Damon Cardasis

Damon Cardasis is an Emmy Award nominated producer, a two-time Writer's Guild Award nominated writer, and a GLAAD Award nominated director. He is the producing partner of writer/ director Rebecca Miller and together they run their production company Round Films in New York City. Cardasis' acclaimed first feature script, Saturday Church was released by Samuel Goldwyn Films, was chosen as a New York Times Critics Pick and scored 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. It has won 18 awards from festival's around the world, was nominated for a GLAAD Award for "Outstanding Film - Limited Release" and was the runner up for the "Audience Award" at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it played in competition. Additionally Cardasis was awarded the "Community Ally Award" by NYC Black Pride. He wrote, directed, produced and co-wrote the lyrics for it. Cardasis produced the film Maggie's Plan (starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph and Travis Fimmel), which was released by Sony Pictures Classics in May 2016. It was chosen as a New York Times Critic's Pick. For TV, Cardasis produced the HBO documentary, Arthur Miller: Writer, which was released in 2018 and nominated for an Emmy for "Outstanding Documentary: Arts & Culture". Prior to its release Arthur Miller: Writer played The Telluride Film Festival, New York Film Festival and many more. On Broadway, Cardasis produced the Arthur Miller Centennial (Bradley Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Barkin, Laurence Fishburne, Tony Kushner, John Turturro, Peter Sarsagaard). Cardasis co-founded of The Lower East Side Film Festival in 2009, which continues to showcase low-budget films from around the world. Past judges include: Ethan Hawke, Susan Sarandon, Rosario Dawson, Laverne Cox, Parker Posey, Marky Ramone, Denis O'Hare and more. Cardasis was profiled in Out Magazine's annual Tastemaker issue and was also chosen to be part of Out Magazine's annual OUT 100, which highlights the most influential people in the LGBTQ community.