Gabrielle Demeestere is a French filmmaker based in

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Film career

Demeestere attended

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's MFA Film Program. While there she collaborated with James Franco and eleven other student filmmakers to co-direct ''

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'', a film on the life of poet C.K. Williams that starred Franco, Mila Kunis and

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. The film premiered at the 2012 Rome Film Festival. After working with Franco on ''

'' he approached her about adapting two of his short stories from his collection ''A California Childhood''. Demeestere adapted them into her thesis film ''Yosemite'' which premiered as the closing film at the 2015

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. The film was later released in January 2016.

Filmography

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'' (2012) *''

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'' (2015)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Demeestere, Gabrielle Living people Tisch School of the Arts alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) French filmmakers