Tim Kirkman, Date of Birth

    

Tim Kirkman

American film director and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1966

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Tim Kirkman

  • Writer and director Tim Kirkman was born in Monroe, North Carolina, the third child of a public school educator and a music teacher, and spent his childhood in nearby Wingate, North Carolina.
  • He received a bachelor's degree in graphic design from North Carolina State University and a master's degree in media studies from The New School in New York City. His feature film debut, Dear Jesse, was released theatrically by Cowboy Pictures in 1998.
  • A documentary film about the political and personal parallels between the gay filmmaker and the notoriously anti-gay U.S.
  • Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), Dear Jesse, made its cable television debut on HBO/Cinemax's Reel Life series and was nominated for an Emmy Award in the News/Documentary Writing category in 2000.
  • The TV broadcast version of the film featured an interview with Matthew Shepard, a college student whose murder called attention to gay-bashing and hate crimes. His second film, the performance documentary The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, David Drake's solo off-Broadway hit play about writer Larry Kramer, was released by FilmNext in 2000.
  • He also directed 2nd Serve', written by James Markert and starring Josh Hopkins, Cameron Monaghan, Alexie Gilmore, Sam McMurray, Guillermo Diaz, Kevin Sussman and Dash Mihok. Kirkman's narrative feature debut, Loggerheads, which he wrote and directed, premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Feature and won prizes at several film festivals across the United States, including the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest.
  • The film, which stars Tess Harper, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Kelly, Michael Learned, Kip Pardue, Chris Sarandon and Robin Weigert, was released by Strand Releasing in October 2005. Kirkman most recent film, Lazy Eye, which he wrote, directed, and produced (with Todd Shotz) was released in 2016 and starts Lucas Near-Verbrugghe, Aaron Costa Ganis and Michaela Watkins.
  • Owen Gleiberman of Variety praised the film, writing "Tim Kirkman's drama about two men who reunite after 15 years is so well-written and acted you feel like you're eavesdropping.
  • Near-Verbrugghe and Costa Ganis are both so good that by the end of the film they feel like new friends you’ve made.
  • The mark of how beautifully these two work together is that Dean and Alex are, at times, nearly compulsive about revealing themselves, yet even when they’re doing that there’s something held in reserve — by the actors, and by Kirkman’s filmmaking.
  • It’s not just the piece of information that we haven’t heard yet; it’s the thrumming mystery of how they feel.
  • LAZY EYE is a small-scale movie, but there are far bigger dramas that don’t leave this kind of afterglow."

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