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The Best of Enemies director Robin Bissell reveals how he landed Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell as the two leads and what he learned from early screenings.
The Best of Enemies: Director Robin Bissell InterviewWith STXfilms releasing the true story drama The Best of Enemies this weekend in theaters, I recently sa...
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Apr 5, 2019 · But, as writer-director-producer Robin Bissell said at the film’s New York City premiere Thursday, simply dismissing it as a feel-good movie about race does a disservice to the real-life story.
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Every seasoned Hollywood player has their own tale about how they broke into the most competitive industry in America. Robin Bissell '86 is no exception. At the age of 27, the former Belfry Club star found himself in one of those odd moments of life. He was ready to move on from his band, Everything, and give the movie business a try, so he called ...
Twenty-two years after landing his first job on a movie set, Bissell has officially made the jump from producer's seat to the director's chair. The GA graduate is making his directorial debut with The Best of Enemies,which is scheduled to premiere in March 2019, Bissell wrote the screenplay for the film, which was inspired by Osha Gray Davidson's b...
By his own admission, Bissell was very much a day dreamer at GA. "I was a guy who you would expect to go to LA and try to get into the movie business," said Bissell, who transferred to GA before the start of ninth grade. "I wasn't the perfect student." But, a number of teachers and coaches, including Peter McVeigh 1760, Roger Eastlake '59, Ted Hayn...
Apr 4, 2019 · Robin Bissell, who is white, makes his directorial debut with the film based on the book “The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South” by Osha Gray Davidson, who is also white ...
Apr 4, 2019 · Gilbert Glenn Brown, Taraji P. Henson, Nick Searcy, and Sam Rockwell star in “The Best of Enemies,” directed by Robin Bissell, a sanitized fictionalization of a true story about race.
Mar 29, 2019 · What happened from here powers the central story of the new film, written and directed by veteran producer Robin Bissell (“Seabiscuit,” “The Hunger Games”). While the film takes some dramatic...
