Gretchen McGowan

Gretchen McGowan's memoir, FLYING IN: MY ADVENTURES IN FILMMAKING published with Post Hill Press in November 2024, immediately hitting Amazon's #1 rank in Travel Writing. She’s currently completing her first novel, THE THINGS YOUR DROP ON YOUR WAY UP THE LADDER. Gretchen is an award-winning film producer and the head of production for Goldcrest Features in New York City where she oversees titles such as Carol, Restrepo and Cat Person. Gretchen has collaborated with Sebastian Junger on five films, and she produced Hell of a Cruise for NBCUniversal, a feature documentary about the cruise industry’s handling of the pandemic. Gretchen independently produced Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control in Spain for Focus Features and she produced American Swing for Magnolia Pictures. She line produced the Oscar nominated Dancemaker, Buffalo ’66, Two Girls and a Guy, American Psycho and Heavy. While head of production with Mark Cuban’s HDNet Films, Open City Films and Blow Up Pictures, Gretchen supervised over 25 features including Brian De Palma’s Redacted, Alex Gibney’s Enron, Zoe Cassavetes’ Broken English, Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble, Nicole Holofcener’s Lovely and Amazing and Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes.