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.[1]

Julian T. Pinder with dog, Pioneertown, California, 2017

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 was heralded as a "factual Napoleon Dynamite" in The Globe and Mail.[2]

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.

His documentary Trouble In The Peace (2012) was distributed theatrically and provided part of the story line – including excerpts as part of a film within a film – for his 2016 feature film Population Zero, a mocumentary in which Pinder played a version of himself. Population Zero was screened successfully at the Newport Beach, Whistler, and Napa Valley film festivals to sold-out audiences.

Early in his career Pinder worked as a producer with Sarrazin Couture Entertainment overseeing numerous projects with Lifetime and CTV, and worked closely with Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier (Watermark, Manufactured Landscapes), and Helen Shaver (The Unit, Law and Order). During this period Pinder also directed a series of short art-house films in wartime Kosovo and Bosnia.

Apart from feature film and television, Pinder has also created commercial campaigns including Ralph Lauren RRL, MTV Rock the Vote spots, and music videos for Grammy-nominated band The Milk Carton Kids starring actress Amanda Seyfried, as well as short films for Blondie and The Raconteurs, among many others.

In his earlier years, Pinder opened a restaurant and jazz bar which became a well-known Toronto establishment in the arts scene and hosted, among other events, the Chet Baker Jazz Festival. He also founded one of the first "urban wineries", Vintage One Wines.

In 2019 he co-founded the Pioneertown Film Festival, a boutique annual event held in the movie town built by Roy Rogers, with competition and non-competition indy categories as well as a special series dedicated to restored iconic Western films. The festival also includes Masterclass events held by well-known actors, writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, and boasts programmers from top film festivals including Cannes.

He currently lives in the mountains outside of Pioneertown, California on an off-grid ranch.[3]

Filmography
Year Film Director Producer Notes
2005 The Stranger I Married No Yes TV movie
2006 Doomstown No Yes TV movie
2010 Land Yes Yes Feature Documentary [4]
2012 Trouble In The Peace Yes Yes Feature Documentary
2014 Rob Ford's Words in the Mouth of a Child Yes Yes Short film
2014 Jesus Town, USA Yes Yes Documentary[5][6][7][8]
2015 The Untitled Western Project Yes Yes TV series
2016 Population Zero Yes Yes Feature Film
2016 40 Days Yes Yes Documentary
2017 Fire Chasers Yes Yes Netflix Original Series

References
  1. Green, Jeff. "The Fund for Santa Barbara to Host Reception for Nominated Social Justice Filmmakers". Noozhawk. Malamute Ventures LLC. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  2. Lacey, Liam. "Dissecting A Golden Age of Lies At HotDocs". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  3. Sloane, Hilary. "Filmmaker Julian Pinder". heARTbeat Report. Hilary Sloane. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  4. Punter, Jennie (10 September 2010). "Land: Where land is all they've got (review)". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  5. Lacey, Liam. "Dissecting a golden age of lies at Hot Docs". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  6. Billen, Andrew. "TV Review: Jesus Town, USA/This Old Thing: the Vintage Clothes Show". The Times. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  7. Donaldson, Adam. "Jesus Town, USA [Hot Docs 2015]". We Got This Covered. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  8. Ramsey, Terry. "Jesus Town, USA, Sky Atlantic, review: 'gentle and warm-hearted'". Telegraph. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
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