Writer/Director RICHARD LINKLATER is known for his independent-spirited filmmaking and for discovering some of today's most talented actors.
Before SLACKER, an experimental narrative revolving around 24 hours in the lives of 100 characters, garnered acclaim in 1991, Linklater had made many shorts and completed a Super 8 feature, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO LEARN TO PLOW BY READING BOOKS (1988). All of his films have been produced under the banner of his company, Detour Filmproduction.
Linklater's additional credits include the 1970s cult hit DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993), BEFORE SUNRISE (1995), for which Linklater won the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award for Best Director; SUBURBIA (1997); and most recently, THE NEWTON BOYS (1998), a western/gangster film set in the 1920s. In addition to WAKING LIFE, the fall of 2001 will see the release of his "low-budget, real time" movie TAPE.
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. The Film Society shows more than 100 films a year and, in the last five years, has given out $230,000 in grants to Texas filmmakers. In 1999, the Austin Film Society received the first National Honoree Award from the Directors Guild of America in recognition of its support of the arts.
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