IFA Chicago Welcomes Peter Saraf!

Peter Saraf is a film, TV and theatre producer and the president and co-founder of the indie production company Big Beach. He has produced all of the company’s films including Little Miss Sunshine, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Big Beach’s most recent films include the A24 release The Farewell, directed by Lulu Wang and starring Awkwafina, and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, directed by Marielle Heller and starring Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers. Other credits include Loving, The Kings of Summer, Safety Not Guaranteed, Our Idiot Brother, Jack Goes Boating, Away We Go, Sunshine Cleaning, Is Anybody There?, Chop Shop, Everything Is Illuminated, and the animated feature White Fang, based on Jack London’s classic novel. He is an Executive Producer of the series Vida created by Tanya Saracho and Sorry For Your Loss created by Kit Steinkellner and starring Elizabeth Olsen. In theatre, he has produced Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me; Burn This starring Adam Driver and Keri Russell for which he was nominated for a Tony award, and the new play by Dan McCabe, The Purists, directed by Billy Porter.

Prior to founding Big Beach, Peter worked with the legendary director and producer Jonathan Demme at the production company Clinica Estetico. Some credits from that period include Victor Nunez’s Ulee’s Gold; Mr. Demme’s The Truth About Charlie; Spike Jonze’s Adaptation; Mr. Demme’s The Agronomist, which won the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary; and Angus Gibson and Jo Menell’s Academy Award-nominated documentary Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation. We're so excited to have Peter Saraf join us!

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