Joshua Astrachan

Joshua Astrachan is a veteran producer of American independent films.  He produced for the legendary director Robert Altman over the last decade of Altman’s unparalleled career — and in 2025 finished producing Father Mother Sister Brother, his third film in collaboration with the beloved, singular writer/director Jim Jarmusch.  

Alongside those icons, Astrachan has worked with numerous young filmmakers on the development and production of their early features — and in 2012 co-founded Animal Kingdom, the NY-based production company whose primary focus over its decade-long run was the work of those discoveries [including, among others, Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term 12 (2013), David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows (2014), Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs (2015), two films by Adam Leon — Tramps (2016) and Italian Studies (2021) — Trey Shults’ It Comes At Night (2017), Eliza Hittman’s Beach Rats (2017) and Mariama Diallo’s Master (2022)].

Films that Astrachan has produced have premiered at Cannes — in Main Competition and Critics Week — and at Venice, Berlin, the New York Film Festival, TIFF, Sundance, SXSW, Locarno, Tribeca and Overlook.

Astrachan is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.