Eric Mendelsohn

Eric Mendelsohn (born November 1, 1964) is an American film director and screenwriter. Two of his films have been screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes: Through an Open Window in 1992[1] and Judy Berlin in 1999.,[2] which won the Directing Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.[3] His third film, 3 Backyards, also earned the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, making him the only person in history to receive that honor twice.[4] Mendelsohn also co-wrote the screenplay of the 2017 film Love After Love with Russell Harbaugh.[5]

For the German Jewish architect, see Erich Mendelsohn.

Eric Mendelsohn
Born (1964-11-01) November 1, 1964
Old Bethpage, Long Island, New York
OccupationFilm director
Screenwriter
Years active1993-present

He teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts in New York City.[6] Mendelsohn is one of five siblings. One of his brothers is author and critic Daniel Mendelsohn.[7]

Filmography
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gollark: No, lambda calculus is a relatively simple model you can understand fairly easily.
gollark: And with neural networks, you don't actually know *how* the network does its job, just that you feed in pixels and somehow get classification data out.
gollark: There is still not, as far as I know, an approach to detect what an object is other than just training neural networks on the task.
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References
  1. "Festival de Cannes: Through an Open Window". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved August 16, 2009.
  2. "Festival de Cannes: Judy Berlin". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved October 10, 2009.
  3. "Sundance Film Festival (1999)". Retrieved December 25, 2016.
  4. http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/festival2010/details.php?id=21754
  5. Rooney, David (April 22, 2017). "'Love After Love': Film Review; Tribeca 2017". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  6. "Columbia University: Eric Mendelsohn". columbia.edu. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  7. Foundas, Scott (January 21, 2010). "3 Backyards: Secrets and Insides". Retrieved December 25, 2016.
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