Jason Kliot
{{short description|American film producer}}
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{{Infobox person
|name=Jason Kliot
|birth_date={{birth year and age|1963}}
|birth_place=United States
|alma_mater=Amherst College, Ecole Normale Supérieure
|spouse=Joana Vicente
|occupation=Film producer
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Jason Kliot (born 1963) is an American independent film producer based in New York.{{Cite web |date=2008-05-04 |title=Jason Kliot - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - The New York Times |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/222067/Jason-Kliot |access-date=2025-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080504095216/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/222067/Jason-Kliot |archive-date=4 May 2008 }}{{Cite news |last=Whitney |first=Craig R. |date=1997-12-02 |title=ARTS ABROAD; Going Home, American Shoots Film In Vietnam |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/02/movies/arts-abroad-going-home-american-shoots-film-in-vietnam.html |access-date=2025-04-21 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}[http://www.newsweek.com/id/98600/page/1 Newsweek: You Oughta Be In Videos]{{Dead link|date=April 2025}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.independent-magazine.org/node/171 |title=The Independent: Deutsch/Open City Films: Jason Guerrasio interviews Joana Vicente and Jason Kliot |access-date=2010-05-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414103654/http://www.independent-magazine.org/node/171 |archive-date=2010-04-14 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://nyc.gov/html/film/html/news/070107_made_inny_awards.shtml |title=NYC.gov: Mayor Bloomberg Presents Second Annual "Made in NY" Awards |access-date=2010-05-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528160231/http://nyc.gov/html/film/html/news/070107_made_inny_awards.shtml |archive-date=2010-05-28 |url-status=dead }} Kliot emerged with the American indie wave of the 1990s, producing alongside his wife and business partner Joana Vicente. In 1995 Kliot and Vicente associate produced Todd Solondz's feature debut, Welcome to the Dollhouse, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.{{Cite web |last=McNary |first=Dave |date=2010-01-11 |title=Sundance sets juries |url=https://variety.com/2010/film/news/sundance-sets-juries-1118013596/ |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} He also produced Chocolate Babies (1997)
In 2010 Kliot was a jury member at the Sundance Film Festival.{{Cite web |title=Sundance Film Festival |url=https://festival.sundance.org/2010/press_industry/releases/2010_sundance_film_festival_announces_jury_members/ |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=festival.sundance.org |language=en}}{{dl|date=May 2025}}
Open City Films
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Kliot and Vicente are co-founders and presidents of Open City Films, a production company of feature films and documentaries including Three Seasons, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Coffee and Cigarettes, Redacted, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Welcome to the Dollhouse and Awake. Their films have won four Independent Spirit Awards. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, was a nominee for Best Documentary Picture at the 78th Academy Awards in 2008.
Blow Up Pictures
In 1998, Kliot and Vicente founded Blow Up Pictures, the first digital production company in the United States.{{Cite web |last=Hernandez |first=Anthony Kaufman,Eugene |date=2001-01-08 |title=FUTURE 1: Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente, Open City Films/Blow Up Pictures |url=https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/future-1-jason-kliot-and-joana-vicente-open-city-filmsblow-up-pictures-81219/ |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Indiewire |date=1999-01-25 |title=Open City Blows Up with New DV Division |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/open-city-blows-up-with-new-dv-division-82390/ |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}} Their first film, Chuck & Buck, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for five Independent Spirit Awards in 2001.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
HDNet Films
In 2003, Kliot and Vicente co-founded HDNet Films with Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner. The company produced 18 films in five years, all shot on digital video, including Steven Soderbergh's film Bubble.
Films produced under HDNet include Academy-Award nominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and Redacted, which won the Silver Lion at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
Awards and nominations
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- 2007 "Made in NY" Award, conferred by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York Office of Film, Television, and Broadcasting
- 2006 Academy-Award nomination, Best Feature Length Documentary for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- 2000 Independent Spirit Award nomination, Best First Feature for Three Seasons
References
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External links
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