Danielle Lurie

<style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Gill Sans"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Gill Sans&quot;;">Writer/Director Danielle Lurie graduated from Stanford University in 2000 with a BA in Philosophy. Danielle’s debut short film, IN THE MORNING, premiered at the 2005<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Sundance Film Festival, and has won nine film festivals to date including ‘Best Narrative Short’ at the Oscar qualifying Nashville Film Festival. In November 2005, IN THE MORNING was invited to screen before the U.S. Congress at the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Honor Killings, and later screened before UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women).<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Right after IN THE MORNING, Danielle made the short impromptu documentary 81-YEAR-OLD SWEETHEARTS, about an 81-year-old man she randomly met on a plane who was flying across the country to re-meet his high school sweetheart after 62 years - which was featured on YOUTUBE’S HOMEPAGE due to the high numbers of hits the video got.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Gill Sans&quot;;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Gill Sans&quot;;">Since IN THE MORNING, Danielle has co-directed a documentary in Uganda where she lived in an IDP (Internally Displaced People) Camp and has directed a feature length documentary following Sheryl Crow’s Global Warming tour through the deep south, produced by Laurie David (AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH). On the narrative side, Danielle has written screenplay adaptations of Jamaica Kincaid’s novel, LUCY, to star ZOE SALDANA (AVATAR, STAR TREK) as well as an excerpt of Nicholas Kristof’s best selling book, HALF THE SKY, directed by MARISA TOMEI and LISA LEONI, for a PBS series.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Danielle is also adapting another Nicholas Kristof NY Times article into a full-length screenplay that she will direct titled USHA, set in the slums of India India which will star TANNISHTHA CHATTERJEE (BRICK LANE).<span style="">&nbsp; </span>She is also in development on a film about wrongful imprisonment, being produced by JON GORDON (GOODWILL HUNTING). Danielle is currently writing the feature-length version of IN THE MORNING, titled FORTUNATE SONS, which she will direct in the spring of 2011 in London.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Gill Sans&quot;;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Gill Sans&quot;;">In it's Summer 2005 issue, FILMMAKER MAGAZINE listed Danielle as being one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.</span></p>

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