director: Michael Grandage Writers: John Logan, A. Scott Berg (based on his novel) Cast: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Jude Law, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, Laura Linney Synopsis: «A chronicle of Max Perkin's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others,» IMDb.

David: Based on an original book by deceased writer Roland Barthes, co-writer and director Claire Denis» new film, «Let The Sunshine In», is notable for the marvelous performance by its leading lady, Juliette Binoche.

With top production values, an inviting landscape and a character - driven plot (based on Laura Hillenbrand's best - selling book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend), writer and director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) spins Seabiscuit's tale as a parallel to American history.

Based on an original book by deceased writer Roland Barthes, co-writer and director Claire Denis» new film, «Let The Sunshine In», is notable for the marvelous performance by its leading lady, Juliette Binoche.

After making a striking debut with 2013's based - on - fact, tragically devastating drama Fruitvale Station and following that up with the stunning, Oscar - nominated Rocky spin - off Creed in 2015, the young writer / director was seemingly given the keys to the kingdom by Marvel as it pertained to Black Panther, the studio apparently feeling comfortable to let him do whatever he wanted with this story of an African superhero from the secluded fictionalized nation of Wakanda.

With «Before Midnight,» writer - director Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy continue one of the most interesting projects in film history: a movie franchise based almost entirely on simple conversations between a woman and man.

Incredibly loosely based on Jeff Vandermeer's novel, writer / director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) has taken several of the source material's enduring images and built a film around them.

Having wowed critics and, to a smaller degree, moviegoers with original stories on Mud, Take Shelter, and Midnight Special, writer - director Jeff Nichols changes gears on Loving, a drama based on a true story.

The series will join a string of high - profile original series on Hulu, including Catch - 22, a six - part limited series from Director, Executive Producer and Star, George Clooney based on the seminal novel of the same name; Castle Rock, Hulu's second project from J.J. Abrams and Stephen King following the success of 11.22.63 that will premiere later this summer; the multi Emmy and Golden Globe Award - winning drama, The Handmaid's Tale; The First, the latest project from Award - winning Creator Beau Willimon, with Academy Award Winner Sean Penn in his first starring TV role; and The Looming Tower, a limited series based on the Pulitzer Prize - winning expose by Lawrence Wright from Academy Award - nominated Writer Dan Futterman and Academy Award and Emmy Award - winning Director Alex Gibney that is now streaming on Hulu.

Casting Directors: Lindsay Graham and Mary Vernieu Director: David O. Russell Writer: David O. Russell, based on the novel by Matthew Quick Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Julia Stiles, Chris Tucker, Jacki Weaver, John Ortiz, Anupam Kher The Pitch: A man (Cooper) moves back in with his parents after being released from a mental institution.

The film is based upon the book of the same name by Aaron Starmer and will be adapted by writer / director Brian Duffield (The Babysitter).

Movies that reflect our culture and what's happening in the country can have a huge impact like Writer / Director Oliver Stone's Platoon, which was based on his time as a soldier in Vietnam.

Based on the play by Jordan Harrison, and adapted for the screen by writer - director Michael Almereyda («Experimenter,» «Escapes»), the dialogue achieves the tricky balance of being both artfully profound and unostentatious.

In that pursuit, drawing from various short stories of the author of The Man In The High Castle and whose work Blade Runner is based on, the Bryan Cranston, Ronald D. Moore and Isa Dick Hackett EP'd series with individual writers and directors for each stand - alone episode rolls around the notion of what it is to be a human being amidst pervasive digital technology and what is real.

Pamela Romanowsky is a Brooklyn based writer and director.

But with a partly Kickstarter - funded animation based on his play «Anomalisa» currently filming — Kaufman is listed as co-director — probably the film we're anticipating even more from him as writer / director is his much - touted «examination of celebrity as a mental illness» (according to star Jack Black) «Frank or Francis» a musical, which also stars Nicolas Cage, Kevin Kline and Steve Carell.

Had this movie been a Hollywood affair, I'm fairly certain it would have made fun of Texas; but under the control of Texas - based writer / director Richard Linklater (School of Rock) it shows the state and the people from it in the best possible light and manages to tell a story that you'll be sharing with your friends for years to come.

Lana Wilson is an Emmy Award - winning director, writer, and producer based in New York.

Beth de Araújo is a Los Angeles - based writer and director recently featured in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

The film is the feature - length debut of writer - director Jonathan van Tulleken, based on his BAFTA - nominated short, and is set in the harsh, frozen Canadian tundra.

Based on Fumiyo Kono's critically acclaimed manga of the same name, writer Chie Uratani and director Sunao Katabuchi bring In This Corner of the World (Kono sekai no katasumi ni) to the screen with breathtaking animation and a compelling story of one family's resilience.

Casting Director: Avy Kaufman Director: Steven Spielberg Writer: Tony Kushner, based in part on the book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,» by Doris Kearns Goodwin Starring: Daniel Day - Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Joseph Gordon - Levitt The Pitch: A look at the last days of President Abraham Lincoln (Day - Lewis) and his fight to abolish slavery.

Cast: Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, April Lee Hernandez, John Benjamin Hickey, Robert Wisdom, Mario, Kristin Herrera, Jacklyn Ngan, Sergio Montalvo, Jason Finn, Deance Wyatt, Vanetta Smith, Gabriel Chavarria, Hunter Parrish Director: Richard LaGravenese Screenplay: Richard LaGravenese (based on the book, «Freedom Writers: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them», by Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers) Review published May 15, 2007

Credits: Director (Christian Ditter) Writers (Screenplay by Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein and Dana Fox, Screen story by Abby Kohn & Marc Silverstein, Based on the book How to be Single by Liz Tuccillo

It's that rumor that writer / directors the Spierig Brothers and screenwriter Tom Vaughan have used as the basis for Winchester, a tale about a psychologist named Eric Price (Jason Clarke) meeting with Winchester (Helen Mirren) to determine her sanity when, you guessed it, the ghosts she's trying to keep at bay get angry.

It's based on the jazzy, snazzy Broadway show by songsmiths Kander and Ebb (of «New York, New York») and director Bob Fosse, which in turn was based on the classic 1942 film noir «Roxie Hart» by writer - producer Nunnally Johnson and director William Wellman.

The shame of it is that there is a solid idea or two about the symbiotic relationship between humanity and the aliens hovering around when the screenplay by writer / director Andrew Niccol (based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer) temporarily drops its silliest trappings.

I wasn't a big fan of Richard Curtis's sappy - silly «Love, Actually,» but the writer - director's new fact - based film, «Pirate Radio» has moments of gleeful anarchism drawing on many hallowed sources of English comedy, including «The Goon Show,» the «Carry On» movies, and Ealing Studio comedies such as «The Lavender Hill Mob.»