Galt Niederhoffer
Galt Niederhoffer (born October 2, 1976 ) is an American screenwriter , film producer , director and writer .
Life
Niederhoffer is the daughter of hedge fund manager Victor Niederhoffer and has five other sisters. She attended Chapin School, Milton Academy and graduated from Harvard University . So far she has written three novels and has worked on over thirty film projects as a screenwriter, producer and / or director. Her novel "The Romantics" from 2008 was filmed by her in 2010 , with the participation of the actors Katie Holmes , Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel .
The mother of two lives and works in New York .
Filmography (selection)
- 1997: Hurricane Streets
- 2001: Prozac Nation - My life with the psycho pill (Prozac Nation)
- 2005: Lonesome Jim
- 2005: Baxter - The Baxter
- 2006: The time without Grace (Grace Is Gone)
- 2007: Dedication
- 2007: Love Unusual - A Relationship with Obstacles (Watching the Detectives)
- 2008: Memories to Go - Forgive ... and forget! (Diminished Capacity)
- 2008: Birds of America
- 2010: The Romantics
- 2012: Robot & Frank
- 2013: Black Nativity
- 2014: Infinitely Polar Bear
Literary works
- A Taxonomy of Barnacles, St. Martin's Press, 2006, 367 pp.
- The Romantics, St. Martin's Press, 2008, 288 pp.
- Love and Happiness, St. Martin's Press, 2013, 218 pp.
Awards
She won several awards at the Sundance Film Festivals .
Web links
- Galt Niederhoffer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Galt Niederhoffer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Galt Niederhoffer at ancestry.com
- ↑ Article about Victor Niederhoffer: The Blow-Up Artist in New Yorker Magazin from October 15, 2007
- ↑ The New York Times: A Family Tale, Toned Down for Fiction, February 26, 2006, accessed May 28, 2015
- ↑ imdb.com: Galt Niederhoffer accessed on May 27, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Niederhoffer, Galt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter, film producer, director and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd October 1976 |