Sharon Oreck
Sharon Lee Oreck (born April 10, 1955 in Los Angeles ) is an American film producer .
Live and act
Sharon Oreck attended Miraleste High School in Rancho Palos Verdes until 1974 and studied film at Los Angeles City College . Her film career began in the mid-1970s in technology and as an assistant editor . In 1980 she was a production assistant on the comedy Below the Belt . Five years later she made her first film, Tales of Meeting and Parting , which is set in Hong Kong during World War II. Together with the director and co-producer Lesli Linka Glatter , she received an Oscar nomination in 1985 in the short film category (live action) .
More documentaries and short films, videos and TV commercials followed. According to his own statement, Oreck produced more than 700 music videos between 1984 and 1999. These include music videos by Madonna , Sting , Mick Jagger and Prince , among others . In 1987 she founded her own production company O Pictures in Los Angeles . In 1991 , Oreck received a Grammy Award for the music video for Paula Abdul's song Opposites Attract . In 2000 she was the producer of the film drama Right in the middle of it all .
In 2010 Oreck published the autobiography Video slut , in which she describes everyday life in the music video industry in the 1980s, as well as her own path from a teenage mother on welfare to a successful producer.
Oreck is married to the cameraman Bill Pope (* 1952).
Publications
- Video slut: how I shoved Madonna off an Olympic high dive, got Prince into a pair of tiny purple woolen underpants, ran away from Michael Jackson's dad, and got a waterfall to flow backward so I could bring rock videos to the masses. Faber and Faber, Inc., New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-865479-86-9 .
Filmography
- 1977: Breaker! Breaker! - Full of action
- 1980: Below the Belt
- 1980: The Boogey Man
- 1982: The Monster From The Deep ( Blood Tide )
- 1983: Wavelength
- 1985: Tales of Meeting and Parting
- 1989: Metallica: 2 of One
- 1990: Madonna: The Immaculate Collection
- 1990: Bangles Greatest Hits
- 1990: Janet Jackson: The Rhythm Nation Compilation
- 1991: Coca Cola Pop Music Backstage Pass to Summer
- 1991: Eurythmics: Greatest Hits
- 1993: Damascus
- 1994: The Best of Sting: Fields of Gold 1984-1994
- 1996: MugShot
- 1996: Janet Jackson: Design of a Decade 1986/1996
- 2000: Right in the middle and fully involved ( Skipped Parts )
- 2006: Best of Chris Isaak
- 2007: 14 Women
Web links
- Literature by and about Sharon Oreck in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Sharon Oreck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- biography
Individual evidence
- ^ Sharon Lee Oreck, "California, Birth Index, 1905-1995" familysearch.org, accessed February 3, 2012.
- ↑ a b Sharon Oreck vidics.ch, accessed on August 15, 2018.
- ↑ News about past and present Los Angeles City College Cinema Students ( Memento from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Living With Music (Videos): A Playlist by Sharon Oreck Artsbeat, The New York Times, accessed February 4, 2013.
- ↑ O Pictures, Inc. bizapedia.com, accessed on February 4, 2013.
- ^ Past Winners Search grammy.com, accessed February 4, 2013.
- ^ Video slut worldcat.org, accessed February 4, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oreck, Sharon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oreck, Sharon Lee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |