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James Belfer
James Belfer is an American independent film and tv producer. He is the founder and CEO of Cartuna, founder and CEO of Dogfish Pictures, and the founder and managing director of Dogfish Accelerator. Early life Belfer grew up on Long Island, New York. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Northwestern University in 2009. That year, Belfer founded Dogfish Pictures to finance and produce several feature films per year. He attended NYU Stern in 2011 to receive his MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Digital Marketing, and Business Analytics. He was also an Associate for the 2012 Boulder Class of TechStars and an investor in the MESA+ venture fund. In 2012, he created Dogfish Accelerator, the first accelerator program for independent film producers. He currently resides in New York City. Film career Belfer has produced and financed several films, including ''The Romantics'' (co-producer), '' Salvation Boulevard'' (co-producer), ''Like Crazy'' (associate producer), '' Vamps' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine United States Minor Outlying Islands, Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in Compact of Free Association, free association with three Oceania, Pacific Island Sovereign state, sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Palau, Republic of Palau. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders Canada–United States border, with Canada to its north and Mexico–United States border, with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galt Niederhoffer
Galt Niederhoffer (born October 2, 1976) is an American producer, director and novelist. She has produced over thirty feature films. Her movie credits as a producer include: '' Infinitely Polar Bear'' (2013); ''Robot & Frank'' (2012), winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance; '' Grace Is Gone'' (2007), winner of the Audience Award and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance; '' Lonesome Jim'' (2005), nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance; '' Prozac Nation'' (2001) (of which she was also the screenwriter), an adaptation of the best-selling novel; and ''Hurricane Streets'' (1997), winner of the awards for Audience, Best Director and Best Cinematography at Sundance (the first feature film to win three awards at the festival). She has written three published novels. Her first novel, ''A Taxonomy of Barnacles'' (2005), about the love and rivalry of six sisters, was loosely based on her family, including her father, the idiosyncratic and highly acclaimed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Sundance Film Festival
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 17, 2013, until January 27, 2013, in Park City, Utah, United States, with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah, Ogden, Utah, and Sundance, Utah. The festival had 1,830 volunteers. Films A record 12,146 films were submitted, 429 more films than the 2012 festival. 4,044 feature films were submitted and 119 were selected (with 103 of them being world premieres). 8,102 short films were submitted and 65 were selected. The festival had films representing 32 countries, from 51 first-time filmmakers, 27 of which had films in competition. For the first time in the festival's history, half of the films featured were made by women and half by men. In the U.S. dramatic competition, 8 directors were women and 8 were men. In the U.S. documentary competition, 8 directors were women and 8 were men. In the dramatic premieres category, however, only 3 of the 18 films were directed by women. Cara Mertes, director of the Sundance Institute Doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gordon Green
David Gordon Green is an American filmmaker. He directed the dramas '' George Washington'' (2000), '' All the Real Girls'' (2003), and '' Snow Angels'' (2007), as well as the thriller '' Undertow'' (2004), all of which he wrote or co-wrote. In 2008, Green transitioned into comedy, directing the films '' Pineapple Express'' (2008), '' Your Highness'' and ''The Sitter'' (both 2011). He returned to his dramatic roots with the independent films '' Prince Avalanche'' and '' Joe'' (both 2013), followed by the films '' Manglehorn'' (2014), '' Our Brand Is Crisis'' (2015), and '' Stronger'' (2017). Green also directed a trilogy of slasher films in the ''Halloween'' franchise: ''Halloween'' (2018), ''Halloween Kills'' (2021) and '' Halloween Ends'' (2022), which he co-wrote with frequent collaborator Danny McBride. Green also directed episodes of the acclaimed comedy series ''Eastbound & Down'' (2009–2013), ''Red Oaks'' (2014–17), '' Vice Principals'' (2016–17), and '' The Right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Sundance Film Festival
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City, Utah. 64 short films were selected for the festival from 7,675 submissions, including 27 international shorts from 3,592 submissions. Non-competition features Midnight * '' Black Rock'' * '' Excision'' * '' Grabbers'' * '' The Pact'' * '' Shut Up and Play the Hits'' * '' Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie'' * '' V/H/S'' Award winners * Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - '' The House I Live In'' * Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - '' Beasts of the Southern Wild'' * World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - '' The Law in These Parts'' * World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - '' Violeta Went to Heaven'' ''(Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos)'' * Audience Award: U.S. Documentary - ''The Invisible War'' * Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic - ''The Surrogate'' (retitled '' The Sessions'') * World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - '' Searching for Sugar Man'' * World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - ''Valley of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Zobel
Roger Craig Zobel is an American filmmaker and actor whose work includes music videos, film, and television. He has directed the films '' Compliance'' (2012), ''Z for Zachariah'' (2015), and '' The Hunt'' (2020). On TV he has directed episodes of '' The Leftovers'', ''American Gods'', and ''Westworld''. In 2021, he directed the miniseries ''Mare of Easttown'' on HBO. Early life Zobel was born in New York and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, later studying film at the North Carolina School of the Arts alongside David Gordon Green and other future collaborators. He is of Jewish background. Career After graduation, Zobel worked on Green's first three films — ''George Washington'' (2000), ''All the Real Girls'', (2003) and '' Undertow'' (2003), as either co-producer, production manager or second unit director. He also directed '' The Hunt'' (2020). More recently, he reupped his deal with HBO, which was served for three more years. ''Homestar Runner'' ''Homestar Runner'' is a Flash a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnolia Pictures
Magnolia Pictures is an American film distributor. It is a subsidiary of Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner's 2929 Entertainment 2929 Entertainment, LLC. is an American integrated media and entertainment company co-founded by billionaire entrepreneurs Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban. 2929 maintains companies and interests across several industries including entertainment develo .... Magnolia was formed in 2001 by Bill Banowsky and Eamonn Bowles, and specializes in both foreign and independent films. Magnolia distributes some of its films, especially foreign and genre titles, under the Magnet Releasing arm. In April 2011, Cuban had placed Magnolia up for sale, but stated that he would not sell the company unless the offer was "very, very compelling."Carlisle, Candace (April 20, 2011)"Cuban lists Landmark and Magnolia for sale". '' Dallas Business Journal''. Retrieved on April 20, 2011. One of the recent releases Magnolia distributed is '' Shoplifters'', a Japanese drama that won the 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Heckerling
Amy Heckerling (born May 7, 1954) is an American filmmaker. An alumna of both New York University and the American Film Institute, she directed the commercially successful films '' Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' (1982), '' National Lampoon's European Vacation'' (1985), '' Look Who's Talking'' (1989), and '' Clueless'' (1995). Heckerling is a recipient of AFI's Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal celebrating her creative talents and artistic achievements. Early life and education Heckerling was born on May 7, 1954 in The Bronx, New York City, to a bookkeeper mother and an accountant father. She had a Jewish upbringing and remembers that the apartment building where she spent her early childhood was full of Holocaust survivors. "Most of them had tattoos on their arms and for me there was a feeling that all of these people had a story to tell. These were interesting formative experiences." Both of her parents worked full-time, so she frequently moved back and forth from her home in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Anchor Bay Entertainment (formerly Video Treasures and Starmaker Entertainment) was an American home entertainment and production company. It was a subsidiary of Starz Inc. Anchor Bay Entertainment marketed and sold feature films, television series (mainly shows that aired on Starz), television specials and short films to consumers worldwide. In 2004, Anchor Bay agreed to have its movies distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and renewed their deal in 2011. A year after Starz launched a home entertainment division (in-name only) in 2016, it later folded Anchor Bay Entertainment into Lionsgate Home Entertainment. History Anchor Bay Entertainment can date its origins back to two home video distributors: Video Treasures, formed in 1985,Executive Biography of George Port from the MarVista Entertainment websit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Grand Jury Prize
This is a list of films that won awards at the American Sundance Film Festival. __NOTOC__ 1980s 1984 * Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – ''Old Enough'' * Grand Jury Prize Documentary – ''Style Wars'' *Honorable Mention Documentary – '' Seeing Red'' *Honorable Mention Documentary – '' The Good Fight (The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War)'' *Special Jury Prize Dramatic – '' Last Night at the Alamo'' *Special Jury Prize Documentary – '' When the Mountains Tremble'' *Special Jury Recognition Documentary – ''The Secret Agent'' *Special Jury Recognition Dramatic – ''Hero'' Source: 1985 *Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – ''Blood Simple'' *Grand Jury Prize Documentary – '' Seventeen'' *Special Jury Prize Dramatic – ''Almost You'' *Special Jury Prize Dramatic – '' The Killing Floor'' *Special Jury Prize Documentary – '' America and Lewis Hine'' *Special Jury Prize Documentary – ''Kaddish'' *Special Jury Prize Documentary – '' Streetwise'' *Special Jury Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drake Doremus
Drake Doremus (born March 29, 1983) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing the films '' Like Crazy'' (2011), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, '' Douchebag'' (2010) which was in Dramatic competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and '' Equals'' (2015). Career Doremus studied directing at the AFI Conservatory, being the youngest fellow ever accepted into the film school. Doremus' mother, Cherie Kerr, was a founding member of the legendary L.A. The Groundlings. Doremus grew up on Kerr's stage, performing with the Orange County Crazies, starting at the age of six as an improv comedy player. He went on to produce and direct for that organization, including his own original works. At the recommendation of a talent agent in 2008, Doremus was introduced to producer Jonathan Schwartz, who would produce his subsequent four films. His 2011 film '' Like Crazy'' has been described as loosely inspired by h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldest film studio in the world, the second-oldest film studio in the United States (behind Universal Pictures), and the sole member of the Major film studio, "Big Five" film studios located within the city limits of Los Angeles. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 24 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. In 1967, the number of stars was reduced to 22 and their hidden meaning was dropped. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. The company's headquarters and studios are located at 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, Motion Picture Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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