Sentences with phrase «younger filmmakers who»

Amongst younger filmmakers who seem interested in cinema as a medium in and of itself, I'll be fascinated to see where talents like Anderson, Peter Strickland, Andrew Bujalski, Jem Cohen, Pablo Larraín, Sofia Coppola, and Miguel Gomes can take us.

«I wanted to try working with younger filmmakers who were cutting their teeth and trying...

Ghanaian Young Filmmaker Who Completed New York Film Academy Returns With Opportunities For Ghanaian...

In episode 103, a pair of segments that focus on the role of cameramen include an animated short from award - winning cartoonist Chris Ware («Jimmy Corrigan») and a young filmmaker who sets out to document his alcoholic stepfather.

With the abundance of film festivals, not to mention sites like Vimeo and YouTube, short films are becoming even more popular for young filmmakers who wish to get their movies out there.

The Archer Film Festival strives to bridge that divide by empowering and highlighting young filmmakers who share the goal of increasing the number of women in the film and television industry, and to participate in the conversation about women's representation onscreen.

Adding excitement to the project beyond all the thinkpieces the media can run about what this means for diversity in cinema is the fact that Black Panther is written and directed by Ryan Coogler, a young filmmaker who followed his acclaimed debut Fruitvale Station with a successful studio film in the endearing Creed.

Orson Welles was 24 when he made Citizen Kane, which sets the bar enormously high for any young filmmaker who is pulled violently along by a hunger to shatter the conventions that were laid down before him.

To be able to participate in what is simply the purest and the rawest facet of the Sundance vision and to be able to support a young filmmaker who could become the latest in a long line of creative icons that the Institute has nurtured is incredibly exciting for us.

Robert Eggers is a young filmmaker who caused a big splash at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival with his debut film «The Witch» earning a wide release in February 2016.

The four main characters are stellar personalities, and each one stands out for a different reason: Becca is the young filmmaker who takes her work very seriously, carefully crafting frames and cinematic scenes for her documentary; Pop Pop takes extreme pride in being a strong farmworker, but struggles greatly with his increasing age; Nana is kind and fun - loving, baking cookies and playing hide and seek with her grandchildren, but fights to retain control of her faculties in the evening.

Henry Jaglom was one of several young filmmakers who approached Welles around the time of his permanent return to the United States.

Back in 1972, Ron Howard starred in American Graffiti for director George Lucas, a promising young filmmaker who had just come off his acclaimed sci - fi project THX - 1138.

Put a hype, young filmmaker who is already known among cinephile circles (Pusher series) and team him with a versatile, talented actor who has a knack for choosing roles that only show his prowess and you've got a match made in heaven.

Not exact matches

After winning «Favorite Villain» for her role in Maleficent on Saturday, the actress and filmmaker hugged the two of her kids she brought with her, Shiloh and Zahara, and then delivered the young audience a brief message of hope to anyone who's ever felt out of place.

THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT tells the story of young, ambitious South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang - ok and actress Choi Eun - hee, who met and fell in love in 1950s post-war Korea.

And director Brett Haley, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Marc Basch, is the rare young American filmmaker who's sincerely interested in older generations; his previous feature, I'll See You In My Dreams, starred Blythe Danner, who's even older than Elliott.

Tom Hooper made his first film, a short about a runaway dog, at age 13; a short he made the next year (about a boy who learns that his grandfather had died in WWII) was the runner - up in a BBC young - filmmakers competition.

What we have left in Godard Mon Amour, after the laughs dry up, is a thin sketch of a filmmaker who inspired a hero worship in his young bride that dissolved in squabbling, as had Godard's first marriage to another of his leading ladies, actress Anna Karina.

Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy - drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the mythical princess of an underground kingdom.

This is a director who knows how to make his audiences feel the way he wants them to feel, which is impressive from a young filmmaker.

But if the filmmaker managed to work up at least an inkling of pathos for that young man's horrifying plight, no such compassion is extended toward the two teenagers at the heart of Yoga Hosers: Colleen C. (Lily - Rose Depp) and Colleen M. (Harley Quinn Smith), the two indifferent convenience - store clerks who briefly appeared in Tusk.

Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), this fast - paced and furiously stylish heist movie stars Ansel Elgort (The Fault in Our Stars) as a young getaway driver who steers to the beat of his own playlist.

: This origin tale about hip - hop's most controversial super-group features some intriguingly all - in - the - family casting: To find a stand - in for the young Ice Cube, the filmmakers went with O'Shea Jackson, who happens to be a genetic descendant of the genuine article.

He dedicated the best picture award to young filmmakers — «the youth who are showing us how things are done.»

The directorial debut of Ruairi Robinson, the young Oscar - nominated Irish filmmaker who at one time was set to helm the «Akira» remake, it might seem to have a generic set - up, but if Robinson's shorts are anything to go by, we should expect to see something visually spectacular.

FRONTIÈRES attracts a rapidly growing section of the international film industry that skews towards young independent filmmakers who are well versed in innovative filmmaking.

Are there young filmmakers following in your footsteps who we should look out for in the next few years?

The critic, after referring to «Nick Gomez's astounding, explosive debut,» went on: «Director Gomez, 29, who made the picture on a minuscule budget of $ 38,000, is the newest (and maybe the most gifted) member of a young generation of filmmakers — Spike Lee and Oliver Stone among them — who watched Martin Scorsese's «Mean Streets» and came away dying to make movies.

Featured characters include Jack Warner, Eartha Kitt, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and Pier Angeli... Underrated English indie filmmaker Duane Hopkins, director of 2008's Better Things, is finally back with his second feature, Bypass, a lost - youth drama about a young small - time fence (played by rising star George MacKay) who comes to a crossroads in his life...

But this is one filmmaker who writes and directs what she knows: the stories of troubled young women lost in their own worlds.

Maybe my expectations were duly lowered but director Francis Lawrence, who took over the series from filmmaker Gary Ross and raised the bar, and screenwriters Peter Craig and Danny Strong turn out a surprisingly engaging film about rebellion, propaganda, media, and the emotional and psychological scars of war, all seen from the point of view of a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) who becomes a symbol of resistance simply by surviving with courage, dignity, and compassion.

The time seemed right to explore this new opportunity to further strengthen our relationship with the Institute and partner with two young independent filmmakers who's commitment to pushing the boundaries of creativity and innovation mirrors ours.

Pam Grady: Once filmmaker John Carney returns with Sing Street his brightest, most crowd - pleasing musical yet, an autobiographical story of a young 1980s teen (a delightful Ferdia Walsh - Peelo in an indelible screen debut) who forms a New Wave band with his mates in a bid to forget about his troubles and win a girl's heart.

It was especially poignant to see Robinson, a lesbian filmmaker who's been working in the industry for years on various projects including The L Word, present such a radical film to both older audiences who were familiar to the character and young audiences who are growing up with the chance to see a complex women - centric narrative propelled by her.

Similarly premised on a tipping point between synthesis and disarray was the Kiwi anthology Waru, an unprecedented collaboration among eight Maori women filmmakers, each contributing a 10 - minute short film linked in more and less obvious ways to the funeral of the title character, a young boy who died amid dubious circumstances.

But this time around it's rising filmmaker Jean - Marc Vallee who has gotten behind camera, proving himself with two very well - received but perhaps underrated efforts in «C.R.A.Z.Y.» and «The Young Victoria.»

May 20, 2018 • Sandhya Menon's new young adult novel follows aspiring filmmaker Twinkle Mehta, who addresses her diary entries to female directors like Mira Nair and Ava DuVernay and longs to change lives with film.

The «dissident Revolutionary Lettrists,» as Wollen called them, were led by two young filmmakers, Guy Debord and Gil Wolman, who went on to become situationists.

Kristen Stewart and Twilight author Stephenie Meyer made a surprise appearance to introduce a group of young female filmmakers who won the opportunity to make short films inspired by the Twilight series with funding and guidance from industry professionals.

An aboriginal filmmaker from Quebec who attended the Canadian Film Centre, Barnaby's film, Rhymes For Young Ghouls won the 2013 TIFF Top Ten and Best First Feature at VIFF 2013.

They recently received a grant to continue their work, so all of their time is spent in the lab with two fellow technicians (Peters and Glover) and a young filmmaker (Bolger) who's documenting their whole process.

Last but certainly not least, few if any films at Cannes this year were as highly anticipated as Beyond the Hills, the third feature by director Cristian Mungiu, who won the Palme d'Or in 2007 for the astonishing 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the movie most responsible for drawing international attention to the exciting new wave of young Romanian filmmakers.

More crucially, and the thing that truly reminded us of her talent, was Ry Russo - Young «s «Nobody Walks,» in which Thirlby gives one of the more undervalued female performances of the year as an aspiring filmmaker staying with an L.A. family (John Krasinski and Rosemarie DeWitt) who up - ends their lives.

Other high - profile titles screening at the festival, which opens Friday, include «Ginger and Rosa,» filmmaker Sally Potter's coming - of - age drama with Elle Fanning; «Midnight's Children,» director Deepa Mehta's adaptation of the novel by Salman Rushdie, who wrote the screenplay; and «Frances Ha,» a black - and - white look at a young dancer directed by «The Squid...

In Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, Driver's serious edge gives grounding to Jamie, a hipster filmmaker who might otherwise seem flyaway and amoral.

A family movie about a young girl who tries to show she's more grown - up than her parents realise when she attempts to look after a horse, Flicka did not attract very favourable reviews, and its box office take must have disappointed the filmmakers.

Few filmmakers could do anything original or vibrant by making yet another film about a creative yet difficult man (who's also in a relationship with a younger woman), but that's what Paul Thomas Anderson does in Phantom Thread.

But Hoult seems to be taking a quieter route to the top, having gradually made his way from bit player to scene - stealer to young leading man, and now finally rushed into the public consciousness, rat - a-tat style, by filmmakers who seem to have been privy to his gifts for some time.

«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.