River City will be rocked by a harrowing storyline as a storm blows in wrecking havoc in Shieldinch and a character left for dead.
30.12.2022 - 04:17 / thewrap.com
Neal Jimenez, the writer-director behind a string of acclaimed films in the 1980s and 1990s, including the thriller “River’s Edge” and his directorial debut, the semi-autobiographical drama “The Waterdance,” died Dec. 11 from heart failure, his family has announced. He was 62.Paralyzed in a hiking accident while he was a student at UCLA in 1984, Jimenez paved the way for disability representation with “The Waterdance,” the 1991 drama starring Eric Stoltz as a writer struggling to recover after being paralyzed from the neck down.
Based in part on his own recovery, the film was released to critical acclaim and won Best First Feature and Best Screenplay at the 1992 Independent Spirit Awards.Jimenez also wrote the screenplays for “For the Boys” (1991), “Sleep With Me” (1994) and “Hideaway” (1995 among other things.)“My brother had a passion for writing and creating. The clack of typing seemed to daily come through his bedroom walls. He had drawers full of typed pages and journals filled with his words and ink doodles.
He wrote then because he had to, he needed to and he wanted to,” Jimenez’s sister, Elizabeth Rathjen said in a statement. “I always imagined walking into a bookstore and seeing books authored by my brother. Instead it was a video store and movies.
As far back as I can remember, my brother would make short movies on Super 8 with his friends. He spent hours cutting and splicing film together. He seemed to know how he wanted the film to look.
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