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This assembly uses film clips to explore the reasons for a variety of cultural celebrations, and how young people in films deal with celebrations linked to religious and cultural rites of passage.

Combining the wisdom of the young people in the film with world - class thought leaders in positive psychology, neuroscience and mindfulness, the book is a synthesis of best practices in all these areas.

Sometimes the movie producer, Lynne Cherry, and some of the young people in the films can attend your screenings.

Not exact matches

If you look at some TV film of some of the events, you'll see young people talking together, or dozing off, or trying to find shade from the sun, or drinking water, or walking off in search of some necessity.

Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award - winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people (ages 13 - 24).

It's why Steve Young said he didn't work hard enough in the film room, why Fran Tarkenton called him a «pontificator,» why DeSean Jackson tweeted that you can't do great things «with basic people,» and why Gruden benched him.

A day home schooler's, retirees and young people in love go to films.

Footage of educators, policy makers, and young people at the center of our film is complemented by a rich spectrum of individuals who are important to school lunch policy and administration but who are rarely included in popular discourse on the subject.

LisaRaye McCoy, actress, makes her directorial debut with the film «Skinned» which tells the story of Jolie, a young girl that is so uncomfortable in her own skin and the stigma of what society places on dark skinned persons that she uses skin lightening creams to alter her complexion.

Top British film star Keira Knightley has urged young people to use their vote in the EU referendum...

Top British film star Keira Knightley has urged young people to use their vote in the EU referendum — in order to «stop others fucking with your future».

Even when getting in a fix about young people who «make films» in Soho - the highlight of the conference speech - he emerges with his popularity enhanced, not diminished.

Nigerian writer and filmmaker, Onyeka Nwelue, whose debut documentary film, The House of Nwapa premiered in the US at Harvard University recently, has kicked - off a new political party, urging young people in Nigeria to join hands with him to dethrone President Muhammadu Buhari.

The videos will be collated into a short film that will be presented to the leading political parties and used to campaign for better representation of young people in politics.

De Blasio, for his part, touted his various achievements at the city level, including his new $ 500 million life sciences initiative, his universal prekindergarten initiative, new programs the city has created to help young people get jobs in the film and TV industry, the city's rent freeze program and the fact that the city now gives residents who are being harassed by their landlords a lawyer for free if they can fight the case.

In particular, they and the young people involved noted the lack of disabled characters as protagonists in video games, compared to other media such as television and filIn particular, they and the young people involved noted the lack of disabled characters as protagonists in video games, compared to other media such as television and filin video games, compared to other media such as television and film.

The project resulted in the production of Children's and Young People's Manifestos, the staging of several stakeholder events, a six - minute film, Ten Tips for the Insurance Sector on how to better support flood - affected children and young people, and the development of a flood suitcase «toolkit» for use in schools and youth cenYoung People's Manifestos, the staging of several stakeholder events, a six - minute film, Ten Tips for the Insurance Sector on how to better support flood - affected children and young people, and the development of a flood suitcase «toolkit» for use in schools and youth cePeople's Manifestos, the staging of several stakeholder events, a six - minute film, Ten Tips for the Insurance Sector on how to better support flood - affected children and young people, and the development of a flood suitcase «toolkit» for use in schools and youth cenyoung people, and the development of a flood suitcase «toolkit» for use in schools and youth cepeople, and the development of a flood suitcase «toolkit» for use in schools and youth centres.

In the wake of the Florida school shooting, politicians have raised concern over the influence of violent video games and films on young people.

Ellen's family sends her to a recovery program in a group home for young people, and the remainder of the film's trailer focuses on her recovery.

Based on the 2005 feature film When Song Ah - young started dating her ex-boyfriend in 2008, she thought he was one of the kindest people she'd ever met.

How good or bad the standards are, is up to you, but the film tricks you into thinking that it's about internet addiction, an ailment that maybe even some of us suffer, but it's actually about online videogames, MMORPGs to be more specific, and that's what you should expect, a movie about Videogame Junkies, young people throwing their life away just to stay a couple of hours more in front of the screen.

More than that, despite the surplus of violence in the pilot film, it is refreshing to see a television drama about young people in which the protagonists are doing something besides drugs, in which their concerns run deeper than clothes and dates... It could get terrific.

The Beijing - raised, London - and Mount Holyoke — educated filmmaker shares with the American Honey helmer an interest in young people at the margins, a knack for eliciting fantastic performances from amateur or under - the - radar actors, and what film critic April Wolfe described to me as a «dream - like realism.»

As the grimmer YA - literary cousin to «The Hunger Games» that also pits young people against each other in mortal combat, this dystopian fable set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago treads much of the same ground as the first film with a modest amount of new information and characters.

Now an indie darling and cult classic, the film certainly resonates because of its following of a family's turmoil, but more importantly the role of the deadened senses of the young, and how a person in a quagmire really needs to grab at life for the good.

Christopher Nolan's WWII drama has been on people's radar for a while now, and the film will draw in younger fans with its casting of Harry Styles.

But while director Oliver Hirschbiegel («DasExperiment») very effectively takes youdeep inside Nazi Germany's crumbling heart and brings many infamous momentsacutely to life, his film doesn't offer much in the way of new insight.The script is more of a textbook play - by - play than an examination of impulsesand psyches, and while the Hirschbiegel and his cast add those dimensionsthrough their fine work, it seems the only way he could invest the audiencein these events was by seeking out a sympathetic minor character — inthe person of Hitler's young secretary, Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara)-- and beef up her significance.

In 1992, the USC film school alumnus became both the youngest person and the first African - American ever to land an Academy Award nomination in the Best Director category for Boyz N the HooIn 1992, the USC film school alumnus became both the youngest person and the first African - American ever to land an Academy Award nomination in the Best Director category for Boyz N the Hooin the Best Director category for Boyz N the Hood.

I think that a lot of films that have young people in them don't often explore that factor for various reasons.

Hoot isn't really trying to recapture a sense of nostalgia for these sorts of vacuous, sometimes - preachy little films, but it does appear to be made by people that haven't really matured past that era in terms of what they think of when they conceive of movies aimed at young adults.

As a window into the auteur's late - career preoccupation with adolescent angst, «Bertolucci Makes The Dreamers» is illuminating, bookended as it is by telling quotes («When I'm with these kids, I feel the same age» and «Maybe I didn't talk enough about young people when I was young») that make one wish Bertolucci would do a film about the vanishing act of youth rather than these pitiful attempts to trap it in a jar.

The political aspect of the film, with its people marching the streets for justice and a lack of understanding from local law enforcement, is reminiscent of another film involving a plotline where a young boy is ostensibly stolen in a carjacking, Freedomland.

It's incidental to all of the above that the characters in Hav Plenty are black; if memory serves, the first white person to appear in the film is the young man who introduces Plenty to the racially mixed audience after the screening in the final sequence.

Filmed almost entirely in first person, Maniac follows a deranged young man, Frank (Elijah Wood, Sin City, seen in mirror shots and in photographs), who hunts down beautiful women and takes their scalp back to his mannequin studio in a horrifically violent ritual.

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

Funny Games U.S. is Austrian director Michael Haneke's shot - for - shot American remake of his 1996 film of the same title, in which a middle - class family are terrorised in their holiday home by two effete, creepy young men (played by Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet), who occasionally break the fourth wall for Brechtian asides intended to point out that we're watching people suffering for our entertainment.

The film follows young Nathan (Arnaud Valois) and Sean (the forceful, extraordinary Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) as they fight for recognition from the French government and the pharmaceutical industry, all while falling in love, as young people are wont to do.

«People forget, you see, especially the young,» Altmann notes early on in the film.

The most honest moment, however, is saved for «The Anonymous Art of the Character Actor,» which focuses on McMillan, Young, and Page, who urges people not to go to the bathroom in the middle of the film lest they miss her.

Easily the most sophisticated and thoughtful franchise film of 2013, Lawrence's adaptation of the second novel in Suzanne Collins» young adult series is all - things - to - all - people entertainment, a follow - up that intensifies the first film's thrills while simultaneously developing its characters and, even more crucially, expanding its themes.

The film's first act is often very funny as it lampoons the (admittedly low - hanging fruit of) know - it - all, shame - it - all young people, mostly through details in their behavior.

For all those worried about it being too juvenile and not up to the dramatic standard of Wall - E or Up... you are failing to see that the trailers are meant to sell the film to the biggest possible audience and the first people they need to rope in are the younger crowd.

Even so, a young person seriously interested in film has little sense, these days, that he is part of a community.

After an unsuccessful attempt with a «Cat People» remake at Warner Bros, Bill Condon and producer Michael Laughlin decided to collaborate on Condon's early version of «Dead Kids,» and with assistance from Hemdale and tax incentives from the New Zealand government, began production in northern New Zealand, with an eclectic mix of American actors: Dan Shor had recently appeared in John Huston's «Wise Blood»; Dey Young had just debuted in «Rock and Roll High School»; Michael Murphy was a Woody Allen alumnus; and Mark McClure had achieved a kind of immortality as Jimmy Olson in the «Superman» films.

Many young people may be unfamiliar with or uncaring toward some of the great dancing films (like Dirty Dancing, Flashdance, and Strictly Ballroom) and revered classics (like An American in Paris, West Side Story and 42nd Street) that have come before.

Some speculated, since it's a trendy thing to do on several other young people's franchises, and the fact that Lawrence himself was a replacement for Gary Ross (who directed «Hunger Games»), that Lionsgate might continue to shake things up and bring in a new director for each film in the highly - successful movie series.

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

In the same vein as Juno and Young Adult, Tully explores topics that some people find uncomfortable, and genuinely depicts aspects of life that have been sensationalized in film and televisioIn the same vein as Juno and Young Adult, Tully explores topics that some people find uncomfortable, and genuinely depicts aspects of life that have been sensationalized in film and televisioin film and television.

Night Moves, the latest film by Kelly Reichardt («Meek's Cutoff»), is a personal story about three young people attempting to impact a society in which they no longer feel a part.

Davies» films have always supplied strong female roles (think Gena Rowlands in «The Neon Bible,» Gillian Anderson in «The House of Mirth» and Rachel Weisz in «The Deep Blue Sea») and this story, which followed an ordinary farm girl in the 1910s with a dream of being a teacher, who begins to assert her independence in the face of cruelties dealt by people ranging from her abusive father (Peter Mullan) to the initially sweet young man (Kevin Guthrie) who falls in love with her marries her, only to come back from the horrors of World War I irrevocably changed.