Biography on Crew

DIRECTOR

Christopher Smith, born 16 August 1970 in Bristol, England, UK. He is a British film director and screenwriter. His four most prominent pieces of work are Creep, Severance, Triangle and Black Death. Smith was last working on a movie based about the UK children’s book series CHERUS. He will work on a werewolf movie with some qualities of Quentin Tarantino films.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Robert Humphreys, Zimbabwean-born commercial, fictional narrative and documentary cinematographer. His most notable feature projects include Tad Fettig’s PBS documentary e2 series, narrated by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, Mike Goorjian’s Illusion and The Shift, Eric Byler’s anti romance pics Americanese and Tre, and Rodrigo Gonzalez’s Entre Canibales. His feature work has taken him to Cameroon, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, China, Singapore, Bangladesh, India, the Netherlands, France, England, Germany, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and all over the United States. He shoots on every format from Widescreen 35mm, 16mm, Red one, Canon DSLR, Hi Def to mini-DV and super 8. He studied film and photography at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Emerson College and UCLA.

COSTUME DESIGNER

Arianne Phillips, born 26 April 1963 in New York City USA. Aside from being a successful costume designer for films, Arianne has also been Madonna’s personal stylist and has designed or styled her last four concert tours. She has also worked with Lenny Kravitz, Courtney Love and Justin Timberlake.

FILM EDITOR

David Brenner, born 4^th February 1945. He is an American standup comedian, actor, author and filmmaker. David married Elizabeth Slater of New York, the mother of his sons Slade and Wyatt, in the closing minutes of his Live from The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada HBO Special on February 19, 2000. They got divorced a little over a year later and fought two bitter custody battles, both of which David won. David was engaged to Olympian Pair Skater and skating Hall of Fame inductee, Tai Babilonia, the female half of Tai & Randy. In the 1989 romantic comedy Worth Winning (with Mark Harmon, Madeleine Stowe, Lesley Ann Warren) he had an appearance as a charity ball auctioneer.

COMPOSER

Allan Silvestri, born 26^th March 1950 in New York City USA. He was originally hired to score Mission: Impossible and has written roughly twenty-three minutes of music before he was taken off. He recycles the material he has written and used it for the score to Eraser. Bootleg copies of his Mission: Impossible score are in circulation.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Stuart Besser, is a film producer with more than 25 years of experience and has appeared as an actor in one film, Identity.
Chris Brown, he began his journey back in the UK in 1983 as Managing Director with Stephen Wooley of Palace Productions. During this time, he produced two fils with Neil Jordan, "The Company of Wolves" and "Mona Lisa!, which won two Golden Globes and was nominated for an Oscar. He also produced "Absolute Beginners", starring David Bowie, James Fox, Ray Davies and Sade, as well as "Siesta" with Ellen Barkin, Gabrielle Byrne, Jodie Foster, Grace Jones and Julian Sands. He also worked on the script development of "Scandal" and produced two other feature films as as three shorts.In 2004 Brown won Independent Producer Of the Year, from the Australian Producers Association. Brown is currently attached as producer on the Spierig Brothers vampire picture Day breakers to be shot entirely in Queensland early 2007.
Julie Baines, she has an extensive career in the film industry and founded the independent production company Dan Films in 1994. In 1998 she was named one of the Top Ten Producers to Watch by Variety. Since then, she has established herself as a leading figure in both British Films and international multi-party co-productions. Julie most recently produced Christopher Smith's Triangle, a psychological thriller starring Melissa George, which is being distributed worldwide by Icon. As well as producing with acclaimed directors including; Nicolas Roeg, Peter Bogdanovich, Frank Van Passel,
Michael Winterbottom, Mika Kaurismaki and Deepa Mehta, she enjoys discovering and working with new talent. Julie acts as the external examiner for the MA Producing course at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield.

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Mark Friedberg, previous films he has worked on Mildred Pierce, The Tempest, State of Play, Identity, The Ice Storm, Pollock, Kate and Leopold, In the Soup, Broken Flowers, Morning Glory, The producers and The Beaver.