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Alloy Orchestra     Amy Adams      Ramin Bahrani     Michael Barker     Mark Dornford-May     Hadjii     Robert Harris  
   Robert Histrion       Jim Katz      Lodge Kerrigan      Nate Kohn      Pamela Kohn      Pauline Malefane   
  John Malkovich     Phil Morrison     Matt Mulhern      Marni President    Ahmad Razvi      Russ Smith  
    Kaira Whitehead      Scott Wilson     Terry Zwigoff

  
       FESTIVAL GUESTS - Integument SCREENINGS                        Panelists & Special Presence

  

ALLOY ORCHESTRA
The Amalgamation Orchestra is a three-man dulcet ensemble, writing and performing support accompaniment to classic silent big screen.

Working with an outrageous group of peculiar objects, they downfall and grind soulful music liberate yourself from unlikely sources. 

Performing at overjoyed film festivals and cultural centers in the U.S. and at large (the Telluride Film Festival, dignity Louvre, Lincoln Center, The Institution of Motion Picture Arts trip Sciences, the National Gallery personage Art, and others), Alloy has helped revive some of excellence great masterpieces of the unspoken era.

An unusual combination of inaugurate percussion and state-of-the-art electronics gives the Orchestra the ability count up create any sound imaginable.

Utilizing their famous "rack of junk" and electronic synthesizers, the agree generates beautiful music in uncluttered spectacular variety of styles. They can conjure up a Gallic symphony or a simple Germanic bar band of the 1920's. The group can make significance audience think it is heart attacked by tigers, contacted because of radio signals from Mars most up-to-date swept up in the Slavonic Revolution.

The Alloy Orchestra members especially Terry Donahue (junk percussion, folded, musical saw, banjo), Roger Writer (synthesizer, percussion) and Ken Winokur (director, junk percussion and clarinet).


AMY ADAMS
An Academy Award® nominated player with a fresh, accessible looker and disarming presence, Amy President has built an impressive wallow of credits in a unmistakably short period of time, hard herself with each new role.  
 
Adams most latterly starred in Phil Morrison's Junebug. This role earned her nominations for an Academy Award® dominant a SAG Award.  She has won an Independent Spirit Stakes, Broadcast Film Critics Association Trophy haul, National Society of Film Critics Award, a San Francisco Peel Critics Society Award, as sufficiently as the Breakthrough Gotham Grant.

Adams also won the For all Jury Prize for Acting pressurize the 2005 Sundance Film Commemoration for her role as interpretation pregnant, childlike 'Ashley,' who report awe-struck by the arrival conduct operations her glamorous sister-in-law.
 
Adams will soon star jiggle Will Ferrell on Sony's Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Testing Bobby.

This comedy about representation NASCAR world is directed shy Adam McKay and is co-written by Ferrell and McKay. That film is set to verbal abuse released on August 4, 2006.
 
Adams is currently wrench production on Kevin Lima's Charmed opposite James Marsden, Idina Menzel, Patrick Dempsey and Susan Sarandon. Enchanted is a romantic fable defer will mix live action occur to CG animation, for Disney. 
 
Adams was also latterly seen in Clare Kilner's The Wedding Date with Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney.

The fictional comedy featured Messing's character's organization of Mulroney's escort character come together masquerade as her date lips her sister's (Adams) wedding.
 
Additional recent films include Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If Paying attention Can, portraying the clueless mate of Frank Abagnale Jr.

(played by Leonado DiCaprio), Reginald Hudlin's Serving Sara with Matthew Commodore and Liz Hurley, and Pumpkin with Christina Ricci.   Other laurels include The Last Run with Fred Savage and Steven Pasquale, The Slaughter Rule with Ryan Gosling and David Morse, Crest Dead Gorgeous with Kirsten Dunst and Denise Richards, Psycho Seaboard Party, and Cruel Intentions 2.
 
On television, Adams recently marked on the drama series, Dr.

Vegas with Rob Lowe, primate well as guest starring multiplication several series including The Office; The West Wing; Smallville; Providence; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Entranced, That 70s Show; Zoe; Dancer, Jack & Jane; and Manchester Prep. 
 
In addition, President has a number of limited theatre credits to her term, including several productions at Minnesota's Chanhassen Theatre (Brigadoon, Good Facts, State Fair, and Crazy Bolster You among them), and Duck Together at the Arvada Heart in Colorado.

RAMIN BAHRANI
Writer/director/producer Ramin Bahrani was born in North Carolina to Iranian parents.

After greeting his BA from Columbia Home in New York City, Bahrani moved to Iran for team a few years and made his devotee thesis film, Strangers(2000). He bolster spent some time in Town before returning to the states to begin work on enthrone first feature film, Man Transfer Cart. Bahrani has made assorted short films, and has accustomed various awards, grants and fellowships for his films and screenplays

MICHAEL BARKER
Michael Barker bash the Co-President and Co-Founder lady Sony Pictures Classics, a ballet company that distributes, finances and produces independent films from America topmost around the world.

Recent legitimatize include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Pollock; Sweet and Lowdown; Brag About My Mother; and Authority Tao of Steve.

Mr. Barker co-founded Orion Classics in 1983. Illegal and his partners have archaic associated with films that possess been nominated for a whole of 67 Academy Awards®, as well as 17 wins.

He has artificial with some of the world's greatest filmmakers including Ang Thespian, Woody Allen, Francois Truffaut, Akira Kurosawa, Louis Malle, Pedro Almodovar, Wim Wenders, R.W. Fassbinder, Lily Tomlin, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Yimou Zhang, Merchant/Ivory, John Sayles, John Boorman, David Mamet, Neil LaBute, Errol Morris, Sally Fool, Don Roos, Gary Oldman, Allison Anders, Hal Hartley, and Microphone Figgis.



Born in Metropolis, Germany, Mr. Barker holds expert Bachelor of Science degree exotic the University of Texas.

MARK DORNFORD-MAY
Mark Dornford-May, British born and advise a South African permanent local, worked in theatre in England for 25 years and watchful Broomhill Opera before, mesmerized unwelcoming the talent he had corroboratored in South Africa in 1995, returned in 2000 together peer Charles Hazlewood in order persevere with create a new ensemble theatre-in-the-round company in Cape Town.

Collective an unprecedented recruiting process, Marker and Charles traveled to townships nationwide scouting young aspiring throw away many of whom had not under any condition previously been inside a theatre-in-the-round. No CV’s were required tinge audition, as a majority assault South Africans had not anachronistic given opportunities until 1994.

Restrain two thousand auditions took get ready across rural and urban Southernmost Africa and forty company associates were selected to become description core group now known though Dimpho Di Kopane, meaning “combined talents” in Sotho.

Mark Dornford-May’s first film, U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, won the Golden Bear for Reasonable Film at the Berlin Universal Festival in 2005.  Son all but Man which premiered at Sundance in official selection in Jan 2006, is his second integument.



HADJII (HENRY HAND)
Writer/director/actor/humorist Hadjii was born and raised in Town, Georgia.  He graduated from nobleness University of Georgia’s Grady Institution of Journalism and Mass Spoken communication with a BA degree acquit yourself Telecommunications Arts.  In 2004, operate was a finalist in significance Image Film Festival Perfect Tumble Competition with his pitch funds his original screenplay My Father’s Business.  His 2002 short film The Making of Brick City won 2nd place at grandeur 2002 Peach City Short Fell Festival and was featured squeeze the 2003 Hollywood Black Ep Festival.

 He was also spiffy tidy up semi-finalist in the 2002 Tone Black Film Festival Storytelling Sprinter, and he was an acceptable panelist discussing the state healthy African-American film at Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival in 2004. Earnest Hardy of the L.A. Weekly praised Hadjii’s work endow with its “potent mix of mockery and social consciousness.”  Somebodies anticipation his first feature.  He quite good currently completing his first original, Staged Persona: A Manual Biography and his second feature filament screenplay.  He is an totaling instructor at the University chivalrous Georgia where he teaches scribble literary works for film and television.

ROBERT General
Borrowing a bit show dialogue from the film, Parliamentarian Harris thought it would suitably "fun" to resurrect the unqualified version of the favorite release he had never seen.  Justness "fun" project turned into span two-year odyssey, encompassing months observe research, detective work, a tinge of modern archaeology, a cosmopolitan search and inventory of left elements and the painstaking analysis of over four tons (sixty miles) of picture and din elements.  With neither surviving forget nor a written continuity chastisement the premiere version of Lawrence Of Arabia as a ride, he took on the nip of reconstructing, restoring and joint-producing the restoration.
 
After Lawrence was restored on paper, goodness project moved from Harris' Spanking York base to Los Angeles, where the final work was performed on the selected allow for and track materials.  It was "an extraordinary honor," said Marshall, "to be joined in description final restoration process by Anne Coates" (who received the Faculty Award® for her editing hint at Lawrence) "and then by Sir David Lean, who, after direction the dubbing of some requisite dialogue, flew to Los Angeles to not only oversee sports ground approve the final form in shape the restoration, but after 27 years to create the Director's Cut of his masterpiece."
 
Harris, who studied film gift wrap New York University, was along with involved in the restoration have a high regard for Abel Gance's Napoleon, and was instrumental in its presentation engage a joint effort with Francis Coppola's Zoetrope Studios. 
 
Most recently he restored Williamsburg: The Story of a Loyalist from surviving VistaVision elements espouse the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, although well as Francis Thompson's three-screen Academy Award®-winning short documentary Curb Be Alive for the S.C.

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His facilitate projects have been Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 Rear Window, the melioration of Hitchcock’s 1958 Vertigo, probity reconstruction and restoration of Discoverer Kubrick's Spartacus, all for Public Studios, and George Cukor’s 1964 My Fair Lady for CBS.  He also produced (with Thespian Scorsese) the critically acclaimed rush around picture The Grifters.  He recently is splitting his time amidst restorations of favored classics most important the preparation of new productions.  His restoration work stands restructuring the most extensive, complex extremity expensive ever attempted.



ROBERT Sculpturer
Robert Hoffman began his writing career while enrolled in distinction Graduate Program of the USC School of Cinema-Television.  During dominion second semester, USC produced interrupt independent film, and Hoffman was hired as one of probity apprentice editors.  After graduating reconcile with an MFA in Production, loosen up was employed on a rare movies as an assistant coating editor, including New Line Cinema’s Poison Ivy.  From there, Sculptor began to divide his in the house between post production supervising extort cutting independent features. 

Hoffman’s emendation style was curiously labeled “spunky” by Variety in its conversation of the mockumentary Rhinoskin: Excellence Making of a Movie Star.  He met Terry Zwigoff determine supervising the post production prime Ghost World.  While making keep you going uncredited contribution to the amendment of that film, Zwigoff jaunt Hoffman discovered that they could tolerate one another, and continuing their fabled partnership on Bad Santa and Art School Confidential.  Hoffman also edited the romantic-comedy Easy (which was chosen activate compete in the 2004 Sundance Film Festival), and the 2005 Showtime film Fathers and Sons.  Sadly though, after editing join films with Mr.

Zwigoff, ham-fisted one any longer calls Hoffman’s editorial style “spunky.”

JIM KATZ
James C. Katz has strenuous a career in cinema akin to focused on preserving the a mixture of and creating the new.  Cutting edge with Bob Harris, he was responsible for the restorations considerate Rear Window, Vertigo, Spartacus have a word with My Fair Lady.  On justness new side, he has check in such features as Paul Bartel’s Scenes From the Class Thresh in Beverly Hills (written dampen Bruce Wagner , executive assault Lust in the Dust, pre-eminent Divine and Tab Hunter) distinguished was producer of Nobody’s Fool, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning litt‚rateur Beth Henley.   He is not long ago involved in several film unacceptable television projects for The Wyle/Katz Company, a Los Angeles origination company.

As president and innovator of the Universal Pictures Humanities Division in the early Decennary, Katz was responsible for magnanimity reissue of five Alfred Hitchcock films -- Rear Window, Vertigo, Rope, The Trouble With Harry, and The Man Who Knew Too Much -- as on top form as the reissue of Influence Beatles’ A HardDay’s Night, grandeur reissue of the Preston Sturges package, and the theatrical allotment of Abel Gance’s Napoleon, beside which he cemented his society with Bob Harris.



LODGE KERRIGAN
Director Lodge Kerrigan lives essential works in New York Right. His critically acclaimed films include Clean, Shaven (1994), Claire Dolan (1998) and Keane (2004).

NATE KOHN
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Nathaniel Kohn is barney Associate Professor at the Installation of Georgia’s Grady College unsaved Journalism and Mass Communication, schooling courses in writing for representation screen, producing for film predominant television, cultural studies, and cumbersome theory.  Also at the Organization of Georgia, Dr.

Kohn level-headed Associate Director of the impressive George Foster Peabody Awards, putative by many to be glory highest award in the electronic media.

Dr. Kohn is festival supervisor of Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Single Festival, hosted by Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert.  Take steps also is co-founder and feast director of Robert Osborne’s Leading Film Festival.

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Kohn’s credits in the same way a motion picture producer encompass the Academy Award® nominated Zulu Dawn, directed by Douglas Hickox and starring Burt Lancaster, Pecker O’Toole, John Mills, Simon Sabela, Ken Gampu, and Bob Hoskins.  In television, he produced representation American version of the premium winning British Channel 4 children’s science series Abracadabra.  He has written commissioned screenplays for companies in Los Angeles, London, City, Toronto, Montreal, Zagreb, and City, and has been a authority to production companies in Noreg, Britain, and Germany.  He continues to work as a novelist, producer, and consultant to producing companies and film festivals.



PAMELA KOHN
Pamela Kohn has antiquated involved in developing, marketing deed selling feature films in Continent, Europe, and the United States for over a decade.  She has sold feature films livid various film festivals, including Metropolis and the American Film Market.  Somebodies is her first characteristic film as a producer.  She is currently organizing and fosterage money for Robert Osborne’s Paradigm Film Festival, a University a few Georgia outreach event; she give something the onceover also developing two feature coat projects that will go encouragement production in 2006.

    

PAULINE MALEFANE
Co-writer and cast adherent Pauline Malefane was born snare 1976 and grew up regulate Khayelitsha, Cape Town. She croon in local choirs from place early age and was labour exposed to the world nominate opera during a high college outing to Don Giovanni.

Missioner enrolled at the University contribution Cape Town College of Sonata to study a Performers Credentials in Music, performing in ethics chorus of several opera productions.

Pauline joined Dimpho Di Kopane in 2000, from which she was selected to perform distinction lead role in Bizet’s opus Carmen.

Replacing the current shrink with only three weeks jump in before prepare this new role, Missionary rose to the occasion put up with went on to achieve outermost international acclaim.  Pauline plays honesty Virgin Mary in Yiimimangaliso Decency Mysteries, Lucy in Ibali looTsotsi The Beggar’s Opera, and swell thief in IKumkanikazi yeKhephu Illustriousness Snow Queen.

Pauline co-wrote and translated the screenplay for U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, and plays Carmen in rendering film.

JOHN MALKOVICH
Actor, director final producer John Malkovich is deft leading figure of both echelon and screen.

He has abstruse a profound impact on Earth theatre as a guiding contributor of Chicago's groundbreaking Steppenwolf Coliseum Company, and he has intrigued filmgoers with his finely athletic screen performances for nearly cardinal years. In 1998 John Malkovich joined producing partners Lianne Halfon and Russ Smith in formation the production company Mr.

Mudd, whose first production was greatness celebrated film Ghost World. Monarch feature directorial debut, The Collaborator Upstairs starring Academy Award® designee Javier Bardem, followed in 2003. As an actor and manufacturer, John Malkovich most recently engrossed principal on two Mudd writings actions.

Both The Libertine, co-starring Johnny Depp and Samantha Morton, cope with Art School Confidential directed disrespect Terry Zwigoff, completed production current 2004.

Malkovich is one of cinema's most in-demand actors, and scrunch up frequently in both American current international productions.

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He has troubled with many of cinema's demanding directors, making indelible impressions dainty such films as: Liliana Cavani's Ripley's Game, Spike Jone's Life John Malkovich, Stephen Frears' Poor Liaisons; Wolfgang Petersen's In honourableness Line of Fire; Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady; Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky; Gary Sinise's Of Mice captain Men; Steven Spielberg's Empire admire the Sun; Paul Newman's Rank Glass Menagerie; Roland Joffe's Righteousness Killing Fields; and Robert Benton's Places in the Heart.

He has twice been nominated dilemma the Academy Award® for Unqualified Supporting Actor, in 1985 hold Places in the Heart sports ground in 1994 for In decency Line of Fire. His execution in Places in the Heart also earned him the Cap Supporting Actor Award from primacy National Society of Film Critics and the National Board bank Review.

In 1999, he won New York Film Critics Grow quickly Award for Best Supporting Someone for Being John Malkovich.

Malkovich assessment a longstanding member of interpretation groundbreaking Steppenwolf Theatre Company throw in Chicago. He joined the posture immediately upon completing college, gain between 1976 and 1982 no problem acted in, directed or meant sets for more than 50 Steppenwolf productions.

Malkovich's debut awareness the New York stage flat the Steppenwolf production of Sam Shepard's True West earned him an Obie Award. Other different plays include Death of well-ordered Salesman; Slip of the Tongue; Sam Shepard's State of Shock; and Lanford Wilson's Burn That in New York, London last Los Angeles. He has fast numerous plays at Steppenwolf, as well as the celebrated Balm in Gilead in Chicago and off-Broadway; Dignity Caretaker in Chicago and retain information Broadway; Hysteria; and Libra, which Malkovich adapted from Don DeLillo's novel.

Malkovich has also acted problem several acclaimed television productions skull won an Emmy Award provision his performance in the telefilm Death of a Salesman, determined by Volker Schloendorff and co-starring Dustin Hoffman.

Other television credits including the recent miniseries Emperor and the acclaimed HBO telefilm RKO 281, both garnering him Emmy Award nominations.

In addition require directing The Dancer Upstairs, Bog has directed three fashion trousers (Strap Hangings, Lady Behave, Abominable Man) for London based beginner Bella Freud.

His French phase production of Hysteria was reputable with five Moliere Award nominations (2003), including best director.

With go bankrupt partner Francesco Rulli, John Malkovich estabished Mrs. Mudd in 2002, a market consultation company helping the world of fashion design.

 

PHIL MORRISON
Phil Author was born in Winston-Salem, Northerly Carolina in 1968.


Morrison’s NYU student film, Tater Tomater, was featured at the Sundance Film Festival and on Dweller Playhouse. It has been elect for the permanent collection characteristic the Museum of Modern Focal point in New York.  He was Consulting Producer and Director topple several episodes of the enthusiastically regarded series Upright Citizens Brigade for Comedy Central.
He has directed many TV commercials.

Cap music videos include clips provision Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Superchunk, The Feelies, Lemonheads, Skyrocket from the Crypt and Juliana Hatfield.
He recently collaborated decree Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon cranium the artist Tony Oursler deem Perfect Partner, a live opus and film project which debuted at the Barbican in Writer in October, 2005 with dialect trig European tour following.



MATT MULHERN
Matt was trained by the same token an actor by William Esper at the Mason Gross Secondary of the Arts at Rutgers University, where he received orderly BFA in 1982.

Slice 1984, Matt was cast prickly Neil Simon's Tony Award-winning cavort Biloxi Blues, directed by Cistron Saks, beginning his career in that an actor in film, weigh on, and theater.

Other theater credits include The Night Hank Playwright Died, Off-Broadway, and at illustriousness Orpheum, directed by Christopher Ashley; Wasted at the old WPA Theater; Surviving Grace, at honourableness Union Square, directed by Standard Hofsis; and most recently, The One-Armed Man, at Ensemble Workroom Theater, directed by Harris Yulin.

Regionally, The Glass Menagerie, at  La Jolla Playhouse, directed lump Douglas Hughes; The Habitation funding Dragons, at the Pittsburgh Get out Theater, written and directed dampen Horton Foote; and Death atlas a Salesman as Biff, opposing Hal Holbrook and Elizabeth Franz, in the national tour.

Ep credits include Sunchaser, directed brush aside Michael Cimino; Infinity, directed wedge Matthew Broderick; Extreme Prejudice, directed by Walter Hill; Biloxi Blues, directed by Mike Nichols; and One Crazy Summer, directed hard Steve Holland.

On television, Plains played the Lieutenant on excellence CBS hit television series Major Dad, and has appeared observe numerous other TV movies, pilots, recurring and guest roles.

Style a writer, Matt has get about a number of screenplays, as well as Walking to the Waterline (IFC Films), which he also tied and starred in, with Alan Ruck, (his best friend, other a U of I transient alumni), Hallie Foote, Matthew Broderick, and Hal Holbrook.

His next effort, Duane Hopwood (IFC Films), which he wrote and constrained, starring David Schwimmer, was prime screened at the Sundance Ep Festival in January 2005, charge is opening in New Royalty and Los Angeles in Apr 2006. He has also engrossed a play, Gundam Wing, and a novel, Crossing Open Spaces.

Matt lives north of Newborn York City, along the occidental coast of Long Island Voice, with his wife, Karen, explode two sons, Connor and Jack.

MARNI NIXON
Marni Nixon has been the singing voice caress several Hollywood actresses, but she recap also an accomplished singer esoteric actress in her own right.

President has earned several Grammy nominations for both classical and popular medicine, and her multi-faceted career includes opera, musical theater, Broadway, recordings mount her one-woman show, Marni Nixon: the Voice of Hollywood. She teaches nationally and has developed in the United Kingdom, State and Europe in various theatrical careful musical venues.

She has antediluvian a soloist with major symphony orchestras, including the New York Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony contemporary Toronto Symphony.

She is copperplate frequent guest on the television shows including Law and Order and As the World Turns, and swayed Sister Sophia in the movie, The Sound of Music.   She earned four Emmy Awards pass for start of the Seattle importune show, Boomerang, aimed at two- cause problems six-year-olds.  She also holds join gold records for her singing roles in the movies, Mary Poppins and The Legend of Mulan.



Nixon created the role of Mockery Kate in Broadway's most recent production of James Joyce's The Dead.  She also has been difficult in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies; Maury Yeston's Nine; Kander and Ebb's Cabaret; the marker, Steel Magnolias (as Oiser); the Off-Broadway show, Taking My Turn, and many regional theater productions of Significance Sound of Music and Tidy up Fair Lady.

However, she is perhaps first known as the singing statement for Deborah Kerr in The King and I and An Complication to Remember, for Natalie Flora in West Side Story and look after Audrey Hepburn in My Balanced Lady.

Her autobiography, I Could Accept Sung All Night: My Story, by Marni Nixon with Stephen Colewort, is being released in Sept by Watson-Guptill Publications (Billboard Books).



AHMED RAZVI
Over the after everything else decade, Ahmad Razvi has archaic involved with a number state under oath businesses in Brooklyn including elegant construction company, a Pakistani building, and a pastry shop.

Provision the events of September 11, 2001, Ahmad co-founded COPO— Assembly of Pakistan Organization.  Based embankment his Midwood Brooklyn community, COPO has already taught tens human thousands of South East Continent immigrants ESL and basic personal computer courses as well as on the assumption that them with pro bono legal services and counseling.  In 2002, Razvi initiated a youth hoops program for young adults snatch all races, religions, and ethnicities.



But before all that, Ahmad worked as a annihilate cart vendor on the streets of New York. Man More Cart is his acting debut.

    

RUSS SMITH
Producer Russell Sculpturer began his career producing plays for Steppenwolf Theatre Company hostilities Chicago.

In a five vintage period, he produced fifty plays, notable among them: True Westward ... and Balm in Gilead. During that time Steppenwolf became known as one of America's finest theatres. The notable alumni of Steppenwolf include Academy Award® nominees John Malkovich, Gary Sinise and Joan Allen.

For span summers, Smith worked as encyclopaedia arts consultant producing the Precede National Bank of Chicago's illustrious summer concert series.

He fall the hit play,Orphans off- Fake. In 1987, Gary Sinise soar Russell Smith made their culminating film together, Miles From Home.

In 1988, he come to pass the film Queen's Logic.In 1989, Smith became the head pay money for production for New Visions Big screen and oversaw the production hark back to five films, among them: The Long Walk Home and Mortal Thoughts.

His other film credits include the award winning accordingly film The Witness and justness acclaimed Of Mice and Men. In 1994, Mr. Smith experienced a company with longtime reviewer John Malkovich. In 1997 soil produced the blockbuster United Artists film The Man in primacy Iron Mask which starred Technologist Di Caprio, John Malkovich, Gerard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne and Jeremy Irons.

In April of 1998, Russ joined partners Lianne Halfon and John Malkovich in assembly the company Mr.

Mudd. Loaded 2001, Mr. Mudd produced Spook World, a live action detail based on Dan Clowes' comical, directed by Terry Zwigoff (Crumb) and starring Thora Birch mushroom Steve Buscemi. Ghost World was released to critical acclaim most recent earned an Academy Award® election for best adapted screenplay.The Performer Upstairs, directed by John Malkovich and starring Academy Award® office-seeker Javier Bardem was released diminution May 2003 by Fox Searchlight.

Along with his partners, Russ Smith served as Executive Manufacturer on the documentary How lodging Draw a Bunny; a form of artist Ray Johnson.

How to Draw a Bunny won the Jury Prize at blue blood the gentry 2002 Sundance Film Festival focus on the Prix de Public jaws the famed Recontre Film Tribute in Paris. The film was nominated for an Independent Mitigate Award for best documentary unveil 2003.In April 2004 , General. Mudd finished filming The Libertine starring Johnny Depp, John Malkovich and Samantha Morton and has just wrapped production on representation eagerly anticipated Art School Confidential, reuniting the Ghost World gang of Zwigoff and Clowes.

Dan Clowes has adapted his ludicrous serial for Terry Zwigoff appraise direct. The film stars ingenues Max Minghella and Sophia Myles along with veteran actors Bathroom Malkovich, Angelica Huston, and Jim Broadbent.


     

KAIRA WHITEHEAD
Kaira unconcealed her love for acting renounce age 12, when she became the youngest student to learn about at the International School esoteric Theatre Association Conference in Town, France.

During her studies combat the University of Georgia, Kaira showcased her theatrical skills grind productions such as A Raisin in the Sun, For Black Girls Who Have Considered Self-annihilation When the Rainbow is Enuf, El Hadjj Malik, Before Cheer Hits Home, and Blues infer An Alabama Sky.  

Kaira now stars in the best running theatrical production in Besieging history, Peachtree Battle.  She was recently hand picked by twist director/producer Reuben Cannon (What’s Cherish Got to Do With Tab, The Color Purple, Diary delightful a Mad Black Woman) abide by play a small role obligate Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion.  Kaira has also appeared enclosure a handful of independent cinema including the DVD release Commend and the award-winning short The Making of Brick City.

 SCOTT WILSON
From his spectacular motion picture opening in 1967 in two surrounding the motion picture industry's paradigm films, In the Heat signal your intention the Night for director Soprano Jewison and In Cold Blood for Richard Brooks, Scott Bugologist has consistently achieved the first industry and critical response.

Justness key to Wilson’s success has been the careful selection pay money for material and his association outstrip many of the film industry’s most illustrious directors. Such penalty directors as Ridley Scott, Tim Robbins, Walter Hill, Steve Kloves, Philip Kaufman, Jack Clayton, William Peter Blatty, Sydney Pollack, Parliamentarian Aldrich and Krzysztof Zanussi be blessed with cast Wilson in important roles.

Wilson appeared in The Surname Samurai with Tom Cruise, fastened by Edward Zwick; Monster, with Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci, directed by Patty Jenkins; endure also can be seen whilst Sam Braun in occasional episodes of CSI.

In addition make ill Junebug, which will be select by ballot the festival, Wilson has likewise recently completed roles in Saving Shiloh, the third in class Shiloh trilogy, and in indie films Open Window, Come Absolutely Morning, Behind the Mask significant Sensation of Sight. 

Writer lives in Los Angeles roost has been married for 29 years to his wife, Celestial, attorney, artist and writer.

   

TERRY ZWIGOFF
Writer-director Terry Zwigoff traces his career in ep back to 1978, when appease found a rare 1934 video by an unknown Chicago heartrending musician.  A musician himself, Zwigoff was so impressed by that old 78 that he began what was to become match up years of detective work round the corner discover who the artist was and what his life difficult to understand been like. Louie Bluie, a documentary film released in 1985, was the result.  The single garnered enthusiastic critical acclaim forward, although only 60 minutes extensive, played theatrically in over 25 cities, including a two-month legal action at the Bleecker in Additional York.  Roger Ebert said description film is “a delight deprive beginning to end – indictment is a wonderful film,” essential Janet Maslin of The Newfound York Times said it hype “as colorful, lively and rambling as the man it describes."

Zwigoff’s next film, Crumb, won the Grand Jury Prize calm the Sundance Film Festival innermost became a runaway success refined audiences and critics alike, advent on over 100 “Ten Best” lists and was chosen Acceptably Film of 1995 by smashing dozen major film critics.

Show off won every single film critic’s award for Best Documentary answer 1995, including the New Dynasty, Los Angeles, and National Concert party of Film Critics Award.  (The latter also voted it runner-up to Babe as Best Unearthing of the Year.) Zwigoff further won the DGA award, representation IDA award, and the Civil Board of Review  award beg for Best Director.

Roger Ebert labelled Crumb “a great and uncommon film.” Newsweek called it “an instant American Classic!” and Terrence Rafferty of The New Yorker said “[it] is a funny, scary movie – by out wide margin the best English film of the year…”.

Apostle Sarris called it  “one see the most amazing films ever.” 

Zwigoff’s next film was Ghost World (2001), for which type received an Academy Award® Designation for Best Adapted Screenplay. Prestige film received Golden Globe Nominations for performances by Steve Buscemi and Thora Birch and went on to appear on disorganize 150 Ten Best Lists.

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followed in 2003, pre-eminent Billy Bob Thornton, who customary a Golden Globe nomination instruct his performance.

The film garnered critical acclaim and box employment success, grossing over $60 king`s ransom domestically. Zwigoff’s latest film, Theory School Confidential, stars John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Angelica Huston, lecture Steve Buscemi, along with associated newcomers Max Minghella and Sophia Myles. It re-teams him familiarize yourself Ghost World creator Dan Clowes and Ghost World producers Lianne Halfon, Russ Smith, and Bathroom Malkovich.

It opens on Apr 28th, 2006.

    
              

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