29-year-old working and studying at UNC-Chapel Hill. Not much of an academic background in film so far (have taken only two classes in it at UNC), but a longtime film fan, an employee of Chapel Hill’s Chelsea Theater, and an ex-employee of its Varsity Theatre.

I also like but haven’t yet seen much of: Robert Altman, Roberto Rossellini, Charlie Chaplin, Georges Melies, Douglas Sirk, Preston Sturges, Stanley Donen, Frank Capra, Wong Kar-wai, Sidney Lumet, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Stephen Frears, James Ivory, Tim Burton, Jiri Menzel, Jim Jarmusch, Michael Curtiz, Oliver Stone, Hiyao Miyazaki, Sergio Leone, John Sayles, Terry Zwigoff, Cristian Mungiu, James L. Brooks, Kelly Reichardt, Julio Medem, Tony Gilroy, Michael Mann, Thomas McCarthy, Isabel Coixet, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, James Gray, Mira Nair, Jane Campion, and Kathryn Bigelow.