Andrew Jarecki

Andrew Jarecki is an American filmmaker, best known for Capturing the Friedmans which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Co-founder/CEO of Moviefone, which provides film schedules over the telephone and was sold to AOL in 1999, Andrew was encouraged to shoot Capturing the Friedmans by Albert Maysles. He is the brother of filmmaker Eugene Jarecki and half-brother of Nicholas Jarecki and ... more

Andrew Jarecki is an American filmmaker, best known for Capturing the Friedmans which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Co-founder/CEO of Moviefone, which provides film schedules over the telephone and was sold to AOL in 1999, Andrew was encouraged to shoot Capturing the Friedmans by Albert Maysles. He is the brother of filmmaker Eugene Jarecki and half-brother of Nicholas Jarecki and graduated from Princeton University with a BA in English Literature. He displays his relatively unknown musical ability in the theme song of Felicity, "New Version of You", which he cowrote with producer J. J. Abrams. less