Michael Almereyda has been an acclaimed independent film director since writing and directing Twister in 1990. He is accomplished in both documentary and dramatic formats. Almereyda’s dramatic feature films include Another Girl, Another Planet, Nadja, Hamlet (starring Ethan Hawke and Sam Shepard and distributed by Miramax) and for IFC flims, Happy Here and Now.
In 2006 he wrote and directed two features, Tonight at Noon, and New Orleans Mon Amour, shot in New Orleans in August. His documentary works include At Sundance, Aliens, This So-Called Disaster and William Eggleson in the Real World. In 2004 Almereyda was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking, the same year he directed an episode of the HBO hit series “Deadwood.”
Almereyda’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, The Believer, Film Comment, and the British film journal Projections. He divides his time between New York and New Orleans.
Michael Almereyda won the Script Development award at The Sundance Film Festival in 2008 for The Stanley Milgram Project and the Sloan Filmmaker Fund at the Tribeca Film Institute in 2009 for Experimenter