Known for Production
Danny Gabai is a producer and former literary agent. He is known for Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017), The Beach Bum (2019) and Climax (2018). He is the founder of The Searchers, a boutique, filmmaker focused entertainment company. Gabai was previously co-president and the long-time creative head of VICE Studios Group, VICE Media's global film and TV studio, encompassing all of VICE's production, financing, and distribution business -- which he helped found and build from the ground-up. He is married to music industry executive Jennifer Knoepfle.
Filmography
36 films, 9 shows


Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?
2026 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
A fusion of the brilliantly choreographed stage spectacle of Pulp’s biggest ever arena show — part of the global tour for More, the band’s first album in 24 years — with four decades of colorful, never-seen-before archival material.


Pavements
2025 · 2h 8m
country: United States
'90s indie-rock band Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour. But as preparations get underway, surreal tributes emerge: an off-Broadway musical adaptation of their songs, a museum devoted entirely to the band’s legacy, and a shamelessly awards-baiting Hollywood biopic.


DEVO
2024 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Originally formed amidst the chaos of the 1970 Kent State anti-Vietnam War protest killings, the not quite new wave band Devo scored a hit with "Whip It" and gained mainstream success with their message of societal "de-evolution."


Bama Rush
2023 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Follow four young women as they prepare to rush at the University of Alabama in 2022. Against the viral backdrop of #BamaRush on TikTok, and the long-held tradition of sorority recruitment at the University of Alabama, the film explores the emotional complexities and high-stakes of belonging in this crucial window into womanhood.


The American Gladiators Documentary
2023 · 2h 50m
country: United States
The American Gladiators Documentary, a two-part 30 for 30 ESPN film directed by Ben Berman, takes an unconventional approach to the epic tale of the famed reality-competition show. From its humble beginnings in small-town Erie, PA to international stardom, the show's most charismatic figures finally tell their stories. But what begins as a traditional sports documentary soon gives way to bigger themes of greed, divergent narratives, and ultimately questions how history itself is written.


Superpower
2023 · 1h 58m
country: United States
Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s documentary, shot just before and after Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022, and featuring several interviews with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.


Meet Me in the Bathroom
2022 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Set against the backdrop of 9/11, the story of how a new generation kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.


Moments Like This Never Last
2021 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley and Dan Colen before his death by heroin overdose in 2009. Drawing from Snow’s unforgettable body of work and involving archival footage, Cheryl Dunn’s exceptional portrait captures his all-too-brief life of reckless excess and creativity.


Judy & Punch
2019 · 1h 45m
country: Australia
In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to an inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.


The Report
2019 · 1h 59m
country: United States
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.


Fyre
2019 · 1h 38m
country: United States
He promised supermodels and yachts, but delivered tents and cheese sandwiches. How one man engineered a music festival disaster.


Lords of Chaos
2018 · 1h 58m
country: United Kingdom
A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.


Under the Wire
2018 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
On 12 February 2012, two journalists entered war-ravaged Syria. One of them was celebrated Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin. The other was photographer, Paul Conroy. Their aim was to cover the plight of Syrian civilians trapped in Homs, a city under siege and relentless military attack from the Syrian army. Only one of them returned.


Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
2017 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon.


Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock
2017 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A reckless joyride into the darkest corners of popular music that delves deep into the mind of Mick Rock, the genius photographer who immortalized the seventies and the rise to rock stardom of many legendary musicians.


The Bad Batch
2017 · 1h 59m
country: United States
After being exiled to a fenced-off wasteland, Arlen is kidnapped by a group of cannibals and goes on a journey to reunite a missing girl with her father.


Author: The JT LeRoy Story
2016 · 1h 50m
country: United States
New York magazine’s October 2005 issue sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked “it boy” wunderkind JT LeRoy, whose tough prose about his sordid childhood had captivated icons and luminaries internationally. It turned out LeRoy didn’t actually exist. He was dreamed up by 40-year-old San Francisco punk rocker and phone sex operator, Laura Albert.