Bangkok--Jan 4--Bangkok International Film Festival
ANIMATOR GABOR CSUPO, CINEMATOGRAPHER RODRIGO PIETRO AND FILMMAKER JOEL SCHUMACHER HONORED AT THE 2005 BANGKOK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
JOEL SCHUMACHER: Career Acheivement Award
Joel Schumacher is a prolific and versatile writer, director and producer who was born in New York City on August 29, 1939. He began his career as an art student and graduated in 1965 from the Parsons School of Design. Shortly thereafter he found work as a window display artist, and in 1972 began utilizing his talents as a costume designer for the feature, Play it as it Lays, which caught
the eye of Woody Allen who hired him for his films. He marked his feature directorial debut with "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981) starring Lily Tomlin, and then he decided to focus his creativity on screenwriting. Schumacher completed his first screenplay, Sparkle, but hit gold with his 1985 Brat Pack classic, "St. Elmo’s Fire", which started the careers of young actors such
as Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson and Andrew McCarthy. The incredible success of this film spurned him on to make such films as the highly popular vampire flick, "The Lost Boys" (1987), "Flatliners" (1990), "Dying Young" (1991), "Falling Down" (1993), "The Client" (1994), "A Time to Kil"l (1996), "8MM" (1999), "Tigerland" (2000) and "Phone Booth"
(2003). Many of Schumacher’s hits are dark, hypnotic thrillers that prey on your fears, play on your psyche, and are forever embedded into your mind. His next release is the film version of Andrew Llyod Webber’s Broadway musical, "The Phantom of the Opera", and he is now working on "The Crowded Room", currently in post-production. His is a respectable career that shouldn’t be forgotten, so the 2005 Bangkok International Film Festival is privileged to honor the man who is
known to some as “the God of filmmaking,” the extraordinary Joel Schumacher.
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