Jason Kliot

Co-President, HDNet Films

Jason Kliot is a prominent leader in the New York film industry, having produced over 20 films. He is Co-Partners, with Joana Vicente and Donny Deutsch, of Deutsch/Open City Films, which develops higher-budget independent features films. He is also Co-President, with Vicente, of HDNet Films, Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s newly formed high-definition production company, which produces features and documentaries shot on HD.

Kliot has a proven track record for producing visionary films by both auteur directors and talented new comers that are both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. For HDNet Films he has produced, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, directed by Alex Gibney; Bubble, directed Steven Soderbergh, One Last Thing, directed by Alex Gibney, The War Within, directed by Joseph Castelo, and Fay Grim directed by Hal Hartley, which will premier at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.

With Deutsch/Open City Films, he is currently in pre-production on Awake, written directed by Joby Harold, co-produced with Greenestreet Films and The Weinstein Company. A number of other films are in active development.

Other films include The Assassination of Richard Nixon; Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch; The Guys; Down to You; Three Seasons; Welcome To The Dollhouse by Todd Solondz; ABC Manhattan and Strawberry Fields.