Hilary Brougher is a screenwriter and director living and working in
N.Y.C. She says that the reason she is inspired to make films is that
" [she] was interested in the connection that happens among audience
members via a shared screen, and the collaboration that happens in
making films. That was three decades ago. [She] is still interested."
She wrote and directed her first feature, The Sticky Fingers of Time
in 1996. She wrote and directed her second feature, Stephanie Daley in
2006. The film starred Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Melissa Leo, Tim
Hutton and Denis O’Hare. In 2006, the film won the Waldo Salt
Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival and Brougher won
Best Director at the Milan International Film Festival, while actress
Amber Tamblyn won Best Actress from The Locarno International Film
Festival in 2006. The film was bought by Lifetime Television and the
title changed to What She Knew. In 2014 Brougher was credited as
co-writer with Tristine Skyler and director of an adaptation of Jane
Mendelsohn’s novel, Innocence. In 2017, Brougher wrote and directed
an original film, South Mountain which premiered at SXSW 2019 in the
Narrative Features Competition. The film was highly regarded by
critics including The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Indiewire. In an
interview with Filmmaker Magazine, Brougher discussed her micro-budget
experience, "This was the smallest budget I've worked with and yet it
felt the most ample."Brougher also is a full time member of Faculty in
the MFA Film Program, at Columbia University School of the Arts. She
has also just accepted the position of Film Division Chair at Columbia
University as well as being a professor. Brougher describes herself as
an introvert making it hard making it hard to start conversations with
students, but uses her work experience to relate and teach new
filmmakers and students in her classes saying that it feels like she
is “directing â€" when [she] is doing it right.†She says her job
at the university “has been interesting†and is very happy to be
able “to see the journey of our alum filmmakers more
holistically.She is currently working on a new documentary
“STRIPPER†which will be co-directed by Maria Rosenblum, who is an
award winning film director, screenwriter, editor and producer, as
well as being the daughter of the subject of the film. This new
documentary “examines the art and life of Jay Rosenblum, an artist
killed in a cycling accident with a city bus in 1989. The film follows
Jay’s surviving family and friends as they confront the sudden
gentrification of their East Village neighborhood and the future of
the paintings that fill the attic studio of the building they bought
in 1971. It explores the dissonance between art making as a personal
experience within a family and as a commercialized product. At the
core of the story is a family struggling to care for each other â€"
years after a profound loss.â€
N.Y.C. She says that the reason she is inspired to make films is that
" [she] was interested in the connection that happens among audience
members via a shared screen, and the collaboration that happens in
making films. That was three decades ago. [She] is still interested."
She wrote and directed her first feature, The Sticky Fingers of Time
in 1996. She wrote and directed her second feature, Stephanie Daley in
2006. The film starred Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Melissa Leo, Tim
Hutton and Denis O’Hare. In 2006, the film won the Waldo Salt
Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival and Brougher won
Best Director at the Milan International Film Festival, while actress
Amber Tamblyn won Best Actress from The Locarno International Film
Festival in 2006. The film was bought by Lifetime Television and the
title changed to What She Knew. In 2014 Brougher was credited as
co-writer with Tristine Skyler and director of an adaptation of Jane
Mendelsohn’s novel, Innocence. In 2017, Brougher wrote and directed
an original film, South Mountain which premiered at SXSW 2019 in the
Narrative Features Competition. The film was highly regarded by
critics including The Hollywood Reporter, Variety and Indiewire. In an
interview with Filmmaker Magazine, Brougher discussed her micro-budget
experience, "This was the smallest budget I've worked with and yet it
felt the most ample."Brougher also is a full time member of Faculty in
the MFA Film Program, at Columbia University School of the Arts. She
has also just accepted the position of Film Division Chair at Columbia
University as well as being a professor. Brougher describes herself as
an introvert making it hard making it hard to start conversations with
students, but uses her work experience to relate and teach new
filmmakers and students in her classes saying that it feels like she
is “directing â€" when [she] is doing it right.†She says her job
at the university “has been interesting†and is very happy to be
able “to see the journey of our alum filmmakers more
holistically.She is currently working on a new documentary
“STRIPPER†which will be co-directed by Maria Rosenblum, who is an
award winning film director, screenwriter, editor and producer, as
well as being the daughter of the subject of the film. This new
documentary “examines the art and life of Jay Rosenblum, an artist
killed in a cycling accident with a city bus in 1989. The film follows
Jay’s surviving family and friends as they confront the sudden
gentrification of their East Village neighborhood and the future of
the paintings that fill the attic studio of the building they bought
in 1971. It explores the dissonance between art making as a personal
experience within a family and as a commercialized product. At the
core of the story is a family struggling to care for each other â€"
years after a profound loss.â€
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