Jeffrey Sharp is an American feature film and TV producer and Executive Director of

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(formerly Independent Filmmaker Project). Sharp has produced a series of Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning and nominated films, including '' Boys Don't Cry'', '' You Can Count on Me'', ''

Nicholas Nickleby ''Nicholas Nickleby'' or ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'' (or also ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the ...

'', and ''

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''. Additional credits as Producer include: '' A Home at the End of the World'', '' The Night Listener'', ''

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'', and

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. Sharp's recent US-China co-productions include: " My Other Home (film)", "

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", and " Crazy Alien (film)". Sharp co-founded the digital publisher

Open Road Integrated Media Open Road Integrated Media or ORIM (stylized as OR/M and also called Open Road) is a digital media company in New York City that was created by Jane Friedman and Jeffrey Sharp in 2009 with a focus on publishing ebook editions of older works of li ...

with former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman, which has become a leading independent e-book publisher in the US. At Open Road, Sharp looked for new ways to option film and TV rights as part of the publishing process, which led to the formation of Story Mining & Supply in Los Angeles in 2012 where Sharp, as President and CEO, oversaw the development and production of several feature films and TV shows from Open Road and other publishing properties including Outlander (nominated for three Golden Globes®). Sharp launched

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in 2016 with GEM Pictures to produce films for the US and China co-production market. Sharp has served on the Colgate University Board of Trustees since 2019. He is a member of

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(The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences),a member of the

Hamptons International Film Festival The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) is an international film festival founded in 1992, by Joyce Robinson. The festival has since taken place every year in East Hampton, New York. It is usually an annual five-day event in mid-October ...

Advisory Board and has served as Special Advisor for the Book Meets Film Forum at the Taipei International Book Expo, as well as London Book Fair, Frankfurt Book Fair and BookExpo of America. Sharp won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature for You Can Count on Me, was nominated for a Best Picture Golden Globe for Nicholas Nickleby, and was honored with the Andrew Sarris Award in 2005 from the Columbia University School of the Arts for his contribution to independent film. Sharp graduated with an MFA in Film Studies from

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and a BA from Colgate University. Jeffrey Sharp is the son of

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharp, Jeffrey Living people Film producers from New York (state) Columbia University School of the Arts alumni Colgate University alumni American chief executives Year of birth missing (living people)