Seth Pinsker

Seth Howard Pinsker (* 1955 or 1956 ) is an American film director , film producer and screenwriter .

Life

Pinsker was born the son of an advertising agency manager; his father worked in the textile industry. He attended Stuyvesant High School and Collegiate School and made his first films in Super-8 as a child . In his first film, See No Evil , he portrayed his grandmother's relationship with her partner.

Pinsker studied drama at Brown University and then film and television production at the University of Southern California and film directing at the Center For Advanced Film Studies of the American Film Institute . Pinsker's short film Strange Fruit was made as part of the AFI's Conservatory Program and was released in 1978. The following year the film drama was nominated for an Oscar in the category of best short film. In the following years Pinsker worked mainly as a television director. His only movie as a director to date was the horror film The Hidden II - The Spawning in 1993 . The film is a continuation of The Hidden, published in 1987 , but could not follow on from it artistically or financially.

In 1995 Pinsker co-founded the film production company Millennium Communications, which specialized in advertising films, among other things. In 2003 he founded the M Creative Group, also active in the advertising sector.

Filmography

1975: See No Evil
1978: Strange Fruit
1980: Overture - Linh from Vietnam
1980: Eight Is Enough (TV series, episode)
1980–1981: CBS Library (TV series, three episodes)
1993: The Hidden II - The Spawning
2004: America's Top Dog (TV)

Web links

Seth Pinsker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Seth Pinskers Online Resume

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b James Stevenson: People Start Running. The New Yorker, January 28, 1980, p. 55 , accessed February 26, 2016 (Seth Pinkster is described as a 24-year-old in 1980).

personal data
SURNAME	Pinsker, Seth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pinsker, Seth Howard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American film director, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	1955 or 1956

[Stevenson-1] James Stevenson: People Start Running. The New Yorker, January 28, 1980, p. 55 , accessed February 26, 2016 (Seth Pinkster is described as a 24-year-old in 1980).