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Biography #2 (for Thirteen)

Catherine Hardwicke was honored with the prestigious Director's Award from the 2003 Sundance Film Festival for THIRTEEN, which marks both her feature film directorial and screenwriting debut.

A prolific production designer and architect, Hardwicke conceived THIRTEEN's bold, visual style as a way of matching the intensity of a young girl's journey, pulling from her experience of working with such critically acclaimed directors as Cameron Crowe, David O. Russell, Costa Gavras and Richard Linklater. Her vision for the film was influenced in part by Russell's THREE KINGS, which embodied a high level of deeply felt kinetic intensity.

Hardwicke's production design credits include: THREE KINGS, Crowe's VANILLA SKY, TOMBSTONE, ANTITRUST, THE NEWTON BOYS, Costa Gavras' MAD CITY, 2 DAYS IN THE VALLEY, TANK GIRL, Working Title's POSSE and LAUREL CANYON, for which she collaborated with THIRTEEN Producer Jeffrey Levy-Hinte. She was also second unit director on Linklater's SUBURBIA.

A native of the South Texas border town McAllen, Hardwicke studied art in Mexico and received a degree in architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. After graduating, she designed and constructed a 20-acre passive solar townhouse complex built around a manmade lake complete with waterfalls, swimming pools and sculptures of the residents.

She then enrolled in UCLA's Film School, taking graduate courses, where she completed her first animated/live action short. It won her a Nissan Focus Award and toured in the Landmark Best of UCLA film program. She has directed several short films and designed the production of more than 20 feature films.

Bio courtesy Fox Searchlight for "Thirteen" (23-Sep-2003)

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