Christopher Münch

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Christopher Münch (born June 17, 1962 in Pasadena , California ) is an American film director , screenwriter and film editor .

Life

Münch is the son of the Mexican astrophysicist Guido Münch and the writer Louise Fernandez. At the age of 15, he won an award for a short film about the San Diego Zoo .

In the 1980s he made self-taught films, but was unsuccessful. Among his influences he counted independent filmmakers like Robert M. Young and Victor Nunez , and later also John Cassavetes and Gregg Araki .

With his 57-minute black and white film The Hours and Times , he received a special jury award at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival . The film is about a homoerotically charged weekend that John Lennon and his manager Brian Epstein are said to have spent in Barcelona in 1963 . The film is one of the key works of New Queer Cinema , a trend among queer American independent filmmakers of the early 1990s.

In 1994 Münch received a Guggenheim grant .

The follow-up film Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day , like all of his feature films, was shown at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Someone to Watch Prize at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards .

Filmography (director)

  • 1991: The Hours and Times
  • 1996: Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
  • 2001: The Sleepy Time Gal
  • 2004: Harry and Max ( Harry and Max )
  • 2011: Letters from the Big Man

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christopher Munch. Biography. In: IMDb. Retrieved October 8, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b c d Damon Smith: Christopher Munch, "Letters from the Big Man". In: Filmmaker Magazine. November 9, 2011, accessed October 8, 2016 .
  3. ^ Daryl Chin: New Queer Cinema. In: GLBTQ Archive. 2002, accessed October 6, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Christopher Münch. In: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved October 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Münch, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, screenwriter and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasadena , California , United States