Michael Almereyda

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Michael Almereyda
Born (1959-04-07) April 7, 1959 (age 65)
Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • producer
Years active1985–present

Michael Almereyda (born April 7, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He studied art history at Harvard University but dropped out after three years to pursue filmmaking. He acquired a Hollywood agent on the strength of a spec script about Nikola Tesla. [1] His film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project. [2] [3]

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In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award. [4] His film Marjorie Prime (2017), a philosophical science-fiction film based on Jordan Harrison's play of the same name, was screened at Sundance Film Festival and won the Sloan Feature Film Prize. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Leland, Erin (March 25, 2020). "Binge Watch This: Director Michael Almereyda is the Avant-Garde Historian and Storyteller We Need". Cultured Magazine. Retrieved July 22, 2020. In 1980, Almereyda dropped out of Harvard in order to craft his first screenplay for Tesla.
  2. 1 2 "Gotham Awards Nominations Announced Archived 2014-03-14 at the Wayback Machine ", Filmmaker (magazine). Accessed 8 August 2014.
  3. 1 2 "'Brokeback,' 'Capote' Get Gotham Award Nods", Fox News Channel. Accessed 8 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Creative Capital – Investing in Artists who Shape the Future". creative-capital.org. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Sloan Science & Film". scienceandfilm.org. Retrieved 2017-02-03.
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