Ariel Kleiman

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Ariel Kleiman (born 1985 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian director [1] and filmmaker based in London. [2]

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Biography

Kleiman was born to a Jewish family in Melbourne, Australia; his parents emigrated from Odesa, Ukraine in the 1970s. [3] He graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2010 where he studied Film & TV. [4] He is currently in development on his first feature film, with production company Warp Films. [5]

Works

Kleiman's second year film school film, Young Love, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 where it was awarded an Honorable Mention in Short Film Making. [6] That same year it was showcased in Issue 11 of Mcsweeny's DVD quarterly Wholphin. [7] In May 2010 Kleiman's graduating film, Deeper Than Yesterday, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival's, Semaine de la Critique, where it was awarded the Kodak Discovery Award For Best Short Film. [8] Deeper Than Yesterday was awarded best film prizes at over 20 film festivals, from Leeds to Beijing, including 2011 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize in International Filmmaking. [9] [10] In 2010 Kleiman also won SOYA Qantas Spirit of Youth award [11] & Inside Film Rising Talent award. In 2012 Kleiman's first feature film script won the Sundance Mahindra Global Filmmaking award [12] and was selected for the Sundance Directors & Writers Labs. The film was expected to begin production in 2013.[ citation needed ] In 2015, Kleiman released a full-length film, Partisan , [10] [13] a thriller about child assassins, [14] which was meant to star Oscar Isaac [15] [16] but instead starred Vincent Cassel. [17]

Kleiman also directed the eighth episode of the Showtime drama series Yellowjackets , titled "Flight of the Bumblebee". Cast member Melanie Lynskey said "Flight of the Bumblebee" was her favorite episode to film because Kleiman allowed the cast to "play around" and improvise several scenes. [18]

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References

  1. ↑ "Searchlight: Ariel Kleiman - Young Director Award". Young Director Award.
  2. ↑ Henkell, Karl. "Meet Ariel Kleiman", Surface To Air
  3. ↑ The Jewish Journal: "Ariel Kleiman back at Sundance with feature debut, a dark drama" by Anthony Weiss 27 January 2015
  4. ↑ Mitchell, Wendy. "Warp Films ramps up ambitious international slate", Screen Daily , 11 May 2011.
  5. ↑ Kornits, Dov & Nash, Cara. "Star Student" Archived 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine , FilmInk , 3 June 2010.
  6. ↑ "Screen Australia Media Release" Archived 14 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine , Screen Australia , 1 February 2010.
  7. ↑ "Wholphin No 11", Wholphin
  8. ↑ Griffin, Eleanore. "How Deep is Your Love?" Archived 2016-01-22 at the Wayback Machine , Oyster , 25 May 2010.
  9. ↑ Plante, Mike. "Rolling for Glory at the Shorts Awards" Archived 21 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine , Sundance Film Festival , 25 January 2011.
  10. 1 2 "Partisan director Ariel Kleiman’s brave new worlds". The Saturday Paper, 6 June 2015.
  11. ↑ Blake, Elissa. "Winners: 2010 Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards" Archived 21 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Qantas , 1 January 2011.
  12. ↑ Fernandez, Jay. "Sundance 2012: Institute Announces Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award Winners", The Hollywood Reporter , 24 January 2012.
  13. ↑ Richey, Anne. "Anna McLeish: producing Ariel Kleiman's first feature". ArtsHub Australia.
  14. ↑ "Partisan review – Cassel shimmers with menace in single-minded thriller". The Guardian, Luke Buckmaster, 28 May 2015
  15. ↑ "Oscar Isaac Lands Lead in Writer-Director Ariel Kleiman's 'Partisan'". The Hollywood Reporter.
  16. ↑ Mike Fleming Jr. "'Inside Llewyn Davis' Oscar Isaac To Star In 'Partisan'". Deadline.
  17. ↑ "Vincent Cassel in Ariel Kleiman's new Australian movie Partisan". NewsComAu.
  18. ↑ Turchiano, Danielle (3 January 2022). "Melanie Lynskey Previews a Pivotal Yellowjackets Confrontation and Shauna's Fear of Herself". Variety . Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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