Nathan Silver

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| name = Nathan Silver

| image = Nathan Silver-67802.jpg

| caption = Silver at the Berlinale 2024

| alma_mater = New York University Tisch School of the Arts

| occupation = Filmmaker

| years_active = 2006–present

| spouse = {{marriage|Nicole Fuentes|2022}}

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Nathan Silver is an American independent filmmaker working out of New York City. He released eight consecutive feature films in as many years. His style includes working primarily with friends and family as actors in his films. He is best known for his films Between the Temples (2024), Thirst Street (2017), The Great Pretender (2018) and the television series Cutting My Mother.{{cite news|url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/103548-the-movie-industry-doesnt-have-any-etiquette-just-fear-director-nathan-silver-on-thirst-street-and-making-eight-features-in-eight-years/#.YxaWNi1h1pQ |title=Director Nathan Silver on Thirst Street and Making Eight Features in Eight Years |work=Filmmaker Magazine|date=September 28, 2017 |access-date=September 5, 2022|last1=Alloway |first1=Meredith }}

Early life

Nathan Silver is the son of Cindy Silver, who often appears as an actress in his films. Silver is Jewish, which his work often explores and comments on. As a teenager he was mostly interested in poetry and playwriting. He went on to major in playwriting at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated from in 2005. After college he interned for Richard Foreman at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.

{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/cutting-my-mother-reviewed-a-filmmakers-ingenious-web-series-made-in-collaboration-with-his-mother |title=A Filmmaker's Ingenious Web Series, Made in Collaboration With His Mom |magazine=The New Yorker|date=April 29, 2019 |accessdate=September 5, 2022|last=Brody |first=Richard }}

Career

At the age of 25, Silver directed The Blind, which was shot on 35mm film and had a short festival run. Starting in 2012 he began a prolific period of creation, directing a releasing a film every year until 2019. Exit Elena, Soft in the Head, Uncertain Terms, Stinking Heaven and Actor Martinez were all released at this time and played a festivals both domestic and abroad.

Thirst Street premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. with a script co-authored C. Mason Wells, the film stars Lindsay Burdge as an unstable American flight attendant who pursues a French man in Paris after a one night stand. Filmed on location with Sean Price Williams acting as Director of Photography, the film proved to be Silver's biggest success to date. It was released by Samuel Goldwyn Films.{{cite web | url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/thirst-street-2017 | title=Thirst Street movie review & film summary (2017) | Roger Ebert }}

A year later, in 2018, The Great Pretender premiered at Tribeca before being picked up by Factory 25. The black comedy-drama, tells the story of a French theater director (played by Esther Garrel), her ex-boyfriend and two actors playing versions of them in a stage play she is directing.{{cite web | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/great-pretender-1106703/ | title='The Great Pretender': Film Review | Tribeca 2018 | website=The Hollywood Reporter | date=April 28, 2018 }}

In 2023, Silver went into production on Between the Temples a comedy starring Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane that follows the story of a neurotic Cantor and an adult Bat Mitzvah student. The script was co-written by C. Mason Wells and filming took place in Kingston, New York. {{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2023/film/news/jason-schwartzman-carol-kane-between-the-temples-film-comedy-dolly-de-leon-1235608026/ | title=Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane Starring in 'Between the Temples,' an 'Anxious Comedy' About a Cantor and His Student (2023) | Brett Lang | date=May 10, 2023 }} The film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and was later acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for distribution.https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/betweenthetemples/

Personal life

Silver cites the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Douglas Sirk, Nicholas Ray and Pier Paolo Pasolini as major influences.

In June 2022, Silver married New York based dancer and choreographer Nicole Fuentes.{{cite web | url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/director-nathan-silver-and-nicole-fuentes-attend-opening-news-photo/1128303388 | title=Director Nathan Silver and Nicole Fuentes attend Opening Night of | date=March 2019 }}{{failed verification|date=October 2022}}