Roland Tec

Roland Tec is an American writer and movie director. His 1997 film "All the Rage" is widely considered a hallmark of the Queer Indie Film Movement of the '90s for what was then its unprecedented critical view of A-list gay male culture of perfection.cite news
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last = Harvey
title = All the Rage
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publisher = Variety
date = June 29, 1997
language = English

Biography

Early life and education

Tec was raised in Westport, Connecticut. His mother, Nechama Tec, is a sociology professor at the University of Connecticut at Stamford.

Career

Prior to his work in film, Tec was the founder and artistic director of New Opera Theatre Ensemble, a Boston-based improvisational opera company which mounted new work in such unexpected venues as The Boston Public Library and The Charles Hayden Planetarium at Museum of Science, Boston.

"All the Rage" was discovered by John Tilley at the 1997 Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Outfest and brought to Mike Thomas, who with Marcus Hu, founded Strand Releasing and then went on to create Rialto Pictures and its offshoot Jour de Fete.

Since his move to New York City in 2000, Tec has continued his work in theatre, mounting shows such as BODILY FUNCTION, which was produced at The Culture Project and produced by Rachel Reiner Productions, LLC, founder of the New Producers Alliance, and THE WRECK BEHIND US at the Duplex, produced by Darren Chilton, Brad Carpenter and Chris Arruda.

In 2007, Tec co-produced Edward Zwick's film "Defiance", an adaptation of the book by the same name written by Nechama Tec.

Tec's latest directorial effort in film is "We Pedal Uphill", a tapestry of Post-9/11 America starring some of New York theatre's finest actors such as Alvin Epstein and David Drake. The film will be released by Cinevolve Studios.

Filmography

*1995: "Hooking Up", composer, director, producer, writer
*1997: "All the Rage", composer, director, producer, writer
*2001: "Monsoon Wedding", New York Production Liaison
*2008: "We Pedal Uphill", composer, director, producer, writer
*2008: "Defiance", co-producer

References

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title = All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America
publisher = University of Chicago Press
date = 2003
location = Chicago, IL
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last=Gates
first=Anita
author-link=Anita Gates
title=A Cruel Pecking Order
newspaper=The New York Times
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year=1998
date=October 16
url=http://www.nytimes.com

External links

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