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Glen Zipper (born February 25, 1974) is an American writer, film producer and former New Jersey assistant state prosecutor.〔Sholnikova, Svetlana. ("Fort Lee natives win big at Academy Awards" ), ''Fort Lee Suburbanite'', March 16, 2012. Accessed October 7, 2012.〕 ==Life and film career== Zipper graduated from Fort Lee High School, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and received a degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While in Madison, Zipper, along with co-creator Nicholas Hauselman, wrote, produced, directed and starred in Madison's WYOU cult community access skit comedy show ''The Fourth Rail''. He then attended Brooklyn Law School, before becoming an assistant state prosecutor at the Hudson County Prosecutors Office in Hudson County, New Jersey. After serving as an assistant prosecutor for three years, Zipper left New Jersey to embark on a career in filmmaking in Los Angeles. In 2007, Zipper began his film career working for Nigel Sinclair and Guy East at Spitfire Pictures, which was subsequently acquired by Cyrte Investments and rebranded as Exclusive Media.〔(Exclusive )〕 After this acquisition, Spitfire was repurposed as the standalone documentary arm of Exclusive Media and Zipper was named Head of Documentary Features. For Spitfire, Zipper was the executive producer of ''The Last Play at Shea'' about rock icon Billy Joel, and the Grammy winning ''Foo Fighters: Back and Forth'' and was an executive in charge of production on Martin Scorsese's Emmy winning ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' In 2011, Glen founded Zipper Brothers Films with his brother Ralph Zipper. On behalf of Zipper Brothers he produced ''Undefeated'' along with Seth Gordon, Daniel Lindsay, Rich Middlemas, and Ed Cunningham. ''Undefeated'' was purchased by Harvey Weinstein of The Weinstein Company at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival and went on to win the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary. In 2015, Glen produced ''The Nightmare'', a non-fiction horror film from director Rodney Ascher (Room 237). ''The Nightmare'' premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and has been reviewed as "the scariest movie of the decade" and "one of the scariest documentaries ever." 〔()〕〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glen Zipper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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