Charlie Kaufman

Screenwriter with a brilliant career, his first steps in film are intrinsically linked to the big leap from video clips to cinema taken by Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze. For the first he wrote Human Nature (2001) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004); for the second, Being John Malkovich (1999) and Adaptation (2002), where he doesn’t hesitate to question the orthodox canons of the movie screenplay and Robert McKee’s guidelines. He has worked in television and theater, where he created two sound-only pieces with Carter Burwell and the Coen Brothers. Obsessed with creative processes and metalanguage, he has given expression to both these subjects in his directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York (2008).

Sitges Film Festival