SCOTT MARSHALL, WRITER / DIRECTOR
Scott
started in the film business delivering mail at Paramount
at the age of 10. He
studied film at
Northwestern
University and
received
a Masters degree in
the
directing
program from the
American Film
Institute. He became a
music video
director,
directing
videos for bands such as Smashmouth
and Guided
by Voices,
then directed 2nd Unit
for feature
films directed by the prolific Gary
Marshall,
including
THE PRINCESS
DIARIES II
and GEORGIA RULE. Scott made his feature film
directorial
debut with KEEPING UP
WITH THE STEINS starring
Jeremy
Piven which
won the Aspen
Comedy
festival and was
released by
Miramax. Last year he
directed
BLONDE AMBITION
starring
Jessica
Simpson and Luke Wilson
released by Sony.
R.A. WHITE, WRITER
Writer R. A.
White is currently in post production on OTHER PEOPLE’S
PARTIES, a docu-feature
film,
directing from a script he
co-wrote.
His short film,
FRANK’S
BOOK,
starring John C.
Reilly,
received
distribution on American (IFC), Canadian,
Japanese, and European (Canal Plus)
television,
after
having won
critical
acclaim
and key
awards the 27th
Deauville
Festival of American Film, and
the
HBO/U.S.
Comedy Arts Fest.
R.A.
White is a loyal Renaissance
Faire fanatic and
ALL’S FAIRE
IN
LOVE… is based on
characters created in his
original
script His
insiders
perspective, has
captured the
behind-the-scenes
intrigue and
humor of
the Renaissance
Faire.He
graduated
from UCLA with a
Bachelor
of Arts degree in
Theater
Arts.
MICHAEL MENDELSOHN, PRODUCER and FINANCIER
As the
Chairman and CEO of Patriot Pictures, LLC, and CEO of
Union Patriot Pictures,
Inc., Mr.
Mendelsohn currently
manages senior
and mezzanine debt
portfolios for
banks and
financial
institutions specializing in film production and
entertainment companies. Mr. Mendelsohn has arranged
production financing or
produced
over 298 films. Most
recently
Mendelsohn Produced and
financed “All’s
Faire in
Love…”
directed by Scott Marshall,
starring Christina Ricci, Owen
Benjamin, Matthew
Lillard,
Bill Engvall, Nadine Velasquez,
Ann-Margret and
Cedric
the
Entertainer., “Sand and
Sorrow-Genocide in Darfur” ,
Executive
Produced by Michael
Mendelsohn and George Clooney which aired on HBO,
Winter
’07/08. “Lord of War”
released by LionsGate
Films,
written
and directed by
Andrew
Niccol and starring Nicolas
Cage
and Ethan Hawke and
“Material
Girls”
released by MGM,
starring Hilary Duff and Anjelica
Huston,
directed
by
Martha
Coolidge. Mendelsohn is
currently in
pre-production
for
“Rape: A
Love Story”
directed by
Harold
Becker and based
on the novel
written by award
winning
novelist
Joyce Carol
Oates.
Mr. Mendelsohn
has also arranged
financing for such
films
as Beacon
Pictures and
Wolfgang Peterson’s “Air
Force One”
starring
Harrison Ford,
Lakeshore
Entertainment
produced “The Mothman
Prophecies”
and
“Underworld”,
Wachowski
Brothers’
“The Matrix”;
Icon
Pictures produced “What
Women Want”
starring Mel Gibson and
Quentin
Tarantino’s
“True Romance”
and
“Reservoir
Dogs.”
RON SINGER, PRODUCER
Ron Singer is a producer with over twenty-five years of experience.
Ron
is also Director’s Guild
Unit
Production
Manager,
whose
credits include Line
Producer,
UPM, and Post Production
Supervisor.
During his life in
the
film
business,
Ron has worked in
most
departments
and is
familiar with all
aspects of film
making.
Most
recently Ron produced the
renaissance
faire
based
comedy
“All’s Faire in Love” with Patriot
Pictures, starring Christina Ricci, Cedric the
Entertainer, Bill Engvall, Nadine
Velazquez, Matthew
Lillard and
Ann
Margret among the
ensemble
cast.
Last
year, Ron co-produced the
thriller
“Hit
and Run”
for MGM, starring Laura
Breckenridge
and
Kevin
Corrigan.
In
2004, Ron joined forces with
producer
Scott
Reed to
create
“That’s
Hollywood.” Based on the studio lot at Warner
Brothers, they developed a program specializing in
bringing studio level
services and
talent to
That’s
Hollywood also developed an
HD
program,
under
which
Ron
has
produced and
line-produced
several
High
Definition
projects, among them
the
sucessful
“Candy Stripers” for Windchill Films
and released by Sony Pictures, and “
In
past years Ron was a
producer for
Mindfire
Entertaiment,
which
included work on
their recent theatrical feature “House of the Dead”, released by
Artisan.
Ron
line produced and post
supervised
the
theatrical
comedy
feature film “The
Specials”,
starring Rob Lowe
and an
ensemble cast
including
Ron
also line produced and post
supervised
“Free
Enterprise”, Best Picture winner
at
the 1998
Los
Angeles Independent
Film
Festival and starring William
Shatner and Eric McCormack
of
NBC's
“Will and
Grace.”
“Free
Enterprise” was
released
theatrically
in
1999 by
Regent Entertainment,
and
has become a cult
classic.
SCOTT REED,
PRODUCER
In
2003,
Scott opened
That’s
Hollywood
a studio based
production
and post
production
company under a
studio
deal with
Warner Bros. with
partner
and long time
friend
Ron
Singer.
The two have
produced
several
feature films and television
series
under
the That’s
Hollywood banner
inclding the hit comedy
“Dirty
Deeds” starring
Milo
Ventimiglia,
“Hit and Run”
starring
Laura Breckenridge, “All’s
Faire In
Love”
starring Christina
Ricci and
coming soon is a movie
being directed by
William H. Macy
called, “Keep Coming
Back”. In 1986, fresh
from Cal
Arts
and
signed as a
franchised
talent
agent,
field producer and
stage manager
with a
background in
music,
Scott began
producing shows
and
events exclusively for
artists that
include Ramsey
Lewis,
Jerry Lee
Lewis, Omar
Hakim, Grover
Washington
Jr, Frankie Avalon and Annette
Funicello, Jan and Dean,
The Coasters,
The Platters, The
Drifters and
comedy artists that
include Jay Leno, Pam Stone,
Ellen
Degeneres, Jerry Seinfeld,
Paul
Reiser, Jeff
Foxworthy,
Bill
Engvall,
Cathy Ladman, The
Smothers
Brothers, Dick Clark, Jerry Lewis and
more. At
25
years of
age, Scott became so
successful in
markets for entertainment that
include
corporate, college,
concerts, clubs
and network
television
that in 1990,
Dick Clark personally
called him
on the phone and
recruited him on the spot as
his new
Director of Comedy. There,
Scott was
exclusively financing, booking,
producing and
directing ticketed and
non ticketed events
worldwide.
Scott
worked
on televised special
events
including The AMA’s, New Years Rockin’
Eve and
The
CMA’s,
providing talent and
production
support. From 1986 to 1994, Scott
financed,
produced and directed over
1000 special events,
shows and
conventions.
At age 30, Scott
decided to open up
EDGE Management.
For three years
Scott
personally
managed
the careers of
sports
celebrities
that include Todd
Christensen,
Jerry Rice,
Nick
Van Exel, Kareem
Abdul
Jabaar and others.
Actors
included Christina Solis,
Marcos
Ferrais and Michelle Clunie as well as, top
recording
artist Jim Brickman. Scott
then decided to work in movie production
and from 1997,
Scott went to work
for various companies
like Threshold
Ent
(animation), Unitel
Video
(Post),
Modern Videofilm
(editing),
the Wilshire
Stages and
EFX
sound
companies
(Sound), Pacific Title Company (DI) and
Broadcast
Standards
(Distribution) until 2003 when
he
opened
That’s
Hollywood.