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Born | Sarah-Violet Bliss |
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Years active | 2010-present |
Sarah-Violet Bliss is an American filmmaker best known for her movie Fort Tilden and the TV series Search Party.
Bliss attended New York University's MFA Film Program. While there she collaborated with James Franco and eleven other student filmmakers to co-direct The Color of Time, a film on the life of poet C.K. Williams that starred Franco, Mila Kunis and Jessica Chastain. The film premiered at the 2012 Rome Film Festival. The film was released on December 12, 2014, in a limited release and through video on demand by Starz Digital Media.
In 2014, her film Fort Tilden, written and directed in collaboration with Charles Rogers, premiered at SXSW on March 8, 2014, where it won the SXSW Grand Jury award. The film was acquired by revived Orion Pictures and was released on August 14, 2015, in a limited release, and through video on demand.
Bliss and Rogers teamed up again for the 2016 comedy/detective TV series Search Party, starring Alia Shawkat, which they co-created with Michael Showalter.Search Party received critical acclaim; the Los Angeles Times wrote that it was "tightly made and effective on multiple levels."