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Maggie Greenwald

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Maggie Greenwald
Maggie Greenwald is an award-winning filmmaker who began her career as a picture and sound editor. Her first film, Home Remedy, screened at the Munich, London and Torino Film Festivals before opening at the prestigious Film Forum in New York. Her next film, in 1987, The Kill-Off, a noir thriller based on a novel by Jim Thompson, appeared at film festivals around the world including Sundance (in Dramatic Competition), Munich (opening night, American Independent section), London, Florence, Deauville, Toronto and Edinburgh before winning the Best Director Award at the Torino Film Festival. The film is acknowledged by the British Film Institute as one of the "100 Best American Independents."

Greenwald's acclaimed, groundbreaking Western, The Ballad of Little Jo, was released worldwide by Fine Line Features and Polygram Filmed Entertainment in 1993. It won an Independent Spirit Award. Inspired by early country ballads, Greenwald subsequently wrote and directed her music-based drama, Songcatcher. The film premiered in Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2000 where it garnered a Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance. The film was the opening night selection of the Hamptons Film Festival and received the first Sloan Foundation Award, Deauville Film Festival Audience Award, two Independent Spirit Award nominations and a GLAAD Award nomination. In 2013 Greenwald directed the teen film The Last Keepers, starring Zosia Mamet, Aidan Quinn, Virginia Madsen and Olympia Dukakis. In 2002 Greenwald was awarded the Dorothy Arzner Award from the Director's View Film Festival. For television, Greenwald has directed the GLAAD Award-winning film What Makes A Family (starring Brooke Shields, Whoopi Goldberg and Cherry Jones - 2000), Tempted (starring Virginia Madsen - 2002 ) and Comfort and Joy (starring Dixie Carter - 2003) for Lifetime Television. Get A Clue, (starring Lindsay Lohan and Brenda Song- 2001) for Disney Channel. Good Morning, Killer (starring Catherine Bell - 2011) for TNT. Episodic work includes The Adventures of Pete & Pete (Cable ACE Award), The Mystery Files Of Shelby Woo and Wildfire.
BornJune 23, 1955
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Sophie and the Rising Sun: Maggie Greenwald and Takashi Yamaguchi
Sophie and the Rising Sun: Maggie Greenwald with Cali Ward and Ebony McCormick
Sophie and the Rising Sun: Bobby Henline, Maggie Greenwald and Kendal Carter.
Sophie and the Rising Sun: Maggie Greenwald and Margo Martindale.
Sophie and the Rising Sun: Cali Ward, Colie McClellan and Maggie Greenwald
Sophie and the Rising Sun: Takashi Yamaguchi and Maggie Greenwald in center.
Sophie and the Rising Sun: Lorraine Toussaint and Maggie Greenwald.
Maggie Greenwald
Maggie Greenwald
With April Smith and William DeVane on the set of GOOD MORNING KILLER
With Catherine Bell and James Jordan on the set of GOOD MORNING KILLER
With Zosia Mamet, Josh Bowman and teen cast on the set of THE LAST KEEPERS

Known for

Songcatcher (2000)
Songcatcher
7.2
  • Director
  • 2000
The Kill-Off (1989)
The Kill-Off
6.1
  • Director
  • 1989
Lorraine Toussaint, Don Henderson Baker, Margo Martindale, Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Mickey Dodge, Karen Wheeling Reynolds, and Meredith Jackson in Sophie and the Rising Sun (2016)
Sophie and the Rising Sun
6.6
  • Director
  • 2016
Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, and Ilan Mitchell-Smith in Weird Science (1985)
Weird Science
6.6
  • Sound Department
  • 1985

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Director

  • Between the Pipes
    • Pre-production
  • Alicia Witt and Colin Ferguson in Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane (2018)
    Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane
  • Téa Leoni in Madam Secretary (2014)
    Madam Secretary
  • Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere in Nashville (2012)
    Nashville
  • Lorraine Toussaint, Don Henderson Baker, Margo Martindale, Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Mickey Dodge, Karen Wheeling Reynolds, and Meredith Jackson in Sophie and the Rising Sun (2016)
    Sophie and the Rising Sun
  • The Last Keepers (2013)
    The Last Keepers
  • Catherine Bell, Titus Welliver, and James Jordan in Good Morning, Killer (2011)
    Good Morning, Killer
  • Wildfire (2005)
    Wildfire
  • The Backyardigans (2004)
    The Backyardigans
  • Comfort and Joy (2003)
    Comfort and Joy
  • Jason Momoa in Tempted (2003)
    Tempted
    • (directed by)
  • Get a Clue (2002)
    Get a Clue
    • (directed by)
  • Brooke Shields in What Makes a Family (2001)
    What Makes a Family
  • Songcatcher (2000)
    Songcatcher
  • The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (1996)
    The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo
  • Michael C. Maronna and Danny Tamberelli in The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1992)
    The Adventures of Pete & Pete

Writer

  • Lorraine Toussaint, Don Henderson Baker, Margo Martindale, Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Mickey Dodge, Karen Wheeling Reynolds, and Meredith Jackson in Sophie and the Rising Sun (2016)
    Sophie and the Rising Sun
  • Songcatcher (2000)
    Songcatcher
  • The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
    The Ballad of Little Jo
  • The Kill-Off (1989)
    The Kill-Off
  • Home Remedy (1987)
    Home Remedy

Sound Department

  • Vincent D'Onofrio and Mathilda May in Naked Tango (1990)
    Naked Tango
  • Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, and Ilan Mitchell-Smith in Weird Science (1985)
    Weird Science
  • Runaway (1984)
    Runaway
  • Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy in Trading Places (1983)
    Trading Places

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    • June 23, 1955
    • New York City, New York, USA
    • David Mansfield1993 - present (2 children)
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    Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994.

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