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Eric Steel is a Director, Scriptwriter and Co-Producer American

Eric Steel

Eric Steel
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Nationality USA

Eric Steel est un réalisateur et producteur de film américain. Son travail le plus connu est The Bridge, un film documentaire sur le Golden Gate Bridge à San Francisco et les personnes s'y étant suicidées en 2004.

Biography

Diplômé de l'Université Yale en 1985, Eric Steel a travaillé chez Disney et Cinecom, avant de se lancer dans la réalisation.

Pour The Bridge, il a quitté New York après avoir lu un article poignant sur les suicides ayant lieu depuis le pont. Après avoir réuni une équipe de tournage (via Craigslist et autres sites d'annonce) et acheté pour 100 000 $ de matériel, il a tourné pendant une année entière le pont sous différents angles, montrant parfois des images très dures, comme celles des chutes.

The Bridge rassemble les familles et témoignages des disparus, ainsi que le récit d'un jeune rescapé. Le film ne cherche pas à apporter de réponse aux suicides, mais évoque les contextes pesants dans lesquels les disparus ont pu évoluer. Les témoignages des amis et familles sont d'une surprenante teneur. Lors du tournage, plusieurs personnes ont été sauvées in extremis par la patrouille de prévention du pont (parfois alertée par l'équipe de tournage), ainsi que par des passants. Afin d'obtenir les autorisations de tournage, Eric Steel n'a pas précisé aux officiels que son intention était de filmer les personnes sautant du pont.

La sortie de son prochain film intitulé Julie/Julia est prévue pour mi-octobre 2009.

Best films

Julie & Julia (2009)
(Producer)
Shaft (2000)
(Co-Producer)

Usually with

Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin
(4 films)
Alan Parker
Alan Parker
(1 films)
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
(1 films)
Alex Heffes
Alex Heffes
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Eric Steel (5 films)

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Director

The Bridge
The Bridge (2007)
, 1h35
Directed by Eric Steel
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Pont, Films about suicide, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Documentary films about cities, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Chris Brown
Rating71% 3.596013.596013.596013.596013.59601
Ce documentaire, qui explore les aspects les plus sombres de la nature humaine et de la psyché, s'intéresse à ces individus qui ont choisi de mettre fin à leurs jours en sautant du légendaire Golden Gate Bridge en 2004.

Scriptwriter

The Bridge
The Bridge (2007)
, 1h35
Directed by Eric Steel
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Pont, Films about suicide, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Documentary films about cities, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Chris Brown
Rating71% 3.596013.596013.596013.596013.59601
Ce documentaire, qui explore les aspects les plus sombres de la nature humaine et de la psyché, s'intéresse à ces individus qui ont choisi de mettre fin à leurs jours en sautant du légendaire Golden Gate Bridge en 2004.

Producer

Julie & Julia, 2h3
Directed by Nora Ephron
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond, Jane Lynch
Roles Producer
Rating69% 3.4975953.4975953.4975953.4975953.497595
In 2002, Julie Powell (Adams) is a young writer with an unpleasant job at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's call center, where she answers telephone calls from victims of the September 11 attacks and members of the general public complaining about the LMDC's controversial plans for rebuilding the World Trade Center. To do something she enjoys, she decides to cook every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) by Julia Child (Streep) in one year; Powell decides to write a blog to motivate herself and document her progress.
The Bridge
The Bridge (2007)
, 1h35
Directed by Eric Steel
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Pont, Films about suicide, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Documentary films about cities, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Chris Brown
Roles Producer
Rating71% 3.596013.596013.596013.596013.59601
Ce documentaire, qui explore les aspects les plus sombres de la nature humaine et de la psyché, s'intéresse à ces individus qui ont choisi de mettre fin à leurs jours en sautant du légendaire Golden Gate Bridge en 2004.
Shaft
Shaft (2000)
, 1h40
Directed by John Singleton
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about racism
Actors Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Richard Roundtree, Pat Hingle
Roles Co-Producer
Rating60% 33333
NYPD Detective John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) is called in to investigate the racially motivated murder of Trey Howard (Mekhi Phifer), committed by Walter Wade, Jr. (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy real estate tycoon. Shaft briefly meets a potential eyewitness to the murder, Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette), but she disappears soon after and cannot be found for the trial. Wade is released on bail and flees to Switzerland.
Bringing Out the Dead, 2h1
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Nicolas Cage, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Patricia Arquette, Marc Anthony
Roles Co-Producer
Rating67% 3.398613.398613.398613.398613.39861
In Manhattan in the early 1990s, Frank Pierce (Cage) is a burned-out paramedic who works the graveyard shift in a two-man ambulance team with various different partners. Usually exhausted and depressed, he has not saved any patients in months and begins to see the ghosts of those lost, especially a homeless adolescent girl named Rose whose face appears on the bodies of others. Frank and his first partner Larry (Goodman) respond to a call by the family of a man named Mr. Burke who has entered cardiac arrest. Frank befriends Mr. Burke's distraught daughter Mary (Arquette), a former junkie. Frank discovers Mary was childhood friends with Noel (Anthony), a brain-damaged drug addict and delinquent who is frequently sent to the hospital.
Angela's Ashes, 2h25
Directed by Alan Parker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about children
Actors Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Michael Legge, Devon Murray, Kerry Condon, J.J. Murphy
Roles Executive Producer
Rating72% 3.648973.648973.648973.648973.64897
Angela's Ashes tells the story of Frank McCourt and his childhood after his family are forced to move from America back to Ireland because of financial difficulties and family problems derived from his father's alcoholism. The film chronicles young McCourt's life in Limerick, Ireland, during his childhood in the 1930s and 1940s, the difficulties that ensued, and finally Frank's way of earning enough money to return to the land of his dreams: America. Michael Legge was praised for his portrayal of the adolescent Frank. In particular, he was said to excel in his role as an innocent teenager growing up with typical coming of age rites involving sexuality, maturity and peer pressure in a Catholic Irish setting.