Frank Evers (NYPH)
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| Born | 1965 Jerusalem, Jordan (pre '67) |
| Occupation | Media Executive |
Frank Evers is an American businessman, the CEO of INSTITUTE/The Story Institute and the President of Evergreen Pictures.
Founded in 2009, INSTITUTE is an artist management and multi-platform production company focused on editorial, cultural and commercial clients. INSTITUTE represents filmmakers and photographers, and operates out of Los Angeles and London. In 2015, INSTITUTE created a distribution arm to the company called The Story Institute, which focuses on the distribution of long-form photographic stories.
Since founding the production company in 2003, Evers has run Evergreen Pictures with his wife, photographer and filmmaker, Lauren Greenfield.
Evergreen Pictures is currently in production on two new feature-length documentary films, Generation Wealth (2017) and Fantasy Island (doc) (2017).
The company's first feature documentary film, The Queen of Versailles, was directed by Greenfield and debuted at the Sundance Film Festival 2012, where it was selected to be the Opening Night film. The film was acquired by Magnolia Pictures and was theatrically released on July 20th, 2012 throughout the US, ultimately grossing over $2,400,000 at the box office. The film was also acquired by Bravo for US television broadcast in Spring 2013. Greenfield was awarded the Directing Award by the Sundance Jury, the Grand Jury Prize from the Brisbane International Film Festival, a Best Director Award from the RiverRun Film Festival, and the Special Jury Documentary Feature prize from the deadCenter Film Festival. "The Queen of Versailles" was also nominated for Best Documentary Film, 2012 by the International Documentary Association (IDA).
In 2015, Evergreen Pictures produced a documentary series in partnership with GQ/Conde Nast Entertainment, called Bling Dynasty (3 million views on YouTube), and a short documentary film called Magic City: A Film by Lauren Greenfield (over 5 million views on YouTube, TheScene.com & GQ.com). In January 2016, "Magic City" was nominated for Best Video by ASME (the American Society of Magazine Editors).
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