Sentence examples for official screenings from inspiring English sources

Recently both the historical drama 12 Years a Slave and civil-rights biopic Lee Daniels Thee Butler have been refused official screenings, though the latter was screened privately for Obama.

The guidelines also exclude any sort of reception or appearance by a film's stars at official screenings.

It explained that the energy for the festival's official screenings comes through Rocky Mountain Power's Blue Skies program, which provides wind-powered electricity.

The White House recently announced it would no longer accommodate official screenings – including proposed events for 12 Years a Slave and The Butler – after reportedly being "bombarded" with requests from film producers.

Rumour has it that the jurors at this year's Cannes film festival occasionally bypass the official screenings, preferring instead to watch the films from the luxury of Steven Spielberg's yacht, with its infinity pool and state-of-the-art cinema.

Several people passed out in front of him during official screenings at Cannes.

Chinese cinema-goers were only treated to the first official theatrical screenings of the original trilogy this year, almost four decades after the first film came out in 1977 when the Cultural Revolution had only just come to an end.

Indeed, so mainstream has the idea of an integrated force become in Israel that a 2002 film, Yossi & Jagger, depicting the travails and triumphs of a closet gay commander in love with a soldier in his unit, was not only a big hit with the public, it also received official military screenings.

Going door-to-door, city officials screened households, held Sunday screenings to reach labourers and regularly sprayed potential breeding areas.

Since 2006, the award show has expanded from its modest beginnings to a two-day conference at the University of Toronto, and four days of screenings, official dance parties, official sex parties, and unofficial dance and sex parties.

The church official said two screenings were recently held so that the ailing, 83-year-old pontiff did not have to sit through one long production.