Trey Edward Shults

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Trey Edward Shults (2015)

Trey Edward Shults (born October 6, 1988 in Houston , Texas ) is an American director , screenwriter , film editor and film producer .

Life

Trey Edward Shults started producing videos when he was a child. Shults had no contact with his father, who died in 2014 of complications from pancreatic cancer, for several years because of his alcohol addiction.

Shults initially studied business administration, but left college to work as an intern on Terrence Malick's film projects The Tree of Life , Song to Song and Voyage of Time .

In 2010 he made his directorial debut with the short film Mother and Son . The main role was played by his aunt Krisha Fairchild . As with his following projects, he was responsible for the script, editing and production in addition to directing. Krisha Fairchild also starred again in his next short film, Two to One from 2011.

His short film Krisha premiered at SXSW 2014. It was then shown at numerous other film festivals, including the HollyShorts Film Festival, where it won the Best Narrative Short award. The film also marks the beginning of the collaboration with cameraman Drew Daniels .

The following year, based on the highly acclaimed short film, the film of the same name was made within nine days of shooting for less than 100,000 US dollars in his family's home in Montgomery, Texas . In this film, Shults combined biographical elements of his family history with a fictional plot. Again, his aunt Krisha Fairchild starred, but Shults' mother Robyn Fairchild and grandmother Billie Fairchild also played roles in the film. Shults appears as Trey himself . The feature film version of Krisha won the 2015 Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at SXSW and was screened in the Semaine de la critique sub-section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival . A24 took over the US distribution of the film and offered Shults a contract for several films while still in Cannes.

2017 was made with the support of A24 Shults' second feature film It Comes at Night ; a horror thriller starring Joel Edgerton , Carmen Ejogo , Christopher Abbott , Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Riley Keough . The film opened in German cinemas on January 18, 2018.

On August 30, 2019, his third feature film, Waves, premiered at the Telluride Film Festival . Taylor Russell , Kelvin Harrison Jr. , Alexa Demie , Sterling K. Brown , Renée Elise Goldsberry and Lucas Hedges played the leading roles in this film, which again shows biographical references .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2010: Mother and Son (short film)
  • 2011: Two to One (short film)
  • 2014: Krisha (short film)
  • 2015: Krisha
  • 2017: It Comes at Night
  • 2019: Waves

Awards

Hamptons International Film Festival 2019

  • Received the Zicherman Family Foundation Screenwriting Award ( Waves )

Web links

Commons : Trey Edward Shults  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Trey Edward Shults . In: semainedelacritique.com, accessed September 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Nicolas Rapold: With 'Krisha,' a Director Finds a Cast He Can Relate To . In: The New York Times of March 10, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c Nigel M. Smith: The Story Behind 'Krisha,' the Family Affair That Rocked SXSW . In: indiewire.com of March 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ Kristin McCracken: Q&A: Trey Edward Shults on the Familial Bonds of 'Krisha' . In: hamptonsfilmfest.org of October 5, 2015.
  5. ^ A b Ed Travis: Interview: Krisha's Writer / Director Trey Edward Shults . In: cinapse.co of July 3, 2015.
  6. ↑ SXSW 2014 . In: sxsw.com, accessed on September 27, 2019.
  7. ↑ Josh Rottenberg: Trey Edward Shults `` Waves' breaks out at Telluride with a story of toxic masculinity and family bonds . In: Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2019.
  8. ^ Peter Debruge: Telluride Film Review: 'Waves' . In: Variety of August 30, 2019.
  9. ↑ Sean Fennessey: The Most Stunning Movie Experience of the Year Is Called 'Waves' . In: theringer.com from September 3, 2019.
  10. ↑ HIFF27 Award Winners. In: hamptonsfilmfest.org. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Shults, Trey Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shults, Trey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director, screenwriter, film editor, and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas, United States