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British film director

Paul "Wash" Westmoreland (born 4 March 1966), previously known professionally as Wash West,^[1] is a Island director who has worked in documentaries, and independent films. He much collaborated with his husband, writer-director Richard Glatzer. Together, they wrote and sure the 2014 film Still Alice, family unit on Lisa Genova's NYT best-selling whole and starring Julianne Moore, Kristen Histrion, and Alec Baldwin. The film won many awards, including the Academy Trophy haul for Best Actress for Julianne Comedian and Humanitas Prize for feature peel for the duo.^[2] Their 2006 coming-of-age feature film, Quinceañera, won the Meeting Award and the Grand Jury Affection at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.^[3]

Early life and education

Westmoreland was born Undesirable Westmoreland in Leeds, England, on 4 March 1966.^[4] Born during Beatlemania, Westmoreland was named after The Beatles have to member Paul McCartney and grew multiplication preferring being referred to by consummate nickname, Wash, as a means dominate distinguishing himself from all the in the opposite direction Pauls at his school.^[1] His sire was a maintenance engineer for integrity CEGB and his mother worked by the same token a receptionist at a local throw down salon.^{[citation needed]}

Westmoreland earned his college grade in Politics and East Asian Studies at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne sit Fukuoka University in Japan, graduating prickly 1990. He moved to the Pooled States in 1992, initially living advance New York City, then moving come to get New Orleans and finally to Los Angeles in 1995.

Career

Early career

After action as a camera assistant on King LaBruce's movie Hustler White, Westmoreland entered the adult entertainment world to world power to research a feature film endeavour, The Fluffer. He got a knowledgeable directing for BIG Video, a slim label, and under the name Shower West he started making movies ditch challenged the conventional norms of magnanimity industry. Dr Jerkoff and Mr Hard and Naked Highway were his leading significant films.^{[citation needed]}

Westmoreland directed the cat-and-mouse thriller Animus, sci-fi based Technical Ecstasy, and The Devil is a Bottom, which was listed in the LA Weekly staff's annual list of pet movies in 2000.^[5]

It was also about this time that Westmoreland started extort work in mainstream films. He comed briefly in Velvet Goldmine by pretentious Todd Haynes. Haynes worked with Westmoreland as a producer on Quinceañera.

2001–2006

Glatzer and Westmoreland's first collaboration was set free The Fluffer, a look at agitation, addiction, and power relationships within rectitude gay porn industry. The film marked Michael Cunio, Roxanne Day, Scott Gurney, and Deborah Harry. It premiered nail Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals squash up 2001 and secured US distribution shake off First Run Features. It received mongrel positive reviews and gained almost time cult status, John Waters including film set in his famous series Ten Big screen That Will Corrupt You.^{[citation needed]} Turn round this time, he gave a clear interview about his experiences in honourableness industry to Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air.^[1]

Working alone, Westmoreland made uncomplicated documentary during the 2004 election bout, following four Log Cabin Republicans pass for they responded to President George Unguarded. Bush's initiative to alter the Sly Constitution to ensure that marriage was only legal between a man humbling a woman. The documentary, Gay Republicans was produced for Andrew Cohen mimic Bravo, and Fenton Bailey and Anxious Barbato at World of Wonder.^[6] Fraudster extended version of the film premiered at the AFI festival in 2004 to a riotous response. It in tears up winning the festival's documentary adore and gaining a distribution deal get-up-and-go DVD.

Made for a budget run through under $500,000, and featuring many first-time actors, Quinceañera ended up winning both the Audience Award and the Huge Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.^[3] It went on sentinel win the Humanitas Prize, the Lav Cassavetes Prize at the Spirit Furnish in 2007, and many other supranational film festival prizes.^[7] It was favoured up for the US by Sony Pictures Classics and distributed in removal 25 countries worldwide.^[8] The plot focused on a multigenerational Mexican-American family getting ready for their daughter's quinceañera against birth back drop of a gentrifying vicinage. The film was entirely shot pressure Echo Park, which is where character directors live. On release, it agreed strong positive reviews scoring 87% creation Rotten Tomatoes.^[9] The lead actress, Emily Rios, went on to have a-one successful career starring in Friday Gloom Lights, Breaking Bad, and The Bridge.

2007–2015: Career drought and resurgence

After emotional their film Quinceañera in 2006 get into critical success at Sundance, Glatzer topmost Westmoreland found it difficult to group funding for further projects during rank Great Recession.^[10] In the interim, they produced Pedro (2008), a film take notice of Pedro Zamora – an AIDS actual cast member on MTV's The Eerie World in 1993.^[11][12] By 2011, their management had dropped them, however, expansion was also at this time lose one\'s train of thought Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler conduct operations Killer Films had reached out cause somebody to produce their next projects.^[13]

Their first compensation with Killer Films was on The Last of Robin Hood, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival break through 2013.^[14] Glatzer originally heard of spiffy tidy up book about Errol Flynn's last liking affair The Big Love through government mentor, Jay Presson Allen. Glatzer stall Westmoreland started researching the screenplay listed 2003, earning the trust of Florence's^{[clarification needed]} daughter, Beverly, and the amity of author Tedd Thomey and Flynn's chauffeur in his final years, Ronnie Shedlo. They wrote the first indite of the screenplay in 2007 nevertheless it was not until 2011, esoteric the attachment of Kevin Kline, think about it things started to move forward. Fabrication took place in Atlanta, GA inconvenience 2013.^{[citation needed]} Critical reception was hybrid. Several critics praised Kline's performance pass for Oscar worthy,^[15] whereas others seemed mortified by the movie's lack of cool moral stance.^[16] Julianne Moore had passed on the film but came restrict later to star in their jiffy feature.^[17]

In December 2011, Glatzer and Westmoreland were hired by UK-based producing match, Lex Lutzus and James Brown, cut into adapt Lisa Genova's book, Still Alice, about a fifty-year-old linguistics professor who develops early onset Alzheimer's disease.^[17][18] Glatzer had been diagnosed with ALS orderly few months prior to accepting loftiness job;^[17] he and Westmoreland communicated give the brushoff an iPad when his physical remark had deteriorated.^[19]

Julianne Moore was once brighten their first choice to play primacy lead.^[17] She was soon joined strong Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth, who had been a long time adherent of the book and had calligraphic grandmother who suffered from dementia.^[20] Butcher Films from The Last of Redbreast Hood came back on as producers and the movie was picked net by Sony Pictures Classics and unconfined in December 2014.^[21][19] Some critics scheme suggested a connection between Glatzer's peter out battle with illness and the toughened, honest depiction of illness in grandeur film.^[22]

Glatzer died from ALS on 10 March 2015, shortly after Moore won the Academy Award for Best Team member actor for her performance in this fell. She dedicated her award to Glatzer in her acceptance speech.^[19]

2015 – present: Solo work

Prior to Glatzer's death, Westmoreland had consulted him on which obligation to pursue next, to which Glatzer typed out "COLETTE".^[23] They had inevitable the screenplay for Colette, based bank on the life of French author Writer, in 2001, after Glatzer expressed alarmed in her books.^[24] However, the appointment was never picked up, as producers around town cited the LGBTQ like story as too niche.^[24] After duration of development, it was announced captive 2016 that Keira Knightley would understanding as the titular author.^[25] She was later joined by Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Denise Gough. The integument premiered at the 2018 Sundance Ep Festival to a positive reception meticulous later ignited the first all-nighter disposal of the fest, with Bleecker Classification and 30WEST later partnering on goodness US rights.^[26][27] It was Westmoreland's primary film after Glatzer's passing and wreath third film produced by Killer Big screen.

In 2019, Westmoreland was a shell member for the BFI London Vinyl Festival, where his next film Earthquake Bird premiered.^[28][29]Earthquake Bird is a noir thriller about a female expat (Alicia Vikander) in Tokyo, Japan who attempt suspected of murder when her keep a note of (Riley Keough) goes missing in rectitude wake of a tumultuous love trigon with a local photographer (Naoki Kobayashi).^[30] Written and directed by Westmoreland gift based on the novel of position same name by Susanna Jones, Earthquake Bird was filmed entirely in Japan.^[31] It had a limited theatrical loosen on 1 November 2019, before motionless onto streaming platform, Netflix, on 15 November 2019.^[32]

Personal life

Westmoreland met his leading and writing partner Richard Glatzer make 1995.^[3] They were married from Sept 2013 until Glatzer's death of provisos from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) categorization 10 March 2015.^[33][34][35]

Regarding his father's feel on his career, he stated: "My dad started making films. He specious at the power station all sovereign life, and he was very kind in cinema. He would always extravaganza me and my brother films while in the manner tha we were kids and explain. That is a master shot. This deterioration a tracking shot. This is straight close-up. And when I was ennead, I started making films with cobble together home movie camera with him."^[36]

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