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Craig Schlattman is an Award winning American director, writer, producer, and cinematographer, best known for his Independent features, ''At Ground Zero'' starring Thomas Jane (credited as Tom Elliott), and ''The Seller'' starring Brian Brophy. ==Career== Schlattman started his career in photography, shooting black-and-white photographs and printing mural size prints, and large-scale color photographs of particular beauty with an interest in experimentation and movement. After exhibiting in numerous group and one-person shows, he was picked up by the Susan Spiritus Gallery in Newport, California with a body of work depicting pseudoscientific experiments full of humor, intelligence, and a sort of political whimsy. Throughout his still photo career, Schlattman was producing (), experimental films that were earning him a reputation in the art film world. The short subjects ''Slap'' and ''Bag'', both funny, brutal, and formalist in context, won Directors Awards at the Sinking Creek Film Festival (now known as the Nashville Independent Film Festival), and traveled all over the world in many film programs and festivals, including a traveling show with Stan Brakhage, and Michael Snow, and screenings at the Museum of Modern Art. Schlattman has called Submitting (produced by Rutger Hauer) "the worst film I've ever made", but it nonetheless went on to win a Silver award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festiva, a Bronze Award at the Athens International Film Festival, and a Certificate of Merit from the Chicago International Film Festival, which were the only festivals entered. ''Heroic'' and ''Furious'', two hard to get documentaries about filmmaking behind the scenes of big Hollywood productions, have been shown at the Ann Arbor and Wiesbaden Film Festivals, and have the reputation of being very unconventional films in cinéma vérité or direct cinema style, which is not what the studios would like to have seen about their films, hence the problem in showing and purchasing them. Very much a part of the resurgence of independent filmmaking in the early 90's, Schlattman has said that he waited a couple of years with a feature script he wanted to shoot before running into two actors he thought perfect for the part; Thomas Jane, and Aysha Hauer. Schlattman met them through a mutual acquaintance shooting something for a new director and thought they were perfect for the parts of Thomas Pennington and Aysha Almouth in his first feature, ''At Ground Zero''. He picked for his subject marginal characters tied together by love and drugs in an extended traveling family on the road. ''At Ground Zero'' premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival to enthusiastic, full houses, and went on an extensive festival run in the US and Europe.
Schlattman has said that he made mistakes along the way, let too much of the pressure put on him seep out to his actors. "Tom and Aysha are wonderful actors, and worked hard in difficult parts. I loved working with them and I'm sure they will go on to great things." After making the festival circuit, ''At Ground Zero'' had a small theatrical release and Schlattman started his second feature, ''The Seller''. A difficult story about marginal characters, ''The Seller'' opened at The Chicago Underground Film Festival to reviews of;
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Unfortunately for audiences, the film had an unpublicized, un-marketed release and did not get "a much larger audience." Undaunted, Schlattman proceeded to write "Guerrilla Filmmaking 101" articles and post them free on the internet (www.proletariatpictures.com) as a way to give back to filmmaking, and help other filmmakers to a successful completion of their Indie film. He has said "I couldn't get past an agent on the freeway with my scripts - no big stunts, no nudity, just difficult compelling characters. Fat chance you get financing without Nick Cage signed on." He then went on to make ''Asymmetry'', an extremely difficult film praised by those that have seen it, but ignored by the distributors. Schlattman is seeking financing for a new film about family tragedy and insanity. He is a 2008 recipient of the prestigious Bush Fellowship and is in pre-production on 2 new feature films. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Craig Schlattman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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