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Alvarez at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival

Kyle Patrick Alvarez is an American film director and screenwriter.

Alvarez was born in Miami, and attended the University of Miami.[1] His first film, Easier with Practice (2009), was based on a GQ article by Davy Rothbart.[2] Alvarez then adapted a short story by David Sedaris into the film C.O.G., which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and was released later that year.

Alvarez's third film, The Stanford Prison Experiment, a thriller dramatizing the 1971 experiment of the same name, premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Alfred P. Sloan Prize.[3] It received positive reviews and was distributed by IFC Films.[4] Alvarez has also directed four episodes of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.[5]

Alvarez lives in Los Angeles.[1] He is openly gay.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Olsen, Mark (February 28, 2010). "Kyle Patrick Alvarez's 'Easier With Practice' finds its way to screens". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  2. ^ Barnes, Brooks (January 19, 2013). "A Writer's Strange Route to Hollywood". The New York Times. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  3. ^ "MAKING THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT: An Interview with Kyle Patrick Alvarez". Lunacy Productions. November 28, 2017. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  4. ^ "The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  5. ^ Busis, Hillary (May 5, 2017). "How 13 Reasons Why Built That Heartbreaking Suicide Scene". Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
  6. ^ Kramer, Gary M. (2013). "Openly Gay Writer/Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez Talks About His Latest Film: C.O.G." San Francisco Bay Times. Retrieved May 26, 2018.


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