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Washington Filmworks in partnership with The Warren Report present

An Evening with Rodrigo Garcia
  

Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to the Pulling Focus series, Washington Filmworks has again partnered with Warren Etheredge of The Warren Report for another dynamic evening of educated conversation with writer, director, producer, cinematographer (and son of celebrated writer Gabriel García Márquez) - Rodrigo Garcia.

Monday, August 30
7:00pm Doors
Top of the Town
Sorrento Hotel
900 Madison
(Madison & Terry)

Tickets
$5 BrownPaper Tickets or
    Day of Event (Cash Only)

RODRIGO GARCIA
Rodrigo Garcia was born in Colombia and grew up in Mexico City. His credits as director of photography include Danzon (dir. by Maria Novaro); Mi Vida Loca (dir. by Allison Anders) and Gia (dir. by Michael Cristofer).

His features as writer and director are Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her (Fondation Gan Award, Cannes 2000), Ten Tiny Love Stories, Fathers and Sons and Nine Lives (Winner Locarno Film Festival, 2005).

Mr. Garcia also directed for the series Six Feet Under and The Sopranos. He directed the pilot episodes of the series Carnivale and Six Degrees, and was nominated for an Emmy for his direction of the pilot for Big Love.

Mr. Garcia directed 21 episodes of the first season of HBO's acclaimed half-hour drama In Treatment, and also served as Writer, Executive Producer and Showrunner for the project. Mr. Garcia also directed the feature film Passengers, starring Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson.

Most recently, Mr. Garcia wrote and directed two projects: a short film, Tired of Being Funny and a feature film, Mother And Child. Mother and Child stars Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson and Jimmy Smits, and premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. Tired of Being Funny stars John Mahoney and Lili Taylor, and made its premiere at the 2010 Florida Film Festival.

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