Daniel Nearing, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Daniel Nearing

American filmmaker

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1961

Place of Birth: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Daniel Nearing

  • Daniel Nearing (born December 21, 1961) is a Chicago, Illinois-based director, screenwriter, and independent filmmaker. Hogtown, his "period-less" American film, has been called "the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date" and named one of the 10 Best Films of 2016 by Ben Kenigsberg, who reviewed the film for The New York Times.
  • Nearing was named the inaugural Filmmaker in Residence for the City of Chicago (Chicago Film Office, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events) and Chicagoan of the Year for Film (2016–17) by the Chicago Tribune.His earlier breakthrough film, the micro-budget production Chicago Heights (2010) garnered rave reviews, especially among fans of the original source material, Sherwood Anderson's influential collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio, a book long thought impossible to be adapted as a film.
  • Noted film critic Roger Ebert included Chicago Heights in his list of the Top Art Films of 2010.Nearing's storytelling style tends to be more circular than linear.
  • He views plot as a veneer that ties together the more important, character-centered aspects of any story.
  • Nearing is known for building sequences of vignettes and using powerful imagery to focus on the isolation and humility of human life.
  • He works primarily in black and white, with moments of what he refers to as "ecstatic color" and with heavily shadowed, "idiosyncratic" shot compositions.
  • Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune says that "Nearing's chosen way of telling a story is poetic, elliptical and sometimes unhelpfully indirect, but if he chooses, this Canadian-born, Chicago-based filmmaker could very well become a significant and lasting talent." Ben Kenigsberg of The New York Times says Nearing "is not the most accessible filmmaker, but with his new feature and his previous one, he has carved out an original and boldly unfashionable niche."Nearing is also a professor at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, where he is a three-time winner of faculty excellence awards and founded the MFA in Independent Film and Digital Imaging program, and is working in the development of two graduate degree paths with the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts.

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