Michael Almereyda

Michael Almereyda is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He studied art history at Harvard University but dropped out after three years to pursue filmmaking. He acquired a Hollywood agent on the strength of a spec script about Nikola Tesla. His films include Hamlet (2000) and Experimenter (2015). His film William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary from the Independent Filmmaker Project. In 2015 Almereyda received the Moving Image Creative Capital Award. His film Marjorie Prime (2017), a philosophical science-fiction film based on Jordan Harrison's play of the same name, was screened at Sundance Film Festival and won the Sloan Feature Film Prize.

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