David Lowery
Lowery had his breakthrough with his first feature film, St. Nick (2009), which follows two runaway children abandoned by their guardians. The film was shown at the South by Southwest festival in 2009. It won the Texas Filmmaker Award at the 2009 AFI Dallas International Film Festival. In 2011, Lowery wrote and directed the short film entitled Pioneer, which played at the Sundance Film Festival that year.