Director Ryan Fleck will be presenting the poker road movie Mississippi Grind, which he directed in tandem with Anna Boden, for audiences in Karlovy Vary.
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have been a filmmaking duo since 2002, when they started writing screenplays together and directed short films and documentaries. Their first two feature films Half Nelson (2006) and Sugar (2008) had their premieres at the Sundance festival. They later won the Gotham and Spirit awards for Half Nelson, with leading actor Ryan Gosling being nominated for an Oscar and an SAG award. The sports drama Sugar was also nominated for Gotham and Spirit awards and won the prize of the American Film Institute.
Their third film, It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on the novel by Ned Vizzini, came out in 2010 at the Toronto festival. Anna and Ryan have also collaborated with HBO and Showtime on television series. The team returned to the Sundance festival in January of this year with the road movie Mississippi Grind.
