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David Lowery (born December 26, 1980) is an American filmmaker.

David Lowery
Lowery at the Deauville Film Festival, 2013
Born	(1980-12-26) December 26, 1980 (age 41) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Education	Irving High School
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	2000–present
Spouse	Augustine Frizzell ​ (m. 2010)​

His original work Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013), starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[1] In 2016, he directed the Disney film Pete's Dragon (2016), a live-action film which he had co-written. It was a new work loosely based on the same original story as the Disney 1977 musical of the same name. In 2017, he directed the drama film A Ghost Story and in 2018, he directed The Old Man & the Gun. In 2021, he directed the fantasy epic The Green Knight.

Early life

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,[2] on December 26, 1980,[3] David Lowery is the eldest of nine children born to Madeleine and Mark Lowery. When he was seven, his family moved to Irving, Texas for his father's work. Lowery attended Irving High School.[4]

At the age of 19, Lowery wrote and directed his first film, a short entitled Lullaby.[4] In this period, he met some others interested in film, and they have worked together on some projects.

Career

Lowery's first feature film, St. Nick, which follows two runaway children abandoned by their guardians, premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest festival.[5][6] It won the Texas Filmmaker Award at the 2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival.[7]

In 2011, Lowery started his own production company, Sailor Bear.[8] That same year, he wrote and directed the short film entitled Pioneer, which played at the Sundance Film Festival that year.[9]

In 2013, Lowery wrote, directed and edited his second feature film, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara.[10] The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[1] It was selected to compete at the International Critics' Week section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[11] Lowery has said that he drew from great directors and their works for this film, citing Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum,[12] Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller,[13] and Paul Thomas Anderson and David Fincher as influences.[14]

In addition to having edited films such as Amy Seimetz's Sun Don't Shine and Shane Carruth's Upstream Color,[15] Lowery co-wrote Pit Stop with director Yen Tan.[16] At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, it was announced that Lowery would write and direct the film adaptation of the novel The Yellow Birds, written by Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers; it was a 2012 National Book Award finalist. The film was eventually directed by Alexandre Moors and stars Jack Huston, Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich and Jennifer Aniston.[17]

In April 2016, Lowery directed a remake of Disney's Pete's Dragon, which was met with positive reviews.[18] Lowery also co-wrote the screenplay alongside Toby Halbrooks.[19] In July 2016, it was announced Lowery would direct an episode of Breakthrough for National Geographic Channel.[20] In November 2016, it was announced Lowery had shot a new film, A Ghost Story, over the summer with Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck as a secret project.[21][22]

Lowery next directed the 2018 drama film The Old Man & the Gun, starring Robert Redford as bank robber, Forrest Tucker, and Casey Affleck.[23]

Lowery next directed the medieval fantasy The Green Knight which stars Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Barry Keoghan, Ralph Ineson and Sean Harris.[24][25] The film was scheduled to world premiere at South by Southwest in March 2020, and release on May 29, 2020, but the premiere and release were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[26][27] It was released on July 30, 2021.[28]

Lowery directed a segment of the anthology film The Year of the Everlasting Storm which is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in July 2021.[29][30]

Personal life

Lowery married filmmaker Augustine Frizzell in 2010.[31] As of 2013^[update], they live in Dallas.[32] Lowery identifies as an atheist, and has been a vegan since approximately 1996.[33][34]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Editor	Notes
2005	Deadroom	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also producer
2009	St. Nick	Yes	Yes	Yes
	It Was Great, But I Was Ready to Come Home	No	Yes	Yes
2013	Ain't Them Bodies Saints	Yes	Yes	No
	Pit Stop	No	Yes	No
2016	Pete's Dragon	Yes	Yes	No
2017	A Ghost Story	Yes	Yes	Yes
2017	The Yellow Birds	No	Yes	No
2018	The Old Man & the Gun	Yes	Yes	No
2021	The Green Knight	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also producer
2023	Peter Pan & Wendy	Yes	Yes	No	Post-production
TBA	The Oak Thorn & The Old Rose of Love	Yes	TBA	TBA	Filming

Executive producer

• Minor Setback (2013)
• Person to Person (2017)
• Never Goin' Back (2018)
• Light from Light (2019)
• Miss Juneteenth (2020)
• We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022)

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	DoP	Notes
2000	Lullaby	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also camera operator
	The Knocker	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
2003	Still	Yes	Yes	Executive	Yes	No
	Looking for Love	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
2006	G.D.M.F.	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Some Analog Lines	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2007	The Outlaw Son[35]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
2008	A Catalog of Anticipations[36]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
	Coda	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Merrily, Merrily	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
2009	The Crane House	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
	Boycrazy Promo	Yes	No	Executive	Yes	Yes
	Boycrazy in Bed	Yes	No	Executive	Yes	Yes
	Boycrazy Gets a Job	Yes	No	Executive	Yes	Yes
	Boycrazy Bikini Mishap	Yes	No	Executive	Yes	Yes
	Boycrazy at the Drug Store	Yes	No	Executive	Yes	Yes
2011	Pioneer[37]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
	My Daily Routine[38]	Yes	No	No	No	No	Documentary short
2014	Until We Could[39]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
2021	Dig Up My Darling	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Segment of The Year of the Everlasting Storm

Additional credits

Year	Title	Role
2008	Blood on the Highway	Second unit director and assistant camera
	Ciao	Editor and co-producer
2009	Alexander the Last	Additional editor and sound recordist
	St. Nick	Editor
2010	Lovers of Hate	Cinematographer
	Audrey the Trainwreck
	Shadowboxing	Editor
2011	Bad Fever
	Uncertain, TX
	Universal Squadrons
2012	Sun Don't Shine
	Reconvergence	Cinematographer
	Nor'easter	Editor
2013	Upstream Color
2014	Listen Up Philip	Producer
	Empire Builder	Editor and cinematographer

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Happy Birthday	Videographer
2008	Blood on the Highway	Vampire
2009	Alexander the Last	Stagehand
2017	A Ghost Story	Neighbor's Ghost	Uncredited

Television

Year	Title	Director	Executive Producer	Writer	Episode(s)
2014	Rectify	Yes	No	No	"Donald the Normal"
2017	Breakthrough	Yes	No	No	"Addiction: A Psychedelic Cure?"
2018	Strange Angel[40]	Yes	Yes	No	"Augurs of Spring" and "Ritual of Abduction"
2021	Cinema Toast	Yes	No	Yes	"The Gunshot Heard 'Round the World"

References

External links

• David Lowery at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] David Lowery (director)

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[es] David Lowery

David Lowery (Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 26 de diciembre de 1980) es un director de cine y guionista estadounidense con residencia en Dallas, Texas.[1][2]

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[ru] Лоури, Дэвид

Дэвид Лоури (англ. David Lowery; род. 26 декабря 1980 — в Милуоки, Висконсин, США) — американский режиссёр, продюсер, оператор, сценарист, монтажер и актер[1].

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