BEFORE NIGHT FALLS

He was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1951. He attended the University of Houston, receiving a BFA. His paintings, sculptures and works on paper have been the subject of retrospective exhibitions at places such as Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and The Tate Gallery in London. In the 1990s, he turned his attention toward film and in 1996 debuted with the criticallyacclaimed Basquiat. His film Before Night Falls won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice FF 2000. This year sees the premiere of two new Schnabel films: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Best Director at Cannes IFF 2007) and Lou Reed’s Berlin.