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Wash Westmoreland
Paul "Wash" Westmoreland (born 4 March 1966), previously known professionally as Wash West, is a British director who has worked in television, documentaries, and independent films. He frequently collaborated with his husband, writer-director Richard Glatzer. Together, they wrote and directed the 2014 film Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova's NYT best-selling book and starring Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, and Alec Baldwin. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress for Julianne Moore and Humanitas Prize for feature film for the duo. Their 2006 coming-of-age feature film, Quinceañera, won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
Westmoreland was born Paul Westmoreland in Leeds, England, on 4 March 1966. Born during Beatlemania, Westmoreland was named after The Beatles band member Paul McCartney and grew up preferring being referred to by his nickname, Wash, as a means of distinguishing himself from all the other Pauls at his school. His father was a maintenance engineer for the CEGB and his mother worked as a receptionist at a local hair salon.[citation needed]
Westmoreland earned his college degree in Politics and East Asian Studies at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Fukuoka University in Japan, graduating in 1990. He moved to the United States in 1992, initially living in New York City, then moving to New Orleans and finally to Los Angeles in 1995.
After working as a camera assistant on Bruce LaBruce's movie Hustler White, Westmoreland entered the adult entertainment world to try to research a feature film project, The Fluffer. He got a job directing for BIG Video, a minor label, and under the name Wash West, he started making movies that challenged the conventional norms of the industry. Dr Jerkoff and Mr Hard and Naked Highway were his first significant films.[citation needed]
Westmoreland directed the cat-and-mouse thriller Animus, sci-fi based Technical Ecstasy, and The Devil is a Bottom, which was listed in the LA Weekly staff's annual list of favorite movies in 2000.
During this time, Westmoreland also started to work in mainstream films. He appeared briefly in Velvet Goldmine by director Todd Haynes. Haynes worked with Westmoreland as a producer on Quinceañera.
Glatzer and Westmoreland's first collaboration was on The Fluffer, a look at obsession, addiction, and power relationships within the gay porn industry. The film starred Michael Cunio, Roxanne Day, Scott Gurney, and Deborah Harry. It premiered at the Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals in 2001 and secured US distribution from First Run Features. It received mixed positive reviews and gained almost instant cult status, John Waters including it in his famous series Ten Movies That Will Corrupt You.[citation needed] Around this time, he gave a candid interview about his experiences in the industry to Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air.
Working alone, Westmoreland made a documentary during the 2004 election season, following four Log Cabin Republicans as they responded to President George W. Bush's initiative to alter the US Constitution to ensure that marriage was only legal between a man and a woman. The documentary, Gay Republicans was produced for Andrew Cohen at Bravo, and Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato at World of Wonder. An extended version of the film premiered at the AFI festival in 2004 to a riotous response. It ended up winning the festival's documentary prize and gaining a distribution deal on DVD.
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Wash Westmoreland
Paul "Wash" Westmoreland (born 4 March 1966), previously known professionally as Wash West, is a British director who has worked in television, documentaries, and independent films. He frequently collaborated with his husband, writer-director Richard Glatzer. Together, they wrote and directed the 2014 film Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova's NYT best-selling book and starring Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, and Alec Baldwin. The film won many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress for Julianne Moore and Humanitas Prize for feature film for the duo. Their 2006 coming-of-age feature film, Quinceañera, won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
Westmoreland was born Paul Westmoreland in Leeds, England, on 4 March 1966. Born during Beatlemania, Westmoreland was named after The Beatles band member Paul McCartney and grew up preferring being referred to by his nickname, Wash, as a means of distinguishing himself from all the other Pauls at his school. His father was a maintenance engineer for the CEGB and his mother worked as a receptionist at a local hair salon.[citation needed]
Westmoreland earned his college degree in Politics and East Asian Studies at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Fukuoka University in Japan, graduating in 1990. He moved to the United States in 1992, initially living in New York City, then moving to New Orleans and finally to Los Angeles in 1995.
After working as a camera assistant on Bruce LaBruce's movie Hustler White, Westmoreland entered the adult entertainment world to try to research a feature film project, The Fluffer. He got a job directing for BIG Video, a minor label, and under the name Wash West, he started making movies that challenged the conventional norms of the industry. Dr Jerkoff and Mr Hard and Naked Highway were his first significant films.[citation needed]
Westmoreland directed the cat-and-mouse thriller Animus, sci-fi based Technical Ecstasy, and The Devil is a Bottom, which was listed in the LA Weekly staff's annual list of favorite movies in 2000.
During this time, Westmoreland also started to work in mainstream films. He appeared briefly in Velvet Goldmine by director Todd Haynes. Haynes worked with Westmoreland as a producer on Quinceañera.
Glatzer and Westmoreland's first collaboration was on The Fluffer, a look at obsession, addiction, and power relationships within the gay porn industry. The film starred Michael Cunio, Roxanne Day, Scott Gurney, and Deborah Harry. It premiered at the Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals in 2001 and secured US distribution from First Run Features. It received mixed positive reviews and gained almost instant cult status, John Waters including it in his famous series Ten Movies That Will Corrupt You.[citation needed] Around this time, he gave a candid interview about his experiences in the industry to Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air.
Working alone, Westmoreland made a documentary during the 2004 election season, following four Log Cabin Republicans as they responded to President George W. Bush's initiative to alter the US Constitution to ensure that marriage was only legal between a man and a woman. The documentary, Gay Republicans was produced for Andrew Cohen at Bravo, and Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato at World of Wonder. An extended version of the film premiered at the AFI festival in 2004 to a riotous response. It ended up winning the festival's documentary prize and gaining a distribution deal on DVD.
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