Julian T. Pinder

Julian T. Pinder

Julian T. Pinder is a Canadian-born film director, producer, and writer. He created, directed and executive produced Fire Chasers, a four-part Netflix Original series with Leonardo DiCaprio, released in September 2017, and was nominated for the US Award for Social Justice at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in 2010. Pinder founded Deliberate Films in 2007 and his titles include feature films, documentaries, television series, music videos, and commercial campaigns. His films have been released on HBO, Showtime, Netflix, and Amazon. Jesus Town USA, his last feature documentary, a Sky Atlantic, Showtime, and Netflix feature was initially released in the UK, and received 4 stars in the Daily Mail, "pick of the week" in the Sunday Times and "critic's choice" in The Telegraph, and was heralded as a "factual Napoleon Dynamite" in The Globe and Mail. His first feature, LAND, which follows the darkly comedic trials of a group of American resort developers in Nicaragua at the time when Sandinista revolutionary Daniel Ortega swept back into power, premiered at the Hot Docs Film Festival in 2010 to four and five star reviews. It was nominated for Best Feature at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and was labeled by one publication as "a goofier Joseph Conrad story seen through a Hunter S. Thompson haze". He went on to direct and produce three more feature documentaries which were released theatrically and on DVD through KinoSmith and Cargo Releasing.

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