Ari Pinchot
Ari’s first producing credit came with the runaway hit documentary, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg. The documentary was one of the top ten all-time grossing theatrical documentaries. Purchased by HBO for television the film won Best Non-Fiction Film 2000 National Society of Film Critics; Best Documentary 2000, Broadcast Film Critics Assoc. and Best Documentary 2000, National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.
Following that film came the award winning feature documentary, Paper Clips, distributed by Miramax Films. Also bought for television by HBO, the film won several Audience and Best Documentary Awards including the Best Documentary at the 2003 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The film was released theatrically in the fall of 2004.
Ari also served as the Executive Producer for the film Crossover (Showtime Networks), with Magic Johnson and Penny Marshall, and Consulting Producer for the recent documentary feature War Child, winner of the audience award at
the 2008 Tribeca film Festival. Ari also produces television shows for The Discovery Network, History Channel and PBS.
In addition, Ari created a dramatic feature film fund with Ealing Studios and Icon in the UK. Within a year, the partnership’s first feature (I Want Candy, featuring Carmen Electra) had been produced and was distributed in the Spring of 2007. The fund’s second film (St. Trinians starring Rupert Everett, Lena Heady, Mischa Barton and Colin Firth) was released Christmas of 2007, and the third film (Easy Virtue) was released in 2009, starring Colin Firth, Kristen Scott Thomas and Jessica Biel. Ari is also currently spearheading the launch of a select number of Internet broadcast and community sites with IMG studios in downtown Washington DC. These sites will be launched in 2008 & 2009.
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