Carolyn Pfeiffer

Carolyn Pfeiffer joined Bumbershoot Productions as a consultant and producer in 2008.

Pfeiffer first worked in Rome on films including Fellini's 8½, Visconti's THE LEOPARD and Blake Edwards's THE PINK PANTHER. She then moved to Paris and worked as an associate producer for Alain Delon's production company. While in Paris she was also executive assistant to Omar Sharif and worked on many of his films, including DOCTOR ZHIVAGO.

Pfeiffer then moved to London and started her own PR company. Her numerous clients included Robert Redford, Barbara Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Francois Truffaut, Robert Altman, The Beatles's company, Apple Corps, Ltd. and Paul McCartney and Wings.

Moving to Los Angeles, Pfeiffer formed Alive Films with Shep Gordon. They produced ROADIE starring Meatloaf and RETURN ENGAGEMENT, a feature documentary about the Timothy Leary/G.Gordon Liddy debates (Alan Rudolph directed both films). Pfeiffer then joined Chris Blackwell to form Island Alive, a groundbreaking independent production/distribution company that produced and/or released films such as CHOOSE ME, EL NORTE, KOYAANISQATSI, STOP MAKING SENSE, INSIGNIFICANCE, THE HIT, A PRIVATE FUNCTION, and KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, which won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival as well as an Academy Award for William Hurt.

Back as co-chair of Alive Films and continuing her long partnership with Gordon, Pfeiffer produced a series of films for the company, including TROUBLE IN MIND and THE MODERNS (both directed by Alan Rudolph), A TIME OF DESTINY, THE WHALES OF AUGUST, GRAND ISLE, FAR NORTH, and SILENT TONGUE. Alive Films also released a number of films, including the French sensation BETTY BLUE (an Academy Award nominee) and Maximilian Shell's MARLENE (also an Academy Award nominee).

Between 1993 and 1999 Pfeiffer and her daughter Shannon lived in Jamaica, where she produced three Jamaican feature films, two of which were vanguard movies shot digitally for Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures: DANCEHALL QUEEN and THIRD WORLD COP. To date they are the highest grossing films released in the Caribbean.

Pfeiffer then returned to Los Angeles to become the founding president of the Los Angeles Film School; then vice chair of the American Film Institute Conservatory. Later, she was invited to become founding president and CEO of Burnt Orange Productions in Austin, which produced THE QUIET, NATIONAL LAMPOON'S STONED AGE, THE CASSIDY KIDS, and ELVIS AND ANABELLE.

Pfeiffer now resides in Marfa, Texas where she continues her work as producer. She is currently the Executive Producer of FAR MARFA and is also executive producing the documentary CHILDREN OF GIANT. She is an active member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the former president of IFP West, and was recently awarded the Pioneer Award by the Lone Star International Film Festival in Fort Worth for her "trailblazing work in independent cinema."