Karim Amer

Founder

Karim is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker. He has recently produced and directed the upcoming Showtime docu-series focusing on the scandal-ridden Lincoln Project, and Flight / Risk, a new documentary around Boeing’s controversial 737 Max planes, for Amazon Studios. He produced and directed THE VOW (2020), a series about the self-improvement group NXIVM. THE GREAT HACK (2019) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, made the Academy Award and Grierson shortlist, was BAFTA-nominated, Emmy-nominated, and won a Cinema Eye Award. He produced the Golden Globe-winning series RAMY (2019) and teamed up with Angelina Jolie to produce Academy Award-nominated THE BREADWINNER (2017). He also produced Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated THE SQUARE (2013), Audience Award-winner at the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, and RAFEA: SOLAR MAMA (2013). Karim is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

 

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