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Ryan Coogler
Ryan Coogler remembers the first moment it occurred to him to become a film director. Having grown up in Oakland, Coogler was on a football scholarship to Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Calif., where he had to take a creative writing class. The assignment was to write about a personal experience, and Coogler wrote about the time his father almost bled to death in his arms. He handed it in, and the professor called him into her office. What did Coogler want to do with his life? “Play ball, become a doctor and be a positive influence in my community,” […]
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Treva Wurmfeld
We invent stories, narrative personas fixed in autobiographical form, to understand ourselves. For some of us, these stories are modest ones — simple acceptances of conventional social roles. For others they are grander, more mythic. Throughout his life, Sam Shepard has created compelling fictions about not only the postwar American man, but America itself. The restless characters of his plays, often the product of turbulent families, invent and reinvent themselves, reinvigorating the concept of the American frontier experience along the way. These characters are echoed in Shepard himself, a romantic figure, both Hollywood star and loner artist, relentlessly following his […]
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Cutter Hodierne
When Cutter Hodierne was playing high-school basketball in Arlington, Va., his school’s rival knocked his own team out of the playoffs. But rather than sulk or trash talk, Hodierne decided to pick up a camera. “They had an incredible following,” Hodierne says of that team, the Wakefield Warriors. “They had police escorts to their games, and they sold out stadiums — they were too big to play in their own school.” Attending their playoff games with his camera, Hodierne made a 75-minute, ESPN-style documentary, Remember the Warriors, pressed it to DVD and sold it to their fans at their games. […]
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Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall
In 2008, Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall were both in a New York bar to celebrate the birthday of a mutual friend, producer Valentina Canavesio (the wife of another of this year’s 25 New Faces, Omar Mullick). While waiting for the main party to arrive, they began chatting and discovered they had a similar worldview and had both lived, worked and traveled in Eastern and Central Africa. Eighteen months later, Zouhali-Worrall contacted Fairfax Wright about a documentary she wanted to make on the LGBT community in Uganda, where a bill was being put forward to make homosexuality punishable by […]
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Hannah Fidell
When, in 2009, Hannah Fidell saw It Was Great, But I Was Ready to Come Home, the directorial debut of Kris Swanberg, she was incredibly inspired. “I thought it was absolutely amazing – she just did it, she just went and made a movie,” Fidell recalls. “So I thought I could do that too. And then I did, and it was a complete failure.” Or, more accurately, a failure on her terms. We’re Glad You’re Here – a just-under feature-length film about a disillusioned college grad returning to her hometown – simply was not what she had conceived it should be. “I learned what […]
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Kim Sherman
Producer Kim Sherman, whose credits in the last year include Amy Seimetz’s excellent, heat-blasted psychological noir Sun Don’t Shine and Adam Wingard’s inventive home-invasion horror pic You’re Next, was born in Wyoming, grew up in D.C., but credits her home base of Columbia, Mo., for her ability to produce independent film. “I depend on the community here in ways I wouldn’t be able to if I lived in a place with a strong [film] industry,” she says. “In New York and Los Angeles, people are so used to filming; they almost protect themselves from the films coming in. But in […]
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Penny Lane and Brian Frye
In 2000, Brian Frye was introduced to home movies from the Nixon White House. Some 500 hours of footage had been confiscated by the FBI during Watergate investigations and languished since. Even though he only had the chance to see a couple of reels, the footage stuck with Frye. Later, in law school, Frye was “looking for ways to occupy the little bit of free time” and wrote an article for Cineaste musing on their “comprehensive account of the hubris, tragedy and banality of [Nixon’s] presidency.” After future wife Penny Lane prodded Frye to do something about his interest, Lane […]
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Ornana
When Danny Madden was a kid, he messed around with his dad’s video camera, making movies with his younger brother Will. But it was only when Madden was in his late teens that, along with school friend Jonathan Silva, he began taking films seriously. Thus was born Ornana. The name and logo came from a fake smoothie company Silva invented (Ornana = orange + banana); “it helped us not take ourselves too seriously,” Madden says. After high school, director Madden and d.p. Silva left their hometown of Peachtree City, Ga., to attend Emerson College in Boston, where they met Jim […]
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Chris Dapkins
For cinematographer and filmmaker Chris Dapkins, both his desire to make images and how he goes about doing so are inspired by the natural beauty of his childhood home in the civilized wilds of Oneonta, New York. “My closest friend and I, Carlo Mirabella-Davis, spent a great deal of time in the woods,” Dapkins explains. “We came up with a game which we called the ‘Talk Game’…one of us would spend hours and hours creating these fantastic dreams and then the other person would inhabit them and make choices within them. That’s how my interest in imagination and making stories […]
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A.G. Rojas
A.G. Rojas has more energy and ideas than he can fit in his music videos. The rising star is increasingly sought after for his bold, story-driven clips, but sometimes he doesn’t get the gigs. “The music video and commercial business is all about how you handle rejection,” he says. For Rojas, that has meant picking up a camera anyway and making something else. For example: “I’d lose a job, have nothing to do for a few weeks and find a kid in Venice who will take me whatever weird places. And then I’d do an interview with him at the […]
by Webmaster on Jul 19, 2012
