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Agi Orsi
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Title/Occupation:  Producer 
Gender: Female
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Languages Spoken: French, Hungarian

Biography: 

AGI ORSI, Producer

As a child, Orsi developed what would become a lifelong curiosity about
language and culture. After graduating from the Paris’ Sorbonne University with a Master’s Degree in French literature, she founded AOP Productions.

Fluent in French, Hungarian, and Hebrew her international clients included the French “Center for National Cinema”, the “Hungarian Film Studios”, working as the liaison for U.S. Hungarian productions and various production roles on European shoots for CBS, NBC, HBO and Warner Brothers.

Orsi has developed a strong reputation as a producer of award-winning feature documentaries with theatrical release.

Orsi teamed up with director Stacy Peralta on Dogtown and Z-Boys, and they went on to win both the Audience and Directors Award at Sundance Film Festival , followed by Riding Giants which was the first documentary ever to open the Sundance Film Festival earning both films major release by Sony Classics.

As a result of these success stories, Orsi was asked to produce ONCE IN A LIFETIME the feature documentary on the rise and fall of the N.Y. Cosmos, the soccer team that brought Pele to America, released by Miramax/Pathe. This was followed by Amazing Journey;The Story of the WHO produced by Spitfire Pictures and The Who for Universal Pictures.

Earlier productions include Bashkaus: Hard Labor in Siberia for the Discovery Channel, chronicling the first joint US-Soviet river expedition in Russia’s Altai Mountains won the Grand Prize at the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival, Curtain of Ice for the Discovery on the first on water crossing of the Bering Strait, reuniting Eskimo relatives separated by 40 years of the cold war.

Among some of her development projects Orsi will next produce the fiction feature, In Search of Captain Zero which she set-up at Ted Fields, “Radar Pictures”, and is in production on The Chorus, the companion piece to the feature film The Solist starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Fox for Dreamworks.