Known for Visual Effects
Tricia Pifer is an American visual effects producer. Based in Los Angeles, California, she studied Communications and Video Production at the State University of New York at Fredonia, earning a Bachelor of Science degree. Before entering the visual effects industry, she worked in television production management, including positions with ABC News and Good Morning America, and also served as a studio coordinator for The Jim Henson Company in New York. Pifer transitioned into visual effects production in the early 2000s through work with Entity FX, where she worked on Supernatural (2005), Night Stalker (2005), Scary Movie 4 (2006), Into the Wild (2007), and The Air I Breathe (2007). She later joined Frantic Films and Prime Focus, where she served as head of production and visual effects producer on Rush Hour 3 (2007), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), and The Maiden Heist (2009). At Prime Focus, she was also a digital producer on Avatar (2009). She then became involved in stereoscopic and 3D conversion work, serving as stereo conversion producer on Kung Fu Panda (2008) and the remastered version of Havoc in Heaven (1961). Pifer joined Technicolor in 2012, first as a senior visual effects producer and later as executive producer for the company's production services division in Hollywood. During her tenure she supervised and managed visual effects work on Oblivion (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Ant-Man (2015), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), The Revenant (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Doctor Strange (2016), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). In television, Pifer served as a visual effects producer or executive producer on The Good Wife (2009), Awake (2012), Burn Notice (2007), Rectify (2013), Sense8 (2015), True Detective (2014), Lore (2017), Big Little Lies (2017), The Loudest Voice (2019), and Messiah (2020). Pifer later worked with Marvel Studios on several Marvel Cinematic Universe streaming projects, as visual effects marketing coordinator on WandaVision (2021), visual effects production manager on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022), and visual effects producer on Echo (2023) and VisionQuest (2026).
Filmography
16 films, 8 shows


This Is Where I Leave You
2014 · 1h 43m · US
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.


Get On Up
2014 · 2h 19m · US
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.


Guardians of the Galaxy
2014 · 2h 1m · US
Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.


Behaving Badly
2014 · 1h 32m · US
Teenager Rick Stevens is willing to do whatever it takes to win the heart of Nina Pennington. He'll have to deal with his best friend's horny mom, a drug abusing boss and even the mob if he ever hopes to land the girl of his dreams. Love is never easy!


Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014 · 2h 16m · US
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.


Better Living Through Chemistry
2014 · 1h 31m · UK
A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.


Thor: The Dark World
2013 · 1h 52m · US
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.


Delivery Man
2013 · 1h 45m · US
An affable underachiever finds out he's fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago. Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his identity.


Are You Here
2013 · 1h 54m · US
When Steve Dallas, a womanizing local weatherman, hears that his off-the-grid best friend Ben Baker has lost his estranged father, the two return to Ben's childhood home. Once there, they discover Ben has inherited the family fortune, and the ill-equipped duo must battle Ben's formidable sister and deal with his father's gorgeous 25-year old widow.


The Internship
2013 · 1h 59m · US
Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.


G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
2009 · 1h 58m · US
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.


The Maiden Heist
2009 · 1h 31m · US
A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.


Into the Wild
2007 · 2h 28m · US
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.


The Air I Breathe
2007 · 1h 35m · US
A gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race against time to rescue his beloved... Four interconnected stories reveal life unfolding through four emotional pillars — joy, passion, grief, and love.