Before You Know It

dir. PJ Raval / USA 2012 / 110’

American Docs

American Docs Audience Award Winner, Before You Know It, Big Easy Express, Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, Fall and Winter, Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia, Lenny Cooke, Northern Light, Off Label, Our Nixon, The Armstrong Lie

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Information about director

PJ Raval

Named one of Out Magazine’s Out 100 2010 and Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2006, PJ Raval is an award-winning American filmmaker whose directing credits include nearly twenty shorts and feature-length documentaries such as Trinidad (2008, together with Jay Hodges), and Before You Know It (2013).

Raval’s cinematographic work includes the 2009 Academy Award-nominated Trouble the Water (dir. Carl Dean, Tia Lessin) and has earned him awards such as the ASC Charles B. Lang Jr. Heritage Award as well as the Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography. 

Selected filmography

2000 100% Cotton (kr. m. / short)

2004 Lead Role: Father (kr. m. / short)

2011 Tears from My Pussy (kr. m. / short)

2012 African Mayonnaise (kr. m. / short)

2012 Workin' on Grandma (kr. m. / short)

2013 Big Shot (kr. m. / short)

2013 Zanim się spostrzeżesz / Before You Know It (dok. / doc.)