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Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975 in Newport News, Virginia) is an American film director and writer, best known for 2001's Donnie Darko. Kelly grew up in Midlothian, Virginia where he attended Midlothian High School before getting a scholarship and moving to Southern California to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Before graduating from USC in 1997, he made two short films, The Goodbye Place and Visceral Matter.
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Richard Kelly is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based documentary wedding photographer. Telling the intimate and personal wedding day stories of brides, grooms, their families and friends. Whether in a traditional church or synagoge, or a creative setting. Richard has photographed weddings in Pittsburgh, New York City, Long Islandd, Florida, California, North Carolina and Ohio.
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At age 29 and with his first feature film, Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly has achieved what many filmmakers strive for their entire career: instant cult status. Despite little attention and poor distribution the first time around, word of mouth on Donnie Darko has yet to die down, and the film has found a growing following thanks to its DVD release and midnight screenings around the nation.
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Born and raised in Virginia to a family of engineers, filmmaker Richard Kelly claimed to hate high school, even though he was accepted by the popular crowd. He got a visual arts scholarship and moved out West to attend the University of Southern California in the School of Fine Arts. He made two short films (The Goodbye Place and Visceral Matter) before graduating in 1997. He spent the next few years trying to find someone to read his first feature-length screenplay, Donnie Darko. After a lucky meeting with actor Jason Schwartzman (who was supposed to play the lead), he was able to make a deal with Flower Films, Drew Barrymore's production company. As a 25-year-old novice, Kelly had to convince his financial backers to let him direct it with a budget of under five million dollars.
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Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko screenwriter) has achieved great success as a director and screenwriter in Hollywood. Upon graduating from film school at the University of Southern California, Mr. Kelly wrote and directed the independent film Donnie Darko. The film opened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001 and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. Donnie Darko became a cult hit and helped launch the careers of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal. It is now one of the most acclaimed independent films of all time. Mr. Kelly has since written the screenplay for the action-thriller Domino directed by Ridley Scott.
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Now established, director Richard Kelly has been given a chance to recreate his feature length debut film as he original intended. For those unaware of the original, Donnie Darko is a unique combination of science fiction and comic book madness.
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