Tim McCann (born June 21, 1965)
[ Note: Source says, "Mr. McCann won the top prize, the Merchant/Ivory Award, in October after his movie had its premiere before packed audiences in Telluride." The 1995 Telluride Film Festiva]
was held in September 1995
and has no "Merchant/Ivory Award". is an American film director and a professor of film at his alma mater, the
State University of New York at Purchase
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.
Biography
McCann was born in
Spring Valley, New York, and grew up in
Nyack, New York. His parents divorced when he was 3. At 15, McCann wanted to make films, and in 1987 graduated from the film school at the
State University of New York at Purchase
The State University of New York at Purchase (commonly Purchase College or SUNY Purchase) is a public liberal arts college in Purchase, New York. It is one of 13 comprehensive colleges in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It was fo ...
. He then spent four years in
Brooklyn, New York City, working odd jobs and directing low-budget commercials. By early 1996, he was an audio-visual specialist at the Chappaqua Library, in
Chappaqua, New York.
He directed his first feature, ''
Desolation Angels'', in 1995, made on a budget of $42,000.
The film, which starred
Michael Rodrick
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Rodrick was born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. During his junior year of high school, he auditioned for New Jersey's Governor's School of the Arts on a lark to get himse ...
, premiered at the 1995
Telluride Film Festival.
It then won the International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) at the
Toronto International Film Festival,
and was accepted to the
Rotterdam Film Festival
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.
Filmography
* ''
American Exit
''American Exit'' is a 2019 American adventure drama thriller film written and directed by Tim McCann and Ingo Vollkammer and starring Dane Cook and Levi Miller.
Cast
* Dane Cook as Charlie
*Levi Miller
Levi Zane Miller (born 30 September ...
'' (2019; co-directed with Ingo Vollkammer)
* ''
No Beast So Fierce
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* A determiner in noun phrases
Alphanumeric symbols
* No (kana), a letter/syllable in Japanese script
* No symbol, displayed � ...
'' (2015)
* ''
All Mistakes Buried'' (2015)
* ''
White Rabbit'' (2013)
*''
The Poker Club'' (2008)
*''
Runaway
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* Thermal runaway, self-increase of the reaction rate of an exothermic proce ...
'' (2005)
*''
Nowhere Man'' (2005)
*''
Deca - Dance
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'' (2004; TV)
*''Revolution #9'' (2001)
*''
Homicide: Life on the Street - Wu's on First?'' (1997; TV)
*''
Desolation Angels'' (1995)
References
External links
Official website*
1965 births
Living people
People from Nyack, New York
People from Rockland County, New York
State University of New York at Purchase alumni
Film directors from New York (state)
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