Have lunch with Oren Moverman, Academy Award-Nominated Writer, Film Director and Emmy Award-Nominated Producer, at Jean-Georges' ABC Kitchen in NYC!
Academy Award-nominated writer and Emmy Award-nominated producer Oren Moverman is a co-founder of Sight Unseen Pictures, alongside Julia Lebedev and Eddie Vaisman, an independent production and financing company with offices in LA and NY. Moverman most recently wrote and directed THE DINNER starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Chloe Sevigny and Rebecca Hall. The Orchard-released film was an official selection at the Berlin Film Festival.
Moverman made his directorial feature debut with THE MESSENGER, co-written with Alessandro Camon and starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Jena Malone and Samantha Morton, which Oscilloscope released in 2009. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards - Moverman and Camon were nominated for Best Screenplay, and Woody Harrelson was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
Following, Moverman directed RAMPART, a Millennium Entertainment release, which he co-wrote with novelist James Ellroy, starring Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, and Brie Larson, and the IFC release, TIME OUT OF MIND, starring Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Steve Buscemi and Jena Malone, which won The International Critics Award at the Toronto Film Festival.
As a writer, Moverman co-wrote Udi Aloni’s JUNCTION 48 (The Orchard), winner of the Panorama Audience Award at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival and the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival International Award; Bill Pohlad’s Brian Wilson biopic LOVE & MERCY (Roadside Attractions); Ira Sachs’ MARRIED LIFE (Sony Pictures Classics); Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan biopic I'M NOT THERE (Weinstein Company), which earned an Oscar nomination for Cate Blanchet; Bertha Bay-Sa Pan’s FACE (Indican), and Alison Maclean’s JESUS’ SON (Lionsgate/Alliance).
As a producer, Moverman produced Joseph Cedar’s NORMAN (Sony Pictures Classics); Ido Fluk’s THE TICKET (Shout! Factory); Kent Jones’ narrative feature debut, DIANE (IFC), which was executive produced by Martin Scorsese, and Guy Nattiv’s, SKIN (A24), which premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. He also served as Executive Producer on JUNCTION 48, LOVE AND MERCY, and Anja Marquardt’s directorial debut, SHE’S LOST CONTROL (Monument).
At the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Moverman had four films in competition — he produced Paul Dano’s directorial debut, WILDLIFE (IFC), based on the Richard Ford story, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, and Jennifer Fox’s THE TALE (HBO), starring Laura Dern, Common and Ellen Burstyn. THE TALE earned two Emmy nominations, including Best TV Movie and a leading actress nod for Dern. Moverman also executive produced the Sight Unseen film from breakout director Reinaldo Marcus Green, MONSTERS AND MEN (Neon), and he wrote PUZZLE (Sony Pictures Classics), directed by Marc Turtletaub.
Upcoming for Sight Unseen, Moverman will produce Cory Finley’s next feature, BAD EDUCATION, starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney, and he will executive produce Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut, PASSING, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.