Janek Ambros


Janek Ambros is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He's also the founder and CEO of Assembly Line Entertainment, a film production company.

Films

Janek Ambros began his film career writing and directing Avante-Garde films. Janek Ambros wrote and directed the Avant-garde film "May 15th in Paris", a film about the rise of populism in France during 1848 with visuals from present day Paris, highlighting the rise of populism in the west. The film was produced by Barbara De Fina. The film was released in the summer/fall of 2017 on Amazon Prime and a limited theatrical release. Janek and Martin Scorsese presented a lifetime achievement award to Krzysztof Zanussi at the Roots of Europe Festival in Spain after a screening of May 15th in Paris.
His most notable film as a director is the documentary Imminent Threat, which he also wrote, edited, and produced with Academy Award nominee James Cromwell. The film was released in late 2015 and received dozens of awards from festivals around the world.
His second as a director, Mondo Hollywoodland will be released in 2020. The film won the Jury Prize for Creative Vision at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival
His notable films as producer include Ten Thousand Saints, starring Hailee Steinfeld and Ethan Hawke which film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015, and Human Capital which stars Maya Hawke and Marisa Tomei.
In the summer of 2017, his company, Assembly Line Entertainment, expanding to China when they brought in Jing Xue into the company. Later that year, Janek and Assembly Line Entertainment struck a creative partnership with one of Shanghai's largest studios and created a Chinese division of Assembly Line Entertainment.