Dean Silvers
{{short description|American film director}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Dean Silvers
| image = Dean_Silvers_SXSW.jpg
| caption = Silvers at SXSW book signing
| birthname = Dean Silvers
| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
| occupation = Film producer, film director, screenwriter, attorney, author
| spouse = [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372968/ Marlen Hecht] (m. 1987)
| yearsactive = 1985 – present
| website = {{URL|http://DeanSilvers.com/}}
}}
Dean Silvers is an American film producer, film director, screenwriter, attorney and author.{{Cite journal|last=Bernstein |first=Paula S. |title=Obsession for Men |journal=Filmmaker |url=http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/issues/summer1994/obsession.php |access-date=October 28, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306063718/http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/issues/summer1994/obsession.php |archive-date=March 6, 2012 |df=mdy }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.reelzchannel.com/person/190819/dean-silvers |title=Reelzchannel.com |access-date=July 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080203154534/http://www.reelzchannel.com/person/190819/dean-silvers |archive-date=February 3, 2008 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite journal | last = Berne | first = Betsy | title = The Dean Silvers Indies | journal = Blackbook | url = http://thefilmstage.com/the-dean-silvers-indies/ | access-date = June 10, 2010}}
Personal life
Dean Silvers was born in Brooklyn, New York and currently resides in Manhattan, New York with his wife, Marlen Hecht, and their two sons, Forrest Silvers and Tyler Silvers.
Silvers is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Career
He produced Flirting with Disaster, Manny & Lo, and Spanking the Monkey, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and two Independent Spirit Awards.[http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/1531965/Dean_Silvers_Credits#divCredits Hollywood.com][http://history.sundance.org/events/29 Sundance Institute Archives] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107141248/http://history.sundance.org/events/29 |date=November 7, 2012 }}
The New York Times "Bookshelf" column wrote that Silvers' book, Secrets of Breaking into the Film and TV Business (William Morrow and Company/HarperCollins), is "brimming with helpful hints".{{Cite journal | last = Roberts | first = Sam | title = A New Verdict on Tammany Hall | journal = The New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/nyregion/a-new-verdict-on-tammany-hall.html?_r=0 | access-date = March 7, 2014}}
Filmography
- Unconquered (1989) (co-producer) (CBS Broadcasting Inc. (CBS))[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/476062/unconquered TCM]
- Resident Alien (1990) (co-producer) (Docurama)[http://www.answers.com/topic/resident-alien-quentin-crisp-in-america Answers.com]
- The Last Good Time (1994) (producer) (The Samuel Goldwyn Company)
- Spanking the Monkey (1994) (producer) (Fine Line Features)[http://www.fandango.com/deansilvers/filmography/p111498 Fandango.com]
- Wigstock: The Movie (1995) (producer) (The Samuel Goldwyn Company)
- Manny & Lo (1996) (producer) (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Flirting with Disaster (1996) (producer) (Miramax Films)
- Split Screen (1997–2001) (executive producer) (Independent Film Channel (IFC))
- Warriors of the French Foreign Legion (2000) (executive producer) (Discovery Channel)[http://documentarystorm.com/warriors-of-the-french-foreign-legion/ Documentarystorm.com]
- Committed (2000) (producer) (Miramax Films)
- Border Patrol: Life on the Line (2001) (executive producer) (Discovery Channel)
- The Atlantis Conspiracy (2001) (director, writer, and producer) (Home Box Office (HBO) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF))
- The Investigators (TruTV series) (2002–2004) (executive producer) (TruTV)[http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?tvobjectid=198009&more=ucepisodelist&episodeid=4128139 TV Guide]
- Dor I' Dor: Honoring the Generations (2008) (producer and writer) (Weizmann Institute of Science)[http://www.tellyawards.com/winners/list/?l=T&pageNum_winners=16&totalRows_winners=511&event=10&category= Telly Awards]
- Beyond the Fire (2009) (executive producer)
- One Fall (2011) (producer) (Paladin Film)
- Sela (2013) (producer and writer) (Weizmann Institute of Science)[http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/175244/singer-einat-sarouf-leads-a-hora-at-weizmann-insti/ Forward.com]
- Becoming Jiff (2018) (executive producer) (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Bibliography
- Secrets of Breaking into the Film and TV Business (2014, {{ISBN|0-062-28006-6}}) (William Morrow and Company/HarperCollins)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0799003|Dean Silvers}}
- {{Official website|http://www.deansilvers.com/}}
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Category:American film producers
Category:Film directors from Brooklyn
Category:Independent Spirit Award winners
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)