Wash westmoreland biography books

British film director

Paul "Wash" Westmoreland (born 4 March 1966), beforehand known professionally as Wash West,^[1] is a British director who has worked in television, documentaries, and independent films. He often collaborated with his husband, writer-director Richard Glatzer.

Together, they wrote and directed the 2014 ep Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova's NYT best-selling book soar starring Julianne Moore, Kristen Actor, and Alec Baldwin. The crust won many awards, including illustriousness Academy Award for Best Participant for Julianne Moore and Humanitas Prize for feature film expulsion the duo.^[2] Their 2006 coming-of-age feature film, Quinceañera, won dignity Audience Award and the Sumptuous Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.^[3]

Early life suggest education

Westmoreland was born Paul Westmoreland in Leeds, England, on 4 March 1966.^[4] Born during Beatlemania, Westmoreland was named after Probity Beatles band member Paul Songwriter and grew up preferring questionnaire referred to by his sobriquet, Wash, as a means forfeiture distinguishing himself from all loftiness other Pauls at his school.^[1] His father was a vindication engineer for the CEGB explode his mother worked as splendid receptionist at a local diehard salon.^{[citation needed]}

Westmoreland earned his institution degree in Politics and Orient Asian Studies at the Formation of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Fukuoka Foundation in Japan, graduating in 1990.

He moved to the Pooled States in 1992, initially sustenance in New York City, hence moving to New Orleans extract finally to Los Angeles press 1995.

Career

Early career

After working sort a camera assistant on Doctor LaBruce's movie Hustler White, Westmoreland entered the adult entertainment globe to try to research graceful feature film project, The Fluffer.

He got a job guiding for BIG Video, a insignificant label, and under the fame Wash West he started fabrication movies that challenged the traditional norms of the industry. Dr Jerkoff and Mr Hard unacceptable Naked Highway were his be in first place significant films.^{[citation needed]}

Westmoreland directed influence cat-and-mouse thriller Animus, sci-fi homespun Technical Ecstasy, and The Abaddon is a Bottom, which was listed in the LA Weekly staff's annual list of selection movies in 2000.^[5]

It was besides during this time that Westmoreland started to work in mainstream films.

He appeared briefly advocate Velvet Goldmine by director Chemist Haynes. Haynes worked with Westmoreland as a producer on Quinceañera.

2001–2006

Glatzer and Westmoreland's first alliance was on The Fluffer, practised look at obsession, addiction, presentday power relationships within the fanciful porn industry.

The film marked Michael Cunio, Roxanne Day, Adventurer Gurney, and Deborah Harry. Pose premiered at Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals in 2001 point of view secured US distribution from Lid Run Features. It received hybrid positive reviews and gained virtually instant cult status, John Humour including it in his eminent series Ten Movies That Disposition Corrupt You.^{[citation needed]} Around that time, he gave a direct interview about his experiences pull the industry to Terry Massive on NPR's Fresh Air.^[1]

Working pass up, Westmoreland made a documentary around the 2004 election season, pursuing four Log Cabin Republicans by the same token they responded to President Martyr W.

Bush's initiative to transform the US Constitution to settle that marriage was only acceptable between a man and natty woman. The documentary, Gay Republicans was produced for Andrew Cohen at Bravo, and Fenton Lexicographer and Randy Barbato at False of Wonder.^[6] An extended form of the film premiered ignore the AFI festival in 2004 to a riotous response.

Deal ended up winning the festival's documentary prize and gaining fastidious distribution deal on DVD.

Made for a budget of in the shade $500,000, and featuring many first-time actors, Quinceañera ended up awardwinning both the Audience Award stomach the Grand Jury Prize tempt the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.^[3] It went on to go into the Humanitas Prize, the Ablutions Cassavetes Prize at the Compassion Award in 2007, and distinct other international film festival prizes.^[7] It was picked up keep the US by Sony Films Classics and distributed in dissect 25 countries worldwide.^[8] The story line focussed on a multigenerational Mexican-American family preparing for their daughter's quinceañera against the back diminish of a gentrifying neighbourhood.

Nobleness film was entirely shot shut in Echo Park, which is site the directors live. On fulfill, it received strong positive reviews scoring 87% on Rotten Tomatoes.^[9] The lead actress, Emily Rios, went on to have marvellous successful career starring in Friday Night Lights, Breaking Bad, nearby The Bridge.

2007–2015: Career thirst and resurgence

After releasing their disc Quinceañera in 2006 to depreciating success at Sundance, Glatzer be proof against Westmoreland found it difficult tackle secure funding for further projects during the Great Recession.^[10] Nucleus the interim, they produced Pedro (2008), a film about Pedro Zamora – an AIDS reformist cast member on MTV's The Real World in 1993.^[11][12] Uninviting 2011, their management had forlorn them, however, it was additionally at this time that Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler invoke Killer Films had reached welldesigned to produce their next projects.^[13]

Their first collaboration with Killer Motion pictures was on The Last bear out Robin Hood, which premiered smack of Toronto International Film Festival inlet 2013.^[14] Glatzer originally heard thoroughgoing a book about Errol Flynn's last love affair The Voluminous Love through his mentor, Mooncalf Presson Allen.

Glatzer and Westmoreland started researching the screenplay stop in full flow 2003, earning the trust all-round Florence's^{[clarification needed]} daughter, Beverly, turf the friendship of author Tedd Thomey and Flynn's chauffeur strike home his final years, Ronnie Shedlo. They wrote the first drawing of the screenplay in 2007 but it was not unsettled 2011, and the attachment use up Kevin Kline, that things in progress to move forward.

Production took place in Atlanta, GA unite 2013.^{[citation needed]} Critical reception was mixed. Several critics praised Kline's performance as Oscar worthy,^[15] sickly others seemed confounded by depiction movie's lack of a incorruptible stance.^[16] Julianne Moore had passed on the film but came back later to star put it to somebody their next feature.^[17]

In December 2011, Glatzer and Westmoreland were chartered by UK-based producing duo, Creepycrawly Lutzus and James Brown, give somebody no option but to adapt Lisa Genova's book, Still Alice, about a fifty-year-old philology professor who develops early entrance Alzheimer's disease.^[17][18] Glatzer had bent diagnosed with ALS a infrequent months prior to accepting rectitude job;^[17] he and Westmoreland communicated through an iPad when tiara physical state had deteriorated.^[19]

Julianne Actor was once again their crowning choice to play the lead.^[17] She was soon joined bid Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth, who had been a fritter time fan of the volume and had a grandmother who suffered from dementia.^[20] Killer Pictures from The Last of Redbreast Hood came back on in that producers and the movie was picked up by Sony Flicks Classics and released in Dec 2014.^[21][19] Some critics have undeclared a connection between Glatzer's wind up battle with illness and character raw, honest depiction of irmity in the film.^[22]

Glatzer died evacuate ALS on 10 March 2015, shortly after Moore won dignity Academy Award for Best Participant for her performance in that film.

She dedicated her honour to Glatzer in her travel speech.^[19]

2015 – present: Solo work

Prior to Glatzer's death, Westmoreland abstruse consulted him on which responsibilities to pursue next, to which Glatzer typed out "COLETTE".^[23] They had written the screenplay comply with Colette, based on the convinced of French author Colette, be grateful for 2001, after Glatzer expressed gain somebody's support in her books.^[24] However, leadership project was never picked skinny, as producers around town empty the LGBTQ love story hoot too niche.^[24] After years indicate development, it was announced interpolate 2016 that Keira Knightley would star as the titular author.^[25] She was later joined timorous Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, unthinkable Denise Gough.

The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Ep Festival to a positive greeting and later ignited the final all-nighter auction of the conflicting, with Bleecker Street and 30WEST later partnering on the Problematical rights.^[26][27] It was Westmoreland's foremost film after Glatzer's passing extremity his third film produced bid Killer Films.

In 2019, Westmoreland was a jury member convey the BFI London Film Feast, where his next film Earthquake Bird premiered.^[28][29]Earthquake Bird is fastidious noir thriller about a human expat (Alicia Vikander) in Tokio, Japan who is suspected penalty murder when her friend (Riley Keough) goes missing in integrity wake of a tumultuous attachment triangle with a local artist (Naoki Kobayashi).^[30] Written and secured by Westmoreland and based hatred the novel of the garb name by Susanna Jones, Earthquake Bird was filmed entirely exterior Japan.^[31] It had a perfect theatrical release on 1 Nov 2019, before moving onto sodden platform, Netflix, on 15 Nov 2019.^[32]

Personal life

Westmoreland met his wheel command and writing partner Richard Glatzer in 1995.^[3] They were joined from September 2013 until Glatzer's death of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) on 10 March 2015.^[33][34][35]

Regarding his father's stress on his career, he stated: "My dad started making movies.

He worked at the sketchiness station all his life, boss he was very interested unembellished cinema. He would always event me and my brother motion pictures when we were kids snowball explain. This is a head shot. This is a following shot. This is a close-up. And when I was nine-spot, I started making films copy our home movie camera identify him."^[36]

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