Daryl Wein

{{Short description|American artist, filmmaker, producer and actor (born 1983)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Daryl Wein

| image = DarylWein-portrait (ca. 2007-2008).jpg

| caption = Wein {{circa}} 2007–2008

| birth_name = Daryl Robert Wein

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1983|12|23|mf=yes}}

|birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| occupation = Filmmaker, actor, producer, artist

| years_active = 2006–present

| spouse = {{marriage|Zoe Lister-Jones|2013|2022|end={{abbr|div.}}}}

}}

Daryl Robert Wein (born December 23, 1983) is an American artist, filmmaker, producer and actor.

Early life

Born in Los Angeles, California to Jan Sparling and Mitchell Wein, he was raised in Westport, Connecticut.{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WTNB&p_theme=wtnb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FD37C86E535DBAC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Westport Teens Take on Off-Broadway Theater Production|last=King|first=Carol|date=August 13, 2003|via=NewsBank|access-date=June 13, 2012|archive-date=July 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714233329/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WTNB&p_theme=wtnb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FD37C86E535DBAC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|first=Stephen |last=Schmidt |date=March 26, 2010 |url=http://www.westport-news.com/entertainment/article/Onward-and-Upwards-Staples-grad-brings-home-423314.php |title=Onward and Upwards: Staples grad brings home feature film |work=Westport News |access-date=July 7, 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CTPB&p_theme=ctpb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=118FF366B58CA9F8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Search Results|website=nl.newsbank.com}} His father worked as a creative director in advertising.{{cite magazine|last=Syme |first=Rachel |date=June 18, 2012 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2116707,00.html |title=Double Feature: The indie-filmmaking couple that works together stays together |magazine=Time |access-date=July 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608025554/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2116707,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 8, 2012}} He is Jewish.{{cite web|url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/on-set-lola-versus|title=Lola Versus|last=Zhong|first=Fan|website=W |date=April 30, 2012}}

Wein graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2006.{{Cite web |url=https://tisch.nyu.edu/alumni/tisch-at-sundance/2018-sundance/premieres |title=Features |publisher=New York University Tisch School of the Arts |access-date=2020-02-09}} Prior to his senior year of high school, he attended a summer film intensive at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he made a 16mm short film.{{cite news |title=SXSW Interview: "Breaking Upwards" Director Daryl Wein |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2009/03/sxsw-interview-breaking-upwards-director-daryl-wein-247290/ |access-date=24 August 2022 |publisher=Indiewire |date=10 March 2009}}

Career

In 2006, Wein co-wrote and directed Unlocked, a short psychological drama starring Olivia Thirlby executive produced by Stephen Daldry. It was an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Gijon International Film Festival in Spain.

Wein's debut feature-length film was Sex Positive, a documentary about gay hustler and AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz. Sex Positive was winner of the 2008 OUTFEST Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, and an official selection at the 2008 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, London Film Festival, Independent Film Festival of Boston, and other film festivals around the world. Regent Releasing distributed the film theatrically in North America. It has been released in 8 foreign countries, most notably at the BFI in London. Sex Positive was released on DVD in June 2010.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Wein's first feature-length narrative film was Breaking Upwards (2009),{{cite web |url=http://www.breakingupwards.com |title=Breaking Upwards official site |publisher=Breakingupwards.com |access-date=July 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120705042025/http://www.breakingupwards.com/ |archive-date=2012-07-05 |url-status=dead }} starring Zoe Lister-Jones, Julie White, Peter Friedman, Olivia Thirlby and Andrea Martin. He co-wrote the screenplay with Peter Duchan and Lister-Jones. Breaking Upwards explores a young, real-life New York couple who, battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their own break up. The film was shot on location in New York and Brooklyn on a budget of approximately $15,000 and lauded as an example of sweat equity in the indie film industry by the New York Times.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/movies/28breaking.html|title=Tiny-Budget Adventures of 'Breaking Upwards'|first=Larry|last=Rohter|date=26 March 2010|work=The New York Times}} Breaking Upwards premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in March, 2009.{{cite web |author=Adam Lee Sweeney |url=https://www.filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/sxsw-review-breaking-upwards.php |title=SXSW Review: Breaking Upwards |publisher=Filmschoolrejects.com |date= |access-date=July 7, 2016 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305141900/http://filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/sxsw-review-breaking-upwards.php |url-status=dead }} Wein has said the film was inspired by an open relationship he was in, where they decided to strategize their breakup over the course of a year.

Wein is the director of the independent feature film Lola Versus (2012), his second collaboration co-written with Zoe Lister-Jones.{{cite web |last=Amsden |first=David |date=June 13, 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/fashion/daryl-wein-and-zoe-lister-jones-partners-in-life-and-in-movies.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all |title=In Life and Art, It's All About Us |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 7, 2016}}{{cite magazine|last=Syme |first=Rachel |date=June 18, 2012 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2116707,00.html |title=Double Feature |magazine=Time |access-date=July 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608025554/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2116707,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 8, 2012}} Lola Versus premiered at New York's Tribeca Film Festival in April 2012.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/lola-versus-tribeca-review-317021 |title=Lola Versus: Tribeca Review |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=April 26, 2012 |access-date=July 7, 2016}} Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, Lola Versus opened in theaters during the summer of 2012; It stars Greta Gerwig, Zoe Lister-Jones, Bill Pullman, Hamish Linklater, Debra Winger, Joel Kinnaman, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.

In 2014, Wein wrote and directed the short Let's Get Digital for the SXSW festival. Starring Zoe Lister-Jones, Ryan Hansen, Megan Ferguson, and Jon Heder, the film was an installment of AT&T's short film series "The Network Diaries", part of the Mobile Movement showcase about young Americans communicating through mobile technology and social networking platforms.{{cite web|url=http://tribecafilm.com/stories/daryl-wein-lets-get-digital-network-diaries-att-mobile-movement |title=Let's Get Digital short |publisher=Tribecafilm.com |date=2014-03-12 |access-date=July 7, 2016}}

Wein and Lister-Jones co-wrote Consumed (2015),{{cite web |url=http://www.consumedthemovie.com/ |title=Consumed official site |publisher=Consumedthemovie.com |date= |access-date=July 7, 2016 |archive-date=November 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103040527/http://www.consumedthemovie.com/ |url-status=dead }} their third feature-length collaboration directed by Wein. The political thriller, which focuses on the world of genetically modified organisms, began filming in May 2014 in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois with Shatterglass Studios and subsequently premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 15, 2015.{{cite web |author=Guest |url=https://tickets.lafilmfest.com/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=D24DA081-B0E1-40B2-A6B0-5A9CB8342A54&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=F37E51FD-238B-4DAB-B38D-4938177C2C83 |title=LA Film Festival: Consumed |publisher=Tickets.lafilmfest.com |date= |access-date=July 7, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305205758/https://tickets.lafilmfest.com/Online/default.asp?doWork%3A%3AWScontent%3A%3AloadArticle=Load&BOparam%3A%3AWScontent%3A%3AloadArticle%3A%3Aarticle_id=D24DA081-B0E1-40B2-A6B0-5A9CB8342A54&BOparam%3A%3AWScontent%3A%3AloadArticle%3A%3Acontext_id=F37E51FD-238B-4DAB-B38D-4938177C2C83 |archive-date=2016-03-05 }} Mar Vista distributed the film worldwide.

Wein's feature Blueprint (2017), developed with, co-written by and starring Jerod Haynes, chronicles the crisis of a young African American living in South Side of Chicago whose best friend is killed in a police shooting. Blueprint premiered at the Deauville Film Festival on September 6, 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.festival-deauville.com/pid9/film-2289/blueprint |title=Blueprint |publisher=festival-deauville.com |date=2017-09-06 |access-date=2017-09-07}} The Orchard released the film worldwide.

Wein executive produced Band Aid, written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. IFC Films released the film and Sony International took foreign.{{cite web|url=http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/band-aid|title=Band Aid - Discover the best in independent, foreign, documentaries, and genre cinema from IFC Films. - IFC Films|publisher=|via=www.ifcfilms.com}}

Wein's next feature, White Rabbit, co-written with and starring Vivian Bang, was a dramatic comedy about a young Korean-American performance artist who struggles to be authentically heard and seen through her DIY performances in modern Los Angeles. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2018.{{cite web |url=https://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2018-sundance-film-festival--feature-films-announced# |title='2018 Sundance Film Festival: Feature Films Announced |publisher=sundance.org |date=2017-11-29 |access-date=2018-02-02 |archive-date=2017-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222224011/https://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2018-sundance-film-festival--feature-films-announced |url-status=dead }}

Wein co-directed, co-produced, co-wrote, and co-DP'd the film How It Ends, which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and stars Zoe Lister-Jones, Cailee Spaeny, Nick Kroll, Olivia Wilde, Helen Hunt, Lamorne Morris, Fred Armisen, Bradley Whitford, Charlie Day, and Whitney Cummings.

In television, Wein has directed episodes of Mozart in the Jungle for Amazon and Single Parents for ABC.

Personal life

In 2013, Wein married Zoe Lister-Jones.{{cite web |title=Grappling With GMOs: Daryl Wein & Zoe Lister-Jones On 'Consumed' |url=http://www.richroll.com/podcast/consumed/ |website=Rich Roll |date=4 November 2015 |access-date=9 October 2018}} Lister-Jones announced that they had split in September 2021.{{cite web |title= Zoe Lister-Jones Opens Up About Her Open Marriage with Director Daryl Wein {{!}} Pajiba |url= https://www.pajiba.com/AMP/celebrities_are_better_than_you/zoe-listerjones-opens-up-about-her-open-marriage-with-director-daryl-wein.php |website= Pajiba |date= 16 September 2021 |access-date=4 December 2021}}

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" \|+ As filmmaker
rowspan="2" \| Year ! rowspan="2" \| Title ! colspan="3" \| Credited as ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; width:70pt;"\| Distribution ! rowspan="2" class="unsortable"\| Notes
Director	Producer	Writer
style="text-align:center;" \| 2006 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Unlocked \| {{Yes}}	{{Yes}}	{{Yes\|Screenplay}} \| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Short film
style="text-align:center;" \| 2008 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Sex Positive \| {{Yes}}	{{Yes}}	{{Yes\|Screenplay}} \| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Documentary
style="text-align:center;"	2009 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Breaking Upwards \| {{Yes}}	{{Yes}}	{{Yes\|Screenplay}} \| IFC Films \| style="text-align:left;"\| Feature film
style="text-align:center;" \| 2012 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Lola Versus \| {{Yes}}		{{Yes\|Screenplay}} \| Fox Searchlight \| style="text-align:left;"\| Feature film
style="text-align:center;" \| 2014 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Let's Get Digital \| {{Yes}}		{{Yes\|Screenplay}} \| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Short film
style="text-align:center;" \| 2014 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Brooklyn Decker Threesome \| {{Yes}}		\| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Short film
style="text-align:center;" \| 2014 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Mozart in the Jungle \| {{Yes}}		\| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Web series, episode: "Now, Fortissimo!"
style="text-align:center;" \| 2015 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Consumed \| {{Yes}}	{{Yes}}	{{Yes\|Screenplay}} \| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Feature film
style="text-align:center;" \| 2016 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Band Aid \|	{{Yes}}	\| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Feature film
style="text-align:center;" \| 2017 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Blueprint \| {{Yes}}	{{Yes}}	{{Yes\|Screenplay}} \| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Feature film
style="text-align:center;" \| 2018 \|style="text-align:left;"\| White Rabbit \| {{Yes}}	{{Yes}}	{{Yes\|Screenplay}} \| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Feature film
style="text-align:center;" \| 2021 \|style="text-align:left;"\| How It Ends \| {{Yes}}	{{Yes}}	{{Yes\|Screenplay}} \| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Feature film
style="text-align:center;" \| 2022 \|style="text-align:left;"\| Something from Tiffany's \| {{Yes}}	{{No}}	{{No}} \| \| style="text-align:left;"\| Feature film

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"

|+ As filmmaker

rowspan="2" | Year

! rowspan="2" | Title

! colspan="3" | Credited as

! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; width:70pt;"| Distribution

! rowspan="2" class="unsortable"| Notes

Director

Producer

Writer

style="text-align:center;"

| 2006

|style="text-align:left;"| Unlocked

| {{Yes}}

| style="text-align:left;"| Short film

style="text-align:center;"

| 2008

|style="text-align:left;"| Sex Positive

| {{Yes}}

| style="text-align:left;"| Documentary

style="text-align:center;"

2009

|style="text-align:left;"| Breaking Upwards

| {{Yes}}

| IFC Films

| style="text-align:left;"| Feature film

style="text-align:center;"

| 2012

|style="text-align:left;"| Lola Versus

| {{Yes}}

| Fox Searchlight

| style="text-align:left;"| Feature film

style="text-align:center;"

| 2014

|style="text-align:left;"| Let's Get Digital

| {{Yes}}

| style="text-align:left;"| Short film

style="text-align:center;"

| 2014

|style="text-align:left;"| Brooklyn Decker Threesome

| {{Yes}}

| style="text-align:left;"| Short film

style="text-align:center;"

| 2014

|style="text-align:left;"| Mozart in the Jungle

| {{Yes}}

| style="text-align:left;"| Web series, episode: "Now, Fortissimo!"

style="text-align:center;"

| 2015

|style="text-align:left;"| Consumed

| {{Yes}}

| style="text-align:left;"| Feature film

style="text-align:center;"

| 2016

|style="text-align:left;"| Band Aid

| style="text-align:left;"| Feature film

style="text-align:center;"

| 2017

|style="text-align:left;"| Blueprint

| {{Yes}}

| style="text-align:left;"| Feature film

style="text-align:center;"

| 2018

|style="text-align:left;"| White Rabbit

| {{Yes}}

| style="text-align:left;"| Feature film

style="text-align:center;"

| 2021

|style="text-align:left;"| How It Ends

| {{Yes}}

| style="text-align:left;"| Feature film

style="text-align:center;"

| 2022

|style="text-align:left;"| Something from Tiffany's

| {{Yes}}

| style="text-align:left;"| Feature film

| (below)

(below)

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" \|+ As actor
scope="col" \| Year ! scope="col" \| Title ! scope="col" \| Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" \| Notes
align="center"\| 2001 ! scope="row" \| Magic Rock \| Tanner \|
align="center"\| 2002 ! scope="row" \| Porn 'n Chicken \| Pimply \| TV movie
align="center"\| 2003 ! scope="row" \| The Hebrew Hammer \| Teenage Gentile \|
align="center"\| 2003 ! scope="row" \| Ed \| Student Tommy \| TV series, episode: "History Lessons"
2010 \|Breaking Upwards \|Daryl \|Movie
align="center"\| 2017 ! scope="row" \| Life in Pieces \| Elijah \| TV series, episode: "Late Smuggling Dreambaby Voucher"

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

|+ As actor

scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

align="center"| 2001

! scope="row" | Magic Rock

| Tanner

align="center"| 2002

! scope="row" | Porn 'n Chicken

| Pimply