It's a debut feature by Will Tully from Westhampton Beach.
The White King is a debut feature film by Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel, featuring Fiona Shaw, Olivia Williams and Greta Scacchi.
"PUNKS" Four gay African-Americans look for love in a debut feature by Patrik-Ian Polk. Patrik-Ian Polk
The other best picture options include a debut feature made with nonprofessionals on a shoestring budget far outside the celebrity-industrial complex.
Also among the films thus far announced are Yelling to the Sky, a debut feature from Victoria Mahoney starring Precious's Gabourey Sidibe.
"ATM" is as compact a debut feature for its director, David Brooks, as you could imagine, confined pretty much to a killer's lair, an office, a party room, two cars and a small, free-standing banking center.
The classic Sundance Film Festival story goes something like this: A gifted young filmmaker — say Quentin Tarantino or Kevin Smith — maxes out his credit cards and pours everything into a debut feature.
In "You Are All Captains," a debut feature shown at Cannes this year, the French-Spanish director Oliver Laxe uses his own experience teaching filmmaking to children in Tangiers, Morocco, to spark a playful rumination on the creative process and his outsider status.
Personally, I can't help feeling that the critics might have been a little harsh on Cooper, an actor turned writer-director for whom Crazy Heart is a debut feature.
The boy who was infamously born Zowie Bowie and is now known as Duncan Jones, hanging on to his father's real-life surname, has directed a debut feature film, a sci-fi outing called Moon, that is being hailed as an assured piece of work in America.
