B I O
Following the production of Glengarry Glen Ross, Morris Ruskin founded Shoreline Entertainment. He has since produced approximately 60 films including titles that have led to Academy Award and Spirit Award nominations, Sundance bidding wars, and premieres at almost every top tier international film festival.
In 2019, Morris and the awarded filmmaker Jordan Walker-Pearlman, launched MoJo Global Arts, a production and management company that has over fifty projects in development including film, television, documentaries and foreign language productions.
To read the full story, see Morris’ bio at IMDb and see his filmography at IMDbPro
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Screen Daily
August 3, 2020
South African Oscar submission ‘Knuckle City’ finds US home (exclusive)
Morris Ruskin, Jordan Walker-Pearlman and Joseph Mellicker’s new production and management company MoJo Global Arts has licensed US rights on last season’s South African Oscar submission
Knuckle City to Showtime.
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The Hollywood Reporter
September 10, 2019
Oscars: South Africa Selects 'Knuckle City' for International Feature Film Category
South Africa has selected Jahmil X.T. Qubeka's Knuckle City as its submission for the international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars.
Variety
May 13, 2019
MoJo Variety announcement
Shoreline Entertainment CEO Morris Ruskin and Filmmaker Jordan Walker-Pearlman have formed MoJo, a new production, finance and management company. Variety has learned exclusively.
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Deadline
May 31, 2019
Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment to produce doc series about Youth Racing School with MoJo.
Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment is to produce a documentary series about a youth racing school that teaches kids motorsports after striking a deal with nascent production and management company MoJo.
Screen Daily
August 29, 2019
MoJo Global Arts picks up North American sales rights to TIFF selection 'Knuckle City' (exclusive)
Morris Ruskin and Jordan Walker-Pearlman’s new production and management company MoJo Global Arts will launch North American sales in Toronto on festival selection and boxing drama Knuckle City.
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Screen Daily
September 16, 2019
MoJo Global Arts unveils slate of Latinx, jazz films (exclusive)
Morris Ruskin and Jordan Walker-Pearlman’s new Los Angeles-based production and management company MoJo Global Arts has unveiled a slate of three projects featuring a Latinx comedy, a Jazz documentary, and an epic TV project about Harlem.
Variety
September 9, 2019
MoJo Global Arts, 2btube, Touche, Strike Strategic Alliance
Los Angeles-based MoJo Global Arts, former Shoreline Ent. CEO Morris Ruskin’s newly-minted production-management venture, has struck a strategic alliance with top Spanish-language group 2btube and its subsidiary Touché Films.
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