Hiro Narita is an internationally acclaimed cinematographer who has worked on a huge roster of feature films. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. Mr. Narita has been awarded many honors, among them are the (*) AGO Award for Best Cinematography, (**) the National Society of Film Critics Best Cinematography, (***) Emmy Nomination Best Cinematography, 1976, (****) Best Movie for Television, 1985, (+) Academy Award Live Action Short, 1997, (++) Emmy Nomination, Best Cinematography, 1999.
Selected Filmography
Films |
Director/Studio --------------------- |
| ++Dirty Pictures I’ll Be Home for Christmas Conceiving Ada Shadrach +Visas & Virtues *Blue Yonder **Never Cry Wolf ***Farewell to Manzanar ****Go Tell it on the Mountain The Last Waltz (shared credit) The Arrival James and the Giant Peach White Fang II Long Shadows Hocus Pocus They Star Trek VI The Rocketeer Honey I Shrunk The Kids No Man's Land Amerika Fire With Fire Sylvester |
Frank Pierson Arlene Sanford Lynn Hershman Susanna Styron Chris Tashima Mark Rosman Carroll Ballard John Korty Stan Latham Martin Scorsese David Twohy Henry Selick Ken Olin Sheldon Larry Ken Ortega John Korty Nick Meyer Joe Johnston Joe Johnston Peter Werner Donald Wrye Duncan Gibbons Tim Hunter |
Lisa Fruchtman is an Academy Award-winning editor, whose work spans the mediums of feature film and television. Among her feature film projects are Dance with Me (1998); My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997); The Doctor (1991); The Godfather, Part III (1990), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award; Children of a Lesser God (1986); The Right Stuff (1983), for which she received the Academy Award, and Apocalypse Now (1979,) for which she also received an Academy Award nomination.
For television,
she has worked on such films as Witness Protection (1999); Nothing
Sacred (1997) and Truman (1995).
Composer
Klaus Badelt started his musical career writing and producing music for
dozens of
highly successful movies and commercials in his native
Germany. In 1998, Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer was impressed enough
with Badelt’s scores to invite him to Media Ventures, Zimmer's
highly regarded film scoring facility in Santa Monica. Since then, he
has been working on a number of his own innovative film and television
projects, as well as collaborating with Zimmer.
Badelt co-produced the Golden Globe winning, Oscar and Grammy nominated
score to Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, while writing portions
of the score with Golden Globe winning singer/co-composer Lisa Gerrard
(The Insider).
He worked on X-Men with composer Michael Kamen (Brazil, Die Hard, Lethal
Weapon, Mr. Holland’s Opus). Prior to that he composed music for
Mission: Impossible 2 with producer Tom Cruise and director John Woo.
After finishing the independent feature Extreme Days, he co-wrote the
score to The Pledge, directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.
With Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2 and X-Men, Badelt worked on the
music for three of the top ten movies in 2000. The Gladiator score album
he co-produced and co-wrote recently went gold in the U.S. with over
1.2 million copies sold worldwide. The follow-up album More Music from
Gladiator is was recently released.
Selected Filmography
| Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) In-Laws, The (2003/I) Basic (2003) Ned Kelly (2003) Recruit, The (2003) Equilibrium (2002) K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) Time Machine, The (2002) Equilibrium (2001) Extreme Days (2001) Pearl Harbor (2001, additional music) |
Hannibal (2001, additional music) The Pledge (2001) Mission: Impossible II (2000, additional music) Gladiator (2000, additional music. Golden Globe winner. Oscar and Grammy nominee) The Road to El Dorado (2000, additional music) The Tigger Movie (2000, additional music) |
JEFFREY
BRANDSTETTER, ESQ. is an entertainment and intellectual property attorney
specializing in film, TV, music and new media matters, as well as
entertainment financing. He has counseled and represented a wide array
of entertainment and high-tech clients, including recording artists, songwriters,
indie
record labels, publishing companies, sports figures, managers, accountants,
producers, distributors, merchandisers, promoters, music manufacturers,
writers,
film and TV production companies, entertainment financiers, and Internet
and high-tech start-ups.
Jeff is the co-author of the highly-acclaimed book The Music Business (Explained
In Plain English), and has been published in a number of national publications
including The Entertainment And Sports Lawyer and the Entertainment, Publishing
And The Arts Handbook. He also appears frequently as a speaker and
moderator on entertainment law matters (including TV, radio, webcast and
live panel/seminar appearances), and is an active panel attorney and lecturer
for
California Lawyers for the Arts. Jeff has also served as an NFA arbitrator.
Credits include: DANGEROUS
MINDS, MAD CITY, USA Network’s JUDGMENT
DAY: THE ELLIE NESLER STORY, Comedy Central’s MAKE ME LAUGH, and
Fox’s PARTY OF FIVE and ALLY MCBEAL, as well as a number of independent
productions, including STRAI
GHT OUTTA HUNTERS POINT (feature-length documentary; executive producer
credit), CONFESSIONS OF A BURNING MAN (feature-length documentary), HAPPILY,
EVEN AFTER (feature film), TEKNOLUST (feature film), BLACK EYED DOG (feature
film), OBSTACLES (feature film), SEE HOW THEY RUN (feature-length documentary),
PRIDE OF IRELAND (Phil Coulter documentary), and ALL ABOUT DOGS (TV series).
Jeff is also the President and co-founder of Windline Films, LLC, an independent
film distribution and production company based in San Francisco, California.
