Austin Stark is a writer, director, and producer. He is a founder of the New York City film production and finance company, Paper Street Films. Over the years, Austin has produced nine films, including: Tony Kaye's Detachment (starring Adrien Brody, Christina Hendricks, James Caan, and Lucy Liu); 2012 Sundance Opening Night Film, Hello, I Must Be Going (directed by Todd Louiso; starring Melanie Lynskey and Blythe Danner); 2010 Sundance Audience Award winner happythankyoumoreplease (directed by Josh Radnor; starring Radnor, Malin Akerman, and Kate Mara); Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (starring Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, and Chloe Sevigny); and 2009 Sundance competition film Peter and Vandy (directed by Jay DiPietro, starring Jason Ritter and Jess Weixler). Infinitely Polar Bear is Austin's fifth film at Sundance.
Before co-founding Paper Street Films, Austin began his career working in development for Cary Woods at Independent Pictures, and then with Academy Award-winning producer Martin Richards (Chicago). During this time, Richards's outfit, The Producer's Circle, hired Austin to write the sequel to The Boys from Brazil and the Holocaust drama, The Stranger from Belmont Park.
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