Jonathan Weinstein

Jonathan began his career as a Production Assistant on TV commercial sets. He moved up through the ranks, eventually launching his own bi-coastal production company as Executive Producer of Go Film. The company grew to handle production for twelve directors, including Christopher Guest, Dennie Gordon, David Dobkin, Gary McKendry, Simon McQuoid, Neal Brennan and others, producing national and international commercial work for all the major advertising agencies and brands around the world. Jonathan/Go Film, have won numerous awards including the Grand Prixe at the Cannes International Advertising Festival, gold at the Int’l London Film Awards, numerous Clios, One Show pencils, and New York Film Festival Awards. Some of that work is part of a permanent collection at MOMA in NYC. He has been teaching production courses at NYU since 2014. Those courses include Short Commercial Form, Introduction to Visual Effex, First Person Narrative and Advanced Short Form Content. He also serves as a Production Advisor for numerous production courses at UGFTV.

Having graduated with a Bachelor of Fine arts from NYU-Tisch, he is happy to have returned in 2014 to teach.

Education

NYU - Bachelor of Fine Arts