Maria Giese

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Maria Giese

Occupation Filmmaker

Maria Giese is an American film director and screenwriter. She has a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College and a Masters of Fine Arts in film directing from the University of California, Los Angeles's Graduate School of Film & Technology.[1] While at UCLA, she produced the student film A Dry Heat, for which she won a CINE Golden Eagle Award.[2] She wrote and directed the 1996 British film When Saturday Comes,[3] based on the early life of her then-husband, British film producer James Daly.[4] Daly, who produced When Saturday Comes, separated from Giese a year after the film's release.[5] She also wrote, directed, and co-produced Hunger, based on Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun's 1890 existentialist novel of the same title.[6]

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  1. ^ M. Giese. Biography for Maria Giese. IMDb. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
  2. ^ Cine. "CINE GOLDEN EAGLE FILM& VIDEO COMPETITION 1993 WINNER DIRECTORY" (PDF). Press release. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
  3. ^ Loewenstein, Lael. "Interview with Director Maria Giese", (UCLA). Retrieved on 2007-02-12. 
  4. ^ Elley, Derek (1996-03-26). When Saturday Comes. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
  5. ^ Kent, Winona (2002-07-12). When Saturday Comes. The Complete Sean Bean. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.
  6. ^ IndieFest. "Hunger". Press release. Retrieved on 2007-02-11.

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