STAGE PRODUCTIONS

The Sugar Witch will have its first stage production at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco, CA from Feb. 26 - April 4, 2010

The Sugar Bean Sisters continues to be staged all across the United States, with upcoming productions in Evansville, IN at the Evansville Civic Theatre April 9-25, 2010, in Midland, MI at the Theatre Guild of Midland Center May 6-15, 2010, and in Atlantic Beach, FL at the Atlantic Beach Experimental Theatre, Oct. 22-Nov. 6, 2010

PLAYWRIGHTS

Nathan Sanders
Nathan Sanders received the Oppenheimer Award nomination from New York Newsday for the "most impressive debut of a new American playwright" for the Off-Broadway production of his first play, The Sugar Bean Sisters, at the WPA Theatre in New York City. Since that time, the play has been produced across the country. Nathan's most recent play, The Sugar Witch (Part II in "The Sugar Bean Trilogy" of plays), received its world premiere at Northside Theatre Company in San Jose, California. Mr. Sanders is finishing his new play, Divine Fruit/Kundalini Rising, for a 2009 premiere.

THEATER DIRECTORS

Bari Newport
Ms. Newport is an accomplished stage director who was Associate Director of the Florida Repertory Theatre from 2002-2007. She has directed over 20 theater productions.

ACTORS

Ashley Wren Collins
In addition to Ms. Collins’ extensive theatre, film and TV experience, she holds a MFA from the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Cat Gwynn
Ms. Gwynn is an accomplished commerical and fine art photographer whose book "HUNGRY - The Insatiable State of America" speaks provocatively about the human quest for attainment, mastery, acceptance and salvation through consumption.

CINEMONDE Soirée Number 10
April 7, 2010: WHO DO YOU LOVE Reserve Now!
Cinémonde is a smart, elegant movie series with sneak previews all year long of thought-provoking films plus a cocktail reception for film lovers and filmmakers. Here are details about Soirée Number Ten. Cinémonde Soirée #10 will bring together "Cinemonders" for the NYC premiere of WHO DO YOU LOVE for drinks, hors d'oeuvres, cinema and comaraderie. You can reserve up to 4 places at Reserve Cinemonde Now. Click here for Cinémonde Overview. See Menus from previous Cinemonde Soirees at: Past Cinemonde Menus. If you want to see comments about Cinémonde, click here: CinémondeComments.

FILM DIRECTORS

Elizabeth Puccini
Award-winning writer/director is following up her debut feature, Four Corners of Surburbia, with her new feature film project, The Black Monk, set to go into production in 2009. It is a psychological thriller set in Spain about a young man's perilous search for the mystical heart of zero.

PRODUCERS

Fran & Jack Baxter
The Baxters produced the award-winning documentary, Blues By The Beach, to honor all those who died on April 30, 2003 in the terrorist attack on Mike's Place in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Baxters are releasing a marvelous documentary about the Cannes Film Festival. Check is out at: Diary of the Cannes Film Festival!

FILMS IN DEVELOPMENT

The Alcazar
Written by French filmmaker Elfie Weiss, The Alcazar recounts the effervesence behind the scenes at the incontrovertible Alcazar nightclub as seen through the eyes of a young Parisian girl, daughter of the nightclub's owner.

Heart in the Sand
Written by Nathan Sanders and Hamlet Sarkissian, Heart in the Sand, is set to go into production in 2009. It is the moving story of a soldier returning back to the States after a life-changing tour of duty in Iraq.

The Dogcatcher
To be directed by Nicole Bettauer, this is a story of yin meets yang, helping to further the idea that if you put in the work and follow your heart, people and answers are made known to you at the proper time. Fired from his 47th deadend job, Willie Jones embarks on a quest to find a mysterious dog. Along the way, he comes face to face with destiny and his soul-mate.

AUTHORS

Raymond De Felitta
Mr. De Felitta is an independent filmmaker whose work as a writer and director has been honored around the world. His debut feature, “Café Society,” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in Directors Fortnight, 1996. His second film “Two Family House” won the 2000 Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. “The Thing About My Folks,” which stars Paul Reiser, Peter Falk, and Olympia Dukakis, was released by Picturehouse/HBO and won the Audience Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. His book, Making City Island, will tell the roller-coaster story of directing his latest film, "City Island," this year's Grand Prize winner at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Nicole Bettauer
Author and filmmaker, Ms. Bettauer adapted her first novel from her well-received, award-winning feature film, Duck. Ms. Bettauer's next book is entitled Canary, a raucous and harrowing tale of an anti-hero cop solving a social ill, perhaps at his own expense.

Samuel Fuller
Hard-boiled writer/director/producer made 29 films and wrote 10 novels in a colorful life which he recounts in his own voice in A Third Face (2004, Knopf). Mr. Fuller is recognized as a movie visionary whose body of work was ahead of its time. After Mr. Fuller's death in 1997, his wife, Christa Lang Fuller, has managed his literary estate.

Lloyd Kaufman
Following his memoir, All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger (Penguin, 1998) and the illuminating Make Your Own Damn Movie: Secrets of a Renegade Director (2003, St. Martin’s), Mr. Kaufman is working on a series of hilarious, instructional manuals for self-motivated filmmakers, to be published by Focal Press. The first tome, Direct Your Own Damn Movie!, has just been published by Focal Press.

James Ryan
Mr. Ryan's Screenwriting from the Heart is one of the best books ever written on the art and practice of writing for the screen. Mr. Ryan is an accomplished director, playwright, screenwriter and teacher.

Laurent Tirard
Mr. Tirard is one of France's most talented young directors. His interviews of accomplished filmmakers for Studio Magazine have been compiled into a book: Moviemaker Master Class. A second collection of Mr. Tirard's interviews has been published in France and is available for other territories as well.