Salomé Breziner or Salome Breziner is a
film director,
screenwriter, and
script supervisor
A script supervisor (also called continuity supervisor or script) is a member of a film crew who oversees the continuity of the motion picture including wardrobe, props, set dressing, hair, makeup and the actions of the actors during a scene. The ...
, known for directing ''
Helicopter Mom'' and ''
The Secret Lives of Dorks
''The Secret Lives of Dorks'' is a 2013 American independent comedy film directed by Salomé Breziner and starring Gaelan Connell, Vanessa Marano, Riley Voelkel, Beau Mirchoff and Jim Belushi.
Plot
Samantha, a dork, loves Payton, also a dork, wh ...
''.
starring Nia Vardalos in 2014.
Born in Belgium and raised in Miami Beach, Florida, by Holocaust survivor parents, Salomé is a multi-lingual director and writer and producer of award-winning shorts, music videos, and feature films - both narrative and documentary. Based in Los Angeles and Edinburgh, she is in development with Screen Scotland, on her first Created By TV series, LANDED.
LANDED is an ecological thriller and drama set in Scotland and LA that she will direct from a screenplay she wrote based on the novel LANDED by Louise Ramsay. She developed the series with Steven J Wolfe (500 Days Of Summer) and Kim DeVenne (101 Productions) to cement her message of rewilding and stopping damaging ecological practices, and bring it to the screen with magical realism elements to begin her foray into international streaming content.
With a keen eye for quirky talent and dark comedy Salomé has directed 6 feature films, produced 9 feature films and various commercial and Music Video projects for clients like: CORONA LIGHT (RUTBUSTER CAMPAIGN), GOODBY, SILVERSTEIN & PARTNERS, GDefy, Matthew McConaughey And Butch Walker, Black Widows, Lisa Loeb, Foxy Shazaam, and many more. Acting as a producer and creator through her company REALM, she produced and wrote SYNTHESIZERS which was nominated for best music video award VH1 and has earned several million internet views.
Salomé's films have screened at 30+ festivals around the world and won numerous awards, beginning with her first feature film TOLLBOOTH that premiered in Cannes to great reviews. “Cut from the same cloth as David Lynch’s Twin Peaks with a dash of Wim Wenders... and Samuel Beckett” Variety, A Best Documentary win in 2013 at The Nashville Film Festival for producing her documentary BUTCH WALKER: OUT OT FOCUS and going on to direct HELICOPTER MOM starring Nia Vardalos in 2014.
Her films have garnered awards and special attention at Cannes, Oldenburg International Film Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, CIFF to name a few. Salomé's film HELICOPTER MOM opened OUTFEST with a special Ford Amphitheater Premiere in 2014.
She is a visual storyteller who elicits powerful performances from actors such as
Stephen Lang
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Fairuza Balk
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Matthew McConaughey
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Tom Berenger
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Crispin Glover
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Riley Voelkel,
Jennifer Tilly
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Jim Belushi
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Eric Roberts
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Valeria Golino
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Natasha Lyonne
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, to name just a few. Salomé frequently blurs the lines between comedy and drama. Salome is currently a show runner on various television shows 2021–2022. Salome Breziner is currently producing FEELING RANDY For a theatrical release in 2023.
As producer
*"
Feeling Randy" (2022)
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Butch Walker: Out of Focus'' (2013)
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The Ganzfeld Haunting'' (2012)
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King Of Beasts
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'' (2018)
As director
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Helicopter Mom'' (2014)
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The Secret Lives of Dorks
''The Secret Lives of Dorks'' is a 2013 American independent comedy film directed by Salomé Breziner and starring Gaelan Connell, Vanessa Marano, Riley Voelkel, Beau Mirchoff and Jim Belushi.
Plot
Samantha, a dork, loves Payton, also a dork, wh ...
'' (2013)
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Fast Sofa'' (2001)
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An Occasional Hell'' (1996)
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Tollbooth
A tollbooth (or toll booth) is an enclosure placed along a toll road that is used for the purpose of collecting a toll from passing traffic. A structure consisting of several tollbooths placed next to each other is called a toll plaza, tollga ...
'' (1994)
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Lift
Lift or LIFT may refer to:
Physical devices
* Elevator, or lift, a device used for raising and lowering people or goods
** Paternoster lift, a type of lift using a continuous chain of cars which do not stop
** Patient lift, or Hoyer lift, mobil ...
'' (1992)
As screenwriter
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Fast Sofa'' (2001)
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Tollbooth
A tollbooth (or toll booth) is an enclosure placed along a toll road that is used for the purpose of collecting a toll from passing traffic. A structure consisting of several tollbooths placed next to each other is called a toll plaza, tollga ...
'' (1994)
*''Lift'' (1992)
As script supervisor
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Paint it Black
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'' (1989)
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Midnight Crossing
''Midnight Crossing'' is a 1988 American mystery thriller film directed by Roger Holzberg. The film stars Faye Dunaway, Daniel J. Travanti, Kim Cattrall, John Laughlin, and Ned Beatty.
Plot
What begins as a pleasure cruise turns out to be a tr ...
'' (1988)
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The Unholy'' (1988)
As actress
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Look'' (2007)
References
External links
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women screenwriters
American women film directors
American people of Belgian descent
Filmmakers from Florida
People from Miami Beach, Florida
21st-century American women