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Ronald Harwood - "The Diving Bell And The Butterfly"
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Director:
Julian Schnabel
Writer:
Ronald Harwood
Producers:
Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik
The true story of a man who took an adversity beyond all imagining and transformed
it into a testament to the irrepressible human urge to love, create and dream. With
his third film, director and artist Julian Schnabel (“Basquiat,” “Before Night Falls”)
forges a visual ode to what drives a man to go on when all truly seems lost. Through a
blast of color, beauty and humor, Schnabel tells the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby
(Mathieu Amalric, “Munich”), AKA “Jean-Do,” the high-flying editor of French Elle and
father of two, who was renowned for his sense of humor and style, his joie de vivre
and amorous energy, when, in an instant, his world was plunged into the depths of
catastrophe. Faced with a harrowing predicament, Jean-Do will use enormous
courage and determination but, most of all, his soaring imagination to escape from
his trap.
Tamara Jenkins - "The Savages"
Director/Writer:
Tamara Jenkins
Producer:
Ted Hope, Anne Carey, Erica Westheimer
THE SAVAGES is an irreverent look at family, love and mortality as seen through the
lens of one of modern life’s most bewildering and challenging experiences: when
adult siblings find themselves plucked from their everyday, self-centered lives to care
for an estranged elderly parent.
Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner - "Starting Out In The Evening"
Director:
Andrew Wagner
Writers:
Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner
Producers:
Nancy Israel, Fred Parnes, Andrew Wagner, Gary Winick, Jake Abraham
All that remains for Leonard Schiller is his work. His one enduring goal in life is to
finish the novel whose completion has eluded him for ten years. With his earlier
books out of print, he has learned to starve himself of the desire for the success he
was once so close to, though beneath this practice lies a pull for his work to be
rediscovered. Schiller’s main contact to the world is through his daughter, Ariel,
though he must hide his disappointment that at 39 she remains befuddled by life, still
looking for love and a father for a longed-for child. Schiller’s world is shaken when
Heather Wolfe, a smart, ambitious graduate student, convinces him that she can use
her thesis on his work to bring him back into the literary world spotlight.
Adrienne Shelly - "Waitress"
Director/Writer:
Adrienne Shelly
Producer:
Michael Roiff
An audience hit at the Sundance Film Festival, WAITRESS serves up a sweet, sassy
and delicious slice of life tale -- as it reveals the power of friendship, motherhood and
the willingness to take a chance. It’s the story of a small town woman who
transforms her hopeless life into a hilarious and unexpected love story. This vibrantly
different romantic comedy is the final film from writer-director Adrienne Shelly.
Starring in the title role, Keri Russell leads a dynamic cast as a diner waitress stuck
in a lousy marriage whose only solace is baking out-of-this-world pies. When the
awkwardly charming new OB-GYN, Dr. Pomatter, comes to town, she’s inspired to
mix-master her life into something far more satisfying.
Director/Writer:
Mike White
Producers:
Mike White, Ben LeClair, Dede Gardner
Peggy and Pencil are inseparable companions. Life is uncomplicated and safe, and
although Pencil is a Beagle, Peggy is happily entrenched in a satisfying relationship
of co-dependency with her beloved pet. But Peggy’s world comes crashing down when
Pencil meets a mysterious demise in the neighbor’s yard. Left to pick-up the pieces
of her shattered life, Peggy embarks on a personal journey to fill the void. Friends,
family and co-workers try to distract Peggy from her misery with their own obsessive
quests for happiness, but ultimately she emerges from her loss with a newfound
sense happiness and her place in the world.
