Ari Gold is an award-winning writer, director, installation artist and musician whose films, at first glance rather diverse, are strongly linked by themes of music and of self-discovery. His new film, the multi-generational family drama The Song of Sway Lake, featuring Rory Culkin, Robert Sheehan, Mary Beth Peil, Elizabeth Peña, Isabelle McNally, Jack Falahee, Brian Dennehy, John Grant, and The Staves, was selected as Opening Night Film at six international film festivals, and played 45 film festivals worldwide, winning numerous awards before its limited release in the US in ten cities in September 2018.
Previously, Ari directed the cult comedy Adventures of Power ("One of the funniest films in recent years" - NY Magazine), presented at Sundance and Karlovy-Vary. His student-Oscar-winning short Helicopter, about his mother’s death in the helicopter crash that killed rock music promoter Bill Graham, is expanding into a feature film with psychomagical mentoring from legendary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Ari’s most unusual distinctions include winning High Times Magazine’s "Stoner of the Year" award, and holding a Guinness World Record for commanding the largest ever air-drum ensemble on earth.
His next major project, currently in development, is a game-changing action-adventure fiction TV series about ecology, war, shamanism, and the liberation of the human spirit. Follow: @AriGold on Instagram+Twitter.
