Julie Ann Corman (born (1942-06-22)June 22, 1942) is an American film producer. She is the widow of film producer and director Roger Corman.[1]
Life and career
Corman was born Julie Ann Halloran in 1942. In 1970, she married film director and producer, Roger Corman, with whom she would go on to have four children.
From 2000 to 2002, Corman served as Chair of the Graduate Film Department at New York University in the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television. While there, Corman executive produced a series of short films by NYU film students, Reflections from Ground Zero, based on the students’ 9/11 experiences.[3] The films aired on Showtime.
Corman is a member of Women in Film and the International Women's Forum. She has given various film seminars at NYU, Duke University and Sundance. She has received a career achievement award from Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas and was given the Indy Pioneer Award at the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee.[4]
Appraisal
According to Filmink magazine, Julie Corman had an under appreciated influence on her husband's output:
She produced some of New World’s strongest femme driven films (Summer School Teachers, Lady in Red), the best movies made by Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall) and Barbara Peeters (Summer School Teachers), and early films from Martin Scorsese (Boxcar Bertha) and Jonathan Kaplan (Night Call Nurses, The Student Teachers); she tried to get Shirley Clarke on to direct Crazy Mama... ; she encouraged Roger to diversify his slate into kids’ films (The Dirt Bike Kid, A Cry in the Wind), broad comedies (Saturday the 14th...) and Irish drama (Da); it was she, rather than Roger, who took artistic swings during the New Horizon years (Nightfall, Brain Dead). [5]
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