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- Jamie Anderson is an English screenwriter and director from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. His directorial debut Id (2011), a dramatization of the Freudian structural model of the psyche, was showcased at several major festivals worldwide including BAFTA, Plus Camerimage, Creative Arts and Bradford International Film Festival. He recently completed filming on the 1930s American gangster film The Death of Jack Hamilton (2012), which follows infamous outlaw John Dillinger and his gang, and the pilot episode of a new science-fiction series called The Coop (2013). He is writing and directing the short "Alexander's Opus", which will enter pre-production this summer, as well as his debut feature film. Outside of narrative filmmaking, Anderson is also a freelance camera operator and editor and has worked on several corporate videos for clients across the United Kingdom.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jamie Anderson
- Upon leaving school, his intention was to train to become a plumber and it was only two months before taking his GCSEs that he changed his mind and decided to study Film, Media and Psychology at A Level.
- In 2013 Anderson gave a guest lecture at Sheffield Hallam University where he explored the portrayal of mental health professionals in cinema. Anderson used his debut short Id (2011) as his primary reference and Persona (1966), Analyze This (1999) and _The Sopranos (TV Series 1999-2007)_ as secondary references.
- He describes the shot at the end of The 400 Blows (1959) as changing his life and inspiring him to become a filmmaker.
- He became a published poet at the age of 8 and wrote his first short novel at the age of nine. He wrote his second novel, "Shards", at the age of 10 and wrote his first screenplay at the age of 15.
- He is well-read in existential philosophy and his films typically reference ideas and themes associated with this movement. Meursault, the antagonist in The Coop (2013), was named after the protagonist in Camus' The Stranger (1942) and refers to himself as an "Overman", alluding to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883). Id (2011) was heavily influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre's ideas in Being and Nothingness (1943) and No Exit (1944) and makes direct reference to Nietzsche's "Parable of the Madman" from The Gay Science (1882). When adapting The Death of Jack Hamilton (2012), Anderson was influenced by Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) and has described the film as centering on the existential crisis of John Dillinger when he is forced to confront the inevitability of death. His films typically deal with themes of isolation, godlessness, morality and death.
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