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Lauren Wolkstein was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, USA by her mother, a schoolteacher, and her father, a colonel in the Air Force who served in several wars, including the Gulf War and the current Iraq War. Lauren received her B.A. in computer science at Duke University, where she also won the Duke Filmmaker Award. She lived in Los Angeles for a year, assisting film producer Chris Hanley at Muse Productions (The Virgin Suicides, American Psycho, Buffalo ’66). Her award-winning short, Dandelion Fall, played at numerous film festivals and was distributed by Wolfe Releasing. In addition to developing the feature version of Cigarette Candy, she is also adapting David Foster Wallace’s short story Little Expressionless Animals into a feature that is in development with Plum Pictures producer Galt Niederhoffer. Lauren will graduate from Columbia University's School of the Arts in May 2010 with an M.F.A. in Film Directing.
FILMOGRAPHY 2011 The Strange Ones (AD ASTRA FILMS) 2009 Cigarette Candy (Brigitte LEIBOWITZ - Pretty Girls Make Pictures)
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