Jeremy Saulnier

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Jeremy Saulnier at the 2013 American Film Festival

Jeremy Saulnier (born June 10, 1976 in Alexandria , Virginia ) is an American director , cameraman and screenwriter .

Life

Jeremy Saulnier was born in the city of Alexandria , Virginia , where his mother worked as a researcher and his father worked for the United States Air Force . Saulnier made films from childhood. At the age of 11, his mother gave him a portable video camera that, according to her own statements, changed his life. Together with the then 12-year-old Macon Blair , the older brother of Brooks Blair, whom Saulnier knew from gym class, he made a film called Megacop in 1988 at the age of 11 , in which they wore wigs, fiddled with toy guns and under theirs Brought clothes paint bags to explode to imitate the blood. In high school , they later shot a sequel together called Megacop 2000 .

Saulnier later studied film at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. There one of his lecturers saw a short film that Saulnier had made and recommended that he become a cameraman. Saulnier graduated with honors (Undergraduate Cinematography Award) in 1998 , then attended the cameraman master class of ASC member John Toll . Thereafter, Saulnier tried to get into the film industry in two different ways.

Career

After graduating from film school and training to be a cameraman, Saulnier had to start over again and became a production assistant for a few years. After that he worked as a cameraman and shot videos and commercials for companies.

During this time Saulnier also founded the production company Lab of Madness , with which he shot the later award-winning short film Crabwalk in 2004 , for which he acted as director and cameraman, and which was also selected for the short film festival in Clermont-Ferrand in 2005. Saulnier's first feature-length film was made in 2007, entitled Murder Party , which he financed himself and for which he directed and wrote the screenplay. During this time, Saulnier also worked as head cameraman for numerous other films, including Hamilton (2006) and I Used to Be Darker (2013) by Matthew Porterfield and for the independent films Putty Hill (2010) and Septien (2011).

In 2013, the film Blue Ruin followed , which was widely praised by critics and was able to convince 96 percent of the critics at Rotten Tomatoes . The film won the Director's Fortnight Prize (FIPRESCI) in Cannes and was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award in 2015 as part of the Independent Spirit Awards . His longtime friend Macon Blair played the main role in the film .

In 2015, Saulnier finished work on the film, Green Room , for which he was able to hire actors such as Patrick Stewart , Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots .

In September 2015 it was announced that Saulnier had taken on the direction of a cinematic adaptation of William Giraldi's novel Wolfsnächte (in the original Hold the Dark ) and that Saulnier would be working again for this film with the film distributor A24 , which already sells its film Green Room . The film was released on Netflix on September 28, 2018.

Saulnier's films are essentially dramas. They draw sensitive portraits of individual fates and live from the intensity with which the audience participates in the inner workings of the characters. The focus of his films is always lonely people who are isolated from society.

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Slamdance Film Festival

  • 2004: Awarded the Grand Jury Prize for best story in a short film (Crabwalk)
  • 2007: Awarded the audience award for Best Narrative Feature (Murder Party)

Gijón International Film Festival 2013

Marrakech International Film Festival 2013

  • Awarded the special prize of the jury (Blue Ruin)

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2013

  • Nomination for Best North American Independent Film (Blue Ruin)

Festival du nouveau cinéma 2015

  • Awarded the audience award for best film ( Green Room )

Montréal Festival of New Cinema 2015

  • Received the Temps Ø People's Choice Award (Green Room)

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2015

  • Awarded the Audience Award (Jeremy Saulnier)
  • Received the Denis-de-Rougemont Youth Award (Green Room)
  • Best Feature Film Awarded the Narcisse Award (Green Room)

Web links

Commons : Jeremy Saulnier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeremy Saulnier. In: IMDb. Retrieved December 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Jeremy Saulnier In: pardolive.ch. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c Jeremy Saulnier in conversation with Tara Brady: Blood brother: Jeremy Saulnier hits a rich vein In: The Irish Times, May 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Logan Hill: Spilling Blood as if They Were Kids The New York Times, April 18, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Jeremy Saulnier In: hamiltonfilmgroup.org. Retrieved April 9, 2016 (PDF; 2.5 MB)
  6. ↑ Jeremy Saulnier in conversation with Hannah Ghorashi: The Devastating Jeremy Saulnier In: interviewmagazine.com, April 24, 2014.
  7. ↑ Eric Kohn: How Jeremy Saulnier Went From Corporate Videos to Premiering 'Blue Ruin' at Cannes In: indiewire.com, May 18, 2013.
  8. ↑ Blue Ruin In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  9. ↑ Marcus Müntefering: Alaska adventure "Wolfsnächte": If only the testosterone keeps you warm. In: Spiegel Online, March 1, 2016.
  10. ↑ Jeff Sneider: 'Green Room' Director Jeremy Saulnier Reteams With A24 for Revenge Movie 'Hold the Dark' In: thewrap.com, September 24, 2015.
  11. ↑ Annette Bögelsack: Violence creates counter-violence - a portrait of Jeremy Saulnier In: moviepilot.de, June 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Saulnier, Jeremy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director, cameraman and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria , Virginia