Lydia Dean Pilcher

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Lydia Dean Pilcher (* before 1983) is an American film producer who was nominated for an Oscar . Pilcher is the founder of Cine Mosaic , a production company based in New York .

Life

After Pilcher received her Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) from New York University - College of Film and Television - she began her career in film and television in 1983 with documentaries. Her field of work gradually extended to work on feature films, such as Martin Scorsese's crime comedy Die Zeit nach Mitternacht ( After Hours , 1985), Robert Mandel's F / X - Tödliche Tricks (1986), Bertrand Tavernier's Um Mitternacht ( Round Midnight , 1986) , John Hughes' A Ticket for Two ( Planes, Trains & Automobiles , 1987), Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning (1988) and Robert Redford's Quiz Show (1994).

In 2002, Pilcher founded the production company Cine Mosaic , which dedicated itself to the production of feature films with a focus on entertaining stories that are supposed to promote social, cultural and political diversity. For the television film A Question of Love ( Normal , 2003) with Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson , Pilcher was nominated as executive producer for an Emmy Award, Golden Globe and Producer's Guild Award . The documentary fiction film by German director Katja von Garnier Alice Paul - The Path into Light ( Iron Jawed Angels , 2004) was again nominated for the Golden Globe in 2005.

For the film drama you do not know jack ( You Do not Know Jack ) Pilcher 2010 for the Emmy Golden Globe and, PGA Award nominations. The film deals with the topic of euthanasia, for which the pathologist played by Al Pacino , Dr. Jack Kevorkian starts a crusade. Other important Pilchers films are Amelia (2009) with Hilary Swank , who plays the famous aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart , Darjeeling Limited (2007) by Wes Anderson and the American-Indian drama Namesake - Two Worlds, a Journey (2006), a film by the novel the namesake (German namesake ) of the Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri is based.

The political thriller The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013) by Mira Nair , based on Mohsin Hamid 's novel of the same name, was also produced by Pilcher. The leading roles are cast with Riz Ahmed , Kate Hudson , Liev Schreiber and Kiefer Sutherland . The Indian film Lunchbox (2013), a Cine Mosaic production, was awarded the “Grand Rail D'Or” audience award by the Semaine de la critique at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival . In 2014 , Pilcher and Zachary Heinzerling received an Oscar nomination in the “Best Documentary” category for the documentary Cutie and the Boxer . However, the Oscar went to Morgan Neville , Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers and the film 20 Feet from Stardom .

Pilcher is the founder and chair of PGA Green, a committee of the Producers Guild of America that works to promote sustainability in the entertainment industry and is supported by Disney , DreamWorks SKG , 20th Century Fox , NBCUniversal , Paramount Pictures , Sony Pictures Entertainment and Warner Bros. She is also a member of The Climate Reality Project , an organization committed to building a global climate protection movement and founded by Al Gore . Pilcher also appears repeatedly as a speaker or panelist at various public film events, such as the Berlinale , the Toronto International Film Festival or the Woodstock Film Festival.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e Lydia Dean Pilcher, Producer at Cine Mosaic (English).
  2. ↑ Lydia Dean Pilcher at wheiwalk.com (English).
personal data
SURNAME Pilcher, Lydia Dean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pilcher, Lydia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH before 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH United States