{"id":62965,"date":"2012-03-18T13:40:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T13:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2012\/03\/18\/spike-lee-to-produce-tv-producer-paul-dalio-debut-film\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T13:44:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:44:52","slug":"spike-lee-to-produce-tv-producer-paul-dalio-debut-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/spike-lee-to-produce-tv-producer-paul-dalio-debut-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Lee To Produce TV Producer Paul Dalio’s Debut Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spike Lee To Produce TV Producer Paul Dalio’s Debut Film<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

March 18, 2012<\/p>\n

Source: Forbes.com<\/a> contributor Roger Friedman<\/p>\n

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Remember Ray Dalio<\/strong>? The man who runs the $80 billion Bridgewater Hedge Fund was recently profiled in Forbes. And I told you that Dalio is also a fan of Jennifer Lopez\u2013he funds her charity\u2013and a heavy contributor to director David Lynch\u2019s Transcendental Meditation charity. (And you thought his mantra was just \u2018money, money money\u2019.)<\/p>\n

Now Dalio\u2019s son, Paul<\/strong>, a TV producer at the David Lynch Foundation, is now getting ready to make his debut as a feature director with a film called \u201cMania Days<\/strong>.\u201d And the producer of the film is, of all people, Spike Lee<\/strong>. \u2018Producer\u2019 is not executive producer\u2013Spike isn\u2019t coming up with the money. But according to a production sheet that went out on Friday, Spike is going to be overseeing Dalio\u2019s film on a hands-on basis, which he rarely does for films other than his own. Dalio, like Lee, is a graduate of the NYU Film School.<\/p>\n

Dalio wrote and directed the film about a manic depressive rapper who gets involved with a manic depressive poet in a passionate affair that results in a pregnancy. There\u2019s no word on who\u2019s financing \u201cMania Days,\u201d but all things considered, it shouldn\u2019t be hard to find the money. His mom is loaded, too\u2013she\u2019s a direct descendant of the Vanderbilt-Whitney families, making Paul a cousin, by the way, of Anderson Cooper<\/strong>, son of Gloria Vanderbilt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Paul Dalio\u2019s previous credits include a short film called \u201cThe Order<\/strong>\u201d about \u201cSam, a major driver behind economic policy, devises a plan to get the country out of a depression by harnessing the power behind people\u2019s desires for conflict.\u201d He also co-wrote a feature called \u201cFaith, Love and Whiskey<\/strong>,\u201d that was shot in Bulgaria and shown in January at the alternative Slamdance Film Festival<\/strong>. In February, Dalio married the director-star of the film, Kristina Nikolova<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lee’s last producer credit, outside of his own films, was an executive producer to the critically acclaimed film, “Pariah<\/a><\/strong>,” by another NYU film grad, Dee Rees<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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