Anne Flournoy

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Anne Flournoy
Anne Flournoy, 2012, NYC Filmmaker.jpg
Born (1952-04-28) April 28, 1952 (age 73)
Plainfield, New Jersey
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, producer, director
Years active1982–current
Spouse Mark M. Green (m. 1985-)
Website http://anneflournoy.com/

Anne Flournoy (born April 28, 1952) is an American writer, producer and film director, best known for the webseries The Louise Log . [1]

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Career

Anne Flournoy's first short film, Louise Smells a Rat, was made in 1982 [2] by recutting snippets of other peoples' films and borrowing a song. The total budget, just over $1,000, [3] went on lab fees. [1] Louise Smells a Rat is "an elliptical spy story, set to a driving merengue by Johnny Ventura. It was made from twenty-four hours of discarded 16mm prints, distilled down to four and a half minutes." [4] Louise Smells a Rat premiered at the New York Film Festival. [1] The film can be seen on YouTube. [5] In 1985 Louise Smells a Rat was shown at the 29th London Film Festival [6]

The short film Nadja Yet was made in 1983. It is a story of obsessive teen love, adapted from Turgenev, and starred Jenny Wright. [7]

The feature film How To Be Louise [8] is a "coming-of-age story about an insecure young woman who has a lousy job, great expectations and a confused idea of what it means to be a woman". [9] It had its US premiere in 1990 in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, [10] its European premiere in the Panorama at the Berlin International Film Festival, and was awarded a three star rating by the New York Post. [4]

The webseries The Louise Log is a comedy dealing with "the confessions of a New York City wife and mother hell-bent on getting it right in spite of ... her over-active inner voice." [11] The series was launched on the last day of 2007, in a desperate bid to break out of a cycle of delays. [12] Christine Cook [13] played Louise in the first two series—Morgan Hallett took over in the third--"a woman dealing with her husband, kids, an elaborate ensemble of notable characters, and her ... humorously overactive inner voice". [14] The series has completed 44 episodes to date, with more in the pipeline. [15]

The Independent included Flournoy on their list of 10 Filmmakers To Watch in 2012. [16]

Awards and honors

Flournoy was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991. [1] [17]

Filmography

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Internet Revolution Archived 2013-06-11 at the Wayback Machine How the Internet Revamped My Filmmaking Career
  2. ↑ Louise Smells a Rat Archived 2011-08-02 at the Wayback Machine British Film Institute
  3. ↑ MidLife Bloggers Archived 2011-10-16 at the Wayback Machine The Louise Log
  4. 1 2 Anne Flournoy Biography
  5. ↑ Louise Smells a Rat on YouTube
  6. ↑ British Film Institute
  7. ↑ Nadja Yet Anne Flournoy website
  8. ↑ New York Times How To Be Louise
  9. ↑ IMDb How to be Louise
  10. ↑ Sundance Film Festival How To Be Louise
  11. ↑ Website Archived October 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine The Louise Log
  12. ↑ Adelaide Screenwriter Interview with Anne Flournoy
  13. ↑ IMDb Christine Cook
  14. ↑ Times Square Newsletter Archived 2011-10-26 at the Wayback Machine Anne Flourney – A Dream Realized
  15. ↑ Facebook The Louise Log
  16. ↑ "10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2012". Independent Media Publications. June 12, 2012. Archived from the original on 22 June 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  17. ↑ Wikipedia List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1991
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