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American film director

Andrew Bujalski (/b//ʊ/'/dʒ//æ//l//s//k//i/; born April 29, 1977) is an American film director, screenwriter and actor, who has been called the "godfather of mumblecore."

Bujalski, born in Boston in 1977, is the son of artist turned businesswoman Sheila Dubman and businessman Edmund Bujalski. His father is Catholic and his mother is Jewish. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, where he attended the same high school as Beeswax collaborator Alex Karpovsky (although the two didn't know each other at the time). Bujalski studied film at Harvard's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, where the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman was his thesis advisor. He shot his first feature, Funny Ha Ha, in 2002 and followed it with Mutual Appreciation in 2003. They received theatrical distribution in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Bujalski wrote both screenplays and appears as an actor, playing a major role in both films. In 2006 he appeared as an actor and contributed to the screenplay of the Joe Swanberg film Hannah Takes the Stairs. Beeswax and Computer Chess, Bujalski's third and fourth films, were filmed in Austin, where the director lives. Beeswax was released in summer 2009. While making it Bujalski wrote a screenplay adaptation of Benjamin Kunkel's 2005 novel Indecision for Paramount Pictures. His fourth feature, Computer Chess, is a period film set at a computer programming tournament in 1980. It premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and won the Alfred Sloan Feature Film Prize. It is his first feature edited digitally and the only feature film shot almost exclusively with original Sony 1968 AVC 3260 B&W video cameras. Bujalski married Karen Olsson in 2009. They have two children. Bujalski also has worked as a writer on several studio projects, including, most recently, the live action remake of Disney’s Lady and the Tramp.