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1999 The Blair Witch Project (phase one instigator)
 
1996 American Job (producer's representative)
 
1994 Crumb (documentary) (producer's representative)
 
1994 Go Fish (producer's representative)
 
1994 Clerks. (czar of representation)
 
1993 My Life's in Turnaround (producer's representative)
 
1991 Slacker (producer's representative - uncredited)
 
1989 Roger & Me (documentary) (producer's representative)
 
1988 The Thin Blue Line (documentary) (producer's representative - uncredited)
 
1986 She's Gotta Have It (producer's representative)
 
1986 Working Girls (producer's representative)
 
1986 Parting Glances (producer's representative)
 
Show ShowProducer (6 titles)
2005 Reel Paradise (documentary) (executive producer)
 
2003 Back Home Years Ago: The Real Casino (video documentary short) (co-executive producer)
 
1999 How's Your News? (documentary) (executive producer)
 
1999 Split Screen (TV series) (executive producer - 1 episode)
– Satin's Sadists (1999) (executive producer)
 
1997 Chasing Amy (executive producer)
 
1995 Lie Down with Dogs (executive producer)
 
Show ShowActor (2 titles)
2006 The Cassidy Kids
Newspaper Reporter
 
2002 Searching for Paradise
Jim Johnson
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
1997 Split Screen (TV series)
 
Show ShowThanks (20 titles)
2012 Time Is on My Side (short) (special thanks)
 
2009 Winnebago Man (documentary) (very special thanks)
 
2008 Bend & Break (special thanks)
 
2008 The Alternate (short) (special thanks)
 
2007 I Am Nick Robinson (short) (special thanks)
 
2006 Junior! The Wendy's Guy (short) (special thanks)
 
2006/II Room 314 (short) (special thanks)
 
2005 Kissing on the Mouth (special thanks)
 
2005 Love Math (short) (special thanks)
 
2004 Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted (documentary) (special thanks)
 
2001 Who Is Bernard Tapie? (documentary) (thanks: USA)
 
1999 Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (documentary) (special thanks)
 
1999 The Blair Witch Project (special thanks)
 
1997 Chasing Amy (the director would like to thank: Guru, Czar, friend.)
 
1996 The Daytrippers (thanks: production team)
 
1995 Mallrats (the director would like to thank: for keeping me pure - as Pierson)
 
1994 Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (documentary) (thanks)
 
1994 Clerks. (special thanks: for having second thoughts - as John 'My Hero' Pierson)
 
1992 Swoon (special thanks)
 
1991 Slacker (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (11 titles)
2007 Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore (documentary)
Himself - Author, 'Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes'
 
2006 Jimmy's Story (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter (documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Reel Paradise (documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Snowball Effect: The Story of 'Clerks' (video documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Indie Sex: Taboos (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1997-2000 Split Screen (TV series)
Himself
– Waiting for Star Wars (1999) … Himself
– Satin's Sadists (1999) … Himself
 
1999 I'll Make Me a World (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Divine Trash (documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Independent's Day (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1996 Lauren Hutton and... (TV series)
Himself
– John Pierson (1996) … Himself
 

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Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore -- In the realm of documentary filmmaking there is no greater icon than Michael Moore, but are his films really the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Searching for Paradise -- A young woman, coping with the death of her father, embarks on a quest to meet a Hollywood star with whom she has become obsessed. Reel Paradise -- Former indie film "guru" John Pierson takes his family to Fiji for one year to run the world's most remote movie theater.
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Author of "Spike Mike Slackers & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema" (Hyperion Miramax Books, 1996) ISBN 0786861894

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Alternate Names:

John 'My Hero' Pierson | Pierson
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