David Gordon Green (born 9 April 1975 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American filmmaker. He grew up in Richardson, Texas, and attended Richardson High School and the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studied film directing. He currently lives in New Orleans.
His films, which are usually coming-of-age tales set in small rural towns, have been categorized as belonging to the Southern Gothic tradition. Green's dialog often has an obtuse, ...
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David Gordon Green (born 9 April 1975 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American filmmaker. He grew up in Richardson, Texas, and attended Richardson High School and the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studied film directing. He currently lives in New Orleans.
His films, which are usually coming-of-age tales set in small rural towns, have been categorized as belonging to the Southern Gothic tradition. Green's dialog often has an obtuse, semi-poetic quality.
While in university, he made the two short films, Pleasant Grove and Physical Pinball, at the North Carolina School of the Arts prior to his feature film debut in 2000, the critically-acclaimed George Washington, which he both wrote and directed. He followed that in 2003 with All the Real Girls and Undertow in 2004. In 2007, Snow Angels, his first film created from a screenplay rather than his own writing, was adapted from a Stewart O'Nan novel. The film debuted at Sundance in January 2007 and stars Sam Rockwell and Kate...
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