Andrew Karsch is an American film producer involved in motion pictures, politics and technology.

Biography

Film

Andrew Karsch attended The

American Film Institute The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees. Leade ...

Center for Advanced Film Studies, where, as a Conservatory Fellow, he produced the highly acclaimed ''Nights at O’Rear's'', which premiered at The New York Film Festival in 1981. He subsequently founded Longfellow Pictures while working as both a producer and executive with United Artists from 1985 to 1994. Karsch left United Artists to run companies and continue producing under his Longfellow Pictures banner first with William Randolph Hearst III and then Sidney Kimmel. In 2010, Karsch founded the company Insurgent Media, which has produced several documentaries including the SXSW award-winning

Beware of Mr. Baker ''Beware of Mr. Baker'' is a 2012 American documentary film by Jay Bulger about the jazz and rock drummer Ginger Baker. Background For Bulger's article "The Devil and Ginger Baker" in ''Rolling Stone magazine'', Bulger lived with Baker in South ...

; Blank City, about underground film, music and art in 1970s New York; the Emmy nominated American Masters Woody Allen: A Documentary; PBS' Before the Spring, After The Fall; and the Netflix Original Mission Blue. Karsch also executive produced the Berlin Film Festival

Cinema Fairbindet Cinema Fairbindet, stylised CINEMA Fairbindet and meaning "CINEMA connects", was an award given by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) at the Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) between 2011 and 20 ...

prize-winning film ''Art/Violence''. His credits include Academy Award-nominated The Prince of Tides, '' The Emperor’s Club'', Princess Caraboo, The Rachel Papers, Conviction, and the 2012 Academy Award-nominated

Moneyball ''Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game'' is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Its focus is the team's analytical, evidence-based, sabermetric approa ...

. Karsch was executive producer on the film ''Moynihan'', released October 3, 2018. At that time he was also concluding post-production on ''A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard'', his feature documentary examining and in many instances replicating a trip taken by then composer Paul Bowles across Morocco over half a century ago both recording the music and observing the customs of the more remote and exotic tribes throughout the country.

Politics

Karsch served as Co-Director of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's 1976 Massachusetts Senate reelection campaign and again worked with Senator Kennedy as Director of Issues and Media for his 1980 Presidential campaign. In 2008 working with Rock the Vote, he conceived and organized the largest youth voter registration drive to date, optimizing new online platforms to register 2.6mm first time voters principally between the ages of 18-35. In 2012 working with The Culture Project, Karsch produced and co-wrote the critically acclaimed Blueprint For Accountability, which was presented at the NYU Skirball Center and broadcast live online around the world by FORA. Panelists included

Valerie Plame Wilson Valerie Elise Plame (born August 13, 1963) is an American writer, spy novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer ...

, Jeremy Scahill, Ron Suskind, General Ricardo Sanchez, Vince Warren, Rose Styron and

Robert F. Kennedy Jr Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954) is an American environmental lawyer and author known for promoting anti-vaccine propaganda and conspiracy theories. Kennedy is a son of U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of President ...

Technology

In 2006, Karsch founded outside.in with partners Fred Wilson, Steven Johnson, and Mark Bailey which was subsequently purchased by AOL in 2011. He was also a founding partner of someecards created by Brook Lundy and Duncan Mitchell in 2007.

Current

Karsch continues to consult with numerous foundations, organizations and institutions while serving as a Senior Advisor to the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial.

Filmography

* ''A Hundred Camel's in the Courtyard'' (2018; producer) * ''Moynihan'' (2018; executive producer) * '' The Wilde Wedding'' (2017; producer) * '' Mission Blue'' (2014; executive producer) * ''Before the Spring: After the Fall'' (2013; executive producer) * ''Art/Violence'' (2013; executive producer) * ''Woody Allen: A Documentary'' (2012; executive producer) * ''

'' (2012; producer) * ''

'' (2011; executive producer) * '' Conviction'' (2010; producer) * ''Blank City'' (2010; executive producer) * '' Slow Burn'' (2005; executive producer) * '' The Emperor’s Club'' (2002; producer) * ''Separation Anxiety'' (2002; executive producer) * ''

The Perfect You ''Crazy Little Thing'' (also known as ''The Perfect You'') is a 2002 romantic comedy film written and directed by Matthew Miller. The film stars Chris Eigeman and Jenny McCarthy. After the September 11th attacks, the shots of the World Trade Cen ...

'' (2002; producer) * '' Town & Country'' (2001; producer) * '' Lisa Picard Is Famous'' (2000; executive producer) * '' Curtain Call'' (1998; producer and story) * '' Rough Magic'' (1995; executive producer) * '' Princess Caraboo'' (1994; producer) * '' The Prince of Tides'' (1991; producer) * '' The Rachel Papers'' (1989; producer) * ''Stars Above the City'' (1982; producer and co-writer) * ''Nights at O'Rear's'' (1980; producer)

References

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