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Harmony Korine Wiki Biography

Harmony Korine was born on 4 January 1973, in Bolinas, California USA, of Jewish descent. Harmony is a screenwriter and director, known for working on a variety of films, including “Kids”, “Julien Donkey-Boy”, “Mister Lonely”, and “Spring Breakers”. He also created the film “Trash Humpers” which went on to win at the Toronto International Film Festival. All of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Harmony Korine? As of early-2017, sources estimate a net worth that is at $3 million, mostly earned through a successful career in film. He has also won several other awards for his work, including the DOX Award during the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. As he continues his work, it is expected that his wealth will increase.

Harmony Korine Net Worth $3 million

Growing up, Harmony would develop an interest in films thanks to his father who was a documentary producer; he watched theatre productions, circuses, and carnivals. He attended Hillsboro High School and later moved to New York City. He continued frequenting productions and would later study Business Administration. He also studied Dramatic Writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts for one semester before dropping out.

Harmony’s first project was the film “Kids” – starring Rosario Dawson and Chloe Sevigny both in their first movie roles – about the drug and sex filled lives of teenagers in Manhattan during the AIDS crisis; it received mixed reviews though it later developed into a cult film. Afterwards, Korine was given funding to produce the film “Gummo” which only had five experienced actors during production. Despite rejections by mainstream critics, the film would win top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, and it would also earn a cult classic status. In 1998 he worked on “The Diary of Anne Frank Pt II” which further disgusted critics and established his reputation for shocking scenes. At this point, his net worth was slowly building up.

Korine’s next project would be “Julien Donkey- Boy” which is about a man suffering from untreated schizophrenia; once again the film achieved cult status. Harmony then went on to appear in “The Devil, The Sinner, and His Journey”, then wrote the script for “Ken Park” though he had no involvement during the production. He also started working with David Blaine, beginning with 2003’s “Above the Below” in which Blaine was suspended in a Plexiglas box – he has since worked with the street magician on numerous productions. His next film would be “Mister Lonely” which was a film with around an $8 million budget, which received mixed reviews and performed poorly in the box office. In 2007, he would take part in the documentary “Beautiful Losers” which focused on his career and life.

2009 saw the premiere of the film “Trash Humpers” which went on to win a top award during the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. He also released the short film “Umshini Wam” two years later. One of his latest projects is the drama “Spring Breakers” which starred Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, James Franco, and Vanessa Hudgens; the film was appreciated by reviewers, unlike many of his previous works.

Aside from his films, Harmony has also written a number of books, and photographic collections. He has also directed several commercials and music videos throughout his career, even co-writing songs. The numerous opportunities presented to him have helped increase his net worth.

For his personal life, it is known that Korine had a relationship with Chloe Sevigny in the late-1990s. Later, he would meet and eventually marry actress Rachel Simon Korine, in 2007: they have a child.



Full Name Harmony Korine
Net Worth $3 Million
Date Of Birth January 4, 1973
Place Of Birth Bolinas, California, United States
Height 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Profession Film director, screenwriter, producer
Education Hillsboro High School, Dramatic Writing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
Nationality American
Spouse Rachel Korine (m. 2007)
Children Lefty Bell Korine
Parents Sol Korine, Eve Korine
Siblings Avi Korine
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/harmfulkorine
Twitter https://twitter.com/korine_harmony?lang=en
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/harmonykorine/
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005101/
Allmusic www.allmusic.com/artist/harmony-korine-mn0002105704
Awards Future Film Festival Digital Award – Special Mention, CPH:DOX Award (2009), Best Art Direction/Special Jury Award – Gijón International Film Festival (1999), Special Jury Award, Gotham Awards – Open Palm Award – Special Mention (1997), FIPRESCI Prize – Honorable Mention (Venice Film Festival, 1997)
Record Labels Domino Recording Company, Headphone Dust, Spaceman®
Albums Songs in A&E (2008), Insurgentes (2008), Gummo (1998)
Nominations Grand Prix Asturias – Best Feature, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Indiewire Critics’ Poll – Best Director (2013)
Movies “Kids”, “Julien Donkey-Boy” (1999), “Mister Lonely”, “Spring Breakers” (2012), “Trash Humpers” (2009), “Beautiful Losers” (2007, documentary), “Gummo” (1997)
TV Shows “The Devil, The Sinner, and His Journey”, “Ken Park”, “Above the Below” (2003), “The Diary of Anne Frank Pt II” (1998)
Trademark
1 Often depicts teenagers doing violent and disturbing things (i.e. drug abuse, incest, sex addiction, murder)
2 Films (with the exception of Mister Lonely (2007)) depict decadence in America.
3 Utilizes a variety of aesthetic styles and modes, ranging from VHS tape for Trash Humpers (2009) and blown up DV tape for Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) to neon-soaked fine grain 35mm for Spring Breakers (2012). He even varies aspect ratios from film to film.
4 The movies he directs rarely have a linear plot and are often made up of pieces of events that are highly symbolic and/or metaphorical.
Quote
1 [on Mister Lonely (2007)] I basically started thinking in terms of images that really have nothing to do with anything. Just simple images. I started dreaming about flying nuns, falling out of airplanes and praying the whole way down and surviving. Then I started to fixate upon specific images and characters. One of them was the idea of a Michael Jackson impersonator walking the streets of Paris. I had these different images although they really don’t have anything to do with one another. But I knew that there was something in there that I was trying to get out, a unified idea, but I wasn’t sure how to say it. [2007]
2 [on his cinematic inspirations for Spring Breakers (2012)] A lot of it came from things I’d experimented with when shooting ads and trying different techniques. The movie I watched most, believe it or not, was Michael Mann’s Miami Vice (2006). The reason I love his movies, and that movie in particular, is I could feel the place. When I watch that film, I don’t even pay attention to what they’re saying or the storyline. I love the colors, I love the texture. [2012]
3 [on his life after directing Gummo (1997) ] I felt like Clint Eastwood except you know, from a different time and different place. I’m thinking about the Clint Eastwood with the orangutan [Every Which Way But Loose (1978)]. It’s hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.
4 I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself and I know that my intentions are pure and I’m on the side of righteousness… I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times I’m wrong, but it’s always the hope.
5 [on his unfinished film “Fight Harm” where he randomly picked fights with real people] I wanted to make the great American comedy that would just consist entirely of me getting beat up, like a condensed slapstick comedy where you slip on a banana peel. I was really just trying to give people the greatest laugh of their life.
6 Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
7 When I was a child the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option lead me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
8 When I’m directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what’s in my mind, as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything’s possible. Everyone’s in character all the time to a degree, everyone’s in costume all the time. You want to create an environment where these characters really exist, and then it’s about me finding it. A lot of times, I’ll give six or seven different scripts out with alternate endings, with different character lines, with different pieces of dialogue. A lot of times, the actors think they’re working on different films.[2008]
9 I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense. I wanted to tell jokes, but I didn’t give a fuck about the punch line.
10 After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it’s like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.
11 [on meeting David Blaine] The first time I hung out with him, he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven [inside], and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees, or something like that, and he stayed in it for, I guess, a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it’s rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that.
12 If Richard Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the ‘Great Art Form’ would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.
13 What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
Fact
1 In 2013, while James Franco was promoting the Korine-directed Spring Breakers, Franco asked David Letterman to comment on the rumor that Korine had been banned from appearing on Letterman’s talk show during the late 1990s. After demurring, Letterman finally confirmed that Korine had indeed been banned, and revealed the reason why: Meryl Streep was also a guest on the same day that Korine was scheduled to be on, and Letterman said that he “went upstairs to greet Meryl Streep and say ‘welcome to the show,’ and I [knock on the door]…and she was not in there. And I looked around, and I found…Harmony going through her purse. True story. And so I said, ‘Okay, that’s it, put her things back in her bag and then get out.’”.
2 Readily admits that he was often stoned when he appeared on David Letterman’s show during the mid-1990s, when he felt like he ‘was a kid’.
3 In 1997, Janet Maslin of The New York Times called his movie Gummo (1997) the worst film of the year.
4 Has an unfinished “slapstick comedy” film in which he goads bigger men into getting into fights with him. Korine says it consists “entirely of me getting beat up”.
5 Brother of Avi Korine.
6 Named his top ten favorite films of all time in a December 1999 issue of Dazed & Confused: Pixote (1981), Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978), Fat City (1972), Stroszek (1977), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Out of the Blue (1980) and Hail Mary (1985).
7 Has one daughter with wife Rachel Korine, Lefty Bell Korine.
8 His parents live in Panama, which is why he chose to film sections of Mister Lonely (2007) within that country.
9 Briefly changed his name to Laird Henn. It never stuck, but there is a song by the band Sun City Girls that contains a phone message left by Harmony on one of the members’ answering machines, where he introduces himself as Laird Henn.
10 Has a tattoo of a trident on his right hand.
11 Attended film school at NYU but dropped out after only one semester.
12 Attended high school at Hillsboro High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
13 Has claimed that The Basketball Diaries (1995) author Jim Carroll was in attendance at his birth and cut his umbilical cord. (Carroll was living in Bolinas at the time, as indicated in his book ‘Forced Entries’.) Carroll and Korine are now friends and collaborators.
14 Wrote lyrics with Björk for her song “Harm of Will” from the album “Vespertine”.
15 His father, Sol Korine, made documentary films in Georgia for PBS.
16 Directed the video for Sonic Youth’s “Sunday” starring Macaulay Culkin and Rachel Miner.

Director

Title Year Status Character
Rihanna: Needed Me 2016 Video short
Spring Breakers 2012
The Fourth Dimension 2012 segment “The Lotus Community Workshop”
Rebel 2011/II Short segment “Caput”
Snowballs 2011 Short
Curb Dance 2011 Video short
Umshini Wam 2011 Short
42 One Dream Rush 2010 Short
Act Da Fool 2010 Short
Mac and Plak 2010 Short
Trash Humpers 2009
Mister Lonely 2007
Corporate Ghost 2004 Video video “Sunday”
David Blaine: Above the Below 2003 TV Movie documentary
Stop for a Minute 2001 TV Series documentary short
Julien Donkey-Boy 1999
David Blaine: Magic Man 1998 TV Movie documentary segment director
The Diary of Anne Frank Part II 1998 Short
Gummo 1997

Writer

Title Year Status Character
A Crackup at the Race Riots 2015 Documentary
Spring Breakers 2012 written by
The Fourth Dimension 2012 writer – segment “The Lotus Community Workshop”
Lettres de suicide 2011 Short writer
Rebel 2011/II Short
Snowballs 2011 Short
Curb Dance 2011 Video short
Umshini Wam 2011 Short
Act Da Fool 2010 Short written by
Mac and Plak 2010 Short written by
Trash Humpers 2009
Mister Lonely 2007 written by
Ken Park 2002 screenplay
Julien Donkey-Boy 1999
The Diary of Anne Frank Part II 1998 Short writer
Gummo 1997 written by
Kids 1995 written by

Actor

Title Year Status Character
Manglehorn 2014 Gary
Stoker 2013 Mr. Feldman
Curb Dance 2011 Video short
Trash Humpers 2009 Hervé
Last Days 2005 Guy in Club
Good Will Hunting 1997 Jerve (uncredited)
Gummo 1997 Boy on Couch
Kids 1995 Club Kid (uncredited)

Producer

Title Year Status Character
The Double 2013 associate producer
The Dirty Ones 2009 Short executive producer
Mister Lonely 2007 producer
Blackberry Winter 2006 Short executive producer
The Aluminum Fowl 2006 Short executive producer

Cinematographer

Title Year Status Character
Snowballs 2011 Short
Act Da Fool 2010 Short
Mac and Plak 2010 Short
Trash Humpers 2009

Miscellaneous

Title Year Status Character
David Blaine: Dive of Death 2008 TV Movie documentary magic consultant – as Harmony Korrine
Good Will Hunting 1997 consultant: jail

Art Department

Title Year Status Character
Light Sleeper 1992 art department assistant

Camera Department

Title Year Status Character
David Blaine: Street Magic 1996 TV Movie documentary gaffer – as Harmony

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
Wear acknowledgment completed
Computer Hearts 2015 Short special thanks
The Strange & Mysterious Life of Jackson Bean 2015 TV Series special thanks – 1 episode
Palo Alto 2013 special thanks
I Used to Be Darker 2013 special thanks
The Debridement of Rome 2012 Short acknowledgment
Submarine 2010 special thanks
The Colonel’s Bride 2010 thanks
Party Girl 2004 Short special thanks

Self

Title Year Status Character
Mr. X, a Vision of Leos Carax 2014 Documentary
Up Close with Carrie Keagan 2013 TV Series Himself
Reel Junkie 2013 TV Series Himself
Cinema 3 2013 TV Series Himself
Días de cine 2013 TV Series Himself
Sleepless Nights Stories 2011 Himself
The Advocate for Fagdom 2011 Documentary Himself
Durch die Nacht mit… 2010 TV Series documentary Himself
The Lonely 2009 Documentary Himself
Until the Light Takes Us 2008 Documentary Himself – Filmmaker
Imagine 2008 TV Series documentary Himself
New Film Nation 2008 TV Series documentary
Beautiful Losers 2008 Documentary Himself
Tracks 2005 TV Series documentary Himself
Stop for a Minute 2001 TV Series documentary short Himself
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95 2000 Documentary Himself
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards 2000 TV Special Himself – Audience Member
Late Show with David Letterman 1995-1998 TV Series Himself – Guest

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2013 Filmmaker on the Edge Award Provincetown International Film Festival
2012 Future Film Festival Digital Award – Special Mention Venice Film Festival Spring Breakers (2012)
2009 CPH:DOX Award CPH:DOX Trash Humpers (2009)
1999 Best Art Direction Gijón International Film Festival Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
1998 Open Palm Award – Special Mention Gotham Awards Gummo (1997)
1998 KNF Award Rotterdam International Film Festival Gummo (1997)
1997 Special Jury Award Gijón International Film Festival Gummo (1997)
1997 FIPRESCI Prize – Honorable Mention Venice Film Festival Gummo (1997)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2013 ICP Award Indiewire Critics’ Poll Best Director Spring Breakers (2012)
2012 Golden Lion Venice Film Festival Spring Breakers (2012)
2007 Un Certain Regard Award Cannes Film Festival Mister Lonely (2007)
2000 Independent Spirit Award Independent Spirit Awards Best Director Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
1999 Grand Prix Asturias Gijón International Film Festival Best Feature Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
1999 Bronze Horse Stockholm Film Festival Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
1998 Open Palm Award Gotham Awards Gummo (1997)
1997 Grand Prix Asturias Gijón International Film Festival Best Feature Gummo (1997)
1996 Independent Spirit Award Independent Spirit Awards Best First Screenplay Kids (1995)

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