Gabriel Range
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Gabriel Range | |
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Born | Gabriel Edmund Range United Kingdom |
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 2002–present |
Gabriel Range is a British filmmaker, who is probably best known for his fictional political-documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush in Death of a President.[1]
Range worked in journalism before moving into documentaries and docudrama. In 2003, he wrote and directed
In 2005, Range wrote and directed
Death of a President was distributed by Newmarket Films in the US. Rex Reed of The New York Observer identified the film as "Clever, thoughtful, and totally believable. This is a film without a political agenda that everyone should see."[18] In the Toronto Star, Peter Howell said: "The film's deeper intentions ... elevate it into the company of such landmark works of historical argument as Peter Watkins's The War Game, Costa-Gavras's Z and, closer to home, Michel Brault's Orders (Les Ordres). Every thinking person should see Death of a President." The film has been shown theatrically in more than 40 countries.
Range was identified in Screen International's 2006 "Stars of Tomorrow" which labelled him a 'creator of innovative and convincing drama documentaries...acclaimed for their plausibility, naturalism and integrity.'
In 2009, Range began production on
Filmography
Film
- The Great Dome Robbery (2002)
- Death of a President (2006)
- I Am Slave (2010)
- Stardust (2020)
TV movie
- The Day Britain Stopped (2003)
- Supersleuths: The Menendez Murders (2003)
- The Man Who Broke Britain (2004)
References
- ^ "The Village Voice". Archived from the original on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.