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Ira Deutchman is a producer, distributor and marketer of
independent film An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, i ...
s. In 2000, he moved into film exhibition as co-founder and managing partner of
Emerging Pictures Emerging Pictures was a theatrical exhibition company, founded in 2002 by Giovanni Cozzi, Ira Deutchman and Barry Rebo. Rebo resigned from the company in May 2014. He is currently the Managing Partner of Eclair, USA. Emerging Pictures was ac ...
, a New York-based digital exhibition company, which was sold in January 2015 to Vancouver-based 20 Year Media. He also served as Chair of the Film Program at
Columbia University School of the Arts The Columbia University School of the Arts, (also known as School of the Arts or SoA) is the fine arts graduate school of Columbia University in Morningside Heights, New York. It offers Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees in Film, Visual Arts, ...
from 2011 to 2015, where he has been a Professor since 1987. Deutchman is a member of
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. He was one of the original creative advisors to the
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and formerly served on the board of advisors for the
Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,66 ...
. He has also served as a board member and former board chair for the
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, the board of advisors for the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, the Williamstown Film Festival, IFP/West, and the Collective for Living Cinema, and was a member of the board for
Kartemquin Films Kartemquin Films is a four-time Oscar-nominated 501(c)3 non-profit production company located in Chicago, Illinois, that produces a wide range of documentary films. It is the documentary filmmaking home of acclaimed producers such as Gordon Quinn ...
. Deutchman continues to produce films, consults on the marketing and distribution of independent films and teaches producing students in the MFA Film Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts. Current projects include a film adaptation of Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling book "
Nickel and Dimed ''Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America'' is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Written from her perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in t ...
," a theatrical adaptation of Joan Micklin Silver's 1976 independent film " Hester Street" and a documentary about art film maverick Donald Rugoff, which premiered at the 2019 DOC NYC Festival in New York. He consults for Cinecitta on the marketing of Italian cinema in the United States. Deutchman was awarded the first annual Spotlight Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2017 Sundance Art House Convergence.


Early life and education

Deutchman was born in Cherry Point, NC, on a military base, where his father was serving in the Marines. The family then moved to the
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. He spent his formative years on the south side of Chicago, graduating from the Myra Bradwell School in 1967. In his early teen years, his family moved briefly to Highland Park, a northern suburb of Chicago, before moving to
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, where he graduated from Paramus High School. He returned to the Chicago area to attend
Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...
, graduating in 1975 with a BS in Speech, with a major in Radio, TV, Film.


Early career

While still in college at Northwestern University, Deutchman organized and marketed the Midwest premiere of
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' "
A Woman Under the Influence ''A Woman Under the Influence'' is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. The story follows a woman ( Gena Rowlands) whose unusual behavior leads to conflict with her blue-collar husband (Peter Falk) and family. It re ...
." Shortly after graduation in 1975, Deutchman began his professional career, working under Don Rugoff at Cinema 5 Ltd., where he began in non-theatrical sales, moving into advertising before being named Director of Acquisitions. While there, he worked on the marketing of a number of high-profile art films such as "
Scenes from a Marriage ''Scenes from a Marriage'' ( sv, Scener ur ett äktenskap) is a 1973 Swedish television miniseries written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Over the course of six hour-long episodes, it explores the disintegration of the marriage between Maria ...
", " Monty Python and the Holy Grail", " Swept Away", " Harlan County USA; and "
Pumping Iron ''Pumping Iron'' is a 1977 American docudrama about the world of professional bodybuilding, with a focus on the 1975 IFBB Mr. Universe and 1975 Mr. Olympia competitions. Directed by George Butler and Robert Fiore and edited by Geof Bartz and L ...
." Deutchman was one of the original founding team of United Artists Classics, where he worked as Director of Advertising and Publicity on such films as "
Lili Marleen "Lili Marleen" (also spelled "Lili Marlen'", "Lilli Marlene", "Lily Marlene", "Lili Marlène" among others; ) is a German love song that became popular during World War II throughout Europe and the Mediterranean among both Axis and Allied troo ...
" (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), "
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" (Jean-Jacques Beineix), "
The Last Metro ''The Last Metro'' (french: Le Dernier Métro) is a 1980 historical drama film, written and directed by François Truffaut, that stars Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu. Opening in 1942 during the German occupation of France, it follows th ...
" (François Truffaut), "
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" (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), and "
Cutter's Way ''Cutter's Way'' (also known as ''Cutter and Bone'') is a 1981 American neo noir thriller directed by Ivan Passer. The film stars Jeff Bridges, John Heard, and Lisa Eichhorn. The screenplay was adapted from the 1976 novel '' Cutter and Bone'' by ...
" (Ivan Passer), as well as the re-release of "
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" (Martin Scorsese) and "
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" (Martin Scorsese). From United Artists Classics he moved on to become one of the founding partners for a number of distribution companies that made an impact on the independent film business, including
Cinecom Pictures Cinecom Pictures was an independent film company founded in 1982 by Ira Deutchman (a former member of United Artists Classics), Amir Malin and John Ives. Its first release was Robert Altman's '' Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy ...
(originally called Cinecom International Films);
Fine Line Features Fine Line Features (often spelled as FineLine Features) was the specialty films division of New Line Cinema. From 1991 to 2005, under founder and president Ira Deutchman, Fine Line acquired, distributed and marketed films of a more "indie" flav ...
; and Redeemable Features. At Cinecom Pictures (1982–1988), where Deutchman was co-founder and president, Deutchman released films including "
A Room With a View ''A Room with a View'' is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society a ...
," " Swimming to Cambodia," " El Norte," "
The Brother from Another Planet ''The Brother from Another Planet'' is a 1984 American science fiction film, written and directed by John Sayles. The low-budget film stars Joe Morton as an extraterrestrial trapped on Earth. Plot A mute space alien crash-lands his ship on Elli ...
" and "
Stop Making Sense ''Stop Making Sense'' is a 1984 American concert film featuring a live performance by the American rock band Talking Heads. Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 198 ...
." After Cinecom, Deutchman formed Deutchman Company Inc. to act as a producers' rep and marketing consultant. The company worked on "
Sex, Lies, and Videotape ''Sex, Lies, and Videotape'' (often written in all lowercase as ''sex, lies, and videotape'') is a 1989 American independent drama film written and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The plot tells the story of a troubled man who videotapes women dis ...
" (winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival), " Metropolitan" and "
To Sleep with Anger ''To Sleep with Anger'' is a 1990 American black comedy film written and directed by Charles Burnett. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, h ...
" among others. While working as a consultant on Whit Stillman's " Metropolitan" for
New Line Cinema New Line Cinema is an American film production studio owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and is a film label of Warner Bros. It was founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye as an independent film distribution company; later becoming a film studio after acq ...
, Deutchman was recruited to create a new specialized division of the company, which became
Fine Line Features Fine Line Features (often spelled as FineLine Features) was the specialty films division of New Line Cinema. From 1991 to 2005, under founder and president Ira Deutchman, Fine Line acquired, distributed and marketed films of a more "indie" flav ...
. Fine Line had an extraordinary five-year run from 1990-1995 under founder and president Ira Deutchman, distributing such critically acclaimed films as "
Hoop Dreams ''Hoop Dreams'' is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Steve James, and produced by Frederick Marx, James, and Peter Gilbert, with Kartemquin Films. It follows the story of two African-American high school students, William Gates an ...
," " The Player," "
Short Cuts ''Short Cuts'' is a 1993 American comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver. The film has a Los Angeles setting, whic ...
," "
Night on Earth ''Night on Earth'' is a 1991 art comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It is a collection of five vignettes, taking place during the same night, concerning the temporary bond formed between taxi driver and passenger in five ci ...
," "
My Own Private Idaho ''My Own Private Idaho'' is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Shakespeare's ''Henry IV, Part 1'', '' Henry IV, Part 2'', and ''Henry V''. The story follows two friends, Mike ...
" "
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle ''Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle'' is a 1994 American biographical film, biographical drama (film and television), drama film directed by Alan Rudolph from a screenplay written by Rudolph and Randy Sue Coburn. The film stars Jennifer Jason Le ...
." Deutchman left Fine Line in 1995, to co-found independent film production company, Redeemable Features, with partners Peter Newman and Greg Johnson. Films included Tony Vitale's "
Kiss Me, Guido ''Kiss Me, Guido'' is a 1997 independent comedy film. Written and directed by Tony Vitale (a former location manager) and produced by Ira Deutchman and Christine Vachon, it stars Nick Scotti, Anthony Barrile, Anthony DeSando and Craig Chester ...
," Sarah Kernochan's " All I Wanna Do," Adam Davidson's "Way Past Cool" and Tanya Wexler's "Ball in the House."


Digital media and independent films

As co-founder of
Emerging Pictures Emerging Pictures was a theatrical exhibition company, founded in 2002 by Giovanni Cozzi, Ira Deutchman and Barry Rebo. Rebo resigned from the company in May 2014. He is currently the Managing Partner of Eclair, USA. Emerging Pictures was ac ...
, Deutchman was an early promoter of digital film exhibition. In 2010, he launched "Movie Tweeviews," a curated, crowd-sourced 140-word film-review Twitter site that includes critics (e.g. Caryn James, Thelma Adams, Joe Leydon), curators, distributors, fans and filmmakers. Deutchman is a frequent speaker on the subject of digital film exhibition and marketing at U.S. and international conferences, including those hosted by Power to the Pixel, the
Producers Guild of America The Producers Guild of America (PGA) is a 501(c)(6) trade association representing television producers, film producers and New media, New Media producers in the United States. The PGA's membership includes over 8,000 members of the producing esta ...
, and the Motion Picture Association. He is also a regular speaker and moderator each year at U.S. and international film festivals, including the
Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...
,
Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permane ...
,
SXSW South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Te ...
,
Guadalajara Film Festival The Guadalajara International Film Festival ( es, Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara) is a week-long film festival held each March in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Guadalajara since 1986. The presence in Guadalajara of dele ...
,
Traverse City Film Festival The Traverse City Film Festival is an annual film festival held at the end of July in Traverse City, Michigan. The festival was created as an annual event in 2005 to help “save one of America's few indigenous art forms—the cinema". The event ...
,
Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by TriBeCa Productions, Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive progra ...
,
Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,66 ...
, IFP Independent Film Week,
San Francisco International Film Festival The San Francisco International Film Festival (abbreviated as SFIFF), organized by the San Francisco Film Society, is held each spring for two weeks, presenting around 200 films from over 50 countries. The festival highlights current trends in in ...
and the
São Paulo International Film Festival The São Paulo International Film Festival ( pt, Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo), also known internationally as Mostra, is an annual film festival held in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. A non-profit event, the festival is organized ...
. He has twice been a keynote speaker at th
Art House Convergence annual conference
a conference of mission-driven art house theaters held every January in Midway Utah.


Academic career

Deutchman began teaching at Columbia University in 1987 as an adjunct professor in the MFA Film Program of the School of the Arts. His first course in Marketing and Distribution of Feature Films has been taught continuously since, and is now called The Business of Motion Pictures. He became a full-time Associate Professor in 2000, and was promoted to full Professor in 2009. He was named Chair of the Film Program in July 2011 and served until 2015.


Personal life

Deutchman is married and has two children. His son, Jeff Deutchman, is also in the film business; in 2013, after seven years at IFC Films, he moved to Paramount Pictures as Director of Acquisitions (Home Entertainment Division) and then in 2014 to Alchemy, where he served as VP of Acquisitions until 2016.; he is currently Senior Vice President of Acquisitions and Production for Neon; he is also the director/editor/producer of the documentary film "11-4-08", about Obama's presidential election. Deutchman's daughter, Emily Deutchman, is an artist and furniture maker, and his wife, Beth Krieger, was communications director at a New York City independent school until 2019.


Archive donation

In 2015, Deutchman donated his extensive personal archives to the University of Michigan, which also includes the archives of
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, Robert Altman,
John Sayles John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for ''Passion Fish'' (1992) and '' ...
,
Alan Rudolph Alan Steven Rudolph (born December 18, 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter. Early life Rudolph was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Oscar Rudolph (1911–1991), a television director and actor, and his wife. He be ...
and
Nancy Savoca Nancy Laura Savoca (born July 23, 1959) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Early life and education Nancy Laura Savoca was born in 1959 in the Bronx, New York, to Argentine and Sicilian immigrants Maria Elvira and Carlos S ...
. Deutchman's collection includes over 40 years of documentation and artifacts of the independent film business from his time at Cinema 5 until the present.


Searching for Mr. Rugoff

In 2019, Deutchman completed a feature documentary as both producer and director entitled "Searching for Mr. Rugoff." The film premiered at DOC NYC in November 2019, and went on to play at the 2020
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, 2020
Cleveland Film Festival The Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) is an annual film festival based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is the largest film festival in Ohio. It was first held in 1977, showing eight films over a period of eight weeks at the Cedar Lee Theatre. It ...
, 2020
Il Cinema Ritrovato Il Cinema Ritrovato (meaning "cinema rediscovered") is a festival dedicated to the history of cinema, screening classics, retrospectives and showcasing the latest restored films from labs and archives around the world. The majority of the films sh ...
Festival in Milan, Italy and the 2020
Mill Valley Film Festival The Mill Valley Film Festival is an annual American film festival founded in 1977. History In October 1977, Mark Fishkin, Rita Cahill and Lois Cole organized a three-day film festival. It featured three film tributes, Francis Ford Coppola's ''T ...
among others. The film was received positively by critics, including Godfrey Chesire of RogerEbert.com, who called it "A beautifully structured tale of movie love. “Searching for Mr. Rugoff” is both dramatic and enlightening, a moving document of an American life that has a bit of “Citizen Kane” to it. Nicolas Rapold in the New York Times called it "An essential history of film culture. I got the warm-and-fuzzies from seeing the love here for moviegoing." The film was release in theater in August, 2022 as a benefit for the re-opening of art house theaters after pandemic closures.


Presentations and published works


Interviews and keynote speeches

* , Toronto Int'l Film Festival, 2013
Keynote from the 2013 Art House Convergence
* , Technology Today, 2008 * , 2008 * keynote at Power to the Pixel conference, 2007 * 2007 Interview: Ira Deutchman on Honeydripper and Indie Film Marketing


Articles and book chapters

* 2011: Indiewire: How to recreate the repertory cinema for the digital age *1992: The Movie Business Book, Chapter VIII: "Independent Distribution and Marketing" *1996: Moving Pictures, "So What's So Great About New York?" *1988: Variety, "In This Period of Product Glut, Indies Have Ace Up Their Sleeve" *1988: Daily Variety, "What it all Boils Down to is Showbiz" *1988: The Business of Film, "The Next 20 years: Ira Deutchman - USA Marketing/Distribution" *1986: The Film Journal, "State of the Art House"


Filmography


As producer/director

* 2019 ''Searching for Mr. Rugoff''


As producer

Director's name in brackets after film title. *1997: ''
Kiss Me, Guido ''Kiss Me, Guido'' is a 1997 independent comedy film. Written and directed by Tony Vitale (a former location manager) and produced by Ira Deutchman and Christine Vachon, it stars Nick Scotti, Anthony Barrile, Anthony DeSando and Craig Chester ...
'' (Tony Vitale) *1998: " 54 (film), 54" (Mark Christopher) *1999: "All I Wanna Do" aka " The Hairy Bird" (Sarah Kernochan) *2000: " Way Past Cool" (Adam Davidson) *2002: "
Interstate 60 ''Interstate 60'' (also known as ''Interstate 60: Episodes of The Road'') is a 2002 American independent road film written and directed by Bob Gale, in his directorial debut, and starring James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Amy Smart, Christopher Lloyd, ...
" (Bob Gale) *2002: "Relative Evil" aka "Ball in the House" (Tanya Wexler) *2006: "Beauty Remains" (Ann Hu) *2007 "Speed of Life" (Ed Radtke)


As executive producer

Director's name in brackets after film title. *1987: " Swimming to Cambodia" (Jonathan Demme) *1988: "
Miles from Home ''Miles from Home'' is a 1988 American action thriller film starring Richard Gere and Kevin Anderson. It is about two brothers who, after being forced off their farm in the debt stricken Midwestern United States, become folk heroes when they begi ...
" (Gary Sinise) *1989: " Scenes from a Class Struggle in Beverly Hills" (Paul Bartel) *1991: " Straight out of Brooklyn" (Matty Rich) *1992 "
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" (Stephen Gyllenhaal) *1993 "
The Ballad of Little Jo ''The Ballad of Little Jo'' is a 1993 American Western film inspired by the true story of a society woman who tries to escape the stigma of bearing a child out of wedlock by going out to the West, and living disguised as a man. The film stars ...
" (Maggie Greenwald) *1994 "
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle ''Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle'' is a 1994 American biographical film, biographical drama (film and television), drama film directed by Alan Rudolph from a screenplay written by Rudolph and Randy Sue Coburn. The film stars Jennifer Jason Le ...
" (Alan Rudolph) *1998 "Lulu On the Bridge" (Paul Auster) *2001 "Center of the World" (Wayne Wang) *2001 "Twelve" ( Daniel Noah) *1998: "Killing Time" (Anthony Jaswinski) *2003 "The Lucky Ones" (Loren-Paul Caplin) *2005 "
Red Doors ''Red Doors'' is a 2005 American independent comedy drama film written and directed by Georgia Lee. Inspired by the director's own family, the film tells the coming of age story of a Chinese American family in the New York City suburbs. Whil ...
" (Georgia Lee) *2008 "
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" (Amy Wadell) Other Producer Credits: Associate Producer of John Sayles’
Matewan ''Matewan'' () is a 1987 American drama film written and directed by John Sayles, and starring Chris Cooper (in his film debut), James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell and Will Oldham, with David Strathairn, Kevin Tighe and Gordon Clapp in suppor ...
(1987) and Honeydripper (2007); Consulting Producer on the
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sitcom
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(2001).


Marketing and distribution

Films marketed and distributed by Deutchman include: *1976: " Harlan County USA" (Barbara Kopple) *1977: "
Pumping Iron ''Pumping Iron'' is a 1977 American docudrama about the world of professional bodybuilding, with a focus on the 1975 IFBB Mr. Universe and 1975 Mr. Olympia competitions. Directed by George Butler and Robert Fiore and edited by Geof Bartz and L ...
" (George Butler) *1980: "
The Last Metro ''The Last Metro'' (french: Le Dernier Métro) is a 1980 historical drama film, written and directed by François Truffaut, that stars Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu. Opening in 1942 during the German occupation of France, it follows th ...
" (François Truffaut) *1981: "
Lili Marleen "Lili Marleen" (also spelled "Lili Marlen'", "Lilli Marlene", "Lily Marlene", "Lili Marlène" among others; ) is a German love song that became popular during World War II throughout Europe and the Mediterranean among both Axis and Allied troo ...
" (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) *1982: "
Diva Diva (; ) is the Latin word for a goddess. It has often been used to refer to a celebrated woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, theatre, cinema, fashion and popular music. If referring to an actress, the meaning of ''diva'' is cl ...
" (Jean-Jacques Beineix) *1982: " Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" (Robert Altman) *1984: "
The Brother From Another Planet ''The Brother from Another Planet'' is a 1984 American science fiction film, written and directed by John Sayles. The low-budget film stars Joe Morton as an extraterrestrial trapped on Earth. Plot A mute space alien crash-lands his ship on Elli ...
" (John Sayles) *1984: "
Stop Making Sense ''Stop Making Sense'' is a 1984 American concert film featuring a live performance by the American rock band Talking Heads. Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 198 ...
" (Jonathan Demme) *1985: "
A Room With a View ''A Room with a View'' is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society a ...
" (James Ivory) *1989: "
Sex, Lies, and Videotape ''Sex, Lies, and Videotape'' (often written in all lowercase as ''sex, lies, and videotape'') is a 1989 American independent drama film written and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The plot tells the story of a troubled man who videotapes women dis ...
" (Steven Soderbergh) *1990: " Metropolitan" (Whit Stillman) *1991: "
My Own Private Idaho ''My Own Private Idaho'' is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Shakespeare's ''Henry IV, Part 1'', '' Henry IV, Part 2'', and ''Henry V''. The story follows two friends, Mike ...
" (Gus Van Sant) *1992: " The Player" (Robert Altman) *1993: "
Short Cuts ''Short Cuts'' is a 1993 American comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver. The film has a Los Angeles setting, whic ...
" (Robert Altman) *1994: "
Hoop Dreams ''Hoop Dreams'' is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Steve James, and produced by Frederick Marx, James, and Peter Gilbert, with Kartemquin Films. It follows the story of two African-American high school students, William Gates an ...
" (Steve James) *2006: "
This Old Cub ''This Old Cub'' is a 2004 documentary film. The film is centered on former Chicago Cubs third baseman Ron Santo and both his playing days and his battle against diabetes mellitus type 1, diabetes. The film was written, co-produced, and directed b ...
" (Jeff Santo) *2007: " Honeydripper" (John Sayles)


References


External links

*
Official site

Columbia University School of the Arts--Film Dept.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Deutchman, Ira 1952 births Living people American film producers Columbia University faculty People from Cherry Point, North Carolina Northwestern University School of Communication alumni