Maggie Greenwald is an award-winning filmmaker who began her career as a picture and sound editor. Her first film, Home Remedy, screened at the Munich, London and Torino Film Festivals before opening at the prestigious Film Forum in New York. Her next film, in 1987, The Kill-Off, a noir thriller based on a novel by Jim Thompson, appeared at film festivals around the world including Sundance (in Dramatic Competition), Munich (opening night, American Independent section), London, Florence, Deauville, Toronto and Edinburgh before winning the Best Director Award at the Torino Film Festival. The film is acknowledged by the British Film Institute as one of the “100 Best American Independents.”
Greenwald’s acclaimed, groundbreaking Western, The Ballad of Little Jo, was released worldwide by Fine Line Features and Polygram Filmed Entertainment in 1993. It won an Independent Spirit Award. Inspired by early country ballads, Greenwald subsequently wrote and directed her music-based drama, Songcatcher. The film premiered in Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2000 where it garnered a Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance. The film was the opening night selection of the Hamptons Film Festival and received the first Sloan Foundation Award, Deauville Film Festival Audience Award, two Independent Spirit Award nominations and a GLAAD Award nomination. In 2013 Greenwald directed the teen film The Last Keepers, starring Zosia Mamet, Aidan Quinn, Virginia Madsen and Olympia Dukakis. In 2002 Greenwald was awarded the Dorothy Arzner Award from the Director’s View Film Festival. For television, Greenwald has directed the GLAAD Award-winning film What Makes A Family (starring Brooke Shields, Whoopi Goldberg and Cherry Jones – 2000), Tempted (starring Virginia Madsen – 2002 ) and Comfort and Joy (starring Dixie Carter – 2003) for Lifetime Television. Get A Clue, (starring Lindsay Lohan and Brenda Song- 2001) for Disney Channel. Good Morning, Killer (starring Catherine Bell – 2011) for TNT. Episodic work includes The Adventures of Pete & Pete (Cable ACE Award), The Mystery Files Of Shelby Woo and Wildfire.
Maggie Greenwald Biography / Wiki
Name
Maggie Greenwald
Also Know
Gender
Female
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Date of Birth
1955-06-23
Age(as in 2022)
67
Deathday
Maggie Greenwald Acting Movies
Movie Name
Character
Release Date
Overview
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Self
1997-07-27
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western….
Maggie Greenwald Directing Movies
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
Get a Clue
Director
2002-06-28
A wealthy student with too much fashion sense, her equally rich friends, and her rival/superior from the school paper work together to solve the case …
The Last Keepers
Director
2013-01-04
This romantic fantasy movie is about two people who are the last survivors of an ancient line of goddess worshipers, who sell art at a shop. When thei…
The Kill-Off
Director
1989-05-01
The film is set in a small coastal community in New Jersey where the only action is a nightclub called The Pavilion. The owner, Pete, can barely make …
Good Morning, Killer
Director
2011-12-13
Follows FBI Special Agent Ana Gray as she hunts for a kidnapper. As Ana develops a rapport with the kidnapper’s latest victim, the suspect suddenly ch…
Tempted
Director
2003-03-10
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the oppo…
The Ballad of Little Jo
Director
1993-08-20
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents’ home after bein…
Songcatcher
Director
2001-03-01
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who…
Sophie and the Rising Sun
Director
2016-01-27
In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their …
Home Remedy
Director
1987-07-22
A 30-year-old bachelor who refuses to leave his house strikes up a relationship with a neurotic neighbor….
Comfort and Joy
Director
2003-12-01
High-powered single-woman Jane Berry is focused on the important things in life, such as advancing her career and spending a bundle on fashionable sho…
Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane
Director
2018-11-24
Emma Reynolds returns to Oliver’s Well to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the home they grew up in. After their parents rec…
What Makes a Family
Director
2001-01-22
Janine and Sandy are a lesbian couple who decide to have a baby, but after a few years Sandy dies. This tragedy is exploited by Sandy’s parents to sna…
Director
After serving time at a juvenile detention center, eighteen-year-old Kris Furillo is given the opportunity to start a new life. Her talent with horses…
Director
After years away from the CIA, Elizabeth McCord is pulled back into the political arena. The newly appointed Secretary of State is tough, fair and sma…
Director
Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, …
Maggie Greenwald Production Movies
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
Sophie and the Rising Sun
Producer
2016-01-27
In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their …
Writing
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
The Kill-Off
Writer
1989-05-01
The film is set in a small coastal community in New Jersey where the only action is a nightclub called The Pavilion. The owner, Pete, can barely make …
The Ballad of Little Jo
Writer
1993-08-20
Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents’ home after bein…
Songcatcher
Writer
2001-03-01
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who…
Sophie and the Rising Sun
Screenplay
2016-01-27
In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their …
Home Remedy
Screenplay
1987-07-22
A 30-year-old bachelor who refuses to leave his house strikes up a relationship with a neurotic neighbor….
Sound
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
The Devonsville Terror
Music Editor
1983-10-15
Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch’s curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which an…
