Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, author and occasional actor. He is best known for writing Kids and for writing and directing Spring Breakers, Gummo, Julien DonkeyBoy and Mister Lonely. His film Trash Humpers premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and won the main prize, the DOX Award, at CPHDOX in November 2009. His most recent film Spring Breakers was released in 2013.
Korine was born in Bolinas, California and raised in Nashville, Tennessee within a wealthy Jewish family. His parents are Eve and Sol Korine. His father was a tapdancer and produced documentaries for PBS in the 1970s about an array of colorful Southern characters he would take Korine to carnivals and circuses and taught him how to use a Bolex camera. As a child, Korine watched movies with his father, who rented Buster Keaton films and took him to see Even Dwarfs Started Small in the theater. Korine reminisces, I knew there was a poetry in cinema that I had never seen before that was so powerful. As a child, Korine changed his name from Harmony and went by Harmful, as he thought it made him sound tougher when he got in fights. Korine spent his childhood in Nashville, attending Hillsboro High School before moving to New York City to live with his grandmother. Korine also spent some time living with his parents in a commune, which helped to inspire the commune setting of Mister Lonely. As
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