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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Screen Story Biography:After a stint at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, writer and director Craig Brewer moved back to Memphis, where he'd grown up. When his father passed away a short time later, the young filmmaker dealt with his grief by using his inheritance to finance his first feature film, The Poor and the Hungry, about a car thief who falls in love with one of his victims. He entered the project into competition at a number of film festivals in 2000, and was eventually purchased by the Independent Film Channel. For his next movie, Brewer perfected a script inspired by his own struggle to succeed in his chosen art form. He called it Hustle & Flow, and it piqued the interest of producer John Singleton, who signed on to produce the film. Actor Terrence Howard played the lead role of Djay, a hustler with a gift for words and music that he's never taken further than the street corner. After hearing... Full Biography
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