Daniel Dubiecki (Producer) produced his first feature film, Waiting For Mo, at the tender age of eighteen. Since then, Daniel has produced countless award-winning short films directed by Jason Reitman including "Operation", "H@", "In God We Trust", "gulp", and "Consent". In 2004, Dubiecki produced "The Big Empty", a short directed by Newton Thomas Sigel and J. Lisa Chang, starring Selma Blair and Elias Koteas. In all, he has produced over 20 shorts and five features, which have played at over 100 film festivals, winning over 30 awards around the world, including at Sundance, Aspen Shortsfest, Toronto, Cannes, LA Film Festival, New Directors/New Films (MOMA), ShortShorts (Tokyo), Edinburgh, Melbourne, Sydney, and US Comedy Arts.
Since 2000, Dubiecki has also produced many award-winning commercials through Tate USA for clients such as Heineken, Honda, BMW, Wal*Mart, GM, Nintendo, Kyocera, Time Warner, and Miller Lite. Daniel and partner, Lara Alameddine, are developing an Australian science-fiction book series, beginning with Galax-Arena and Terra-Farma, into motion pictures. He and Lara have also acquired rights to another best-selling Australian book, Undercover, as well as its sequel, White Lies, with their counterpart down under, Torus Tammer.Dubiecki produced the 2006 feature film Thank You For Smoking. Directed by his partner Reitman, the film was bought by Fox Searchlight at the Toronto Film Festival and went onto to earn many accolades including a Golden Globe nomination in 2007 for Best Comedy.
Just one week after the release of Smoking, Dubiecki and Reitman announced the opening of their new production company, Hard C, based at Fox Searchlight. Hard C is in development on many projects including Bonzai Shadowhands with Rainn Wilson and Pierre Pierre, with Jim Carrey starring. Dubiecki will produce with Reitman as well as Escape Artists' Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch for Fox.Dubiecki's latest film, Juno, directed by partner Reitman, written by Diablo Cody starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman.
The film Fox Searchlight film has grossed over $130m to date, making it Fox's highest-grossing live action film released in 2007. The film garnered many awards and accolades across the board including top ten film from the National Board of Review, three Golden Globe nominations and four Academy Award-nominations, both of which Cody won best screenplay. Dubiecki and Reitman are in production on Cody's second script, the horror/comedy Jennifer's Body for Fox Atomic. Jennifer's Body will be the first film produced by Hard C.