Tanya Wexler

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Tanya Wexler at the Toronto International Film Festival (2011)

Tanya Wexler (born August 5, 1970 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American film director . She became known through films such as Ball in the House or In guteehand .

life and career

Tanya Wexler was born in Chicago in the US state of Illinois in 1970. She is the daughter of real estate developer Jerrold Wexler and his second wife Susan Jeanne Metzger. After attending Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, she also received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in New York. In the late 1990s, Wexler turned to the film business. In 1998 she made her feature film debut with the romantic comedy Finding North . Wendy Makkena , John Benjamin Hickey and Jonathan Walker played the leading roles . The film was nominated for Best Picture at the 1998 International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. In 2001 she shot another comedy with Jonathan Tucker , Jennifer Tilly and David Strathairn under the title Ball in the House . At the 2003 Washington DC Independent Film Festival, the cinema production won the Grand Jury Award for best feature film. In 2011, Tanya Wexler directed the romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator In Good Hands with the cast of Maggie Gyllenhaal , Hugh Dancy and Jonathan Pryce, her third feature film. The film received a nomination at the Rome Film Fest 2011 for the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award and an Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Feature - Studio or Independent Comedy Award nomination at the 2012 Casting Society of America .

Tanya Wexler lives in New York City with her wife Amy Zimmerman and four children. She is the niece of cinematographer Haskell Wexler .

Awards

  • 1998: Nomination at the International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival with the Rosebud Award in the category Best Film for Finding North
  • 2003: Honored at the Washington DC Independent Film Festival with the Grand Jury Award in the Best Feature category for Ball in the House
  • 2011: Nomination at the Rome Film Fest with the Golden Marc'Aurelio Award for In Good Hands

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Tanya Wexler. In: Stefanie Knauss: More than a Provocation: Sexuality, Media and Theology. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014, p. 53.

Web links

Commons : Tanya Wexler  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who Knew Visiting the Doctor Back Then Could Be So Thrilling? Tanya Wexler in: The New York Times
personal data
SURNAME Wexler, Tanya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , United States