NATALIE METZGER 

Natalie Metzger is an award-winning director/writer whose credits include feature documentary ALONE IN THE GAME (AFI Docs, Outfest), Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween SLEEP STUDY (Best Horror - Indy Shorts), sci-fi short IMMORTAL (Best Narrative Short - Eastern Oregon Film Festival), and feature documentary SPECIAL BLOOD (Dolores Huerta Award for Best Director). Her feature script AMORTAL won the Gold Prize at the Page International Screenwriting Awards, the Grand Prize in Screencraft’s Sci-Fi Screenwriting Competition, and was top 1% of Coverfly’s Red List.  Her poignant PSAs and commercials, like “Topless Women Talk NFL,” have been featured in The Washington Post and Vice and have earned top honors such as Platinum “Best of Show” at the Aurora Awards and Telly Awards.

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Natalie Metzger is a Spirit Award-nominated producer and Vice President of Production & Development at Vanishing Angle, where she champions bold, genre-defying independent films. She has brought to life an impressive variety of features and shorts that have earned acclaim across the world, premiering at Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, SXSW, Tribeca, and more. Her most notable producing credits include Kill Me (Variety's Best of SXSW, starring Charlie Day, Allison Williams, and Giancarlo Esposito), Queens of the Dead (Tribeca's Audience Award, starring Katy O’Brian, Jaquel Spivey, and Margaret Cho), It Ain’t Over (WGA Award nominee), Thunder Road (SXSW Grand Jury Winner), Werewolves Within (highest rated video game adaptation of all time), Greener Grass (Sundance), The Beta Test (Berlin), The Wolf of Snow Hollow (MGM/Orion), Poof (Cannes), The Robbery (Sundance), and Alden Ehrenreich’s Shadow Brother Sunday (Tribeca). Upcoming releases include coming of age drama Under the Lights (Lake Bell, Randall Park, Mark Duplass, Nick Offerman). She will be producing Charlie Day’s next directing project called It’s Only a Love Story later this year. 

 

She has been an Artist In Residence at Sundance, Producer in Residence at Film Independent, and an alum of CoverFly’s Endorsed Writers Program and Eastern Oregon’s Filmmaker Residency. 

 

Metzger holds an MFA from CalArts and graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Emory University, where she was also honored with the Sudler Award in the Arts and the Pioneer Award.