ANDREW PFEFFER’S (Executive Producer) 30-year career in the entertainment industry

ANDREW PFEFFER’S (Executive Producer) 30-year career in the entertainment industry has included work as a producer, executive and attorney, with experience and expertise in virtually all areas, including production, distribution and marketing, financing, legal and business.

He began his career in 1970 as an attorney with the prestigious Los Angeles law firm of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, where he represented a broad range of entertainment- related clients. He has held executive positions at American Communications Industries, Empire Entertainment and Epic Productions and co-founded Signature Entertainment Group, and Pfeffer/Goldblatt Productions. In 1997 Pfeffer formed Pfilmco, working with Donald Zuckerman.

Among Pfeffer’s dozens of film credits are Thick as Thieves (starring Alec Baldwin, Rebecca De Mornay and Andre Braugher), which premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, The Big Brass Ring (based on Orson Welles’ final screenplay and starring William Hurt and Nigel Hawthorne), Beat, starring Courtney Love and Kiefer Sutherland, which also premiered at Sundance, Dreaming of Julia (starring Harvey Keitel, Iben Hjejle and Gael Garcia-Bernal) and the critically-acclaimed The Man from Elysian Fields (starring Andy Garcia, Mick Jagger, Olivia Williams, James Coburn, Julianna Margulies and Anjelica Huston), which released theatrically by the Samuel Goldwyn Company.

More recently he produced Say Nothing with William Baldwin and Nastassja Kinski for HBO. Pfeffer executive produced and line produced Santa’s Slay and Running Scared, starring Paul Walker and directed by Wayne Kramer (The Cooler), both for Bret Ratner’s Rat Entertainment and Media 8 Entertainment. In 2005, he line produced The Messengers, directed by Hong Kong-based Oxide and Danny Pang, for Sony and Sam Raimi’s Ghosthouse Pictures.

Mr. Pfeffer is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a law degree (cum laude) from Columbia University. His hobbies include classical music, opera, motorcycling and power boating. He resides in Santa Barbara County, California.