Peter Saraf
Peter Saraf (* in the 20th century ) is an American film producer . He became internationally known for the production of the movies Ulee's Gold , The Truth About Charlie , Adaptation - The Orchid Thief , Little Miss Sunshine or Away We Go - Auf nach Irgendwo .
life and career
Peter Saraf is the son of the Oscar-winning Polish producer Irving Saraf who died in 2012 . Saraf began his career in the mid-1990s as a producer of short and documentary films. In 1997 he co-produced the movie Ulee's Gold with Peter Fonda . Saraf is mainly involved in smaller independent productions. In 2000, he co-produced Myles Connell's crime drama His Last Coup, starring Christopher Walken . At the 2007 Academy Awards , along with David T. Friendly and Marc Turtletaub, he received an Oscar nomination in the Best Picture category for the road movie by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris Little Miss Sunshine . In 2009 he produced the Sam Mendes film Away We Go - Auf nach Irgendwo with the cast of John Krasinski , Maya Rudolph and Allison Janney together with his colleagues Edward Saxon and Marc Turtletaub.
In 2004, he co-founded the film production company Big Beach with his partner Marc Turtletaub . Saraf lives and works in New York .
In addition, Peter Saraf is chairman of the Producers Guild of America East .
Awards
- 2007: Oscar nomination for Best Picture at the 2007 awards ceremony for Little Miss Sunshine
Filmography (selection)
movie theater
- 1997: Ulee's Gold
- 2000: His last coup (The Opportunists)
- 2002: The Truth About Charlie (The Truth About Charlie)
- 2002: Adaptation - The Orchid Thief (Adaptation)
- 2005: Everything Is Illuminated (Everything Is Illuminated)
- 2006: Little Miss Sunshine
- 2007: Chop Shop
- 2008: Sunshine Cleaning
- 2008: Is Anybody There?
- 2009: Away We Go - Auf nach Irgendwo (Away We Go)
- 2010: Jack in Love
- 2011: Our Idiot Brother
- 2012: Journey of Love - The real adventure is love (Safety Not Guaranteed)
- 2013: Kings of Summer
- 2013: Gods Behaving Badly
- 2015: Me Him Her
- 2015: Three Generations
- 2015: All Colors of Life (About Ray)
- 2016: Loving
- 2019: The Farewell
Short and documentary films
- 1994: One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave: Secrets from the Dolly Madison Room (documentary)
- 1994: The Complex Sessions (short film)
- 1996: Mandela (documentary)
- 1996: Courage and Pain (documentary)
- 1998: Storefront Hitchcock (documentary)
- 2003: The Agronomist (documentary)
- 2009: Looking at Animals (short film)
- 2010: Lucky (documentary)
- 2015: The Breatharians (short film)
literature
- Peter Saraf. In: International Documentary: The Newsletter of the International Documentary Association, Volume 24, Issues 1-9. , Gale, International Documentary Association, 2005, p. 70
Web links
- Peter Saraf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Big Beach website
- Filmography by Peter Saraf in The New York Times
- Peter Saraf in Variety
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Saraf. In: Franz Lidz: The Directors of 'Little Miss Sunshine' Love, Honor and Direct (Together). , The New York Times , July 16, 2006
- ^ Peter Saraf, Irving Saraf. In: Mike Barnes: He produced and directed the feature documentary “In the Shadow of the Stars,” about the San Francisco Opera, and worked on the best picture winner “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.”. , The Hollywood Reporter , December 30, 2012
- ↑ Peter Saraf. In: Sebastian Piras: A Word With Peter Saraf, Producer of 'Little Miss Sunshine' and Now 'Safety Not Guaranteed'. , eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes, July 6, 2012
- ↑ Peter Saraf. In: Time Warner Center New York, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saraf, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |