Master Class in Filmmaking: Kajillionaire—Miranda July in Conversation with Yorgos Lanthimos - 92Y, New York
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Master Class in Filmmaking: Kajillionaire—Miranda July in Conversation with Yorgos Lanthimos

Miranda July and Yorgos Lanthimos
Miranda July Photo Credit: Giovanni Di Stefano

Join award-winning director, actor, writer and performance artist Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know) in conversation with four-time Academy Award® nominated filmmaker/director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) for a Great Thinkers master class in independent filmmaking from two of the most forward-thinking practitioners of their generation.

July’s new film Kajillionaire—a hilariously heartbreaking heist tale that only she could have made—is already getting buzz as the most affecting work of her career. Don’t miss the chance to hear this candid conversation about seeing a creative vision through to fruition, the challenges of making Miranda’s acclaimed films, and the stories behind their uncompromising, multifaceted careers. Kajillionaire is available in theaters on September 25.

Miranda July’s Kajillionaire will be available in the home as a Premium Video-on-Demand offering beginning Friday, October 16 for a 48-hour rental period.

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Miranda July

Miranda July (Writer/Director) is one of the most impressive cross-disciplinary artists of her generation …

Miranda July

Miranda July (Writer/Director) is one of the most impressive cross-disciplinary artists of her generation. A filmmaker, artist, and writer, her daring, urgent, and inimitable voice persists in reflecting the poignancy and strangeness of the human plight. She wrote, directed and starred in The Future and Me and You and Everyone We Know—winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and recently added to the Criterion Collection. July is an award-winning author. Her most recent book published by Prestel April 2020, Miranda July, has re-imagined the art monograph as an oral history on her career to date. July’s collection of stories, No One Here More Than You, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published in twenty-three countries. It Chooses You was her first book of non-fiction, which was followed by her debut novel, The First Bad Man. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s and The New Yorker. July’s participatory art works include “Eleven Heavy Things” (a sculpture garden created for the 2009 Venice Biennale); “New Society” (a performance); “Somebody” (a messaging app created with Miu Miu), and an interfaith charity shop in Selfridges department store in London, presented by Artangel. Raised in Berkeley, California, July lives in Los Angeles.

Yorgos Lanthimos

Yorgos Lanthimos is a Four-time Academy Award® nominated filmmaker. He launched to international attention in 2009 …

Yorgos Lanthimos

Yorgos Lanthimos is a Four-time Academy Award® nominated filmmaker. He launched to international attention in 2009 with his second feature film, Dogtooth, winner of the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival and nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language film.

His most recent film, The Favourite, with Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, premiered in 2018 at the 75th Venice Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize – Silver Lion and Olivia Colman won the Copa Volpi – Best Actress award. The film went on to receive five Golden Globe® nominations, winning the Golden Globe® award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for Olivia Colman. The film received a record of ten BIFA awards and was nominated for twelve BAFTAs, winning seven of them. It also received a leading ten Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, two nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress, which Olivia Colman won. At the worldwide box office, The Favourite grossed nearly $100 million.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer, which Lanthimos directed, produced and co-wrote, stars Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman. The film, his fifth feature, premiered in competition at the 70th Cannes Film Festival and won the Best Screenplay prize. It was nominated for Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Colin Farrell in the European Film Academy Awards.

His first English language feature film, The Lobster, was presented in competition at the 68th Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. It also won Best Screenplay and Best Costume Design at the 2015 European Film Awards. In 2016 it was nominated for a BAFTA for Best British Film and in 2017 Lanthimos received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Colin Farrell was nominated for a Golden Globe and a European Film Academy Award for his performance in the film.

Born in Athens, Greece, Lanthimos began his career directing several dance videos in collaborations with Greek choreographers, in addition to TV commercials, music videos, short films, and theater plays. His first feature film, Kinetta, premiered at the 2005 Toronto and Berlin Film Festivals to critical acclaim; and ALPS, won the Best Screenplay prize at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, and Best Film at the Sydney Film Festival in 2012.

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