Сара Маршалл Кернохан: Документалисті, режиссер және сценарист өмірі мен шығармалары

American documentarian, film director, screenwriter, producer, singer songwriter

Sarah Marshall Kernochan ('/k//ɛər//n//ə//k//ɛ//n/ KAIRnəken; born December 30, 1947) is an American documentarian, film director, screenwriter and novelist. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including two Academy Awards (Documentary Feature for Marjoe in 1973 and Documentary Short Subject for Thoth in 2002)

Kernochan was born in New York City, the daughter of Adelaide (Chatfield Taylor), a UNESCO consultant, and John Marshall Kernochan, a Columbia Law School professor. Her maternal grandfather was Wayne Chatfield Taylor, Under Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Her maternal great grandparents included writers Hobart Chatfield Taylor and Anna De Koven. Her great great grandfather was Illinois Senator and XIT Ranch owner Charles B. Farwell. Her paternal grandfather was composer Marshall Kernochan. She graduated from Rosemary Hall (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in 1965, where Kernochan was classmates with Glenn Close, and attended Sarah Lawrence College in 1966. After quitting that job, she became interested in documentary film making and soon gained national prominence in the United States as co director and co producer with Howard Smith of the film Marjoe (1972) (about evangelist Marjoe Gortner), which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature. Kernochan's first screen credit as a screenwriter came with the film 9½ Weeks (1986). She followed that film with the script for Dancers (1987), starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and directed by Herbert Ross, which chronicled the backstage drama of a ballet company (played by American Ballet Theatre dancers) and their director during the staging of the ballet Giselle. By the time she was brought in to work on the film Sommersby (1993), she had become known for a particular style of writing in Hollywood. She commented in an interview with Salon. com: co wrote
the story for What Lies Beneath (2000); and directed Thoth (2002) and wrote Learning to Drive (2014). Her second documentary, Thoth, also won an Academy Award in 2002, this time for Best Documentary Short Subject. She has taught screenwriting at Emerson College. In August 2014, her feature script Learning to Drive, based on a New Yorker story by Katha Pollitt, went before cameras. Starring Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson, the film was released in the United States on August 21, 2015. Currently, Kernochan is developing the musical Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor as librettist, along with composer Alan Menken, lyricist Nell Benjamin, and director James Lapine.

In 1977, Kernochan's novel Dry Hustle ( in hard cover, in paperback) was published. It was reprinted as an ebook in 2011. In June 2011, Kernochan released her first novel in over 35 years entitled Jane Was Here A mysterious young woman, calling herself Jane, arrives in the small rundown community of Graynier, Massachusetts. She can point out the house where she grew up, though she has never been to Graynier in her life. Jane carries with her the fragmentary memory of her former life, and refuses to adjust to her new identity. Thus begins Jane's mission, to retrieve the puzzle pieces of a former life, groping her way through the past and the present simultaneously.

Sarah is also a singer, lyricist and composer. During the next two years after the release of Marjoe, she released two albums on RCA Records as a singer songwriter, House of Pain and Beat Around the Bush. Kernochan released her third album as a singer songwriter, Decades of Demos, in 2013. She also wrote the musical Sleeparound Town, which was a show about puberty and featured five adolescents.