Justin Kelly (director)
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Justin Kelly is an American film director, screenwriter and
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. He came to prominence as director and writer of Sundance Film Festival 2015 select '' I Am Michael'', starring
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. He then wrote and directed ''King Cobra'', which premiered at the 2016
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starring
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, followed by Sony Pictures 2018 release '' Welcome the Stranger'' starring
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, and most recently '' JT LeRoy'' (2018) starring
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.


Career

After a stream of directing short films as well as directing and editing music videos for artists such as
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and Tiny Hearts, Kelly worked as an editor before making the transition to feature film writer-director. Under the wing of film legend Gus Van Sant, he began shooting his first feature-length film '' I Am Michael'' in summer of 2014. Starring actors
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,
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and Charlie Carver, the controversial film's premiere was announced as a premiere select at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It was released theatrically January 27, 2017. Kelly's second feature-length film, '' King Cobra'', starring
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and
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, shot in the fall of 2015 and premiered at the 2016
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. It was released theatrically via IFC Films on October 21, 2016. His third film '' Welcome the Stranger'' starring Abbey Lee,
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and
Caleb Landry Jones Caleb Landry Jones (born December 7, 1989) is an American actor and musician, known for his roles as Banshee in '' X-Men: First Class'', Jeremy Armitage in '' Get Out'', Red Welby in ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'', Ty Carter in '' T ...
, shot in the summer of 2016 and was released via Sony Pictures on March 13, 2018. Kelly's fourth feature-length film, '' JT LeRoy'', based on the lives of Savannah Knoop and Laura Albert, a.k.a. JT LeRoy, and starring
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and
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, had its world premiere as the closing night film of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. It was released April 26, 2019, by Universal Pictures.


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