Noah Pritzker

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Noah Pritzker (born December 1986) is an American film director and screenwriter, and a member of the Pritzker family.

Biography

Pritzker grew up San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood. [1] He is the son of billionaire John Pritzker and philanthropist Lisa Stone Pritzker. [2] Pritzker attended San Francisco Day School and graduated from San Francisco University High School in 2005. [1] [3] He then studied art history and literature at Columbia University. [1]

Pritzker's first film, Quitters , was released in 2015. He cowrote it with Ben Tarnoff. The film was a 2015 nominee at the SXSW Grand Jury Award for Narrative Feature.[ citation needed ]

Pritzker wrote and directed the film Ex-Husbands , which was released in 2023. He has said that the film was based in part on his experiences watching the dissolution of his own parents' marriage after 35 years. [2]

Pritzker lives in Manhattan's West Village neighborhood. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Grady, Pam (2015-04-15). "Filmmaker Noah Pritzker tells his S.F. story in 'Quitters'". SFGate. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
  2. 1 2 Smith, Kyle (February 20, 2025). "'Ex-Husbands' Review: Griffin Dunne's Melancholy Party Crasher". Wall Street Journal .
  3. Johnson, Holly (2015-09-01). "Fall 2015: Class Notes". UHS Journal - Issuu. p. 31. Retrieved 2025-02-23.[ non-primary source needed ]
  4. McCreesh, Shawn (2022-02-04). "The Jane Hotel to Reboot As an Outpost of an Elite Hollywood Private Club". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2025-02-23.