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This thriller about a depressed nurse (Melanie Lynskey) and her neighbor (Elijah Wood) tracking down burglars who broke into her house comes from actor turned debuting writer / director Macon Blair.

Not exact matches

Dax Shepard, who serves as co-director, one of the several producers, writer, and star of Hit and Run, appears to be heading in the right direction for actors - turned - directors with his off - kilter debut film.

This crime film, in the tradition of Bonnie and Clyde, is the directorial debut of writer John Ridley, scripter of Oliver Stone's U Turn.

I have large doubts that 20 years ago, following the debut of writer / director Kevin Smith's Clerks, anyone predicted that one day this man would make a film about a mysterious man turning an unknowing participant into a walrus, but here we are.

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

Verdict: Easily our favorite film of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, the fantastic directorial debut of cinematographer / writer - turned - feature filmmaker Daniel Patrick Carbone, «Smiling Faces» may have been the most striking debut we saw all last year (though not mentioned on our Breakout Directors list because it wasn't released in 2013).

His debut turn behind the camera, however, came a lot later than the scripts that made his name (you can read our rundown of those right here), and while it was hardly the box office blockbuster it may have been hoped the «Lethal Weapon» writer would turn out, it's in fact a great, great film; a hugely enjoyable comedy / murder msytery / noir hybrid romp with plenty of meta flourishes and sideways - winking humour.

Working closely under the tutelage of Terrence Malick for several years now, editor and second - unit director turned writer / director A.J. Edwards (who has logged time on «The New World,» «The Tree of Life» and «To the Wonder «-RRB-, might have been better advised to get out from under the shadow of his mentor for his feature - length debut, «The Better Angels.»

The filmmaker made his name with music videos, before turning to the feature film world, dropping his sizzling debut «Sexy Beast» in 2000, followed four years later by «Birth,» which, in this writer's opinion, is one of the best films of the 2000s.

Come and Find Me is directed by American filmmaker Zack Whedon, originally an assistant turned story editor («Southland») turned writer («Halt and Catch Fire») turned filmmaker, making his feature directorial debut.

Peele detours (mostly) from comedy and turns to a lifelong love of horror for his debut as writer and director.

The feature - length debut of DP - turned - writer / director Daniel Patrick Carbone, «Smiling Faces» definitely announces DPC as a bold new filmmaker to keep an eye on.

Writer - director Tony Gilroy's end - around on studio financing worked out well, with Michael Clayton racking up nods for George Clooney's lead performance, Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson's supporting turns, Best Original Screenplay and, somewhat surprisingly, Best Director, in Gilroy's debut.

The character is an icon among comic book aficionados but not well known to the general public, which may have hurt the film, but the problem lays more squarely with comic book artist / writer - turned - director Miller, whom makes his solo directing debut with this film.

Based on one of the company's hokier characters, who in turn is based on Norse mythology, Thor has largely been a second - tier champion whose blend of superheroics and classical melodrama has defeated many a writer since the thunder god debuted in 1962.

Pam Grady: The chemistry between writer - star Zoe Lister - Jones (who also makes her directing debut) and Adam Pally as a married couple trying to mend their troubled relationship, Fred Armisen's witty turn as the couple's oddball neighbor, and a handful of energetic songs are the highlights of this well - meaning, fitfully amusing, if ultimately forgettable, romantic dramedy.

GET OUT Director / Writer: Jordan Peele Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Lakeith Stanfield, Lil Rel Howery, Stephen Root, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel I would never have thought funnyman Jordan Peele would have turned to the horror genre for his directorial debut.

Writer / director Robert Eggers» debut feature, which premiered to great acclaim at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival — winning the Best Director Prize in the U.S. Narrative Competition — painstakingly recreates a God - fearing New England decades before the 1692 Salem witch trials, in which religious convictions tragically turned to mass hysteria.

And screenwriters Ben Livingston (an actor turned first - time writer) and Hannah Shakespeare (who scripted Kevin Bacon's directorial debut, Loverboy) start in an interesting direction by making Poe not a hero so much as a tortured, railing victim, distinctly in Evans» debt and his intellectual shadow.

In his feature film directorial debut, Drew Goddard (a writer for «Buffy the Vampire Slayer,» «Lost» TV series, and the film «Cloverfield «-RRB- has taken a tired film formula — the teen slasher flick — and turned it on its head.

This is a biopic of Nat Turner, a slave who led a rebellion in 1830s Virginia, and is the feature debut of actor - turned - writer - director Nate Parker.

As more and more writers turn to the freedom of digital publishing to put their works in front of reading audiences, more authors may be lured into realizing their goals of writing a book, which is precisely where NaNoWriMo fits in for many debut authors.

With heart, sass, and pitch - perfect characters, Barbara the Slut is a head - turning debut from a writer with a limitless career before her.

Written with a wry, witty narrative voice and a plot full of twists and turns, John Keyse - Walker's Minotaur Books / Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award - winning debut is a pure delight.

1222: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel by Anne Holt (S&S / Scribner; Blackstone Audio) is the U.S. debut of a new series by Norway's # 1 bestselling crime writer — set in an isolated hotel where guests who are stranded during a monumental snowstorm begin turning up dead.