Before he ever made a film, Andrew Jarecki's work loomed large in the lives of moviegoers. Jarecki was the founder and CEO of MovieFone, the company that made film schedules and theater information (voiced in the goofily garrulous baritone of business partner Russ Leatherman) available over the telephone. After they sold MovieFone to AOL in 1999, Jarecki decided to become a filmmaker himself. He wanted to direct his own movie, something simple and easy to start. As Jarecki remembers it, "I wanted to make something kind of light, and kind of manageable, and so I started making this film about professional children's birthday party entertainers in New York City. It's this strange, quirky group of people who live among children and who call each other by their clown names... It's a little bit of an Errol Morris world, and I thought that would be an interesting place to go." Why do famous understatements always sound like last words? There is always an element of uncertainty in making a documentary. Scripts don't hold, subjects do unexpected things, stories go in strange directions, and often the whole mess is clarified only in editing. Andrew Jarecki started making one movie, a light documentary about clowns, and ended up with something completely different: CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS, the story of a family that is destroyed by allegations of child molestation and pedophilia. Jarecki's other credits include composing the theme for the TV series "Felicity" (1998) and directing the 2004 film JUST A CLOWN. Jarecki is co-writing and directing the upcoming feature mystery-drama ALL GOOD THINGS, which features Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Frank Langella (scheduled for release in 2009).  Nominated for Documentary (Feature) 2003: CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS Producer (w. Marc Smerling) 1 nomination