Director Henry Joost: The True Story Behind 'Catfish'
September, 16, 2010 4:45 pm | Comments On #Ariel Schulman, Catfish, documentaries, Henry Joost, MoviesI share an office in New York City with my business partner Ariel Schulman and his younger brother Nev, a photographer. Our threshold for considering something interesting enough to film is very, very low. You can buy an SD card for $10 at Radioshack. And you can always delete the footage if it’s no good, even though we never do. When Nev started to correspond with an 8-year-old kid who reached out to him on the internet, Ariel pulled out his camera instinctively.
We're part of a loose association of like-minded filmmakers in New York -- the Neistat Brothers, the Safdie Brothers, Lena Dunham and Red Bucket Films -- most of whom rent studios in a pair of buildings on lower Broadway. If we're part of a movement it might be called...
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Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Henry Joost spent his childhood traveling the world with his mother, a photographer, and his father, an international banker. He remains an avid traveler and owns many beautiful cameras – film and still. He and high-school friend Ariel Schulman have been filmmaking partners since 2006 and together founded the New York City production company Supermarché. They have made award-winning commercials and documentaries for some of the world’s most influential companies, including Nike and American Express. Their web short, “What’s the Big Idea,” with Danny DeVito, was nominated for a Webby in 2008. Their first feature film is the documentary “Catfish.”
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