Ari Gold is an award-winning filmmaker and director known for Brother Verses Brother (Executive Produced by Francis Ford Coppola ), the cult comedy Adventures of Power , and The Song of Sway Lake . A student Oscar winner and two-time SXSW Grand Prize recipient, Ari is also an author ( Father Verses Sons ) and an alumnus of NYU and Columbia University. He is the founder/president of Grack Films. His films have screened at Sundance, Telluride, Karlovy-Vary, & hundreds of other festivals, & he has won over fifty prizes, including best film at SXSW (twice) and the Student Oscar.