Hans Canosa is an American film director

Film director

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, writer

Writer

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, film editor and producer

Film producer

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. He is best known for his independent film

Independent film

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 Conversations with Other Women

Conversations with Other Women

Conversations with Other Women is 2005 comedy drama film directed by Hans Canosa, written by Gabrielle Zevin, starring Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter....

(2005), starring Aaron Eckhart

Aaron Eckhart

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 and Helena Bonham Carter

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.

Background

Canosa was born in Holden

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, Massachusetts

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, USA, where he received a Fundamentalist Christian education from his parents. The religion doesn't support films since it believes movies are from the devil. That is why Canosa didn't go to a cinema until he was 17 years old. After that, he was disinherited for attending Harvard College

Harvard College

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, where he directed several plays and videos. Later on he entered New York University

New York University

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’s graduate film program, but he dropped out when he realized it was too restrictive for him.

Works

Canosa has been a director, writer, editor and producer of films.

• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
  Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
  Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2010 drama film starring Japanese actress Maki Horikita, Japanese actors Kenichi Matsuyama and Yuya Tegoshi, and American actor Anton Yelchin based on a book written by Gabrielle Zevin.-Cast:...
  
  (2010) - Director, Producer & Editor
• Conversations with Other Women
  Conversations with Other Women
  Conversations with Other Women is 2005 comedy drama film directed by Hans Canosa, written by Gabrielle Zevin, starring Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter....
  
  (2005) - Director & Editor
• Alma Mater (film) (2002) - Director, Producer & Writer (story only).

External links

• Hans Canosa at The Internet Movie Database
• Apple.com profile
• eFilmCritic interview
• http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002764781Interview The Hollywood Reporter
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• http://www.filmthreat.com/index.php?section=interviews&Id=1106Interview Film Threat
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• Digital Content Producer interview

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