Pierce Varous is a producer, post-production specialist, and a founder of Nice Dissolve. He graduated cum laude from the William E. Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College with a degree in Film. Before founding Nice Dissolve, he worked with multimedia artist Laurie Anderson, shooting and editing video, preparing tour projections, and managing her extensive digital archive.

As a producer, Varous participated in the Venice Biennale Cinema College with Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia’s H., which received the program’s production and development grant. The film screened at Venice, Sundance, and Berlin, earned the filmmakers the Independent Spirit “Someone to Watch” Award, and received a subsequent Spirit Award nomination for supporting actress Robin Bartlett.

His producing credits include Joanna Arnow’s The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, which premiered in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2023 and earned Arnow the 2024 André Bazin Prize from Cahiers du cinéma, a 2024 Independent Spirit “Someone to Watch” nomination, and a 2025 Independent Spirit nomination for Best First Screenplay..Additional producing credits include Nathan Silver’s The Great Pretender, which premiered at Tribeca; and Sophia Takal’s Always Shine, which won Tribeca’s Best Actress award for Mackenzie Davis and was acquired by Oscilloscope.

His executive producer credits include Lyle, Little Sister, Slow Machine, Superior, Actors, This Closeness, Dream Team, Kids Go Free to Fun Fun Time, Revelations of a Divine Love, and Lucio Castro’s Drunken Noodles, which screened in the ACID section at Cannes in 2025.

Varous was selected as a Rotterdam Producing Lab Fellow in 2017 and as one of The Gotham’s Cannes Producers Network Fellows in 2024. From 2016 to 2019, he served as a Lab Leader for the organization’s Narrative Finishing Labs, advising emerging filmmakers through the completion of their films.