Annie Silverstein

Annie Silverstein is an American film director and screenwriter.

Annie Silverstein
Alma materMacalester College, University of Texas at Austin
OccupationFilm Director, Screenwriter
Years active2004 - present

Early life

Annie was born and raised in Oakland, California. She graduated from Macalester College.[1] with a BA in American History, and in 2013 received an MFA in Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin.[2]

Career

Silverstein's short documentary Noc na Tanečku: Night at the Dance premiered at SXSW in 2011. She returned to SXSW the following year with her fiction short Spark.

In 2014 Silverstein's short film Skunk premiered at the Cannes Film Festival - Cinefondation and won the first place jury award, presided over by Abbas Kiarostami. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Indie Film in 2014.[3]

Silverstein's feature debut Bull was selected for the 2016 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab and Directors Lab. Bull premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard, and went on to screen at the Deauville American Film Festival where it won the Grand Prize, Revelation Prize, and Critics’ Prize.[4] Bull premiered in the US at Film Independent's ‘New Wave,’[5] and was selected to screen in the Festival Favorites section at SXSW 2020.[6] Bull was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films (domestic)[7] and Sony Pictures Worldwide (international).[8]

Silverstein often cites the 10 years she spent as a youth worker prior to film school as her greatest influence.[9] In 2004, Silverstein co-founded Longhouse Media, a non-profit indigenous media arts organization, based in Seattle, in partnership with the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Longhouse Media's “Native Lens” program teaches Native youth in rural and urban settings filmmaking as a form of inquiry, community development, and cultural pride and preservation. In 2007 Silverstein received a Fulbright scholarship to spend a year in Rio de Janeiro, teaching a weekly filmmaking and media literacy course at an orphanage for teenage boys. For her work with Longhouse Media, Silverstein received the National Association for Media Literacy Award for outstanding contributions made in the field of media education in 2009.[10]

Personal life

Annie is married to screenwriter and producer Johnny McAllister. They frequently collaborate on scripts together, and co-wrote Bull. They have one child. Annie is the sister of Jake Silverstein, editor of the New York Times Magazine.[11]

Filmography
YearTitleCredited AsNotes
2008March PointDirector, Producer, CinematographerPBS Independent Lens (2008), Presented at Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, IFC Award for Best Documentary, imagineNATIVE
2011Noc na Tanečku: Night at the DanceDirector, Producer, Cinematographer, EditorHamptons International Film Festival Student Award
2012SparkWriter, Director, Editor2012 SXSW Best Texas Short Jury Award
2014SkunkWriter, Director
  • 2014 Cannes Film Festival - Cinéfondation 1st Prize Jury Award[12]
  • 2014 BAFTA/LA Student Film Award
  • 2014 Austin Film Festival Best Short Film & Special Jury Prize
  • 2015 Bermuda International Film Festival Best Narrative Short
  • 2015 Ashland Independent Film Festival Best International Short
  • 2015 American Short Film Awards, Best Drama Short Film
2019BullWriter, Director
2019 Cannes Film Festival, Nominee Un Certain Regard Award, Nominee Golden Camera
  • 2019 Deauville Film Festival, Winner of Grand Prize, Critics Award, & Revelations Prize
  • 2019 SXSW Louis Black “Lone Star” Award Special Jury Recognition for Acting - Rob Morgan

References
  1. "Film Star".
  2. "Longhorn Student Film Wins Top Prize at Cannes". May 22, 2014.
  3. Rizov, Vadim. "Annie Silverstein".
  4. Keslassy, Elsa (September 15, 2019). "Annie Silverstein's 'Bull' Takes Top Awards, Robert Pattinson Starrer 'The Lighthouse' Wins Jury Prize at Deauville".
  5. "New Wave Preview: Behind-the-Scenes (and Color) of Cannes Bull Rider Drama 'Bull'". October 14, 2019.
  6. "Bull". SXSW 2020 Schedule.
  7. Wiseman, Andreas (October 8, 2019). "Cannes Drama 'Bull' Rides To North America With Samuel Goldwyn Films".
  8. Keslassy, Elsa (October 9, 2019). "Sony Nabs International Rights to Cannes Title 'Bull' From Film Constellation (EXCLUSIVE)".
  9. "Student Film Wins First Place at Cannes Film Festival". Moody College of Communication. April 22, 2014.
  10. "Media Literate Media Awards: 2000-2009". National Association for Media Literacy Education. September 23, 2009.
  11. Ealy, Charles. "Risks pay off for UT filmmaker, who is headed for Cannes". Austin American-Statesman.
  12. "Annie Silverstein". IMDb.
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