Laura Kirk

Laura Kirk

История

Laura Kirk is an award winning filmmaker with credits as a producer and actor in many films including Andrea Arnold’s American Honey: Cannes 2016, The Sublime and Beautiful : Slamdance 2014. A veteran on the independent film festival circuit, Kirk co-wrote and starred one of the first digital films: Lisa Picard is Famous: Cannes 2000. It is included in John Gaspard’s book “Fast, Cheap and Under Control ...Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low Budget Movies of All Time.” Kirk began her career on stage in New York off-Broadway and regionally where she was also a teaching artist in homeless shelters and in schools for Dreamyard Drama Project. Major training in Meisner was with Wynn Handman and Suzanne Esper and improvisation with Alan Arkin. Commercials include national campaigns for Block Advisors, Verizon, Wrangler Jeans, Jeep and Dr. Pepper. Laura is a co-founder of the mentoring group “Women of Lawrence Film” where she puts into practice her interests in remedying gender inequity in film. Her research on Eve Unsell will be published in the upcoming "When Women Wrote Hollywood" (Forthcoming McFarland).

Профиль

Laura Kirk

Фильмы

Entropic
Dr. Celia Passer
Cal tries to look for a job during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Стилист
Frankie
Каждый мечтает быть кем-то еще, но для Клэр эта мечта превращается из навязчивой идеи в настоящий кошмар. Её работа парикмахера позволяет ей попадать в мир других людей и покидать его, но когда на стул перед ней садится подходящая цель, она не просто наблюдает за жизнью клиентки — она убивает её, а волосы оставляет на память. Метод Клэр отточен, она тщательно оберегает свою тайну. Однако всё идет крахом, когда постоянная клиентка Оливия просит уложить ей волосы к свадьбе...
Parallel Chords
Mae Archer
A young violinist struggles to assert her individuality amidst the intense pressure of her pianist father, and the weight of her own musical ability.
William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
Narrated by Bill Kurtis, this documentary that explores the life an accomplishments of William Allen White.
The Vetting
A twitchy and hysterically garish political satire in which a US senator is vetted for a Presidential nomination by a 6,000 year old telepath that secretly rules the Earth.
The Tree
Marge McMillan
Inspired by an actual friendship between the director's mother and his mother's best friend, 'The Tree' is a poignant, heart-warming story about an 88 year-old widow (Dorothy Thorp) who takes a road trip from Wamego, Kansas, back to Terre Haute, Indiana, to visit her oldest and dearest childhood friend.
Американская милашка
Laura
18-летняя Стар никогда не покидала родного городка. Влюбившись с первого взгляда в парня из проезжавшего мимо микроавтобуса, она, не долго думая, отправляется колесить по Среднему Западу в компании таких же неприкаянных подростков, продающих подписку на журналы. Молодость и радость — новые места, первая любовь, первые заработанные деньги и первый настоящий жизненный опыт.
No Margrettes
Josie
Feeling betrayed by her therapist, a woman in couples therapy enlists her younger lover's help in executing an elaborate hoax, meant to restore power to the patient.
The Sublime and Beautiful
David Conrad is a college professor and sometimes philanderer raising three children in a small Kansas suburb with his wife Kelly. When sudden tragedy strikes the family in the days before Christmas, David and Kelly's marriage is brought to its breaking point and David's desire for retribution leads him into uncharted moral territory with the question: what can we forgive?
Earthwork
Janis Herd
In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan's Upper West Side to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned by Donald Trump. The multi-acre artwork was made from soil, rock, plants and vegetation near an underground railway tunnel. Stan recruited a number of homeless individuals living in the tunnel to become his crew. Over the months it took to complete the earthwork, Stan dealt with a myriad of difficulties in bringing his unique, rural art form to an urban canvas and the many costs his art exacted upon his life. In the process, he unexpectedly encountered the true meaning of his art and it's ultimate, lasting rewards
The Only Good Indian
Miss Harris
Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teen-aged Native American boy is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian "training" school to assimilate into White society. When he escapes to return to his family, Sam Franklin, a bounty hunter of Cherokee descent, is hired to find and return him to the institution. Franklin, a former Indian scout for the U.S. Army, has renounced his Native heritage and has adopted the White Man's way of life, believing it's the only way for Indians to survive. Along the way, a tragic incident spurs Franklin's longtime nemesis, the famous "Indian Fighter" Sheriff Henry McCoy, to pursue both Franklin and the boy.
Bunker Hill
Halle
Peter Salem, a former Wall Street executive recently released from prison, returns to his ex-wife and children in the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas. Soon after he arrives, the town's electricity and power are shut off, and there is no way to communicate with authorities outside of town. The town's militant past is reawakened and forces coalesce to protect citizens from an unseen enemy. The town's fear leads to the creation of a posse of gunmen, resulting in torture, illegal searches and eventually, murder, against which Salem must stand.
Murder Without Conviction
Alberta Talley
Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin Gene, Christine becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder mystery surrounding James and Edward Talley, twin savant brothers accused of killing their mother on Good Friday.
Машина времени
Flower Seller
Профессор Александр Хартдеген изобрел машину времени. Изобрел не потому, что он гений-ученый, а для того что бы отправиться в прошлое и спасти свою невесту от случайной пули. Но ее смерть предотвратить не удалось — прошлое нельзя изменить. В поисках ответа на вопрос «почему?» Хартдеген забирается на двести лет в будущее, застав Землю в ужасающем состоянии. Получив ранение и впав в беспамятство он и не заметил, как его машина прошла сквозь восемьсот тысяч лет истории планеты Земля. Человечество изменилось, века технократии канули в Лету, люди стали похожими на добрых папуасов, живущих в домах-люльках, подвешенных к скалам. Но у столь пасторальной картины есть и темная сторона. Часть человечества эволюционировало в морлоков — чудищ, живущих под землей в пещерах, и пожирающих тех, кто живет на земле.
Lisa Picard Is Famous
Writer
A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when Lisa's best friend Tate hits it big with an off-Broadway one-man show.
Lisa Picard Is Famous
Lisa Picard
A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when Lisa's best friend Tate hits it big with an off-Broadway one-man show.
С первого взгляда
Betsy Ernst
Картина снята на основе реальных событий, описанных известным американским писателем Оливером Саксом. Увидеть мир, который не мог видеть раньше, — это как родиться во второй раз. Еще ребенком Вирджил ослеп и потом вынужден был жить в мире, в котором… который он даже не знал как выглядит. Что такое цвет, пейзаж, как выглядит любимая девушка? И тут случилось чудо: хирург делает невозможное и возвращает Вирджилу, уже молодому человеку, зрение! Вот бинты после операции сняты и ему предстоит увидеть мир СВОИМИ глазами.