Filmworker -- that's how Ted describes himself. He's a producer of over 70 films, studio executive on over 60, CEO of a start-up streamer, co-head of 3 production companies, executive director of a film society & festival, a Professor Of Practice at 2 universities, and founder of a post-production facility, 2 websites, 2 think tanks, & an app. He launched Amazon's foray into feature film production, leading them to 19 Oscar nominations and 5 wins. As a producer, his films have received 25 Oscar nominations, with 6 wins. Ted's memoir and newsletter Hope For Film, are both must reads. Ted helped launch the feature film careers of Ang Lee, Nicole Holofcener, Hal Hartley, Michel Gondry and many others. His most recent films include the first narrative from Oscar-winning documentary director, Roger Ross Williams, "Cassandro", as well as the documentary "Invisible Nation", directed and produced by Vanessa Hope.

Filmography

• 2026This Is Buzz — Executive Producer
• 2025I Want to Feel Fun — Executive Producer
• 2025Mistura — Thanks
• 2025The Legend of Ochi — Thanks
• 2025The Wedding Banquet — Thanks
• 2025Think of England — Thanks
• 2024In the Summers — Thanks
• 2024Invisible Nation — Producer
• 2024It Doesn't Matter — Executive Producer
• 2024Not Losing You — Thanks
• 2024The Apprentice — Thanks
• 2024The Black Sea — Executive Producer
• 2023Cassandro — Producer
• 2023May December — Thanks
• 2023Moving On — Thanks
• 2022Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom — Producer
• 2022Jerry Brown: The Disrupter — Executive Producer
• 2022Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America — Executive Producer
• 2021The Electrical Life of Louis Wain — Thanks
• 2021The Tender Bar — Producer
• 2020Francesco — Executive Producer
• 2018Lean on Pete — Thanks
• 2018Sorry to Bother You — Thanks
• 2017You Were Never Really Here — Thanks
• 2016A Kind of Murder — Producer
• 2015All Eyes and Ears — Producer
• 2015B-Side — Thanks
• 2015China Connection: Joan — Producer
• 2015Experimenter — Thanks
• 2015Mr. Holmes — Thanks
• 2014China Connection: Jerry — Producer
• 2014China in Three Words — Executive Producer
• 2013Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery — Self, Thanks
• 2013Test — Thanks
• 2012Dark Horse — Producer
• 2012How Do You Write a Joe Schermann Song — Thanks
• 2012Simon Killer — Thanks
• 2012Starlet — Executive Producer
• 2012The Innkeepers — Thanks
• 2011Collaborator — Executive Producer
• 2011Kinyarwanda — Thanks
• 2011Martha Marcy May Marlene — Executive Producer
• 2011Mr. Happy Man — Thanks
• 2011Pandemic 41.410806, -75.654259 — Executive Producer
• 2011PressPausePlay — Thanks
• 2010Please Give — Thanks
• 2010Super — Producer
• 2010The Ballad of Des & Mo — Thanks
• 2009Adventureland — Producer
• 2009Goodbye Solo — Thanks
• 2008Towelhead — Producer
• 2008Waiting for Hockney — Thanks
• 2007Fay Grim — Executive Producer, Thanks
• 2007The Hawk Is Dying — Executive Producer
• 2007The Savages — Producer
• 2007Wristcutters: A Love Story — Thanks
• 2006Friends with Money — Executive Producer
• 2006The Devil and Daniel Johnston — Executive Producer
• 2006The Ex — Producer
• 2005Thumbsucker — Executive Producer
• 2004A Dirty Shame — Producer
• 2004Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Thanks
• 2004The Door in the Floor — Producer
• 200321 Grams — Executive Producer
• 2003American Splendor — Producer
• 2002Lovely & Amazing — Producer
• 2002The Laramie Project — Executive Producer
• 2001Human Nature — Producer
• 2001In the Bedroom — Executive Producer
• 2001Storytelling — Producer
• 2001Y Tu Mamá También — Thanks
• 2000Conrad and Butler Take a Vacation — Thanks
• 2000Luminous Motion — Producer
• 2000The Tao of Steve — Executive Producer
• 1999Fuzzy Logic — Producer
• 1999Love God — Executive Producer
• 1999Ride with the Devil — Producer
• 1999The Lifestyle — Executive Producer
• 1999Trick — Thanks
• 1998Eternal Memory: Voices from the Great Terror — Thanks
• 1998Happiness — Producer
• 1998No Looking Back — Producer
• 1998The Adventures of Sebastian Cole — Thanks
• 1997Arresting Gena — Producer
• 1997In the Company of Men — Thanks
• 1997Office Killer — Executive Producer
• 1997The Ice Storm — Producer
• 1997The Myth of Fingerprints — Executive Producer
• 1997The Sticky Fingers of Time — Executive Producer
• 1997Wonderland — Executive Producer
• 1996Flirt — Producer
• 1996Greetings from Africa — Executive Producer
• 1996Palookaville — Thanks
• 1996Puddle Cruiser — Thanks
• 1996She's the One — Producer
• 1996Walking and Talking — Producer
• 1995Roy Cohn/Jack Smith — Producer
• 1995Safe — Executive Producer
• 1995The Brothers McMullen — Executive Producer
• 1994Amateur — Producer
• 1994Bye Bye America — Line Producer
• 1994Eat Drink Man Woman — Associate Producer
• 1994What Happened Was... — Executive Producer
• 1993Dottie Gets Spanked — Thanks
• 1993The Wedding Banquet — Producer
• 1992Ambition — Producer
• 1992Punch and Judy Get Divorced — Producer
• 1992Simple Men — Producer
• 1992Surviving Desire — Producer
• 1992The Dead Boys' Club — Thanks
• 1991Angry — Producer
• 1991Blowback — Assistant Director
• 1991I Was on Mars — Line Producer, Production Manager
• 1991Keep It for Yourself — Producer
• 1991Pushing Hands — Executive Producer
• 1991Theory of Achievement — Producer, Assistant Director
• 1990Basket Case 2 — Assistant Director
• 1990Frankenhooker — First Assistant Director
• 1990The Unbelievable Truth — First Assistant Director
• 1990Trust — Line Producer, First Assistant Director
• 1989An Unremarkable Life — Associate Producer
• 1988Doom Asylum — Associate Producer, Production Manager
• 1988Driving Me Crazy — Production Manager
• Monsters — Assistant Director
• 1988Tiger Warsaw — Producer's Assistant
• 1987Hotshot — Production Assistant
• 1986Sid and Nancy — Production Assistant
• Arkadya — Thanks
• Chicken Delight — Producer
• Lone Wolf — Producer
• Monsters — Executive Producer
• What About Me? — Producer

Appearances as themselves (14)

• 2019At the Video Store — Self
• 2012A Year Without Rent — Self
• 2011A Look Behind the Scenes: Super — Self
• Killer/Hope: Live at Sundance — Self
• 2011Produce Your Own Damn Movie! — Self
• 2005Special Thanks To Roy London — Self
• 2005Upon Reflection: The Making of Trust — Self
• 2004Frame on the Wall: The Making of 'The Door in the Floor' — Self
• 2002Hello, He Lied & Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches — Self
• 1997MONSTERS: The Making of LOVE GOD — Self
• Film Independent Spirit Awards — Self - Nominee
• Festival de Cine de San Sebastián — Self - Jury Member
• Superhero Nation — Self
• The Black List — Self