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Jerusha Hess

Jerusha Hess

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Huffington Post, May 16, 2013
...others who make good movies together. Here are five couples who have produced great work: 1. Jared and Jerusha Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre). This dynamic duo first shot to fame when Napoleon Dynamite, the flick they co-wrote, became a cult...
Examiner.com, March 28, 2013
...camcorder, we're going to go to England and we're just going make this ourselves and then Jerusha Hess got involved and then we had an actual director and a real thing and it was so much fun, I'd never done a comedy before and now I...
Time, January 28, 2013
...TIME: So Jan. 28 is the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice. Are you celebrating in any way? Jerusha Hess: I think we celebrated enough this week! All things Austen have been celebrated enough for, like, two years. What’s your own relationship...
MCN, January 25, 2013
...with actress Jennifer Love Hewitt's production company on a contemporary retelling of "Pride and Prejudice." Screenwriter Jerusha Hess and novelist Shannon Hale recently adapted Ms. Hale's novel "Austenland," about a lonely Jane Austen fan who falls in...
Salt Lake Tribune, January 25, 2013
...a lot of people who are going to get behind your first project." For Utah’s own Jerusha Hess, making her directing debut at Sundance with the comedy "Austenland," it helped to have the right woman in her corner: Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, who...
MCN, January 24, 2013
...sex at 13 or 14. For me it was much more truthful to tell the story this way.” Jerusha Hess, writer-director of "Austenland": “This was pink vomit on the stage every day, ace of base playing loud. And if that’s not a girl movie for the girls, then...
International Business Times UK, January 22, 2013
...up by Sony Pictures Classics after it screened as part of the festival’s dramatic competition. Directed by Jerusha Hess (who co-wrote “Napoleon Dynamite”), “Austenland” is based on Shannon Hale’s 2007 novel of the same name. It follows a...
Springfield News-Leader, May 17, 2013
...time after he falls into a coma. Aug. 16 "Austenland Stars: Keri Russell, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge Director: Jerusha Hess Plot: A Jane Austen obsessive (Russell) spends her life savings on a stay at a English resort devoted to fans of the...
MCN, May 16, 2013
...Video , Black Rock Movie , Jared Jerusha Hess , Jennifer Westfeldt Jon Hamm , Kate Aselton , Kate Aselton Mark Duplass , Mark Duplass , Roma Downey Mark Burnett , Black Rock , Duplaselton , Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris , Zoe Kazan...
Huffington Post, May 16, 2013
...others who make good movies together. Here are five couples who have produced great work: 1. Jared and Jerusha Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre). This dynamic duo first shot to fame when Napoleon Dynamite, the flick they co-wrote, became a cult...
Filmmaker Magazine, May 14, 2013
...production companies, run new film festivals, and create a small but robust industry. Hence Dave Boyle, Jared and Jerusha Hess, Ryan Little, Christian Vuissa, Jared Cardon, and a host of others. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that with his newest...
MCN, May 14, 2013
...production companies, run new film festivals, and create a small but robust industry. Hence Dave Boyle, Jared and Jerusha Hess, Ryan Little, Christian Vuissa, Jared Cardon, and a host of others. So it shouldn’t be any surprise that with his newest...
Indiewire, May 8, 2013
...Streep's time of the year, this year August Osage County will open in the fall. Sundance favorite, Jerusha Hess's Austenland, stars Keri Russell as a woman who goes to a Jane Austen theme park in order to meet a potential mate. The film is also...
Bucks County Courier Times, May 5, 2013
...in which a woman wants to discover her own Mr. Darcy by visiting a Jane Austen theme park. Jerusha Hess, who wrote “Napoleon Dynamite,” directed. (PG-13; Aug. 16) “Before Midnight,” with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in the third title — after...