A leading independent film producer, Kliot is co-president of Mark Cuban's HDNet Films and a partner in Deutsch/Open City Films. His wife and business partner is Joana Vicente.

After graduating from Amherst in the mid-1980s, Kliot worked as an assistant director under auteurs like Samuel Fuller and Wim Wenders, and scored his first hit as a producer with Todd Solondz's 1995 breakout feature Welcome to the Dollhouse. In the 1990s, Kliot founded the production companies Blow Up Pictures and Open City along with his wife/business partner Joana Vicente. Since then, the duo have established themselves as leading indie film producers in New York, producing pics like the Mike White-authored Chuck & Buck in 2000 and 2003's Jim Jarmusch-directed Coffee and Cigarettes. In 2003, the company was renamed Deutsch/Open City films after ad mogul Donny Deutsch joined the effort. Not long after, Kliot and Vicente teamed up with Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner's high-definition production company, HDNet Films. Kliot's films vary from the mainstream romantic comedy Down to You (starring Julia Stiles) to The War Within, a film about a Pakistani terrorist. Over the years, Kliot has also directed a few short films, including one devoted to faces from the World Trade Center tragedy. [Image via Getty]