Who went to school with Simon Chinn and is the author of a film that takes an unconventional approach to the subject matter?
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Simon Chinn He went to school with Louis Theroux and he produced the documentary "My Scientology Movie" which is written by Theroux.
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My Scientology Movie My Scientology Movie is a 2015 British documentary film about Scientology directed by John Dower, and written by and starring Louis Theroux. The film takes an unconventional approach to the subject matter, featuring young actors "auditioning" for parts playing high-profile Scientologists in scenes recreating accounts from ex-members about incidents involving senior church management. The Church of Scientology responded by putting the filmmakers under surveillance and denouncing the film.
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Simon Maginn Simon Maginn (born 1961 in Wallasey, Merseyside) is a British writer who has published five novels under his own name: "Sheep" (Corgi 1994), "Virgins and Martyrs" (Corgi, 1995), "A Sickness of the Soul" (Corgi 1995), "Methods of Confinement" (Black Swan 1996) and "Rattus" (Pendragon Press 2010) which was published alongside a novella by Gary Fry entitled "The Invisible Architect of Psychopathy". A film version of "Sheep" has been released as "The Dark". The novels are horror/psychological thrillers, and are mostly out of print.
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Teenage Wasteland (film) Teenage Wasteland is a 2006 drama film written and directed by Welsh director Andrew Jones. It was funded through the independent film company Steel & Glass Films Ltd. The film is a cinema-verite style look into the lives of several disenchanted teens and their dysfunctional home lives in Swansea, south Wales. The cast members are relative unknowns and the characters are all based on people director Jones knew. The scenes featuring the teenagers at home with their parents are shot in black-and-white and the scenes of the teenage characters outside the home are shot in colour.
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Raphael Smith Raphael Schrire Smith (born in Cape Town, South Africa 29 November 1973, first name pronounced to rhyme with "playful") is a screenwriter based in London, United Kingdom. He attended Herzlia Primary, Middle and High School and studied law and Jewish Civilisation at the University of Cape Town. He also holds a master's degree in screenwriting from the National Film and Television School. In 2004, he was nominated for a BAFTA as a writer on the short film "Sea Monsters". In late 2004, Smith acted as the script consultant on the South African feature film "Boy called Twist".
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Mun Che-yong Mun Che-yong (born 1979) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Mun was assistant director of the films "All for Love" (2005) and "" (2006). His directorial debut "Shoot Me in the Heart" (2015), starring Lee Min-ki and Yeo Jin-goo, is based on the award-winning novelist Jeong Yu-jeong's bestselling novel of the same name. The film was invited to the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival in 2015. His short film "Twins" (2007) won the Best Film in A Short Film About Love at the 2007 Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival.
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Sam Greenlee Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) was an African-American writer, best known for his controversial novel "The Spook Who Sat by the Door", which was first published in London by Allison & Busby in March 1969 (having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers), and went on to be chosen as "The Sunday Times" Book of the Year. The novel was subsequently made into the 1973 movie of the same name, directed by Ivan Dixon and co-produced and written by Greenlee, that is now considered a "cult classic".
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Simon Barrett (filmmaker) Simon Barrett (born 1978) is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter known for his collaborations with Adam Wingard, including "A Horrible Way to Die", "V/H/S", "V/H/S/2", "You're Next", and "The Guest". He is associated with the mumblegore movement and has worked with director Joe Swanberg several times.
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Simon Chapman (author) Simon Chapman (born 1965) is a British children's writer. His books include the "Explorers Wanted!" series, of which "Explorers Wanted! At the North Pole" won a Blue Peter Book Award inn 2005. Chapman teaches physics at Morecambe Community High School in Lancashire
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Unexpected (2015 film) Unexpected is a 2015 American drama film written by Kris Swanberg and Megan Mercier. It stars Cobie Smulders as a teacher at an inner city Chicago high school who unintentionally becomes pregnant. One of her students, Jasmine (Gail Bean), is also unexpectedly pregnant, and the two bond through planning their futures. The film had its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2015. The film was released in a limited release and released video on demand on July 24, 2015, by The Film Arcade.
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The Teenage Textbook Movie The Teenage Textbook Movie is a film adaptation of Adrian Tan's bestselling 1988 novel "The Teenage Textbook". It is a lighthearted look at the lives of four students in Singapore as they start junior college.
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High Schools (film) High Schools is a 1984 American documentary film produced and directed by Charles Guggenheim. It is based on Ernest L. Boyer's book, "High School", and was filmed on location in seven American high schools. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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The Journals of Musan The Journals of Musan () is a 2011 South Korean film by Park Jung-bum, based on the experiences of Park's friend Jeon Seung-chul, a North Korean refugee he met while attending Yonsei University; Jeon was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died in 2008, less than 6 years after he defected to South Korea.
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Outside Providence (film) Outside Providence is a 1999 American stoner comedy film adaptation of Peter Farrelly's 1988 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Michael Corrente, and it was written by Corrente and the brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly. Centring on Timothy "Dildo/Dunph" Dunphy, the film is about his life of mischief, his "incentive" to attend the Cornwall Academy preparatory boarding school, and his realization that the haze in which he has lived has to give way to something that will stay with him forever. The book is based on Peter Farrelly's experience at Kent School, a prep school in Kent, Connecticut.
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Challenging Impossibility Challenging Impossibility is a 2011 documentary film which chronicles the weightlifting odyssey of the spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy, who in 1985 at the age of 54 took up weightlifting and performing feats of strength using the power of meditation. His lifts were featured on newscasts worldwide, inspiring people to transcend their personal limitations and to abandon their concepts of the restrictions of physical age. Directed by Natabara Rollosson and Sanjay Rawal. The film was an Official Selection of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival and premiered April 22, 2011.
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Just Henry Just Henry is a 2011 television film based on the 2008 Costa Book Award novel, "Just Henry" by Michelle Magorian.
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Nigel Coan Nigel Coan is a British animator, director, and writer best known for his contributions to the television series "The Mighty Boosh" and "Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy" as well as the film Bunny and the Bull. Coan first met Noel Fielding and fellow Boosh actor Dave Brown at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (now Buckinghamshire New University), where they lived and attended art school together. Along with his partner Ivana Zorn and their production company "Nipple", Coan has produced work for companies such as Canon, Volvo, and Honda.
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A Cock and Bull Story A Cock and Bull Story (marketed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States as Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) is a 2005 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making of a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century metafictional novel "Tristram Shandy". Gillian Anderson and Keeley Hawes also play themselves in addition to their "Tristram Shandy" roles. Since the book is about a man attempting but failing to write his autobiography, the film takes the form of being about failing to make the film.
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Oddball (film) Oddball (extended to Oddball and the Penguins in some regions) is a 2015 Australian family film directed by Stuart McDonald. It was released in September 2015 and stars Shane Jacobson, Coco Jack Gillies, Sarah Snook and Alan Tudyk. It is based on a true story.
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Jon M. Chu Jonathan Murray "Jon" Chu (; born November 2, 1979) is an American filmmaker, best known for directing the movies such as "", "Step Up 3D", "" and Hasbro franchises "Jem and the Holograms" and "". Chu is an alumnus of the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. There, he won the Princess Grace Award, the Dore Schary Award presented by the Anti-Defamation League, the Jack Nicholson directing award, and was recognized as an honoree for the IFP/West program Project: Involve.
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Stephen Dorril Stephen Dorril (born 7 July 1955; Worcestershire) is a British academic, author, and journalist. He is a senior lecturer in the journalism department of Huddersfield University and is director of the university's Oral History Unit. He has written a number of books, mostly about the UK's intelligence services. With Robin Ramsay, Dorril co-founded the magazine "Lobster". He has appeared on radio and television as a specialist on the security and intelligence services. He is a consultant to BBC's "Panorama" programme. His first book "Honeytrap", written with Anthony Summers about the Profumo Affair, was one of the sources for the 1989 film "Scandal."
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Doran William Cannon Doran William Cannon (1937–2005) was born in Toledo, Ohio, and graduated from Columbia College. While working on his MBA at Columbia University, which he received in 1962, he made his first film, "Going Up". Several years later he wrote, produced, and directed his first feature, "The Square Root of Zero" (1964). In 1965 he left New York City for Hollywood, where he wrote the original scripts for Otto Preminger's "Skidoo" (1968) and Robert Altman's "Brewster McCloud" (1970). Cannon wrote "Authorship: The Dynamic Principles of Writing Creatively", and taught creative writing.