Jeff Lipsky is an American screenwriter and film director. He has written and directed such films as ''
Flannel Pajamas'' (2006), ''
Twelve Thirty'' (2011), ''
Molly's Theory of Relativity'' (2013), ''
Mad Women'' (2015) and ''
The Last The Last may refer to:
* The Last (band), Los Angeles power pop band active since 1976
* ''The Last'' (audio drama), a ''Doctor Who'' audio drama released in 2004
* ''The Last'' (album), 2009 album by Aventura
*"The Last", a song by The Replaceme ...
'' (2019). He is also one of the co-founders of the now-defunct film distribution studio
October Films
October Films, Inc. was a major U.S. independent film production company and distributor founded in 1991 by Bingham Ray and Jeff Lipsky as a means of distributing the 1990 film '' Life Is Sweet''.
A series of mergers and acquisitions began wh ...
.
Lipsky grew up in
Plainview, New York
Plainview is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Oyster Bay (town), New York, Oyster Bay in east central Nassau County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 27,100. The Plainv ...
, and was raised as a
Conservative
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Jew
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.
Lipsky admired
John Cassavetes
John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was an American filmmaker and actor. He began as an actor in film and television before helping to pioneer modern American independent cinema as a writer and director, often self- ...
more than any other living American director and described him as his most important mentor. Later, Lipsky became the distributor of Cassavetes's independently produced film,
A Woman Under the Influence
''A Woman Under the Influence'' is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes, and starring his wife Gena Rowlands and close friend Peter Falk. Rowlands plays a housewife whose unusual behavior leads to conflict with her ...
.
In 2017, Lipsky launched the New York based distribution consulting firm Glass Half Full Media.
He was married to Maura Hoy.
Filmography
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Living people
21st-century American screenwriters
People from Plainview, New York
American male screenwriters
Film directors from New York (state)
Screenwriters from New York (state)
20th-century American screenwriters
Year of birth missing (living people)
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