Anne Flournoy | |
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| Born | April 28, 1952 |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, producer, director |
| Years active | 1982–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]
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]
Flournoy was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991. [1] [17]
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