Sebastian Gutierrez
| Sebastian Gutierrez | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 10, 1974 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, film producer |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Partner(s) | Carla Gugino |
Sebastian Gutierrez (born September 10, 1974) is a Venezuelan film director, screenwriter and film producer. known for writing the screenplays to the films Gothika, Snakes on a Plane, The Eye and The Big Bounce, and writing and directing two independent female-driven ensemble comedies, Women in Trouble and Elektra Luxx.
He won the Critics' Award at the Festival du Film Policier de Cognac for his directorial debut Judas Kiss.
Gutiérrez wrote and directed one of the first motion pictures made expressly for internet distribution, the ensemble crime comedy Girl Walks into a Bar, starring Carla Gugino, Rosario Dawson, Robert Forster, Danny DeVito, Josh Hartnett and Alexis Bledel, among others. Gutiérrez cowrote a song for the film, "Only Bad Can Come", with composer Grant Lee Phillips.
As a screenwriter, he has written Gothika, Snakes on a Plane, The Eye, The Big Bounce and Hotel Noir.
He has written and directed two independent female-driven ensemble comedies, Women in Trouble and Elektra Luxx, revolving around a group of Los Angeles women. The two movies are part of a trilogy with the third movie already announced, Women In Ecstasy. Carla Gugino stars as the namesake character Elektra Luxx, a recently retired porn star trying to figure out how to lead a "normal" life, along with Connie Britton, Julianne Moore, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Brolin, Simon Baker, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Adrianne Palicki.
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