Oren Moverman is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on July 4, 1966 in Jaffa, Tel Aviv District, Israel. Moverman produced and directed The Dinner, based on the Herman Koch bestseller, in 2017. The film features Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Chloe Sevigny, Rebecca Hall, Charlie Plummer, Adepero Oduye and Michael Chernus. The film, which was released by Orchard, was an official selection of the Berlin Film Festival.
Moverman also wrote and produced Marc Meyers’ Human Capital, an adaptation of Stephen Amidon’s 2005 novel, starring Liev Schreiber, Maya Hawke, Peter Sarsgaard, and Marisa Tomei, distributed in 2020 by Vertical Entertainment.
Moverman produced Cory Finley’s second feature, Bad Education, starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney, which sold to HBO at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, premiering in April 2020, and executive produced Justin Simien’s follow up to Dear White People, Bad Hair, sold to Hulu at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Both films are Sight Unseen productions.
In the following, Moverman wrote and directed the IFC release, Time Out of Mind which starred Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Jena Malone, Kyra Sedgwick Steve Buscemi, Jeremy Strong and Colman Domingo as well as others. It was awarded The International Critics Award at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival.
Moverman worked together with Harrelson as well as Foster on his directorial debut in 2011. film Rampart and was co-written by James Ellroy. Alongside Harrelson and Foster in addition to serving as producers the film also starred Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ice Cube, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Steve Buscemi, Audra McDonald, Jon Bernthal, Brie Larson, and a host of others.
At the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Moverman had three films in competition as a producer and one Premiere Section film he wrote. He produced Paul Dano’s directorial debut, Wildlife (IFC), based on the Richard Ford story, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan. The film was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards. Moverman also produced Jennifer Fox’s The Tale (HBO), starring Laura Dern, Common and Ellen Burstyn. The Tale earned two Emmy nominations, including Best TV Movie and a leading actress nod for Dern, as well as three Independent Spirit Awards nominations. Moverman also executive produced the Sight Unseen film from breakout director Reinaldo Marcus Green, Monsters and Men (Neon), starring John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, and Kelvin Harrison Jr., which won a Sundance Jury Award for first film and was nominated for one Independent Spirit Award. He wrote Puzzle (Sony Pictures Classics), directed by Marc Turtletaub and starring Kelly Macdonald and Irrfan Khan, which won the Audience Award at the 2018 Deauville Film Festival.
