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Jan 28, 2019 · 10. Karyn Kusama made her feature debut in 2000 with Girlfight, which won the Award of the Youth at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for best first feature. Since then, she has won acclaim for Jennifer’s Body (2009), The Invitation (2015), and her latest film, Destroyer (2018), which stars Nicole Kidman.
May 23, 2024 · Fittingly, it was a true fight for Karyn Kusama to get her directorial debut made. Inspired by the writer-director's own experience taking boxing lessons, Girlfight centers on Diana Guzman, a troubled Brooklyn teen who feels lost at school and bullied at home by her father (Pulp Fiction's Paul Calderon); when Diana joins a boxing gym, she finds a new love and, more importantly, herself in the ring.
Karyn Kusama, like so many first-time directors, remembers making her directorial debut with "very little money and very little time."That movie, the boxing drama Girlfight, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000, where it won a Grand Jury Prize and Kusama took home a Directing Award.
Karyn Kusama is an Emmy-nominated film and television director. Her singular work utilizes elements of genre to explore complex human relationships and emotions such as grief, identity, and anxiety. Karyn made her feature debut with the sports drama Girlfight (2000), which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Director’s Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Prix de la Jeunesse at Cannes.
Jan 11, 2019 · Karyn Kusama, Director of "Destroyer" : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn Jesse talks to Karyn Kusama, one of the most unique voices in film right now. She just directed the new film "Destroyer," it's a ...
May 26, 2023 · Karyn Kusama, who also helmed the first episode of the Showtime series, talks to The Hollywood Reporter all about the big-swing decision and the earlier moment that predicted the major reveal for ...
Apr 8, 2016 · Directed by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body) and written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, the tension-filled psychological thriller The Invitation follows Will (Logan Marshall-Green), who ...
