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In November 2016, it was announced Lowery had shot a new film, A Ghost Story, over the summer with Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck as a secret project.

In July 2016, it was announced Lowery would direct an episode of Breakthrough for National Geographic Channel. Lowery also co-wrote the screenplay alongside Toby Halbrooks. In April 2016, Lowery directed a remake of Disney's Pete's Dragon, which was met with positive reviews. The film was eventually directed by Alexandre Moors and stars Jack Huston, Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich and Jennifer Aniston. At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, it was announced that Lowery would write and direct the film adaptation of the novel The Yellow Birds, written by Iraq War veteran Kevin Powers it was a 2012 National Book Award finalist. In addition to having edited films such as Amy Seimetz's Sun Don't Shine and Shane Carruth's Upstream Color, Lowery co-wrote Pit Stop with director Yen Tan. Miller, and Paul Thomas Anderson and David Fincher as influences. Lowery has said that he drew from great directors and their works for this film, citing Claire Denis's 35 Shots of Rum, Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. It was selected to compete at the International Critics' Week section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In 2013, Lowery wrote, directed and edited his second feature film, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. That same year, he wrote and directed the short film entitled Pioneer, which played at the Sundance Film Festival that year. In 2011, Lowery started his own production company, Sailor Bear.

It won the Texas Filmmaker Award at the 2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival. Nick, which follows two runaway children abandoned by their guardians, premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest festival. Īt the age of 19, Lowery wrote and directed his first film, a short entitled Lullaby. When he was seven, his family moved to Irving, Texas for his father's work. In 2021, he directed the fantasy epic The Green Knight.īorn in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 26, 1980, David Lowery is the eldest of nine children born to Madeleine and Mark Lowery. In 2017, he directed the drama film A Ghost Story and in 2018, he directed The Old Man & the Gun. It was a new work loosely based on the same original story as the Disney 1977 musical of the same name.

In 2016, he directed the Disney film Pete's Dragon (2016), a live-action film which he had co-written. His original work Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013), starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. David Lowery (born December 26, 1980) is an American filmmaker.