Owen Kline

Birth : 1991-10-14, New York City, New York, USA

History

Owen Kline is an American director, screenwriter and actor based in New York City. His short Jazzy for Joe starred the late broadcasting legend Joe Franklin in a rare comic performance paired alongside an orphaned toddler. His prior short, Fowl Play, a Queens-based comedy about low-rent aspiring cockfighters and their chicken, was presented on Le Cinéma Club in 2017 as part of the Safdie brothers’ carte blanche. Kline’s acting credits include Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale, the Safdies’ John’s Gone and the Michael M. Bilandic comedies Hellaware and Jobe’z World. Kline wrote and directed Funny Pages, his feature debut.

Profile

Movies

A Different Man

Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.

Mystery Reel

Producer

A look into the subconscious of the 20th century.

Mystery Reel

Director

A look into the subconscious of the 20th century.

Funny Pages

Writer

A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

Funny Pages

Editor

A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

Funny Pages

Director

A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

Jobe'z World

Assistant Editor

A rollerblading drug dealer runs into trouble when one of his customers dies.

Jobe'z World

Zane

A rollerblading drug dealer runs into trouble when one of his customers dies.

Meet the Filmmakers: Josh and Benny Safdie

Editor

Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, Good Time, along with several of the brothers’ early features and shorts.

Jazzy for Joe

Director

Talk show legend Joe Franklin discovers an abandoned baby on his doorstep.

Fowl Play

Editor

Set in Flushing, Queens, the story follows Sammy, Little Jimmy and Ernie — three small time crooks trying to find a chicken to cockfight.

Fowl Play

Screenplay

Set in Flushing, Queens, the story follows Sammy, Little Jimmy and Ernie — three small time crooks trying to find a chicken to cockfight.

Fowl Play

Director

Set in Flushing, Queens, the story follows Sammy, Little Jimmy and Ernie — three small time crooks trying to find a chicken to cockfight.

John's Gone

Owen

John's Gone is a fever dream comedy about John's World soon after his mother passes away. He sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches, and is prematurely thrust into the cruel wasteland that is the world around him. He is surrounded by people who don't speak his language, junk he piles up in his apartment filled with cultural beacons he ignores with idea of a potential sale. He is punch drunk (not with love) but something far more strange and lost. One can only say John's Gone. Written by Josh and Benny Safdie

The Squid and the Whale

Frank Berkman

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

The Anniversary Party

Jack Gold

While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.