Alex Holdridge is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor American born on 1975 at Austin (USA)
Alex Holdridge
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Nationality USABirth 1975 (50 years) at Austin (
USA)
Alex Holdridge is an American writer/director currently based in Berlin, Germany.
CURRENT PRODUCTIONS (2014)
Holdridge has been filming his new movie, Meet Me in Montenegro, in several countries (U.S., Germany, Montenegro, London) in stages between Oct. 2011 and Oct. 2013. He co-wrote the film with Linnea Saasen. It is currently in post-production and will premiere in 2014. The film stars Rupert Friend, Jennifer Ulrich, Linnea Saasen, Alex Holdridge, with Deborah Ann Woll, Stuart Manashil, Ben Braun, Mia Jacobs, Lehna Elhers, et al.
Frank and Cindy is a screenplay he co-wrote with GJ Echternkamp that is also in post-production and will premiere in 2014. It was directed by Echternkamp and stars Rene Russo, Oliver Platt, Johnny Simmons, Jane Levy and Marc Maron. It is a fictional adaptation of the documentary Frank and Cindy.
HISTORY
Late 90's Austin
Holdridge began making movies in the late nineties in Austin, Texas. The film culture and life in Austin shaped his moviemaking. It's the city where he resided longer than any other. He moved to Los Angeles where he wrote/directed in Search of a Midnight Kiss. He then wrote screenplays for the studios and independent producers until he moved to Berlin, Germany in 2011 where he currently resides and is making and writing films.
2001
His first film, Wrong Numbers, was a low-budget comedy about two 18-year-old guys who set out to forget their girlfriend troubles and buy a six pack on the last night of school. It's a comedy of misadventures about these two best friends on a night from hell as they are stuck roaming Austin Texas with a car full of people they don't want to be with. The movie won the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival in 2001 and brought studio attention for a big-budget remake. Red Wagon was attached to oversee the remake before it was paused while Holdridge made another film. This remake never resurfaced.
2003
He fiinshed writing and directing Sexless. It won both the jury and audience awards at the 2003 South by Southwest Film Festival. It is a sex comedy about twenty-something couples' last month in Austin, Texas.
2008
Holdridge wrote and directed the 2008 film In Search of a Midnight Kiss, a romantic comedy which was listed by the National Board of Review as one of the Top 10 Independent Films of 2008. Holdridge won the 2008 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for work on the film.
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