Jerome Robbins' NY Export: Opus Jazz the Film

Crew

• Jerome Robbins
  Choreography
• Robert Prince
  Music
• Ellen Bar
  Creator, Executive Producer
• Sean Suozzi
  Creator, Executive Producer
• Jody Lee Lipes
  Co-Director, Director of Photography, Writer
• Henry Joost
  Associate Producer, Co-Director
• Kyle Martin
  Producer
• Melody Roscher
  Producer
• Ariel Schulman
  Associate Producer, Production Designer
• Zac Stuart-Pontier
  Editor
• Janicza Bravo
  Costume Designer
• Anna Farrell
  Documentary Director, Documentary Producer
• Matt Wolf
  Documentary Director, Documentary Producer
• Aaron Severini
  Documentary Composer
• Robbins Rights Trust
  

Jody Lee Lipes is a filmmaker residing in New York City. His first feature length screenplay, the period drama Confederacy, was selected for the 2011 Sundance Screenwriters Lab.

Past projects include: NY Export: Opus Jazz, a scripted adaptation of a Jerome Robbins’ ballet which won an Audience Award at SxSW 2010, had a limited theatrical release and aired on PBS and BBC; and verite documentary Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same, which follows an emerging artist creating a solo show at a prominent gallery in New York City. After premiering at SxSW 2009, Brock was released by Factory 25 in 2010.

Jody has earned DP credits on the features Martha Marcy May Marlene (Winner Best Director Sundance 2011), Tiny Furniture (Winner SxSW 2010, Independent Spirit Award Nominee for Best Cinematography 2011), Two Gates of Sleep (Cannes 2010), Afterschool (Cannes 2008), and Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (Berlin 2008).

Currently shooting and directing episodes of HBO’s Girls, Jody was recently named one of Variety’s 10 Cinematographers To Watch 2011.