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L.A. WRITER/DIRECTOR GORDY HOFFMAN TO SPEAK AT TAMPA'S FMPTA MEETING

2/12/2010

Gordy’s screenplay, “Love Liza,” directed by Todd Louisa and starring his brother Philip Seymour Hoffman, won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. In 2001, Gordy was chosen for Fox Searchlab, a director development program at Fox Searchlight, where he wrote and directed three digital shorts, “The Woman who Stopped Seeing Movies,” “Jack Signs” and “Untitled.” He made his feature directorial debut with his script “A Coat of Snow”, which had its world premiere at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival and went on to be screened at the Milan Film Festival, made its North American Premiere at the Arclight in Hollywood, and won the Domani Vision Award at VisionFest, held at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York. Hoffman is in the area to conduct a screenwriting workshop on Feb. 20.

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