Mindy
Goldberg
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company
Epoch Films
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position
Owner
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about the speaker
Mindy Goldberg founded Epoch Films in 1989 as a platform for emerging filmmakers to develop their creative autonomy while providing access to the commercial marketplace.
For 35 years, Epoch and Goldberg have introduced filmmakers to the advertising and music video worlds, producing their work and maintaining their career. Epoch roster directors include Alma Ha’rel, Phil Morrison, Martin De Thurah, Jeff Preiss, Adam Bernstein, Kate Jean Hollowell, and many more. Epoch and its directors have been nominated and have won many awards for commercials and music videos, including multiple DGA and Cannes Lions awards.
In 2005, Goldberg launched Epoch’s feature division by producing the Sundance hit Junebug (directed by Phil Morrison, 2005, Sony Pictures Classics), which won an Independent Spirit Award and gave Amy Adams her first Oscar nomination. She went on to produced Gigantic (directed by Matt Aselton, 2009, First Independent), Goodbye to All That (directed by Angus MacLachlan, 2014, IFC), and in 2014, Goldberg worked with esteemed producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa of Bona Fide Productions to produce Low Down (directed by Jeff Preiss, 2014, Oscilloscope/Universal). The film won the Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic at Sundance.
In 2018, Goldberg produced the experimental documentary The Task (directed by Leigh Ledare, 2018, Criterion Channel) and the SXSW award-winning short TV pilot Maggie (directed by Sasha Gordon, 2019, Sundance).
In her foray into serial television, Goldberg executive produced the Independent Spirit Award nominated documentary series Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult of Sarah Lawrence (directed by Zachary Heinzerling, 2023, Hulu).
Most recently, she produced two 2024 Sundance award-winning films: the documentary Daughters (directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton, 2024, released on August 2024 in Netflix), which won the Festival Favorite Award and Audience Award: U.S. Documentary, and the short film Say Hi After You Die (directed by Kate Jean Hollowell, 2024) which won the Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction.