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- Alex Holdridge is a writer/director/actor known for the Independent Spirit Award winning In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007). His film, Meet Me in Montenegro (2014), he co-directed and co-wrote with Linnea Saasen. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released by The Orchard in the United States while playing festivals in Europe from Edinburgh to Munich.
He is also known for the South by South West Film Festival Jury and Audience Award Winner, Sexless (2003) as well as the Austin Film Fest Audience Winner, Wrong Numbers (2001).
He cast Scoot McNairy in his first role and made three films with him including the Spirit-Award winning, In Search of a Midnight Kiss.
He is preparing a new project to be filmed in early 2020.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- Lives in Los Angeles.
- [on Meet Me in Montenegro (2014)] We watched old movies like Roy Andersson's first film, A Love Story (1970), which Linnea introduced me to. It's a totally different style than his other films. You look at it and say "It's timeless. It's classic. People will look at it in 100 years." It's not about the clothes or topics.[2015]
- I don't think of art as therapy either. It's an unhealthy way to think about it. Sometimes when you go to film festivals, people can kind of joke around and say "it's that person's therapy lesson" and I understand what they're saying. I try to not let that cynicism preclude me. When it comes to things that are close to your heart, I think about it more as a conversation - an ongoing, long conversation that I'm having with an audience.[2015]
- Frank Reynolds, my film editor for In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007), was telling me a story about working on Todd Field's film In the Bedroom (2001) and having a conversation about cliches. Todd Field said that sometimes cliches are good because you're coming in with the baggage and you can use that or choose to not use that. I thought that that was interesting.[2015]
- There is a tremendous amount of special effects in Meet Me in Montenegro (2014). Linnea [co-director Linnea Saasen] did all of it.[2015]
- [on Meet Me in Montenegro (2014)] Trial and error. There's no map. We worked on it for 4 years every single day. We edited in hostels - it was a long editing process. There was a lot of re-shooting, and we put in pieces of our own lives in it. It's like we weaved together an Icelandic sweater. The flaws are part of the character, but that's our sweater.[2015]
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