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Accept only stories that fit into the sports genre. Sports storytelling is more than just reporting scores. It’s about weaving narratives that connect us emotionally to athletes, teams, and events.
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AN ADVERT FOR ONE NIGHT, 15min,. UK Directed by Graham Birch Lisa responds to a newspaper advert to meet Sarah in a hotel room for a night. They meet and have a wonderful night that sadly uncovers that one was badly abused and the other is currently suffering serious mental and physical bullying from a partner. Will this allow them to bond? What will they do?
My friend was going through an abusive relationship at the time and it was terrifying. He was psychologically destroyed. So I flipped it to the more common female perspective as it is simply not acceptable. Domestic abuse isn’t just physical. It’s wider than that and destroys people.
I also wanted to highlight the dangers of getting drunk and thinking you are in control of a situation. I want people to watch the film and maybe question if they should go home with that person. Particularly when you are young and at a night club. I always tried not to let my friends go off alone (male or female) as there are people who are simply not good.
I also wanted to create a film of exquisite beauty and use the lighting to enhance everything. You’ll notice that the colours change in the film, sometimes suddenly, sometimes from scene to scene. Showing differing emotions and settings.
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WE ARE WE DANCE WE PAINT, 37min., USA Directed by Leslie Dektor For decades, the poor and dispossessed have been herded and confined to Skid Row. In Passing Through, the seemingly lost find a new sense of community.
A NATION’S TABLE, 11min,. Canada Directed by Garrett Smith Ask a farmer, a fisher, a chef, and a home cook to define ‘Canadian food’ and you’ll get four different answers. After all, the food found in Canada is as diverse as the people who live here.
THE CYCLE OF FASHION, 5min., China Directed by Xiruo Jiang The documentary follows the curator, Katherine, as she intends to shed light on the environmental consequences of the fashion industry through her upcoming art exhibition and encourage viewers to rethink their relationship with clothing and consumption. Driven by a desire to approach the reality of fashion waste, Katherine ventures beyond the walls of her gallery and into the heart of garment production factories. Here, she witnesses firsthand the staggering amount of waste generated in the process of creating trendy clothing pieces that often end up discarded or unused.
SMOKE OR FAMILY, 14min., India Directed by Jaswant Mintu The protagonist in the film “Smoke or Family” is a heavy smoker who visits a hospital for a teeth problem. There, doctors tell him to quit smoking, explaining that it’s causing his teeth issues and could lead to lung cancer and other health problems. However, he defends his smoking habit, claiming he is different from other smokers.
Born December 20, 1970 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Birth name Todd Bunzl
QUOTES:
[ on Ed Helms] It’s been said comedy is not action, it’s reaction, and Ed is the KIng of Reaction. Ed, when he wakes up and sees his tattoo on his face or his tooth is missing, or at the end of the movie – no one does reaction better than Ed. He’s the unsung hero of these movies.
The worst thing you can do as a comedy director is be on set and think of something ridiculous, or an actor comes up to you with something ridiculous, and you say ‘No, no that’s too much.’ Let’s not worry if that’s too much, let’s shoot it, and then decide if that’s too much when we see it.
You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I’d never make another comedy. You couldn’t pick a less funny group than critics – you couldn’t find a more bitter group of people!
To be honest with you, since ‘Ocean’s 11,’ ‘The Hangover’ has become a movie that defines Vegas. Anybody in Vegas will tell you that and I’m proud of it. I love that. I think ‘Hangover’ does Vegas right and I think that not only, as you said, it’s the top-grossing R-rated comedy of all-time, it’s also the top-grossing about Vegas or set in Vegas.
Born December 20, 1983 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth name Jonah Hill Feldstein
QUOTES:
It’s harder to be funny if you’re handsome than if you’re very normal-looking. It’s just more relatable. You’re the underdog. I mean it’s funny to see people struggle, and you don’t buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.
[on Henry Winkler and their family at Zoe Winkler’s wedding] I spent 48 percent of my youth here..They were like parents to all of our friends. We got parents and then we got the Winklers. I feel like my sister’s getting married. I despise common people. They make me throw up.
Spouse John Kastner(December 18, 1999 – 2012) (divorced, 1 child)
Has starred in two different science fiction series co-created by Michael Piller in which her character was part of a love triangle: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) and The Dead Zone (2002).
Born December 20, 1952 · Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
Birth name Jennifer Ann Agutter
Spouse Johan Tham(August 4, 1990 – present) (1 child)
QUOTES:
[on living and working in Los Angeles] Los Angeles is like a desert. The only thing that exists is the work you do. You have that sense of living a precarious existence.
To make films is as boring as watching paint dry. You usually have to do tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back – the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.
[on an older nun who looked after Agutter’s ill mother] I once asked her how she coped with difficulties and she looked at me very quizzically and said: “You just get on with it.” Difficult times were not something that got in the way, they were simply something that happened. Sometimes there was happiness, sometimes there was sadness and you dealt with whatever you had at that time. I think Sister Julienne and the nuns at Nonnatus would have felt something similar to that.
[being nude in films] It’s not an issue with me. The exploitation of it is. You can end up naked in places you don’t want to. That shocks me. Doing it doesn’t shock me.
Born December 20, 1955 · New York City, New York, USA
QUOTES:
[Interview, 2005] My life changed after Just One of the Guys (1985). People stopped looking at my face and looked at my chest instead.
[on how the movie Just One of the Guys (1985) was more than your average high school comedy] Although it may be cloaked in a silly teenage romp, I was absolutely drawn to this project because of its subversive gender identity messages (for both young men and young women). The film actually operates on so many different levels and deals with so many teenage issues from homophobia to the pressure that is put on kids to conform to a certain ideal, that it always surprised me that at the time of its release, it was not really judged for the sum of all its parts.
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