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unusual facts about directorial debut



A Beautiful New World

The film, Shi's first (he had previously served as an assistant director for Lu Yue's Mr. Zhao), was co-produced by the Xi'an Film Studio and the independent Imar Film Company.

Vicko Ruić

His directorial debut, Nausikaya (1996), which Ruić also wrote and produced, was the first Croatian independent film, and was Croatia's submission to the 69th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.


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A Community Speaks

The documentary was shot in Oregon and was Campbell's second directorial debut, behind 2002's short documentary, Fanalysis.

A Wave, a WAC and a Marine

A Wave, a WAC and a Marine is an American 1944 musical comedy film directed by Phil Karlson (his directorial debut) for low-budget Monogram Pictures.

AJ Tesler

He has also line produced Kevin Pollak's directorial debut, Vamped Out and served as a producer for VH1's Dance Cam Slam and writer/producer for CBS' Excused.

Apanjan

In 1971, Gulzar made his directorial debut with Mere Apne, which was almost a frame by frame remake of Apanjan.

Armando Nannuzzi

Nannuzzi briefly worked in the United States in the mid-1980s, and during this period he collaborated with horror novelist Stephen King on King's directorial debut, Maximum Overdrive.

Arthur Marvin

He shot 418 films between 1897 and 1911, including The Adventures of Dollie (1908), the directorial debut of D. W. Griffith, as well as other early Griffith shorts such as Pippa Passes in 1909.

Away from Her

The feature-length directorial debut of Canadian actress Sarah Polley, the film is based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came over the Mountain", from the 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.

Azhagam Perumal

Azhagam Perumal had initially announced his directorial debut in 1998 as Mudhal Mudhalaaga, a romantic film featuring Arvind Swamy and Karisma Kapoor in the lead roles.

Bård Breien

Breien's directorial debut was the 2007 movie The Art of Negative Thinking, a dark comedy about adjusting to life in a wheel chair and socializing with other people who have disabilities.

Ben Barenholtz

He supported the Coen brothers directorial debut through several titles such as, Blood Simple, Barton Fink (Awarded at the Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival's Golden Palm & Cannes Film Festival's Best Director award), and Miller's crossing (San Sebastián International Film's Best Director award).

Brad Beyer

His film roles include the comedies Mr. Woodcock, Sorority Boys, the indie favorite Trick, The General's Daughter with John Travolta, and Antonio Banderas’ feature directorial debut Crazy in Alabama in which he portrayed a hunky bellhop who seduces Melanie Griffith.

Carl Ballantine

Ballantine was cast in several movies, including Disney's The North Avenue Irregulars, Billy Crystal’s directorial debut, Mr. Saturday Night and in numerous television series, including the ABC sitcom McHale's Navy (1962–1966), in which he played Lester Gruber, one of the PT boat sailors, starring with Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn and Tim Conway.

Daniel Zacapa

Zacapa played Tio Ruben of the Santiago family in Showtime's Resurrection Blvd., Renda in George Clooney's directorial debut Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and a leading role in the independent film Coronado.

Down the Wind

Down the Wind is a 1975 Australian film which marked the directorial debut of Scott Hicks.

Duniya Vijay

The turning point in Vijay's career came when his friend Soori's directorial debut Duniya.

Eddie Marrero

Since his early days, he has evolved as a noted talent in the film, television, and theater community working with the late Gregory Hines in his directorial debut "White Man's Burden" and "Kate and Leopold" opposite Liev Schreiber.

Eric Small

Eric made his directorial debut with the film "The Dust Factory" which had small part played by his wife Kim Myers.

Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou is the 1997 American drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, who made her directorial debut with this feature.

Eyal Gordin

He eventually made his directorial debut directing an episode of The Division, later amassing directing credits for series My Name Is Earl, Everybody Hates Chris, Jonas L.A., Zeke and Luther and Raising Hope.

It's Entertainment

The film is produced by Ramesh S. Taurani of Tips Industries Ltd., and marks the directorial debut of writer duo Farhad-Sajid.

John Stuart Scott

Scott began his career behind the camera working on a number of films and television series as an assistant camera operator through the early nineties up until 2009 when he made his directorial debut on the Ryan Murphy drama series Nip/Tuck.

Kabani Nadi Chuvannappol

It was the directorial debut of P. A. Backer, who won that year's awards for Best Director and Second Best Film at the Kerala State Film Awards.

Kevin Munroe

He also made his directorial debut with the video game Freaky Flyers.

Kim Han-min

In 2007 he made his feature directorial debut with the mystery-thriller Paradise Murdered starring Park Hae-il, Park Sol-mi and Sung Ji-roo.

Lamberto Caimi

During his career Laimi worked to films of different genres, often united from having Milan as set, including Eriprando Visconti's film debut A Milanese Story, Duccio Tessari's noir film La morte risale a ieri sera, Umberto Lenzi's poliziottesco Gang War in Milan, Carlo Lizzani's Storie di vita e malavita and Renato Pozzetto's directorial debut Saxofone.

Lee Sung-jae

In 2004 Lee portrayed a mountain climber in the big-budget adventure/melodrama Ice Rain, which was shot in the Canadian Rockies, then played a ballroom dancer in Dance with the Wind, Park Jeong-woo's directorial debut (Park wrote the screenplay for many of Kim Sang-jin's films).

Mavis Hee

In 1998, Hee was handpicked by the cinematographer Christopher Doyle to star in his directorial debut film Away With Words.

Mette Bach

Bach’s first screenplay, "Ms. Thing", was author Karen X. Tulchinsky's directorial debut in 2010.

Michael Yebba

Michael Yebba made his Directorial debut with the Award winning short film Bad Blood (2011) and the recently completed Ordinary Man (2011) starring Ethan Embry, Brian Scannell and Ramiro Torres.

Moushumi

She has acted in over 150 films and made her directorial debut with Kokhono Megh Kokhono Brishti (2003).

Muay Thai Chaiya

The film is the solo directorial debut by Kongkiat Khomsiri, who had previously been among seven directors on Art of the Devil 2, and had written the screenplay for The Unseeable.

Nancy Morgan

She starred opposite Ron Howard in Howard's directorial debut, Grand Theft Auto, as well as starring opposite Italian film star Terence Hill in a feature film and European television series based on comic-strip hero Lucky Luke.

Neverwas

Neverwas is a 2005 English film written and directed by Joshua Michael Stern in his directorial debut.

Noribumi Suzuki

He made his screenwriting debut on director Kōkichi Uchide's 1963 film Zoku: Tenamonya Sandogasa (co-written with Takaharu Sawada), and his directorial debut in 1965 with Osaka Dokonjō Monogatari: Doerai Yatsu, starring Makoto Fujita.

Peter R. Hunt

Hunt then acted as second unit or action unit director until his directorial debut, the sixth James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Rachel Rath

She has worked on a number of occasions with novelist and playwright Irvine Welsh, including starring in the European premiere of his play Babylon Heights and featuring in his short film directorial debut Nuts.

ReelHeART International Film Festival

1st Place Feature Film: Encounters, UK, Pat Kelman, Director, Jonty Reason, Producer on behalf of Pittot Films NB Directorial debut of well-known British Character actor Pat Kelman ("Lighthouse", "The Odyssey")

Rohn Schmidt

He also worked as a cinematographer on the television series Huff, Memphis Beat, The Chicago Code, The Walking Dead and The Shield, he made his directorial debut on the latter series.

Serena Reeder

The Tea Party, her directorial debut, was selected for competition, in the short film section of the 2013 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Shinichirō Watanabe

After joining the Japanese animation studio Sunrise, Watanabe supervised the episode direction and storyboards of numerous Sunrise anime, and soon made his directorial debut as co-director of the well-received Macross update, Macross Plus.

Sooraj R. Barjatya

He made his directorial debut with Maine Pyar Kiya (1989) starring Salman Khan which was a huge box office hit and launched both his and Salman's careers.

Spring Forward

Spring Forward is a 2000 film and the directorial debut of Tom Gilroy, starring Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber and Campbell Scott.

Sreeram Ramachandran

During his post college days he was called by Vineeth Sreenivasan, to play a guest role in his directorial debut Malarvadi Arts Club and later in Thattathin Marayathu .

Stanley O'Toole

In 1981, Stanley worked with Barbra Streisand on Yentl, Streisand's directorial debut, though he has no producer credit on the film.

The Hideous Sun Demon

The Hideous Sun Demon (1959) was the directorial debut of Robert Clarke.

The Long Walk Home

Early into production, cinematographer John Bailey was to have made his directorial debut on this film but was replaced by Richard Pearce.

Thomas Rimmer

Thomas Rimmer (born September 6, 1980 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is a New Zealand stage and screen actor best known for his role in Danny Mulheron's feature film directorial debut Fresh Meat.