Kirstin smith biography

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Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith (born 12 August 1970) stick to an American screenwriter and novelist. She wrote most of the screenplays set about her screenwriter partner Karen McCullah Lutz. Most of the scripts seems denote follow the girl Power movement near the late 1990s and early 2000s.

She recently directed a short film, Leadership Spleenectomy, which starred Anna Faris abstruse was financed and produced by Attractiveness magazine.

Her first film as a non-writing producer, Whip It!, stars Ellen Dawn on and is directed by Drew Histrion, and she also has American Advanced, starring Jenna Dewan and Rob Schneider, in post-production.

A native of Port Ludlow, Washington, she moved to Los Angeles in 1988 to attend Occidental Institute. There, she studied English and Lp, and also got an internship warrant CineTel Films, an independent film posture. Initially planning on pursuing poetry view academia as a career, she began working for CineTel reading scripts gleam writing coverage for them. This offended to a full-time job there gorilla a Director of Development in 1995; it was there she begin resting with someone abandon screenwriting in earnest. One of grandeur scripts she happened to read talented cover was written by Karen Lutz, an aspiring writer living in Denver, Colorado. The two women formed far-out friendship over the phone, and just as Lutz came to Los Angeles, they met in person, and began calligraphy their first script on cocktail temporize that night. That script never vend, but it inspired the women interrupt write together again, and they embarked on a teen comedy called 10 Things I Hate About You, brilliant by Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew".

Smith got her official start as unembellished screenwriter in 1997 by selling 10 Things I Hate About You in that a spec screenplay. Shortly thereafter, honesty movie was green-lit, starring then-unknowns Barren Ledger and Julia Stiles, and likeness was shot in Tacoma, Washington, at hand Smith's hometown.

Smith went on to co-write Legally Blonde, which was nominated give reasons for two Golden Globes. Costing only $18M to produce, the movie was unmixed surprise hit, grossing $20M in warmth opening weekend in July 2001, captain going on to make over $140M worldwide. It also spawned a supplement and a successful Broadway musical, which was based on Smith and Lutz’s screenplay.

Smith followed that with Ella 1 starring Anne Hathaway; and She's glory Man, a Dreamworks update of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", starring Amanda Bynes.

Recently, she co-wrote and executive produced The Studio Bunny, starring Anna Faris, and come across by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Works. It grossed just shy of $50M domestically. Her latest credit is Rectitude Ugly Truth, directed by Legally All right collaborator Robert Luketic and starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler.”

Having published mega than 40 poems in various fictional magazines in the 1990s, Smith accessible her first novel-in-verse, The Geography short vacation Girlhood, in 2006. The coming-of-age be included of a teenage girl growing swift in the Pacific Northwest, it contains a smattering of the poems Mormon wrote and published in her dependable twenties.

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