Title of Film: 'A Beautiful Lie'
A narrative exploration of guilt, The Beautiful Lie tells the story of Claire, who is trying to escape troubling memories of the prior evening, while dealing with her failing relationship. All the while, visions of the night before plague her and intensify until her past and present collide.

Bio
Born in Seattle, WA in 1983, Joshua Caldwell has been engaged in filmmaking for eight years. Beginning with screenwriting, he then moved into directing and film production in high school where he created several different film projects, including American Tragedy: an award-winning film on teen suicide; an award-winning school leadership film, and an award-winning documentary on the college application process. Additionally, Josh was also a school ASB Activities Coordinator (school government) for Bellevue High School, where he created five ASB Leadership films in two years. In 2001 Josh founded Meydenbauer Entertainment, his production company. Currently a senior at Fordham University in New York City, Josh has written, produced and directed thirteen short films, eight of them within the past four years.

List the top 10 films/ filmmakers you admire

Filmmakers

• Michael Mann
• Steven Soderbergh
• David Lean
• Clint Eastwood

Films

• The Insider
• Traffic
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Magnolia
• The Constant Gardener
• Mystic River
• Crash
• Batman Begins

What is the next step in your career? Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
I will be graduating this May and will pursuing film work through my production company. I have a number of feature scripts in development as well as pushing my short films into festivals. In 10 years I hope to have stable work as a director. I plan to have made, at least, my first feature, and by that point I would like to have a steady work as a director, whether it's commercials or music videos, though preferably, it would be directing features.

How would you characterize your work?
I've deliberately sought different types of stories that challenge me as a filmmaker. The Beautiful Lie is a relationship drama with thriller elements, while my newest film, Making the Team, is a raunchy comedy. Stylistically however, my films have similar visual elements, but I like to allow the visual structure and them to develop organically rather than me trying to impose a particular style on it. I see the world visually and I take the time to do it right. I love the process of working with actors, the relationship that I have with them and they have with me, and love to just watch them do what they do. I get stronger as a director with each project I work on, so I try to work often, on various projects, cause I never feel more in my element than when I'm on a film set.

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 Get a behind the scenes look at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards