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Director, Screenwriter, Editor Biography:Writer, director, and occasional editor Katherine Dieckmann emerged as a creative force in filmmaking during the late '90s, and thereafter helmed a series of offbeat and finely observed character-driven seriocomedies on relatively low budgets, for production outfits such as Magnolia Pictures and Killer Films. In so doing, she rode the American "indie" filmmaking boom initially catalyzed by directors such as Ed Burns (to whom her work earned frequent comparisons in the press) and Paul Thomas Anderson.
Dieckmann first began to attract attention for her 1999 melodrama A Good Baby, starring Henry Thomas, Cara Seymour, and David Strathairn. The film drew heavy and unanimous critical praise for its originality and bravura, which seemed to foreshadow prolific output for Dieckmann; unfortunately, for several years, this was not the case, and aside from directing occasional R.E.M. videos, she maintained a... Full Biography
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