JONATHAN DEMME (Director/Producer) has 18 films to his credit, including “The Agronomist,” “The Truth About Charlie,” “Beloved,” “The Silence of the Lambs” (for which he won an Academy Award® for Best Director), “Philadelphia,” “Married to the Mob,” “Something Wild,” “Swimming to Cambodia” and “Melvin and Howard.” Demme was twice named Best Director by the New York Film Critics, for “Melvin and Howard” and for “The Silence of the Lambs.” Additional producing credits include “Devil in a Blue Dress,” “Household Saints,” “That Thing You Do!,” “Ulee’s Gold” and “Adaptation.”

Demme’s films have been nominated for 20 Academy Awardsâ. “The Silence of the Lambs” received five Academy Awardsâ in 1991 – for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay Adaptation. His films have won screenplay Oscarsâ twice, “Melvin and Howard” (Best Original Screenplay, 1980) and “The Silence of the Lambs” (Best Screenplay Adaptation, 1991), and two of the Best Actor awards of the 1990s went to actors he directed, Anthony Hopkins (“The Silence of the Lambs,” 1991) and Tom Hanks (“Philadelphia,” 1993), with Jodie Foster receiving the Best Actress award (“The Silence of the Lambs,” 1991) as well.

Since 1988, Demme has worked with a versatile team at his company Clinica Estetico, producing or directing a number of documentaries as well as feature film projects. Many of these have focused on Haiti, such as the acclaimed “Haiti Dreams of Democracy,” “Tonbe Leve (Fall Down, Get Up)” and “Courage and Pain.” In 2004, he completed “The Agronomist,” a documentary on the Haitian radio journalist Jean Dominique, who was assassinated in April 2000 on the steps of his radio station. He also produced “Konbit,” an album of Haitian music, and has published four books about the art of Haiti.

He also directed the documentary “Cousin Bobby,” and produced the Academy Awardâ-nominated biography “Mandela,” as well as “Into the Rope!” (about Double Dutch), “The Uttmost” (a portrait of producer Kenny Utt) and “One Foot on a Banana Peel, The Other Foot in the Grave” (about living with AIDS). He also recently produced “Beah: A Black Woman Speaks,” a documentary on the life of Beah Richards, directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton.

Demme’s creative interests have also lured him into the musical domain. He directed the Robyn Hitchcock concert film, “Storefront Hitchcock,” as well as the award-winning Talking Heads concert film, “Stop Making Sense.” He has directed Artists United Against Apartheid’s “Sun City,” Neil Young’s “The Complex Sessions” and music videos for Bruce Springsteen, Les Frères Parent, The Neville Brothers, KRS-One and the Feelies, among others.

SCOTT RUDIN (Producer) Film: “The Stepford Wives,” “School of Rock,” “The Hours,” “Changing Lanes,” “Orange County,” “Iris,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Zoolander,” “Shaft,” “Sleepy Hollow,” “Angela’s Ashes,” “Rules of Engagement,” “Wonder Boys,” “Bringing Out the Dead,” “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut,” “The Truman Show,” “A Civil Action,” “In and Out,” “Ransom,” “Mother,” “Marvin’s Room,” “The First Wives Club,” “Twilight,” “Clueless,” “Sabrina,” “Nobody’s Fool,” “The Firm,” “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” “Sister Act,” “Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit,” “The Addams Family,” “Addams Family Values,” “Little Man Tate,” “Regarding Henry,” “Pacific Heights,” “Flatliners,” “Jennifer Eight,” “Mrs. Soffel” and “He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing” (Academy Awardâ – Best Documentary). Theater: “Passion” (Tony Award – Best Musical), “Indiscretions,” “Hamlet,” “Seven Guitars,” “Skylight,” “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” “On the Town,” “The Chairs,” “The Judas Kiss,” “Stupid Kids,” “The Blue Room,” “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told,” “Closer” (London and New York), “Amy’s View,” “The Wild Party,” “The Ride Down Mt. Morgan,” “Copenhagen” (Tony Award – Best Play), “The Designated Mourner,” “The Caretaker” (London), “The Goat” (Tony Award – Best Play), “Medea,” “Beckett/Albee,” “Caroline, or Change” and “The Normal Heart.”

Upcoming Films: M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Village,” Wes Anderson’s “The Life Aquatic,” David O. Russell’s “I©Huckabees,” Brad Silberling’s “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events,” Mike Nichols’ “Closer,” Trey Parker’s “Team America,” Richard Linklater’s “The Smoker” and Kenneth Lonergan’s “Margaret.”

TINA SINATRA (Producer) founded TSProductions in 1983. The company’s productions, for which Sinatra served as executive producer, include “Young at Heart,” a two-hour CBS Movie of the Week, the 1992 Emmy Award/Golden Globe-winning five-hour miniseries “Sinatra,” as well as “Sinatra 75 – The Best is Yet to Come,” all for CBS. Earlier in her career, Sinatra worked as a literary and talent agent for the Steifel Organization and in product development for The Jozak Company. She is a co-founder of Sheffield Enterprises, Inc., a licensing and merchandising entity, and a general partner in Bristol Productions and Essex Ltd. Partnership, which licenses and administers Frank Sinatra catalogues of Reprise and Capitol Records, respectively. Sinatra is the best-selling author of My Father’s Daughter.

ILONA HERZBERG (Producer) served as executive producer of Jonathan Demme’s “The Truth About Charlie.” She has also executive-produced such feature films as the acclaimed drama “Thirteen Days,” starring Kevin Costner, as well as the disaster epic “Dante’s Peak,” starring Pierce Brosnan, the sci-fi saga “Waterworld,” also with Kevin Costner, and the thriller “The River Wild,” with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon. Herzberg has served as creative executive for CTV Network in Canada and as a line producer for more than 250 hours of TV concert specials and variety shows.

DANIEL PYNE (Co-screenwriter) wrote the recent film, “The Sum of All Fears,” directed by Phil Alden Robinson and starring Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman, and authored the screen story for “Any Given Sunday,” directed by Oliver Stone and starring Al Pacino and Cameron Diaz. Pyne’s first feature film as screenwriter was “Pacific Heights,” starring Melanie Griffith and Michael Keaton, which he followed with screenplays for such films as “White Sands,” directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Willem Dafoe and Samuel L. Jackson, and “Doc Hollywood,” starring Michael J. Fox and Bridget Fonda and directed by Michael Caton-Jones.

Pyne made his directorial debut with the award-winning “Where’s Marlowe?,” starring Miguel Ferrer, which he also co-wrote.

Daniel Pyne was born in Oak Park, Illinois, grew up in Colorado, earned a B.A. from Stanford University, where he studied economics, and an M.F.A. from UCLA’s Graduate School of Film, where he currently holds the Hunter/Zakin chair in screenwriting.

DEAN GEORGARIS (Co-screenwriter) recently wrote the screenplay for “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life,” starring Angelina Jolie and directed by Jan DeBont, and “Paycheck” starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman and directed by John Woo.

Georgaris was raised in New York City and graduated with honors from Swarthmore College where he majored in political science. He decided to pursue a career in arts after living in Florence for six months, and enrolled in the directing program at USC Film School, which he later left to write full-time.

SCOTT AVERSANO (Executive Producer) previously worked as director of development at Paramount Pictures, serving as a production executive for such films as “Wonder Boys,” “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut,” “Runaway Bride” and “Double Jeopardy,” among others. He is currently President of Scott Rudin Productions. Since working in this capacity he has produced such films as “Orange County,” “Changing Lanes” and “School Of Rock.”

Prior to entering the film business, Aversano taught English literature at the University of Michigan while working on his doctorate.

TAK FUJIMOTO, ASC, (Director of Photography) has collaborated on some of the most acclaimed films of the past three decades, including almost a dozen features with director Jonathan Demme, from “Caged Heat” and “Melvin and Howard” to “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Beloved,” “Philadelphia” and “The Truth About Charlie.” Starting out by working with famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler, Fujimoto has also photographed such movie favorites as “Badlands” (Terence Malick), “Death Race 2000” (Paul Bartel), “Remember My Name” (Alan Rudolph), “Heart Like a Wheel” (Jonathan Kaplan), “Pretty in Pink” (Howard Deutch), “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (John Hughes), “Night and the City” (Irwin Winkler), “Devil in a Blue Dress” (Carl Franklin), “That Thing You Do!” (Tom Hanks) and M. Night Shyamalan’s “Signs” and “The Sixth Sense.”

Fujimoto’s other credits include “The Replacements,” “A Thousand Acres,” “Grumpier Old Men,” “Gladiator” (1992), “Crooked Hearts,” “Sweet Hearts Dance,” “Miami Blues,” “Cocoon: The Return,” “Backfire,” “Borderline” and “Where the Buffalo Roam.” He recently shot “The Final Cut” for director Omar Naim, which stars Robin Williams. Fujimoto is a National Society of Film Critics Award winner for “Devil in a Blue Dress” and was nominated for an ASC Award for “The Sixth Sense."

KRISTI ZEA (Production Designer) is a multifaceted filmmaker who is not only a successful and well-respected production designer but also a director, an award-winning film producer and costume designer.

Zea has done double-duty on recent projects, serving as both production designer and second unit director for such films as “Beloved,” “Sleepers,” “Philadelphia” and “The Silence of the Lambs.”

Zea made her directorial debut on the HBO telepic “Domestic Dilemma,” starring Andie MacDowell and Ray Liotta. The film, a part of the “Men and Women 2” series, received a CableACE Award nomination. Her other production design credits include “Philadelphia,” “Beloved,” “The Super,” “Lorenzo’s Oil,” “Goodfellas,” “Miss Firecracker,” “New York Stories,” “Married to the Mob” and “The Family Man.”

Zea began her career as a fashion stylist and eventually went on to design the costumes for such feature films as “Silverado,” “Birdy,” “Terms of Endearment,” “Unfaithfully Yours,” “Shoot the Moon,” “Endless Love” and “Fame,” among others. Zea then broadened her interests into producing, serving as associate producer on the motion pictures “Lucas” and “Broadcast News.” More recently, Zea produced James Brooks’ “As Good As It Gets,” which received an Academy Awardâ nomination for Best Picture, a Golden Globe Award and a Producers Guild nomination. Zea also worked with director Roger Michell on “Changing Lanes,” starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as with director Brett Ratner on “Red Dragon,” starring Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton.

Zea recently directed the DVD of singer/songwriter Annie Lennox’s latest world concert tour and directed the visual accompaniment DVD to Lennox’s latest album, “Bare.” In addition, New York University has also recently appointed Zea to head up a new film production design department at the Tisch School of the Arts.

CAROL LITTLETON, A.C.E., (Editor) has collaborated previously with Jonathan Demme on films including “Swimming to Cambodia,” “The Truth About Charlie” and “Beloved.” Her work on “The Truth About Charlie” brought her back to Paris where she began her editing career on “French Postcards.”

Littleton received a 1982 Academy Award® nomination for Best Editing for Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.” Her many collaborations with director Lawrence Kasdan include “Body Heat,” “The Big Chill,” “Silverado,” “The Accidental Tourist,” “Grand Canyon,” “Wyatt Earp,” “Mumford” and “Dreamcatcher.”

Littleton recently worked alongside her husband, cinematographer John Bailey, on the digitally shot “The Anniversary Party,” directed by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming and officially selected for the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Littleton’s eclectic body of work includes films vastly diverse in subject matter and visual style. Among the highlights of her credits are “Twilight,” “China Moon,” “White Palace,” “Vibes,” Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” Robert Benton’s “Places in the Heart,” “Benny & Joon,” and “Greed,” a restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s 1924 silent classic.

CRAIG MCKAY, A.C.E., (Editor) is an award-winning feature film editor, story consultant, director and executive producer. Directing credits include Emmy Award- winning “Bubbe Meises, Bubbe Stories” for PBS and HBO’s “The Red Shoes,” written by John Guare. Story consultant credits include Bravo’s “Haiti Dreams of Democracy,” the Academy Awardâ-nominated “Mandela” and PBS’ award-winning “Witness: Voices from the Holocaust.” Editing credits include “Reds” and “The Silence of the Lambs,” both of which garnered McKay Academy Awardâ nominations. Other editing highlights include “Maid in Manhattan,” “K-PAX,” “A Map of the World,” “Cop Land,” “Philadelphia,” “Married to the Mob,” “Something Wild,” “Melvin and Howard” and many others. McKay was co-executive producer on the award-winning feature documentary, “A Normal Life.”

ALBERT WOLSKY (Costume Designer) is a two-time Academy Award® winner, having received the coveted prize for his designs for “All That Jazz” and “Bugsy.” In a career that encompasses more than 65 films, Wolsky also received Academy Award® nominations for his work on “Sophie’s Choice,” “Toys” and “The Journey of Natty Gann.” Wolsky’s recent films include “Road to Perdition,” starring Tom Hanks, Jude Law and Paul Newman, “Maid in Manhattan,” starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes, as well as “Runaway Bride,” “Galaxy Quest,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “Red Corner,” “Lucky Numbers,” “The Jackal” and “The Grass Harp.”

Wolsky’s first project with Paul Mazursky, “Harry and Tonto,” led to a prolific relationship through eleven films, including “Next Stop, Greenwich Village,” “An Unmarried Woman,” “Moscow on the Hudson,” “Down and Out in Beverly Hills” and “Enemies, A Love Story.” Wolsky first worked with Bob Fosse on “Lenny,” starring Dustin Hoffman, later designing the costumes for Fosse’s “All That Jazz” and “Star 80,” Fosse’s last film. Wolsky’s other film credits include “Grease,” “Manhattan,” “The Turning Point,” “The Pelican Brief,” “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,” “Little Murders,” “The Jazz Singer,” “The Falcon and the Snowman” and “Crimes of the Heart.”

Born in Paris, Wolsky immigrated to the United States at the age of 10. Living in New York City, he graduated from the City College of New York and began his career in New York theater, receiving his first solo Broadway design credit for the play “Generation,” starring Henry Fonda. Other theater credits include “Sly Fox,” with George C. Scott, “The Sunshine Boys,” Joseph Papp’s production of “Hamlet” in Central Park and Tennessee Williams’ “27 Wagons Full of Cotton,” with Meryl Streep.

Wolsky was recently honored by the Costume Designers Guild with a Career Achievement Award, the first such honor bestowed by the Guild. Wolsky recently completed his third term on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

RACHEL PORTMAN (Composer) is the first female composer to win an Academy Awardâ, for Douglas McGrath’s 1996 drama “Emma.” Portman’s previous collaborations with director Jonathan Demme include her scores for “The Truth About Charlie” and “Beloved.”

Portman has also been nominated for Academy Awardsâ for her scores to Lasse Hallström’s “The Cider House Rules” and “Chocolat.”

Other films scored by Portman include “Benny & Joon,” “The Joy Luck Club,” “The Legend of Bagger Vance,” “Hart’s War,” “Nicholas Nickleby,” “The Human Stain” and “Mona Lisa Smile.”

In May 2003, Portman’s first opera, “The Little Prince,” based on the classic children’s book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, premiered at the Houston Grand Opera.

WYCLEF JEAN (Composer) “The Manchurian Candidate” marks Wyclef’s second film score collaboration with Jonathan Demme, following on the heels of his original score for “The Agronomist” (2003). Vocalist, producer, activist, and musician, Wyclef first entered the public eye as one third of the acclaimed rap group The Fugees, formed in 1987 with Lauryn Hill & Wyclef’s cousin Pras Michel. The Fugees’ groundbreaking second album, The Score (1996), featuring the singles “Fu-Gee-La,” “Ready or Not,” and a remake of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly,” went six times platinum, making it one of hip hop’s bestselling albums to this day as well as a classic for hip hop enthusiasts. Following this success, Wyclef became the first Fugee to pursue a solo career, releasing The Carnival in 1997. With singles “Gone Till November” (recorded with the help of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra) and “We Trying to Stay Alive” (a spin on the Bee Gees’ classic), Wyclef gained a powerful status as both a solo rapper and a singer.

Wyclef is responsible for writing, producing, and remixing the work of various and eclectic music stars, including Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Destiny’s Child, Sublime, Whitney Houston, the Black Eyed Peas, Cypress Hill, Canibus, Sinéad O’Connor, Simply Red, and Bounty Killer. The Ecleftic followed Carnival in 2000 and featured the Grammy-nominated single “911,” a duet with Mary J. Blige. Next was Masquerade (2002), Greatest Hits (2003), and The Preacher’s Son, also in 2003, which features the hit single “Party to Damascus” with Missy Elliott.

Haitian-born Wyclef is known for a multicultural style that transcends musical genre, exploring the fusion of hip-hop, reggae, rock and R&B, as well as a multilingual oeuvre, featuring English, Creole and Spanish lyrics.