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Tim McCann (director)

{{short description|American film director}}

{{About|the film director||Tim McCann (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox person

|name=Tim McCann

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1965|06|21}}

|birth_place=Spring Valley, New York, United States

|occupation=Film director, screenwriter, film producer

}}

Tim McCann (born June 21, 1965){{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/05/nyregion/film-wins-many-accolades-but-few-rewards-for-maker.html | title=Film Wins Many Accolades But Few Rewards for Maker| first=Ann|last=Costello|work=The New York Times | date=May 5, 1996| accessdate= January 20, 2016| quote=Mr. Demme was host to a private screening of 'Desolation Angels' last summer.... The date was June 21, Mr. McCann's 30th birthday.| archivedate= May 26, 2015| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150526160944/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/05/nyregion/film-wins-many-accolades-but-few-rewards-for-maker.html | url-status=live}} Note: Source says, "Mr. McCann won the top prize, the Merchant/Ivory Award, in October after his movie had its premiere before packed audiences in Telluride." The 1995 Telluride Film Festival [http://www.filmscouts.com/scripts/festival.cfm was held in September 1995] and has no "Merchant/Ivory Award". is an American film director and a professor of film at his alma mater, the State University of New York at Purchase.

Biography

McCann was born in Spring Valley, New York,{{cite web| url = http://www.timmccannfilm.com/bio-contact/ | title = About | publisher= Tim McCann official site|accessdate=January 20, 2016| archivedate=September 28, 2015|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150928180924/http://www.timmccannfilm.com/bio-contact/ | url-status=live}} and grew up in Nyack, New York. His parents divorced when he was 3. At 15, McCann wanted to make films, and in 1987 graduated from the film school at the State University of New York at Purchase. He then spent four years in Brooklyn, New York City, working odd jobs and directing low-budget commercials. By early 1996, he was an audio-visual specialist at the Chappaqua Library, in Chappaqua, New York.

He directed his first feature, Desolation Angels, in 1995, made on a budget of $42,000. The film, which starred Michael Rodrick, premiered at the 1995 Telluride Film Festival.{{cite web | url=http://www.filmscouts.com/scripts/festarchive.cfm?name=telluride/films#desol | title=Film Programs: 1995 Telluride Film Festival | publisher=FilmScout.com | accessdate=January 21, 2016 | archivedate=October 18, 2006 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061018102919/http://www.filmscouts.com/scripts/festarchive.cfm?name=telluride%2Ffilms#desol | url-status=live }} It then won the International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) at the Toronto International Film Festival,{{cite web| url=http://www.fipresci.org/awards/1995 | publisher=FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique / The International Federation of Film Critics)| title=Awards > '90s | accessdate= January 21, 2016| archivedate= September 13, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913043622/http://www.fipresci.org/awards/1995 | url-status=live}} and was accepted to the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Filmography

References

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External links

  • [http://www.TimMcCannFilm.com Official website]
  • {{IMDb name |0564928 |name=Tim McCann}}

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Category:1965 births

Category:Living people

Category:People from Nyack, New York

Category:People from Rockland County, New York

Category:State University of New York at Purchase alumni

Category:Film directors from New York (state)

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