Ari Gold

About Ari Gold

Ari Gold is a movie director, poet, musician, & founder/president of Grack Films. His third feature film, Brother Verses Brother, executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola, just premiered to rave reviews at SXSW. Brother Verses Brother is a one-shot musical odyssey, and companion to Ari’s first book of poetry (Father Verses Sons, Rare Bird Lit, 2024). Ari is in post-production on his fourth feature, Helicopter, which expands on his student-Oscar-winning short film about his mother’s death, & features legendary director Alejandro Jodorowsky. His previous films have screened at Sundance, Telluride, Karlovy-Vary, & hundreds of other festivals, & he has won over fifty prizes, including best film at SXSW (twice) and the Student Oscar. His romantic drama The Song of Sway Lake played 52 international film festivals, winning Best Feature at over a dozen of these. It features Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan (Umbrella Academy), & Mary Beth Peil. His first feature, air-drum cult comedy Adventures of Power, was called \"One of the funniest films in recent years\" by NY Magazine, played Sundance and Karlovy-Vary, and features Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Nick Kroll, and Adrian Grenier.Ari has a dozen other film & TV projects in various stages of development, and also hosts a podcast about drumming called HotSticks, featuring some of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Ari’s most unusual distinctions include a High Times Magazine \"Stoner of the Year\" award (for his performance as a drug dealer in the rave film Groove), and a Guinness World Record for commanding the largest air-drum ensemble on earth.

Experience

1. Film Director

   Grack Films

   Jan 1990 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

Education

• Columbia University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

• New York University

  MFA, Film

• Columbia University

  Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA

• NYU Tisch School of the Arts

  Master of Arts - MA