Trent Harris (born 1952) is an independent filmmaker based in Salt
Lake City, Utah. He wrote and directed the offbeat 1991 comedy Rubin
and Ed, in which Crispin Glover and Howard Hesseman wander the desert
looking for a suitable place to bury a frozen cat. In 2001 he released
The Beaver Trilogy, a compilation film that documents his obsession
with a man called Groovin' Gary (Richard Griffiths). The Beaver
Trilogy features Sean Penn and Crispin Glover as Groovin' Gary in part
two and part three, respectively. He also wrote and directed Plan 10
from Outer Space,Delightful Water Universe, and Welcome to the Rubber
Room.Harris has taught film and screenwriting classes at the
University of Utah and has worked as a documentarian and television
journalist. He has written and directed six feature films, many
experimental movies, and more than one hundred documentaries for PBS,
National Geographic, NBC and others.In 2001 The Los Angeles Critics
Association awarded Harris, Best Independent Experimental Film, for
his feature,The Beaver Trilogy. This film was also listed by the
London Guardian as one of †Fifty Lost Masterpieces†and hit the
"Top Ten" list of Art Forum Magazine.At AFI, Harris twice filmed
fictionalized versions of Groovin’ Gary's story, renaming his
protagonist Larry Huff. The first starred a virtually-unknown Sean
Penn, commuting from the set of Fast Times at Ridgemont High in his
Spicoli duds; the next starred Crispin Glover, not yet George McFly of
Back to the Future.
Lake City, Utah. He wrote and directed the offbeat 1991 comedy Rubin
and Ed, in which Crispin Glover and Howard Hesseman wander the desert
looking for a suitable place to bury a frozen cat. In 2001 he released
The Beaver Trilogy, a compilation film that documents his obsession
with a man called Groovin' Gary (Richard Griffiths). The Beaver
Trilogy features Sean Penn and Crispin Glover as Groovin' Gary in part
two and part three, respectively. He also wrote and directed Plan 10
from Outer Space,Delightful Water Universe, and Welcome to the Rubber
Room.Harris has taught film and screenwriting classes at the
University of Utah and has worked as a documentarian and television
journalist. He has written and directed six feature films, many
experimental movies, and more than one hundred documentaries for PBS,
National Geographic, NBC and others.In 2001 The Los Angeles Critics
Association awarded Harris, Best Independent Experimental Film, for
his feature,The Beaver Trilogy. This film was also listed by the
London Guardian as one of †Fifty Lost Masterpieces†and hit the
"Top Ten" list of Art Forum Magazine.At AFI, Harris twice filmed
fictionalized versions of Groovin’ Gary's story, renaming his
protagonist Larry Huff. The first starred a virtually-unknown Sean
Penn, commuting from the set of Fast Times at Ridgemont High in his
Spicoli duds; the next starred Crispin Glover, not yet George McFly of
Back to the Future.
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