BTG Productions was founded by Peabody Award-Winning documentary filmmaker Bari Pearlman. Through her work, Bari seeks to elevate the craft of storytelling and introduce us to fellow humans with both unique and universal experiences to share. Her stories have centered around food, music, design, social inclusion and criminal justice reform, and have spanned the globe from Tibet to Iceland to Ohio, and from a rural Mayan farm to the cobblestoned alleyways of Majorca to backstage at the Grand Ole Opry. 

Bari's documentaries and episodic series can been seen on top-tier streamers and broadcasters including Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Amazon, Apple TV+, CNN, PBS, BBC, Max and Discovery+. Her independent films have been supported by major grants and artists’ residencies, released theatrically, and screened at prestigious international film festivals and major museums and cultural institutions around the world. She is represented by CAA.

As a Director, Bari has created many award-winning feature and short documentaries and episodic series such as the James Beard Media Award-winning World Eats: Bread (NatGeo/Hulu/Disney+), the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award-winning Jelly Roll: Save Me (Hulu), Queen of Meth (Discovery+), Death Row Stories (CNN),  Daughters of Wisdom, Nangchen Shorts, and Mah-Jongg: The Tiles That Bind. 

 

Her recent work as a Producer for television includes the IDA Best Episodic Series Award-winning Abstract: The Art of Design (Netflix), The New Yorker Presents (Amazon Prime), Fugitive Chronicles (A&E), as well as numerous independent documentary films including the Peabody Award-Winning How to Dance in Ohio (HBO), the Peabody Award Nominated Roll Red Roll (PBS/Netflix/BBC), and the multi-award winning The Leprechaun's Wife and Smile Til It Hurts: The Up With People Story. She got her start in the television in the early days of Radical Media's documentary division as producer of Shots in the Dark (Court TV/Channel 4) and Fan Club: ABBA (VH1).

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Bari has also produced and directed branded documentaries including Harvest Season for Partanna Olive Oil, Autism Is For Life  for Jon Stewart's Night of Too Many Stars (HBO) and Salem Sketches for the Salem Film Festival. 

 

On the scripted side, Bari was the Post Production Supervisor on Season 1 of the hit CBS series Blue Bloods starring Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg, the Producer of Stéphane Goazé's short film The Necklace, and Assistant Director of Cesq Gay's first feature film Hotel Room.

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Previously, Bari was a Contributing Editor to Filmmaker Magazine for 12 years. She held Director positions at numerous film festivals including the 1996 and 1997 Hamptons International Film Festival, the 1997 New York Women's Film Festival, and the 1999 Classically Independent Film Festival. She began her career in the arts as a Development Officer for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. She has also translated the fiction of Swedish author Jonas Gardell.

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Bari is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Producer's Guild of America, and NYWIFT. Her work has been supported with major grants and artists residencies including Yaddo and the LMCC Artists' Residency on Governors Island. In addition to her own career work, she is a consultant and mentor to filmmakers in need of guidance on all aspects of the filmmaking and distribution process.