Karyn Kusama

Karyn Kusama K. ( born March 21, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American film director and screenwriter.

Life

After the Brooklyn-born and raised in St. Louis Kusama, the film school at New York University in 1992 left her with her ​​thesis Sleeping Beauties, she took boxing lessons. It occurred to her to generate the idea of ​​a story around the boxes. It was the screenplay for her first feature film Girlfight - On their own, which they filmed in 2000. Her debut film has won several awards and brought her in 2000 at the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Best Director a. Kusama was also awarded at the festivals in Cannes and Deauville as a youngster. After the moderate success of Æon Flux (2005) her third film Jennifer 's Body was - guys started off in theaters to their liking, which in 2009, but much more successful.

Filmography (selection)

• 2000: Girl Fight - On your own
• 2005: Æon Flux
• 2009: Jennifer 's Body - boys to their liking