Doug Mankoff

Biography

In 1997 Doug Mankoff started Echo Lake Productions by raising a private equity fund to finance and produce independent films. In addition to producing The Big Empty, Doug Mankoff executive produced David Riker’s La Ciudad, winner of awards at numerous film festivals including Havana (best foreign film), South-By-Southwest (best narrative film), Santa Barbara (best narrative film), and Taos (best feature); produced Allison Anders’ Things Behind the Sun, which won a Peabody Award for its “searing exploration” of the consequences of rape; and executive produced Jill Sprecher’s Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, which became Sony Pictures Classics’ highest grossing film of 2002. Most recently, Mankoff executive produced Ed Solomon’s Levity, which was chosen as the opening night film of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.