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Andrew Serban

Director
Writer.
United States

About Me:

Website: andrewserban.com
Where I work: justme
Technical Skills: writer, director, editor (Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, After Effects), camera operator (Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K), photographer, sound mixer, boom operator

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My Work and Credits:

WELCOME TO PARADISE (trailer) (2006)

About: An ingenue actress gets more than she bargained for after she falls for a Hollywood starlet who leads a double life. A trailer for my third student film.

Fun stuff:

Films I wish I had made:

There Will Be Blood, Taxi Driver, A Bronx Tale, Thelma and Louise, Twentynine Palms, Memento, Jacob's Ladder, Mulholland Dr., Sophie's Choice, Ironweed, Days of Heaven, Heat, Monster, The Limey, Rebel Without a Cause, The Wrong Man, 21 Grams, Mystic River, Bad Lieutenant, Gangs of New York, Mean Streets, Boys Don't Cry, Midnight Cowboy, Straight Time, Marathon Man, The Panic in Needle Park, Girl Interrupted, In a Lonely Place, Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent), Memphis Belle, Dark City, Chungking Express, In the Cut, Frances, Badlands, Wetherby, Lost Highway, Scorpio Rising, Raging Bull, Inland Empire, Bound, Side Street, The Hurt Locker, To Live and Die in L.A., Persona, Carnival of Souls, Altered States, Moonlight, Killer of Sheep, Shame (Ingmar Bergman), 12 Years a Slave, Aferim!. The Lost City of Z, Blue Velvet, Out of the Furnace, The Shop on Main Street, Incendies, Enemy, Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies, Black Swan, Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Au Revoir les Enfants, Black Moon, Vagabond, Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper), Antichrist, Melancholia, Joker, Don't Look Now, eXistenZ, Stroszek, Come and See, Diamonds of the Night, The Tenant (Roman Polanski), The Pianist, Knife in the Water, Lost River, How I Live Now, Threads, Donnie Darko, Unforgiven, Secuestro Express, Little Fugitive, On the Waterfront, Serpico, The White Ribbon, The Piano Teacher, American Buffalo, Lady Blue Shanghai (David Lynch), Dead Zone

I cried watching:

Paris, Texas; The Shawshank Redemption

I left the cinema during:

a Russ Meyer film

Directors I love:

Terrence Malick, David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Ingmar Bergman, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-wai, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Abel Ferrara, Jane Campion, Kenneth Anger, Christopher Nolan, Scott Cooper, Mark Pellington, Bruno Dumont, Werner Herzog, Agnes Varda, Lars Von Trier

Actors I admire:

Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ralph Fiennes, Sean Penn, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Marlon Brando, Harvey Keitel, Benicio del Toro, Michael Shannon, Casey Affleck, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Naomi Watts, Gene Hackman, Elisabeth Moss, Natalie Portman, Joaquin Phoenix

Writers I Respect:

Hubert Selby Jr., Paul Bowles, Patricia Highsmith, Daphne du Maurier, Richard Wright, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, Henry Roth, Bernard Malamud, Don Carpenter, Leonard Gardner, Richard Price, Primo Levi, Herman Hesse, Stefan Zweig, Ray Bradbury, David Wojnarowicz, Alan Kaufman, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My desert island discs:

"Way to Katmandu" by Karma Moffett, "Journey In Satchidananda" by Alice Coltrane, "Psyence Fiction" by UNKLE, "Jar of Flies" by Alice in Chains, "Come Clean" by Puddle of Mudd, "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane, "Come to Where I'm From" by Joseph Arthur, "AnotherLateNight" by fila brazilia, "Pygmalion" by Slowdive, "You and Me" by Open Hand, "Fever In Fever Out" by Luscious Jackson, "Days Gone By" by Bob Moses, "Solace" by Rufus du Sol, "Zenyatta Mondatta" by the Police, "So far...the best of Sinead O'Connor," "Imago" by Lorenza Ponce, "Illuminations" by Alice Coltrane & Carlos Santana

Books I have given my friends:

"Collected Stories" by Paul Bowles, "Nothing that Meets the Eye" by Patricia Highsmith, "The Cry of the Owl" by Patricia Highsmith, "Two Strange Tales" by Mircea Eliade, "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton, "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys, "The Outlaw Bible of American Literature" edited by Alan Kaufman, "The Basketball Diaries" by Jim Carroll, "Empire of Illusion:The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" by Chris Hedges, "Hidden Latitudes" by Alison Anderson, "Last Exit to Brooklyn" by Hubert Selby Jr., "Hard Rain Falling" by Don Carpenter, "Fat City" by Leonard Gardner, "The Wanderers" by Richard Price, "Jew Boy" by Alan Kaufman, "Black Boy" by Richard Wright, "The Waterfront Journals" by David Wojnarowicz, "Don't Look Now" by Daphne du Maurier, "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, "The Man Who Lived Underground" by Richard Wright, "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse, "Zorba the Greek" by Nikos Kazantzakis, "Call It Sleep" by Henry Roth, "The Night in Lisbon" by Erich Maria Remarque, "The Sheltering Sky" by Paul Bowles, "Strange Life of Ivan Osokin" by P. D. Ouspensky, "The Day of the Locust" by Nathaneal West, "Keep the River on Your Right" by Tobias Schneebaum, "Let It Come Down" by Paul Bowles, "Light in August" by William Faulkner, "Green Mansions" by William Henry Hudson, "Uncle Tom's Children" by Richard Wright, "The Spider's House" by Paul Bowles, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

My death row meal:

vegetarian fajita

The best thing I own:

my bicycle