Shane Carruth

Shane Carruth (born 1972 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina ) is an American film director, whose unorthodox sci-fi debut primer the Grand Prize won the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 and became a cult film, but only in 2013 was his second work Upstream Color in the cinemas.

Career

A native of South Carolina Carruth studied mathematics at the Stephen F. Austin State University.

The 2004 for only $ 7,000 produced movie primer on the consequences of the accidental discovery of a time machine won the Sundance Grand Prize and the Alfred Sloan price, to the Sci-Fi London and price of the small Nantucket Film Festival, and he also was nominated for a Gotham Award and four Independent Spirit Awards.

The also enigmatic strongly but positively discussed by critics Raw Color with Thiago Martins, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung referred to him as "one of the best science fiction films ever made ," won the Sundance Film Festival in 2013 the Dramatic Special Jury Award for Sound Design.

The Atlantic compared his monomaniacal style with the David Lynch and Terrence Malick