A young cancer patient alters the lives of a teen-aged boy in Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s comedic drama, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
In the film, a purposefully antisocial high school senior named Greg is drifting through his life in Pittsburgh, preferring to spend most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl. But after his mother forces him to spend time with Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has been diagnosed with leukemia, he finds his outlook on life upended by the surprising fact that they have become inseparable friends and now he has to deal with real life as her condition worsens. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Following the DGA screening in Los Angeles on June 12, Gomez-Rejon spoke about the making of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl in a conversation with Director Edgar Wright (The World's End).
In addition to Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Gomez-Rejon’s filmography includes the the feature film The Town That Dreaded Sundown, the pilot for the series Red Band Society, and episodes of the television series American Horror Story, The Carrie Diaries, and Glee. He has been a DGA member since 1999.