Lydia Dean Pilcher

Lydia Dean Pilcher is an American film and television producer and founder of Cine Mosaic, a production company based in New York City. Cine Mosaic has established itself as one of New York's leading independent production companies forging relationships with a wide range of talent and business partners in the US, Europe, India, Turkey, Africa and the Middle East.[1]

In 2014, Pilcher was nominated for an Academy Award for Cutie & The Boxer (Radius-TWC), directed by Zachary Heinzerling (winner of 2013 Sundance Directing Award);,[2] and Sony Pictures Classics released the Cine Mosaic production of The Lunchbox, directed by Ritesh Batra (winner of 2013 Critics Week Viewers Choice Award at Cannes Film Festival).[3] In 2013, The Reluctant Fundamentalist was released by IFC Films, based on the highly acclaimed novel by Mohsin Hamid, starring Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, and directed by Mira Nair.[4] Pilcher has produced over 35 films including The Darjeeling Limited, directed by Wes Anderson; Jesus' Son, directed by Alison Maclean, and eleven films with director Mira Nair including The Namesake, Vanity Fair, Amelia, and Mississippi Masala.

Projects in development include Fela: Music is the Weapon, based on the life of Nigerian musician and political activist, Fela Kuti, with Focus Features and director Andrew Dosunmu. Currently in release in 2015 is The Sisterhood of Night, based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser and directed by Caryn Waechter.[5][6] In post-production is Queen of Katwe for The Walt Disney Company starring Lupita Nyong'o and David Oyelowo.

Film producer

After receiving an MFA at New York University Graduate Institute of Film and Television in 1983, Pilcher began her career making documentaries and working in the production department of feature films including After Hours (dir: Martin Scorsese); F/X (dir: Robert Mandel); Round Midnight (dir: Bertrand Tavernier); Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (dir: John Hughes); Mississippi Burning (dir: Alan Parker); and Quiz Show (dir: Robert Redford).[7]

In 2002, Pilcher founded Cine Mosaic, a production company committed to producing feature films with an energetic focus on entertaining stories with artistic vision for the global marketplace.[8] Pilcher has produced numerous award-winning independent feature films, specializing in international co-production, and film finance based on studio and independent models.[9]

In 2010, Pilcher was nominated for Emmy, Golden Globe, and PGA Awards for producing HBO Films’ You Don’t Know Jack, directed by Barry Levinson.[10] The film, starring Al Pacino, follows Jack Kevorkian’s battle to legalize assisted suicide. Prior to that, Pilcher produced Jesus' Son, starring Billy Crudup, directed by Alison Maclean; The Darjeeling Limited, directed by Wes Anderson; and eleven movies with director Mira Nair including Amelia, starring Hilary Swank as the famous aviator, and The Namesake, based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, released by Fox Searchlight.[11] Pilcher was nominated in 2005 for a Golden Globe Award for the HBO feature film, Iron Jawed Angels directed by Katja von Garnier and starring Hilary Swank and Anjelica Huston.[12] She was nominated in 2004 for an Emmy Award, Golden Globe and Producer’s Guild Award as the Executive Producer of Normal with writer/director Jane Anderson and starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson.[13]

Sustainability and environmental work

Pilcher is a Founder and Chair of PGA Green,[14] an active committee of the Producers Guild of America since 2006, dedicated to supporting sustainability in the entertainment industry, and winner of the 2011 EMA Green Production Award.[15] With seed funding and support provided by Disney, DreamWorks Studios, 20th Century Fox, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros., the Green Production Guide was created by PGA Green to provide a new resource for film, television and commercial professionals looking to increase the sustainability of their productions. The website and mobile app includes a carbon calculator, the PGA Green Unified Best Practices Guide, and a substantial vendor guide of companies that provide sustainable and energy saving products and services for the entertainment industry.[16] Pilcher is a member of The Climate Reality Project, founded and chaired by Al Gore, and has been a speaker and panelist at many public and film events including Berlin Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, and PGA’s Produced by Conference.[17]

Boards and organizations

Filmography

References

  1. 1 2 "Produced By Case Study: Pilcher" (PDF). Produced By Magazine. Retrieved Summer 2008. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. ↑ Patten, Dominic. "Sundance: Radius-TWC Acquires 'Cutie And The Boxer'". Deadline.
  3. ↑ IndieWire. "Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Cannes Critics' Week Winner 'The Lunchbox'". IndieWire.
  4. ↑ McNary, Dave. "PGA makes its mark with Mira Nair Pic". Variety Media, LLC.
  5. ↑ "The Sisterhood of Night". Gas Tower Studio.
  6. ↑ Gregoire, Carolyn (16 May 2012). "'The Sisterhood Of Night': New Film About Teen Girls Is A 'Modern Salem Witch Trials'". TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.
  7. ↑ "Lydia Pilcher". Women Make Movies.
  8. ↑ Kaufmann, Glenn. "Documenting Drama" (PDF). Continental Magazine. Retrieved Nov 2006. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  9. ↑ Schoenbrun, Dan. "Lydia Dean Pilcher on Producing". IFP.
  10. ↑ "You Don't Know Jack". Home Box Office, Inc.
  11. ↑ "Lydia Dean Pilcher". IMDB.com, Inc.
  12. ↑ "A Hard Earned Right" (PDF). Savannah Morning News. Retrieved Feb 2004. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  13. ↑ "Normal". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
  14. 1 2 "Who's Who". PGA.
  15. ↑ Joy, Rachael. "Going Green: PGA Green receives EMA's Green Production Award". pga.org.
  16. ↑ "Green Production Guide". PGA Foundation.
  17. ↑ "Produced By 2009: Lydia Dean Pilcher". Producers Guild of America, Inc.
  18. ↑ "Officers, Board Members & Staff". Producers Guild of America.
  19. ↑ "Board of Directors". Maisha Film Lab.
  20. ↑ "Leader For The 21st Century" (PDF). Women's eNews, Inc.
  21. ↑ "The Kill-Off". TimeOut.
  22. ↑ "Longtime Companion". IMDB.
  23. ↑ "Produced By 2009". PGA.
  24. ↑ Thompson, Gary. "Cast Adrift In America 'Perez Family' Has Values Of Its Own". philly.com.
  25. ↑ "Movies of Pearl Padamsee & Lydia Dean Pilcher". Gomolo.
  26. ↑ "Chinese Box". IMDB.
  27. ↑ "You Don't Know Jack". HBO.
  28. ↑ "Women Make Movies". Women Make Movies.
  29. ↑ Diuguid, Carol. "The Gotham 50" (PDF). Daily Variety. Retrieved 30 April 1998. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  30. ↑ "The Talented Mr Ripley". Turner Classic Movies.
  31. ↑ "Disappearing Acts". Variety.
  32. ↑ "Hysterical Blindness". nyt.com.
  33. ↑ "September 11". TVGuide.
  34. ↑ "Situation: 'Normal' for an HBO preem". Variety.
  35. ↑ "Iron Jawed Triad Reunites in Future". Variety.
  36. ↑ "Review: Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar:The First Ladies of Wrestling". Variety.
  37. ↑ "Review: Vanity Fair". Variety.
  38. ↑ "Lydia Dean Pilcher on Producing". IFP.
  39. ↑ "Review: The Darjeeling Limited". Variety.
  40. ↑ "Hilary Swank to Play Amelia Earhart". Variety.
  41. ↑ Pilcher, Lydia. "Trumping The Industry with Kickstarter: Women Support Women to Get Movies Made and Seen". IndieWire. Retrieved 7 March 2012.

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