Ari Gold

Born in San Francisco in 1970, Ari Gold is an American filmmaker, actor and musician who studied film at New York University and Columbia University, graduating in 1992. His 1999 short Culture, which he directed and starred in, was shot in a single unbroken take and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The experimental short Helicopter, which won gold at the Student Academy Awards, followed in 2001. Gold wrote, directed and starred in Adventures of Power (2008), a cult comedy about a mine worker drawn into a hidden world of air drummers, which premiered at Sundance and later played the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. He co-wrote and directed the low-budget The Song of Sway Lake (2017), and produced, directed and acted in Brother Verses Brother, first shown at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival. He also sings and plays ukulele in comedic music projects and is part of The Honey Brothers, a new wave folk group.