Previously known for documentaries Beirut: The Last Home Movie (1987) and My Reincarnation (2011), producer and cinematographer Jennifer Fox just entered the narrative sphere....
While Jennifer Fox does indeed come from a docu-background, HBO's push towards narrative and landing the rights to The Tale (the day before we shot this video)...
Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...
Not unlike Gabriela Cowperthwaite, here is the example of another female docu filmmaker who broke out at Sundance and has now climbed into fiction narrative territory....
Nightcrawler
Director: Dan Gilroy
Writer: Dan Gilroy
Producers: Michel Litvak, David Lancaster, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Fox, Tony Gilroy
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton,...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.