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David Gordon Green - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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David Gordon Green - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Producer, Director, Writer, Actor.
Born April 9, 1975, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA - American film director, screenwriter and producer.
As a child, David's parents protected him from excessive entertainment, and he secretly ran to his friends to watch cable television, and at the age of 8 he watched the sexually exploitative film "Angel", which made a great impression on Green. At the same time, Green played baseball and football, but was not particularly good at them, but a small "sports" stream flowed near the house, and Green climbed the surrounding trees. He sat in front of the TV for hours, watching various films.
Green attended Richardson High School, after which he studied for a year at the University of Texas and transferred to film directing at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, graduating in 1998. During his studies, he released three of his first student films - "Will You Lather Up My Roughhouse?" (1995), Pleasant Grove (1997) and Physical Pinball (1998). The last film won the CINE Eagle Award in 1999.
Rough House Pictures was later founded by Green and fellow students Jody Hill, Matt Reilly and Danny McBride.
After graduation, Greene moved to Los Angeles, where he lived for a year and took on any filmmaking work he could get. But soon Green realized that the dull and artificial Hollywood was not for him, and returned to North Carolina, where he began working in a factory for the production of doorknobs. At the same time, he and his friends raised $ 40,000 and quit his day job to shoot his first feature film, George Washington (2000), in which Greene incorporated the events of several African-American children living in rural North Carolina. for one long, imaginary summer. The protagonist, openly dreaming of becoming the president of the United States and suffering from unusually thin bones of the skull, accidentally kills another boy, and the society around them decides to hide this fact. This film has won several awards, including the Southeastern Media Award at the Atlanta Film Festival, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Film, Best Director and Best Dramatic Film at the Newport International Film Festival. Discovery Award at the Toronto Film Festival and Best Feature Film at the Turin Film Festival. The first film was critically acclaimed.
Green's next film, All the Real Girls (2003), was also filmed on a small budget and won a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
In his third film, Ebb Tide (2004), in fact the story of Cain and Abel, about an extremely dysfunctional all-male family in which two boys run away from their uncle, who killed their father for a bag of gold coins, Green brought Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney, Jamie Bella, Kristen Stewart and Shiri Appleby. Filmed in Savannah, Georgia, it received a Special Prize nomination for the Deauville American Film Festival.
The 2007 film Snow Angels starring Kate Beckinsale (announced in 2005), which showcased Green's departure from those first three films, was nominated for a Sundance Grand Jury in January.
In March 2007, it became known that Warner Independent Pictures had signed a contract with Green to film the adaptation of John Grisham's novel Innocent. And, later, Overture Films acquired the rights to the novel "Freaks of the Heartland" by Steve Niles - about Trevor Owen's attempts to protect his 6-year-old younger brother from "monsters".
In 2008, Green directed 12 episodes of the series "Going East and Down" for HBO, and later the comedy "Pineapple Express" with Seth Rogen and James Franco, about guys addicted to drugs, got into one unpleasant crime story, and in 2011, Your Highness with Danny McBride, James Franco and Natalie Portman is a story about the medieval journey of two princes for a kidnapped bride; with neighbour's children, which ends with a whole wave of problems.
Released in 2013, Lord of the Markup is a remake of the Icelandic film Anyway, sort of summed up Green's comedic experience and became the golden mean of his completely different styles.
A little later, the film "Joe" was released - again about the life of the ignorant rural poor in a primitive half-forgotten world.
Green began filming his new film Manglehorn in Austin in November 2013, starring Al Pacino as Manglehorn, an eccentric old man from a provincial American town, reminiscing about his past life of crime and coming to terms with the past, and finished it 25 days later.
