Reid Carolin is an American film producer,

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, and

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. He is primarily known as the producing partner of

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Biography

Carolin wrote and produced the 2012 film ''

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'', directed by

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, and won a 2012

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for writing and producing the documentary '' Earth Made of Glass'', which premiered on

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in April 2011. He was an associate producer and developed the story for the 2008

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film '' Stop-Loss'' and was the

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for the soldier-video sequences in the film. He is also a producer of the films '' Ten Years'', '' White House Down'', and ''

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''. As of the mid-2010s he was scheduled to produce ''

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'' with producer-star

, and a reboot of ''Ghostbusters'' with male leads; both projects did not make it out of development. He graduated from

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. He was also the co-founder of Constellation.tv, a service presenting live interactive events built around streaming movies.

Philanthropy

Carolin worked briefly with Red Feather Development Group, a non-profit organization that builds straw-bale homes on Native American reservations, for whom he was involved with the short film ''Building One House''.The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival Website – 2006 Festival
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Filmography

Executive producer * '' White House Down'' (2013) * ''

'' (2014) * ''War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend'' (2017) (Documentary) * ''

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'' (2021)

References

External links

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