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BIOGRAPHIES
CAST:
SALMA HAYEK (Frida Kahlo)
Salma Hayek has proven herself as a prolific producer and actress
in both film and television. Hayek will also star in Robert Rodriguez's,
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO opposite Antonio Banderas and Johnny Depp
to be released March 2003. In addition, Hayek co-produced and starred
in IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES in which she was nominated for a
Broadcast Film Critics Association's Award. Hayek has just completed
producing and directing Showtime's, THE MALDONADO MIRACLE. This film
marks Hayek's directorial debut and stars Peter Fonda, Mare Winningham,
and Ruben Blades.
Also produced by Ventanarosa was the Mexican feature, NO ONE WRITES
TO THE COLONEL, directed by Arturo Ripstein, and based on the novel
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL was selected
for official competition at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Other film
credits include, TIME CODE, CHAIN OF FOOLS, DOGMA, WILD WILD WEST,
FOOLS RUSH IN, 54, FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, DESPERADO and BREAKING UP opposite
Russell Crowe. Hayek will also been seen next year in Mike Figgis'
HOTEL, the followup to TIME CODE.
Born and raised in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, Hayek studied International
Relations and Drama in college in Mexico. She starred in the title
role of TERESA one of the most successful primetime television shows
in Mexico. TERESA has been syndicated to over 20 countries around
the world. Other Mexican credits include, MIDAQ ALLEY based on a novel
by Nobel prize winner Naguib Mafouz.
ALFRED MOLINA (Diego Rivera)
Beginning this fall on CBS Alfred Molina will star in BRAM & ALICE
a comedy about a shaky relationship between an incorrigible scoundrel
of a novelist and his devoted fan--- who suddenly learn they are father
and daughter. Alfred Molina received a Tony Award nomination and a
Drama Desk Award for his performance in ART, which marked his Broadway
debut. He also received a Theater World Award and was nominated for
a Drama Desk Award for Most Outstanding Debut Performance for his
role in the Off Broadway production of MOLLY SWEENEY.
Molina's feature film credits include BOOGIE NIGHTS, for which he
won a SAG Award, THE IMPOSTERS, ANNA KARENINA, SPECIES, MAVERICK,
PRICK YOUR EARS, DEAD MAN, NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER and RAIDERS OF
THE LOST ARK. Alfred can also be seen in the upcoming PLOTS WITH A
VIEW starring opposite Christopher Walken and Brenda Blethyn. His
television credits include MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS and LADIES
MAN. Molina, who was born in London, has appeared in numerous television
movies in England.
GEOFFREY RUSH (Leon Trotsky)
Rush most recently received Oscar, Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA nominations
for "Best Actor" for his role as the imprisoned Marquis de Sade in
QUILLS. He was named "Best Actor" by the London and New York Film
Critic's Associations for his work in the film.
In 1997, Rush won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, Screen Actors
Guild Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
Award as "Best Actor" for his role in SHINE. His performance as the
(adult) pianist David Helfgott also garnered Rush nearly a dozen other
acting awards, including the Broadcast Film Critics, Los Angeles,
New York, Boston and Society of Texas Film Critics Associations. He
followed that up with an Oscar and Golden Globe nominated turn (as
"Best Supporting Actor") for his role in the Oscar-winning film, SHAKESPEARE
IN LOVE. He won the BAFTA Award as "Best Supporting Actor" for SHAKESPEARE
IN LOVE and was nominated that same year in the same category for
his supporting role in ELIZABETH. The Australian-born actors other
film credits include: THE BANGER SISTERS, THE TAILOR OF PANAMA, HOUSE
ON HAUNTED HILL, MYSTERY MEN, LES MISERABLES, A LITTLE BIT OF SOUL,
TWELFTH NIGHT, and STARSTRUCK. He has also appeared in nearly 70 plays
and his extensive theatre credits includes work for numerous Australian
companies, including the Belvoir Street Theatre, the Queensland Theatre
Company, the Sydney Theatre Company, the Melbourne Theatre Company
and the State Theatre Company of South Australia. Rush directed the
plays "The Popular Mechnicals" and "Popular Mechanicals 2" for the
Belvoir Street Theatre as well as "The Wolf's Banquet" and Aristophanes'"Frogs,"
which he co-adapted with John Clarke. From 1975-1977, he attended
the Jacques Lecoq School of Mime, Movement and Theatre in Paris. He
also studied directing at the British Theatre Association.
EDWARD NORTON (Nelson Rockefeller)
Edward Norton has starred in the films PRIMAL FEAR, EVERYONE SAYS
I LOVE YOU, THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT, ROUNDERS, AMERICAN HISTORY
X, FIGHT CLUB, THE SCORE, and DEATH TO SMOOCHY. He made his directorial
debut with KEEPING THE FAITH, which he also produced and starred with
Ben Stiller and Jenna Elfman. Norton received an Academy Award nomination
as Best Actor for his performance in AMERICAN HISTORY X and a Best
Supporting Actor nomination for PRIMAL FEAR. That performance also
earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has
been recognized for his work by the National Board of Review, the
Los Angeles Film Critics, the Boston Film Critics, and the Texas Film
Critics Associations.
Edward can be seen in the upcoming RED DRAGON starring opposite Anthony
Hopkins and Spike Lee's Crime Drama, THE 25th HOUR. In addition, he
is currently sharing the stage in Lanford Wilson's BURN THIS in Manhattan.
Norton serves on the Board of New York's Signature Theater Company
where he first performed in the 1994 premiere of Edward Albee's FRAGMENTS.
He also serves on the National Board of the Enterprise Foundation,
an organization dedicated to providing affordable housing for low-income
families.
ANTONIO BANDERAS (David Siqueiros)
Banderas earned critical praise and a "Best Actor" Golden Globe nomination
for his acting and vocal talents opposite Madonna in the screen adaptation
of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical EVITA. He earned his second
Golden Globe nomination for playing the title role in THE MASK OF
ZORROW, opposite Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta Jones. Banderas
recently starred in the Miramax/Dimension box-office hit SPY KIDS,
and will soon be seen in Robert Rodriguez's upcoming ONCE UPON A TIME
IN MEXICO. Other film credits include ORIGINAL SIN, THE BODY, and
PLAY IT TO THE BONE. Banderas made his directorial debut in 1999 with
CRAZY IN ALABAMA, starring Melanie Griffith.
Born in Malaga, Spain, Bandera attended the School of Dramatic Arts
in his hometown and, upon graduation, began his acting career working
in a small theater company based here. He moved to Madrid in 1981
and become an ensemble member of the prestigious National Theater
of Spain, where he remained through 1986.
In 1982, Banderas was cast by writer/director Pedro Almodovar in LABYRYNTH
OF PASSION. It was the first of five films Banderas would do with
Almodovar. MATADOR, LAW OF DESIRE, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS
BREAKDOWN and TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! followed.
During this time, Banderas also acted in more conventional Spanish
dramas, including THE STILTS, THE PLEASURE OF KILLING, and BATON ROUGE.
The international success of WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
and TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! brought Banderas to the attention of American
audiences. He made his film debut here in 1992, as a young Cuban musician
in THE MAMBO KINGS. At the time he was cast in the movie, Banderas
spoke no English and had to learn all of his dialogue phonetically.
THE MAMBO KINGS provided Banderas with a springboard to significant
supporting roles in four major productions in two years: PHILADELPHIA,
HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE and MIAMI RHAPSODY.
His first starring role in an American film came in 1995 with DESPERADO
which he followed up with NEVER TALK TO STRANGERS, ASSASSINS, FOUR
ROOMS, TWO MUCH, and THE THIRTEENTH WARRIOR.
MIA MAESTRO (Cristina Kahlo)
Maestro previously starred opposite Salma Hayek in two films, TIMECODE
and IN THE TIME OF BUTTERFLIES She can also be seen in HBO's FOR LOVE
OR COUNTRY, THE ARTURO SANDOVAL STORY, where she stars opposite Andy
Garcia in a love story set in communist Cuba.
Initially trained in Argentina, Maestro moved to Berlin at 18 to develop
a vocal repertoire - in German - in the works of Kurt Weill and Hans
Eisler. While in Berlin, Maestro also studied the Brechtian acting
technique, added to an already rigorous schedule of vocal, dance and
music classes. Upon returning to Buenos Aires at age 20, she starred
in Wedekind's "Pandora's Box" at the San Martin Theatre, garnering
an ACE Award for Best Performance of the Year.
She made her screen debut in Carlos Saura's Golden Globe and Oscarnominated,
TANGO, while headlining "Pandora's Box." After moving to Los Angeles,
Maestro landed a role in THE VENICE PROJECT, starring Lauren Bacall,
Dennis Hopper and Stockard Channing, PICKING UP THE PIECES, costarring
Woody Allen and Sharon Stone and TIMECODE, directed by Mike Figgis.
TIMECODE was shot completely digitally and in one take, with no editing
and improvised dialogue.
ASHLEY JUDD (Tina Modotti)
An eighth generation Eastern Kentuckian, Ashley Judd first proved
her acting abilities in her debut feature film role as Ruby Lee Gissing
in Victor Nunez' internationally acclaimed RUBY IN PARADISE. Judd
has since gone on to demonstrate considerable talent as well as box
office success with her starring role in DOUBLE JEOPARDY and KISS
THE GIRLS.
Judd was most recently seen in the Warner Bros. summer hit film THE
DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA YA SISTERHOOD, co-starring with an impressive
ensemble cast including Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Maggie Smith
and James Garner. The film was directed by Callie Khouri and is based
on the best-selling novel of the same name by Rebecca Wells.
Judd recently began production for the Paramount film BLACKOUT costarring
Samuel L. Jackson and Andy Garcia. Judd will play a San Francisco
police officer investigating a murder, who finds herself at the center
of the investigation when her past lovers start dying around her.
BLACKOUT was written by Sarah Thorp and is being directed by Philip
Kaufman and will be released in 2003.
In April 2002, Judd was seen in 20th Century Fox's HIGH CRIMES reteaming
KISS THE GIRLS co-star, Morgan Freeman. Judd played a Harvard Law
School professor who is forced to defend her husband in military court
after the Army declares him a deserter and charges him with participating
in a mass killing in El Salvador. HIGH CRIMES was written by Joseph
Finder and was directed by Carl Franklin.
Judd can also be seen in 20th Century Fox's SOMEONE LIKE YOU. The
film was directed by Tony Goldwyn and co-starred Hugh Jackman, Greg
Kinnear and Ellen Barkin. Judd portrayed a producer of a popular day
time talk show who has a romance with the show's executive producer
Ray (Greg Kinnear).
Judd was also seen starring in 20th Century Fox's WHERE THE HEART
IS opposite Natalie Portman. In 1999, Judd starred in Bruce Beresford's
box-office success DOUBLE JEOPARDY, opposite Tommy Lee Jones for Paramount.
Judd was also seen starring opposite Ewan McGregor in the Destination
Film's thriller EYE OF THE BEHOLDER, which is an adaptation of the
Marc Behm novel. The film was directed by Stephan Elliot (THE ADVETURES
OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT) and was screened in the "Dreams
and Visions" category at the 1999 Venice Film Festival.
In Walt Disney Pictures' 1998 drama SIMON BIRCH, Judd starred opposite
Oliver Platt, Ian Smith and Joseph Mazzello. The film, directed by
Mark Steven Johnson, is based on the John Irving novel, A Prayer for
Owen Meaney.
In 1997, Judd starred opposite Morgan Freeman in Paramount Pictures'
box-office KISS THE GIRLS as well as MGM's THE LOCUSTS in which she
costarred opposite Vince Vaughn and Kate Capshaw. Judd was also seen
in Michael Mann's HEAT, for which she won critical acclaim opposite
Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Val Kilmer. In the summer of 1996, she
appeared in Joel Schumacher's A TIME TO KILL, opposite Samuel L. Jackson,
Sandra Bullock and Matthew McConaughey. In late 1996, she was seen
starring opposite Luke Perry in John McNaughton's NORMAL LIFE.
Also in 1996, Judd received an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe
nomination for her portrayal of Norma Jean in HBO's NORMA JEAN AND
MARILYN.
Judd made her debut theatre performance in the Naked Angels' production
of "Busted," directed by Timothy Hutton. She then went on to star
as Madge on Broadway in William Inge's Pulitzer-prize winning play,
"Picnic" at the Roundabout Theatre Company, while simultaneously filming
a supporting role in the Miramax Film SMOKE, portraying the daughter
of Harvey Keitel and Stockard Channing.
A Phi Beta Kappa and Honors Program student of the University of Kentucky
with a major in French and four minors, Judd has studied the Meisner
technique in acting for several years.
ROGER REES (Guillermo Kahlo)
Rees has starred in such films as THE SCORPION KING, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S
DREAM, NEXT STOP WONDERLAND, TROUBLE ON THE CORNER, ROBIN HOOD: MEN
IN TIGHTS, and Bob Fosse's STAR 80. He recently completed work on
THE PALACE THIEF with Kevin Kline. He also completed directing an
episode of HBO's "OZ" for producer Tom Fontana. On television, Rees
has a recurring role on the Emmy-winning "West Wing" as Lord Marbury,
the British Ambassador to the United States. He has also appeared
on "Three Sisters," "OZ," "My So-Called Life" and was a series regular
on "Cheers," "M.A.N.T.I.S." and "Boston Common." He has also appeared
in such movies of the weeks as "The Crossing," "Double Platinum,"
"Titanic" and "Liberty."
Rees is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, RSC
productions include Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Cymbeline, Much
Ado About Nothing, The Suicide, and the title role in The Life and
Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Tony Award, Olivier Award and Emmy
nomination for Best Actor).
He has also directed extensively in the theater. Rees was associate
Artistic Director for the Bristol Old Vice Theatre in 1984-86, directing,
among other plays "Julius Caesar," "Turkey Time" and "John Bull."
He also directed "Red Memories" (NY Stage and Film), "Mud," "River
Stone" (Playwrightes Horizons), "The Taming of the Shrew" (Williamstown
Theatre Festival), "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Old Globe Theatre,
San Diego) and "Arms and the Man" (Roundabout).
VALERIA GOLINO (Lupe Marin)
Valeria Golino made her feature film debut in 1983 at the young age
of 16 in Lina Wertmuller's A JOKE OF DESTINY LYING IN WAIT AROUND
THE CORNER LIKE A ROBBER. Golino, who was raised in both Greece and
Italy, has starred in diverse group of numerous feature films, including
Mike Figgis's HOTEL, THINGS YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT HER, ESCAPE
FROM LA, IMMORTAL BELOVED, FOUR ROOMS, HOT SHOTS PART DEUX, THE INDIAN
RUNNER, YEAR OF THE GUN, RAIN MAN, BIG TOP PEE WEE and BLIND DATE.
PATRICIA REYES SPINDOLA (Matilde Kahlo)
Spindola is an award-winning actress of Mexican film, stage and television.
She has won seven major Best Actress honors for her role in the film,
LA REYNA DE LA NOCHE, for the series "Mujer, Casos De La Vida Real";
and for the telenovellas "El Extrano Retorno De Diana Salazar," "El
Vuelo Del Aguila" and "Teresa" (in which she portrayed Salma Hayek's
title character's mother).
Reyes Spindola has starred in nearly 50 films in 30 years. She has
performed in seven films with director Arturo Ripstein, including
LA PERDICION DE LOS HOMBRES and ASI ES LA VIDA. Reyes Spindola is
also a familiar face to television audiences for her work in numerous
novellas, movies and series, including "Azul," "Pueblo Chico, Infierno
Grande," "Maria Isabel" and "La Intrusa".
DIEGO LUNA (Alejandro)
Luna stole the hearts of millions in this spring's hit film Y TU MAMA
TAMBIEN alongside life-time friend Gael Garcia Bernal for director
Alfonso Cuaron. The pair shared an acting award for the film at last
year's Venice Film Festival. Diego Luna can also be seen in BEFORE
NIGHT FALLS, alongside Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp for director
Julian Schnabel. He is currently on location filming OPEN RANGE alongside
director and star Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall and Annette Bening.
Luna began his professional acting career on stage at the age of seven.
By the age of twelve, he made his television debut in the soap opera
"El Abuelo Y Yo," which led to roles in the soap opera "El Premio
Mayor" and the successful drama series' "El Amor De Mi Vida" and "La
Vida En El Espejo."
Luna has appeared on stage in such theater productions as "De Pelicula,
La Tarea" (based on Jame Hurnberto Hermosillo's movie of the same
name), "Comedia Clandtina" and "El Cantaro Roto", for which he accepted
the 1996- 1997 "Masculine Revelation Award" from the Association of
Theatre Reviewers. Under the same direction of Antonio Serrano ("Sexo,
Pudor y Lagrimas"), he performed Sabina Berman's "Moliere." He recently
performed "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare" in Mexico.
Luna's transition into movies has been equally multifaceted and successful,
most notably Luis Estrada's AMBAR, Erwin Neumaier's UN HILITO DE SANGRE,
Gabriel Retes' UN DULCE OLOR A MEUTE, (second place winner at the
Havana Film Festival), Marisa Sistach's EL COMETA and Fernando Sarinana's
TODO EL PODER. His additional feature films include CARAMBOLA, FIDEL
(for Showtime), John Carpenter's VAMPIRESL: LOS MUERTOS, alongside
Jon Bon Jovi, and CIUDADES OBSCURAS. Additionally, Luna has starred
in a number of short films made by students at CUEC and CCC, including
Javier Bourges' EL ULTIMO FIN DEL ANO, the Oscar-winning short film.
THE FILMMAKERS:
JULIE TAYMOR (Director)
Theater, opera and film director Julie Taymor made her feature film
directorial debut in 1999 with TITUS, starring Anthony Hopkins and
Jessica Lange. Based on Shakespeare's play, "Titus Andronicus", her
adapted screenplay is published in an illustrated book by Newmarket
Press.
Taymor has received numerous awards for "The Lion King" which opened
at the New Amsterdam Theater in 1997, including two Tony Awards: for
best direction of a musical and for her original costume designs.
She also codesigned the masks and puppets and wrote additional lyrics
for "The Lion King", which has productions in Japan, London, Toronto,
Los Angeles and Germany.
Taymor directed Carlo Gozzi's "The Green Bird" on Broadway in 2000.
It was first produced in 1996 by Theatre For a New Audience at The
New Victory Theater and presented at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Taymor's original visual music-theater work, "Juan Darién: A Carnical
Mass", presented at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1996,
received five Tony nominations including best director. Originally
produced by Music Theater Group in 1988, "Juan Darién" was directed
and designed by Taymor, and co-written with the composer Elliot Goldenthal.
The recipient of two Obies and numerous other awards, it was also
performed at The Edinburgh International Festival, festivals in France,
Jerusalem and Montreal, and had an extended run in San Francisco.
In September 1995, Taymor directed Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman"
for the Los Angeles Music Center in a co-production with the Houston
Grand Opera. She directed Strauss' "Salome" for the Kirov Opera in
Russia, Germany, and Israel, under the baton of Valery Gergiev. In
June 1993, she directed Mozart's "The Magic Flute" for the Maggio
Musicale in Florence, Zubin Mehta conducting.
Taymor's first opera direction was of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" for
the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Japan, under the baton of Seiji Ozawa
in 1992. The opera featured Philip Langridge as Oedipus and Jessye
Norman as Jocasta. Her film of the opera premiered at the Sundance
Film Festival and won the Jury Award at the Montreal Festival of Films
on Art. The film was broadcast internationally in 1993, garnering
an Emmy Award and the 1994 International Classical Music Award for
best opera production.
FOOL'S FIRE, Taymor's first film, which she both adapted and directed,
is based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story, HOP-FROG. Produced by American
Playhouse, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on
PBS in March 1992. The film won the "Best Drama" award at the Tokyo
International Electronic Cinema Festival.
Taymor's stage production of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" was
produced off-Broadway by Theatre For a New Audience in 1994.
Other directing credits include "The Tempest" ("Tfana" at the Stratford
American Shakespeare Festival), "The Taming of the Shrew", "The Transposed
Heads" (based on the novella by Thomas Mann, co-produced by the American
Musical Theater Festival and The Lincoln Center), and "Liberty's Taken",
an original musical co-created with David Suehsdorf and Elliot Goldenthal.
While on a Watson Fellowship in Indonesia from 1975-79, Taymor developed
a mask/dance company, Teatr Loh, an international company of Javanese,
Balinese, Sundanese, French, German and American actors, musicians,
dancers and puppeteers. The company toured throughout Indonesia with
two original productions, "Way of Snow" and "Tirai" (subsequently
performed in the USA).
In 1991 Taymor received a MacArthur "genius" Fellowship. She has also
received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two OBIE Awards, the first Annual
Dorothy B. Chandler Award in Theater, and the 1990 Brandeis Creative
Arts Award. An illustrated book on her career, Julie Taymor: Playing
with Fire - Theater, Opera, Film, was recently expanded and revised
by Abrams. Her book, The Lion King: Pride Rock on Broadway, is published
by Hyperion. A major retrospective of 25 years of Taymor's work opened
in the fall of 1999 at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio and
toured the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington D.C.)
and the Field Museum (Chicago).
Taymor is currently collaborating with Goldenthal on an original opera,
"Grendel", to premiere at the Los Angeles Opera in 2005 and subsequently
at the Lincoln Center Festival. She will also be directing a new production
of "The Magic Flute" for the Metropolitan Opera in the fall of 2004.
SARAH GREEN (Producer)
Sarah Green's most recent production was GIRLFIGHT, which won Best
Director and shared the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance as well as Best
Picture and Best Actress at the Deauville Film Festival, the Prix
de la Jeunesse at Cannes and the Open Palm at the IFP Gotham Awards.
Green produced GIRLFIGHT with Maggie Renzi and Martha Griffin, launching
first time writer/director Karyn Kusama. STATE AND MAIN, also released
in 2000, marked Sarah Green's fifth collaboration with writer/director
David Mamet. STATE AND MAIN is a vicious comedy about the film business
starring Alec Baldwin, Charles Durning, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Patti
LuPone, William H. Macy, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Paymer, Rebecca
Pidgeon and Julia Stiles.
Previously Sarah produced David Mamet's THE WINSLOW BOY. THE WINSLOW
BOY was written and directed by Mamet based on the play by Terrence
Rattigan, and stars Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon and Jeremy Northam.
Green co-produced THE SPANISH PRISONER, a contemporary thriller written
and directed by David Mamet and staring Cambell Scott, Ben Gazzara
and Steve Martin. She also co-produced the film version of AMERICAN
BUFFALO, based on the play by David Mamet, which starred Dustin Hoffman,
Dennis Franz and Sean Nelson, and was directed by Michael Corrente.
Green produced OLEANNA with Patricia Wolff, also based on a Mamet
play and directed by David Mamet.
Sarah Green produced three pictures for writer/director John Sayles,
all with Maggie Renzi. THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH was named one of the
top ten independent releases of 1995; PASSION FISH was nominated for
two Academy Awards, Best Original Screenplay for John Sayles and Best
Actress for Mary McDonnell; and CITY OF HOPE won the Grand Prix at
the Tokyo Film Festival and the Critic's Award at Edinburgh. In addition,
Green produced the Emmy Award-winning American Playhouse production
of ANDRE'S MOTHER, written by Terrence McNally and starring Richard
Thomas. ANDRE'S MOTHER was named Best Television Movie of 1990 by
the National Board of Review.
JAY POLSTEIN (Producer)
Jay Polstein is a producer with Maverick Films in Los Angeles. His
current projects include: DreamWork's MY SASSY GIRL, a remake of the
smash Korean romantic comedy about a guy who has the misfortune of
falling for a girl soured by a broken heart; EVEN STEVEN, a romantic
comedy starring singer Faith Hill, which centers on the antics of
two jilted ex-girlfriends who team up to create the perfect date for
their former boyfriend in order to have his heart broken, that currently
is in development with New Line Cinema; and Disney's UNDERDOG based
on the 60's cartoon and will be a live action/CG film about a lowly
dog who is transformed into a crime-fighting superhero after accidental
exposure to an experimental elixir, with Polstein producing with Spyglass
Entertainment's Roger Birnbaum and Gary Barber.
Prior to joining Maverick Films, Polstein was Head of Production for
the management/production company Handprint Entertainment, where he
supervised the development of numerous projects including Paramount
Pictures upcoming THE FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS, starring Cuba Gooding
Jr., Steve Harvey, and Beyonce Knowles.
Prior to Handprint, Polstein was Vice President of Production at Trimark
Pictures where he co-produced several films including the critically
acclaimed EVE'S BAYOU.
Polstein began his career as an attorney specializing in entertainment
law, before leaving to join ICM talent agency as a story editor. Following
ICM, he joined Goldwyn Films, where he was the Director of Production.
Polstein is a graduate of Georgetown University and UCLA School of
Law.
NANCY HARDIN (Producer)
Hardin has produced feature and animated films and television movies
with long experience as a studio executive, literary agent and book
editor in New York.After creating and editing a number of film-related
books as a senior editor at New American Library, Pocket Books at
Simon & Schuster and Bantam Books, Hardin moved to Los Angeles to
head up the literary department at Ziegler and Associates. Subsequently,
becoming Vice President of Production at Paramount Pictures, where
she supervised films such as GREASE, FOUL PLAY, and LITTLE DARLINGS.
When CBS Theatrical Films was formed, Hardin joined as Vice President
of Production, supervising such films as Marty Ritt's BACK ROADS,
John Frankenheimer's THE CHALLENGE, and Rick Rosenthal's AMERICAN
DREAMER. Hardin's productions include the Showtime film NORIEGA: GOD'S
FAVORITE, ABC miniseries "Texas Justice"; also for ABC, "Forgotten
Sins," based on Lawrence Wright's award-winning New Yorker articles,
and "Remembering Satan."
Hardin has also executive produced a series of film animated half-hour
shows for children featuring the voices of Lynn Redgrave, Roddy McDowell,
James Ingram, Melissa Manchester, the Smothers Brothers, Dom DeLuise
and Jonathan Winters. She earned her B.A. from Wellesley College and
her M.A. in Dramatic Literature from Columbia University.
LIZZ SPEED (Producer)
Following her graduation from UC BERKELEY in 1988, Lizz Speed moved
to Los Angeles and became Sherry Lansing and Stanley Jaffe's (FATAL
ATTRACTION) assistant at Paramount Pictures. She then took a creative
executive position at Columbia Pictures, where she was a junior executive
on such films as BOYS IN THE HOOD, AWAKENINGS and A LEAGUE OF THEIR
OWN. Soon after, she became a development executive for producer Scott
Rudin at Paramount Pictures (SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER).
She jumped at the opportunity to work with producer Neil Moritz (THE
FAST AND THE FURIOUS) on the low budget film A STONED AGE. Liz followed
up her first associate producer credit by developing fourteen films
for director Brian Gibson's production company. Gibson directed THE
JUROR and STILL CRAZY.
Most recently, Speed partnered with director Rod Holcomb (ER) and
coproduced the television pilot THE EDUCATION OF MAX BICKFORD, starring
Richard Dreyfuss and Marcia Gay Harden, for CBS. She is currently
an independent producer and screenwriter, developing and producing
several projects in Los Angeles.
RODRIGO PRIETO (Director of Photography)
Prieto received critical acclaim for his work on AMORES PERROS, which
won the 2000 Cannes Critic's Prize for Best Film. Prieto also received
the 2000 Camerimage Golden Frog Award for Best Cinematography and
the 2001 Silver Ariel Award for Best Cinematography for the film.
The Mexican-born cinematographer has also won two additional Silver
Ariels for Best Cinematography (UN EMBRUJO and SOBRENATURAL), the
San Sebastian International Film Festival Best Cinematography Award
(UN EMBRUJO), and the Cartegena Colombia Film Festival and "Diosa
De Plata Award for Best Cinematography (SOBRENATURAL). His other Englishlanguage
film credits include ORIGINAL SIN and RICKY SIX and the upcoming 8
MILE with Curtis Hanson and 25th HOUR with Spike Lee.
FRANCOISE BONNOT (Editor)
Bonnot worked previously with director Julie Taymor on the feature
film TITUS. She won an Academy Award for her work on Costa Gavras'
classic "Z" and won a British Academy Award for MISSING. Her other
film credits include MAD CITY, 1492: CONQUEST OF PARADISE, FAT MAN
AND LITTLE BOY, THE SICILIAN, YEAR OF THE DRAGON, and CLAIRE DE FEMME.
FELIPE FERNANDEZ (Production Designer)
Fernandez has worked on the feature film MEN WITH GUNS, HANGMAN'S
DAUGHTER: FROM DUSK TILL DAWN III and TEXAS BLOOD MONEY: FROM DUSK
TILL DAWN II. He served as art director/set decorator on DESPERADO
and THE WINNER and set decorator on FROM DUSK TILL DAWN and THE MASK
OF ZORRO. Prior to that, he was the casting director and associate
producer on the film LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE. On television, Fernandez
was the production designer on the UPN film PRIMAL FORCE and THE SANDMAN.
BERNARDO TRUJILLO (Art Director)
Trujillo worked on the feature films BLOW, OPERATION SANDMAN and FIDEL.
In his native Mexico, Trujillo was art director for CRONICA DE UN
DESAYUNO and LA PALOMA DE MARSELLA.
JULIE WEISS (Costume Designer)
Weiss has worked on numerous feature films, including THE GIFT, GET
CARTER, AMERICAN BEAUTY, A SIMPLE PLAN, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LOS VEGAS,
THE EDGE, MARVIN'S ROOM, SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER, IT COULD HAPPEN
TO YOU, HONEYMOON IN VEGAS, STEEL MAGNOLIAS, TEQUILA SUNRISE, F/X,
and TESTAMENT. She received an Academy Award nomination for her work
on 12 MONKEYS.
On television, Weiss has won two Emmy Awards for her work on "A Woman
of Independent Means" and "The Dollmaker" and received Emmy nominations
for "Evergreen," "The Elephant Man" and "Little Gloria, Happy at Last."
In the theater, she received a Tony Award nomination for her work
on "The Elephant Man" and won a Dramalogue Award for "50/60 Vision."
Her credits include: "MacBeth" in Circle in the Square and the Mark
Taper Forum; "Bandido," "Ghetto," "Tales From Hollywood," "The Killing
of Jablonski," "Conjuring An Event" and "Billy the Kid."
In addition to her film, television and theater work, Weiss taught
at Stanford University's School of Drama. She holds a M.F.A. from
Brandeis University and a B.A. from the University of California,
Berkeley.
ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL (Composer)
Composer Elliot Goldenthal creates works for orchestra, theatre, opera,
ballet and film. He has received two Oscar and two Golden Globe nominations
for his scores for INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE and MICHAEL COLLINS,
Grammy nominations for A TIME TO KILL, and BATMAN FOREVER, and three
nominations for The Chicago Film Critics Award for HEAT, MICHAEL COLLINS,
and THE BUTCHER BOY. In 1998, Goldenthal won the prestigious L.A.
Film Critics Award for Best Original Score for Neil Jordan's THE BUTCHER
BOY.
Goldenthal has collaborated with director Julie Taymor on 18 projects,
including her film, TITUS, adapted from Shakespeare's play and starring
Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange (1999). Their original music-theater
piece, "Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass", garnered Goldenthal an Obie
Award Off- Broadway (1988) and 2 Tony Nominations for Best Musical
and Best Original Musical Score when it was produced at the Lincoln
Center (1996). His other theatrical credits include "The Transposed
Heads," "The King Stag," "Liberty's Taken," and "The Green Bird" (on
Broadway in 2000).
For the concert stage, Goldenthal was commissioned by the American
Ballet Theatre and the San Francisco Ballet to create a new ballet,
"Othello", which debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1997, and has
been performed in San Francisco and Paris. "Othello" will air PBS's
Great Performances in 2003 and return to the Metropolitan Opera for
the 2003 ABT season. His other classical commissions include "Shadow
Play Scherzo", to commemorate Leonard Bernstein's 70th birthday, and
a large-scale orchestral piece, "Fire, Water, Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio,"
commissioned by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra for the 20th anniversary
of the Vietnam War and subsequently toured by the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa conducting. It is available on Sony Classical
with soloist Yo Yo Ma.
His other film scores include DRUGSTORE COWBOY, HEAT, ALIEN 3, COBB,
and Neil Jordan's upcoming THE GOOD THIEF.
He is currently collaborating with Taymor on an original opera, "Grendel",
to premiere at the L.A. Opera in 2005, and subsequently at The Lincoln
Center Festival.
Gregory Nava (Writer)
Gregory Nava is a screenwriter and director who, along with his wife
and co-writer Anna Thomas, was nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Original Screenplay for his 1984 film EL NORTE. Critics hailed
the movie, which Nava also directed, for its innovative departure
from stereotypical Hispanic roles and themes. In addition, reviewers
applauded EL NORTE for its moving depiction of the striking contrast
between the oppressive poverty of Mexico and the ostentatious wealth
of the neighboring United States. ?qe attended the University of California
in Los Angeles, where he studied filmmaking. At the age of 28, Nava
wrote The Confessions of Amans with Thomas, and then directed the
movie. Released in 1977, it details a tragic love affair during the
medieval period. Nava's second movie as co-author and director was
THE END OF AUGUST, released in 1982.
He wrote and directed the critically acclaimed 1995 film MI FAMILIA,
MY FAMILY, starring Jimmy Smits and Edward James Olmos. Nava's 1997
film, SELENA, tells the story of the slain Latin singer's rise to
stardom and tragic death. ?In 1998, Nava released his latest film,
Warner Brothers' music-based drama WHY DO FOOL FALL IN LOVE, starring
Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon and Larenz Tate. Nava served
as director as well as executive producer along with Harold Bronson.
Nava currently serves as a creator and writer of the critically acclaimed
PBS series "American Family."
Clancy Sigal (Writer)
Clancy Sigal is a screenwriter, novelist and journalist. His movie
credits include IN LOVE AND WAR, starring Sandra Bullock. Clancy Sigal's
novels include Going Away, Weekend in Dinlock, Zone of the Interior
and The Secret Defector. Although U.S.-born, he lived in England for
some time where he was a BBC broadcaster and journalist. He was a
film critic (Spectator, The Listener) and reporter and feature writer
for The Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Vogue and other British newspapers
and magazines. He continues to write for the UK (Manchester) Guardian.
He writes Op Eds for The New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
Anna Thomas (Writer)
Anna Thomas is an Academy Award nominated screenwriter, as well as
a producer, director and author. She is the producer and co-writer
of the film EL NORTE, which was nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Original Screenplay, and which was elected to the National Film
Registry of the Library of Congress in 1995. She is also the co-writer
and producer of the acclaimed MY FAMILY, MI FAMILIA, a multigenerational
saga set in East LA. The film marked Thomas' fourth collaboration
with director Gregory Nava, with whom she began working in 1973 while
they were UCLA film students.
Thomas made her first feature in 1977 when she wrote, produced and
directed her Master's thesis film, THE HAUNTING OF M,A turn-of-the-century
ghost story shot in Scotland. Other film credits include the 1986
drama A TIME OF DESTINY, which she co-wrote and produced. TV credits
include the PBS one-hour drama AMERICAN FAMILY.
Thomas is one of the founders of the IFPwest, and is on the faculty
of the American Film Institute. She frequently works as a screenwriter
in between film productions.
Diane Lake (Writer)
Diane Lake has a script, Distance, based on the French Impressionist
Berthe Morisot in development at Columbia Pictures.In addition, she
has written an original screenplay, Nancy, for Paramount based on
the life of British aristocrat Nancy Cunard; Picasso, a mini-series
for NBC; and A Thousand Cranes, an original screenplay for Digital
Domain that looks at all of the sides of what led to the bombing of
Hiroshima in WWII. Additionally, she has projects in active development
with Wendy Finerman and Viacom Pictures.
Diane is presently adapting the novel Wendover Whale for Four Boys
Films and putting together financing for her adaptation of the acclaimed
Katie Schneider novel, All We Know of Love. She is also at work on
a Civil War novel based on the true story of two young women who became
spies for the confederacy. Her original screenplay, Close Your Eyes,
a film noir based on the life of Raymond Chandler, will soon be going
out as a spec. |
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