Archie Gips

Archie Gips is an American filmmaker/producer known for Loveless in Los Angeles, The Golden Blaze, which won top honors at the 2005 Giffoni International Film Festival, The Ambassadors of Hollywood, Chloe and Keith's Wedding, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and Katy Perry: Part of Me.

In television, Gips serves as executive producer & showrunner for A&E's Wahlburgers, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, executive produced TLC's Welcome to Myrtle Manor, Style Network's XOX Betsey Johnson and We TV's Braxton Family Values. Gips has directed, produced and written for the Academy Awards Red Carpet show and was a consulting producer for the A&E hit show, Duck Dynasty.

Gips formed Unrealistic Ideas, a non-scripted production company with partners Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson. Gips serves as president and has executive produced several projects through Unrealistic Ideas including the hit HBO true crime limited documentary series, McMIllions, Roku’s Run This City, HBO’s The Murders at Starved Rock, and HBO Max’s Wahl Street

Gips was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series for McMillions, a Critic’s Choice Real TV Award for Best Business Show for Wahl Street, an IDA Documentary Award for Best Short Form Series for Run This City and a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Crime and Justice Documentary for Murders at Starved Rock.