Kirsten smith biography
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Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith (born 12 August ) is an American screenwriter and novelist. She wrote most of the screenplays with her screenwriter partner Karen McCullah Lutz. Most of the scripts seems to follow the girl Power movement of the late s and early s.
She recently directed a short film, The Spleenectomy, which starred Anna Faris and was financed and produced by Glamour magazine.
Her first film as a non-writing producer, Whip It!, stars Ellen Page and is directed by Drew Barrymore, and she also has American Virgin, starring Jenna Dewan and Rob Schneider, in post-production.
A native of Port Ludlow, Washington, she moved to Los Angeles in to attend Occidental College.
There, she studied English and Film, and also got an internship at CineTel Films, an independent film company.
Kirsten smith woods girlfriend Too Much Information For Reynolds. Shortly thereafter, the movie was green-lit, starring then-unknowns Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles, and it was shot in Tacoma, Washington, near Smith's hometown. Scripps College. Known For.Initially planning on pursuing poetry and academia as a career, she began working for CineTel reading scripts and writing coverage for them. This led to a full-time job there as a Director of Development in ; it was there she begin pursuing screenwriting in earnest. One of the scripts she happened to read and cover was written by Karen Lutz, an aspiring writer living in Denver, Colorado.
The two women formed a friendship over the phone, and when Lutz came to Los Angeles, they met in person, and began writing their first script on cocktail napkins that night.
Kirsten smith biography wikipedia And I feel so connected with the younger generation because of that work, but I also so much am wanting to create new things. Short films [ edit ]. On all edit pages t open translation selector. Her first film as a non-writing producer, Whip It!That script never sold, but it inspired the women to write together again, and they embarked on a teen comedy called 10 Things I Hate About You, inspired by Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew".
Smith got her official start as a screenwriter in by selling 10 Things I Hate About You as a spec screenplay. Shortly thereafter, the movie was green-lit, starring then-unknowns Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles, and it was shot in Tacoma, Washington, near Smith's hometown.
Smith went on to co-write Legally Blonde, which was nominated for two Golden Globes.
Costing only $18M to produce, the movie was a surprise hit, grossing $20M in its opening weekend in July , and going on to make over $M worldwide. It also spawned a sequel and a successful Broadway musical, which was based on Smith and Lutz’s screenplay.
Smith followed that with Ella Enchanted, starring Anne Hathaway; and She's the Man, a Dreamworks update of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", starring Amanda Bynes.
Recently, she co-wrote and executive produced The House Bunny, starring Anna Faris, and produced by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions.
It grossed just shy of $50M domestically. Her latest credit is The Ugly Truth, directed by Legally Blonde collaborator Robert Luketic and starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler.”
Having published more than 40 poems in various literary magazines in the s, Smith published her first novel-in-verse, The Geography of Girlhood, in The coming-of-age story of a teenage girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest, it contains a smattering of the poems Smith wrote and published in her early twenties.
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