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George Tillman, Jr. (born January 26, 1969) is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director.〔(【引用サイトリンク】The New York Times">title=George Tillman, Jr. )〕 Tillman is most notable for directing the films ''Soul Food'' (1997) and ''Men of Honor'' (2000). He is also the producer of the ''Soul Food: The Series'' on television and the three films in the ''Barbershop'' series: ''Barbershop'', ''Barbershop 2: Back in Business'', and ''Beauty Shop''. He also directed the 2009 biopic ''Notorious'' about the New York-born rapper The Notorious B.I.G.. Tillman was nominated for the Black Film Award for Best Director for ''Soul Food'' (1997). Tillman was also nominated for the Black Reel Award for Best Director and Best Screenplay for ''Notorious'' (2009). ==Early life== Tillman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father, George Tillman, worked at the American Motors plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and his mother worked as a secretary.〔Alexander, George. Why We Make Movies. Random House, Inc, 2003. Print.〕 Throughout his early childhood, Tillman would borrow his father's 8mm camera and would start to shoot things with Milwaukee's Public-access television cable TV channel.〔 By age eight, Tillman got his hands on his very first television script, ''All My Children'', and wrote his first soap opera as well as his first five-minute show. Tillman recalled, years later, to an interviewer in regard to receiving the ''All My Childrens script," I told them about a certain plot change that I wanted and I thought I could help the characters out…That was the beginning for me, the writing."〔 In 1975, Tillman became inspired to create his own films after seeing the film, ''Cooley High''.〔 To Tillman, ''Cooley High'' spoke to the African American audience in both tears and laughter, and Tillman decided he wanted to contribute to that medium, but did not necessarily know if he wanted to become an actor, writer or director. In 1973, when Tillman watched ''Five on the Black Hand Side'' and ''Claudine'' in 1974, he felt empowered and knew he wanted to become a filmmaker.〔 "Those were the films that made me realize that African American films- this is before they started calling some films of that era Black exploitation films-spoke for us, and I wanted to be involved with that."〔 Tillman went to John Marshall High School in Milwaukee〔Causey, James E. "Filmmaker focuses on black experience" ''Milwaukee Sentinel'' June 22, 1992〕 and he took Mass Communications Magnet Classes. As a teenager, Tillman made amateur videos and created ''Splice of Life'', which was a program for a local Public-access television.〔 After high school, Tillman attended Columbia College in Chicago and majored in Film and Video. Tillman decided to move to Chicago because he thought a lot was happening there creatively. "There is a lot of theater there, and there are a lot of things happening in Chicago that I wanted to be a part of, so that's where I went to film school," according to Tillman.〔 While in film school, he created a 30-minute short, ''Paula'', which was a story of a 17-year-old, single African American mother who works in a diner and motivates the people around her. ''Paulas success attributed to numerous awards including the Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame Award "George Tillman Jr.".〔Tribute.ca. Tribute Entertainment Media Group, 2011. Web. February 15, 2011. (Tribute.ca ).〕 and winning the Midwest Regional, Dramatic Category, of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' 19th Annual Student Academy Award competition (1992).〔Columbia Chronicle, May 4, 1992, p. 5 Tillman began to write his script for ''Scenes for the Soul'', and sent the script to New Line, but they passed on it. Initially, the budget to produce ''Scenes for the Soul'' was a million dollars, but Tillman and his partner, Tietel, could not raise a million. The amount they had raised was $150,000 and that was over a period of two years.〔 Tillman had to resort to his film short, ''Paula'', and decided to have a screening. He invited investors to come donate from anything to $500 to $5,000. By the end of the screening, Tillman and Tietel raised $130,000 and with that, started shooting.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Tillman, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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