It often seems that people find their true callings in the most unexpected manner, and for a young boy growing up in a remote town in Switzerland who didn't see a movie until he was 12 years old, the prospect of growing up to become a movie director may have seemed as unlikely as they come. Upon viewing director Francis Ford Coppola's acclaimed 1979 war drama Apocalypse Now, however, young Marc Forster had an epiphany that would eventually lead him to Hollywood and beyond. Though the German-born youngster's bucolic childhood was virtually celluloid-free, the sheer awe of Coppola's striking vision eventually led the ambitious and imaginative Forster to dive headlong into a career that might otherwise have never occurred to him even in his wildest dreams. In 1990, Forster left his home in Switzerland to enter New York University's acclaimed film program, with the young director's freshman feature hitting the festival circuit a mere five years after his graduation. A suitable cinematic calling card that won Forster the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 1996 Slamdance Festival, Loungers earned the emerging writer/director a solid reputation for his ability to balance story with style. Another five years would follow before Forster once again took to the screen for the haunting psychological drama Everything Put Together…  » Read more