Biography

Braxton Pope is a producer who maintained a production deal with Lionsgate. He lead produced Focus Features' acclaimed The Card Counter written and directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader, Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese and whose cast included Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe. The film premiered in competition at the Venice International Film Festival and was selected by the Telluride Film Festival. It was named best of the year by The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Cahiers du Cinema and National Board of Review. Most recently he Executive Produced Oh Canada written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi and Uma Thurman. The film premiered in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. He also produced three films starring Nicolas Cage including SXSW selections Arcadian and The Trust in addition to the feature film The Smiley Face Killers. Pope produced The Canyons directed by Schrader and starring Lindsay Lohan and which was the subject of a lengthy cover story in the New York Times Magazine. It was released theatrically by IFC, was selected by the Venice International Film Festival and named as one of the year's best by the New Yorker. He produced the Lionsgate feature film Shrink which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and The Take, which was released theatrically by Sony Pictures to rave reviews and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival where it was touted as a "must see film."

He Executive Produced Sundance competition documentary City of Gold chronicling Pulitzer Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold which IFC theatrically released. He produced the feature documentary American Rapstar which was selected by SXSW and CPH: DOX and Executive Produced the feature documentary The Source Family which premiered in competition at SXSW. In television he has Executive Produced pilots for Showtime, FX and Lionsgate. He Executive Produced the digital series The Deleted which was nominated for a Webby Award in the Best Dramatic Series category. He also Executive Produced Pete Smalls is Dead starring Peter Dinklage and Life is Hot in Cracktown, starring Kerry Washington.

He Executive Produced visual content for Kanye West's Yeezus as well as three music videos for Leon Bridges in addition to his Apple Music exclusive film For It Shall Perish And Never Leave Us Again directed by Academy Award nominee Bradford Young. He produced the Drake and Makonnen music video Tuesday as well as Constant Conversations and Carried Away for Passion Pit. Carried Away was nominated for three MVPA awards as well as "Best Alternative Video" at the UK Music Video Awards and an MTV Woodie Award for "Best Music Video." He also produced the award nominated, SXSW selection MGMT video Cool Song No 2 that featured Michael K. Williams and was acclaimed by Vice as "the best music video of the year." He has produced music videos for the Silversun Pickups, The Shins, Foster the People, and the Dum Dum Girls.

Pope began his career at Artisan Entertainment and was Director of Acquisitions. He received his B.A. from Cornell University and the CORe credential of readiness from Harvard Business School online and was a Telluride Scholar and the recipient of the Cornell Book Award. He was selected by the Hollywood Reporter for their Next Generation issue's "35 under 35." Pope is a member of the Producers Guild of America and a board member of Cornell in Hollywood. He has been featured at the National Association of Broadcasters super session and was an invited speaker at the Writer's Guild of America, Bloomberg Finance Summit, San Francisco International Film Festival, American Film Market and Sundance Film Festival. He has appeared on Huffington Post Live and TMZ and has written about film for Vanity Fair and Paste Magazine and was also the author of a column for the online literary site of McSweeneys Quarterly.

- IMDb mini biography by: Stephen Bender