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Daniel Algrant
Birth at
25 September 1959
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Director and screenwriter Dan (Daniel) Algrant gained fame thanks to a phone call from Martin Scorsese. In 1980, he made a documentary short about jazz, then studied with a venerable director at film courses at Columbia University and wrote a script that attracted the attention of the master. As a result, Scorsese acted as an executive producer in the film of the unknown debutant Dan Algrant on the set of the semi-autobiographical love drama Naked in New York (1994). In addition, a great help to
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Director and screenwriter Dan (Daniel) Algrant gained fame thanks to a phone call from Martin Scorsese. In 1980, he made a documentary short about jazz, then studied with a venerable director at film courses at Columbia University and wrote a script that attracted the attention of the master. As a result, Scorsese acted as an executive producer in the film of the unknown debutant Dan Algrant on the set of the semi-autobiographical love drama Naked in New York (1994). In addition, a great help to the novice director had the advice of the master. After the success of the film at the Sundance Film Festival, its creator drew attention, various proposals followed, and soon he was already filming the TV series Sex and the City. In 2002, Dan Algrant directed The Right People with Al Pacino and Kim Basinger.