Glen Zipper
Glen Zipper (born February 25, 1974) is an American writer, film producer and former New Jersey assistant state prosecutor. [1]
Life and film career
Zipper graduated from Fort Lee High School, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and received a degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
While in Madison, Zipper, along with co-creator Nicholas Hauselman, wrote, produced, directed and starred in Madison's WYOU cult community access skit comedy show The Fourth Rail. He then attended Brooklyn Law School, before becoming an assistant state prosecutor at the Hudson County Prosecutors Office in Hudson County, New Jersey.
After serving as an assistant prosecutor for three years, Zipper left New Jersey to embark on a career in filmmaking in Los Angeles.
In 2007, Zipper began his film career working for Nigel Sinclair and Guy East at Spitfire Pictures, which was subsequently acquired by Cyrte Investments and rebranded as Exclusive Media.[2] After this acquisition, Spitfire was repurposed as the standalone documentary arm of Exclusive Media and Zipper was named Head of Documentary Features.
For Spitfire, Zipper was the executive producer of The Last Play at Shea about rock icon Billy Joel, and the Grammy winning Foo Fighters: Back and Forth and was an executive in charge of production on Martin Scorsese's Emmy winning George Harrison: Living in the Material World
In 2011, Glen founded Zipper Brothers Films with his brother Ralph Zipper. On behalf of Zipper Brothers he produced Undefeated along with Seth Gordon, Daniel Lindsay, Rich Middlemas, and Ed Cunningham.
Undefeated was purchased by Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Company at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival and went on to win the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary.[1]
In 2015, Glen produced The Nightmare, a non-fiction horror film from director Rodney Ascher (Room 237). The Nightmare premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and has been reviewed as "the scariest movie of the decade" and "one of the scariest documentaries ever." [3][4]
Writing
On February 27, 2015, Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced that they had acquired the publishing rights in a two-book deal to Devastation Class, a science fiction series from Zipper and co-author Elaine Mongeon. The series is about an unlikely group of young cadets forced to commandeer a decommissioned starship to save Earth from an alien invasion. Devastation Class will be published in 2017.[5]
Philanthropy
Zipper currently sits on the advisory board of the Santa Monica-based charity k9 connection and is a noted advocate for homeless domestic animals.[6]
References
- 1 2 Coutros, Evonne (February 28, 2012). "Fort Lee natives receive Oscar honors for documentary 'Undefeated'". North Jersey Media Group. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
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