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Julia Jay Pierrepont
III Pierrepont Productions Phone: 818-888-2181 Email: jp@pierrepontproductions.com |
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BUSINESS BIO: Ms. Pierrepont began working professionally at Executive Productions, a commercial production company in NYC, and was responsible for writing, directing and producing TV commercials and documentaries, including: The Blue Cross Blue Shield national ad campaign, a "Just Say No to Drugs" PSA for Nancy Reagan, a National Foundation for the Arts PSA, etc. Ms. Pierrepont also wrote, directed and produced the underground, anti-apartheid documentary, "Soweto's Burning", for which she was arrested and jailed in South Africa. Ms. Pierrepont then joined Popular Arts Entertainment, an HBO affiliate, as a development consultant responsible for developing and writing feature film scripts and television programming, then served as Vice President of Development for Pilgrimage Productions, a film and multimedia company, founded by noted Sci Fi author, Robert Scheckley (The Running Man, etc.) and Hollywood writer/producer Ron Shusett ("Alien" and "Total Recall"). Moving on to film producing and directing, Ms. Pierrepont's first Producer/Director film credits include: producing and directing the fiction short, Making Mr. Right and producing the feature film Trafficking, directed by Joe Minion (writer of Martin Scorsese's After Hours, and Vampires' Kiss, starring Nicolas Cage), and producing "Ghosts Never Sleep", starring Faye Dunaway, Tony Goldwyn and Sean Young. In 1999, Ms. Pierrepont moved up to her feature directing debut with the hit indie feature, "Lost In The Pershing Point Hotel", starring John Ritter, Mary Lou Henner, and Michelle Phillips. To acknowledge her innovative directing techniques on "Lost In The Pershing Point Hotel", Ms. Pierrepont was selected as the "Best New Director in America" at the prestigious Director's View Film Festival in Connecticut, judged by Academy Award winners, Ron Howard, Meryl Streep, Paul Newman and Francis Ford Coppola. Ms. Pierrepont was a founding partner in CreativArts Entertainment, a Film and Television Fund in partnership with Western International Syndication (formerly owned by InterPublic Group of companies-IPG). She is currently co-producing and/or co-financing a slate of pictures, including: Viggo Mortensen's WWII drama, "Good"; "Mata Hari," starring Ralph Fiennes; the New York Times bestseller, "Hole In The Earth", starring Annette Bening and Erika Christensen with Academy Award winning producer, Mark Harris ("Crash", "Gods & Monsters"); "Ferretina", a family film, co-produced with Frank Avianca; "In The Shadow Of Wings" with, Jon Voigt, William Macy, Alfre Woodard, with interest from Diane Lane and Josh Brolin; etc. Ms. Pierrepont has contributed financing to several other pictures and television productions over the years. Ms. Pierrepont's next feature writing/directing project is the high-profile, Academy-oriented: "Book Of Dreams: The Passion Of Freud & Jung", on the intense relationship of Dr. Sigmund Freud and Dr. Carl Jung, slated to star two of Hollywood's A-List actors. "Book Of Dreams" was recently won First Prize at the Los Angeles WinFemme Film Festival and selected as a Finalist in the prestigious Sundance Screenplay Competition and the NY IFM Market. In other areas, she served as the Director of Operations for the Southern California Clinton-Gore Campaign and was one of the Co-Chairs for the California Kerry-Edwards Campaign. In related areas, Ms. Pierrepont designed and produced the acclaimed International Artists Rights Symposium in Hollywood for co-chairmen Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, which was attended by 1000 of the world's leading film stars, directors, producers, and Ministers of Culture from other countries. She also designed and produced the high profile John Huston Awards Ceremony. Ms. Pierrepont also served as a Co-Chair of one of the Permanent Steering Committees of the prestigious Director's Guild of America. Previously, Ms. Pierrepont was founder and CEO of Futurx Information Technologies and its web-arm, eClinic.net, a successful and cutting-edge internet and multimedia company of fifty employees that designed, produced and launched the first consumer health and wellness site on-line, which she sold in 1996 for a 10X Return on Investment. Over the years, she has worked as a major donor fund-raiser in the non-profit world for the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Artists Rights Foundation, Women In Film, The Independent Feature Project and The Hollywood Creative Coalition. As a student leader, she was one of the five organizers who co-organized the historic NYC protest rally/concert with James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, etc., which drew over one million attendees. PERSONAL BIO: She was the youngest person ever to publish original research in the American Journal of Bio-Chemistry. Ms. Pierrepont also did field study on global socio-economics and indigenous tribal cultures on a three-year solo journey around the world, through the Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America. She is a member of the prominent New York Pierrepont family, related to such interesting historical and contemporary figures as: Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Peter Styvesant, J. P. Morgan, Queen Mary of France and Scotland, King James V of England, William Tapley Bennett III, former American Ambassador to NATO and the UN, and William Comfort, current Chairman of the multi-billion dollar Citicorp Venture Group. She is married to Michael D. Tiberi, of Pasadena, the President and Founder of Principia Lightworks, a cutting-edge, digital laser projector firm, formed in partnership with Nobel Laureate Basov, winner of the Nobel Prize for inventing the laser. |
