Neil LaBute is a highly acclaimed screenwriter, director and playwright who became one of the most controversial filmmakers to emerge in the 1990's, offering an intelligent and unique focus in his work. In 1997, LaBute adapted his play, In the Company of Men for the screen and won the Filmmaker's Trophy as Best Dramatic Feature at the Sundance Film Festival. LaBute then wrote and directed Your Friends & Neighbors, an examination of the sexual and emotional failings and frailties of three couples which was also based on one of LaBute's earlier plays, Lepers. He was also one of several new filmmakers chronicled in the documentary Independent's Day. In 2000, his third feature film was released (and the only one he did not write) -- Nurse Betty, followed by Possession (2002) and The Shape of Things (2003). He is currently directing The Wicker Man staring Nicolas Cage.