SYNOPSIS
The film tracks 6 year-old Mason over life’s most radically fluctuating decade, through a familiar whirl of family moves, family controversies, faltering marriages, re-marriages, new schools, first loves, lost loves, good times, scary times and a constantly unfolding mix of heartbreak and wonder. But the results are unpredictable, as one moment braids into the next, entwining into a deeply personal experience of the incidents that shape us as we grow up and the ever-changing nature of our lives.
Awards
Silver Berlin Bear, Best Director,Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas, Reader Jury of the Berliner Morgenpost | Berlinale, , 2014
Louis Black/Lone Star Award, | SZSW FF, USA, 2014
CAST & CREW
Richard Linklater
Director
Producer(s)
Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss
Script
Richard Linklater
Director of Photography
Lee Daniel, Shane Kelly
Production designer
Rodney Becker
Sound
Randall Poster
Edit
Sandra Adair
Cast
Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Elijah Smith, Lorelei Linklater, Steven Prince
Production company(ies)
IFC Productions
Richard Linklater
Linklater suspended his educational career at Sam Houston State University in 1982, to work on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He subsequently relocated to the state's capital of Austin, where he founded a film society and began work on his debut film, It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988). Three years later he released the Slacker, an insightful, virtually plotless look at 1990s youth culture that became a favorite on the festival circuit prior to earning vast acclaim at Sundance in 1991. Linklater's additional credits include the 70's cult hit Dazed and Confused; Before Sunrise, for which Linklater won the Berlin IFF Silver Bear Award for Best Director, in 1995. Linklater also serves as the Artistic Director for the Austin Film Society, which he founded in 1985 to showcase films from around the world that were not typically shown in Austin. Now one of the nation’s top film organizations, the Austin Film Society shows over 200 films a year, has educational programs, and has given out over $1,500,000 in grants to Texas filmmakers, since 1996.
Filmography
Woodshock (1985, short), It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988), Slacker (1991), Dazed and Confused (1993), Before Sunrise (1995), subUrbia (1996), The Newton Boys (1998), Waking Life (2001), Tape (2001), Live from Shiva's Dance Floor (2003, short), School of Rock (2003), Before Sunset (2004), Bad News Bears (2005), Fast Food Nation (2006), A Scanner Darkly (2006), Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (2008, doc.), Me and Orson Welles (2008), Bernie (2011), Before Midnight (2013), Boyhood (2014).
