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Mark Meatto
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Mark Meatto is an award-winning documentary producer based in New York who began his career as Ross McElwee's editing partner on Bright Leaves before going on to produce Remake (2025) with him. He directed and produced How to Grow a Band (2011), about the early days of the bluegrass band Punch Brothers, and The Ambassador (2010), and produced the Emmy-winning Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) and the docuseries Algiers, America: The Relentless Pursuit (2023). He is a Creative Executive at Words + Pictures, where he is currently producing an eight-part ESPN/Disney series on the New York Yankees, and studied at Harvard University.
Known for
6.7The death of his son causes McElwee, an autobiographical filmmaker, to look back on his life’s work. He eventually turns to his archive of home movies. To what extent did his camera affect their relationship when Adrian was alive? To what extent does it define that relationship now that he is gone? Meanwhile, an effort to adapt McElwee’s first feature, Sherman’s March, into a work of fiction lurches along, giving the filmmaker another perspective from which to meditate on movie making and mortality.
Remake
2026
6.5Chris Thile is at a crossroads. His marriage has ended and his platinum-selling band, Nickel Creek, has gone on hiatus. But Thile, a prodigy who has defied expectations since he picked up the mandolin at age five, has a plan.
How to Grow a Band
2012
Behind the camera
6.7The death of his son causes McElwee, an autobiographical filmmaker, to look back on his life’s work. He eventually turns to his archive of home movies. To what extent did his camera affect their relationship when Adrian was alive? To what extent does it define that relationship now that he is gone? Meanwhile, an effort to adapt McElwee’s first feature, Sherman’s March, into a work of fiction lurches along, giving the filmmaker another perspective from which to meditate on movie making and mortality.
Remake
2026
6.5Chris Thile is at a crossroads. His marriage has ended and his platinum-selling band, Nickel Creek, has gone on hiatus. But Thile, a prodigy who has defied expectations since he picked up the mandolin at age five, has a plan.
How to Grow a Band
2012
6.5Chris Thile is at a crossroads. His marriage has ended and his platinum-selling band, Nickel Creek, has gone on hiatus. But Thile, a prodigy who has defied expectations since he picked up the mandolin at age five, has a plan.
How to Grow a Band
2012