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Seth Gordon in 2009 |
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| Born | July 15, 1974 Evanston, Illinois |
| Occupation | Film director |
Seth Gordon (born July 15, 1974) is an American film director, producer, and film editor. He has produced and directed both film and TV for various film and television studios, including PBS, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Nations 1% For Development Fund. His films have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival.[1]
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Gordon was born in Evanston, Illinois, and has lived in New York, London and Seattle. In Seattle, Seth attended and graduated from Lakeside School, the alma mater of Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Craig Mccaw, and Daniel Wu. He then attended Yale University where he studied architecture. While in school he spent six months in Kenya to help develop the school and infrastructure for the small village of Shimanyiro in Kenya.[2] In one instance, Gordon's having securing funding for a local school led to a crisis involving "an imbalance of need and greed", which itself provided the basis for an early film project. When he returned to Yale, Gordon taught himself how to edit his footage on an Avid editing machine. Gordon also attended Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has said some of his influences are Christopher Guest, Alexander Payne, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.[3][4]
Gordon was a cameraman for the documentary, Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck.[5] He produced and edited the documentary, New York Doll, which was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize in documentary at Sundance Film Festival in 2005.[6] He produced and edited Cry Wolf for Universal Studios. Gordon made his feature directing debut with the film The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. The film was accepted to Slamdance and bought for distribution by Picturehouse. New Line Cinema bought the film's remake rights and plans to turn it in to a fiction film with Gordon directing. Gordon's first studio feature film was Four Christmases for New Line, starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, released in 2008. He followed this up with Horrible Bosses in 2011.
Gordon's future projects include directing New Regency's Mr. Romance,[7] Sony's The Only Living Boy in New York, and Working Title's Suicide Squad. He is also set to produce an adaptation of the best selling book, Freakonomics.[8]
In 2009, Gordon developed and directed a video series focusing on the threat posed by cybercrime to Internet users, H*Commerce: The Business of Hacking You, sponsored by antivirus software company McAfee.[6] Gordon has also directed various music videos and commercials, as well as an episode each of Modern Family and Community, two episodes of The Office, and multiple episodes of Parks and Recreation.[9]
Gordon is co-creator and an executive producer for the Fox television series Breaking In.[10]
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