Geoffrey James Clark | |
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Born |
Geoffrey James Clark June 12, 1981 La Crescenta, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Producer, Director, Executive |
Years active | 2012–present |
Geoffrey James Clark (born June 12, 1981 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television director, producer and entertainment executive. He is mostly known for Producing unscripted content with a cause, inspirational story or social action element.
Clark has been credited as a producer and executive producer in numerous film and television projects. His credits in television include Travel Channel's "Trip Testers", HGTV's "Million Dollar Closet's", Nat Geo Wild's "Worlds Weirdest: Animal Apocalypse", Esquire's "The Short Game". Additionally, he has developed and sold numerous other unscripted projects while acting as Owner of Something Kreative Studios as well as the head of Development for Goodbye Pictures.
In 2014, Clark partnered with attorney and producer Lisa Lapan to launch Something Kreative Studios, a packaging, production and distribution company. SK has produced/distributed/represented numerous documentary films "Isolated", "Extinction Soup", "The Essence of Surfing", and the film "Sweet Micky for President", which won both the Jury and Audience Awards at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival.
Clark recently executive produced the documentary film Isolated, with actor Ryan Phillippe who is also the voiceover on the film. Rolling Stone magazine featured an article about Isolated., and Phil Hall from FilmThreat reviewed the film as "...the best non-fiction film of 2013".
In the past, Clark produced the independent horror film Automaton Transfusion, which was released through Dimension Films. Automaton Transfusion was shot independently on a very low budget and bought by the Weinstein Co. after a large amount of industry and entertainment buzz. Dimension Extreme released the film on DVD internationally in January 2006. Geoffrey also produced the documentary film The Forgotten Coast, and The Arena: North Shore, both of which were directed by Justin LePera. Both documentary surf films played at film festivals worldwide and received critical acclaim and festival awards.
Since 2014 Clark became a contributing writer to top industry publication TheInertia.com, joined the advisory board of the La Costa Film Festival and has been featured as a guest on numerous media outlets including CBS News, Right This Minute on FOX and on CNN's Piers Morgan Live alongside Ryan Phillippe.