Brit Marling
Brittany "Brit" Heyworth Marling (born August 7, 1982 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American screenwriter , film producer , director and actress who works primarily in independent film productions.
life and career
Brit Marling studied economics at Georgetown University , where she graduated in 2005. With the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas , she first drew attention as a co-author with Mike Cahill and Nicholas Shumaker and as a co-director at Cahill's side. In 2011 she also worked as a co-author, producer and actress on the independent productions Another Earth and Sound of My Voice . Both films were screened at the 27th Sundance Film Festival 2011 . Another Earth , a science fiction film in which she plays the main character Rhoda Williams , won the festival's Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and the festival's US Dramatic Competition Special Jury Prize .
In 2017 she was accepted for her work as a screenwriter in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year .
Filmography
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Web links
- Brit Marling in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait of Brit Marling on the occasion of The East in The Guardian , June 28, 2013, accessed 14.10.17
Individual evidence
- ↑ Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved May 27, 2013 .
- ↑ Boxers and Ballerinas. IMDb , accessed November 11, 2011 .
- ^ Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Awarded to Mike Cahill's Another Earth at 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In: Sundance.org. January 28, 2011, accessed March 19, 2016 .
- ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
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| SURNAME | Marling, Brit |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marling, Brittany Heyworth (full name); Marling, Brit Heyworth (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter, producer, director and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |