Jim Young
About
Producer Jim Young’s first production was the award-winning football documentary “Year of the Bull” for Showtime Networks.
On the film side, Young produced the thriller, “Homecoming.” Paramount Pictures released the film. Young then produced the dark comedy, “Don McKay,” starring Academy Awardnominees Thomas Haden Church and Elisabeth Shue, and Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released theatrically by Image Entertainment.
Young’s next film, "The Words,” starring Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, JK Simmons, and Zoë Saldana was the Closing Night Film at the Sundance Film Festival. CBS Films released the film.
“Lovelace,” starring an all-star cast including Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, and James Franco, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and subsequently screened at Berlinale. Academy Award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman directed the drama. The film was distributed by The Weinstein Company.
Young then produced the film, “Life of a King,” which starred Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dennis Haysbert, and LisaGay Hamilton. The drama is based on the true story of Eugene Brown, founder of the Big Chair Chess House in Washington, DC. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was released theatrically by Millennium Entertainment. The film received an NAACP Image Award nomination.
Young produced the historical drama “The Man Who Knew Infinity,” starring Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones, and Stephen Fry, based on the New York Times’ bestseller of the same name by Robert Kanigel. The film was part of Film Independent’s Producer’s Lab and received a grant from the Tribeca Film Institute and the Sloan Foundation. The film premiered in the Toronto Film Festival and was released by IFC Films.
The Day My Brain Exploded
After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to re-learn everything: how to eat, how to walk and to speak. With humor and insight, he describes the events of that day (his brain exploded an hour before his brother’s wedding), as well as the long, difficult recovery period.
The Man Who Knew Infinity
The Man Who Knew Infinity tells the story of Indian mathematician Ramanujan, plucked from obscurity and brought to the hallowed halls of Cambridge University during the First World War.
The Catcher Was a Spy
The Catcher Was a Spy tells the story of Moe Berg, Major League Baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney and top-secret spy who helped the U.S. win the race to build the atomic bomb.