Sharon Oreck

Production

Sharon Oreck

Born 1955-04-10 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Film, music video, and TV commercial producer Sharon Oreck was born in 1955. She graduated from Miraleste High School in Rancho Palos Verdes, California in 1974 and was a Cinema Student at Los Angeles City College. Sharon started working in low-budget genre movies in the mid 70s. From 1984 to 2000 Oreck was the owner and operator of O Pictures, a company that made many music videos, TV commercials, short films, and documentaries. Among the artists Sharon produced music videos for are Madonna, Sting, Chris Isaak, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, U2, the Bangles, Janet Jackson, Sheila E, Metallica, John Fogerty, Peter Gabriel, Ice T, Tony Bennett, Roseanne Cash, and the Eurythmics. Oreck was nominated for an Academy Award for the short "Tales of Meeting and Parting." She won two Women in Film Awards in 1989 and 1991. Moreover, Sharon has won a handful of MTV Video Music Awards.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Skipped Parts poster
6.1

A woman and her son must leave a small South Carolina town because of her wild behavior.

Skipped Parts

2000

14 Women poster
8.0

Documentary that explores the lives of 14 female U.S. senators and the uniquely feminine challenges they face, including the sometimes difficult balance between their roles as public servants and wives and mothers.

14 Women

2007

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7.0

A white guy wakes up in a deserted building in Harlem with no money, ID, and no memory of how he got there. He has also been beaten up when a black man finds him and tells him its not safe to be on the streets alone. Helping the man home, the black guy decides to use the man's apartment, possessions, boss, and girlfriend to change his life forever.

MugShot

1996

U2: The Joshua Tree (Bonus DVD) poster
9.0

On 20 November 2007, a 20th anniversary edition of The Joshua Tree was released. Three-disc box set came with bonus audio CD and DVD. The bonus DVD features live concert footage, a documentary, and two music videos. The disc includes Live from Paris, an 85-minute concert from 4 July 1987 that was originally broadcast on British television in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Island Records. It was later released as a live album through the iTunes Store in July 2008; three cover songs are excluded from both releases of the concert. The documentary, titled Outside It's America, was a 1987 MTV production about The Joshua Tree Tour. The two music videos are an alternate version "With or Without You" and the previously unreleased video for "Red Hill Mining Town". Footage of U2's alter ego country band, The Dalton Brothers, is included on the disc as an Easter egg.

U2: The Joshua Tree (Bonus DVD)

2007