Noam Murro

Though he eventually built a trademark reputation as a director of offbeat feature films Noam Murro undertook a most circuitous route into Hollywood Born in Israel Murro originally trained as an architect in his boyhood town of Jerusalem NY then entered the advertising industry with a lengthy tenure in the creative department of Gothams GoldsmithJeffrey Agency During that stint he became known for his deft and original hand at directing promotional films via his own production banner Biscuit Films corun with Shawn Lacy Tessaro their clients included such brands as Saturn ETrade and FreeAgentcom In time Murro and Tessaro migrated to the advertisingbased production house Stiefel amp Co in Southern California then set up a new production banner for themselves In the years to follow talk swirled of Murros pending feature activity including at one point his plans to direct The Ring Two for DreamWorks an assignment eventually handled by Hideo Nakata the director of the original Japanese film and the black comedy All Families Are Psychotic however Murro eventually took his first highprofile feature bow with the 2007 comedy Smart People The film stars Thomas Haden Church Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker and concerns a professor Quaid who grapples with a new romance and the doings of a shady brother