Gray's first narrative feature, SALT, was filmed in Iceland and premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2003 where it garnered the Caligari Film Prize for Innovative Filmmaking. It was selected for over 20 International festivals and won three more international awards.
Gray’s second feature, THE EXPLODING GIRL, was distributed theatrically by Oscilloscope Pictures in the spring of 2010. Starring Zoe Kazan, and shot on the Red camera, it opened to critical acclaim. The film was also screened at a multitude of film festivals including the Berlin International Film Festival, the London International Film Festival, and at the Tribeca Film Festival, where Zoe Kazan won Best Actress.
Gray’s short film hITCH premiered at the prestigious New York Film Festival in 1999 and later won an award at Sundance in 2000. hITCH was also selected as one of the 'Best Films of the Year' in Film Comment Magazine and Gray was featured as one of the ‘25 Filmmakers to Watch’ that year in Filmmaker Magazine.
He has also produced So Yong Kim’s second feature TREELESS MOUNTAIN, shot on location in South Korea in 2008. After the film was showcased at various international film festivals, it saw a theatrical release in the spring of 2009 by Oscilloscope Pictures. The film was also nominated for several Independent Spirit Awards in 2010, including the John Cassavetes Award.
In addition, Gray has produced and co-wrote IN BETWEEN DAYS, the first feature film by So Yong Kim. IN BETWEEN DAYS was awarded a Special Jury Prize for Independent Vision at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI International Critic’s Prize at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival International Forum for New Cinema. It was released by Kino theatrically in 2006 to great critical acclaim.
Gray is a Fulbright scholar who has received graduate degrees from both USC and the British Film Institute in London. His undergraduate work focused on architecture, sculpture, and experimental filmmaking with a degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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