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The film documents the career of William Marsh, a swim instructor from Los Angeles with decades of experience teaching children how to swim. It had its world premiere on September 1, 2024, at the 51st Telluride Film Festival in Main Program Short Films. [1] It was available for streaming live on November 26 on POV Shorts and L.A. Times Studios. [2]
Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane is a 2018 American short documentary film directed by Kim A. Snyder.The film features, in the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, local clergyman Father Bob Weiss, who shares his experience with a priest in Dunblane, Scotland, where a similar event took place in 1996.
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien is a 1996 American short documentary film directed by Jessica Yu. It won an Oscar at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997 for Documentary Short Subject. [1] [2] Mark O'Brien was a journalist and poet who lived in Berkeley, California.
The film's world premiere took place at the Telluride Film Festival, prior to its international premiere as a special presentation at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Piano Lesson was released in select theaters in the United States on November 8, 2024, before streaming on Netflix on November 22.
The Silent Child is a British sign language short film written by and starring Rachel Shenton and directed by her own husband Chris Overton, and released in 2017 by Slick Films. [1] It tells the story of Libby, a profoundly deaf six-year-old girl, who lives a silent life until a social worker, played by Shenton, teaches her how to communicate ...
The film stars Morales, Duplass and Desean Terry. [4] The film follows the unexpected friendship that develops between Adam, a man whose husband surprises him with online Spanish lessons, and his teacher, Cariño. The film had its worldwide premiere at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival on March 1, 2021. [5]
Based on the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford, this film portrays recruit training and the Vietnam War from the point of view of James "Joker" Davis. At boot camp, GySgt Hartman proves to be a vicious drill instructor, and after becoming frustrated by misfit Leonard "Pyle" Lawrence, assigns Joker to bring him up to ...
Learning to Drive is a 2014 American comedy drama film. Directed by Isabel Coixet and written by Sarah Kernochan based on a New Yorker article by Katha Pollitt, [2] the film stars Patricia Clarkson as Wendy, a successful book critic [3] taking driving lessons with instructor Darwan (Ben Kingsley) after the breakup of her marriage to Ted forces her to become more self-sufficient.