 Ira
Deutchman, Executive Producer
Ira Deutchman has been making, marketing and distributing
films for twenty-six years, having worked on over 130 films including some of
the most successful independent films of all time. He was one of the founders of
Cinecom and later created Fine Line Features—two companies that were created
from scratch and in their respective times, helped define the independent film
business.
Currently Deutchman is President and CEO of Emerging Pictures,
a New York-based digital film production and exhibition company. Deutchman is
also a partner in Redeemable Features, a New York-based independent production
company, that he founded to develop and produce a wide range of theatrical and
television programming.
Formerly, Deutchman was the founder and President of Fine Line
Features and Senior Vice President of parent company New Line Cinema. Among the
over 60 films he acquired and released at Fine Line were Jane Campion’s "An
Angel at My Table," Gus van Sant’s "My Own Private Idaho," Jim Jarmusch’s "Night
on Earth," Robert Altman’s "The Player" and "Short Cuts," Roman Polanski’s
"Bitter Moon" and "Death and the Maiden," Alan Rudolph’s "Mrs. Parker and the
Vicious Circle," Mike Leigh’s "Naked," and the award-winning "Hoop Dreams," now
the highest grossing non-music documentary in history.
Prior to Fine Line, as President of The Deutchman Company, he
provided marketing consulting services for such films as Steven Soderburgh’s
"sex, lies, and videotape" for Miramax, Charles Burnett’s "To Sleep With Anger"
for The Samuel Goldwyn Company and Whit Stillman’s "Metropolitan" for New Line
Cinema.
Previously, Deutchman was one of the founding partners and
President of Marketing and Distribution for Cinecom Entertainment Group, the
film distribution company known for such diverse releases as Merchant/Ivory’s "A
Room with a View," Jonathan Demme’s "Stop Making Sense," Gregory Nava’s "El
Norte" and John Sayles’ "The Brother From Another Planet."
While at United Artists Classics, Films Incorporated and
Cinema 5 Ltd., highlights included Lina Wertmuller’s "Seven Beauties" and "Swept
Away," Barbara Koppel’s "Harlan County, USA," Jean-Jacques Beineix’s "Diva," and
Francois Truffaut’s "The Last Metro." While still in college, he organized and
marketed the midwest premiere of John Cassavetes' "A Woman Under the
Influence."
Deutchman is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Film
Division at Columbia University, and serves on the advisory boards of the
Sundance Film Festival and the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. His screen
credits include Associate Producer of John Sayles’ "Matewan," Executive Producer
of Jonathan Demme’s "Swimming to Cambodia," Gary Sinise’s "Miles From Home,"
Paul Bartel’s "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills," Matty Rich’s
"Straight Out of Brooklyn," Stephen Gyllenhaal’s "Waterland," Maggie Greenwald’s
"The Ballad of Little Jo," Alan Rudolph’s "Mrs. Parker & the Vicious Circle,"
Paul Auster’s "Lulu On the Bridge," Wayne Wang’s “Center of the World,” Daniel
Noah’s “Twelve” and Anthony Jaswinski’s “Killing Time.” Deutchman was the
Producer of Tony Vitale’s "Kiss Me, Guido," Sarah Kernochan’s "All I Wanna Do,"
Mark Christopher’s "54," Adam Davidson’s "Way Past Cool" and two upcoming
films—Bob Gale’s “Interstate 60” and Tanya Wexler’s “Ball in the House.” He was
also Consulting Producer on the CBS sitcom “Some of My Best Friends.”
He is a graduate of Northwestern University, with a major in
film.
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