Todd
Haynes

As an established American director and screenwriter of independent films, he deals with a variety of themes, from the personalities of famous musicians to dysfunctional and dystopian societies and gender stereotypes. After his debut in 1991 with the provocative Poison, with which he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and inaugurated the cinematographic current later defined as New Queer Cinema, he made Safe (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Far from Paradise (2002), I'm Not Here (2007), inspired by the life and work of Bob Dylan, the miniseries Mildred Pierce, with which he won five Emmys and three Golden Globes, Carol (2015), proclaimed Best LGBT Film of All Time by the BFI, and The Room of Wonders (2017), based on the book by Brian Selznick.