Sebastián Gutiérrez (born September 10, 1974) is a Venezuelan film director , screenwriter and film producer . He wrote the screenplays to the films Gothika , Snakes on a Plane , The Eye and The Big Bounce , and wrote and directed two independent ensemble comedies, Women in Trouble and Elektra Luxx .
7-584: Gutiérrez has also won the Critics' Award at the Festival du Film Policier de Cognac for his directorial debut Judas Kiss . In 2019, the Cinemax series Jett he created premiered, and he also wrote, directed as well as executive produced all of its episodes. Gutiérrez wrote and directed one of the first motion pictures made expressly for internet distribution, the ensemble crime comedy Girl Walks into
14-552: A Bar , starring Carla Gugino , Rosario Dawson , Robert Forster , Danny DeVito , Josh Hartnett and Alexis Bledel , among others. Gutiérrez cowrote a song for the film, "Only Bad Can Come", with composer Grant Lee Phillips . As a screenwriter, he has written Gothika , Snakes on a Plane , The Eye , The Big Bounce and Hotel Noir . He has written and directed two independent female-driven ensemble comedies, Women in Trouble and Elektra Luxx , revolving around
21-527: A film competition, albeit on a much smaller scale, to compensate for the loss of the original film festival to Beaune . In 1996, capitalising on the popularity of the film festival, an unrelated festival, the Festival Polar de Cognac , was established by Bernard Bec in 1996. This festival, which now covers crime and thriller fiction in novels, comics, film, television and theatre, has continued until today (as of 2024 ). This article about
28-416: A group of Los Angeles women. The two movies are part of a trilogy with the third movie already announced, Women In Ecstasy . Carla Gugino stars as the namesake character Elektra Luxx, a recently retired porn star trying to figure out how to lead a "normal" life, along with Connie Britton , Julianne Moore , Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Josh Brolin , Simon Baker , Emmanuelle Chriqui and Adrianne Palicki . He
35-994: Is also the creator of the Cinemax crime drama TV series Jett , as well as the writer, director and executive producer of all of its episodes, which debuted in 2019 and stars Carla Gugino as the title character, a skilled ex-professional thief named Daisy "Jett" Kowalski. Gutiérrez usually works with a revolving company of actors which include: In 1996, Gutiérrez began a relationship with his collaborator, actress Carla Gugino . Gugino stated in 2009 that they had no plans to marry: " Marriage isn't important for us. We like being boyfriend and girlfriend; there's something sexy and fun about that. We're very much about, 'There's nothing holding us here other than our desire to be together.'" Executive producer Acting roles Festival du Film Policier de Cognac The Festival du Film policier de Cognac (English: Cognac Crime Film Festival ), also known as Cognac Festival du Film Policier ,
42-492: Was an annual film festival that took place in Cognac, France from 1982 to 2007. The inaugural Festival du Film policier de Cognac was held in 1982, and it was held each year after than apart from 1991, until 2007. The festival focused on the police/crime genre and, after 1993, featured a short film and a television film competition. In 2007, the wine syndicate Bureau National Interprofessionel du Cognac announced that it
49-545: Was withdrawing its support of the 25-year-old film event. Without its main backer, the festival ended. However, another famed wine city, Beaune, Côte d'Or , saw value in the format and two years later launched a successor: the Festival international du Film policier de Beaune. Since 2010, the Cognac-based Polar: Le Festival – originally a strictly literary event – has incorporated
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