Years active 1998–present Children Isabella Gutierrez | Name Sebastian Gutierrez | |
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Movies Elektra Luxx, Women in Trouble, Rise: Blood Hunter, Girl Walks into a Bar, Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: Sh Similar People Nationality Venezuelan | ||
Director sebastian gutierrez at women in trouble special screening laliff 2009
Sebastian Gutierrez (born September 10, 1974) is a Venezuelan film director, screenwriter and film producer. known for writing the screenplays to the films Gothika, Snakes on a Plane, The Eye and The Big Bounce, and writing and directing two independent female-driven ensemble comedies, Women in Trouble and Elektra Luxx.
Contents
- Director sebastian gutierrez at women in trouble special screening laliff 2009
- R2HT Lost Sebastian Gutierrez Interview
- Career
- Recurring actors
- Personal life
- As a director
- As a screenwriter
- As a producer
- As an actor
- Awards and nominations
- References
He won the Critics' Award at the Festival du Film Policier de Cognac for his directorial debut Judas Kiss.
R2HT: "Lost" Sebastian Gutierrez Interview
Career
Gutiérrez wrote and directed one of the first motion pictures made expressly for internet distribution, the ensemble crime comedy Girl Walks into a Bar, starring Carla Gugino, Rosario Dawson, Robert Forster, Danny DeVito, Josh Hartnett and Alexis Bledel, among others. Gutiérrez cowrote a song for the film, "Only Bad Can Come", with composer Grant Lee Phillips.
As a screenwriter, he has written Gothika, Snakes on a Plane, The Eye, The Big Bounce and Hotel Noir.
He has written and directed two independent female-driven ensemble comedies, Women in Trouble and Elektra Luxx, revolving around a group of Los Angeles women. The two movies are part of a trilogy with the third movie already announced, Women In Ecstasy. Carla Gugino stars as the namesake character Elektra Luxx, a recently retired porn star trying to figure out how to lead a "normal" life, along with Connie Britton, Julianne Moore, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Brolin, Simon Baker, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Adrianne Palicki.
Recurring actors
Gutierrez usually works with a revolving company of actors which include:
Personal life
As of 2005, Gutierrez was dating his collaborator, actress Carla Gugino. Gugino stated in 2009 that they had no plans to marry, commenting, "Marriage isn't important for us. We like being boyfriend and girlfriend; there's something sexy and fun about that. We're very much about, 'There’s nothing holding us here other than our desire to be together.'"