J. Todd Harris

J. Todd Harris is the president of Branded Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles.  Of the nearly 40 movies he’s produced, highlights include Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated The Kids Are All Right, Bottle Shock, Crooked Arrows, Jeepers Creepers, and Piranha 3D.  Five of his films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, including Digging To China, Urbania and Lewis & Clark & George.  His first feature, the $600,000 Denise Calls Up, won a Special Mention for the Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 and went on to become a hit in France, eventually tripling its investment.  Other films have played a nearly every major film festival in the world, including Toronto, Tribeca, SxSW, Deauville, Seattle, San Sebastian, Hamptons, Mill Valley, Montreal, Vancouver and many others.  In the summer of 2012, he produced the movie musical Lucky Stiff starring Jason Alexander.  In 2011, he served as an associate producer on the stage musical Doctor Zhivago in Australia, and is now developing Heathers The Musical for a an off-Broadway run in 2014. A former lecturer at the Los Angeles Film School and columnist for trade publication IndieWire, Mr. Harris has been a member of the Motion Picture Academy since 2000.  Additionally, he is a founding board member of the Napa Valley Film Festival.  He earned his BA and MBA from Stanford and lives in Los Angeles with his songwriter wife Amy Powers and their two young sons.