Seth
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Role:
FilmmakerRoles(_FilmMakerRoleID = 1, _FilmMakerRole = Director) / FilmmakerRoles(_FilmMakerRoleID = 4, _FilmMakerRole = Screenwriter)Website
theelephantking.comInfluences
David Lynch, Charlie Kaufman, Wong-Kar Wai, Federico Fellini, Woody Allen, Coen Brothers, Lynne Ramsay, Alfonso Cuaron, Polanski, Wajda, Tarkovsky, Godard, Truffaut, Bresson, Kurosawa, Takeshii Miike, Luis Buñuel, Mike Leigh, Darren Aronofsky, Scorcese, Coppola, Chan-Wook Park, Joon-Ho Bong, Kimberly Peirce, Wes Anderson, PT Anderson, and the guy who directed Kindergarten Cop.Awards
The Elephant King -- Best Narrative Feature, Lonestar Film Festival, Sacramento Film Festival, SoCal Independent Film Festival -- Gold Medal for Music, Park City Music in Film Festival -- Best Actor, Tate Ellington, Brooklyn International Film Festival -- Audience Award, Oxford Film Festival .......................... Shock Act (short film): -- Best Narrative Short, Tribeca Film Festival 2004. -- Gold Hugo Award (best student film), Chicago International Film Festival 2004 -- Microsoft Filmmaker Award, First Run Film Festival 2004Festivals
Tribeca Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Moscow Film Institute (VGIK) Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival, Oxford Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, Los Angeles IFP Film Festival, Park City Music in Film Festival, Jackson Hole Film Festival, Lonestar Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Methodfest, Atlanta Film Festival, Cambridge Film Festival, Jerusalem International Film Festival, Cairo International Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival, Cinematexas, North Carolina Film Festival, Cucalorus Film Festival
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About me:
Writer, director, and occasionally producer of films, television shows and the odd Webisode. I split my time between New York and LA. For more info about me and all my glory, click here. Synopsis of my latest film, The Elephant King: From the producers of the Sundance sensation, Eagle vs. Shark, and in the compelling vision of award-winning filmmaker Seth Grossman comes a timely story of lust, love, jealousy, and finding one's place in the world. THE ELEPHANT KING is a provocative and stirring story of two American brothers, Oliver and Jake Hunt, adrift in an exotic world they don't fully understand. The film stars Academy Award® Winner Ellen Burstyn as a domineering mother who dispatches her young, introverted son Oliver (Tate Ellington) off to Thailand to do everything he can to lure his reckless, older brother (Jonno Roberts) back home to the US to face pending fraud charges. Oliver finds the intoxication of Thailand hard to resist, especially when it has a face as alluring as Lek’s (Florence Faivre). As Oliver falls deeply in love for the first time, Jake slips deeper into despair, and the seams of their relationship begin to come undone. When the true extent of Jake's decadence and self-destruction is revealed to Oliver, he is forced to decide whether he will save his brother's life or his own. ..Who I'd like to meet:
People of uncommon patience, generosity and intelligence, who can teach me useful phrases in foreign languages.Details
- Status: Single
- Here for: Networking, Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends
- Hometown: Durham, NC
- Orientation: Straight
- Body type: 6' 0" / Athletic
- Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
- Religion: Other
- Zodiac Sign: Virgo
- Children: Someday
- Smoke / Drink: No / Yes
- Education: Grad / professional school
- Occupation: Writer-Director
Interests
General
Making movies, writing stories, drinking good tequila, vodka and occasionally this delicious Guatemalan rum called Ron Zapaca Centennario -- if you can find it, buy it. It's a dark rum that comes in a straw-covered bottle. I bought tons of it at the duty-free in Guat City a few years ago but it's long gone. Man, that was some good rum. You could drink it straight or on the rocks, would be a shame to mix it with Coke. Where was I? Swimming, sure that's an interest. Good books. Good films. Spicy food. Traveling through the 3rd world. The occasional wild night out where you watch the sunrise and wonder if you'll ever sleep.Music
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Books
Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytic Meaning of History, by Norman O. Brown; The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Shulz; anything by the great Russian authors (Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Chekhov.) Almost everything by Ian McEwan, but especially Atonement and Saturday.Heroes
Ellen Burstyn, Joe Cummings (Lonely Planet writer and Thailand guru), Dostoevsky, Bruno Shulz, Bill Clinton (I met him once at the White House, shook his hand, gave him head, etc.)
Schools
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New York University
- New York,New York
- Graduated: 2004
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Master's Degree
- Major: Film Production
2000 to 2004 -
Princeton University
- Princeton,New Jersey
- Graduated: 1997
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: English Literature
- Minor: Creative Writing
- Clubs: Nassau Weekly
1993 to 1997

