Evi Quaid
- Producer
- Director
- Actress
Evi Quaid Is an American Film Director and
Quaid left home permanently at age 12. Her Greek grandfather financed her
education at five different New England boarding schools, all of which
she was summarily expelled from for intentionally altering the
interpretation of school regulations such as bedtime curfews, dress
codes, and for escaping campus boundaries after dark. After four years
of attendance at five schools, her high school diploma was withheld for
bad behavior. While pursuing her film and visual arts projects, Evi Quaid is Married to
actor Randy Quaid .
While working to create diverse
characters for photographers, Evi developed a penchant for imprinting
humor and immediate gratification on the viewer. In her early work, she
experiments with stereotypes of the nude to such an extreme,
photographers found their own work unrecognizable, even somewhat
vulgar. She sought to push boundaries to create nudes that reverse the
traditional focus away from the breast, while exposing elements bare to
penetrate in a confrontational and liberal manner, both inviting and
repelling. Nude portraits of Evi have been prominently featured in
Helmut Newton's exhibitions, including "Sex and Landscapes", which
appeared at the Mary Boone Gallery in the United States, and at the De
Pury Luxembourg Gallery in Europe. Numerous portraits of Evi have also
appeared in Italian, American, and British Vogue. Evi wrote and
directed her first feature length film entitled The Debtors (1999), which gained
praise when it was accepted into the Toronto International Film
Festival in 1998. Peirs Handling writes, "Evi's directorial debut
adopts the style and mannerisms of the screwball comedies of
Hollywood's greatest era. Evi has fearlessly updated the formula."
(Toronto Film Festival, 1998) When the film was ultimately banned from
release, Evi managed to set legal precedent in preserving the rights of
the filmmaker to protect his or her creation against the interference
of a financier. Evi Quaid is the second woman in feature film history,
after Ida Lupino, to direct her own husband in a feature film.
