Marshall Curry
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 Curry at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival |
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Marshall Curry is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker from New Jersey.
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[edit] Filmography
His first feature-length film, Street Fight, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006[1] and a News and Documentary Emmy. His second film, Racing Dreams, won Best Documentary and was runner up for the Audience Award[2] at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009. His third film, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, won the award for Best Documentary Editing at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and earned him his second Academy Award nomination.
[edit] Early life
Curry grew up in Summit, New Jersey. graduating from Summit High School in 1988.[3] He attended Swarthmore College, graduating in 1992[4] having majored in comparative religion.[5] He was also a Jane Addams Fellow at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy.[6] Before his film-making success, Curry worked as senior producer at Icon Nicholson, a New York multimedia design firm.[citation needed]
Curry lives in Brooklyn, New York.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Nomination at Oscars[dead link]
- ^ http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/
- ^ The Smartest Guy in Summit?, a March 5, 2006 article from The New York Times
- ^ Marshall Curry '92 Chases Racing Dreams, His Second Award-Winning Documentary from Swarthmore College
- ^ [1], a January 25, 2012 article from Swarthmore College News
- ^ Street Fight press kit from Human Rights Watch
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