Jody Lee Lipes' directing credits include Magnolia Pictures' release Ballet 422 (TriBeCa Film Festival 2014), which follows the creation of a single New York City Ballet production from first rehearsal to world premiere; HBO's Girls (Primetime Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner for Best Comedy Series 2012); PBS and BBC 4's NY Export: Opus Jazz (Audience Award South by Southwest 2010), a scripted on-location dance film; and the verite artist documentary Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same (South by Southwest 2009).
He is currently developing Confederacy, his first feature length screenplay, which was selected for the Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs, and Mother Tongue Reader with screenwriter Micah Bloomberg.
Lipes is also an Independent Spirit Award-nominated director of photography, chosen as one of Variety's 10 Cinematographers to Watch. His cinematography credits include Martha Marcy May Marlene, Tiny Furniture, Afterschool, Trainwreck, and Kenneth Lonergan's forthcoming Manchester-by-the-Sea.
Recent commercial and music video collaborators include Mark Romanek and Jay Z.
