Joseph Swanberg was born on August 31,1981 and is an American independent film director, producer, writer, and actor.
13 Facts About Joe Swanberg
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Joe Swanberg was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Georgia and Alabama.
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Joe Swanberg graduated from Naperville Central High School in suburban Chicago and attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale as a film major, earning a bachelor's degree in 2003.
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In 2005, Joe Swanberg directed Kissing on the Mouth, his first feature film, for a modest budget.
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Joe Swanberg followed it with LOL, which marked Swanberg's first time working with actress Greta Gerwig.
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Gerwig and Joe Swanberg collaborated on the director's next two features: Hannah Takes the Stairs, which starred filmmakers Andrew Bujalski, Ry Russo-Young, and Mark Duplass and marked Joe Swanberg's first collaboration with animator and actor Kent Osborne; and Nights and Weekends, on which Gerwig shared a directing credit.
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Four of these were later included in Joe Swanberg: Collected Films 2011, a DVD boxed set from the music and video label Factory 25.
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In 2012, Swanberg wrote and directed the film Drinking Buddies, starring Olivia Wilde, Jake M Johnson, Anna Kendrick and Ron Livingston.
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Joe Swanberg shot Happy Christmas, starring himself, Melanie Lynskey, Lena Dunham, and Anna Kendrick.
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Joe Swanberg wrote, directed, and produced Easy, an anthology series for Netflix.
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Joe Swanberg is a noted proponent of Internet-based distribution for independent films and has made his 2011 feature Marriage Material available for free on his Vimeo page.
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Joe Swanberg released his 2020 feature, Build the Wall, starring Kent Osborne and Jane Adams, on his Vimeo page.
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In 2021, Joe Swanberg opened Analog Pizza and Video Store, a VHS video rental shop in the back room of Borelli's Pizzeria in Chicago.