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Matthew Greenfield
Matthew Greenfield is the president of Searchlight Pictures, which has produced five Academy Awards for Best Picture winners, including ''Slumdog Millionaire'', '' Birdman'', ''12 Years a Slave'', ''The Shape of Water'', and ''Nomadland''. Greenfield and fellow Searchlight president David Greenbaum started Searchlight Television in 2018. He joined Searchlight after his tenure as Associate Director of the Feature Film Program at the Sundance Institute. Prior to his work at Sundance, Greenfield worked as an independent producer, producing '' Star Maps'', ''Chuck & Buck'', and ''The Good Girl'', all directed by Miguel Arteta, and the latter two written by Mike White. As the producer of Chuck & Buck, Greenfield won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award. He's also the producer of '' The Motel'', written and directed by Michael Kang. He co-founded the boutique publishing company Cloverfield Press with Laurence Dumortier. Greenfield studied film at Crossroads School w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Greenfield
Matthew Brian Greenfield (born January 12, 1965) is an American producer, scriptwriter, director and voice actor. He produces English-language versions of Japanese anime, including '' Neon Genesis Evangelion'', and was the co-founder of A.D. Vision. Early life Matthew Brian Greenfield was born on January 12, 1965, in Sacramento, California to Patricia (née Doering, born 1938)State of California. California Birth Index, 1905–1995. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics. and Virgil Greenfield (1934–2006). His grandparents, Esther (née Weaver, 1917–2013) and Joseph Doering (1906–1975), worked at jewelry shops in Los Angeles; Esther was also a longtime member of the Shasta Dam Methodist Church (now known as the Shasta Lake Community United Methodist Church). Career Originally a fan who ran an anime club in Houston, Texas (known as "Anime NASA") starting in 1985 alongside classmate and AD Vision founder David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Maps (film)
''Star Maps'' is a 1997 American drama film co-written and directed by Miguel Arteta and starring Douglas Spain. The film is the directorial debut of Miguel Arteta, and it was first presented at the Sundance Film Festival. It was a critical hit, receiving five Independent Spirit Award nominations, including Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay. Synopsis This allegorical tale concerns the gap that exists between East and West Los Angeles as Latino kids try to pursue the American Dream. After five years of living in Mexico, an 18-year-old youth returns to Los Angeles with aspirations of becoming a movie star. At the urging of his father, a pimp who sells maps to stars' homes as a cover, the young man turns to hustling as a way to meet Hollywood insiders. Things start to look up when he hooks up with the producer of the popular daytime soap opera ''Carmel County''. However his overbearing father and his mentally unstable mother threaten to get in the way of his dreams. Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Independent Spirit Award Winners
Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States * Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist group Music Groups, labels, and genres * Independent music, a number of genres associated with independent labels * Independent record label, a record label not associated with a major label * Independent Albums, American albums chart Albums * ''Independent'' (Ai album), 2012 * ''Independent'' (Faze album), 2006 * ''Independent'' (Sacred Reich album), 1993 Songs * "Independent" (song), a 2007 song by Webbie * "Independent", a 2002 song by Ayumi Hamasaki from '' H'' News media organizations * Independent Media Center (also known as Indymedia or IMC), an open publishing network of journalist collectives that report on political and social issues, e.g., in ''The Indypendent'' newspaper of NYC * ITV (TV network) (Independent Television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Births
Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being 1968 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election, elected leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Australian Senate, Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanine Basinger
Jeanine Basinger (born February 3, 1936, Ravenden, Arkansas) is an American film historian who was the Corwin-Fuller professor of film studies at Wesleyan University and the founder and curator of the university's cinematic archives. Early life and education Jeanine Basinger was raised in Brookings, South Dakota. She first became interested in film at the age of 11 when she worked as an usher at The College Theater. She said that seeing the same film over and over gave her an understanding of "the way films... ffectthe audience, ... where they work and where they don't." She attended and received her BS and MS from South Dakota State University. Career Basinger first arrived in Middletown, Connecticut, where Wesleyan University is located, in 1960 as marketing director of American Education Publications, then owned by the university and later sold to Xerox. In the late 1960s, art professor John Frazer recruited her into helping him set up the university's first "serious film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crossroads School (Santa Monica, California)
Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences is a private/independent, college preparatory school in Santa Monica, California, United States. The school is a former member of the G30 Schools group. History The school was founded in 1971 as a secular institution affiliated with St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica. Although the founders, and many of the school's original students, came from the former St. Augustine By-the-Sea Episcopal Day School in Santa Monica, Crossroads School has always been a secular institution. Crossroads started with three rooms in a Baptist church offering grades seven and eight, and an initial enrollment of just over 30 students. The name Crossroads was suggested by Robert Frost's poem, " The Road Not Taken", in which Frost writes: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. As St. Augustine's grew to junior and senior high school, the founders started Crossroads with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kang (director)
Michael Kang (born May 3, 1970) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is Korean American and based in Los Angeles. Feature films ''The Motel'' His feature directorial debut was the independent movie '' The Motel'', which premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. ''The Motel'' won the Humanitas Prize and the NHK International Filmmakers Award, as well as the top jury prizes from the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, the San Diego Asian Film Festival, and the VC Film Festival (the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival). Most recently, ''The Motel'' was nominated for Best First Feature Film by the Independent Spirit Awards. It is currently on DVD through Palm Pictures and stars Sung Kang. ''West 32nd'' Kang also directed the Korean American feature '' West 32nd''. ''West 32nd'' premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007. The film was produced by Teddy Zee and features John Cho, Grace Park and Jeong Jun Ho. ''Knots'' aka ''Four We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Motel (film)
''The Motel'' is a 2005 American comedy drama film written and directed by Michael Kang in his feature debut. The film won the Humanitas Prize in the Independent Feature Film category, and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. It is loosely based on the novel ''Waylaid'' by Ed Lin. Plot Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin's life is devoted to working at his family's hourly-rate motel, where a steady stream of prostitutes, johns, and various other shady characters come and go. Abandoned by his father, he lives with his mother, grandfather, and younger sister Katie. The film is a loosely assembled series of vignettes examining the difficulty of adolescence. Recurring themes include painful encounters with a bully named Roy and Ernest's persistent feelings of being misunderstood by his family. Ernest also blindly explores his incipient sexuality, which includes nursing a crush on Christine, an older girl who works at a Chinese restaurant nearby. Erne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award
The Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award is presented to the creative team of a film budgeted at less than $1,000,000 by the Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. It is named after actor/screenwriter/ director John Cassavetes, a pioneer of American independent film. The award is given to the directors, writers and producers of a film. History Created for the 15th Independent Spirit Awards, it was originally called the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature (Under $500,000). After that, the rules changed so that any feature film budgeted under $500,000 could be eligible (regardless of how many films the director has made), hence the new name. The first recipient of the award was the horror film ''The Blair Witch Project''. In 2023, the rules changed to include any feature film budgeted under $1,000,000. At the 40th Independent Spirit Awards, it was revealed to be renamed the Gena Rowlands Award (renamed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike White (filmmaker)
Michael Christopher White (born June 28, 1970) is an American filmmaker and actor. He created, writes, and directs the ongoing HBO satirical comedy anthology series '' The White Lotus'', for which he has won three Primetime Emmy Awards. White also won an Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for the 2000 film ''Chuck & Buck'', which he wrote and starred in. He has written the screenplays for films such as ''School of Rock'' (2003) and has directed several films that he has written, such as '' Brad's Status'' (2017). White was a co-creator, executive producer, writer, director and actor on the HBO series '' Enlightened''. He is also known for his appearances on reality television, competing on two seasons of ''The Amazing Race'' and later becoming a contestant and runner-up on '' Survivor: David vs. Goliath''. Early life White was born in Pasadena, California. He is the son of Lyla Lee (née Loehr), a fundraising executive, and former executive director of the Pasadena Playh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Arteta
Miguel Arteta (born August 29, 1965) is a Puerto Rican filmmaker known for his work in independent cinema and television. His film ''Chuck & Buck'' (2000) received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature made for under $500,000, while ''The Good Girl'' (2002) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was met with positive critical reception. In television, Arteta has directed episodes for series such as ''The Office'', ''Succession'', and ''Enlightened''. His work on Succession earned him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination. Early life Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to a Peruvian father and Spanish mother, Arteta grew up across Latin America due to his father's job as a Chrysler auto parts salesman. He went to high school in Costa Rica but was expelled, and went to live with his sister in Boston, Massachusetts, graduating from The Cambridge School of Weston in Massachusetts. He then attended Harvard University's documentary program where he learned filmma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
