Amy Grappell’s documentary QUADRANGLE, about her experience growing up in a group marriage, premiered at Sundance, where it won a Jury Prize. It went on to win Best Short Film at SXSW, AFI, and Dallas International Film Festival, and had its New York premiere at New Directors / New Films before being broadcast on HBO. She was one of the select writer/directors of Richard Linklater’s SLACKER remake. Her documentary LIGHT FROM THE EAST, shot in Ukraine during the fall of Communism, premiered at SXSW, aired on PBS and is part of the collection at the Library of Congress. Grappell is currently adapting the QUADRANGLE story to a feature length screenplay. She holds a BA in film and literature from New York University, is a graduate of the MFA acting program at The North Carolina School of the Arts, and is the recipient of grants from Austin Film Society, National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Council for the Humanities, the Trull Foundation. She is a native New Yorker living in Austin, where she is an active member if the independent film community.
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