TEEN SPIRIT (2019) Director & Cast
Max Minghella, Elle Fanning, and Rebecca Hall
MAX MINGHELLA (Director / Writer / Executive Producer / Editor), ELLE FANNING (Violet), and REBECCA HALL (Jules)
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MAX MINGHELLA (Director / Writer / Executive Producer / Editor) is a British actor & filmmaker.
Minghella can currently be seen playing Nick Blaine in the Emmy winning Hulu series "The Handmaid's Tale," opposite Elisabeth Moss.
In 2016 Minghella wrote and produced Alexandre Aja's The 9th Life of Louis Drax. His other acting credits include George Clooney's The Ides of March; Alejandro Amenabar's Agora and David Fincher's The Social Network. Teen Spirit marks his directorial debut. Minghella attended Columbia University and the National Youth Theater in London. He resides in both London and Los Angeles.
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In 2013, ELLE FANNING (Violet) was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for her performance in Sally Potter's film Ginger & Rosa. The next year, she played Sleeping Beauty opposite Angelina Jolie in Disney's Maleficent, which earned over $750M in worldwide box office. She previously starred in Super 8, directed by JJ Abrams, and Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola. In 2016, Elle played the lead in Nic Refn's horror thriller Neon Demon, which premiered in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. That same year, she also starred in Mike Mills' 20th Century Women and Ben Affleck's Prohibition-era crime drama, Live By Night.
In 2017, she starred opposite Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Colin Farrell in The Beguiled, directed by Sofia Coppola. Last year, she starred in I Think We're Alone Now for director Reed Morano, opposite Peter Dinklage.
The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was released in theaters on last Fall. She can also be seen in Galveston, directed by Melanie Laurent, written by Nic Pizzolotto, and co-starring Ben Foster which was also released in theaters on last Fall. Elle will reprise her role as Sleeping Beauty in Maleficent 2 set to be released May 29, 2020. She just wrapped production on All the Bright Places, in which she will both star and produce. The film is directed by Brett Haley and based on the novel by Jennifer Niven. She is currently shooting Sally Potter's latest film opposite Javier Bardem.
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REBECCA HALL (Jules) is an acclaimed British-American actress whose career encompasses the multiplex, the art house cinema, and the world's most respected theaters. She has worked with many of the industry's greatest artists, establishing herself as a leading talent as she challenges herself with each new role.
Currently, Hall is currently lending her voice in director Mamoru Hosoda's animation adventure drama Mirai, as the voice for Mirai's mother, opposite John Cho, Daniel Dae Kim, and Victoria Grace. Mirai is the story of a young boy who encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relative from different eras with the guidance of his younger sister from the future.
Recently, Hall was seen co-starring in Etan Cohen's mystery-comedy, Holmes and Watson, as Dr. Grace Hart, the first female doctor to practice in London. The film is inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective Sherlock Holmes.
She is currently lensing on Warner Brothers Godzilla Vs. Kong directed by Adam Wingard, and opposite Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown and Brian Tyree Henry in the timeless story of King Kong meets the Godzilla and how the world watches to see who will become the king of all monsters.
Hall is currently in pre-production on Passing, an adaptation based on Nella Larsen's 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel that explores the practice of racial passing, a term used for a person classified as a member of one racial group who seeks to be accepted by a different racial group. She has penned the script and will direct in her feature helming debut, with Tessa Thomspon and Ruth Negga attached. First published in 1929, Passing follows the unexpected reunion of two high school friends, Clare Kendry (Negga) and Irene Redfield (Thompson), whose renewed acquaintance ignites a mutual obsession that threatens both of their carefully constructed realities.
Notably, Hall's work includes Antonio Campos' Christine, with Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts and Maria Dizzia, in a portrayal that garnered critical acclaim. Based on true events, the film captures the young and troubled newscaster, Christine Chubbuck, during her time at a small-town television station in the 1970s. Additionally, her work in Vicky Cristina Barcelona alongside Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem; garnered Hall Golden Globe, BAFTA Orange Rising Star, London Critics Circle and Gotham Award nominations in the performance and breakthrough categories.
Other film credits include Angela Robinson's Professor Marston & the Wonder Women opposite Luke Evans and Bella Heathcote; Brian Crano's Permission alongside Dan Stevens; Oren Moverman's The Dinner, co-starring alongside Richard Gere, Laura Linney and Steve Coogan; Steven Spielberg's The BFG, with Mark Rylance and Ruby Barnhill; Joel Edgerton's The Gift opposite himself and Jason Bateman; Sean Mewshaw's Tumbledown opposite Jason Sudeikis; Wally Pfister's Transcendence, opposite Johnny Depp and Paul Bettany; Patrice Leconte's A Promise, starring alongside Alan Rickman; John Crowley's Closed Circuit; Shane Black's Iron Man 3; Stephen Frears' Lay the Favorite; Nick Murphy's The Awakening, for which she earned a British Independent Film Award Nomination and Gotham Independent Film Award nomination for Best Actress; Ben Affleck's The Town, which received the 2010 National Board of Review Award for Best Ensemble; Dan Rush's Everything Must Go; Nicole Holofcener's Please Give, for which the cast and filmmakers were honored with the Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award and a Gotham Independent Film Award nomination for Best Ensemble Performance; Oliver Parker's Dorian Gray; Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon; for which she shared in a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Cast Performance; Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, for which she received UK Empire Award and London Critics Circle Award nominations for Best Newcomer; and Tom Vaughan's Starter for 10, her feature film debut.
Furthermore, Hall starred in Susanna White's acclaimed miniseries Parade's End for HBO and BBC, which was adapted by Tom Stoppard from Ford Madox Ford's tetralogy of novels. For her role, Hall received a Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA TV Award nomination for Leading Actress, and a Critics' Choice Award nomination for Best Actress in a Movie or Miniseries. Her other television credits include Julian Jarrold's Red Riding: 1974, for which she won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress; Philip Martin's Einstein and Eddington; Stephen Poliakoff's Joe's Palace; Brendan Maher's Wide Sargasso Sea; Stuart Orme's Don't Leave Me This Way; and Peter Hall's The Camomile Lawn.
On stage, Hall received an Ian Charleson Award for her West End portrayal of Vivie in Mrs. Warren's Profession, and the following year she was recognized with an Ian Charleson Award for her portrayal of Rosalind in As You Like It, which opened at the Theatre Royal Bath and later toured in both the UK and U.S. Building on this success, Hall received the same commendation for her portrayal of Hermione in The Bridge Project's production of A Winter's Tale. The actress made her Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Machinal, written by Sophie Treadwell and directed by Olivier-winner Lyndsey Turner. Recently, Hall was seen in The Atlantic Theater Company's production of Animal, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch.
