- Phone
- Office: 646 383-5971
- Address
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119 8th Street, Suite 311,
Brooklyn, NY, 11215, United States of America
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Lori Cheatle
(She/Her)
President, ProducerHard Working Movies
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Full Bio
Lori Cheatle is a producer of over 25 award-winning films and the founder of Hard Working Movies a director-driven production company with an appetite for bold, high-profile narratives, with films as unique and diverse as the filmmakers behind them. The films she has produced have screened at all the top international film festivals, in cinemas and on TV and platforms around the world.
She has given talks or participated on industry panels for Sundance, SXSW, Berlin Film Festival, NYWIFT, Women In Film L.A., Independent Feature Market, Toronto Film Festival, DOC NYC, Full Frame, Hot Docs, the Whitney Museum, the New York Historical Society, MoMA among others. For five years she was a Lab Leader/producer for the IFP Documentary Film Labs and for the 2014 Dok Incubator Labs in the Czech Republic. Lori teaches a Masters Class in Producing in the Documentary Film Division of the School of Visual Arts.
She has given talks or participated on industry panels for Sundance, SXSW, Berlin Film Festival, NYWIFT, Women In Film L.A., Independent Feature Market, Toronto Film Festival, DOC NYC, Full Frame, Hot Docs, the Whitney Museum, the New York Historical Society, MoMA among others. For five years she was a Lab Leader/producer for the IFP Documentary Film Labs and for the 2014 Dok Incubator Labs in the Czech Republic. Lori teaches a Masters Class in Producing in the Documentary Film Division of the School of Visual Arts.
- Professional Credits
- Producer: Us Kids -2020 (Sundance, SXSW, Full Frame) released by Greenwich Entertainment Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. -2018 (In theaters, broadcast and on platforms worldwide) I Am Another You -2017 (FilmRise, Independent Lens) KIKI -2016 (Sundance, Berlin, IDFA. Released in US by IFC/Sundance Selects UK by Picturehouse) CAPTIVATED The Trials of Pamela Smart -2014 (Sundance, London BFI, released by HBO/Sky Atlantic and outlets in over 80 countries) 112 Weddings -2014 (HBO, BBC, ZDF/ARTE, Dogwoof, Kinosmith) The Edge of Dreaming-2010 (POV, Ch4, Scottish Screen) The Kids Grow Up (HBO, ZDF/Arte, Ch 4) 51 Birch Street -2006 (Toronto Film Festival, SXSW, released by HBO, Zdf/Arte) This Land is Your Land- 2004 (SXSW, Distributed by Argot Pictures) Summer in Ivye (Cinema Guild) From Swastika to Jim Crow (Pacific Street Films, PBS, ITVS) 2000
As Executive Producer: Dreaming Walls- 2022 (Berlinale, CPH Dox) Hail, Satan -2019 (Magnolia Pictures) Seven Songs For A Long Life 2016 (SXSW, Scottish Doc Institute, POV).
- Industry Awards
- Festival awards for films, including Sundance Jury Award, Berlin Teddy Award, SXSW Jury awards, Human Rights Watch and Full Frame Human Rights Award, Silverdocs Jury Award, Banff Film and Television Best Documentary, Kyiv Film Festival Critics Award, Grand Jury Prize at Guangzhou Festival, Warsaw Critics Prize, many others.
Awards & commendations include IDA Best Music Documentary, Cinema Eye Honors, AARP Best Documentary, Special Grierson Award, National Board of Review, NYT 10 Best Films of the Year, Whitney Biennial, Sundance Amazon Producers Award.
