Henry Ansbacher

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Henry Lloyd Ansbacher (born May 9, 1970 ) is an American film producer of documentaries .

Life

Ansbacher is the son of the American conductor Charles Ansbacher, who died in 2010 . In November 1992 Ansbacher finished his bachelor's degree in English at Colorado College and then studied psychology at the University of Denver , which he graduated with a Master of Science . In 2000, Ansbacher founded the film-producing non-profit organization Just Media , which he now heads as Executive Director. With his friend, former students of the same undergraduate cohort, Daniel Young , he produced the 2002 basketball documentary Chiefs (German chiefs ). Young directed the film which shows high school boys from a Wyoming Indian reservation , particularly the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes , struggling on the basketball court and in other life. In this way, Ansbacher and Junge used basketball as a vehicle to show what it means to grow up as an indigenous American at the turn of the millennium in the United States. For Chiefs , the two filmmakers were awarded the Prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival . The award opened many doors, made it easier to access funds for future film projects and enabled Henry Ansbacher to produce more documentaries.

With Junge as director, Ansbacher produced the documentary Iron Ladies of Liberia in 2007 about the first freely elected female head of state of Liberia , Ellen Johnson Sirleaf . The contact came about because the future Nobel Peace Prize laureate Sirleaf had made friends with the Ansbacher family during her time at Harvard University . For the film, Junge and Ansbacher accompanied the President from her inauguration in November 2005 over the first year, with 16 weeks of film time. Ansbacher managed to raise funding for the film from the BBC , South Africa Public Broadcasting Company, PBS and the Sundance Fund .

He was nominated for The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner at the 2010 Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short .

In 2015, Ansbacher started the community-based project Being ñ together with Denise Soler Cox . This project called Enye (Enye as a word for ñ ) is about showing the realities of life for the first generation of New Americans with Hispanic roots. Ansbacher, whose grandfather was the psychologist Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher who emigrated from Germany to Vermont , is himself a second generation American, so that for him the Enye project led to an examination of the reality of his father's life.

Ansbacher is the stepson of Swanee Hunt . He and his wife Karma, with whom he lives in Denver , Colorado , had twins (one boy, one girl) in 2000 and another girl after 2002.

Filmography (selection)

As a producer
  • 2002: Chiefs
  • 2003: We are Phamaly
  • 2005: Big Blue Bear
  • 2007: Iron Ladies of Liberia
  • 2008: Wesley Willis's Joyrides
  • 2008: They Killed Sister Dorothy
  • 2008: Come Back to Sudan
  • 2009: The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
  • 2013: American Mustang
  • 2015: Being ñ

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jennifer Kulier: Chiefs: CC alumni score with basketball documentary. In: Colorado College. November 2002, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Joanne Ostrow: Denver filmmakers see stars rise. In: The Denver Post. March 13, 2008, accessed January 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ Mary Clare Fischer: Building a Community: Project Enye. In: 5280 - Denver's Mile High Magazine. February 4, 2015, accessed January 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Katrina Walker: Henry Ansbacher (bio). In: Kroll Call. May 29, 2015, accessed January 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ansbacher, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ansbacher, Henry Lloyd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1970