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Films of Lisanne Skyler



film still A native New Yorker, Lisanne Skyler is a writer and director of both fiction and nonfiction films. Lisanne's debut feature film GETTING TO KNOW YOU, an adaptation of three short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, co-written with her sister Tristine, played in the 1999 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition and opened the 1999 Venice Film Festival Critics Week. The film was released in Italy by Key Films, where it was a critical and commercial success; in the United States, GETTING TO KNOW YOU premiered theatrically at New York City's legendary Film Forum, played in art house cinemas across the country, and was broadcast on Sundance Channel. GETTING TO KNOW YOU received critical acclaim from The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times and The Chicago Tribune, and garnered "Two Thumbs Up" from Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper.

Lisanne's documentary films (all distributed by First Run/Icarus Films) include the award-winning short OLDTIMERS (1993), a black-and-white portrayal of the regulars of a San Francisco Irish bar; the 1995 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Competition entry NO LOANS TODAY, about a black-owned pawnshop in post-riot South Central Los Angeles; and DREAMLAND, a portrayal of the struggle of compulsive gamblers living in Las Vegas. Both NO LOANS TODAY and DREAMLAND were broadcast on POV, PBS's independent documentary film series.

As a screenwriter, Lisanne has written screenplays for producers such as Mike Figgis and Nellie Bellflower. As a writer-director, Lisanne is currently developing the drama-thriller hybrid STARR BRIGHT WILL BE WITH YOU SOON, based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, and the 1970s coming of age story CAPTURE THE FLAG, based on the novel by Rebecca Chace. Lisanne currently teaches Film Studies at the University of Arizona.

  • Oldtimers - A portrait of the community of elders who gather at Original McCarthy's, an historic but desolate bar in San Francisco's Mission District.

  • No Loans Today - Fringe banking in redlined, post-riot South Central Los Angeles.

  • Dreamland - Takes a sharp but disarming approach in examining the romance of gambling, and reveals the decidedly unromantic reality.


 

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