Almereyda, Michael

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Almereyda, Michael
Date of birth
1959-04-07
Field of activity
Film criticism
Motion picture authorship
Motion pictures--Production and direction
Occupation
Producers and directors
Film critics
Motion picture producers and directors
Screenwriters
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 56516285
Wikidata: Q541368
Library of congress: nr 97021811
Sources of Information
  • Almereyda, Michael. Tesla, 2022:title page (Michael Almereyda) page 227 (Michael Almereyda has written and directed fourteen feature films and contributed essays for books)
  • Another girl another planet, c2000:(script/direction, Michael Almereyda)
  • IMDb, July 6, 2015:(Michael Almereyda was born in Overland Park, Kansas)
  • Wikipedia, July 6, 2015:(Michael Almereyda, American film director, screenwriter, and film producer; studied art history at Harvard but dropped out to pursue filmmaking; also has edited and contributed texts for Night wraps the sky, 2008, and has written criticism and commentary for The New York Times, Film comment, Artforum, Bookforum, and other resources)
  • Layers of light, c1995:p. 3 (Michael Almereyda)
  • Night wraps the sky, 2008:CIP t.p. (Michael Almereyda) datasheet (b. April 7, 1959)
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Wikipedia description:

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. His films include Hamlet (2000) and Experimenter (2015). His film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project. In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award. 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.

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