Maggie Greenwald
Nascimento : 1955-06-23, New York City, New York, USA
História
Maggie Greenwald is an award-winning filmmaker who began her career as a picture and sound editor. Her first film, Home Remedy, screened at the Munich, London and Torino Film Festivals before opening at the prestigious Film Forum in New York. Her next film, in 1987, The Kill-Off, a noir thriller based on a novel by Jim Thompson, appeared at film festivals around the world including Sundance (in Dramatic Competition), Munich (opening night, American Independent section), London, Florence, Deauville, Toronto and Edinburgh before winning the Best Director Award at the Torino Film Festival. The film is acknowledged by the British Film Institute as one of the "100 Best American Independents."
Greenwald's acclaimed, groundbreaking Western, The Ballad of Little Jo, was released worldwide by Fine Line Features and Polygram Filmed Entertainment in 1993. It won an Independent Spirit Award. Inspired by early country ballads, Greenwald subsequently wrote and directed her music-based drama, Songcatcher. The film premiered in Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2000 where it garnered a Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance. The film was the opening night selection of the Hamptons Film Festival and received the first Sloan Foundation Award, Deauville Film Festival Audience Award, two Independent Spirit Award nominations and a GLAAD Award nomination. In 2013 Greenwald directed the teen film The Last Keepers, starring Zosia Mamet, Aidan Quinn, Virginia Madsen and Olympia Dukakis. In 2002 Greenwald was awarded the Dorothy Arzner Award from the Director's View Film Festival. For television, Greenwald has directed the GLAAD Award-winning film What Makes A Family (starring Brooke Shields, Whoopi Goldberg and Cherry Jones - 2000), Tempted (starring Virginia Madsen - 2002 ) and Comfort and Joy (starring Dixie Carter - 2003) for Lifetime Television. Get A Clue, (starring Lindsay Lohan and Brenda Song- 2001) for Disney Channel. Good Morning, Killer (starring Catherine Bell - 2011) for TNT. Episodic work includes The Adventures of Pete & Pete (Cable ACE Award), The Mystery Files Of Shelby Woo and Wildfire.
Director
Emma Reynolds returns to Oliver's Well to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the home they grew up in. After their parents recently passed, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane after the New Year, leaving Emma in charge of its belongings. While antiques expert Morgan Shelby appraises Emma's mother's collection, they find a hidden surprise in an antique desk that takes them on a journey to discover the power of love and family during the holidays.
Producer
Outono de 1941, sul dos Estados Unidos. Sophie, moradora de uma pequena vila de pescadores, leva uma vida tranquila que é virada de cabeça para baixo com a chegada misteriosa de um asiático. Os dois começam um caso de amor que se complica conforme a Segunda Guerra Mundial avança em seu curso de destruição.
Screenplay
Outono de 1941, sul dos Estados Unidos. Sophie, moradora de uma pequena vila de pescadores, leva uma vida tranquila que é virada de cabeça para baixo com a chegada misteriosa de um asiático. Os dois começam um caso de amor que se complica conforme a Segunda Guerra Mundial avança em seu curso de destruição.
Director
Outono de 1941, sul dos Estados Unidos. Sophie, moradora de uma pequena vila de pescadores, leva uma vida tranquila que é virada de cabeça para baixo com a chegada misteriosa de um asiático. Os dois começam um caso de amor que se complica conforme a Segunda Guerra Mundial avança em seu curso de destruição.
Director
Rhea tem os mesmos problemas que qualquer adolescente, até que se apaixona por um garoto incomum e coisas incríveis começam a acontecer. É por isso que sua família lhe revela um segredo ancestral: a magia faz parte da vida dela.
Director
Follows FBI Special Agent Ana Gray as she hunts for a kidnapper. As Ana develops a rapport with the kidnapper's latest victim, the suspect suddenly changes his pattern. Now Ana must race to find him before he strikes again.
Director
High-powered single-woman Jane Berry is focused on the important things in life, such as advancing her career and spending a bundle on fashionable shoes. But then a car accident on Christmas Eve changes her forever: Jane wakes up after the crash to discover that she is a married stay-at-home mom with two kids and a passion for charity work. Is she dreaming? Crazy? Is this a strange twist of fate?
Director
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is not, however, a pleasure trip: Having promised to honor the dying wishes of her Hawaiian-born surrogate mother. Leaving her husband, Mike, behind to care for their two children, Emma arrives in Hawaii for the first time since childhood, where she is reunited with her childhood friend Kala, the handsome son of her late surrogate parent.
Director
Lexie tem orgulho de ter um jornal na escola, onde escreve fofocas. Um de seus artigos sobre o envolvimento entre dois professores é publicado em um jornal de grande circulação e um dos envolvidos desaparece. Ela decide solucionar o mistério.
Writer
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.
Director
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.
Director
Quando Janine Nielssen (Brooke Shields) e Sandy Cataldi (Cherry Jones) se conheceram, foi amor à primeira vista. Após um breve namoro, as duas decidiram se comprometer numa comovente cerimônia de união, que mesmo não sendo oficialmente legal, consideraram algo sagrado, já que tiveram a benção e a aprovação de seus pais. Decididas a formar uma família, Sandy faz uma inseminação artificial e dá a luz a uma menina chamada Heather, sem imaginar que pouco tempo depois seria contagiada pela doença de Lúpus. Após cinco anos lutando conta a morte, Sandy falece deixando Janine desolada. Ela passa a cuidar de sua filha sozinha, até descobrir que Evelyn (Anne Meara), a avó da menina, pediu sua guarda. Janine luta com desvantagem devido aos laços de sanguíneos, mas fará legalmente todo o possível para conseguir manter sua família unida.
Self
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
Self
A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.
Writer
Baseado em uma história real, este é o conto de Josephine Monaghan, uma jovem de meados do século 19, que é jogada para fora da casa de seus pais depois de ter sido seduzida pelo fotógrafo da família e dar a luz a um filho ilegítimo. Josephine aprende rapidamente que mulher jovem, bonita e sozinha é uma combinação ruim para a vida no oeste selvagem. Em seu desespero para sobreviver, Josephine se disfarça como "Jo", um homem jovem, e se esforça para fazer uma vida para si mesma em uma suja cidade da fronteira.
Director
Baseado em uma história real, este é o conto de Josephine Monaghan, uma jovem de meados do século 19, que é jogada para fora da casa de seus pais depois de ter sido seduzida pelo fotógrafo da família e dar a luz a um filho ilegítimo. Josephine aprende rapidamente que mulher jovem, bonita e sozinha é uma combinação ruim para a vida no oeste selvagem. Em seu desespero para sobreviver, Josephine se disfarça como "Jo", um homem jovem, e se esforça para fazer uma vida para si mesma em uma suja cidade da fronteira.
Writer
In a seedy New Jersey nightclub, gossip turns to murder when the owner Pete hires exotic dancer Danny Lee, who starts up an affair with barfly Ralph, much to the chagrin of his bedridden wife, Luane.
Director
In a seedy New Jersey nightclub, gossip turns to murder when the owner Pete hires exotic dancer Danny Lee, who starts up an affair with barfly Ralph, much to the chagrin of his bedridden wife, Luane.
Director
A 30-year-old bachelor who refuses to leave his house strikes up a relationship with a neurotic neighbor.
Screenplay
A 30-year-old bachelor who refuses to leave his house strikes up a relationship with a neurotic neighbor.
Music Editor
Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town fathers. One of the women is a reincarnation of the witch, who proceeds to exact revenge on them.
