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"Fruitvale Station" Case Study

Sunday, September 15th, 2013 10:00AM - 11:00AM
Bruno Walter Auditorium - 111 Amsterdam Avenue

In this conversation with Ryan Coogler and his team, hear how he turned a tragedy of his community into an incredible debut feature. After premiering at Sundance 2013, the film was picked up by The Weinstein Company and has since gone on to gross more than $14 million from its summer release. The film includes award-worthy performances from breakout lead Michael B. Jordan, as well as Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer and indie favorite Melonie Diaz - how did a first-time feature director elicit such performances? What inspires Coogler's work, and what's up next for him? Hear about the film's production and incredible success straight from the source. A Weinstein Company release.

Written and Directed by Ryan Coolger
Producers: Nina Yang Bangiovi and Forest Whitaker
Executive Producer: Michael Y. Chow
Director of Photography: Rachel Morrison
Editors: Michael P. Shawver, Claudia S. Castello

Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, director Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station" follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan) a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and decides to get a head start on his resolutions. But as the day goes on, he realizes that change is not going to come so easily.

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Ryan Coogler
Director, Fruitvale Station

Ryan Coogler is a 26 year-old filmmaker from the East Bay Area, California who has been making movies for five years. His feature length screenplay FRUITVALE, based on the 2009 BART police shooting of Oscar Grant, was selected for the 2012 Sundance January Screenwriter’s Lab. In 2011 his student short film FIG, which followed a young street prostitute’s fight to keep her daughter safe, won the Director’s Guild of America Student Filmmaker Award, as well as the 2011 HBO Short Filmmaker Award. FIG was broadcast on HBO. Coogler still lives in the Bay Area where in addition to making films, he works as a counselor at Juvenile Hall in San Francisco. He earned his MFA in Film and Television Production at the University of Southern California in May 2011.