Sentences with phrase «young filmmakers today»

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From filmmaker and activist Crystal Emery, Black Women In Medicine highlights the experiences of a number of successful black women in the medical field, and it also suggests solutions to the challenges facing young black women entering medical careers today.

Unfortunately, the depictions strike you as incredibly contrived and artificial, like a young filmmaker's idea of what high school today might be like.

Without giving anything away, the 72 - year old auteur's filmmaking remains incredibly sprightly; one scene is as shocking and heart - stopping as anything a younger British filmmaker might serve up, and the final third of the film lets him tackle the issues facing today's youth with surprising credibility and nuance.

But the Scottish filmmaker ultimately has on her mind concentric cycles of abuse that stretch back across centuries, epitomized today by the devaluation of young and powerless women.

«Kicking and Screaming» (1995) While it still feels very much conceived in the shadow of filmmaker Whit Stillman, who also made thoughtful, erudite comedies about young people in the city trying to figure it all out, Noah Baumbach's formal debut «Kicking and Screaming» still feels as oddly relevant today as it did twenty years ago.

Jason Reitman declares without a doubt that he's among the most talented filmmakers working today and Diablo Cody proves she's far from a one trick pony with the delightfully awkward black comedy «Young Adult».

Japanese master filmmaker Hirokazu Kore - eda might be the best director of young actors working today: Films like Nobody Knows and I Wish have explored childhood and adolescence with grace, wit and extraordinary emotional depth.

Her face had become synonymous with the genre of scrappy, meandering stories about young people figuring out their lives dubbed «mumblecore» (that term may have dubious value today, but unquestionably elevated several filmmakers» profiles at the time).

Written by Bryan Sipe (A Million Miles, Alpha Mall) and directed by leading Canadian filmmaker Jean - Marc Vallee (C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria, Dallas Buyers Club, Wild), Demolition is a moving character study boasting a phenomenal central performance from one of today's most exciting acting talents.

Why it could succeed: I think that it's undeniable that Jason Reitman is one of the best young filmmakers working today... at the very least, I find him to be the one of the best, so the combination of him and one of my favorite author's novels makes for a project that I couldn't be anticipating more.

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They found the silly slapstick to be a riot, and totally got the more subtle gags that many filmmakers today would never expect a young teenage demographic to be capable of understanding.