Peter Spirer

Peter Spirer is a film director. Many of his films are documentaries.[1] Spirer is the founder of the film and media production company Rugged Entertainment.

Career

In 1993 Spirer's short documentary Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann was nominated for an Academy Award.[2]

In 2003 he was the winner of the Jury Award for the Ojai Film Festival for his debut narrative feature film Dunsmore.

Spirer has created a number of documentary films, including Rhyme and Reason,[3][4] Another Reason to Rhyme,[5] Beef I-III, and Tupac: Thug Angel,[6] Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life. Many of his films play regularly on cable television networks. His films,Kiss and Tail: The Hollywood Jump Off and Black and Blue: Legends of the Hip-Hop Cop,[7] were in rotation on Showtime.

Spirer's films have twice been screened at Sundance Film Festival.

In 2009 he produced and directed the feature film Just Another Day, starring Wood Harris and Jamie Hector (both from HBO's The Wire), which was distributed by Image Entertainment.

In 2014, Spirer's narrative feature, Just Another Day was broadcast on BET and Rhyme and Punishment on FUSE.

In 2016, Spirer was executive producer of the film Queen Mimi.[8]

References
  1. "Rolling Stone Names 30 Best Music Documentaries On Netflix Streaming This Instant". HipHopDX, May 23, 2014 | by Soren Baker
  2. [WestEnd Closes Raft of Deals on Ballet Documentary ‘Dancer’ (EXCLUSIVE)"]. Leo Barraclough. Variety, April 1, 2016
  3. "'Straight Outta Compton,' '8 Mile': 5 Rap Movies Every Hip-Hopper Should Know" Archived 2015-10-11 at the Wayback Machine. Daryl Nelson , Design & Trend, Oct, 06, 2015
  4. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (23 August 1997). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 26–. ISSN 0006-2510.
  5. Emmett George Price (1 January 2006). Hip Hop Culture. ABC-CLIO. pp. 272–. ISBN 978-1-85109-867-5.
  6. "XLrator, Quincy Jones III Partner on Health Movie". The Wrap, By Lucas Shaw on January 16, 2013
  7. "My journey to justice: "I toured prison systems around the world looking for ways to improve our own". Salon, Baz Dreisinger Mar 19, 2016
  8. "How a Weird and Wonderful Friendship Between a Generation-X Barista and a Homeless Nonagenarian Transformed Them Both into Cinema Royalty". Huffington Post, Myra Chanin May 16, 2016
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