The Brothers Bloom
Above the Line
Director
Rian Johnson
Bio
RIAN JOHNSON (Director, Writer) was honored with the Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision for his first feature film Brick. The film and its director garnered numerous other prizes, including the Chicago Film Critics Association award for Most Promising Director, the Utah Film Critics award for Best Screenplay, the San Francisco Film Critics Circle award for Best Original Screenplay, the Texas Film Critics award for Best First Film, the Austin Film Critics award for Best First Film and indieWIRE Critic's Poll prize for Best First Film. Brick also made more than 40 of the year’s top 10 lists. A graduate of USC’s School of Cinema-Television, Johnson has been making films since the seventh grade. Born in Silver Spring, MD, he now resides in Los Angeles.
Director- Job Description
The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.
