Avi Zev Weider

{{short description|American director, writer, producer editor and sound mixer}}

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Avi Zev Weider is an American film director, writer, producer, and sound mixer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2012/03/meet-the-2012-sxsw-filmmakers-3-avi-zev-weider-welcome-to-the-machine-49081/|title=Meet the 2012 SXSW Filmmakers #3: Avi Zev Weider, 'Welcome to the Machine'|website=indiewire.com|date=March 2012 |access-date=2022-03-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/41340-five-questions-with-welcome-to-the-machine-director-avi-zev-weider/|title=Five Questions with Welcome to the Machine Director Avi Zev Weider|website=filmmakermagazine.com|date=10 March 2012 |access-date=2022-03-06}} He is best known for his work on the films Welcome to the Machine and I Remember.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2012/film/markets-festivals/welcome-to-the-machine-1117947340/|title=Welcome to the Machine|website=variety.com|date=3 April 2012 |access-date=2022-03-06}}

Career

Avi wrote, directed, and produced the short film, I Remember, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scienceandfilm.org/people/297/avi-zev-weider|title=Avi Zev Weider|website=scienceandfilm.org|access-date=2022-03-06}} He is the owner of the production company LOOP Filmworks. He wrote and developed the Sloan Foundation and Sundance Institute-supported project Zeros and Ones.{{Cite web|url=https://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12439|title=Welcome To The Machine|website=schedule.sxsw.com|access-date=2022-03-06}} He is the recipient of a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in screenwriting and a 2009 Sloan Fellowship for Zeroes and Ones.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sundance.org/pdf/press-releases/2009-03-17-sloan.pdf|title=SUNDANCE INSTITUTE {{sic|ANNO|UCES|nolink=y}} 2009 ALFRED P. SLOAN SCIENCE-IN-FILM AWARDS|website=sundance.org|access-date=2022-03-06}} In 2012, his feature documentary, Welcome to the Machine premiered at South by Southwest. As a sound supervisor, designer, and mixer, Avi has credits in the broadcast, cable, studio, livestream, and feature film.

Filmography

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Year !Title ! Contribution ! Note
\| 2023 \| American Santa \| Director, Editor, and Producer \| Short Documentary
\| 2018 \| Ghostbox Cowboy \| Story Producer \| Feature film
\| 2012 \| Welcome to the Machine \| Director,writer,editor, and Producer \| Documentary
\| 2012 \| Danland \| Producer \| Documentary
\| 2006 \| Scott Walker: 30 Century Man \| Associate producer \| Documentary
\| 2002 \| Cinemania \| Associate producer \| Documentary
\| 1998 \| I Remember \| Director, writer, and producer \| Short film

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Year

!Title

! Contribution

! Note

| 2023

| American Santa

| Director, Editor, and Producer

| Short Documentary

| 2018

| Ghostbox Cowboy

| Story Producer

| Feature film

| 2012

| Welcome to the Machine

| Director,writer,editor, and Producer

| Documentary

| 2012

| Danland

| Producer

| Documentary

| 2006

| Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

| Associate producer

| Documentary

| 2002

| Cinemania

| Associate producer

| Documentary

| 1998

| I Remember

| Director, writer, and producer

| Short film

=As sound mixer=

Gossip (2021)
Doctor's Orders (2021)
Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story (2021)
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)
I Am Greta (2020)
Surviving Jeffrey Epstein (2020)
Love & Stuff (2020)
Forever Alone (2020)
Grant (2020)
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (2020)
The Innocence Files (2020)
D. Wade Life Unexpected (2020)
Wrong Man (2028-2020)
Who's Next? (2019)
Heavy: Fury v Schwarz (2019)

Dads (2019)
Paris to Pittsburgh (2018)
Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers (2018)
The Fourth Estate (2018)
Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio (2017)
From the Ashes (2017)
Intent to Destroy (2017)
Killing Richard Glossip (2017)
Five Came Back (2017)
Independent Lens (2017)
America Divided (2016)
Parole Board: Victims Speak (2016)
We Are X (2016)
Lidia Celebrates America (2015)

Awards and nominations

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Year !Result !Award !Category !Work !Ref.
2012 \|style="background: #ffdddd"\| Nominated \|South by Southwest \|Documentary Feature \|Welcome to the Machine \|{{Cite web\|url=https://moveablefest.com/sxsw-2012-crib-sheet/\|title=SXSW Film 2012 Crib Sheet\|website=moveablefest.com\|date=5 March 2012 \|access-date=2022-03-06}}

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Year

!Result

!Award

!Category

!Work

!Ref.

2012

|style="background: #ffdddd"| Nominated

|South by Southwest

|Documentary Feature

|Welcome to the Machine

|{{Cite web|url=https://moveablefest.com/sxsw-2012-crib-sheet/|title=SXSW Film 2012 Crib Sheet|website=moveablefest.com|date=5 March 2012 |access-date=2022-03-06}}

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0917753|Avi Zev Weider}}
{{Official website|http://avizevweider.com}}

Category:Living people

Category:American documentary film directors

Category:American documentary film producers

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)