CJ Follini

CJ Follini (born New York) is an American digital media entrepreneur, film producer and real estate investor. A native New Yorker who built his group of companies by investing in alternative real estate types such as: digital film studios; healthcare real estate; student housing; and artist residence clubs as well as providing venture capital for early stage digital content creators.

Biography

Follini grew up in Westchester County and New York City where he attended the Jesuit high school – Fordham Preparatory School. He also competed in collegiate ice hockey while in Boston. Follini received a General Course Degree in Econometrics from the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom. While in London he played rugby for LSE. He also studied in the Executive Masters program at Harvard Business School.

From the age of 12, he worked at entry level construction jobs learning the building trade from his father, Charles Follini Sr., a highly decorated former fireman with the FDNY and the CEO the building conglomerate responsible for Idlewild Airport – the Edenwald Group.[1] Follini has been a successful developer and investor in alternative real estate such as: industrial; waterfront land development; brownfields re-development; film studios; and most recently, medical office and senior housing. The following are a few career real estate milestones:

Real estate career

Media career

Producer credits

In 2011, CJ Follini created and directed Art/Trek NYC[6] and its broadcast on cable by NYC Media and Ovation Network. Art/Trek is a docu-series that explores NYC's five boroughs in a quest to showcase new and emerging artists. Traveling in the show's signature mobile art gallery – a converted recreational vehicle, nicknamed the ArtV – host CJ Follini joins a different borough-specific co-host in each episode to meet a rising artist who's on the verge of breaking into New York City's competitive art scene. Each artist puts together an impromptu art show in the ArtV and invites residents from their neighborhood to view the work and share their opinions about the art on camera. One of the five artists will be selected to have their own gallery show, which will be featured in a future episode.[6]

In 2008, CJ Follini was the Executive Producer for the documentary Burning the Future: Coal in America story of mountaintop removal mining and its disastrous effects on the environment.[7]

In 2000, Follini produced the short film Bullet in the Brain,[8] winner of ten festival awards including the first Million Dollar Hypnotic/Universal Short Film Award. He also produced Someday, a music video for Irish pop band "Tellulah Crash," and a public service announcement for the R.E.A.C.H. Foundation, an organization that helps children with life-threatening diseases and children in low-income school districts.

Recently, the U.S. EPA objected to three more federal permits for mountaintop-removal coal mining citing its disastrous effects on the environment and local water quality as alerted in Burning the Future: Coal in America[9]

Additional production credits for CJ Follini include:

Honors

References

  1. "Paid Notice: Deaths FOLLINI, CHARLES F.". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  2. 1 2 "$250M Senior Project Gets Key Approval". GlobeSt.com. 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  3. "Noyack Medical Partners Snags Office Condo". GlobeSt.com. 2008-05-19. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  4. Croghan, Lore (1999-01-04). "TAKE 2: FILM FIRM EXPANDS IN VILLAGE; GUN FOR HIRE LEASES MORE SPACE AS DEMAND GROWS FASTER THAN EXPECTED | Crain's New York Business". Crainsnewyork.com. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  5. "Apps - Access My Library - Gale". Access My Library. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  6. 1 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20130121174041/http://www.nyc.gov/html/media/html/tv/nyctv_life_arttrek.shtml. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. Ronnie Scheib (2008-02-28). "Burning the Future: Coal in America". Variety. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  8. http://www.variety.com/profiles/Film/main/34420/Bullet%20in%20the%20Brain.html?dataSet=1. Retrieved November 12, 2008. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. "EPA puts brakes on 3 more mountaintop mining permits". NYTimes.com. 2009-04-09. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  10. "IDA's 2008 IDA Documentary Awards Competition Nominees Announced | International Documentary Association". Documentary.org. 2008-10-28. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  11. Carey, Patricia (1998-10-12). "Triumphant in Technicolor". CRAINS New York. Retrieved 2012-10-01.

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