Known for movies
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
as Writer
The Future (2011)
as Writer
The Center of the World (2001)
as Writer
Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? (2005)
as Writer
Short Info
| Spouse | Mike Mills |
| Fact | Lived a very bohemian kind of life, growing up between ages 7 and 14 in an Arts and Crafts-style house on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. |
Miranda July is an American filmmaker, artist, and writer. Her work often explores the connection between people and technology, and the ways in which technology can be used to facilitate human connection. July’s films include Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), The Future (2011), and Tampopo (1985). She has also written a novel, The First Bad Man (2015), and a collection of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (2007).
July was born in Barre, Vermont, in 1974. Her parents were both artists, and she has two older sisters. July was educated at the Putney School, a progressive boarding school in Vermont, and at Bard College in New York. After college, she moved to San Francisco, where she worked as a stripper and an exotic dancer. It was during this time that she began making short films.
July’s first feature film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005. The film won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision. The film was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
July’s second feature film, The Future, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.
July’s third feature film, Tampopo, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985. The film won the Prix de la Jeunesse.
Though I might have sometimes felt alone, I really wasn’t. Eighty friends & collaborators narrate this new book; their anecdotes make it come alive. It's out *TODAY* https://t.co/9R6LtWU0G2 pic.twitter.com/B26c6z4Mnp
— Miranda July (@Miranda_July) April 14, 2020
July’s work often explores the connection between people and technology. In her film Me and You and Everyone We Know, a character creates an online chat room in order to connect with people in her neighborhood. In The Future, a couple uses social media to connect with their future selves. And in Tampopo, a woman uses a food delivery app to connect with a man she has never met.
July is also interested in the ways in which technology can be used to facilitate human connection. In her film Me and You and Everyone We Know, characters use text messaging and email to communicate with each other. In The Future, a character uses Skype to connect with her future self. And in Tampopo, a woman uses a food delivery app to connect with a man she has never met.
July’s work often explores the connection between people and technology. In her film Me and You and Everyone We Know, a character creates an online chat room in order to connect with people in her neighborhood. In The Future, a couple uses social media to connect with their future selves. And in Tampopo, a woman uses a food delivery app to connect with a man she has never met.
July is also interested in the ways in which technology can be used to facilitate human connection. In her film Me and You and Everyone We Know, characters use text messaging and email to communicate with each other. In The Future, a character uses Skype to connect with her future self. And in Tampopo, a woman uses a food delivery app to connect with a man she has never met.
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General Info
| Full Name | Miranda July |
| Profession | Actor, Author, Film director, Singer, Film producer, Screenwriter, Music artist, Visual Artist |
| Education | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Nationality | American |
Family
| Spouse | Mike Mills |
| Children | Hopper Mills |
| Parents | Richard Grossinger, Lindy Hough |
| Siblings | Robin Grossinger |
Accomplishments
| Awards | Caméra d'Or, Chlotrudis Award for Best Cast, Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer, Chlotrudis Award for Best Original Screenplay |
| Music Groups | Dub Narcotic Sound System |
| Nominations | Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay, Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature Film, Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director, Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Filmmaker |
| Movies | Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Future, Nest of Tens, The Center of the World, Jesus' Son, The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, !Women Art Revolution, The Amateurist, Getting Stronger Every Day, Haysha Royko, The Best of Resfest: Vol. 3, From Tugboats to Polar Bears: Short Films by Matt Mc... |
Social profile links
Quotes
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on David Bowie, the musician she would most like to be] His voice is very matter of fact, poignant without any filigree. Self-inventing, daring, and my wife would be Iman. |
| 2 | [on "The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society" by The Kinks] It seems on the surface to be almost cartoony and silly, but actually it's quite sad. Each song is a complete world with characters and locations. Big Sky is the song of the album, the one that makes me proud to be human. I listen anytime except when I'm writing: too many words. |
| 3 | [regarding Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)] When I was going through my first movie, I was going through a really bad breakup. It was rough on me. But I was in this state where everything was kind of science-fictional. My whole world was upside down. It felt like a murder had taken place. I was alive. And he was alive. But it felt like something had been murdered. |
| 4 | I feel very blessed that I can be good to myself in that delicate, creative way. It's good to nurture yourself, and it's good for the work, because it's always got room to grow. |
| 5 | (On her parents' differing religious backgrounds) There was no one specific belief but a kind of looser spiritual believing in just about everything. I think there's something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It's impossible to articulate, and it's happening now, almost like a perverse secret. . . That's always sort of fascinating to me. |
| 6 | (on certain male directors) They become kind of brands. It's much harder to do that if you're a woman. That's crucial for longevity...All those men are also personal. I don't mind that, but I do mind that it's not really questioned, whereas I or another woman is looked at as so self-obsessed. Men are just not being judged in the same way. They're never going to be annoying in the same way. |
| 7 | I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling. |
| 8 | (About losing her virginity:) I was 16. He was a 27-year-old grad student at Berkeley. I was always interested in sex, even as a kid. Sex includes shame and humiliation and fantasies and longing. It's so dense with the kinds of things I'm interested in. |
| 9 | When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything. |
Facts
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Member of the 'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) since 2016. |
| 2 | Gave birth to her first child, a boy named Hopper, in February 2012. |
| 3 | She co-produced a 7-year Internet project called "Learning to Love You More" with cinematographer Harrell Fletcher, in which over 8,000 people responded to online assignments such as "Take a picture of your parents kissing." The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art recently acquired the work. |
| 4 | When living in Portland, she worked as a tastemaker for a local ad agency, during which time she suggested the name "Coke II" for a new beverage. Much later, Coca-Cola rewarded her idea with a check for $25,000, which Miranda says arrived in the mail as a complete surprise. |
| 5 | Her short story collection, "No One Belongs Here More Than You," won Ireland's Cork City-Frank O'Connor award in 2007, along with a 35,000 Euro first prize. |
| 6 | Her father Richard grew up in Manhattan, near Central Park, with the surname Towers. He later took the name Grossinger after he was told his birth father was a member of the family that owned the famous Catskills mountain resort of same name. Eventually, however, he learned his real birth father was someone else. |
| 7 | In prep school, Miranda corresponded with an imprisoned murderer. She wrote a play about her experience called "The Lifers" and, at age 16, she staged it at a local punk club. |
| 8 | Dropped out of college and left California in her early 20s to live in Portland, Oregon, where she later released spoken word albums on the Kill Rock Stars label. |
| 9 | Says she has been strongly influenced by the work of directors Paul Thomas Anderson, Todd Solondz, David Gordon Green, Jane Campion, Andrea Arnold, and Spike Jonze. |
| 10 | Lived a very bohemian kind of life, growing up between ages 7 and 14 in an Arts and Crafts-style house on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. |
| 11 | Lives in L.A.'s Silver Lake neighborhood. |
| 12 | Met husband Mike Mills in 2005 at party after her film Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) debuted at Utah's Sundance festival, which was the year his Thumbsucker (2005) premiered there. Four years later, in the summer of 2009, they married at Mills's house in the hills of Nevada. |
| 13 | According to the writer/director in high school Miranda and her best friend worked on a fanzine named "Snarla." The two main characters of the 'zine were Ida and July; Miranda was July. Miranda was also creating her first plays and she announced one as "A New Play by Miranda July," the first time she used the pseudonym. It stuck. |
| 14 | Daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger, writers and publishers who founded North Atlantic Books. |
| 15 | She is a performance artist and published short story writer. Since becoming a filmmaker, her debut feature Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) has won several film awards. |
| 16 | Filmmaker Magazine rated her #1 in their "25 New Faces of Indie Film" in 2004! |
Pictures
Movies
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Godin: Club 9 | 2016 | Short text | |
| The New Yorker Presents | 2016 | TV Series documentary short story by - 1 episode | |
| Somebody | 2014 | Short | |
| Miranda July Introduces the Miranda | 2014 | Short | |
| The Future | 2011 | written by | |
| White Light | 2009 | Short short story | |
| The Swim Team | 2009 | Short short story | |
| Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? | 2005 | Short | |
| Me and You and Everyone We Know | 2005 | written by | |
| The Center of the World | 2001 | story | |
| Getting Stronger Every Day | 2001 | Short | |
| The Amateurist | 1998 | Short writer |
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Movie No. 1 | 2017 | filming | |
| Nicolas Godin: Club 9 | 2016 | Short | Narrator (voice) |
| Somebody | 2014 | Short | Victoria |
| Portlandia | 2012 | TV Series | Two Girls, Two Shirts Owner |
| The Future | 2011 | Sophie / Voice of Paw-Paw | |
| Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? | 2005 | Short | |
| Me and You and Everyone We Know | 2005 | Christine Jesperson | |
| Nest of Tens | 2000 | Short | |
| Jesus' Son | 1999 | Black-Eyed Nurse | |
| The Amateurist | 1998 | Short | Professional / Amateur |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somebody | 2014 | Short | |
| The Future | 2011 | ||
| Me and You and Everyone We Know | 2005 | ||
| Getting Stronger Every Day | 2001 | Short | |
| Nest of Tens | 2000 | Short | |
| The Amateurist | 1998 | Short |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Light and No Land Anywhere | 2016 | consulting producer / executive producer | |
| Miranda July Introduces the Miranda | 2014 | Short producer | |
| Night Giant | 2013 | Short executive producer | |
| Shoegazer | 2010 | Short executive producer |
Art Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Me and You and Everyone We Know | 2005 | artwork |
Editor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting Stronger Every Day | 2001 | Short |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lemming | 2014 | Short special thanks | |
| Live Life Dearest | 2014 | Short inspired by | |
| Her | 2013 | thanks | |
| Natural Selection | 2011 | thanks | |
| Beginners | 2010 | thanks | |
| I'm Here | 2010 | Short special thanks | |
| Where the Wild Things Are | 2009 | special thanks | |
| The Swim Team | 2009 | Short special thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Half the Picture | 2017 | Documentary post-production | Herself |
| Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk | 2017 | Documentary completed | Herself |
| Miranda July Introduces the Miranda | 2014 | Short | Herself |
| Cinema 3 | 2011 | TV Series | Herself |
| Last Call with Carson Daly | 2011 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| The Fabulous Picture Show | 2011 | TV Series | Herself |
| Metropolis | 2011 | TV Series | Herself |
| The High Bar | 2010 | TV Series | Herself - Guest |
| Durch die Nacht mit... | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Herself |
| Indie Sex: Teens | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| 2006 Independent Spirit Awards | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| The Making of 'Me and You and Everyone We Know' | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Herself |
| An Introduction to 'Me and You and Everyone We Know' by Miranda July | 2006 | Video documentary short | Herself |
| Coup d'état | 2003 | Herself (interviewed) | |
| The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal | 2002 | Documentary short | Narrator |
Awards
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Most Promising Performer | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2006 | Chlotrudis Award | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2006 | Audience's Award | Titanic International Film Festival | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) | |
| 2005 | Golden Camera | Cannes Film Festival | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) | |
| 2005 | Critics Week Grand Prize | Cannes Film Festival | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) | |
| 2005 | Prix Regards Jeune | Cannes Film Festival | Best Feature Film | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2005 | Young Critics Award | Cannes Film Festival | Best Feature | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2005 | Russell Smith Award | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) | |
| 2005 | Audience Award | Los Angeles Film Festival | Best Narrative Feature | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2005 | Jury Award | Newport International Film Festival, Rhode Island | Best Director | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2005 | Audience Award | Newport International Film Festival, Rhode Island | Best Feature | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2005 | Best First Time Director | Philadelphia Film Festival | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) | |
| 2005 | Audience Award | San Francisco International Film Festival | Best Narrative Feature | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2005 | SKYY Prize | San Francisco International Film Festival | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) | |
| 2005 | Grand Prize | Skip City International D-Cinema Festival | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) | |
| 2005 | Best Directorial Debut | Stockholm Film Festival | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) | |
| 2005 | Special Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | Dramatic | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2005 | UFCA Award | Utah Film Critics Association Awards | Best Screenplay | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2004 | NHK Award | Sundance Film Festival | For "Me You and Everyone We Know" (USA). | |
| 2001 | Main Prize | Oberhausen International Short Film Festival | Nest of Tens (2000) | |
| 2001 | Prize of the Ministry for Development, Culture and Sports | Oberhausen International Short Film Festival | Nest of Tens (2000) | |
| 2000 | Gecko Award | Cinematexas International Short Film Festival | International Competition | Nest of Tens (2000) |
| 2000 | Best Debut | New York Expo of Short Film | Experimental | Nest of Tens (2000) |
| 2000 | Silver Spire | San Francisco International Film Festival | New Visions - Video |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Golden Berlin Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | The Future (2011) | |
| 2011 | Grand Prix | Ghent International Film Festival | Best Film | The Future (2011) |
| 2011 | Bronze Horse | Stockholm Film Festival | Best Film | The Future (2011) |
| 2011 | Sydney Film Prize | Sydney Film Festival | Best Film | The Future (2011) |
| 2011 | International Jury Award | São Paulo International Film Festival | Best Feature Film | The Future (2011) |
| 2006 | CFCA Award | Chicago Film Critics Association Awards | Most Promising Filmmaker | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2006 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best First Feature | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2006 | Independent Spirit Award | Independent Spirit Awards | Best First Screenplay | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2006 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best Breakthrough Performance - Female | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2006 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best First Feature | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2006 | OFTA Film Award | Online Film & Television Association | Best First Screenplay | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2005 | Gotham Independent Film Award | Gotham Awards | Best Feature | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2005 | Gotham Independent Film Award | Gotham Awards | Breakthrough Director | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2005 | Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | Dramatic | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
| 2005 | VVFP Award | Village Voice Film Poll | Best Screenplay | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
2nd Place Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | NYFCC Award | New York Film Critics Circle Awards | Best First Film | Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
Source: IMDb, Wikipedia
