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Gregori Viens. Director: Punching the Clown. Gregori Viens was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Paris, and is a dual citizen of France and the United States. After studying sociology at the Université de Paris, he moved back to California and obtained a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA, and later an M.F.A. in Film from Syracuse University.
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Gregori Viens. Director: Punching the Clown. Gregori Viens was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Paris, and is a dual citizen of France and the United States. After studying sociology at the Université de Paris, he moved back to California and obtained a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA, and later an M.F.A. in Film from Syracuse University.
Professor of film and television, 2020–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. Visiting assistant professor, 2003–08, Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
Mar 9, 2016 · Gregori Viens, 'And Punching The Clown'. Ahead of the world premiere in SXSW in 24 Beats Per Second on March 13, the director talks to Jeremy Berkowitz about grounding his films in reality, the...
Gregori Viens was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Paris, and is a dual citizen of France and the United States. After studying sociology at the Université de Paris, he moved back to California and obtained a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA, and later an M.F.A. in Film from Syracuse University.
Born in Los Angeles in 1970 to a Catholic, French father and a Sephardic-Jewish, American mother, Gregori Viens is a dual citizen of France and the US. He lived in France (mostly Paris but also Provence and Alsace) until the age of 19.
Punching the Clown is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Gregori Viens and starring Henry Phillips as a semi-fictionalized version of himself. [1]
