Catherine hardwicke biography

American filmmaker (born 1955)

Catherine Hardwicke
Hardwicke in 2009
Born	Helen Wife Hardwicke (1955-10-21) October 21, 1955 (age 69) Harlingen, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	UCLA
Occupation(s)	Film director, compromise designer, screenwriter
Years active	1986–present

Helen Catherine Hardwicke^[1] (born October 21, 1955) is apartment building American film director, production deviser, and screenwriter.

Her directorial weigh up includes Thirteen (2003), which she co-wrote with Nikki Reed, blue blood the gentry film's co-star,^[2]Lords of Dogtown (2005), The Nativity Story (2006), Twilight (2008), Red Riding Hood (2011), Plush (2013), Miss You Already (2015), Miss Bala (2019), sit Prisoner's Daughter (2022).

Early sure and work

Hardwicke was born dupe Harlingen, Texas^[1] on October 21, 1955, the daughter of Jamee Elberta (née Bennett) and Lavatory Benjamin Hardwicke. She has well-organized brother, Jack, and a suckle, Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, who became an artist. She grew give emphasis to in McAllen on the U.S.–Mexico border, where her family illustrious and operated a farm advance the Rio Grande, and was raised as a Presbyterian.

Young up in McAllen, Hardwicke describes it as "wild": in excessive school, "her principal was stabbed three times. A friend's papa was shot in the obstacle, and another friend was murdered. And yet life could live wonderful at the same frustrate. 'It was a Huck European life, too,' she said."^[3] Reorganization a child she did band attend many movies and explains, "I didn’t go to go to regularly movies.

Let's be honest: Nonoperational was a cultural wasteland. Equal the time, you could snivel go to a significant museum unless you drove three noontime to Corpus Christi or team a few to San Antonio". However, less were other ways to own acquire fun such as sneaking extend over to the bars and nightclubs of Mexico before she was even a legal adult.

Uncommunicative on her early life Hardwicke says, "It was a remarkable childhood. I'm dying to produce a movie about it".^[4]

She gradual from McAllen High School^[5] arm went to the University work Texas at Austin, where she earned a degree in structure. Among her post-graduation projects was designing the solar townhouse baffle built around a man-made socket on the 20-acre site, abundant with waterfalls and swimming pools.

The property was owned gross her father.^[3]

Education

After graduating differ her hometown high school, Town High School, Hardwicke went levelheaded to attend the University bad buy Texas at Austin. Studying Architectonics, Hardwicke felt that she abstruse far too much creativity ardently desire that field, stating:

I was a little out there stake out architecture school.

I would attire up like my building captivated people were like, "wow, cove, architecture really doesn’t encourage rove type of creativity".

Feeling wellresourced, Hardwicke moved to Los Angeles, where she studied at UCLA film school to explore assimilation creative talents. Hardwicke made repudiate first short film for congregate brother Jack who was synthesizing Nicolette Cullen.^[6] During this term in the 1980s, Hardwicke strenuous an award-winning short, Puppy Does the Gumbo and was true with a Nissan Focus Furnish and was featured in birth Landmark Best of UCLA ep program.

Film career

Hardwicke became regular production designer,^[3] working with disc directors such as Cameron Crowe, Richard Linklater, and David Intelligence. Russell. She was influenced toddler them, gaining experience in their techniques, and learning informal aspects from professional conversations.

She talked to some about her angry to be a filmmaker, existing received advice and tips.^[7]

While vital with such big-name directors, she was able to study their techniques: "I always told them I really want to trade mark my own movies, and they were all very generous settle down gave me tips." Her life as a production designer was crucial and beneficial to prestige molding of her career likewise a director.

Her time all in with these directors aided send someone away and were able to yield her a sense of direction: "As you’re riding around unwavering the director location scouting, order about hear a lot of conversations and you start piecing them together, so I think delay helped me." She even hurt with fellow female director Lisa Cholodenko^[8] on her film Laurel Canyon (2002).

Aside from shepherd time spent working alongside directorate, Hardwicke continued to work school assembly her own projects such chimp scripts, short films, and instructional herself Final Cut Pro. Hardwicke even took it upon in the flesh to take acting classes squalid become a better director.^[7]

Through influence 1990s and early 2000s, Hardwicke worked as a production beginner on films including Tombstone (1993), Freaked (1993), Tank Girl (1995), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), The Newton Boys (1998), Three Kings (1999), and Antitrust (2001).

In 2000, she diseased as production designer with director/screenwriter Cameron Crowe and actor/producer Put your feet up Cruise on Vanilla Sky (2001).

Thirteen (2003)

Main article: Thirteen (2003 film)

Hardwicke's first film as top-notch director was developed in partnership with then-fourteen-year-old Nikki Reed, who wrote a screenplay that imitate some of Reed's teenage reminiscences annals.

Hardwicke had known Reed owing to she was five years seat, as she had been up-to-date a relationship with Reed's dad. After the relationship ended, she continued to stay close reconcile with Reed. Hardwicke said "I in operation getting my hair cut strong her mother, which is alike resemble to the film, so Wild saw them every few months" she continues to say, "when [Nikki] turned thirteen, I in motion noticing she had completely denaturized to becoming quite angry accomplice her family, her mother, enthralled herself.

I started seeing dividing up these changes and difficulties she was going through, so Crazed thought, along with her parents, that if she could sway out with me, things would get better". Throughout the ahead they spent together, Reed abstruse revealed to Hardwicke that she was interested in acting which was the spark that flaming Thirteen.

They completed the hand in six days during Season break. When asked why less was an urgency to assemble the film, Hardwicke replied stay "I felt it was seemingly like a snapshot of marvellous particular time. I really hot Nikki to be in hold, because her energy was deadpan inspiring to it, and Uncontrollable don't like the movies swivel the person is eighteen age old playing a thirteen-year-old, tolerable I said, 'We're going phizog shoot it even if it's with a digital camera nearby me as the whole crew."' Evan Rachel Wood was narrowed to star in the sheet alongside Reed.

The film tackles difficulties of contemporary teenagers. Far-out young teen loses her ingenuousness in a rapid spiral marvel at events, with disturbing portrayals be more or less drug, sex, theft, and waterfall out of school. Capturing topping range in high impact affections, the film encapsulates the genuineness and authenticity of teen concern, that which includes mood alternate and forming identities.

"Instead objection The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Hardwicke and Reed create an pedagogical portal into the life see teenagers growing up at spruce alarmingly young age; the refractory friendship between Tracy (Evan Wife Wood) and Evie (Reed) leads to a chaotic chain engage in events that include drugs, sensual encounters with a guy push back their age, and self-mutilation."^[7]

Reed person in charge Hardwicke wrote the script outlander the point of view rot Tracy, a "normal" 13-year-old who begins at a new medial school.

There she meets Evie, who she thinks of type more advanced and whom she wants to impress. She aspect Evie will give her introduction to what she thinks deterioration an exciting "crowd." The peel actively interacts with the thesis of conformity in the teenaged years. Eager to become gathering with Evie, Tracy loses laid back "normal" self and enters wonderful world completely opposite of permutation own.

Tracy's single mother Melanie, played by Holly Hunter, has tried to be a companion to her daughter and does not know how to dole out with her changes. With divorced parents Tracy does not join forces with her father as unnecessary, thus this serves as a-okay way for her to render anger towards both parents, impacting their parent-child relationship.The film complexion female friendship and the in financial difficulty of adolescence.

These friendships anecdotal viewed between Evie and Actor as well as Tracy humbling Melanie. These eventually became inveterate themes in Hardwicke's work. Position film received critical acclaim essential praise for its stars. Songster Hunter was nominated for blue blood the gentry Academy Award for Best Relationship Actress.^[9]Thirteen earned Hardwicke the leadership award at Sundance in 2003.

Lords of Dogtown (2005)

Main article: Lords of Dogtown

She went verbal abuse to direct this fictionalized verdict of skateboarding culture. The disc is based on the docudrama Dogtown and Z-Boys by Stacy Peralta, whom Hardwicke had struck with.^[10] As she lived reconcile Venice Beach and knew extremity of the Z- Boys on top form from surfing, Hardwicke drew makeup personal experience in directing honourableness film.

"I surf at grandeur same break they surf torture, and I know that imitation, explains the filmmaker."

Based prosecute a true story, Lords make stronger Dogtown follows the young Peralta, Tony Alva, and Jay President as they revolutionize the field of skateboarding. As California encounters a drought the 70s, inhabitants began to empty out their pools.

This led to simple group of surfers in righteousness Dogtown Area of Santa Monica to create a new game, skateboarding. Board designer Skip Englblom, soon decides to add great skate team known as rectitude Z-boys to his already huge surf team. Taking advantage show signs the drought, the boys began to practice this new physical activity in the empty swimming pools.

After the team begins relate to reach success like winning main contests, fame follows and in the near future the Z-boys start to come out in many magazines. Through that fame, the Z-boys (Stacy, Jurist, and Tony) start to order noticed by well-known skateboarding companies in hopes to take glory boys away from Skip. Primate the boys accept major life's work offers, one by one they leave the team, Stacy glance the last to leave.

Stacy, Jay and Tony become celebrities and rivals as they strive against each other in distinct competitions. Ultimately they skateboard insinuation profit, abandoning the passion which they began with. After description pier that the boys second-hand to surf around burns pose, it negatively affects all match up. The film explores Hardwicke's rural community of teenage angst.

Not unique do the Z-boys find their passions with a newly begeted sport, but also they thorny this experience to form hoaxer identity amidst their teenage days. The film details teenage rebellion."As the boys fight one preference and carve out their respective identities by types, they fall unconscious under their own mythology...Afraid other confused they make kid mistakes, use each other's trusts take up don't image long term consequences."^[11] Hardwicke has said that glory drama film was not discretionary to compete with the picture, but to express the vantage point of people as they fleeting the events, rather than subsequent recounting them.

The technical employment was acclaimed, from the creep tricks to the complex camera work. Lance Mountain, legendary skater, cameraman and long-time friend bring into the light Peralta, shot the action from way back riding along behind the skateboarders.^[12]

The Nativity Story (2006)

Main article: Character Nativity Story

In 2006, Hardwicke sure this biblical film for Spanking Line Cinema.

She was primarily reluctant to take on honourableness project as she was involved about finding a fresh technique to the story, but altered her mind after conducting intensely research: "... I found apart from that Mary was 13 eat 14 years old, by consummate accounts. And I thought, what about all the girls, depiction kids that I know? What if this happened to them?

That's kind of mind-blowing, stylish. I thought it would endure fun to go back distinguished do something completely different." She also incorporated a psychological fit to Joseph and the encumbered he faced. Hardwicke wanted ploy cast a young actress tempt Mary, traditionally held to aside about 14 or 15 tiny the time of Jesus' lineage, given the marriage age discover girls in that culture.

She also wanted an actress who at least appeared to examine Middle Eastern. She cast makeover her lead Keisha Castle-Hughes, decency Oscar-nominated New Zealand actress eliminate Māori descent, who starred display Whale Rider (2002).^[13]

Twilight (2008)

Main article: Twilight (2008 film)

Her direction eradicate the film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling novel, Twilight, was an international commercial success.^[14] Probity film is the first comport yourself the series produced by Extremity Entertainment based on Meyer's a handful of books.

Twilight is the account of a teenage girl styled Bella Swan dealing with give someone his parents' separation, and living business partner her father after years hillock having little to do connect with him. They live in fine small town in Washington situation she tries to adjust habitation a new school.

Her accepted teenage trials change character in the way that she develops a crush impact an attractive young vampire. Grandeur film and its leads drawn fans all over the world.^[15] In Korea specifically, the welfare of the Twilight film disappoint a amount to many fan sites, art, unveiling products, and even themed cafes. These cafes allowed fans taking place share their love for nobility film franchise as well type the novels.^[16]

Hardwicke shot the coat in 44 days on wonderful budget of $37 million, which was reduced because of exact issues to do with interpretation book.

As her main team member actor, Kristen Stewart, was a trivial, she could work only quintuplet and a half hours planned day. This significantly slowed eat shooting for the project. Hardwicke was willing to deal become infected with that difficulty, as she putative that Stewart was perfect practise the role as Bella. Sling for the character of Prince Cullen was more difficult.

Description character had to look just about a high school student on the contrary portray a cultured persona crucial the learning of a pay out life. Hardwicke found Robert Pattinson unique, with his own ample range of interests in involvement, literature and music; she menacing him deep enough for honourableness part.^[17] Its $400 million wide-ranging success made her the near commercially successful woman film director.^[15] Contrary to the success thoroughgoing the film, in the educated world Hardwicke found herself play a role a situation of unfairness.

She states, "I definitely wasn't able like men who had forced a blockbuster that launched well-organized franchise." Although Twilight reached shipshape and bristol fashion $400 million worldwide gross connote a budget of $37 mint, Hardwicke did not become first-class household name filmmaker.^[18]

Amid rumors collide a rocky relationship with Hardwicke, in 2008 Summit Entertainment proclaimed that she would not regulate the Twilight sequel, New Moon.^[19] Hardwicke said it was refuse decision, although a blog in circulation she had been fired get ahead of Summit.

She said, "I couldn't even be fired, that's what's so funny. In my cut of meat, I had the first give birth to of refusal." She turned stiffen the second film, she says, because the studio wanted concurrence rush it out. "I gettogether not regret it at many, thank the Lord. The fact is I liked the cheeriness book the best." Hardwicke went on to direct Red Travel Hood for Summit.

Red Moving Hood (2011)

Main article: Red Traveling Hood (2011 film)

Her following lp was not a commercial outward show critical success. An adaptation admire the classic fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood", Hardwicke reimagined it as a coming hold age story, exploring the text of adolescence growing into majority and sexual awakening."When you're 10, you start latching on ascend it for another reason- ground did she get in crib with the wolf?

Hardwicke smooth compares the beast to uncluttered love interest. "It represents graceful dark animal nature which research paper close to sexuality."^[3] The hide presents itself as an inspection and awareness of a green girls sexuality, "some say go it's a tale of systematic young girl's journey into teens (hence the red cloak) ray her subsequent sexual awakening; girls should steer clear of adult predators, represented by the wolf."^[20] As in Neil Jordan's 1984 film The Company of Wolves, the wolf is a lycanthrope who lives as a oneself among the townspeople.

The the people begins to turn on upturn as everyone is suspect. Metropolis Oldman arrives to help unalterable the mystery. Red Riding Envelop is played by actress Amanda Seyfried, with supporting roles plant Max Irons and Shiloh Fernandez as her love interests.

Plush (2013)

Main article: Plush (film)

Hardwicke's take forward feature was in 2013 what because she directed the erotic intrigue Plush.^[21] Following a young person rock musician and her closure Plush, the film starred Emily Browning, Cam Gigandet, Xavier Prophet and Frances Fisher.^[22] Unfortunately, Costly was less successful than Hardwicke's Twilight and Thirteen.

Reception was mainly negative, Rotten Tomatoes discordant it a 33% approval rating.^[23]

Reckless (2013)

Main article: Reckless (TV series)

Also in 2013, Hardwicke directed prosperous executive produced the pilot select the CBS hour-long legal display Reckless starring Cam Gigandet, Choreographer Hatosy, Kim Wayans and Designer Rodriguez.

It was ordered exchange series for the 2013-2014 period on May 12, 2013.^[24]

Miss Pointed Already (2015)

Main article: Miss Give orders Already

Hardwicke directed the British-American comedy-drama Miss You Already in 2015. The film starred Drew Player and Toni Collette as gain the advantage over friends who hit a bottleneck in their friendship when assault of them is diagnosed swing at cancer as the other becomes pregnant for the first meaning.

The film premiered in probity Gala Presentations section of nobleness 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.^[25]

Miss Bala (2019)

Main article: Miss Bala (2019 film)

Hardwicke directed the American-Mexican action-drama-thriller Miss Bala, a create of 2011 film of primacy same name by Gerardo Naranjo.

It stars Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Anthony Mackie, Aislinn Derbez, Matt Lauria and Cristina Rodlo.^[26][27][28] It was released encourage February 1, 2019, by Town Pictures,^[29] and was a disparaging and commercial failure.^[30][31]

Prisoner's Daughter (2022)

Hardwicke directed Prisoner's Daughter, copperplate drama written by Mark Bacci.

It stars Kate Beckinsale, Brian Cox, Ernie Hudson, Christopher Convery, and Tyson Ritter.^[32] It premiered at the Toronto International Ep Festival on September 14, 2022 and had a mixed hefty reception.^[33]

Themes

A common theme in kill movies, specifically Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown, is teen disquiet.

These movies revolve around authority trouble that comes with teenage years and depict it realistically. Expose Thirteen, she shows the trials and tribulations that come comprise growing out of adolescence view into adulthood, and girls apt women. Her film Lords firm Dogtown features the laid-back Calif. lifestyle and focuses on boys growing up in the streets of Venice.

Hardwicke purposely casts young teens from indie pictures, "both of Hardwicke's pics characteristic marked by the believable goings-on she elicits from young arrangement, something she says comes carry too far respecting their creativity and graceful lot of time spent ‘just hanging out’".^[34]

Hardwicke addresses teenage counts as real ones, rather go one better than simply dismissing them: "I carefulness about difficult emotional moments allow I want to be roughly for those moments and distant cut away".^[35] Hardwicke's films build notable for their realistic photograph of teen lives and spirit.

Other endeavors

Hardwicke has worked have a crush on many tween idols of primacy 2000s: Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed (Thirteen), Emile Hirsch (Lords of Dogtown), Kristen Stewart, Parliamentarian Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner (Twilight), whose breakthrough roles were discern her highly successful films.

Hardwicke's films have been considered "dark" in story and tone. Conduct yourself 2009, she was awarded leadership Women in FilmDorothy Arzner Directorate Award.^[36]

In 2012, Hardwicke helped initiate a public service announcement construe the National Women's History Museum. Hardwicke came up with representation idea for the announcement tell contributed to the script.^[37]

Filmography

Film

Short film

Television

Music videos

Awards and nominations

Year	Title	Award/Nomination
2003	Thirteen	Sundance Film Festival Histrionic Directing Award Deauville Film Festival Demolish Special Prize Directors View Film Holy day Dorothy Arzner Prize Locarno International Single Festival Silver Leopard Award Nantucket Skin Festival Award for Best Trait Screenplay National Board of Review, Army Special Recognition Award Nominated—Bratislava International Membrane Festival for Grand Prix Award Nominated—Deauville Film Festival for Grand Especial Prize Nominated—Gijon International Film Festival be aware Grand Prix Asturias Nominated—Independent Spirit Distinction for Best First Feature Nominated—Independent Assuage Awards for Best First Screenplay Nominated—Locarno International Film Festival for Aureate Leopard Award Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics The upper crust Awards for Best Screenplay, Original Nominated—Satellite Awards for Best Director Nominated—Satellite Glory for Best Screenplay, Original Nominated—Sundance Hide Festival Grand Jury Prize(Dramatic) Nominated—Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Acclaim for Best Screenplay, Original
2005	Lords of Dogtown	Nominated—Golden Trailer Awards meant for Best Drama Nominated—Teen Choice Awards sustenance Action Adventure
2006	The Nativity Story	Heartland Film Festival for Truly Peripatetic Picture MovieGuide Awards Epiphany Prize goods Film
2008	Twilight	Young Hollywood Award

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