Neil Mandt
| Neil Mandt | |
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Neil Mandt, 2004
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| Born |
August 25, 1969 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Producer, Director |
| Known for |
Jim Rome Is Burning Destination Truth Last Stop for Paul |
| Website | MandtBros.com |
Neil Mandt was born in New York. At the age of 20 he was a winner of a College Emmy Award and then subsequently landed a job as the Entertainment Reporter at WDIV TV4, the NBC affiliate in Detroit.
At 24, Mandt moved to Los Angeles where he became a field producer for ABC News; one of his first assignments was to produce ABC's coverage of the O.J. Simpson criminal trial. In November 1995, Mandt made the move to movies: he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in feature film, Hijacking Hollywood, starring Henry Thomas and Scott Thompson.
Mandt spent the rest of the 90s directing two movies The Million Dollar Kid and Arthur's Quest before returning to television. Mandt then worked for NBC as a producer for its coverage of the 2000 Summer Olympics; his work earned him an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The following spring Neil partnered with his brother Michael Mandt, creating Mandt Bros. Productions. Within weeks of creating the company the two sold two different series to ESPN; Reel Classics Uncut and the network's first reality show Beg, Borrow & Deal.
In 2003 the Mandt Brothers created the ESPN show "Jim Rome is Burning" starring sports radio superstar Jim Rome; in 2004 they created the series "My Crazy Life" for E! Entertainment Television and in 2007 they created Destination Truth for the Sci Fi Channel.
In 2006 Mandt returned to feature films when he wrote, directed, produced and starred in the indie flick, Last Stop for Paul. It won a top award, Best Picture or Best Screenplay, at 50 plus festivals it screened at in 2006 and 2007. Mandt created a separate internet version of the movie as a series of webisodes housed on the film's website www.laststopforpaul.com as well as Revver and Ifilm.Last Stop for Paul was released theatrically in North America on March 3 of 2008, making it the first internet web series ever to go from the web to the theaters.
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