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Laura Terruso. Producer: Hello, My Name Is Doris. LAURA TERRUSO is an award-winning director, screenwriter and producer. Only eight years out of film school, Laura has already directed four feature films, an episode of Apple TV's DICKINSON and a forthcoming experimental documentary.
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Laura Terruso always knew she wanted to be a director. She didn't know if she could be one, though. "Growing up, I didn't even consider directing as a possible career path, because I didn't see female directors," she says. "When I pictured in my head what a director looked like, it was like a white guy with a baseball cap and a megaphone."
Laura Terruso. Producer: Hello, My Name Is Doris. LAURA TERRUSO is an award-winning director, screenwriter and producer. Only eight years out of film school, Laura has already directed four feature films, an episode of Apple TV's DICKINSON and a forthcoming experimental documentary. She recently directed ABOUT MY FATHER for Lionsgate, starring Robert De Niro, Kim Cattrall and Sebastian ...
May 25, 2023 · Laura Terruso, a female director, shares her experience of working with Robert De Niro on a comedy film based on Sebastian Maniscalco's relationship with his Sicilian father. She reveals how she connected with the material, collaborated with De Niro, and made the film a unifying story of parent-child love.
Apr 11, 2023 · Director Laura Terruso teams up with screenwritersAusten Earl and Sebastian Maniscalco to tell a story that is influenced by both Maniscalco's and Terruso's childhood and their relationship with their Italian immigrant parents. Terruso sat down with No Film School to break down how she transformed her inspiration for About My Father, working ...
May 25, 2023 · LAURA TERRUSO: It's such a dream come true to be able to make a comedy that will screen in theaters because, you know, comedy is best viewed with an audience. It's infectious when people start ...
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Dec 5, 2017 · Laura Terruso has held nearly every position on an indie film set: producer, AD, and DP. Having first proved her writing chops as a screenwriter on the SXSW crowdpleaser Hello, My Name Is Doris, Terruso now directs her first film, Fits and Starts, a comedic look at two writers (played by Wyatt Cenac and Greta Lee) whose disparate successes wreak havoc on their marriage.
