Mark and Jay Duplass first made a name for themselves with a string of award-winning short films, including This is John and Scrapple, which each premiered at Sundance, in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Recently, they made The Puff Chair one of the breakout hits from the 2005 Sundance Film Fest ...
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Nanette Burstein’s NYU thesis film turned into her first feature-length documentary, On the Ropes, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, along with the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement and the International Documentary Association’s award for best docum ...
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Director Margaret Brown made her directorial debut with Be Here to Love Me: A Film about Townes Van Zandt, which was released theatrically worldwide. She produced Six Miles of Eight Feet, which won a Student Academy Award in 2000, and was the cinematographer for Ice Fishing, which ...
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Kimberly Peirce made her feature film debut with 1999’s acclaimed “Boys Don’t Cry,” a fact-based drama about the life and tragic death of Brandon Teena – a Nebraska transgender who was brutally raped and murdered after his double life was exposed. “Boys Don't Cry” plunge ...
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The Darien Gap, Brad Anderson’s first feature, screened in competition at the ‘96 Sundance Film Festival. Because of this film he was honored by Variety in ‘97 as one of the “Ten Leading New Independent Directors to Watch.” In 1998 his film Next Stop Wonderland, featur ...
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Colin Firth is a classically trained British theatre actor, and a veteran of television and film. Most recently, Colin has starred in Doug Lefler’s The Last Legion, Kirk Jones’ Nanny McPhee, Atom Egoyan’s Where The Truth Lies, and reprised his role as dashing Mark Darcy i ...
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The son of a horse breeder, Canet trained from childhood as a show rider but an injury at age 18 left him to contemplate other options. He embarked on a career as an actor and within two years had landed his first roles on television (in "La Colline aux milles enfants") and on stage ("La ville dont le ...
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In California's Mojave Desert, the US Army has built a "virtual Iraq" - a billion dollar urban warfare simulation - and populated it with hundreds of Iraqi role-players. FULL BATTLE RATTLE follows an Army Battalion through the simulation, as they attempt to quell an insurgency and prevent Medina Wasl, ...
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Eric Mendelsohn is the writer/director of Through an Open Window (starring Anne Meara and Cynthia Nixon and narrated by F. Murray Abraham) and Judy Berlin (staring Edie Falco, Madeline Kahn, Barbara Barrie, and Julie Kavner). In the field of design, he worked for writer/director Woody Allen for ...
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Edie Falco became the only actress to ever receive the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Series, the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Dramatic Television Series, and the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama, all in the same year for her perform ...
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After 2 years as a director on the BBC’s cultural flagship, The Late Show, Anand Tucker joined Oxford Films where he made many documentaries including a Bookmark profile of Anne Rice which won him a BAFTA in 1993. His first drama, Saint Ex, starred Bruno Ganz as Antoine de St Exupery, writer of The Littl ...
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From creator of poetic images to compelling storyteller, Jerry Schatzberg has, over the past three decades, excelled in both the realms of photography and filmmaking. Published in Vogue, McCall’s, Esquire, Glamour, and Life in the 1960’s. Schatzberg captured int ...
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Guy Maddin, born and raised in Winnipeg, has directed numerous shorts and nine features, including Brand Upon the Brain!, which, accompanied by live orchestra, live Foley, narrator & castrato, played the 2006 NYFF, 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, 2007 Berlin Film Festival, and the 2007 San Franci ...
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Best known for their Oscar-winning Hoop Dreams, Steve James and Peter Gilbert have again collaborated on At the Death House Door, which trails Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 15 years as the death-row chaplain to the infamous “Walls” prison unit in Huntsville, Texas. Through his eyes, a ...
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REPRISE is a sexy, playful, and poignant tale of two 20-something writer friends entering the adult world full of exuberant dreams and exotic ambitions, only to run headlong into a harsher reality. Norwegian director Joachim Trier captures the freewheeling passion of youth and the unpredictable perils of fate in this f ...
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Director, screenwriter and author, Harmony Korine has proven himself to be a seminal figure of modern film, music and art. Gummo, Korine's 1997 directorial debut, took an uncompromising look at alienated youth in Middle America. Korine was p ...
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Nick Broomfield studied Law at Cardiff, and Political Science at Essex University. He then went on to study film at the National Film School, under Professor Colin Young. Broomfield made his first film Who Cares about Slum Clearance in Liverpool ...
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In July 2005, filmmaker Scott Hicks started shooting a documentary about the composer Philip Glass to celebrate his 70th anniversary in 2007. Over the next 18 months, Scott followed Philip across three continents - from his annual ride on the Coney Island “Cyclone” roller coaster, to the world premiere of h ...
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Charles Burnett was born in 1944 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His father was a military man and his mother a nurse's aide. He was raised by his grandmother and later married Gaye Shannon-Burnett, fathering two sons, Steven and Johnathan. Burnett received a B.A., M.F.A. in film from the University of California at Los ...
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Roger Ebert has said, “After twenty years of reviewing films, I haven't found another filmmaker who intrigues me more…Errol Morris is like a magician, and as great a filmmaker as Hitchcock or Fellini.” Recently, the Guardian listed him as one of the ten most important film directors in the world. ...
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Chen Shi-Zheng is a China-born, New York-based director, internationally renowned for his innovative and provocative staging of operas as diverse as Monteverdi’s Orfeo, Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, and Tang Xianxu’s The Peony Pavilion. He most recently conceived, wrote and directed a stage production ...
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Ira Sachs is a filmmaker living in New York City. His most recent film, Married Life, starring Rachel McAdams, Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan and Patricia Clarkson was produced by Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Anonymous Content and was released by Sony Pictures Classics in March 2008. Married Life screened at the 2007 ...
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Sturgess recently starred in Justin Chadwick's, The Other Boleyn Girl opposite Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana and Natalie Portman. The film follows two ferociously ambitious sisters, Mary (Johansson) and Anne (Portman) Boleyn, rivaling for the bed and heart of the 16th century English King Henry VIII (Bana) ...
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Paulo Moreli started making super-8 films at age 12 and made experimental videos in the 1980s while studying architecture. He was a founding member of Olhar Electronico, an independent production company credited with being a milestone in modern filmmaking in Brazil. In the 1990s he founded O2 Filmes with Fernando Meir ...
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Louis Garrel was born June 14th, 1983 in Paris, France. He is the son of director Philippe Garrel and actress Brigitte Sy. Louis’s international success began in 2003 with his breakthrough role in Bernado Bertolucci's The Dreamers. In 2004, he appeared in Christophe Honoré's dram ...
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Christophe Honoré was born in Brittany, France, and is an established director and author whose screenplay credits include co-writing Jean-Pierre Limosin’s Novo (02) and Gaël Morel's Le Clan (04). He h ...
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As one who carries equal weight in Europe for her activities as an actress, comedian, and chanteuse, consummate French performer Jeanne Balibar enjoyed cinematic popularity for many years that remained confined to her native continent, but subsequently began branching out into international crossover acclaim. Balibar d ...
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Born in 1955, Olivier Assayas studied painting and literature, directed short films and wrote for Cahiers du Cinema between 1980 and 1985. He co-wrote two films of director Andre Techine, Rendez-vous and Select a Clip
CJ7 is the fifth feature directed by Stephen Chow, Asia's number one comedy star and one the region's most beloved entertainers. His previous feature Kung Fu Hustle was the second ...
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Michael Madsen played the evil Budd in both "volumes" of Tarantino's opus Kill Bill. His other recent credits include David Zucker's Scary Movie 4, Uwe Boll's Select a Clip
Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for more than 25 years. As an actor, his film credits range from the blockbuster Lethal Weapon franchise to smaller independent featu ...
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Honeydripper is John Sayles 16th feature film. His career began as a novelist and short story writer with the publication in 1975 of Pride of the Bimbos, followed in 1977 by&n ...
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Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins, makes the journey into independent filmmaking as writer and director of Slipstream. The project attracted a renowned ensemble cast and crew boasting an outstanding combined total of more than 70 esteemed awards and accolades, an ...
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Alex Gibney, 2008 Academy Award winner for Taxi to the Darkside, received his first Academy Award nomination for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, which he wrote, produced and directed. The film received wide critical attention, and received an Independent Spirit Award and the Writer's Guild A ...
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Born in 1964 in Copenhagen, Paprika Steen graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre in Odense in 1992. Since, she has become one of the most recognized and popular actresses in Denmark. She had her breakthrough in Thomas Vinterberg's The Celebration, and stated her name even more in Susanne Bier ...
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Ramin Bahrani received his BA from Columbia University in New York City before moving to his parents' homeland of Iran for three years where he made his student thesis film, Strangers (2000). Bahrani then lived in Paris before returning to the states to begin work on his first feature film, Man Push Cart (2005). Th ...
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Teeth marks Mitchell Lichtenstein's feature film directing debut. In 2004, he wrote and directed a short film, Resurrection, which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festi ...
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Ake Sandgren was born and raised in Umea, Sweden. After his studies in Film, Science & Philosophy at Stockholm University 1976-79, he moved to Denmark to study film direction at the Danish Film School in Copenhagen 1979-82. After his graduation, Sandgren worked as a director and a second assista ...
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The Visitor, Tom McCarthy’s follow up film to the critically acclaimed feature The Station Agent, premiered at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival and will be released by Overture Films. The Station Agent, released by Miramax in 2003, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it was best ...
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Miguel Arteta is a Puerto Rican filmmaker now living in New York. He was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico on December 27, 1964. In the USA since 1980, he studied film at Harvard and Wesleyan colleges and then got an MFA at The American Film Institute. Later he was accepted to the Sundance Screenwriting Lab.
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The TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, currently in its 32nd year, is a huge, influential, 10-day fest, screening upwards of 300 films on 20+ screens in downtown Toronto (pop: 2.5 million). TIFF's programming is as diverse as the city it's based in, featuring an eclectic mix of indie films, mainstream Hollywo ...
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Chris Eigeman is urbane and witty. He talks about his new film---the one he's editing now. He tells us what he stole from Whit Stillman, and speaks of their long friendship---about the making of Metropolitan. You'll be surprised to find out where he comes from and how he got type cast as the guy in the cumberbu ...
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In his new film, Shortbus, John Cameron Mitchell doesn’t cast any big stars. Find out why. He tells us about directing himself in Hedwig and the Angry Inch; he picks as his favorite indies some films we wouldn’t have thought of or even known about, and he shares his deep understanding of literature, culture ...
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation is forty-four year-old Cao Hamburger's second feature film. It was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival's competition and is the recipient of the Rio International Film Festival Audience Award and the Sao Paulo Association of Art Critics Award for ...
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