Dallas Buyers Club [SEP] film editor
Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film, co-written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), an AIDS patient diagnosed in the mid 1980s when HIV/AIDS treatments were under-researched, while the disease was not understood and highly stigmatized. As part of the experimental AIDS treatment movement, he smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas for treating his symptoms, and distributed them to fellow
Although Wallack and Borten sold the script in the 1990s, the film did not enter production for several years and was released in 2013, almost 20 years after it had been written. "Dallas Buyers Club" received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Wallack and Borten.
After selling the script for "Dallas Buyers Club", Wallack was named one of "Variety" magazine's "10 screenwriters to watch" in 2005. Her first feature film to be produced was "Meet Bill