Gary Winick

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Gary Winick at the screening of Tadpole at the Seattle International Film Festival, 2002

Gary Winick (born March 31, 1961 in New York City , † February 27, 2011 ) was an American film director and film and television producer .

Life

Gary Winick, a native of New York, attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in Manhattan and graduated from college in 1979. He then attended Tufts University in Boston, where he graduated in 1984. While studying English, he decided to become a filmmaker. Instead of writing articles, he submitted films and also directed nine 30-minute television episodes for a public broadcaster. The show was called Tracks Inn and his classmates Oliver Platt and Hank Azaria took part in it. Winick later earned a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and the American Film Institute (AFI), where he received the Paramount Foundation Award, the Hollywood Foreign Press Fellowship, and the Remy Martin Award for Production and editing of the short film Punk (1986) won.

He then worked for seven years as a lecturer at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University . He made his debut as a director in 1989 with the thriller Curfew , followed by the drama Damned to Silence with Bridget Fonda in 1991 , a dealer's diary with Mira Sorvino in 1995 and The Tic Code based on Polly Draper's model in 1999 . This drama about a young pianist suffering from Tourette's syndrome was awarded the Transparent Bear at the 1999 Berlinale .

In 1999, Gary Winick founded Independent Digital Entertainment (InDigEnt) in New York together with his lawyer John Sloss and in partnership with the film production company "IFC Productions" to produce films using digital video technology. Quote: “Inspired by the Danish collective Dogma 95 and the leading filmmaker John Cassavetes, InDigEnt has dedicated itself to exploring and building digital cinema, with the support of established scriptwriters, directors and actors. InDigEnt filmmakers work within a limited technical and budgetary structure in exchange for an innovative financial situation. The entire team shares the income, from the first dollar on. This results in the most honest partnership in filmmaking. ”The company was founded with the aim of producing 10 low-budget digital feature films (“ 10 for 100,000 USD ”). The use of the new digital medium ( DV ) enabled on the one hand a strong reduction in production costs and on the other hand meant new creative possibilities for visual representation and new narrative forms. The project attracted experienced filmmakers and at the same time all members of the film crew were highly motivated, as each one of them shared in the proceeds from the films.

As a producer, he is responsible for numerous, sometimes successful, independent films, such as Final (2001) by Campbell Scott , Chelsea Walls (2001) by Ethan Hawke , Women In Film (2001) by Bruce Wagner, which premiered on the Sundance Film Festival celebrated. The romantic drama Personal Velocity: Three Portraits by Rebecca Miller won the Grand Jury Prize and the "Prize for Best Camera" at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival , and Patricia went to Patricia for Peter Hedges' Pieces of April - A Day with April Burns (2003) Clarkson received an Oscar nomination for “Best Supporting Actress” and Greg Harrison's November also won the “Best Cinematography” award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Wim Wenders ' road movie Land of Plenty was invited to and received the 2004 Venice Film Festival competition UNESCO Prize.

Gary Winick also directed the two digitally filmed feature films Sam the Man (2000) starring Fisher Stevens and Annabella Sciorra and All Love Oscar (2002) starring Sigourney Weaver and Aaron Stanford . For the latter, he also wrote the screenplay, a comedy in which a 15-year-old is drawn to more mature women and ultimately wants to conquer his stepmother. This genre change meant Winick breakthrough in the US, because he received at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival the Best Director Award .

In the comedy 30 Overnight , a 13-year-old's dream suddenly comes true when she suddenly wakes up as her adult self ( Jennifer Garner ). 2006 Winick filmed the children's book Wilbur and his friends (original title: Wilbur and Charlotte ) as a live-action version with computer-generated effects, in which Dakota Fanning played the lead role. After the comedy Bride Wars in 2009, in which the former best friends Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson fight each other to the knife over a wedding date in the most coveted hotel, a romance letters to Julia from him could be seen in the cinema in 2010 in the Amanda Seyfried accidentally finds a 50 year old love letter in Verona and does everything to bring this old love back together.

Gary Winick died on February 27, 2011 of complications from a brain tumor.

Filmography (selection)

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Web links

*New York Times: Biography of Gary Winick

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ famegame.com: Born on March 31st ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (engl.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.famegame.com
  2. ↑ Tribute Magazine: Gary Winick Biography (Eng.)
  3. ↑ moviereporter.net: Gary Winick Biography
  4. ↑ Reverse Angle press release: Land of Plenty (PDF; 272 kB)
  5. ↑ moviemaker.com: Interview with Gary Winick ( memento of the original from March 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from February 3, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moviemaker.com
  6. ↑ moviereporter.net: Gary Winick Biography
  7. ↑ Hollywood Reporter: Director Gary Winick Dies at 49 by Lindsay Powers article from February 28, 2011 (Eng.)
  8. ↑ imdb.com: Gary Winick - Awards (engl.)
personal data
SURNAME Winick, Gary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and film and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2011