“With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.”

American filmmaker

David Lowery is an American filmmaker known for writing and directing films that move between drama, fantasy, crime and musical forms. His work includes Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pete's Dragon, A Ghost Story, The Old Man & the Gun, The Green Knight, and Mother Mary. Ain't Them Bodies Saints, released in 2013 and starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at that year's Sundance Film Festival. Lowery later directed Disney's Pete's Dragon in 2016, a live-action adaptation he also co-wrote, and went on to make films that range from the intimate and reflective to the more expansive and mythic.