Fredric King

King was an executive producer of Sound of Metal (2019),^[4] which received six nominations at the 93rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning Best Editing and Best Sound. King helped create the film with screenwriter and director Derek Cianfrance.^[5]

King produced his first full-length feature film, Quattro Noza, retitled Streets of Legend in 2003. It won the Excellence in Cinematography Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival^[6] and received two Spirit Award nominations, Best Cinematography and Best First Feature for King.^[7][8] King produced the documentary B.I.K.E., retitled Bike Club, in 2006. The film features Black Label Bike Club, one of the main contributors to the rise of the tall bike culture.

After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, King produced the documentary Haiti Redux. His next documentary was Swoon: fearless.^[9] Over the course of two years, King produced a 25-day shoot of an experimental film called Metalhead,^[10] which was later retitled Sound of Metal.^[11] Currently, King is working on a fantasy-comedy television series called Kurt Vonnegut: Reporter on the Afterlife, adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's novella God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian.

King has also directed and produced mini-documentaries including AIDSRides, 3-day Breast Cancer Walks, The American Thoracic Society, Solar4PR, and Swoon's Heliotrope Foundation – Konbit Shelter.^[12][13]