Carl Colpaert is an American film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and the founder of Cineville, a production and distribution company based in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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.

Background

Carl Colpaert was born in Belgium

Belgium

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and graduated from the American Film Institute

American Film Institute

The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act...

 in 1984. He started his professional career in the post production department of Roger Corman

Roger Corman

Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...

. Founded Cineville with Christoph Henkel in 1990

Several actors got their break on Cineville productions such as Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek

Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault is a Mexican film actress, director and producer. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.-Early life:...

 in Mi Vida Loca, Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...

 in Swimming with Sharks, Viggo Mortenson in the Crew and Renee Zellweger

Renée Zellweger

Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire , and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary ...

 in The Whole Wide World.

Cineville is an auteur driven company and their productions have participated in festivals such as Cannes, Sundance

Sundance Film Festival

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, Berlin, Toronto and Venice.
Sean Penn won best actor at the Venice International Film Festival for his performance in Hurly Burly.

Colpaert won the grand jury prize for his film G.I.Jesus in CineVegas.

The Land of the Astronauts had its World Premiere at the 2010 Montreal Film Festival,

The Land of the Astronauts won the audience award at the 2011 Santa Cruz Film Festival.

Producer

• Gas, Food Lodging (1992) - Executive producer (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
• Mi Vida Loca
  Mi Vida Loca
  Mi Vida Loca is a 1993 American drama film directed and written by Allison Anders. This film includes Jason Lee's first performance as an actor in a small role alongside director Spike Jonze as a drug buyer....
  
  (1993) - Producer (AKA My Crazy Life)
• Swimming with Sharks
  Swimming with Sharks
  Swimming With Sharks is a 1994 American comedy drama film, directed and written by George Huang.- Plot :...
  
  (1994) - Executive producer: Cineville, Uncredited (AKA The Boss, AKA The Buddy Factor)
• Cafe Society
  Café Society
  Café society was the collective description for the so-called "Beautiful People" and "Bright Young Things" who gathered in fashionable cafes and restaurants in New York, Paris, and London beginning in the late 19th century...
  
  (1995) Executive producer (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
• The Whole Wide World
  The Whole Wide World
  The Whole Wide World is a 1996 American film depicting the relationship between pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard and schoolteacher Novalyne Price Ellis ....
  
  (1996) - Producer (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
• Casualties (1997) - Executive producer (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
• Nevada
  Nevada (1997 film)
  - Plot :Brennan plays "Chrysty", a woman with a past who arrives on foot to the small town of Silver City, Nevada. There, she meets the women of the town, all but one of whom accept her...
  
  (1997) - Executive producer (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
• The Velocity of Gary
  The Velocity of Gary
  The Velocity of Gary also known as The Velocity of Gary* * is a 1999 American dramatic comedy film, directed by Dan Ireland and written by James Still, based on his homonymous play...
  
  (1998) - Executive producer (as Carl Jan Colpaert)
• Hurlyburly
  Hurlyburly
  Hurlyburly is a dark comedy play by David Rabe, first staged in 1984.-Plot:More than three hours long, Hurlyburly focuses on the intersecting lives of several low- to mid-level Hollywood players in the 1980s. Fueled by massive amounts of drugs, they attempt to find some meaning in their isolated,...
  
  (1998) - Executive producer
• Operation Splitsville (1999) - Executive producer (as Carl Jan Colpaert)
• Cement
  Cement (film)
  Cement is a 2000 crime drama-thriller film directed by Adrian Pasdar and written by Justin Monjo. The film, which is a contemporary re-telling of Othello, was shot in Los Angeles, California, USA, and was Pasdar's first film as director.-Plot:...
  
  (1999) - Executive producer (as Carl-Jan Colpaert)
• One Eyed King
  One Eyed King
  One Eyed King is an ensemble crime drama detailing the trials and tribulations of several characters living together in the same Hell's Kitchen neighborhood...
  
  (2001) - Executive producer
• Glam (2001) - Producer, Uncredited
• Where Eskimos Live
  Where Eskimos Live
  Where Eskimos Live is a feature film released in 2002 under Polish-American-British and Germany co-operation....
  
  (2002) - Co-producer: Cineville (AKA Tam, gdzie zyja Eskimosi (Poland))
• Within Without (2004) - Executive producer
• Surviving Eden (2004) - Executive producer
• Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
  Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
  Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont is a 2005 comedy-drama film made by Claremont Films and distributed by Picture Entertainment Corporation. It was directed by Dan Ireland and produced by Lee Caplin, Carl Colpaert and Zachary Matz from a screenplay by Ruth Sacks, based on the novel by Elizabeth...
  
  (2005) - Producer
• Steal Me (2005) - Executive producer
• Hoop Reality (2006) Executive producer
• Smile Now, Cry Later (2011) Producer

Director

• Delusion (1991)
• The Crew (1994)
• Drowning on Dry Land (1999)
• Façade
  Façade (film)
  Façade is a 2000 action/thriller movie.The film contains strong sexuality and language.- Cast :*Eric Roberts as Colin Wentworth*Camilla Overbye Roos as Caroline Kelner*Angus Macfadyen as Frederic Colbert*Brad Garrett as Henry*Joe Viterelli as Max...
  
  (2000)
• The Affair
  The Affair (2004 film)
  The Affair is a 2004 motion picture directed by Carl Colpaert.-Plot overview:Jean is a bored housewife living in a designer house with her architect husband Paul , a man of success who is so self-centered and controlling that he forgets his relationship obligations to his wife...
  
  (2004)
• G.I. Jesus (2006)
• The Land of the Astronauts (2010)
• The Candidate's Daughter (2011)

External links

• Cineville homepage