{"id":2787,"date":"2018-01-31T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/harrington-draft\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2018-01-31T17:07:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:07:46","slug":"justins-5-young-filmmakers-for-young-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/uncategorized\/2018\/01\/31\/justins-5-young-filmmakers-for-young-filmmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin&#8217;s 5 Young Filmmakers for Young Filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ryan Coogler:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s worth revisiting \u201cThe Black Panther\u201d director\u2019s strong debut \u201cFruitvale Station.\u201d&nbsp; Telling the true story of 22-year-old Oscar Grant on the last day of 2008, the film leads to a heartbreaking conclusion at the Fruitvale subway stop. Coogler\u2019s shattering debut is a potent testament to a life tragically lost far too soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greta Gerwig:<\/strong> \u201cOscar-nominated for her directing and writing of \u201cLady Bird,\u201d Greta Gerwig sketches the bittersweet and loving portrait of a self-proclaimed Catholic school rebel navigating life lessons in Sacramento just after the start of the century.&nbsp; Gerwig shows a compassion for her characters and an attention to detail that make her a director of great promise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mia Hansen:<\/strong> \u201cHansen\u2019s \u201cLove \u2013 Eden\u201d is a very ambitious, intimate epic looking at the French electronic music scene from the 1990s on through the eyes of one talented, but troubled, DJ.&nbsp; The scope of the film and the director\u2019s ability to show the transformative power of music are truly remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Lowery:<\/strong> Moving between large-scale productions (the remake of \u201cPete\u2019s Dragon\u201d) and the ultra-low-budget \u201cA Ghost Story,\u201d Lowery is fast establishing himself as an audacious, risk-taking visionary.&nbsp; \u201cA Ghost Story,\u201d with its gloss on death, memory, and time, generates very strong reactions, positive and negative, from viewers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trey Edward Shults:<\/strong> \u201cShults\u2019 \u201cIt Comes at Night\u201d is an effective thriller with a special feel for mood and the tenuous nature of our social relationships.&nbsp; Shults\u2019 earlier work, \u201cKrisha,\u201d is just as chilling without the genre trappings: the razor-sharp portrait of an estranged woman returning to a family event after a 10-year absence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Coogler: \u201cIt\u2019s worth revisiting \u201cThe Black Panther\u201d director\u2019s strong debut \u201cFruitvale Station.\u201d&nbsp; Telling the true story of 22-year-old Oscar Grant on the last day of 2008, the film leads to a heartbreaking conclusion at the Fruitvale subway stop. Coogler\u2019s shattering debut is a potent testament to a life tragically lost far too soon. Greta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-film-media-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}