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Dana Adam Shapiro is an American film director, best known for his directorial work on the 2006 Academy Award-nominated documentary Murderball .
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Dana Adam Shapiro is an American film director, best known for his directorial work on the 2006 Academy Award-nominated documentary Murderball .
Dana Adam Shapiro is a journalist, novelist, and filmmaker. He was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for his first film, Murderball, a feature documentary about the US Paralympic rugby team. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, and the Gotham Independent Film Award for “Best Documentary,” it is the best-reviewed sports film of all time. [1] His latest documentary, Daughters of the Sexual Revolution, [2] won the Louis Black “Lone Star Award” at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, and is currently in development as a scripted series with Charlize Theron's Denver & Delilah and Warner Bros.
His first narrative film, Monogamy, starring Chris Messina and Rashida Jones, won the Special Jury Prize for “Best Narrative” at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for a 2011 Independent Spirit Award for "Best First Screenplay, and was released theatrically by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
For two seasons (2018-2019), Shapiro was a producer/writer on CBS's Strange Angel , a scripted series about Jack Parsons, the Thelemic occultist who practiced sex magick while revolutionizing the rocket industry during World War II.
Shapiro's 2007 animated short My Biodegradable Heart was an official selection at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and many other fests around the world.
Shapiro is a former senior editor at SPIN magazine , a founding editor and senior writer of Icon Magazine , and he is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and other publications.
His debut novel, The Every Boy (published by Houghton Mifflin), is a New York Times Editors' Choice and a 2005 Book Sense Notable Book that he adapted into a Black List script.
His second book, "You Can Be Right (or You Can Be Married): Looking for Love in the Age of Divorce" was released on September 4, 2012, is non-fiction about divorce, was featured on The Today Show, and optioned by CBS.
He was the 2007 Artist-in-Residence at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Shapiro currently lives in Venice, California.
Crumb is a 1994 American documentary film about the noted underground cartoonist R. Crumb and his family and his outlook on life. Directed by Terry Zwigoff and produced by Lynn O'Donnell, it won widespread acclaim. It was released on the film festival circuit in September 1994 before being released theatrically in the United States on April 28, 1995, having been screened at film festivals that year. Jeffery M. Anderson placed the film on his list of the ten greatest films of all time, labeling it "the greatest documentary ever made." The Criterion Collection released the film on DVD and Blu-ray on August 10, 2010.
Michael Weatherly Jr. is an American actor, producer, director, and musician, known for playing the roles of special agent Anthony DiNozzo in the television series NCIS and Logan Cale in Dark Angel (2000–2002). From 2016 to 2022, he starred as Dr. Jason Bull in Bull, a courtroom drama. He also starred in Meet Wally Sparks.
Kirby Bryan Dick is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best known for directing documentary films. He received Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature for directing Twist of Faith (2005) and The Invisible War (2012). He has also received numerous awards from film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and Los Angeles Film Festival.
Murderball is a 2005 American documentary film about athletes who are physically disabled who play wheelchair rugby. It centers on the rivalry between the Canadian and U.S. teams leading up to the 2004 Paralympic Games. It was directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro, and produced by Jeffrey V. Mandel and Shapiro. It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature for the 78th Academy Awards. Murderball was the first and only MTV film released through THINKFilm as well as Participant Media.
Participant Media, LLC was an American independent film and television production company founded in 2004 by Jeffrey Skoll, dedicated to entertainment intended to spur social change. The company financed and co-produced film and television content, as well as digital entertainment through its subsidiary SoulPancake, which the company acquired in 2016.
Debra Granik is an American filmmaker. She is most known for 2004's Down to the Bone, which starred Vera Farmiga, 2010's Winter's Bone, which starred Jennifer Lawrence in her breakout performance and for which Granik was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and 2018's Leave No Trace, a film based on the book My Abandonment by Peter Rock.
Sidney Meyers, also known by the pen name Robert Stebbins was an American film director and editor.
Henry-Alex Rubin is an Academy Award-nominated American filmmaker and Emmy Award-winning commercial director.
The Every Boy is the debut novel by American author and filmmaker Dana Adam Shapiro.
Martin Torgoff is an American journalist, author, documentary filmmaker, and writer, director and producer of television, who has worked extensively in the fields of music and American popular culture. He is best known for his book "Can’t Find My Way Home: America In the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000" (2004) a narrative cultural history of illicit drugs, and for "The Drug Years", the series for VH1 and Sundance that Torgoff wrote and appeared in, which was based on his book. Over the span of his forty-year career, his work has encompassed music, art, film, theater, literature, politics, biography, history, race, sociology, sexuality, and celebrity culture.
Jeffrey Friedman is an American filmmaker. In 2021, he and Rob Epstein won a Grammy Award for their work on the documentary film Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Roger Ross Williams is an American director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Academy Award (Oscar), with his short film Music by Prudence; this film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2009.
Jennifer Fox is an American film producer, director, cinematographer, and writer as well as president of A Luminous Mind Film Productions. She won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for her first feature documentary, Beirut: The Last Home Movie. Her 2010 documentary My Reincarnation had its premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2010, where it won a Top 20 Audience Award.
The 26th annual Sundance Film Festival was held from January 21, 2010, until January 31, 2010, in Park City, Utah.
David France is an American investigative reporter, non-fiction author, and filmmaker. He is a former Newsweek senior editor, and has published in New York magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, and others. France, who is gay, is best known for his investigative journalism on LGBTQ topics.
Joe Brewster is an American psychiatrist and filmmaker who directs and produces fiction films, documentaries and new media focused on the experiences of communities of color.
Tchavdar Georgiev is an American writer, producer, director and editor of fiction and non-fiction films, TV commercials and television programs.
Aaron I. Butler is an American film and television editor and producer.
Jérémy Comte is a Canadian film director from Quebec. He is best known for his 2018 short film Fauve which has won a Special Jury Prize at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for 91st Academy Awards.
Todd Douglas Miller is an American filmmaker known for directing the award-winning films Dinosaur 13 and Apollo 11.
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