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2 unusual facts about Feature film


Feature film

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Film Institute, and British Film Institute, a feature film runs for 40 minutes or longer, while the Screen Actors Guild states that it is 80 minutes or longer.

The Centre National de la Cinématographie in France defines it as a 35 mm film longer than 1,600 metres, which is exactly 58 minutes and 29 seconds for sound films, and the Screen Actors Guild gives a minimum running time of at least 80 minutes.


Adimakal Udamakal

Adimakal Udamakal (English: Slaves are the Owners)is a 1987 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by I. V. Sasi, starring Mammootty,Mohanlal, Nalini, Seema in the lead roles.

Appooppan

Appooppan (also known as Charitram Aavarthikkunnilla before release) is a 1976 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by P. Bhaskaran, starring Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair, Jayabharathi and Sumithra.

Bhargavacharitham Moonam Khandam

Bhargavacharitham Moonam Khandam is 2006 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by Jomon starring Mammootty, Sreenivasan and Rahman.

Bodil Joensen

She starred in a number of feature films and shorts for companies such as Color Climax Corporation, and for the pornographer Ole Ege, in which she and other actors had sex with various animal species.

Bogomilism

The Secret Book is a Macedonian feature film combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, based on a fictional story of the quest for the original Slavic language "Secret Book", written by the Bogomils in Bulgaria and carried to Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

Ek Misaal

Ek Misaal is a 1986 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Rajesh Verma for producer Vibha Bhatnagar, starring Kanwaljit Singh and Kiran Juneja.

Fa'afiaula Sagote

He was working as a taro farmer and carpenter when he was approached by director Tusi Tamasese, who offered him the lead part -that of dwarf farmer Saili- in what was to be Samoa's first ever feature film, The Orator (2011).

Fangavaktin

The story is continued, and brought to a conclusion, in the feature film Bjarnfreðarson.

Flight into Danger

In 1957, it was adapted into the feature film Zero Hour! and, more famously, parodied in the 1980 comedy, Airplane!.

Gerry Hutch

Born in central Dublin, his criminal career started at the age of 10 when he joined and later led the 'Bugsy Malone Gang' of inner city youngsters (named after the fictional feature film) whose crimes in the 1970s included "jump-overs": they would jump over bank counters, grab whatever cash they could and run out the door.

Hümeyra

Enjoying fame as early as in the 1970s as a singer and actress, her popularity with the new generation rose in the 2000s with the sitcom Avrupa Yakası and the feature drama My Father and My Son directed by Çağan Irmak.

Jane McNeill

In 2012, she told The News Reporter, "I had planned to start auditioning, but by the time we were settled, I learned I had breast cancer...After a year of recovery, acting was at the top of my 'bucket list' so I started taking classes with casting director Tracy Kilpatrick...Tracy was very instrumental in helping me transition from stage to screen acting...Moreover, she really believed in me and cast me in my first feature film."

John Moreno

John Moreno a.k.a. Juan Moreno (born 4 March 1939) is a British actor, probably best known for his role as Luigi Ferrara in the 1981 James Bond feature film For Your Eyes Only.

Joshua Brand

Brand's directing credits include the feature film A Pyromaniac's Love Story, the television movies Wall to Wall Records and Homeward Bound, and episodes of thirtysomething and Joan of Arcadia.

Junglist

Ali G, in collaboration with Shane Handley, could be seen as a parody junglist (e.g. dressing in camouflage and listening to loud drum and bass music in his car; M-Beat and General Levy's "Incredible" was played in the Ali G feature film and appearing on its soundtrack), though he could also be treated as a parody of an avid hip hop listener.

Lene Børglum

Lene Børglum (born 1961) is a Danish film producer who has worked on films in genres including experimental shorts, hardcore porn videos and theatrical feature films such as Lars von Trier's Golden Palm-nominated Dogville.

Mageina Tovah

Tovah's feature film work includes roles in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Dark Heart, Failure to Launch, Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas and a recurring role as Ursula Ditkovich in the films Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.

Mandt Bros. Productions

In addition to television, the company also produces feature films, including the successful 2007 independent film Last Stop for Paul.

Mindwalk

Mindwalk is a 1990 feature film directed by Bernt Amadeus Capra, based on his own short story, based in turn on the book The Turning Point by his brother Fritjof Capra, the author of the book The Tao of Physics.

Nancy O'Meara

Her feature film dance credits include Showgirls, for which she also acted as assistant choreographer, The Wedding Planner, 13 Going on 30 The Country Bears, Forrest Gump, Austin Powers in Goldmember and Clerks II.

Poikkal Kudhirai

Poikkal Kudhirai is a 1983 Tamil-language Indian feature film directed by K. Balachander and produced by Kalaivani, starring Viji, debutant Ramakrishna and Raveendran.

Port Perry

Port Perry has attracted many film crews over the years, both for feature film and television; it doubled as the Maine town of Mooseport in the 2004 film Welcome to Mooseport and was used briefly as a small town in New Hampshire during the sixth season of The West Wing.

Punnaram Cholli Cholli

Punnaram Cholli Cholli is a 1985 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by Priyadarshan, starring reigning star and romantic hero of 80's Shankar and Rahman respectively.

Raasaleela

Raasaleela is a 1975 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by N. Sankaran Nair and produced by Carmel Johny for RJD Films, starring Kamal Hassan and Jayasudha.

Ravan Raaj: A True Story

Ravan Raaj: A True Story is a 1995 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by T.Rama Rao, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Madhoo, and Aditya Pancholi and is centred around kidney smugglers and a serial killer.

Rosario Garibaldi Bosco

He was also a realist writer, and his play Il giorno di San Sebastiano (Saint Sebastian Day) was the namesake feature film written and directed by Pasquale Scimeca in 1993.

Roy Glenn

His other film credits include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Carmen Jones (1954), Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee and Claudia McNeil, and a memorable turn as Mr. Prentice (again playing opposite Poitier) in the 1967 feature film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Sally Reeve

Sally got an agent, Morgan & Goodman, in 1998 and has worked professionally in The Basil Brush Show for BBC TV, feature films include Maybe Baby with Hugh Laurie, Everything To Dance For with Brendan Cole, Travis Oliver and Sasha Jackson, Bright Star, directed by Jane Campion.

Sanyasi Mera Naam

Sanyasi Mera Naam is a 1999 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by Imran Khalid, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Siddharth Dhawan, Shalini Kapoor, Raushni Jaffrey, Kader Khan, Milind Gunaji and Dhananjay Singh.

Sengathu Bhoomiyilae

Sengathu Bhoomiyilae is a 2012 Tamil-language Indian feature film directed by M. Rathnakumar for producer Revathi Duraimurugan.

Sri Kanaka Mahalaxmi Recording Dance Troupe

Sri Kanaka Mahalaxmi Recording Dance Troupe is a 1988 Telugu-language Indian feature film directed by Vamsy, starring Naresh and Madhuri in lead role.

Stephen Potts

In March 2007 he was commissioned by Dynamic Entertainment DEH, a Dutch independent film production company, to adapt Philip Pullman’s 1992 novel The Butterfly Tattoo (previously published as The White Mercedes) as a feature film, released theatrically and on DVD in 2009.

Sukhamo Devi

Sukhamo Devi is a 1986 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by Venu Nagavally who described the film as his own tragical love story.

Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man

In the early 1970s author and literary agent David Obst suggested to Marvel publisher Stan Lee and DC editorial director Carmine Infantino that there should be a feature film crossover featuring Marvel's Spider-Man and DC's Superman characters.

Susanna Lo

Lo was first noticed for her stylistic 35mm feature film, Black & White: A Love Story, starring Jason Adams, which she wrote, directed and produced at the age of twenty-six.

Tahader Katha

Tahader Katha is a 1992 award winning Bengali-language Indian feature film directed by Budhhadeb Dasgupta, starring Mithun Chakraborty, who won the 1993 National Film Awards for Best Actor for the film, while the film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.

The Dumb Waiter

1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.

The Heart of Christmas

The Heart of Christmas is a 2011 American Christian drama feature film directed by Gary Wheeler and starring Candace Cameron Bure, Erin Bethea, Jeanne Neilson, Eric Jay Beck, George Newbern and Matthew West in his film debut.

The Return of the Shaggy Dog

Return of the Shaggy Dog is a 1987 two-part television movie interquel to the 1959 feature film The Shaggy Dog, but the character timelines are before that of the 1976 film The Shaggy D.A., all produced by The Walt Disney Company.

Tony Plana

While he is known to a broad audience for his roles in feature films and television, Plana is also known for his skills in acting and directing for the stage.

Venus of the South Seas

Venus of the South Seas (1924), also known as Venus of the Southern Seas, is a silent feature film starring swimmer Annette Kellerman and one of the last films made in the Prizmacolor process.

Verde por fora, vermelho por dentro

Verde por fora, vermelho por dentro (Green outside, red inside) is a 1979 Portuguese feature film directed and produced by Ricardo Costa.

Warlock Moon

Warlock Moon is a 1973 horror-thriller feature film starring Laurie Walters, Joe Spano and Edna MacAfee which loosely follows the story of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale Hansel and Gretel.

Zündapp Janus

In the animated feature film Cars 2, the secondary antagonist, Professor Zündapp is based on a Zündapp Janus.


see also

1940 Summer Olympics

A feature film was produced by the director Andrzej Kotkowski in 1980 called Olimpiada '40 telling the story of these games and one of the prisoners of war, Teodor Niewiadomski.

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a 2007 drama feature film directed by Wayne Wang starring Yu Feihong, Henry O, Vida Ghahremani and Pasha Lychnikoff, adapted from the short story by Yiyun Li and shot on a high-end high-definition video camera.

Adelaide Film Festival

2005 saw over 250 screenings, including the world premiere of six AFFIF funded titles, including Look Both Ways a feature film directed by Sarah Watt, the interactive web series UsMob.com.au filmed in the Hidden Valley town camp outside Alice Springs in Arrernte country and the new rescore to Fritz Lang's Metropolis by The New Pollutants (Benjamin Speed and Tyson Hopprich)

Amandla Stenberg

In 2011, she appeared in her first feature film, Colombiana, as a younger version of Zoe Saldana's character.

Annette O'Toole

In October 2001, 18 years after portraying Lana Lang in a feature film (Superman III), she returned to the Superman mythos in the role of Martha Kent, Superman's adoptive mother, in the television series Smallville.

Austeria

Austeria (aka The Inn) is a Polish feature film directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, produced by Zespół Filmowy "Kadr" and released in 1983.

Barry Barclay

After these documentary projects, Barclay collaborated with screenwriter Tama Poata on the feature film, Ngati (1987), produced by John O'Shea.

Bir, Himachal Pradesh

Bir was the setting for Khyentse Norbu's first feature film, The Cup (Phörpa) (1999), which was based on events that took place in Bir during the 1998 World Cup final and was shot on location in Bir.

Blaise Garza

After various commercials and industrials, Blaise was cast in his first feature film, Solitude Point, playing the grandson of Bo Svenson and Mitsuko Baisho.

Bob McAllister

This special was produced in conjunction with the personified Volkswagen Beetle's latest feature film, Herbie Rides Again.

Boomer Phillips

As of 2010, he landed the lead of a feature film starring opposite Trish Stratus.

Bree Desborough

In 2009, she appeared in her first feature film, I Wish I Were Stephanie V, with Clayton Watson and Kain O'Keeffe.

Christopher Villiers

In 2003 he co-wrote (with actor/playwright/producer Richard Everett) and co-produced (again, with Everett) the critically well-received British feature film Two Men Went to War.

Church of St Cuthbert, Wells

Part of the feature film Hot Fuzz was filmed here, the Church Fete Scene where Adam Buxton's character is crushed by a falling part of the Church roof.

Cousin Bette

A number of film versions of the story have been produced, including a 1971 BBC mini-series starring Margaret Tyzack and Dame Helen Mirren, and a 1998 feature film with Jessica Lange in the title role.

Culmore

The Hollywood feature film, "L.A. Story", starring Steve Martin and Sarah Jessica Parker is, according to Martin in "Born Standing Up", partly based on an Irish traditional song, The Maid Of Culmore.

David Hoffman

Other feature films include: Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends, starring Scruggs with Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, and The Byrds; Sing Sing Thanksgiving, a concert feature film at Sing Sing Prison in New York with B.B. King, Joan Baez and others; and It’s All Good, a film chronicling the lives of two aggressive inline skating teams in New York City and Los Angeles.

David Newsom

In early 2007, Newsom and Heder partnered with The Mark Gordon Company and are in pre-production on the feature film, "Tallulah".

DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival

Director Tze Chun received the inaugural award for his feature film debut Children of Invention.

Digital intermediate

2000: Chicken Run was the first feature film in Europe to use the Digital Intermediate process, digitally storing and manipulating every frame of the film before recording back to film.

Goldimouse and the Three Cats

This cartoon was included the 1982 feature film Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales.

Graham Robertson

Based on the experiences of directing Able Edwards, Robertson went on to write the book, Desktop Cinema: Feature Filmmaking on the Home Computer, a step-by-step account into how one would make their own feature film on Apple's Macintosh computer.

Hana Makhmalbaf

Her first feature film, Buddha Collapsed out of Shame won an award at Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal, Canada in 2007, as well as two awards from San Sebastian International Film Festival, Spain, and the Crystal Bear for the Best Feature Film by the Generation Kplus Children’s Jury at the Berlinale Film Festival 2008.

Harris Yulin

In 2009, he performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

Helen Rule

In 2002 she landed her first film role, after completing a Performing Arts course, in a Cornish language feature film Hwerow Hweg.

James Honeyborne

James Honeyborne is the director of The Meerkats feature film and the producer and director of many award-winning BBC wildlife documentaries.

John L'Ecuyer

He is executive producer of The Limits (2007), a debut feature film by director Ben Mazzotta.

Judson Rosebush

Rosebush's television credits include directing over 1000 commercials and logos for advertising agencies and networks worldwide; feature film credits include Walt Disney's Tron.

KDK Factory

In 2013, the company distributed Mohsen Makhmalbaf's feature film, The Gardener in theatrically in North America along with a number of other films via VOD.

Kelly Chapman

Her largest acting role was in the first feature film by Richard Wolstencroft and Jon Hewitt, Bloodlust (1990).

Krister Linder

In 2009, he won the Jameson Film Music Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival for the score to the animated feature film Metropia (directed by Tarik Saleh) and that same year, he did co-vocals on the song "Departer" on the album Night Is the New Day by Katatonia.

Kuzhandaiyum Deivamum

This film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil - Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film in 1966.

Lech Majewski

Glass Lips (2007) (feature film version of the Blood of a Poet installation (2006))

Manav Hatya

Manav Hatya is a Hindi Feature Film released in 1996 starring Akshay Anand, Madhuri Dixit, Shekhar Suman, Gulshan Grover, Sharat Saxena, Dr.Sriram Lagoo, Sunil Thapa, Arvind Deshpande among others.

Martin Duffy

He left Irish national television in 1989 to become a freelance editor and in 1995 found funding for his first feature film, The Boy from Mercury, a film set in 1950s Dublin about a young boy whose life revolves around the escapism of Saturday afternoon Flash Gordon serials at his local cinema.

Nicolas Wright

He appeared in the Columbia Pictures, Roland Emmerich-directed, feature film, White House Down (2013).

Rockin' thru the Rockies

The title of this film is often mistaken for the 1945 feature film Rockin' in the Rockies starring the Stooges.

Shahabuddin Nagari

In 2004 he wrote the story, dialogue, script and gave music direction for the feature film Ak Khondo Jomi produced by Impress Telefilm Limited.

Shunyo E Buke

After making Waarish Ganguly made this second feature film and this film did well in Kolkata and was appreciated in few film festivals.

Storm Rider Clash of the Evils

Storm Rider Clash of the Evils is a Chinese animated feature film directed by Dante Lam and produced by Puzzle Animation Studio Limited and Shanghai Media Group.

Sugar Babies

The Sugar Babies, a 2007 documentary feature film about the history of sugar production

Swaham

Swaham (My Own) (1994) is an award-winning feature film directed by Shaji N. Karun.

Tactical Force

Tactical Force is 2011 feature film written and directed by Adamo Paolo Cultraro and starring Stone Cold Steve Austin, Michael Jai White, Candace Elaine, Keith Jardine, Michael Shanks, Michael Eklund, Darren Shahlavi, and Lexa Doig.

Tanveer Zaidi

Kahe Gaye Pardes Piya Hindi/Awadhi feature film released was a superhitin 2009,DVDs released by Venus in 2011

Teresa Parente

In 2002, she debuted as a feature film actress in New Line Cinema's S1m0ne, written and directed by Andrew Niccol and starring Al Pacino.

The Dummy

The Great Gabbo (1929) feature film about a mad ventriloquist, starring Erich von Stroheim

Thomas Rimmer

Thomas Rimmer (born September 6, 1980 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is a New Zealand stage and screen actor best known for his role in Danny Mulheron's feature film directorial debut Fresh Meat.

Tom Abrams

Abrams has sold numerous feature film screenplays in varied genres including western Have Gun Will Travel for Warner Bros., historic adventures The Captain's Wife for Fox 2000, and The American Princess for New Line Cinema, The Battle of Ono for John Woo & Terence Cheng, horror film Cave for Working Title, sci-fi action Metal Machine for producer James Jacks at Universal, and kids action comedy Gameboy Charlie for Bruckheimer producer, Chad Oman.

Vara: A Blessing

This is first English language feature film by Bhutanese film director, after The Cup (1999) and Travellers and Magicians (2003).

William Cameron Menzies

In 1929, Menzies partnered with producer Joseph M. Schenck to create a series of early sound short films visualizing great works of music, including a 10-minute version of Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and created the production design and special effects for Schenck's feature film The Lottery Bride (1930).