Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia are a filmmaking duo.

Early life

Attieh was born in

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where her first feature, ''Ok, Enough, Goodbye'' is set. Garcia was born in

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. The two met in Texas at a drawing class and later moved to New York together where Attieh attended the

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and Garcia studied at NYU.

Film career

Their film ''H.'' was made as part of the Venice Biennale College- Cinema Program. From the writing to the premiere of the film took approximately six months. The film premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival and went on to play at the

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and 2015

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. The film won the duo an

Independent Spirit Award The Independent Spirit Awards (abbreviated Spirit Awards and originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards), founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glas ...

for “Directors to watch” in 2015 and again got another Spirit nomination in 2016 for Robin Bartlet as “Best supporting actor”. In 2019 the duo co directed '' Initials S.G.'' about an ageing Argentinian

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impersonator. The film premiered at the 2019

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where Attieh was awarded the Nora Ephron Award honoring excellence in storytelling by a female writer or director. They have directed 3 episodes for CW “Two Sentence Horror Stories”. Season 1 episode “Hide” 2019 & season 2 episodes “Fix“ and “El Muerto” 2020 for which they got nominated for

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Award for “Best TV Directors” in 2021. Recently, they have directed episode 105 “El Espejo” and 106 “Hunch Fo llub Seeth” of “ The Resort” for Peacock. Thea are Guggenheim Fellows in film and United Artist Rockefeller grant recipients.

Filmography

*''Ok, Enough, Goodbye'' (2010) *''Recommended by Enrique'' (2014) *'' H.'' (2014) *'' Initials S.G.'' (2019)

References

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