Talent Guide

Malcolm Murray

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2012

Bio

Malcolm Murray loves to make films and has been doing so professionally since the age of 15, when pro skateboarders first began hiring him to film their tricks and edit their videos. Upon graduating from college he was awarded the prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship which took him to film and live in Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, Laos, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, and Mexico. Now 27, he lives in Brooklyn and works as a director and as a director of photography. He is represented by Mekanism and has shot campaigns for, among others, Toyota, Microsoft, Patagonia, the International Olympic Committee, Ralph Lauren, Rolling Stone, eBay, EA Sports, Microsoft, Clorox Greenworks, Charles Schwab, and Axe. He also directed/shot the acclaimed documentary short Up There for Stella Artois and Mother NY. These projects have garnered Gold, Silver, and Bronze Lions at Cannes and numerous One Show Pencils. Camera, Camera, his first feature-length documentary, began its festival circuit at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival and was nominated for the prestigious Cinematic Vision Award at AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival. His narrative feature directorial debut, Bad Posture, was produced by Neda Armian (producer of Rachel Getting Married) and premiered at the 2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam to acclaim from The New York Times, The Village Voice, Filmmaker Magazine, and Indiewire, among others. It was named one of the Ten to Watch: Best of IFFR 2011, and one of Hammer to Nail’s Top Ten Films of 2011.

Current Project

Tokyo Cannonball Rising Sun

Logline

Mourning his great love, a Japanese janitor works a cattle ranch in the American Southwest. For him and for a family of struggling ranchers, the past is as inescapable as the future is uncertain.