Brad Furman | |
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Born | Brad Evan Furman 8 June 1975 Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, United States |
Occupation(s) | Film director, producer, writer |
Brad Furman (born June 8, 1975) is an American film and music video director, producer, and writer. [1]
Furman grew up in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania. He is Jewish [2] and attended Friends' Central School. He later went on to study at New York University (NYU) where he earned a BFA in film and TV from the Tisch School of the Arts. He also played Division III basketball for NYU. [3]
Furman directed The Lincoln Lawyer , which starred Matthew McConaughey and was released in 2011. [4] His next feature film was Runner Runner , which starred Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck. Furman also directed the music video for "What Do You Mean?" by the singer Justin Bieber in 2015. [5]
In 2016, Furman directed Bryan Cranston in The Infiltrator . The film is based on the autobiography of the same name by Robert Mazur, a U.S. Customs special agent, who in the 1980s helped bust Pablo Escobar's money-laundering organization by going undercover as a corrupt businessman.
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