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Herbert James Winterstern. Director: Supercell. Winterstern's feature debut Supercell (2023), was released on March 17th by Saban Films. Alec Baldwin, Anne Heche, Daniel Diemer and Skeet Ulrich star. The film premiered at the 2022 Newport Beach Film Festival & won the grand jury prize in cinematography.
- Director, Writer
- 2 min
- Herbert James Winterstern
- Supercell Draws from Classic Blockbuster Movies
- Winterstern's Personal Themes of Family
- Supercell Uses A Small Budget in A Big Way
- Big Actors Like Alec Baldwin Join The Indie Movie
- Winterstern Pays Tribute to The Late Anne Heche
Supercell follows young William Brody (Diemer), a student who cares less about school than he does storm chasing. That's because his father, a legend in the field, died during a storm years ago, and the event haunts his family. His mother Quinn (the late, great Anne Heche) justifiably hates the pursuit of storm chasing and has been trying to get Wi...
One of the main reasons that Winterstern sought to reference these films is because he felt that they conveyed a kind of familial structure that's absent in many modern action-adventure movies; the whole family could feasibly enjoy Close Encounters of the Third Kind, though not so much The Gray Man. This was personal for the filmmaker. "Family was ...
Those themes are certainly prescient and understandable for Winterstern's first feature film as a director, but he certainly took a big risk co-writing and directing an independent film that seems more suited for a $100 million studio picture. "I was completely naive," said Winterstern. "For me, I just wanted to write a story that I was passionate ...
The presence of Anne Heche and Alec Baldwin certainly increases the clout of the film; they, alongside the impressively epic scope and look of the film, make this feel like a much bigger movie than it probably should be. Diemer is extremely endearing and mature as the lead, but Heche and Baldwin are the big names that are delightful to watch. Baldw...
It's a great project that returned these bigger actors to their roots, and a touching way for Heche to end her career; the actor sadly passed away in 2022, and Winterstern knew how special her appearance was. "She was one of the greats, and really knew how to break the ice," recalled Winterstern. "When we first spoke on the phone, we talked about t...
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Herbert James Winterstern. Director: Supercell. Winterstern's feature debut Supercell (2023), was released on March 17th by Saban Films. Alec Baldwin, Anne Heche, Daniel Diemer and Skeet Ulrich star. The film premiered at the 2022 Newport Beach Film Festival & won the grand jury prize in cinematography.
Mar 23, 2023 · Herbert James “Jamie” Winterstern recently spoke with Script about the seed of this story, writing from a personal place, his creative collaborations with his co-writer Anna Elizabeth James, cinematographer Andrew Jeric, and composer Corey Wallace, and why character always comes first.
Supercell is a 2023 American disaster action film directed by Herbert James Winterstern from a screenplay that he wrote with Anna Elizabeth James. It stars Skeet Ulrich, Anne Heche, Daniel Diemer, Jordan Kristine Seamón and Alec Baldwin.
Mar 17, 2023 · Supercell: Directed by Herbert James Winterstern. With Skeet Ulrich, Anne Heche, Daniel Diemer, Jordan Kristine Seamón. A teenage boy runs away to follow in the footsteps of his father, legendary storm chaser Bill Brody.
Aug 19, 2013 · Born and raised in Montreal, Jamie Winterstern ( Herbert James Winterstern professionally) always dreamed of being a director. For the last decade he has been living in Los Angeles in pursuit of...
