Garth Twa

Director, Writer

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What I do: filmmaker, screenwriter, author
Company: First Dog In Space
Website: www.Garthtwa.com
Where I work: I am just me
Technical Skills: I am partial to guerrilla
Resources / Expertise: Written for television, written for films, wrote a book, directed, lit a shot a number of films, edited on a Moviola, shooting my next film on Super 8, won Best Comedy Short at Fargo Film Festival. And other things, too.
Availability: Paid Work or Collaboration

Films I wish I had made: Magnolia, Nashville, Starfish Lane, O Lucky Man!
I cried watching: It's a Wonderful Life--every year, damn it! And, Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, but only on the inside.
I left the cinema during: Never! That'd be like touching oneself in church.
Directors I love: David Lynch, John Waters, the Maysles brothers, PT Anderson, Robert Altman, Werner Herzog, F. Fellini, E. Kusturica, Oliver Assayas, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman.
Actors I admire: Bill Nighy, Amanda Plummer, Joan Cusack, Mink Stole, John Fleck, Ingrid Thulin.
Writers I respect: George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, William Kotzwinkle, Richard Brautigan, Donald Barthleme, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel.
My desert island discs: Cupacabra by Imani Copola; Hunky Dory by David Bowie; Blue Skies by Casandra Wilson, Magnolia soundtrack by Aimee Mann, Cast of Thousands by Elbow, Mutations by Beck, Rain Dogs and Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits, Pictures from Life's Otherside by Johnny Dowd
Books I have given my friends: Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Gormenghast, Unleashed (a book of poems by writers' dogs).
My death row meal: Rice cakes and cornichons.
The best thing I own: Humility. And books.