Ari Gold is a film director, poet, musician, & founder/president of Grack Films. His latest film, Brother Verses Brother, is Executive Produced by Francis Ford Coppola.

His movies have screened at Sundance, Telluride, Karlovy-Vary, & hundreds of other festivals, & he has won over fifty prizes, including best film at SXSW (twice) and the Student Oscar.

Ari is currently preparing the premiere at SXSW of his third feature film, Brother Verses Brother, a musical odyssey which is also a companion to Ari’s first book of poetry (Father Verses Sons, Rare Bird Lit, 2024). He is in post-production on his fourth feature, Helicopter, which expands on his student-Oscar-winning short film about his mother’s death, & features legendary director Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Previously, he directed a romantic drama called The Song of Sway Lake which played 52 international film festivals, winning Best Feature at over a dozen of these. It features Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan (Umbrella Academy), & Mary Beth Peil. And his first feature film, air-drum cult comedy Adventures of Power, was called "One of the funniest films in recent years" by NY Magazine, played Sundance and Karlovy-Vary, and features Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Nick Kroll, and Adrian Grenier.

Ari has a dozen other film & TV projects in various stages of development, and also hosts a podcast about drumming called HotSticks, featuring some of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Ari’s most unusual distinctions include a High Times Magazine "Stoner of the Year" award (for his performance as a drug dealer in the rave film Groove), and a Guinness World Record for commanding the largest air-drum ensemble on earth. And yes, his name was “borrowed” by a TV show.

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