---
name: "Danny Gabai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/danny-gabai"
fi1m_id: "danny-gabai"
imdb_id: "nm3006960"
tmdb_id: 1840864
wikidata_id: "Q64482065"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T03:43:40.479296+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Danny Gabai

## Identity

Danny Gabai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/danny-gabai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** danny-gabai
- **IMDb ID:** nm3006960
- **TMDB ID:** 1840864
- **Wikidata ID:** Q64482065
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64482065, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3006960/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1840864

Producer. Born 1 January 2000 in Los Angeles.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 2000, Los Angeles
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 73 (1), 2020s 74 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Documentary 2, Music 2, Animation 1, Drama 1, Horror 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64482065, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3006960/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1840864

## Biography

Danny Gabai is a film and television producer. He has served as co-president of VICE Studios Group and was previously its chief content officer and executive creative director, helping to establish the studio's feature film, documentary and scripted production activities.

Gabai founded the filmmaker-focused entertainment company The Searchers. Earlier in his career he worked as a motion picture agent at WME Entertainment and the William Morris Agency. Among his production credits are *Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond* (2017), *Climax* (2018), *The Report* (2019), *Fyre* (2019) and *Flee* (2021). He has received Primetime Emmy nominations for his work.

He is married to music industry executive Jennifer Knoepfle. Gabai produced *Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?* (2026).

*Sources: imdb.com, hollywoodreporter.com, thewrap.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?* (2026), Fi1m 65, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/pulp-what-do-you-do-for-an-encore.md)
- *Flee* (2021), Fi1m 83, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/flee.md)
- *Climax* (2018), Fi1m 73, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/climax.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?* (2026), Producer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/pulp-what-do-you-do-for-an-encore.md)
- *Pete Townshend: Behind Blue Eyes* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Hadestown: The Musical* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Hollywood Hustler: Glitz, Glam, Scam* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Into the Void: Life, Death and Heavy Metal* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Why We Dream* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Pavements* (2025), Producer
- *Light Darkness Light* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Who Killed WCW?* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *DEVO* (2024), Producer
- *Better Angels: The Gospel According to Tammy Faye* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *Encounters* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *The American Gladiators Documentary* (2023), series, Producer
- *Bama Rush* (2023), Producer
- *The American Gladiators Documentary* (2023), Producer
- *Superpower* (2023), Producer
- *Meet Me in the Bathroom* (2022), Producer
- *You Resemble Me* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Moments Like This Never Last* (2021), Producer
- *Crusaders: Ex Jehovah's Witnesses Speak Out* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Flee* (2021), Executive Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/flee.md)
- *Pride* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *Mogul Mowgli* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Big Rad Wolf* (2020), series, Executive Producer
- *AKA Jane Roe* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Goldie* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Judy & Punch* (2019), Producer
- *Searching Eva* (2019), Executive Producer
- *The Report* (2019), Producer
- *The Mountain* (2019), Executive Producer
- *The Beach Bum* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Aniara* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Fyre* (2019), Producer
- *Lords of Chaos* (2018), Producer
- *Climax* (2018), Executive Producer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/climax.md)
- *Under the Wire* (2018), Producer
- *Crystal Swan* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond* (2017), Producer
- *Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock* (2017), Producer
- *The Bad Batch* (2017), Producer
- *The Third Industrial Revolution* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Nirvanna the Band the Show* (2017), series, Executive Producer
- *Author: The JT LeRoy Story* (2016), Producer
- *The Gun* (2014), Executive Producer
- *This Must Be the Only Fantasy* (2013), Executive Producer
- *Long Live Def Leppard*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Danny Gabai](https://film.one/media/person/94866/gallery-7450af3cb583.jpg) Danny Gabai — Frank Schulenburg, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Sundance_Film_Festival_2024_-_DEVO_-_Danny_Gabai-104A2763.jpg/1280px-Sundance_Film_Festival_2024_-_DEVO_-_Danny_Gabai-104A2763.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Danny Gabai at the Sundance Film Festival 2024](https://film.one/media/person/94866/gallery-cbd36dba3a5c.jpg) Danny Gabai at the Sundance Film Festival 2024 — Everwest, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Danny_Gabai_at_the_Sundance_Film_Festival_2024-5831.jpg/1280px-Danny_Gabai_at_the_Sundance_Film_Festival_2024-5831.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Producer Danny Gabai at the premiere of his documentary "Superpower" at Berlin Film Festival 2023](https://film.one/media/person/94866/gallery-b28fd5b15bca.jpg) Producer Danny Gabai at the premiere of his documentary "Superpower" at Berlin Film Festival 2023 — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Superpower_%282023%29-60886.jpg/1280px-Superpower_%282023%29-60886.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Danny Gabai](https://film.one/media/person/94866/gallery-5c5685a81602.jpg) Danny Gabai — Image via TMDB

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