Winners of the award include the filmmaker James Longley, the filmmaker Lynn Shelton, the writer Sherman Alexie, the poet Heather McHugh, the actress Sarah Rudinoff, the experimental-theater collective Implied Violence, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, the artist Jeffry Mitchell, and the artist Wynne Greenwood.

Heather Taylor ( born 9 September 1977 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ) is a Canadian poet, writer, filmmaker, and social media and community specialist whose work has been produced throughout Europe, Asia, Australia & North America.

Tammy Rae Carland is a zine editor, artist, filmmaker and owner of the independent lesbian music label Mr. Lady Records.

“ What makes Modern Times decidedly different from Chaplin's previous three films are the political references and social realism that keep intruding into Charlie's world .” “ No comedian before or after him has spent more energy depicting people in their working lives .” “ Though there had been films depicting the lives of immigrants and urban workers, no filmmaker before Chaplin had created their experience so humanly and lovingly .”

He was able to show it to producer Jon Avnet, who was so impressed that he spent two years working with the aspiring filmmaker on his screenplay.

The United States Census Bureau spent $ 2. 5 million on a 30-second spot, directed by noted independent filmmaker Christopher Guest, for the 2010 United States Census, which urged Americans to answer its questionnaires that will be sent out in the next few weeks.

Her career as filmmaker suffered after the introduction of sound film and she spent the last decade of her life working on newsreels for Pathé and Gaumont.

" ( now more commonly " BASE ") was coined by filmmaker Carl Boenish, his wife Jean Boenish, Phil Smith, and Phil Mayfield.

A more successful project was his scoring of wildlife films made by French filmmaker Frédéric Rossif.

Werner would later adopt his father's surname Herzog ( German for " duke "), which he thought sounded more impressive for a filmmaker.

In other shows, a cinéma vérité style is adopted, where the filmmaker is more than a passive observer — their presence and influence is greatly manifest.

As a filmmaker, Chaplin was known for being a perfectionist ; he was notable for doing many more " takes " than other directors at the time.

Although Deren is usually credited as its principal artistic creator, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who knew the couple, has claimed in his book Film at Wit's End that Meshes was in fact largely Hammid's creation, and that their marriage began to suffer when Deren received more credit.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote an article entitled, " Attacks on ' Roger & Me ' completely miss point of film " that defends Moore's manipulation of his film's timeline as an artistic and stylistic choice that has less to do with his credibility as a filmmaker and more to do with the flexibility of film as a medium to express a viewpoint using the same methods that satirists have used.

He argues that despite portraying women as sex objects, Meyer nonetheless depicts them as more powerful than men and is therefore an inadvertent feminist filmmaker.

* Underground cult filmmaker Carlos Atanes stated that Stanley Kubrick, David Lean and Rocco Siffredi were his main film references and he also said about Siffredi's work that " Agnes ’ scene in “ Rocco invades Poland ” or Gabriella Kerez ’ pool scene from “ True Anal Stories 9 ” are deeper than any Theo Angelopoulos ’ movie and show us the human inside more accurately than any Ingmar Bergman ’ s film.

In the BBC documentary The Most Hated Family in America, filmmaker Louis Theroux questioned Shirley Phelps-Roper as to whether she had considered that Westboro's technique of protests were more likely to " put people off the Word of Jesus Christ and the Bible ".

It is the story of a famous filmmaker Sandy Bates ( Allen ), who is plagued by fans who prefer his " earlier, funnier movies " to his more recent artistic efforts, while he tries to reconcile his conflicting attraction to two very different women: the earnest, intellectual Daisy ( Jessica Harper ), and the more maternal Isobel ( Marie-Christine Barrault ).

Launched in June 2000, the culmination of more than four years work, it brings together departments for screenwriters, directors, producers and other filmmaker artists, plus new departments for other creative endeavours, offering powerful e-collaborative tools.

After making two more films of social relevance ( Ningen in 1962 and Mother in 1963 ), Shindo shifted his focus as a filmmaker to the individuality of a person, specifically a person's sexual nature.

Over the next couple years, more photos of Maverick's began showing up in surfing magazines and before long, filmmaker Gary Mederios released a movie about Maverick's, Waves of Adventure in the Red Triangle.

Stating that he is " a filmmaker, not a scientist ", he creates his own fiction based on actual science or history to make the messages he sends " more exciting ".

She is regarded as “ the world ’ s leading feminist filmmaker .” Her films are more concerned with “ feminine aesthetics ” than with an upfront exploration of “ political action ” like that of her fellow German female filmmakers.

New York University ( NYU ) filmmaker, Michael Kite Audino became increasingly more involved in the recordings, so Parker and Kite decided to form a live version of the Tadpoles in New York City in 1990.

There, Rohmer established himself as a critic with a distinctive voice ; fellow Cahiers du Cinema contributor and French New Wave filmmaker Luc Moullet later remarked that, unlike the more aggressive and personal writings of younger critics like Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Rohmer favored a rhetorical style that made extensive use of questions and rarely used the first person singular.

Stephen Holden of the New York Times observed, " A serious filmmaker like Mike Figgis can be forgiven, I suppose, for slumming, when he's got a cast as stellar as the one that infuses the scream-by-numbers thriller Cold Creek Manor with more psychological credibility than its screenplay merits.

From 1929 to 1931, R. R. Rife astonished journalists with early demonstrations of high magnification time-lapse cine-micrography but no filmmaker can be credited for popularizing time-lapse more than Dr. John Ott, whose life-work is documented in the DVD-film " Exploring the Spectrum ".

After making Hard Boiled in Hong Kong, director John Woo decided to take an offer to work in the United States, where he would find himself happier as a filmmaker with a preferable work pace and working with more reasonable hours.

During 1941 Lautner was again brought in to oversee two more Wright projects that had run into trouble: the redesign of the Ennis House and an ill-fated project for a lavish Malibu residence (" Eaglefeather ") for filmmaker Arch Oboler.

According to documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, Turner's land has a higher gross domestic product than Belize.

The film's co-writer Roberto Orci suggested that the IMAX footage would be 3D, but Bay later said that considering himself an " old school " filmmaker, he found 3D gimmicky and added that shooting in IMAX was easier than using stereoscopic cameras.

Regarding these early years as a filmmaker, he stated to a Playboy interviewer in 1990 that " If I had remained a movie director, I can assure you that I would have at least become a better one than Akira Kurosawa ".

As to her extended absence, the Scottish filmmaker explained that she thinks the film-making process is different for her, and other writer-directors, than it is for directors who don ’ t write their own material.

Liefeld responded to this accusation by stating that in these instances, which he said were limited to ten, he was offering tribute to the artists of the original pieces in question, rather than plagiarizing, and compared this to the work of filmmaker Brian De Palma, who explicitly used the techniques of Alfred Hitchcock.

Andy Warhol and collaborating avant-garde filmmaker, Jonas Mekas, shot the 485-minute-long experimental film, Empire ( 1964 ), on 10 rolls of film using an Auricon camera via 16mm film which allowed longer takes than its 35 mm counterpart.

: Q ) You have stated in many interviews that you consider Puttanna Kanagal ( Kannada filmmaker ), thought younger than you, as your guru in filmmaking.

Although she is often pigeonholed as a " Chinese-Canadian woman film director ," Shum prefers to be known as an “ independent filmmaker ”, rather than one of national identity.

In his affirmative review Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert called Arizona Dream " goofier than hell " while adding that " you can't stop watching it because nobody in the audience, and possibly nobody on the screen, has any idea what's going to happen next " and referring to Kusturica as " a filmmaker who has his own peculiar vision of the world that does not correspond to the weary write-by-numbers formulas of standard screenplays ".

In celebration of the art and life of this American printmaker and illustrator, independent filmmaker Michael Maglaras of 217 Films produced a new film titled “ O Brother Man: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward .” The documentary features an interview with the artist ’ s daughter Robin Ward Savage, as well as more than 150 works from all periods of Ward's career.

I think this one came along at the time when I was more interested in being a feature filmmaker than a documentary filmmaker.

He is known primarily for his horror comedies, though he would prefer to be classified as an " exploitation " filmmaker ( rather than horror ).

Rhys Southan, a filmmaker who attended high school with Coon, operated a Beat Jeremy Coon weblog that documented his efforts to become more famous than his classmate before their 10th high school reunion in 2007.

Terry Sanders ( born 20 December 1931 ) is an American filmmaker having produced and / or directed more than 70 dramatic features, televisions specials, documentaries and portrait films.