Meet the Filmmakers: Ironbound Films
Tuesday, April 6, 7:00 pm
www.Ironboundfilms.com
Jeremy Newberger is one-third of Ironbound Films along with partners
Seth Kramer and
Daniel A. Miller. This Garrison, New York based film company recently
saw the PBS debut of its film, The Linguists, a documentary that follows two scientists around the world documenting languages on the verge of extinction.
The Linguists premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to fantastic buzz, blogs, and reviews: “The talk of the town at Sundance” – Reuters; “A fascinating journey” – Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times; “Funny, enlightening and ultimately uplifting” – Aaron Barnhart of the Kansas City Star. The first film funded by the National Science Foundation ever at Sundance, The Linguists is screening at film festivals and other venues around the world.
Ironbound Films is currently finishing up The New Recruits, a
feature documentary about a battalion of business-school grads
who journey to the world’s most volatile and impoverished regions
to effect social change through capitalism. Part of a year long fellowship program, they have been assigned to companies in
Kenya, India, and Pakistan engaged in the seemingly contradictory enterprise of charging poor people for basic needs in an effort to improve their lives.
Jeremy became Chief Executive Officer of Ironbound Films in 2004. He graduated from SUNY Albany in 1995 and lives in Yorktown Heights, New York, with his wife Michele, their son Samson, and daughter Annabelle.
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