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Jackson received acclaim for his 1994 feature Heavenly Creatures, which was awarded a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay. Other film credits include The Frighteners, puppet feature Meet the Feebles and Braindead. Jackson also co-directed the television documentary "Forgotten Silver".  Barrie M. Osborne's producing credits include the worldwide box office blockbuster The Matrix, John Woo's Face/Off and China Moon. He also executive produced The Fan, Dick Tracy, Child's Play, Wilder Napalm, and Rapa Nui. A native New Yorker, Osborne began his career working under the tutelage of such directors as Francis Ford Coppola, Alan Pakula and Sydney Pollack. He subsequently worked on The Godfather Part II, Three Days of the Condor, All the President's Men, Apocalypse Now, The Big Chill, King of Comedy and The Cotton Club. During a two-year tenure as Vice President for Feature Production at Walt Disney Pictures, Osborne also oversaw such features as The Color of Money, Tin Men, Three Men and A Baby, Roger Rabbit and Good Morning Vietnam. Click here for to view an interview with Barrie M. Osborne.  Fran Walsh garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay for the feature Heavenly Creatures, which she co-wrote with Peter Jackson. Other writing credits co-written with Jackson include Forgotten Silver, The Frighteners, Meet the Feebles and Braindead. Walsh, who has a background in music, began her writing career soon after leaving Victoria University where she majored in English Literature.  Producer Tim Sanders co-produced The Frighteners for director Peter Jackson. His diverse film credits include Aberration, Reckless Kelly, Til There was You and Razorback. He also worked on The Year of Living Dangerously, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Gallipoli and The Survivor. Sanders's television credits include "Shortland Street", "Marlin Bay", "Plainclothes", "Return to Eden" and "Fallout"; he also worked on the series "White Fang", "Which Way Home" and "A Dangerous Life" and the telefilm "Angel in Green" and "Iran". Sanders has served as Head of Production at South Pacific Pictures, New Zealand and Producer of Film and Television Development at Communicado, New Zealand.  Prior to making her debut as a screenwriter with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Philippa Boyens worked in theatre as a playwright, teacher, producer and editor. Boyens moved to film via a stint as Director of the New Zealand Writers Guild. A fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's work since the age of eleven, Boyens was recently named by Variety magazine in their list of Ten Writers to Watch and along with Walsh and Jackson, has begun work on their next project.  Sinclair, one of New Zealand's most successful playwrights and screenwriters, has had a long screenwriting partnership with Academy Award nominees Peter Jackson and Frances Walsh (Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners), most recently including The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. In 1990, he co-scripted the feature film Meet the Feebles, and in 1991, Braindead (aka Dead Alive), which subsequently won Best Screenplay at the 1993 New Zealand Film and Television Awards. In April of 2002, Sinclair directed his short film The Bach, a twelve-minute comedy thriller set in the Coromandel. For the stage, Sinclair co-wrote (with Danny Mulheron) "The Sex Fiend," which premiered at Bats Theatre in 1989, went on to play return seasons in all the main centers, and continues to be performed by repertory companies around the country. It has also been produced in Australia, most recently in December of last year. "Ladies Night" (co-written with Anthony McCarten) has enjoyed international success with recent productions in Australia, Great Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Finland, Austria, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Puerto Rico and Canada. Last year in France it won the Moliere Award for the Best Stage Comedy for 2001 and it has currently become a hit in Moscow. Sinclair began his career as writer and director for the Maori and Pacific Island Theatre Group, Taotahi, which he co-founded. His several years with the group culminated with the production of "Le Matau," the first play to deal with the Pacific Island experience in New Zealand. Other plays include "Caramel Cream," "Blowing It" (co-written with Stephen Papps), and the musicals "Big Bickies" and "Braindead." In June of 2002 his historical drama "The Bellbird" was produced as a main bill for the Auckland Theatre Company. Peter Calder of the NZ Listener called it "a play of heart and soul and a valuable addition to our literature." Sinclair's one-hour television comedy Love Mussel, starring the late Kevin Smith, screened in July of last year. The NZ Listener cited it as the best one-hour television comedy-drama for 2001. His first novel, the children's book, Thief of Colours, was published by Penguin Books in 1995. His first adult novel, entitled Dread, published in July 2000, was described in the review in the New Zealand Listener as "an impressive debut." His collection of poetry, The Dwarf and the Stripper, will be published early in 2003. A recent article in the Auckland Metro referred to Sinclair as "New Zealand's finest comic writer."  Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne are Co-Chairmen and Co-Chief Executive Officers of New Line Cinema Corporation. They have guided New Line's growth from a privately held distributor of art films to one of the entertainment industry's leading independent motion picture production and distribution companies. New Line has released such blockbusters as the Rush Hour and Austin Powers franchises, as well as Wag the Dog, Boogie Nights, The Wedding Singer, Dumb and Dumber, The Mask and Seven. The company's specialty division, Fine Line Features, has released such acclaimed films as the Academy Award-nominated Shine, Dancer in the Dark, The Anniversary Party and The Sweet Hereafter.  Mark Ordesky began his tenure as the head of Fine Line Features in 1997, becoming one of the youngest executives in Hollywood to head a motion picture company. Since that time, Fine Line has established on-going relationships with such directors as Bernardo Bertolucci, Lars Von Trier, David Mamet and emerging talent such as Sundance winner Gavin O'Connor. Ordesky has acquired such films as Shine, Saving Grace, Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged, Before Night Falls, Tumbleweeds, and The Sweet Hereafter. Fine Line's recent slate includes David Mamet's State and Main and Lars Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark. Click here for to view an interview with Mark Ordesky.  New Yorkers Bob and Harvey Weinstein are Co-Chairmen of Miramax Films, founded in 1979. Miramax and Dimension Films have released some of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful independent feature films of the past decade, including Chocolat, Shakespeare in Love, Life is Beautiful (La Vita E Bella), Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, The English Patient, Scream, The Crying Game, The Piano, Cinema Paradiso, My Left Foot, Sling Blade and Farewell My Concubine, among others. These films and others have received 134 Academy Award nominations and 40 wins in the past 11 years.  Andrew Lesnie held the Australian Cinematographers Society's coveted Milli Award for 1995 and 1996. Most recently, he won the 1997 Australian Film Institute Award for best cinematography and a 1997 A.C.S. gold award for Doing Time for Patsy Cline. He won the 1996 A.C.S. Golden Tripod Award for Babe, in 1995 for Temptation of a Monk, and in 1994 for Spider and Rose. His other feature credits include Two if by Sea, The Sugar Factory, Fatal Past, The Delinquents, Dark Age, Boys in the Island, Daydream Believer and Unfinished Business. Television credits include "The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy", "Melba" and "Cyclone Tracy".  Richard Taylor and his special effects company WETA Ltd have provided effects for Peter Jackson on The Frighteners, Heavenly Creatures, Braindead, Meet the Feebles and the television documentary "Forgotten Silver". Other feature credits include Heaven, The Ugly and Once Were Warriors, and the television series "Hercules", "Xena: Warrior Princess", "Young Hercules" and "The Tommyknockers". Taylor and his partner, Tania Rodger, have received numerous international awards including a Saturn Award nomination for The Frighteners, Best Special Effects Awards for Braindead at Stiges Festival (Spain), Avoriaz Festival (France), Portuguese Film Festival, Silver Scream Award (Holland), as well as New Zealand Film Awards for Braindead, Heavenly Creatures, "Forgotten Silver" and The Ugly. Click here for to view an interview with Richard Taylor.  Grant Major received a New Zealand Film and Television award for Best Design for Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures in 1995, and another for The Ugly in 1997. Other credits include The Frighteners, Memory and Desire, Jack be Nimble, An Angel at my Table and Other Halves. Television credits include the telefilms "Hercules", "The Chosen" and "The Grasscutter", the series "Hanlon", as well as commercials and news programs. Major's background ranges from production design for the Commonwealth Games ceremonies to designer for the New Zealand Pavilions at the World Expos in Australia and Spain.  Michael Horton is a 30-year veteran of the New Zealand film industry. He has cut over two dozen films and hundreds of commercials. Some of the films he has edited include Smash Palace for director Roger Donaldson; The Quiet Earth for Geoff Murphy; Cinema of Unease for Sam Neill, and 'Once Were Warriors' for Lee Tamahori. He shares a common interest with Peter Jackson in Goat Husbandry.  John Gilbert has been involved in the post production of over 20 feature films. His editorial credits include Crush, Via Satellite, Punitive Damage and associate editor on Peter Jackson's The Frighteners. He also produced the short film Willy Nilly. As a freelance assistant editor and sound editor, Gilbert edited short films, documentaries, and television dramas including The Lounge Bar, Jean Batten - Garbo of the Skies, "Street Legal", The Chosen and "Coverstory".  Rick Porras associate produced Contact and previously worked with Peter Jackson as post production supervisor on The Frighteners. After graduating from Stanford University, Porras worked as a buyer for Filmline International, before joining Robert Zemeckis Productions. His credits include The Public Eye, Death Becomes Her and Forrest Gump. He was also post production consultant on Tales From The Crypt: You Murderer and to the South-Side Amusement Co.  Jamie Selkirk previously collaborated with Peter Jackson as editor, sound editor and post production supervisor for Bad Taste, Meet The Feebles and Heavenly Creatures, as associate producer and editor on Braindead and producer and editor on The Frighteners. Other credits include Jack Brown Genius, Battletruck, The Scarecrow and The Silent One. Selkirk's career in editing started at the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, where he began cutting newsreels, current affairs, documentaries and dramas. Through his own post production company, Mr. Chopper, Selkirk has worked on a variety of productions and television commercials.  Ellen M. Somers was Producer/Supervisor on What Dreams May Come. Prior to this, she was Vice President of Production-Digital Studios at Warner Bros, whose Warner Digital Studios produced visual effects for such movies as Eraser, Mars Attacks and Batman & Robin, while producing stunning effects for the advertising community. As Head of Production for the critically acclaimed Boss Film Studios, Somers production supervised visual effects on films including Ghost, Alien3, Batman Returns, Cliffhanger, Outbreak and Species. Somers also worked as Executive Producer, Line Producer and Visual Effects Supervisor on numerous commercials for clients including Coca-Cola, Chevrolet, Budweiser, Miller and McDonalds.  New Zealand-born Ngila Dickson received the Best Contribution to Design Award at the New Zealand Television Awards in both 1997 and 1998. For her work on "Xena: Warrior Princess", Dickson garnered the Best Costume Award at the 4th International Cult TV Awards. Dickson's film credits include Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, Jack be Nimble, Crush, Grampire, Ruby and Rata, User Friendly, and the telefilm "Rainbow Warrior". Television credits include "Hercules", "Xena, Warrior Princess", "High Tide", "Mrs Piggle Wiggle" and "Ray Bradbury Theater".  One of the film industry's most celebrated composers, Howard Shore's body of work includes The Cell, Dogma, Philadelphia, Seven, The Game, and The Yards, as well as After Hours, Big and Mrs Doubtfire. Shore wrote the music for Tim Burton's Ed Wood, as well as the brooding score for Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs. The Canadian-born composer has also composed the scores for nine David Cronenberg films, including Crash, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, M. Butterfly and eXistenZ. Shore was also music director for the first five seasons of NBC's "Saturday Night Live".  In 1980, Jim Rygiel joined Pacific Electric Pictures, one of the earliest companies to employ computer animation for the advertising and film markets. Rygiel's early credits include the pioneering The Last Starfighter and CLIO Award-winning advertising for Sony, and in 1989 Rygiel formed and headed a computer animation department at Boss Film Studios, winning another CLIO Award for the Geo Prism automobile commercial. His credits include Starship Troopers, Species, Outbreak, Air Force One, The Last Action Hero, Cliffhanger, Batman Returns, Alien3, Ghost, Star Trek: Insurrection, Anna and the King and 102 Dalmatians.  Alan Lee is responsible for the fifty watercolor illustrations in the centenary editions of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's Ring and The Hobbit. Lee's other illustrations include the fantasy works Faeries (with Brian Froud), The Mabinogion, Castles, The Mirrorstone, The Moons Revenge, Merlin Dreams, Black Ships Before Troy and The Wanderings of Odysseus. Lee has received several prestigious awards, including the Kate Greenway Medal and the Best Artist Award at the World Fantasy Awards 1998. Lee's film work includes conceptual design for the feature films Legend and Erik the Viking, and the television miniseries "Merlin".  John Howe is best known for his contributions to a wide range of Tolkien projects such as calendars, posters, and jacket illustrations. Howe has worked extensively for the European film industry, illustrating Bande Dessinee comics and numerous books, primarily fantasy, historical, and children's titles. He decorated the reception of the renowned Museum of Science Fiction in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, and has had personal exhibitions throughout Europe for the past twenty years. He has also produced backgrounds for animated television.  Dan Hennah was the art director for Peter Jackson's The Frighteners. Born in Hastings, New Zealand, Hennah studied architecture at the Wellington Polytechnic School of Architecture. Other feature film credits include Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, White Water Summer, Savage Islands, The Rescue, Mesmerised and Mutiny on the Bounty. Television credits include the Cloud 9 series "The Tribe", "Twist in the Tale", "William Tell", "Treasure Island", "Heart of the High Country" and the movie-of-the-week "Adrift".  British-born Peter Owen began work as a film make-up and hair designer on The Draughtsman's Contract. His feature credits include Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons, Little Women, Age of Innocence, Oscar & Lucinda, The Birdcage, Beloved, Portrait of a Lady, Onegin and Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Owen's company with Peter King, Owen & King, counts as regular clients Meryl Streep, Michelle Pfeiffer, John Malkovich, Bruce Willis, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, Cameron Diaz, Robert DeNiro, Ralph Fiennes Ralph Fiennes, among others.  British-born Peter King's first film was The Draughtsman's Contract. Thereafter King worked for Peter Owen on numerous opera, theater, and film productions. His early work as a designer includes The Blackheath Poisonings, Secret Weapon, Princess Caraboo, Fairytale-A True Story and Batman & Robin. More recently he has worked on The Avengers, Little Voice, Velvet Goldmine and An Ideal Husband.  Grammy Award-winning Enya made her debut in 1988 with the universally-acclaimed album Watermark, and has sold an astonishing 50 million albums worldwide. These massive sales have propelled Enya to the position of Ireland's best-selling solo artist ever. Enya's music first came to prominence after appearing in the major BBC TV series "The Celts", and has since graced several major films, including L.A. Story, Green Card, Far And Away and Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence. Although fronted by Enya, the music released under her name is the result of collaboration between Enya, producer Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan. |
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