Nancy Schafer(I)

Nancy Schafer is a film producer and consultant. Her most recent film Jockey premiered in Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and will be distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. Her previous film, the documentary Running with Beto, premiered at SXSW 2019 and is distributed by HBO. Her last two narrative films, Barracuda and Transpecos, premiered in Competition at SXSW, with Transpecos winning the Audience Award. Nancy is Executive Producer of The Battered Bastards of Baseball (Sundance 2014), Producer of 7 Chinese Brothers (SXSW 2015) starring Jason Schwartzman, Executive Producer of Frame by Frame (SXSW 2015), and Come Down Molly (Tribeca 2015). She worked at and ran the Tribeca Film Festival from inception to July 2012, a period of 11 years, in which she was Executive Director of the festival and Executive Vice President of Tribeca Enterprises, and launched Tribeca Film, their film distribution company. Prior to Tribeca, she created and ran the SXSW Film Festival for eight years.