Discipline: Film/Video – screenplay

Josh Zeman

Discipline: Film/Video – screenplay
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002, 2012

Joshua Zeman (writer/director/producer) has been creating independent films for more than years. Some of Zeman’s past coproducer/producer credits include: The Station Agent, Mysterious Skin, The Hawk is Dying, Choking Man, and Against The Current. He executive produced Ceremony, starring Uma Thurman and directed by Max Winkler. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures. Cropsey, Zeman’s critically acclaimed horror documentary, was released in 2010.

At MacDowell, Zeman worked on his first narrative feature film, Whippoorwill, which focused on a well-respected journalist who agrees to interview a family of right-wing extremists in a standoff with the FBI, only to discover that for the first time in his career he isn't just reporting on the story, he is the story.

Studios

Barnard

Josh Zeman worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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