IRA DEUTCHMAN
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Ira
Deutchman has been making, marketing and
distributing films for thirty-one years,
having worked on over 150 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 film distribution and digital
exhibition company.
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," until
recently 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 Soderbergh’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."
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,” Anthony Jaswinski’s “Killing
Time,” Loren-Paul Caplin’s “The Lucky Ones,”
Amy Wadell’s “Brothel” and Georgia Lee’s
“Red Doors;” and Co-Producer of David
Anspaugh’s “The Game of Their Lives.”
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," Bob Gale’s
“Interstate 60,” Tanya Wexler’s “Relative
Evil,” and two upcoming films—Ann Hu’s
“Beauty Remains” and Ed Radtke’s
“Superheroes.” He was also Consulting
Producer on the CBS sitcom “Some of My Best
Friends.”
Deutchman is an Associate
Professor in the Graduate Film Division at
Columbia University, and is the Chairman of
the Independent Feature Project/New York.
He is a graduate of
Northwestern University, with a major in
film.
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