[1] He is also a recipient of the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship. 10 funny mockumentaries to remind us about the absurdity of life, Family-friendly Halloween films for boos big and small, Naomi Watts and Octavia Spencer wage emotional war in tense, The best, wildest, and most intriguing movies from the Sundance Film Festival. [4][5] He recently completed The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)[6] with producer J. J. Abrams. But certainly I found some of her decision-making frustrating. She just wants her son to have a good life. Philip Concannon.
Can you empathize with this other way of thinking? Having these conversations, doesn’t that normalize it a little bit more? Like Funny Games, this was high-level intensity, and sometimes you just need a reprieve from that.
Onah graduated from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, VA and received his B.A. For an actor, the chance to participate in a film that stays in viewers’ minds after it ends is the ultimate dream.
And also the projects that she picks, it’s such an endorsement that comes with that. Julia Pacata, the wife of Classicanus. The psychological thriller Luce will grip you from the start, as a seemingly picture-perfect family begins to fracture once trust is destroyed. Julius Africanus, a celebrated orator in the reign of Nero. And then I spoke with Julius and had a great conversation. She always does such great work, over and over again. Is there room for growth? ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. I was quite blown away by him. With her name attached it made me read it right away, and the minute I started turning those pages, I felt like it was really rich, dynamic material. Audio. But for Luce star Watts, the reason she signed on to the film was actually a lot simpler: It was all because of her costar Spencer.
I love him. What kind of conversations do you hope to inspire in people going to see Luce in theaters?There are so many hot topics that who knew, given when the play was written and now when the movie’s coming out, that they would still be hot or even hotter or become hot, you know?
What are you most proud of from your work in this film?If people take something away from it, that they’re able to be moved by the story and have a conversation with those close to them that somehow normalizes the awkwardness of those conversations. Onah was previously set to direct thriller film adaptation Brilliance for Legendary Pictures which David Koepp scripted with Will Smith and Noomi Rapace to star as leads. Is Luce the perfect son, student, and athlete who has overcome his horrific childhood trauma and is being victimized by a suspicious teacher? Ask. Julius Onah (born February 10, 1983) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker. While at NYU's graduate film program he completed his first feature as his thesis, The Girl Is in Trouble (2015) with executive producer Spike Lee, featuring Alicja Bachleda, Wilmer Valderrama, Columbus Short, and Jesse Spencer. GOODBYE CHICKEN, FAREWELL GOAT (Los Angeles Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, BIG MAN (Dubai Film Festival, New York Times, Los Angeles Film Festival), LINUS (MTVu Film of the Week, 1st Place Calvin Klein Short Film Competition), THE BOUNDARY (Amnesty International Movies That Matter, Best Director NBC Short Cuts, HBO), This page was last edited on 15 August 2020, at 03:09.
Julius Onah (born February 10, 1983) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker.