Anderson Boyd

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Anderson Boyd
Born (1985-11-18) November 18, 1985 (age 37)
Education Ravenscroft School
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active2009–present

Anderson Drew Boyd (born November 18, 1985) is an American director, screenwriter, producer and film editor from Raleigh, North Carolina. He studied filmmaking at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and is best known for his debut feature film, Well Wishes (2015). [1]

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Career

After leaving Wilmington, North Carolina for Manhattan, Boyd matriculated into then worked for a post-production trade school before hiring into its sister company. His first major screen credit was the Academy Award nominated Winter's Bone (2010), of which he was attributed by director Debra Granik with shaping into a neo-noir, away from observational iterations. During this period he cut scenes for the films Cold Weather (2010) and Up Heartbreak Hill (2011). [1] [2]

He worked as an on-line editor for the Sundance documentaries Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work , The Tillman Story, the SXSW documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields and subsequently in creative offline editing with the Independent Spirit Award nominated film The History of Future Folk and the Adult Swim television series The Heart, She Holler and Delocated .

Boyd's feature directorial debut, Well Wishes , was a 2013 quarter-finalist of Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest before entering production in October 2013. The film was lensed at 65 locations across North Carolina over a period of 29 days with a production budget of only $300,000, qualifying it for the now-defunct North Carolina Film Incentive 25% refund. [2] Boyd won Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Feature Narrative for the film at the 2015 Williamsburg International Film Festival. [3] He is currently writing a follow-up feature film, an international crime drama concerning 3D printing. [4]

Filmography

Feature films

YearTitleCredited as
Director Writer Producer Editor
2019The Fox HunterYesYes
2018Dead EnvyYesYes
2015 Well Wishes YesYesYesYes

Short films

YearTitleCredited as
Director Writer Producer Editor
2013The RedwoodsYesYes
2013Every Story Ends in StoneYesYesYesYes
2010The Last DinnerYesYesYesYes

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References

  1. 1 2 "Anderson Boyd". IMDb. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  2. 1 2 "Raleigh native's locally filmed 'Well Wishes' is sweetly sentimental". newsobserver. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  3. "Filmed Produced by Drew Boyd '04 Wins at WILLiFEST". www.ravenscroft.org. Archived from the original on 2016-08-08. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  4. SAG-AFTRA Foundation (2016-05-13), The Business: Q&A with WELL WISHES , retrieved 2016-06-21