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1999-2006 Independent producer. In development: CHIPPENDALES, Disney/Barry Sonnenfeld; AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE APOLLO, Debbie Allen/Dreamworks. In production: CREATION, Dir. Nicholas Meyer, starring Kenneth Branagh 1998-1999 Prelude Pictures: President. Produced LOST IN SPACE with New Line Cinema and BLACKDOG with Universal Pictures. 1987-1998 Paramount Pictures: President Tricor Entertainment 1983-87 Taft Entertainment: Sr. VP in charge of Motion Picture & Television. Acquired RUNNING MAN (Arnold Schwarzenegger), initiated development of THE ABYSS (James Cameron). 1981-83 Martin Bregman Prods.: President. Co-produced SCARFACE, executive produced EDDIE MACON'S RUN, produced THE FOUR SEASONS (CBS-TV). 1972-81 Universal Pictures, Universal Television: Vice-President. Supervised over 150 projects, including: JAWS (found and acquired novel for studio), THE DEER HUNTER, RESURRECTION, MARCUS WELBY M.D., BARETTA & THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN. Responsible for talent deals with: Al Pacino, Sylvester Stallone, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alan Alda and Clint Eastwood. 1970-72 Universal Pictures. Production executive. Clint Eastwood Films including PLAY MISTY FOR ME and HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER.

Tom Craig

1980-1986:
Warner Brothers: Story analyst/story editor. Films include: Gremlins, Accidental Tourist

1986-1988:
United Artists: Vice President of Production. Films include: Rainman, Princes of Tides, Child's Play

1988-1998:
Universal Pictures: Senior Vice President of Production. Films include: White Palace, Career Opportunities, Bird on a Wire, King of the Hill, King Ralph, Dragon Heart, Heart and Souls, Beethoven, Leaving Normal, Shakespeare in Love

1998-present:
Topa Films: Independent Producer

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Zvi Howard Rosenman was born in Brownsville, Broooklyn, in New York State on February 1, 1945. Mr. Rosenman began his career working on Broadway for Katherine Hepburn and Sir Michael Benthall, who was directing Miss Hepburn in the Andre Previn musical of “COCO”, the story of Coco Chanel, in 1968. He also assisted Mr. Benthall when he directed “I’M SOLOMON” with Dick Shawn, Carmen Mathews and Salome Jens. “I’M SOLOMON” was based on the Israeli play “SHLOMO HA’MELECH VE’SHALMAI HA’ SANDLAR” which played in Jaffa in August of 1967. Mr. Rosenman saw the play in Israel that summer, after having volunteered in the Six Day War of 1967, as an extern. Ernest Gold, who composed the score for the movie “EXODUS,” wrote the score. Mr. Rosenman’s first job in show business was as a “gopher” on a documentary that Mike Mindlin produced, called “JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM,” chronicling Leonard Bernstein conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for the Israel Defense Force (TZAHAL) soldiers in Judea and Samaria in July of 1967. Maestro Bernstein met Mr. Rosenman, as a volunteer during the Six Day War, and offered him the job, after recognizing Mr. Rosenman as his waiter at Sybil Burton’s discotheque ARTHUR in New York, where Mr. Rosenman worked, serving the celebrity table in the Winter and Spring of 1967, to make extra money for his medical school studies.

Mr. Rosenman was also Mr. Benthall’s assistant on “HER FIRST ROMAN” starring Richard Kiley and Leslie Uggams. In that year he also worked on the movie, “THE TREE,” as a driver and "gofer," a small independent black and white film, directed by Robert Guenette, starring Eileen Heckart, George Rose, Ruth Ford and Jordan Christopher. He soon became a Producer of Television Commercials at Benton and Bowles where he won many Clios for such accounts as Cool Whip, Cool ‘n Creamy, Texaco’s Havoline Oil, Pampers, Vick’s Nyquil and Prell Shampoo.

Mr. Rosenman went to Hollywood in 1973 where he produced a TV movie for ABC under the aegis of the legendary film unit created by Barry Diller and run by Michael Eisner and Deanne Barkley. Mr. Rosenman, along with Ron Bernstein, then founded RSO Films with Robert Stigwood, brought Ms. Barkley into the company, where they made many Movies of the Week for Television. Among them were the first movies of John Badham (“ISN’T IT SHOCKING?”), Randall Kleiser (“ALL TOGETHER NOW”) and Joel Schumacher (“VIRGINIA HILL”). In those movies he worked with Harvey Keitel, Gloria Swanson, Alan Alda, Louise Lasser, Kate Jackson, Edward Albert, Jr., Ruth Gordon, Robbie Benson, John Rubinstein, Raul Julia, Tina Louise, Lucie Arnaz and the first appearances on television of Helen Hunt and Dyan Cannon. He produced “DEATH SCREAM” a back-door pilot for Raul Julia, for ABC, based on the famous murder of Kitty Genovese on the streets of New York City.

In 1976, he went to Warner Brothers and produced “SPARKLE,” written by Joel Schumacher and starring Philip Michael Thomas, Irene Cara, Dorian Harewood and Lonette McKee. This was the first appearance of each of these actors in a movie. He then formed a company with Renee Missel and together they developed, and were the Executive Producers on “THE MAIN EVENT,” starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal and directed by Howard Zieff. The album of the movie sound track became a huge hit, especially the song "THE MAIN EVENT" written by the Oscar-winning duo, Paul Jabara and Bruce Roberts. In 1978, through a deal at Universal Pictures, Ms. Missel and Mr. Rosenman produced “RESURRECTION” starring Sam Shepard, Ellen Burstyn, and Eva Le Gallienne, earning the respected actresses Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. The film was directed by Dan Petrie.

Following that, he produced “LOST ANGELS,” based on a draft of Hilary Henkin's “LUNATICS,” directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Donald Sutherland and Adam Horovitz, of Beastie Boys fame, for Orion Pictures and Vestron. Based on his own years in medical school, Mr. Rosenman produced “GROSS ANATOMY,” written by Ron Nyswaner, starring Matthew Modine, Christine Lahti and Daphne Zuniga, at the beginning of Michael Eisner's and Jeffrey Katzenberg's winning streak at the newly reconfigured Disney at Touchstone Pictures.

Also at Disney, he developed several movies, which he took with him to Sandollar Productions, where he served as Co-President with Carol Baum. He Executive Produced the acclaimed documentary “COMMON THREADS: TALES FROM THE QUILT,” which won both an Academy Award for Best Documentary and a George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Journalism. “COMMON THREADS” was written and directed by Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein, who also directed the acclaimed Oscar-winning documentary “HARVEY MILK.” Mr. Rosenman, with Ms. Baum, also produced “TIDY ENDINGS” starring Harvey Fierstein (based on the last act of his Broadway play “SAFE SEX”) and Stockard Channing for HBO. “TIDY ENDINGS” garnered four ACE Awards, including one for Best Dramatic or Theatrical Special.

At Sandollar, Mr. Rosenman, with Ms. Baum, also produced “SHINING THROUGH,” based on the best selling novel by Susan Isaacs, for Dawn Steel at Columbia Pictures, starring Melanie Griffith, Michael Douglas and Liam Neeson; written and directed by David Seltzer. In succession, he produced “STRAIGHT TALK,” starring Dolly Parton at Touchstone, and with Propaganda Films produced “A STRANGER AMONG US,” starring Melanie Griffith and directed by Sidney Lumet, for Touchstone. “TRUE IDENTITY,” starring Lenny Henry, was Mr. Rosenman’s next movie, again for Touchstone. He then went on to make “FATHER OF THE BRIDE,” starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton and Martin Short for Touchstone Pictures followed by Joss Whedon's “BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER,” starring Kristi Swanson and Luke Perry, for Twentieth Century Fox. “BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER” was not only a huge hit television series produced by Fox for the Warner Brothers Network, but a cultural phenomenon, as well.

In 1993, Bernie Brillstein and Brad Grey asked Howard Rosenman to run their fledgling motion picture company. At Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, he became President of Motion Pictures, and again served as the Executive Producer on Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's next documentary, Vito Russo's “CELLULOID CLOSET,” based on his landmark book, which was immediately invited to debut in the U.S. at the prestigious New York Film Festival. Russo's “CELLULOID CLOSET” played at the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival and the Prague Film Festival. Because of the great reception accorded “CELLULOID CLOSET” at all of the above mentioned Film Festivals, SONY CLASSICS distributed the film theatrically in March of 1996. In an unprecedented departure for HBO, the movie played on HBO for one night, as a national sneak preview, on January 30, 1996, before its’ theatrical release. It then ran on Cinemax for a month after its' theatrical and video releases. “CELLULOID CLOSET” garnered five EMMY nominations, one of them for the prestigious PRESIDENT’S AWARD, awarded for a Made-for-TV-Movie, television series (whole series or individual episode), miniseries, animation or informational program in prime time that best explores social or educational issues and encourages and promotes, directly or indirectly, changes that help society to become familiar with - and more effectively deal with - the situation. “CELLULOID CLOSET” also won a George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Journalism.

While he was at BGE, in less than two years, Mr. Rosenman put more than twenty projects into development at the major studios. Mr. Rosenman and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment are now partnered, and will produce together, the projects they developed while Mr. Rosenman ran BGE Motion Pictures. Mr. Rosenman then made an over-all first-look deal with Columbia Pictures.

At Columbia Pictures, BGE and Mr. Rosenman are working on several motion pictures. These include: “AMERICAN NEUROTIC” written by Jon Tolins, Seth Bass, Randy Mayem Singer, Michael White and Steve Chboskey (“RENT”). Jim Carey has committed to play the lead, with Anthony Hopkins committing to play the psychiatrist, and Kate Beckinsale the romantic interest. Tolins & Bass are re-writing the screenplay. Sid Ganis of Blue Sky Productions is co-producing with Revolution Pictures.

“FAMILY MAN” produced by Mr. Rosenman was released Christmas 2000 (December 17, 2000). His partner was Beacon Pictures and the screenplay was written by David Diamond and David Weissman, with Tony Ludwig and Alan Riche co producing along with Mr. Rosenman. Brett Ratner (“MONEY TALKS”; “RUSH HOUR”) directed. Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni, Jeremy Piven, Amber Valletta, Paul Sorvino, Don Cheadle, Josef Sommers and Mary Beth Hurt starred. The movie started principal photography in New York on November 22, 1999 and just finished Principal Photography. Dante Spinotti (“THE INSIDER”; “LA CONFIDENTIAL”) was the Cinematographer. Kristi Zea (“CASINO”) was the Production Designer. Betsy Heiman did the costumes. Andy Davis line produced. Matt Barry & Nancy Green-Keys (“MONEY TALKS”; “RUSH HOUR”) cast the movie. Marc Abraham and Armyan Bernstein are the executives at Beacon, who financed the picture. Marc Abraham produced along with Riche, Ludwig & Rosenman. Universal Pictures distributed.

Mr. Rosenman Executive Produced the documentary “BOND GIRLS ARE FOREVER” for AMC with MGM. James Watkins and Eamon Harrington of Planet Grande Pictures directed. It aired on the night of November 6th, 2002 on AMC. Maryam D’Abo narrates, stars in and produced.

Mr. Rosenman’s next movie is “NOEL” by David Hubbard. A Christmas story about four alienated, lonely people whose lives intersect on Christmas Eve with each experiencing a true miracle. It’s a post-modern take on “IT”S A WONDERFUL LIFE.” Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams, Paul Walker, Penelope Cruz, Dan Sunjata, Alan Arkin and Chazz Palminteri are set to star in this $8.5 million independent feature. Chazz Palminteri the noted actor who also directed “WOMEN & MEN” for Showtime, is directing. The movie is being financed by Al Corley and Bart Rosenblatt’s Neverland Films. The movie will be going before the cameras November 10, 2003 in Montreal and NYC.

Mr. Rosenman, BGE and Andy Licht and Jeff Mueller are producing “CAT AND MOUSE,” at Twentieth Century Fox, a comedy combining live action and animation in an original and wry mixture. The screenplay was written by Neil Tolkin, and bought by Tom Rothman at Fox. Vanessa Morrison, at Fox, is the executive in charge. Karey Kirkpatrick (“CHICKEN RUN”) just rewrote the draft and the movie is expected to start pre-production in the Fall of 2003. Kevin Lima (“101 DALMATIANS”; “ELOISE AT THE PLAZA”) is set to direct.

Mr. Rosenman is also producing “THE MONSTER OF LONGWOOD” starring Al Pacino as Napoleon. Storyopolis (Paul Allen’s film company) acquired Staton Rabin’s book “BETSY AND THE EMPEROR.” Rebecca Belfield wrote the first draft and Jean Claude Carriere wrote the next one and Michael Tolkin (“THE PLAYER”) wrote the third draft. Paul Auster is currently rewriting with Mr. Chereau. The distinguished French director Patrice Chereau (“LA REINE MARGOT”; “L’HOMME BLAISE”; “INTIMACY”) is directing. “INTIMACY” won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Colleen Camp and Fonda Snyder are co-producing.

Mr. Rosenman and Ms. Baum sold “PARK AVENUE GHOST” to Bob Weinstein, Michael Zoumas and Robbie Brenner at Dimension Films. Peter Wortman and Bob Conte (“DUDLEY DORIGHT”; “LA CHEVRE”) wrote the first draft. LL Cool J and Rupert Everett are attached to star.

Mr. Rosenman sold “ON EAGLES’ WINGS,” the story of the formation if the Israeli Air Force by several rakish American, Canadian and Israeli young men, in 1947. ImageMovers’ Jack Rapke and Bob Zemeckis’s company bought the project at DreamWorks. Dan Gordon wrote the first several drafts. We are currently looking for a director. Dan Gordon (“HURRICANE”) wrote the first two drafts. Steven Spielberg is attached as a Producer as are Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey and Bob Zemeckis along with myself.

Mr. Rosenman is also developing “WHISPERS” by Gerald DiPego (“PHENOMENON”; “ISHMAEL”; “MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE”) & John Herzfeld (“TWO DAYS IN THE VALLEY”; “THE DON KING STORY”), based on the beloved Irwin Shaw short story “WHISPERS IN BEDLAM.” This project was just set up at Universal Pictures with Tom Jacobson’s company also producing. Steven Falk (“THE PROM”) is writing.

Mr. Rosenman and Ms. Baum sold “TEN GOOD MEN,” a mystical action thriller. Wolfgang Petersen’s new company, Red Cliff, is developing the material. The first draft of “TEN GOOD MEN” was written by Douglas Cook & David Weisberg (“THE ROCK”) and will be co-produced with Wolfgang Petersen (“IN THE LINE OF FIRE”; “AIR FORCE ONE”) and Gail Katz. Wayne Beech (“1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE”; “SLOW BURN”) is writing the next draft.

Mr. Rosenman and Ms. Baum also have “CRIM LAW” in development. “CRIM LAW” is a thriller set in the highly competitive world of law school. Steven Peters (“WILD THINGS”) is writing the screenplay.

Mr. Rosenman is also developing “FENWICK’S SUIT“ by David Small, a Farrar Straus Giroux book, published in 1997. The project was brought to him by David Michaels. John August (“GO”; “A WRINKLE IN TIME”) wrote the first draft of the screenplay. We are talking to Nickolodeon to finance.

Mr. Rosenman and Ms. Baum also are developing “GLORIA AND DORIA GRAY” to David Matalon at New Regency at Twentieth Century Fox, an original story by Mr. Rosenman and Ms. Baum. This wicked high school gothic drama is a riff on Oscar Wilde’s “THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY” about two sisters, one extremely popular, the other, her diametric opposite who makes a “deal with the devil”. Ben Queen (“ONE TRACK MIND”) wrote the first draft. We are currently looking for a writer to re-write the draft. Kara Francis and Sanford Panitch are overseeing the development of this movie.

“GHETTO FABULOUS!” with a first-draft script by supermodel Veronica Webb, from an idea by Rosenman about a rising singer and her ambitious and complicated relationship with a famous rapper who is on his way down. Mr. Rosenman is producing. It will star Eve. Mr. Rosenman, as noted above, has a lot of experience with this genre as he was involved as the producer of “SPARKLE”, Joel Schumacher’s first screenplay, which has since gone on to become a classic about a trio of African American women singers in the ‘50’s in Harlem. It, too, combined drama and music. The Platinum selling album’s score was written by Curtis Mayfield with Aretha Franklin covering all the songs on the album.

Mr. Rosenman, Mr. Ahrenberg are producing “LIFE OF AN HONEST MAN,” a comedic drama about a dysfunctional family, based on the classic French movie by Sacha Guitry. Leon Capitanos (“DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS”) wrote the first draft of the screenplay. Adam Brooks (‘FRENCH KISS”; “INVISIBLE CIRCUS”) rewrote. We are co-producing with Hyde Park Entertainment. We are looking for a new writer.

“YOU & ME AND YOU” aka “RUNAROUND SUE” by Katherine Reback, is another project being produced by Mr. Rosenman This movie is about a young woman, who is involved romantically with a father and his son, without realizing that the two men are related. We are currently talking to directors.

In addition to those projects, Mr. Rosenman, along with producer Staffan Ahrenberg, have recently announced that Joe Eszterhas is writing a cunning cat-&-mouse thriller called “TRAPPED” for Andy Vajna’s Cinergi. It has previously been reported in the press, that when the movie is made, Mr. Eszterhas will earn $5 million - the single most lucrative writer’s deal ever made. John McTiernan (“DIE HARD”; “DIE HARD 3”; LAST ACTION HERO”; “ROLLERBALL”) is attached to direct. Doug Richardson is rewriting.

Mr. Rosenman Executive Produced “MY FIRST MISTER” by Jill Franklyn. Suki Chew and Ann Kurtzman, Carol Baum and Jane Goldenring are producing. Bob Kurtzman co-Executive Produced with Gerald Green of Total Films. Total Films’ Patricia Green & Hannah Hempstead were involved in financing the production. Christine Lahti directed. Albert Brooks and Leelee Sobieski starred. Film Roman (“THE SIMPSONS”) was our partner. The picture started shooting on January 24, 2000. It was screened as the Premiere of the entire Sundance Film Festival 2001, to great acclaim. Paramount Classics distributed. It opened in the Fall of 2001.

Mr. Rosenman also co-produced, with Mr. Friedman, Mr. Epstein, Mr. Michael Ehrenzweig and Ms. Pam Cole, “PARAGRAPH 175,” a documentary depicting homosexuals who were victimized and murdered by the infernal Nazi machine. Rupert Everett narrated. HBO funded the documentary and it aired in the Spring of 2001. We are releasing the documentary theatrically through Dan Talbot’s New Yorker Films. “PARAGRAPH 175” won the best directed documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. It played the Berlin Film Festival sand we screened the documentary in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and OUTFEST in Los Angeles, to great acclaim.

Mr. Rosenman and Ms. Baum are also producing “DOWNSIZING” at Paramount Pictures. Rob Cohen (“GREEN ACRES”; “AUSTIN POWERS II”; “THE BETTE MIDLER SHOW”) wrote the movie. We are currently lookinhg for a new writer. Mr. Rosenman and Ms. Baum, along with Robert Evans and Cristine Peters, are going to produce a movie inspired by “FOUL PLAY.” Jon Bernstein (“BEAUTIFUL”; “VALLEY OF THE DOLLS”) wrote the first draft and we are currently looking for a new writer.

Mr. Rosenman and Ms. Baum are involved in producing “FAIRHOPE” by Anthony Di Pietro. Harold Becker (“ONION FIELDS”) is directing and James Woods and Christian Slater are starring. Barry Katz and Brian Volk-Weiss of Barry Katz Productions are producing with us.

Mr. Rosenman and Ms. Baum are involved in producing “GRACE AND KITTY” about the legendary relationship between Grace Metallious and her mentor Kitty Messner, who published Ms. Metallious’s Peyton Place. The notorious book blew the lid off the conservative facade of her tiny New Hampshire town when she published the book, which became a gigantic best seller and put Grace Metallious on the cover of TIME and NEWSWEEK. Our movie is the odd couple relationship between the tough-talking Grace and her elegant, sophisticated New York editor. Sandra Bullock is attached to star. The movie is set up at Fox.

Mr. Rosenman and Ms. Baum are involved in producing “SLAMMER.” We just st this up with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas at Revolution Films. Sarah Goodman is set to rewrite Tim Metcalf’s draft. It’s “Private Benjamin goes to jail and puts on a Beauty Pageant.” Sarah Goodman is rewriting.

Mr. Rosenman is also putting together a Broadway musical based on Anne Rice’s “THE SEVENTH SONG,” a treatment based on a dream of Mr. Rosenman’s. Mr. Rosenman is currently speaking to several noted Broadway musical directors, composers and lyricists.

Mr. Rosenman is Co-Founder of Project Angel Food in LA, which provides Meals-on-Wheels for terminally ill AIDS patients, and has served on the Board of Directors of the AIDS ReSearch Alliance, Bet Tzedek Legal Services, DIFFA, Youth Aids Services & the Advisory Board of GLAAD.

He resides in Los Angeles with Bernstein, his brilliant and peerless Boston Terrier, and his three very articulate, and prolix parrots: Tucker, a yellow-naped Amazon, and Butch and Feiden, a pair of African Greys.

Fees:
No written report, you get a one on one phone conversation with Mr. Rosenman

Renée Missel made her leap into producing by serving as Executive Producer on the Warner Brothers 1979 hit film THE MAIN EVENT. She developed the film from her own original idea. It starred Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.

While under contract as a producer to Universal Pictures, she developed and produced RESURRECTION. The film starred Ellen Burstyn and Sam Shepard and garnered two Oscar nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress (Eva LeGalienne), and one Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in 1981.

In 1983, she served as Vice-President of West Coast Production for ABC Motion Pictures, where she worked on THE FLAMINGO KID starring Matt Dillon, and PRITZI'S HONOR starring Jack Nicholson.

After leaving ABC in 1986, she co-wrote, and produced MY MAN ADAM for The Mount Company. The film was released by TriStar Pictures. In 1988 Missel then went on to join Dino De Laurentiis in his company where she was named Head of Production.

Missel left DDL to produce one of her projects, DEFENSELESS, for Taylor Hackford’s New Visions Pictures. The film was released by Fine Line, and starred Barbara Hershey and Sam Shepard. In 1991 she joined Samuel Goldwyn Jr. as V.P. with the Samuel Goldwyn Company.

Having optioned the play IDIOGLOSSIA, which she developed into the Fox/Polygram motion picture NELL, Missel produced the film in 1994 with Jodie Foster. Foster starred in it along with Liam Neeson. The film garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and two Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress and Best Score.

Missel then produced GUY for Gramercy. It starred Vincent D'Onofrio and Hope Davis. The film was released by Gramercy Pictures in 1996.

Venturing in another direction, in 1998 Renée Missel became the Artistic Director of the eleven-day Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and committed herself to redesigning and positioning the festival.

During her tenure, honorees included Jodie Foster, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Anjelika Houston, Ben Kingsley, Whoopi Goldberg, Diane Keaton, Rob Reiner, Julie Christie, John Schesinger, and Robert Towne among others.

Each year a host of seminars also included the year’s Oscar nominated screenwriters, directors, producers, cameramen and editors. Missel inaugurated the popular It Starts With The Script symposium moderated each year by Laura Ziskin. During her last year the festival hosted 40,000 attendees. Up to 120 films were programmed during each edition.

Missel is presently preparing the English remake of the Dutch film, ZUS and ZO, nominated for an Oscar as best foreign film in 2002, as well as ROGUE SCHOLARS, an independent film.

In 2003, she founded her new company, Renée Missel Management, which focuses on managing American, European and Canadian talent.

A native of Montréal, Canada, Renée Missel began her career as a photojournalist, and later as a documentary film producer in New York City. She is a graduate of Antioch University.

Diane Nabatoff

Ray Liotta, Antonio Banderas, and Kenneth Branagh all have a common connection: Ms. Diane Nabatoff. Diane has recently produced a variety of projects that have garnered critical and box office success including the films Take the Lead starring Antonio Banderas and Narc starring Ray Liotta as well as the television movie The Knights of South Bronx starring Ted Danson and the HBO series Baseball Wives.

In 1999 Diane founded Tiara Blue Films with Ray Liotta which she has parlayed into developing a number of projects at the studios and cable networks as well several features that will be independently financed. Her current projects include: The novel White Jazz by James Ellroy, to be adapted and directed by Joe Carnahan with New Regency; Soldiers Field with Radar; and Sound And Fury to star Marlee Matlin and Camryn Manheim for Showtime.

Prior to founding her own company, Diane was a Producer at Interscope Communications, where she developed and produced films that include: Very Bad Things, written and directed by Pete Berg and starring Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Stern; The Proposition starring Kenneth Branagh, Madeleine Stowe and William Hurt; Operation Dumbo Drop, directed by Simon Wincer and starring Danny Glover, Ray Liotta and Denis Leary; Separate Lives starring Jim Belushi and Linda Hamilton; Holy Matrimony, directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring Patricia Arquette; and Body Language starring Tom Berenger.

Earlier in her career, Diane was the Senior Vice President of Production for Henry Winkler’s Fair Dinkum Productions and Vice President of Vestron Pictures where she served as Executive Producer of Hider in the House and Fear which received a nomination for an Ace Award. She began her film career in Los Angeles at The Feldman-Meeker Co. working on The Golden Child starring Eddie Murphy and serving as Associate-Producer of The Kindred and Near Dark.

In addition to her career in the film industry, Ms. Nabatoff has had diverse experiences in the entertainment field: she worked with the legendary Joseph Papp at The New York Shakespeare Festival; consulted with a London-based documentary film company; worked in programming at HBO; understudied both female roles in the Broadway Production of I Love my Wife; and performed in off- Broadway shows, nightclubs and television commercials as a singer-actress.

Prior to receiving a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University, where she was the first female producer of Hasty Pudding Theatricals and the founder of The Radcliffe Pitches, the first Harvard female vocal group.

Fees:
No written report, you get a one on one phone conversation with Ms. Nabatoff. No emailed scripts. You must send a printed copy.

Terence Michael

Film and Television producer Terence Michael began his professional career on the Warner Brothers lot after hopping the fence and knocking on a random door, which turned out to be the office of director Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon). Shooing him down the hall to his wife's office, Donner allowed Michael to spend one summer away from Pepperdine University, where he earned a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration, to intern for producer Lauren Shuler-Donner (Free Willy).
Terence graduated with honors and ascended the ranks, moving from Assistant to Director of Development with veteran Warner Bros. producers such as John Hyde (Das Boat) and Gene Kirkwood (Rocky). After six months, Terence formed his own production company.

Having now produced or executive produced over 20 feature films under the Terence Michael Productions banner (see credits to the left), Terence has pursued other creative outlets in the entertainment business, such as directing music videos and producing alternative television shows and specials.

Additionally, he has guest lectured on development, financing, packaging and producing panels for the Cannes Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Festival, Independent Film Project West (IFP), Film IT Conference, the SXSW Film Festival, and UCLA Film Extension; has been featured in magazines and publications, such as The Los Angeles Times, MovieMaker, Moving Pictures, Back Stage West, Independent Film and Video, Screenwriters Utopia, Writers Script Network, Venice Magazine, Newsweek, Details, and The Christian Science Monitor.

From 1997 to 2002, Terence formed and co-owned another production company with screenwriter-producer Richard Finney to produce five feature films and one television movie.

Visit his website: http://www.terencemichael.com

FILM CREDITS

Producer "Love For Rent" Warner Brothers/HBO
starring Angie Cepeda, Ken Marino, Nora Dunn, Jim Piddock

Producer "Mind The Gap" Showtime
starring Alan King, John Heard, Elizabeth Reaser,
Vera Farmiga, Mina Badie

Producer "Never Again" Universal/Focus Features
starring Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh, Michael McKean, Bill Duke

Producer "100 Girls" Lionsgate Entertainment
starring Jonathan Tucker, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jamie Pressly,
Katherine Heigl, Larisa Oleynik, Marissa Ribisi

Producer "According To Spencer" Lionsgate Entertainment
starring Jesse Bradford, Mia Kirshner, Adam Goldberg,
Giovanni Ribisi, David Krumholtz, Brad Rowe, Marissa Ribisi

Producer "Going Greek" Showtime
starring Dylan Bruno, Laura harris, Simon Rex, Dublin James,
Chris Owen, Susan Ward, Oliver Hudson

Producer "100 Women" Lionsgate Entertainment
starring Chad Donella, Jennifer Morrison, Erinn Bartlett

Co-Producer "Chill Factor" Warner Brothers
starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Skeet Ulrich

Producer "Wirey Spindell" Winstar
starring Eric Mabius, Callie Thorne, Samantha Buck

Producer "Life In The Fast Lane" Lionsgate Entertainment
starring Tea Leoni, Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor,
Patrick Dempsey, Debi Mazur, James Le Gros

Producer "Fall" MGM
starring Eric Schaeffer, Amanda De Cadenet

Executive Producer "If Lucy Fell" Sony
starring Ben Stiller, Sarah Jessica Parker, Elle Macpherson,
Eric Schaeffer, Scarlett Johansson

Executive Producer "I Shot A Man In Vegas" Paramount/Lakeshore
starring Janeane Garofalo, John Stockwell

Producer "The Last Summer" (independent)
starring Muse Watson, Nick Searcy

Producer "Peroxide Passion" (independent)
starring Lorri Bagley, James Tupper, Billy Campion

Executive Producer "Baggage" (independent)
starring M. Emmet Walsh, Mariette Hartley, Vincent Schiavelli, Shane Edelman

TELEVISION CREDITS

Executive Producer & Creator "M.I.L.F." Showtime
starring Savanna Samson

Executive Producer & Creator "Shooting Sizemore" VH1
starring Tom Sizemore

Executive Producer & Creator "Dead Car Walking" MTV Networks
starring The Mischief Team

Supervising Producer "Family Business" Showtime
starring Adam Glasser, Steve Forum, Lila Glasser, Corey Bishop

Supervising Producer & Writer "Degree: Road To Ironman" NBC
starring Pro Triathlete's Chris Legh, Wendy Ingraham, Lokelani McMichael

Supervising Producer "The New Tom Green Show" MTV Networks
starring Tom Green - UK/Canada 30 episode compilation versions

Supervising Producer "Duets" MTV Networks
starring Usher, B2K, Vanessa Carlton, Foxy Brown, Blink 182

Executive Producer "The Pact: A Love Story" Lifetime TV
starring Megan Mullally, Juliet Stevenson

Supervising Producer & Writer "The Skateboard Show" Warner Bros. TV
starring Tom Green, Leeann Tweeden, Tony Hawk

Executive Producer "Perfect Little Angels" The Disney Channel
starring Brendan Fehr, Cheryl Ladd, Michael York

Shari Hamrick

Shari Hamrick spent over 4 years working on film financing with German Banks and U.S . Studios, and became the Production Coordinator on 2 media funds with a combined investment ability of $122 million.

Working under the banners of Spirit Horse Productions, Alianza Films, Hammer Productions and Fang Films, she freelances as a producer, director and writer on independant projects and for certain studio clients.

Her producing team experience spans over 15 years and includes work on such films as Presumed Innocent, Flesh and Bone and The Devil's Own. She has produced over 60 hours of international award winning television. Her company has offices in 4 states and 2 countries and has provided producing support on such hits as The Patriot, Lara Croft Tomb Raider and The Interpreter and recently MI:3 in China, to name just a few.

Shari has been a hollywood "ghost" writer for over 9 years and most recently received a writer credit on The Unit. She has written, produced and sold programs to Discovery UK, BBC, ARTE, ZDF, CCTV, SBS, RAI TV, NBC Cable Networks, FOX and History Channel.

Shari currently Identifies, evaluates and negotiates the acquisition and/or production of Feature Film, Television, DVD and Video Projects for domestic and foreign markets for several studio clients. Most recently she has been the consulting producer on the recent award winning indie film, Unnoticed and has 4 films in various states of development.

Producing and Writing credits:

• Conflict (2006) (producer & contributing writer)
• "The Unit" (2006) TV Series (writer)
• "The Unit" - Eating the Young (2006) TV Episode (associate producer)
• Unnoticed (2005) (consulting producer)
• Buckle Brothers (2005) (consulting producer)
• Firedog (2005) (co-producer)
• "John Doe" - Idaho (2002) TV Episode (associate producer)
• Don't Explain (2002) (producer)
• "Operation Sethos: High Tech In the Tomb of the Pharoah" (2001) (mini) TV Series (executive producer & writer)
• Secret Tunnel Hidden Treasure (2001) (TV) (creator & executive producer)
• The Two Henrys (2000) (executive producer)
• War of China's Fate (1999) (TV) (producer)
• The Devil's Own (1997) (associate producer)
• "Koreagate" (1996) TV Series (producer)
• Flesh and Bone (1993) (associate producer)
• A Killing in a Small Town (1990) (TV) (associate producer)

BARRY FREED is the owner of THE BARRY FREED COMPANY., a management and production company in Los Angeles , CA. In October, 2004 he closed his talent and literary agency after 21 years, where he represented writers and actors for all areas of the entertainment business.

BARRY entered the agency business in 1969 with International Famous Agency which later merged with another major agency, Creative Artist Agency (CAA), which now operates under the name of International Creative Management, one of the top three talent agencies in the world. During his fourteen year tenure there, he represented many international stars in all areas of the stage and film industry while head of the West Coast Legitimate Theater department.

Some of the artists he has worked with are: REX HARRISON, GINGER ROGERS, JODI FOSTER, TELLY SAVALAS, DORIS DAY, LEE GRANT, LAINIE KAZAN, ELLIOT GOULD, EARTHA KITT, BURT LANCASTER, SHELLY WINTERS, RACHEL ROBERTS, MICHAEL RICHARDS, DONNA MILLS, VICTORIA PRINCIPAL, LLOYD BRIDGES, GEORGE HAMILTON, ED AMES, VICKI LAWRENCE, HERSCHEL BERNARDI, CARROLL BAKER, DON KNOTTS, BARRY VAN DYKE, ROCK HUDSON and BURT REYNOLDS.

Prior to his representation career, Barry, when first arriving in Los Angeles in 1966, worked as an assistant to BARBARA STREISAND and REX HARRISON. This opportunity allowed him the privilege to observe on various motion picture and TV locations. In Europe , he spent nearly a year with “A FLEA IN HER EAR” and “THE STAIRCASE.” In Los Angeles , “DOCTOR DOOLITTLE.”

In Chicago , Barry was a press agent for Balaban-Katz Theater Exhibitors for six years. He is a graduate of Roosevelt University and spent six years in the Army Reserve before starting his business career.

Jan-Bodo Bruhns

Jan-Bodo Bruhns grew up in Germany, studied communications at the Berlin Art school and came to the USA in 1994 to get an MFA at the USC Peter Stark Producing program. Here he worked as a teaching assistant and discovered a passion for the art of cinematic storytelling, as it applies to both small independent films and big Hollywood blockbusters.

Jan-Bodo then worked in development at studios and production companies in Los Angeles (i.e. Universal, Blue Tulip, Gemini Film, Studio Hamburg International Production) and as freelance story analyst (HBO Films, Dreamworks, etc.). He also taught script development at the Munich film school with his former teacher Bobette Buster and worked on various scripts - from writing adaptations, consulting on German dialogue for SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, to research and consulting on various HBO films (e.g. German subtitles for the critically acclaimed Rwanda genocide drama SOMETIMES IN APRIL).

Jan-Bodo currently works as a freelance story analyst in L.A. and has various projects in development as writer and producer. As such, he is always eager to discover new talent and work with talented up- and coming writers.

“I don’t care what genre you write in - I like many genres myself, from comedy to thriller, scifi and horror - but it has to appeal to a wide audience to be commercially viable. Many writers and executives mistake that for dumbing down a script to the least common denominator and molding it into a standard structure, but there are such things as universal topics, characters and emotions that we identify with and that is why we like movies. However, people are getting tired of the same old formulas that Hollywood serves up, unless they have some cool special effects and action scenes. Just look at the success of Judd Apatow’s comedies (KNOCKED UP, THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN), quirky independent films such as LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, or even Germany’s Oscar winner THE LIVES OF OTHERS, which has a specific German topic, but the theme of oppression and how we deal with it individually is universal.”

Education

1996 Master of Fine Arts, Peter Stark Producing Program,
USC School of Cinema-Television, Los Angeles

1994 Masters/Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts,
Hochschule der Künste Berlin (Berlin School of Arts)
Germany

Work Experience

1999-2007 Freelance Story Analyst
(HBO FILMS, BEL AIR ENT., DREAMWORKS TV, etc.)

2002-2003 STUDIO HAMBURG INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION
Story Editor
Set up and managed development office in L.A.

1998-1999 GEMINI Film Production, Cologne, Germany
Freelance Story Editor in L.A., consulting and development on various international projects (i.e. Fantasy-Drama TV Series; Thriller, Family Adventure mini-series, German MOWs)

1996-1997 BLUE TULIP PRODUCTIONS
Intern and Development Assistant
to producer Michael Peyser and director Jan De Bont

1996 MUNICH FILM SCHOOL (HFF), Germany
Assistant teacher for screenplay seminar with Bobette Buster,
co-instruction on the basics of Hollywood storytelling, coaching writers

1995/1996 USC, School of Cinema-TV
teaching assistant for two classes:
"Graduate Film Business" and
"Script Analysis for the Producer"

Development/Consulting work

2005 SOMETIMES IN APRIL, HBO Films (wr/dir: Raoul Peck)
German subtitles writer and editor for Berlin film festival

2002 SOUL OF A NATION, HBO Films (in development)
Researcher for writer Kate Lanier (Set it off, What’s Love got to do with it, etc.), research and story notes for animated drama about the history of African-American music

1999 A SORDID AFFAIR, aka THE HUSTLE (US video title),
aka DIE ABZOCKER (German TV title), story editor (uncredited development notes), Gemini Film, thriller written by David Howard and Michael Capellupo

1999 THE STAR GAME, story consultant for Fantasy Drama TV-Series, Capture Film, Los Angeles (unproduced)

1997 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
German Consultant for writer Frank Darabont on uncredited rewrite, research and German dialogue translation

Screenplays and Treatments

2005 THE OUTPOST, Scifi/Horror spec

1999 THE LETTER FOR THE KING, treatment for Adventure TV-Mini-series, adaptation of Tonke Dragt books, Gemini Film (unproduced)

1998 DIE JOURNALISTIN (The Journalist), German TV-Drama, adaptation of a H.G. Konsalik novel, Gemini Film (co-writer, unproduced)

1997 LEGENDS OF THE SEA, spec script, Action-Adventure

Carol Baum

Carol Baum is the President of Carol Baum Productions, which develops and produces motion picture projects. In June of 2007, Carol’s project You Kill Me, directed by John Dahl, was released by IFC, starring Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni and Luke Wilson. Currently, she is in post-production on Five Dollars a Day, starring Christopher Walken, Alessandro Nivola, Sharon Stone and Amanda Peet and directed by Nigel Cole. Her next picture will be John Dahl’s WORST CASE SCENARIO.

Carol is also readying GRACE with Fox 2000 and SLAMMER with MGM. SLAMMER is a comedy in a women’s prison. GRACE, written by Karen Croner, is the story of Grace Metalious, the author of PEYTON PLACE. The film will star Sandra Bullock and will be directed by Michael Mayer (SPRING AWAKENINGS).

In 2005, Baum produced Sexual Life directed by Ken Kwapis. In 2003, she produced Carolina, which was directed by Marleen Gorris (Antonia’s Line) and written by Katherine Fugate (Army Wives). The movie stars Julia Stiles, Alessandro Nivola and Shirley MacLaine. The Good Girl was released in August 2002 by Fox Searchlight to outstanding reviews and four Independent Spirit Award nominations. Directed by Miguel Arteta (Chuck And Buck) from a screenplay by Mike White (Year of the Dog), the film stars Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly, and Zooey Deschanel Paramount Classics released My First Mister in November 2001. Written by Jill Franklyn, the movie opened the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Leelee Sobieski, Albert Brooks, Carol Kane, Mary Kay Place and John Goodman. Christine Lahti, who won an Oscar for her short film, Lieberman In Love, directed.

She executive produced Snow Falling On Cedars from the best-selling book by David Gutterson. Scott Hicks (Shine) directed Ethan Hawke in Ron Bass’ adaptation. Kathleen Kennedy produced for Universal who released the film Christmas 1999. Robert Richardson, the film’s cinematographer, was nominated for an Academy Award for his work.

She teaches Script Development and Producing to graduate students at the American Film Institute Conservatory. Before that, she taught at Peter Stark Producing Program at U.S.C.’s School of Cinema.

Baum was the President of Sandollar Productions for ten years, where she produced such hits as Father Of The Bride and its sequel, in addition to the Academy Award winning HBO documentary Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt, and the quadruple Ace Award-winning HBO Showcase presentation Tidy Endings, starring Harvey Fierstein.
Her features with Sandollar include: IQ with Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau and Tim Robbins, directed by Fred Schepisi; Jacknife starring Robert DeNiro; True Identity, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Gross Anatomy, Shining Through starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith; and Straight Talk with Dolly Parton. Kicking And Screaming Noah Baumbach’s first film, which she executive produced, won rave reviews following its opening at the New York Film Festival in the fall of 1995.
Prior to joining Sandollar, Baum was executive producer of David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers. She was also a studio Vice-President at Twentieth Century Fox and Lorimar. Additionally, she developed Taylor Hackford’s An Officer And A Gentleman and David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone.
Her roots are in New York City where she spent her early career in publishing, working for both Bantam Books and Random House and scouting for the English publisher Corgi. Her first movie job was at Edgar Scherick’s company, Palomar Pictures, where she developed Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives. Also in New York, at The Producer’s Circle, she developed the film versions of two best-selling novels: Stephen King’s The Shining and Ira Levin’s The Boys From Brazil.