Laurel Almerinda
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Writer
Laurel Almerinda - Director, Writer, Yogini, Lapsed Catholic, Cat
Fancier, Rock & Roller, All-Around Fine Arts Afficianado - spent her
formative years on the East Coast, culminating with her graduation from
Tufts University in Boston, where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in Art
History and Archaeology, and choreographed numerous avant-garde
(meaning, topless) dance pieces, as Artistic Director of the Tufts
Dance Collective. After graduation, she won a Classical Studies grant
and participated in a rigorous, dusty, and very sweaty archaeological
expedition to Masada, Israel, at which point Laurel decided that
Filmmaking was the Thing that really blew her skirt up.
Laurel worked in the Art Department on a few obscure indies - all the while covetously eyeballing the Director's Chair, so she packed her meager belongings and moved to the sun-blasted shores of Los Angeles, where she adopted a cat, dyed her hair blonde (then dyed it back again), bought a motorcycle (then sold it) and earned an MFA in Film Production from the renowned USC School of Cinema-Television.
Ms. Almerinda's thesis film, produced with a competitive grant from USC and shot on location in Yucatan, Mexico, is a volatile, sexy, and poetic short entitled firepussy. Laurel's pussy was subsequently selected to compete in dozens of film festivals, most notably Sundance 2003.
Since then, Laurel and longtime writing partner/co-conspirator Jonathan Herman completed their first feature screenplay, slow city, which won 2nd Prize in Scr(i)pt Magazine's Open Door competition, and found a home with groovy indie producers Denise Shaw and Gina Resnick, who are currently packaging this edgy, unexpected drama with exciting young talent.
After directing slow city, Laurel plans to spend a few weeks sipping margaritas on a hidden beach where no one can find her - in full Lotus, Chakras blazing - before plunging headlong into her next freaky project, with the same all-consuming passion.
Laurel worked in the Art Department on a few obscure indies - all the while covetously eyeballing the Director's Chair, so she packed her meager belongings and moved to the sun-blasted shores of Los Angeles, where she adopted a cat, dyed her hair blonde (then dyed it back again), bought a motorcycle (then sold it) and earned an MFA in Film Production from the renowned USC School of Cinema-Television.
Ms. Almerinda's thesis film, produced with a competitive grant from USC and shot on location in Yucatan, Mexico, is a volatile, sexy, and poetic short entitled firepussy. Laurel's pussy was subsequently selected to compete in dozens of film festivals, most notably Sundance 2003.
Since then, Laurel and longtime writing partner/co-conspirator Jonathan Herman completed their first feature screenplay, slow city, which won 2nd Prize in Scr(i)pt Magazine's Open Door competition, and found a home with groovy indie producers Denise Shaw and Gina Resnick, who are currently packaging this edgy, unexpected drama with exciting young talent.
After directing slow city, Laurel plans to spend a few weeks sipping margaritas on a hidden beach where no one can find her - in full Lotus, Chakras blazing - before plunging headlong into her next freaky project, with the same all-consuming passion.
