Joel Potrykus (born July 10, 1977) is an American film director and screenwriter. His feature film debut Ape won the Best New Director prize at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival, [1 ] while his follow-up feature Buzzard won the Fipresci Prize…
With his features and new short film, Thing from the Factory by the Field, currently playing on the Criterion Channel, the writer-director selects ten movies that influenced his style.
AFI FEST: Director JoelPotrykus Talks American Indie Buzzard Joel Potrykus’ second feature, Buzzard, follows Marty (played by Joshua Burge), a mortgage office temp in Grand Rapids, Michigan with almost no ambi