Richard Press

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Richard Press (* in New York City ) is an American documentary filmmaker, film director and screenwriter.

Life

Richard Press studied photography and graphic design at Berkeley University and initially worked as a photographer. In 1995 he produced and directed his first short film Rambles and two other short films that were shown at various film festivals. The short film 2 + 3 premiered at the New York Film Festival and received the jury award at the 2000 Berlinale .

His first feature film Virtual Love , which was made in the Sundance Filmmakers Lab, received the Sundance / NHK award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival . The film is about the friendship between the American author Paul Montel and a 15-year-old boy.

In 2010 he shot the film Bill Cunningham New York about the then 81-year-old New York photographer Bill Cunningham with little technical effort and a small budget . He was assisted on camera by Tony Cenicola, a photographer for the New York Times. The film was presented at numerous film festivals, including the Hamburg Film Festival in 2012 . The New Yorker film critic described the film as a “masterful documentary about urban life and creativity”.

Awards

"Bill Cunningham New York" (2010) won the Chlotrudis Award , received a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for best director in a documentary, and 12 other nominations.

Filmography

  • 1995: Rambles , short film; Script, direction, production
  • 1995: Expecting , short film; Director
  • 2000: 2 + 3 , short film; Director
  • 2005: Virtual Love ; Director
  • 2010: Bill Cunningham New York ; Camera, director
  • 2017: Abstract: Design as Art , TV series, 2 episodes ( Paul Scher. Graphic Design ; Platon. Photography ); Director

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b New Directors / New Films '10; Director Richard Press on Capturing the Elusive "Bill Cunningham" IndieWire, March 22, 2010, accessed March 14, 2020
  2. ^ Sundance International Filmmakers Award , accessed March 14, 2020
  3. ^ Bill Cunningham, New York, A film by Richard Press zeitgeistfilms.com, accessed March 13. 2020
  4. ↑ Hilton As: The Fashion Cycle The New Yorker, March 14, 2011, accessed March 14, 2020
  5. ↑ Richard Press: "'Virtual Love' is an American story, a portrait of o , IndieWire, accessed March 14, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Press, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American documentary filmmaker, film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City