Carl Colpaert

Carl Colpaert is an American film director and the founder of Cineville, a production and distribution company based in Los Angeles.

1 Background
2 Filmography
- 2.1 Producer
- 2.2 Director
3 References
4 External links

Background

Carl Colpaert was born in Belgium and graduated from the American Film Institute in 1984. He started his professional career in the post production department of Roger Corman. Founded Cineville with Christoph Henkel in 1990

Several actors got their break on Cineville productions such as Salma Hayek in Mi Vida Loca, Kevin Spacey in Swimming with Sharks, Viggo Mortenson in the Crew and Renee Zellweger in The Whole Wide World.

Cineville is an auteur driven company and their productions have participated in festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Toronto and Venice. Sean Penn won best actor at the Venice International Film Festival for his performance in Hurly Burly.

Colpaert won the grand jury prize for his film G.I.Jesus in CineVegas.

The Land of the Astronauts had its World Premiere at the 2010 Montreal Film Festival,

The Land of the Astronauts won the audience award at the 2011 Santa Cruz Film Festival.

Filmography

Producer

Gas, Food Lodging (1992) - Columbia Tristar - Executive producer (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
Mi Vida Loca (1993) -Sony Classics - Producer (AKA My Crazy Life)
Swimming with Sharks (1994) - Lionsgate - Executive producer: Cineville, Uncredited (AKA The Boss, AKA The Buddy Factor)
Cafe Society (1995) Executive producer Cineville - (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
The Whole Wide World (1996) - Sony Classics - Producer (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
Casualties (1997) - Executive producer (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
Nevada (1997) - Sony - Executive producer (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
The Velocity of Gary (1998) - Sony - Executive producer (as Carl Jan Colpaert)
Hurlyburly (1998) - New Line -Executive producer
Operation Splitsville (1999) - Sony - Executive producer (as Carl Jan Colpaert)
Cement (1999) - Sony - Executive producer (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
One Eyed King (2001) - Sony -Executive producer
Glam (2001) - Sony - Producer, Uncredited
Where Eskimos Live (2002) - Co-producer: Cineville (AKA Tam, gdzie zyja Eskimosi (Poland))
Within Without (2004) - Executive producer
Surviving Eden (2004) - Cineville -Executive producer
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005) -Cineville- Producer
Steal Me (2005) -Cineville - Executive producer
Hoop Reality (2006) - Cineville -Executive producer
Smile Now, Cry Later -Cineville - (2011) Producer

Director

Delusion (1991) - Columbia Tristar^[1]
The Crew (1994) - Lionsgate
Drowning on Dry Land (1999) -Unipix
Façade (2000) - Sony
The Affair (2004) - Cineville
G.I. Jesus (2006) - Cineville^[2]
The Land of the Astronauts (2010) - Cineville
The Candidate's Daughter (2011) - Cineville

References

^ Howe, Desson (4 October 1991). "‘Delusion’ (R)". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/delusionrhowe_a0b34b.htm. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
^ Zoller Seitz, Matt (5 April 2007). "At War with Absurdity". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/movies/06jesu.html. Retrieved 1 January 2012.

External links

Cineville homepage

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