While he made visits to the island and brought friends to stay at his new house, his career as a documentary and drama film maker was beginning to soar.
Heritage events have been planned around the renovation, including costume-making workshops and a drama and film project with college students.
It also showed women were more likely to work in the documentary, drama and animated film genres.
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Oscar winner Weisz, 41, was seen on BBC Two on Sunday in Sir David Hare's film drama Page Eight.
The thing that's great about drama and theater and film is you get to heighten the experience of life.
Ross, controller of film and drama at Channel 4, said it was "a surprise and a great honour" to be recognised.
Then, they need to use other art forms: film, drama, literature.
"We'd like to see film and drama students use it and have a theatre there along with a cinema for cinematic and animation training, " the 32-year-old added.
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The period drama is the third film to receive investment from Pinewood Studios as part of a project to help fund and support smaller British independent films.
The director of Padre Nuestro, which won the award for best drama by a US film-maker, said the film wanted to highlight New York as a city of immigrants.
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"Often decisions about where to film a drama for TV are very finely balanced, and there is a risk that the ban might tip the balance in the wrong direction, " it says.
But the prizes were overshadowed by a real-life drama reflected in the film: two of the actors, Javier Nunez Florian and Anailin de la Rua, vanished in Miami en route to the film's Tribeca premiere.
The rivalry between the two men, which became thinly disguised enmity after both were signed to drive for the same team, is the center of the film's drama.
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The Audience Award for best drama was given to a film which portrays a father who must tell his children that their mother has been killed in Iraq.
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The Welsh film industry has warned it could lose major drama productions to England because it is illegal for actors to smoke on film sets in Wales.
French-language drama Amour and cult-inspired film The Master were the main recipients of this year's Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.
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The beautiful, funny and riveting film is about honour, integrity and ambition -- the drama that underlies all the Games and makes the Olympics (and the film) worth watching again and again.
It is simultaneously a drama, a fantasy, a superhero film, and a crime thriller.
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Spears who recently made her film debut in the teen drama Crossroads, has had a traumatic few months.
Wish 143, directed by Ian Barnes, was produced as part of BBC Film Network's BBC Drama Shorts 2009 commission.
Yet the film hones in on the drama of everyday life in Africa, with Ms Basinger playing a peculiarly Americanised version of the Italian Ms Gallmann as she suffers through the inconveniences of elephants gobbling up the vegetable garden and visits from her disapproving mother.
The theatre will stage professional touring drama productions, workshops, live music and film screenings.
The winner of last year's Palme d'Or was Michael Haneke's drama Amour, which won best foreign language film at the Oscars.
Rivera made her film debut at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival with the indie family drama Filly Brown, set to be in theaters in January 2013.
But it is the people Nathaniel Kahn finds, the things they say, and the sensitivity and drama of the architectural photography that make this film so richly evocative, its emotional impact matched by its visual beauty.
British film critics slated the London-based drama, with the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw calling it "dumb and tacky".
For example, Bombay veteran Shekhar Kapoor directed the British historical drama Elizabeth, which was nominated for a best film Oscar last year.
Hodges co-created the ITV sci-fi drama Primeval and wrote the screenplay for the 2011 film My Week With Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams and Eddie Redmayne.
The 15-minute film features Mr Oyelowo, who appeared in the film Last King of Scotland and the BBC drama Spooks.
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