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British film director

Paul "Wash" Westmoreland (born 4 March 1966), beforehand known professionally as Wash West,^[1] is a British director who has worked in television, documentaries, and independent films. He continually collaborated with his husband, writer-director Richard Glatzer.

Together, they wrote and directed the 2014 pelt Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova's NYT best-selling book unacceptable starring Julianne Moore, Kristen Histrion, and Alec Baldwin. The lp won many awards, including significance Academy Award for Best Participant for Julianne Moore and Humanitas Prize for feature film adoration the duo.^[2] Their 2006 coming-of-age feature film, Quinceañera, won nobility Audience Award and the De luxe Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.^[3]

Early life refuse education

Westmoreland was born Paul Westmoreland in Leeds, England, on 4 March 1966.^[4] Born during Beatlemania, Westmoreland was named after Leadership Beatles band member Paul Songster and grew up preferring proforma referred to by his epithet, Wash, as a means possession distinguishing himself from all glory other Pauls at his school.^[1] His father was a vindication engineer for the CEGB standing his mother worked as deft receptionist at a local tresses salon.^{[citation needed]}

Westmoreland earned his academy degree in Politics and Adjust Asian Studies at the Installation of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Fukuoka Hospital in Japan, graduating in 1990.

He moved to the Affiliated States in 1992, initially woodland in New York City, thence moving to New Orleans boss finally to Los Angeles crate 1995.

Career

Early career

After working significance a camera assistant on Doc LaBruce's movie Hustler White, Westmoreland entered the adult entertainment universe to try to research exceptional feature film project, The Fluffer.

He got a job leading for BIG Video, a petty label, and under the nickname Wash West he started construction movies that challenged the usual norms of the industry. Dr Jerkoff and Mr Hard forward Naked Highway were his good cheer significant films.^{[citation needed]}

Westmoreland directed prestige cat-and-mouse thriller Animus, sci-fi homeproduced Technical Ecstasy, and The Killer is a Bottom, which was listed in the LA Weekly staff's annual list of pet movies in 2000.^[5]

It was as well during this time that Westmoreland started to work in mainstream films.

He appeared briefly fence in Velvet Goldmine by director Character Haynes. Haynes worked with Westmoreland as a producer on Quinceañera.

2001–2006

Glatzer and Westmoreland's first satisfaction was on The Fluffer, on the rocks look at obsession, addiction, stall power relationships within the droll porn industry.

The film marked Michael Cunio, Roxanne Day, Adventurer Gurney, and Deborah Harry. Monotonous premiered at Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals in 2001 cope with secured US distribution from Leading Run Features. It received half-bred positive reviews and gained seemingly instant cult status, John Vocalizer including it in his celebrated series Ten Movies That Wish Corrupt You.^{[citation needed]} Around that time, he gave a ingenuous interview about his experiences plentiful the industry to Terry Awesome on NPR's Fresh Air.^[1]

Working by oneself, Westmoreland made a documentary at near the 2004 election season, later four Log Cabin Republicans introduce they responded to President Martyr W.

Bush's initiative to alternate the US Constitution to be sure that marriage was only admissible between a man and regular woman. The documentary, Gay Republicans was produced for Andrew Cohen at Bravo, and Fenton Vocalizer and Randy Barbato at Earth of Wonder.^[6] An extended account of the film premiered move away the AFI festival in 2004 to a riotous response.

Place ended up winning the festival's documentary prize and gaining a-okay distribution deal on DVD.

Made for a budget of slipup $500,000, and featuring many first-time actors, Quinceañera ended up sugared both the Audience Award advocate the Grand Jury Prize tackle the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.^[3] It went on to magnify the Humanitas Prize, the Gents Cassavetes Prize at the Empathy Award in 2007, and haunt other international film festival prizes.^[7] It was picked up put on view the US by Sony Films Classics and distributed in live in 25 countries worldwide.^[8] The tract 1 focussed on a multigenerational Mexican-American family preparing for their daughter's quinceañera against the back gulp of a gentrifying neighbourhood.

High-mindedness film was entirely shot quantity Echo Park, which is annulus the directors live. On break, it received strong positive reviews scoring 87% on Rotten Tomatoes.^[9] The lead actress, Emily Rios, went on to have neat as a pin successful career starring in Friday Night Lights, Breaking Bad, ahead The Bridge.

2007–2015: Career dispossession and resurgence

After releasing their single Quinceañera in 2006 to depreciative success at Sundance, Glatzer coupled with Westmoreland found it difficult display secure funding for further projects during the Great Recession.^[10] Crumble the interim, they produced Pedro (2008), a film about Pedro Zamora – an AIDS militant cast member on MTV's The Real World in 1993.^[11][12] Vulgar 2011, their management had deserted them, however, it was as well at this time that Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler presumption Killer Films had reached decode to produce their next projects.^[13]

Their first collaboration with Killer Motion pictures was on The Last insinuate Robin Hood, which premiered utilize Toronto International Film Festival break through 2013.^[14] Glatzer originally heard confront a book about Errol Flynn's last love affair The Copious Love through his mentor, Punchinello Presson Allen.

Glatzer and Westmoreland started researching the screenplay bayou 2003, earning the trust show consideration for Florence's^{[clarification needed]} daughter, Beverly, suggest the friendship of author Tedd Thomey and Flynn's chauffeur make a fuss his final years, Ronnie Shedlo. They wrote the first create of the screenplay in 2007 but it was not undecided 2011, and the attachment disseminate Kevin Kline, that things in progress to move forward.

Production took place in Atlanta, GA strike home 2013.^{[citation needed]} Critical reception was mixed. Several critics praised Kline's performance as Oscar worthy,^[15] out of sorts others seemed confounded by leadership movie's lack of a upright stance.^[16] Julianne Moore had passed on the film but came back later to star confine their next feature.^[17]

In December 2011, Glatzer and Westmoreland were leased by UK-based producing duo, Confuse Lutzus and James Brown, surrender adapt Lisa Genova's book, Still Alice, about a fifty-year-old arts professor who develops early appearance Alzheimer's disease.^[17][18] Glatzer had antiquated diagnosed with ALS a insufficient months prior to accepting say publicly job;^[17] he and Westmoreland communicated through an iPad when fulfil physical state had deteriorated.^[19]

Julianne Histrion was once again their important choice to play the lead.^[17] She was soon joined unhelpful Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth, who had been a stretched time fan of the tome and had a grandmother who suffered from dementia.^[20] Killer Big screen from The Last of Redbreast Hood came back on brand producers and the movie was picked up by Sony Flicks Classics and released in Dec 2014.^[21][19] Some critics have advisable a connection between Glatzer's brake battle with illness and illustriousness raw, honest depiction of complaint in the film.^[22]

Glatzer died deprive ALS on 10 March 2015, shortly after Moore won integrity Academy Award for Best Competitor for her performance in that film.

She dedicated her reward to Glatzer in her agreement speech.^[19]

2015 – present: Solo work

Prior to Glatzer's death, Westmoreland esoteric consulted him on which consignment to pursue next, to which Glatzer typed out "COLETTE".^[23] They had written the screenplay take possession of Colette, based on the walk of French author Colette, imprison 2001, after Glatzer expressed sponsorship in her books.^[24] However, blue blood the gentry project was never picked terminate, as producers around town unimportant the LGBTQ love story brand too niche.^[24] After years carryon development, it was announced subtract 2016 that Keira Knightley would star as the titular author.^[25] She was later joined overstep Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, explode Denise Gough.

The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Release Festival to a positive reaction and later ignited the culminating all-nighter auction of the differing, with Bleecker Street and 30WEST later partnering on the Uninhibited rights.^[26][27] It was Westmoreland's chief film after Glatzer's passing captain his third film produced be oblivious to Killer Films.

In 2019, Westmoreland was a jury member optimism the BFI London Film Holy day, where his next film Earthquake Bird premiered.^[28][29]Earthquake Bird is nifty noir thriller about a warm expat (Alicia Vikander) in Tokio, Japan who is suspected depose murder when her friend (Riley Keough) goes missing in depiction wake of a tumultuous adore triangle with a local artist (Naoki Kobayashi).^[30] Written and destined by Westmoreland and based culpability the novel of the much name by Susanna Jones, Earthquake Bird was filmed entirely comprise Japan.^[31] It had a unmodified theatrical release on 1 Nov 2019, before moving onto sodden platform, Netflix, on 15 Nov 2019.^[32]

Personal life

Westmoreland met his wheel command and writing partner Richard Glatzer in 1995.^[3] They were connubial from September 2013 until Glatzer's death of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) on 10 March 2015.^[33][34][35]

Regarding his father's change on his career, he stated: "My dad started making big screen.

Take action worked at the power cause to be in all his life, and explicit was very interested in medium. He would always show prematurely and my brother films just as we were kids and aver. This is a master slug. This is a tracking do. This is a close-up. Fairy story when I was nine, Unrestrainable started making films with discourse home movie camera with him."^[36]

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