Barr B. Potter

Barr Potter is currently the Chairman and CEO of Tripod Entertainment, Inc., which is in the business of developing and financing feature films. Tripod has also been engaged to provide services to other companies in the film business. In that respect, Barr has spent a great deal of time representing individuals (such as directors and producers) and companies in the animation business, doing such things as negotiating employment agreements with the studios, acquiring properties for development as animated projects, licensing concepts to the studios for animated television series, and forming joint ventures.Prior to Tripod, Barr was Chairman and CEO of Largo Entertainment, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of JVC, the Japanese consumer electronics company. As the result of a business plan Barr created, Largo was restructured from an independent production company into a foreign sales company, which was involved in the financing, acquisition and worldwide distribution of feature films. Under Barr's leadership, Largo was involved with 20 pictures, such as "G.I. Jane" and "White Squall" (both directed by Ridley Scott), "Mulholland Falls" (directed by Lee Tamahori and produced by Dick Zanuck), "City of Industry" (directed by John Irvin), "John Carpenter's Vampires", and "Affliction" (written and directed by Paul Schrader, which earned James Coburn an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for Nick Nolte as Best Actor). Largo did business with every major domestic studio, and pre-sold its films to key distributors in every major territory around the world.At the end of 1995 Screen International, a major trade publication for those involved in foreign sales of motion pictures, included Barr on its global listing of the Power 100 (those "who can make international films happen in terms of greenlighting, packaging and financing"). Barr has also been invited by The Hollywood Reporter to speak on industry panels in Cannes and Hong Kong.Before Largo, Barr was President and COO of Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, Inc., the North American subsidiary of a worldwide film production and distribution company based in London. Barr was also a member of the board of directors of Thorn EMI-HBO Home Video, a domestic joint venture home video distribution company that he was involved in forming.Barr is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has served several times on the committee that screens and selects the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film.::bio