It and other Hollywood talent-management companies spend a great deal of time nurturing directors and film stars, and helping them to find jobs.
He loved film, so he nurtured directors, including a young Francis Ford Coppola, and supported festivals around the world, including Sundance.
Amy Corley, Keller's nurturing publicity director at Artisan Books, sent some along for the Book Bench to try.
For decades, the film institute was an important tool of the government's program to educate Cubans and build a national narrative under the Communist system, annually producing dozens of documentaries and features and nurturing acclaimed directors, including Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (known as Titon), Humberto Solás and Fernando Pérez.
So which Lasseter are we meant to believe: the one who produced WALL-E and nurtured its director, or the one who wants us to go to the Disney Store and buy WALL-E figures in assorted sizes, plus a few Buzz Lightyear action figures and a Ratatouille Xbox game while we're about it?
The money that the UKFC is owed from The King's Speech will flow back to the industry, where it will be dispersed by the BFI and nurture new directors, new productions.
He moved away from documentary and began directing episodes of Coronation Street, which was also then nurturing his fellow director Mike Newell and the writer Jack Rosenthal.
It depends on the education and nurturing of intelligent directors and an intelligent audience.
The panel to vet the NSA set up by President Barack Obama, and nurtured by current Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, is now on hiatus, its funds being frozen as part of the larger governmental shutdown.
Shane Sutton, the team's technical director, said: "Nurturing an anti-doping culture is at the heart of everything we do at British Cycling and educating our young riders on the subject is a responsibility we take seriously.
