Biography

Born in Budapest, 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 and Hungarian, early 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 until she began producing. Orsi has developed a strong reputation as a producer of award-winning feature documentaries with theatrical release. 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. Teaming up with directors such as Stacy Peralta on Dogtown and Z-Boys, 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. This was followed by Pipemasters, 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, directed by Paul Crowder, released by Miramax/Pathe. This was followed by Amazing Journey; The Story of the WHO also directed by Paul Crowder, produced by Spitfire Pictures released by VH1 and Universal. No Room For Rockstars; The Vans Warp Tour's 2012 release by Shout Factory, ITunes and Cinedgim Digital Theatrical was met with great success.

Among some of her development projects Orsi will produce the fiction feature, In Search of Captain Zero which she set-up at Ted Fields' "Radar Pictures". Orsi is looking forward to the 2013 theatrical release of the social impact feature she produced; Lost Angels; Skid Row Is My Home narrated by Catherine Keener, directed by Thomas Napper. Followed by the ESPN release of Hawaiian; The Legend of Eddie Aikau. And the upcoming Dave Grohl directed Sound City for which she provided clearance services.
- IMDb mini biography by: Agi Orsi