Feature Narrative Competition | United States | English | 113 min
Todd Haynes was born in 1961 in Los Angeles, California, and as a child began making amateur films. He attended Brown university, majoring in art and semiotics, and after graduation he moved to New York City and made the controversial short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987), using dolls to tell the story of the late Karen Carpenter. His first feature film Poison (1991) won the Grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival while his next feature Safe. (1995) starred his good friend Julianne Moore as a woman suffering from a breakdown caused by a mysterious illness. Subsequent feature films include Velvet Goldmine (1998), Far From Heaven (2002), I’m Not There (2007), Carol (2015) and Dark Waters (2019).
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