Heineken Affinity Award Profile: Terence Nance

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Dallas, Texas-born Terence Nance has been known for his work in the art world, in music and with his debut feature, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, he's now becoming recognized as one of the latest filmmaking talents to emerge from Brooklyn. With his mother having been an actress, his father a photographer and his uncle a jazz musician, the arts are in Nance's blood, which led him to study visual arts followed by making shorts and doing music under the name Terence Etc. However, filmmaking may be this multihyphenate's calling as Oversimplification has brought Nance attention in the indie film world with a selection to Sundance's New Frontier section in 2012, Nance being selected to Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" last summer and the film winning the "Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You" award at the 2012 Gotham Awards. Oversimplification will be in theaters and VOD in April; Nance is also in the works on his next feature. Asked what he wants audiences to get out of his filmmaking, Nance says… "I want my audiences to feel like they have seen the possibilities of the media expanded in my work. I know when I see a Terrence Malick film or a Kubrick film the most important thing I take away is a sense of inspiration rooted in the idea that the possibilities of what film is capable of as a medium have been expanded." VOTE HERE