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Alan Klingenstein

b. 1954

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Born 1954. Alan Klingenstein is an American film producer and lawyer.

Alan Klingenstein (born 1954) is an American corporate and securities attorney, investment banker, film producer and content distributor. His feature film Two Family House won the Audience Award at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. Another feature film, Runaway, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005 and won the Best Screenplay award at the Austin Film Festival. His documentary Trumbo premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007 and was awarded the National Board of Review's Freedom of Expression Award. Alan Klingenstein currently serves as the Vice Chairman of Radial Entertainment, a global film and television distribution studio. Prior to Radial Entertainment, Klingenstein served as the Board Chairman at FilmRise, a film and television studio he co-founded in 2010.

Early life Klingenstein was born and raised in Scarsdale, New York. He is Jewish. His father was Lee P. Klingenstein, a partner in the New York investment management firm of Neuberger Berman. Klingenstein graduated from the Taft School. He then earned a bachelor's degree at Princeton, and a J.D. and M.B.A. from Cornell University. Later he worked as a VP of Bankers Trust Securities in New York and London. Klingenstein produced Filberts Steps' films for very low budgets: Forever Fabulous (1999),Two Family House (2000), Runaway (2005), Two Family House premiered, and won the Audience Award, at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Klingenstein developed Filmcatcher.com, containing editorial coverage of art house films, on-camera interviews with filmmakers and actors, film festival coverage, critical reviews, celebrity picks, and profiles of the independent film community.

In 2010, Klingenstein joined with brothers Danny and Jack Fisher to create FilmRise, a film and television content acquisition fund and distribution company, established to acquire and distribute a slate of both mainstream and specialized films, documentaries, and television series.

Klingenstein and the Fisher brothers sold Filmrise in 2025 to Radial Entertainment, a production and distribution conpany backed by funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management. Radial's catalog of over 70,000 films and TV episodes is one of the largest in the industry. Alan Klingenstein currently helps to manage that catalog, as the Vice Chairman of Radial Entertainment.

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1954, Scarsdale
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Princeton University, Cornell University, Cornell Law School, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Alan Klingenstein was born in 1954 in Scarsdale.

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