Brad Anderson

Born in Madi­son, Con­necti­cut, he attend­ed Bow­doin Col­lege, where he majored in anthro­pol­o­gy and Russ­ian, before fin­ish­ing his film edu­ca­tion at Lon­don Film School. He start­ed out direct­ing the roman­tic com­e­dy films Next Stop Won­der­land(1998) and Hap­py Acci­dents(2000), both pre­sent­ed at Deauville. After mak­ing two cult films, Ses­sion 9(2001) and The Machin­ist(2004), star­ring Chris­t­ian Bale, he con­tin­ued to direct genre films such as Transsi­ber­ian(2008), The Call(2013) or Beirut(2018).