Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer

Ross Dinerstein is the Emmy-winning founder and CEO of Campfire Studios. Over the past 20 years, Dinerstein has produced or executive produced 70+ series and feature films, premiering projects at the most prestigious festivals in the world, including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, and Toronto and launching worldwide on every streamer including Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.

Dinerstein and Campfire’s most recent projects include Netflix’s Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food, Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized American Gladiator Story, David Fincher’s Voir, Neymar: The Perfect Chaos, and John Grisham’s The Innocent Man; Max’s Smartless: on the Road, Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty, The Way Down: God Greed and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin (Part 1 & Part 2), and Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults; Hulu’s Emmy-winning WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn; FX’s Hysterical and The Most Dangerous Animal of All; Magnolia’s A Glitch in the Matrix; CNN’s The Lost Sons; and PBS’s Emmy-nominated TikTok, Boom. Dinerstein’s first foray into the podcast space resulted in the Webby award-winning series Abuse of Power, hosted by The Staircase defense attorney David Rudolf and his partner Sonya Pfeiffer.

Dinerstein has also produced nine Netflix Original narrative feature films, including thrillers Rattlesnake and Stephen King’s 1922; comedy The Package; the Emmy-nominated multi-season series Special; and the streamer’s 2024 Valentines Day release, Players, starring Gina Rodriguez, Tom Ellis, and Damon Wayans Jr., which quickly become the #1 most watched film in the world on Netflix.

His credits also include IFC’s cult horror movie The Pact and feature documentaries Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Silicon Cowboys, and The Nightmare, amongst others.