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Open Road Films and Endgame present aBorman/Kopeloff Productionin association with Wild Bunch and TG MediaA film by Oliver StoneJoseph Gordon-Levitt Shailene Woodley Melissa Leo Zachary QuintoTom WilkinsonRhys Ifans Nicholas Cage Ben SchnetzerKeith StanfieldExecutive Produced by Bahman Naraghi, José Ibá?ez, Max Arvelaiz, Tom Ortenberg, Peter Lawson, James Stern, Douglas Hansen, Christopher Woodrow, and Michael BassickProduced by Moritz Borman, Eric Kopeloff, Phillip Schulz-Deyle, and Fernando Sulchin Screenplay by Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver StoneDirected by Oliver StoneOfficial Film Site: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: : Snapchat: SnowdenTheMovieOfficial Hashtag: #SnowdenMoviePHOTOS AND MATERIALS AT EPKSNOWDEN OPENS September 16, 2016622308191500(MEDIA CONTACTS FOR SNOWDEN LISTED ON PAGE 2) MEDIA CONTACTSOPEN ROAD FILMSLiz Biber, EVP Publicitylbiber@Office: 310-696-7599Lori Burns, VP Publicitylburns@Office: 310-696-7519Mobile: 310-739-0018Adam Bittner, Director Regional Publicityabittner@Office: 310-696-7531Mobile: 310-691-4937U.S. AGENCYNational:42 WESTLAAnnalee PauloO: 424-901-8723Annalee.paulo@NYAshton FontanaO: 646-467-9058Ashton.Fontana@ U.S. AGENCYDigital:SUBMERSIVEAlex DubinO:?646-755-3737alex@?Adam SpielbergerO: 646-606-2025adam@?Shelby SniderO: 917.551.6952shelby@?Angela Imperatiangela@?INTERNATIONALDDA ConsultingDennis DavidsonDennis.Davidson@ddaconsulting.co.uk Antonio Medici amedici@From three-time Oscar?-winner Oliver Stone, Snowden is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarizing figures of the 21st century, the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in U.S. intelligence history. In 2013 Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) quietly leaves his job at the NSA and flies to Hong Kong to meet with journalists Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and Ewen MacAskill (Tom Wilkinson), and filmmaker Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) to reveal U.S. government cyber surveillance programs of epic proportions. A top security contractor with virtuoso programming skills, Ed has discovered that a virtual mountain of data is being assembled tracking all forms of digital communication — not just from foreign governments and terror groups, but from ordinary Americans. Disillusioned with his work in the intelligence community, Snowden meticulously gathers hundreds of thousands of secret documents that will expose the full extent of the abuses. Leaving his longtime love Lindsay Mills (Shailene Woodley) behind, Ed finds the courage to act on his principles. Snowden opens the door on the untold story of Edward Snowden, examining the forces that turned a conservative young patriot eager to serve his country into a historic whistleblower and posing provocative questions about which liberties we are willing to give up in order for our government to protect us.Snowden stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises), Shailene Woodley (Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars), Zachary Quinto (“Heroes,” Star Trek), Melissa Leo (The Fighter, Frozen River), Tom Wilkinson (Batman Begins, Michael Clayton), Rhys Ifans (The Amazing Spider-Man, Notting Hill), Timothy Olyphant (“Justified,” Live Free or Die Hard), Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, National Treasure), Scott Eastwood (Gran Torino, Fury) and Joely Richardson (“Nip/Tuck,” The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). The film is directed by Oliver Stone (Platoon, Wall Street). The screenplay is written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald (The Homesman, The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández), based on the books The Snowden Files by Luke Harding, and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena. Producers are Moritz Borman, Eric Kopeloff, Philip Schulz-Deyle and Fernando Sulichin. Director of Photography is Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire, Rush). Production Designer is Mark Tildesley (28 Days Later…, In the Heart of the Sea). Editors are Alex Marquez (Alexander, Savages) and Lee Percy (Boys Don’t Cry, Carrie). Costume designer is Bina Daigeler (Volver, All About My Mother). Composers are Craig Armstrong (Love Actually, Moulin Rouge!) and Adam Peters (Ruby Sparks, Paddington).ABOUT THE PRODUCTIONIn acclaimed films as diverse as Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers and Wall Street, Oliver Stone has spent his career mapping pivotal moments in American culture. From the War in Vietnam to the tragedy of 9-11, he has boldly tackled controversial subjects in movies that are both intensely personal and utterly universal. The story of Edward Snowden was tailor made for Stone’s unflinching eye and knack for exposing hypocrisy in high places. Until he made his earthshaking revelations, Edward Snowden was by all accounts committed to supporting the American government. After growing up in a family steeped in government service, he enlisted in the military, aiming for the elite Special Forces and combat in the Iraq War. A catastrophic training accident put him out of the running and Snowden turned instead to a career in the CIA, and later the NSA. Stone wondered what he could add to the public record that had not previously been revealed. There was already an Academy Award?-winning documentary chronicling Snowden’s journey, as well as several books on the subject. “I decided that I wanted to explore what was going on inside Ed’s mind,” he says. “What made him the one to go public? Did he recognize the cost before he did it?” Stone’s long-time producer Moritz Borman had been approached by Anatoly Kucherena, Edward Snowden’s Russian attorney. Kucherena had written a fictionalized account of the story and wanted to meet with Stone to talk about turning his novel into a feature film. After some initial conversations with the lawyer, Stone flew to Moscow, where he ended up meeting with Snowden himself. “I wasn’t sure at first whether we were going with a fictional version of his life or not,” Stone explains. “We were still looking for the structure. By talking to him and learning a little bit more, I began to see a pattern and a way of doing this.”The filmmakers decided to option both Kucherena’s book and The Snowden Files, Guardian correspondent Luke Harding’s inside look at the newspaper’s experience publishing Snowden’s revelations. With Snowden’s cooperation, Stone set to work on the screenplay with Kieran Fitzgerald, the talented young writer of Tommy Lee Jones’ film The Homesman, who had previously collaborated with Stone on an adaptation of the Stuart Cohen novel, The Army of the Republic.For Fitzgerald, working with Stone had been a memorable and priceless experience: “Oliver’s one of the most sincerely passionate people I know,” he says. “It’s sad that there are not more Oliver Stones willing to stir the pot. In an age of apathy, I feel privileged to have worked with him.”As it happened, Fitzgerald was in Berlin working on an HBO pilot about the world of hacktivism. He was already meeting with documentarian Laura Poitras, journalist Jacob Appelbaum and others who had helped Snowden. “It was a very propitious moment,” the screenwriter says. “I felt that this was possibly the most important story I was ever going to write, so I said yes immediately. A week later I was in Moscow sitting down with Edward Snowden.” Perhaps not surprisingly, Snowden was initially wary of the filmmakers. “He wasn’t looking for a movie deal,” says Stone. “It was more like his lawyer was looking to get a movie made to support this cause and he felt that I would be the right person. It was a long, drawn-out process. It was tense because Glenn Greenwald, whom we much admire, had also written a book, but it was more a legal tract. We were interested in a drama.” Stone and Fitzgerald sought to make the most accurate film to date about the inner workings of the NSA, consulting technical experts and advisors as well as famous NSA whistleblowers like William Binney and Thomas Drake. “It was very important to Oliver and me that we not oversimplify Snowden’s words,” Fitzgerald says. “We wanted the audience to believe in the conversations between Ed and his colleagues and superiors.” Fitzgerald learned all he could about the NSA’s programs, and relied on Snowden to make sure they had it right. He acknowledges that writing about an organization as secretive as the NSA makes fact checking difficult sometimes. “Who’s going to be able to document what happens inside the NSA? But there’s a lot of inside information to make people at the NSA chuckle when they see it.” For Fitzgerald, the heart of Snowden’s story is his transformation from dutiful son following his family’s military tradition to a man who committed what some have called the greatest act of treason in U.S. history. What compelled him to abandon his hard-won career and put himself at odds with the institutions he swore to protect? “It’s like a Greek tragedy,” says Fitzgerald. “We all know what he did. The question was how and why?” Stone and Fitzgerald came to believe that Snowden’s relationship with longtime girlfriend Lindsay Mills was the key to understanding the mystery man at the center of the controversy. “You have to understand this core relationship to really understand Ed,” Stone says, “The press overlooked how much she matters to him. It’s as if she keeps him human.” Fitzgerald agrees wholeheartedly, saying, “She was the person he confided in more than anyone. And she was there during the 10-year period in which his transformation took place. We watch him change through his interactions with Lindsay.” It took Stone and Fitzgerald a year to complete the screenplay. “The way Oliver put it was, ‘Kieran, I wrote Midnight Express in six weeks and it won an Oscar. I expect you to do the same!’”Complicating matters was the fact that this was an ongoing, high profile news story. “This was fresh news about a real person,” says Stone. “There was all this controversy, with some people saying he should be hanged, while others wanted to give him a Nobel Prize. I was after a story that would reflect the reality of the present situation. We decided the core would the Hong Kong sequences, where Ed met with Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and Ewan MacAskill during June of 2013. We could have spent the whole picture just telling that part of the story. We split it into six or seven scenes, building to the release of the information.” No one in that hotel room was ever sure whether the CIA would come bursting through the door or not, making the sessions harrowing. “So much was at stake,” Stone says. “They were in jeopardy from the get-go. Ed didn’t know if the CIA had a clue that he had left the NSA. There was continuous tension. We wanted not to overdo it though, because we had a much bigger story to tell.” When they had a finished draft, Stone and Fitzgerald returned to Russia to show it to Snowden and received his blessing — after a few technical corrections. The story centers on the personal and political evolution of Edward Snowden, according to Stone. “There is a resemblance to Born on the Fourth of July, which was about Ron Kovic, a kid from Long Island who believed in the Vietnam War and went there to fight. He became complete disillusioned and returned to the United States as a protester against the war. He was eventually lauded as a hero. I don’t know if there will be a similar outcome for Mr. Snowden. He’s in much more difficult terrain because of the Espionage Act and the seriousness of the charges brought against him.”The film flashes back from the hotel room to key moments in Snowden’s life, starting with a disastrous training accident. “He wanted to be Special Forces, but he broke both his legs,” the filmmaker says. “Then he joined the CIA and started to move upwards. He was a patriot who completely believed in the Iraq War. He, like many Americans at that time, believed we were doing the right thing.” The writers acknowledge they have taken some creative license with events in the story, both for artistic and ethical reasons, but they feel they have stayed true to the spirit of Snowden’s journey. “I can’t tell you exactly what Ed filled us in on,” Stone explains. “It has to remain, unfortunately, a bit of a mystery. I think the solution will be that one day Ed will write a book.” Asked how he ultimately feels about Edward Snowden, Kieran Fitzgerald says the country is very lucky that it was Snowden who leaked the documents. “He takes the duties of an American citizen seriously and he asks everyone else to take their civic duty seriously. If you cared in the 1970s when it was revealed the CIA was reading our snail mail, you should care about email, too.” The production returned to Moscow to complete shooting with a final scene that will have people talking about it long after the film is over. “Finishing that scene was the greatest elation,” says Stone. “We’d made a movie that matters, one that’s tense in the way that real things are tense.”Still, the filmmaker is pragmatic about how much impact his work can have. “I’m not out to reform anything,” he says. “What you can accomplish with a movie is necessarily limited and I’m not pursuing the activist’s game. I’m just trying to do what appeals to my conscience and my passion.”EDWARD AND LINDSAY: THE HEART OF THE MATTERAs much as the explosive nature of his life story might have been a natural fit with Stone’s body of work, Edward Snowden is a character unlike any the filmmaker has brought to the screen before. “Oliver generally deals in operatic, manly characters,” says Fitzgerald. “Ed is soft-spoken, methodical and quite un-dramatic.” The director readily concedes that writing a movie about a computer programmer is a departure for him. “He’s not an alpha male and that’s different for me. So I made the girl the alpha character.” To understand Snowden’s decision meant understanding his unique relationship with Lindsay Mills. To play the pair, Stone turned to two of the most acclaimed young actors working today. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was always Stone’s first choice to play Edward Snowden. “I’d read some of Joe’s blogs and thought he was very sharp politically,” the director says. “He expressed genuine interest and I took him to Moscow to meet Mr. Snowden. Joe, Kieran and Ed are all the same generation and the three of them became very close. Joe deeply admires Ed and he carried that into his performance.” The two have a similar quality in Stone’s opinion. “Joe even looks a bit like him,” observes the director. “He comes across very quiet and very bright, like a guy who would spend hours writing code. He’s not given to much expression. I think it works well and is crucial for the story. He’s very good in the movie.” Gordon-Levitt calls himself a long-time fan of Stone and was immediately interested in the project, even though he did not know a great deal about Snowden. “I find it exciting when a film can make me feel more inspired to play a part in my democracy,” the actor says. “Oliver’s films do that more than any other filmmaker of our time. In his body of work, Oliver has done a fantastic job of demonstrating what he loves about the United States of America. He cares so much. There isn’t really another filmmaker who’s done that so boldly and that’s really what this story needed.” The actor threw himself into researching the role, reading as much about Snowden as he could and watching him on video to try and capture his quirks. “I began to really respect what he’s done,” says Gordon-Levitt. It’s a fascinating story and such an interesting character to play. There is a part of this story that’s so personal, about a human being coming to terms with his own beliefs and mustering the courage to do something that goes against the grain.”Gordon-Levitt has come to believe that the media have presented the public with an incomplete and ultimately inaccurate picture of Edward Snowden. “The news seems exactly like show business to me,” he says. “They’re trying to engage an audience; they’ve got their sponsor that they want to keep happy; they want to get their ratings. They also want to stay friendly with the folks who run Washington, so they can’t do anything too risky. If you look at the way that the American media has told the story of Edward Snowden, it really is one sided, whether you’re watching Fox or CNN or MSNBC.”Stone agrees, pointing out that Snowden had been a successful NSA analyst for the better part of a decade. “He was far more respected than the way the media portrayed him. The impression has been created that he was just a junior intelligence gatherer in a gigantic department. That’s not the case. He had special accesses and privileges because he was so good at what he did. He built programs that were highly praised inside of the NSA. Hopefully more of that will come out through the Freedom of Information Act.” The film, Gordon-Levitt says, presents a different, fuller portrait of a man at war with his conscience. “Rather than just demonizing Edward Snowden, we are trying to understand why he did what he did. It’s a great story that is really enjoyable to watch as a compelling drama, but it’s also illuminating. You come away with a deeper understanding of Ed.” The Snowden he discovered is devoted to his country, says the actor. “When he broke his legs in military training, he had to find a different way to serve. His intelligence career takes him all over the world in high-paying jobs, but he finds the tactics he sees disturbing. These intelligence agencies are breaking some of the most fundamental principles that he believes our country stands for. The government is violating the Constitution by trying to fight terrorism with mass surveillance systems. What’s going on is against his basic principles. He walks away from a very satisfying life in order to do what he thinks is right. I find that incredibly moving.” The charges against Snowden carry a steep penalty, which the highly trained former intelligence analyst was keenly aware of. “He has risked his entire future,” Gordon-Levitt says. “If he were to come back to the United States right now, he would be charged under the Espionage Act, which means a secret trial, without a jury. He wouldn’t even get to state his case. And they could impose the death penalty.” But it was walking away from his relationship with longtime girlfriend Lindsay Mills that was one of Snowden’s greatest sacrifices, according to Gordon-Levitt. “It’s not simply a love story. She plays an important role in his progression. She has a different outlook on life. She’s the artist and he’s the engineer. Her instinct is to question authority. She turns him on to a way of thinking that is curious. He becomes someone willing to ask hard questions because of his relationship with her.” As Mills, Snowden’s Stone cast Shailene Woodley, star of the blockbuster Divergent franchise and the acclaimed romantic drama The Fault in our Stars. Woodley impressed the director by writing him a letter telling him how important the film was to her and detailing her admiration for Snowden. “Shailene was a surprise,” says Stone. “Her connection to the story was really moving. Her schedule made things difficult because she had to leave to work on another film, but she was well worth the extra effort. She brought a tremendous humanity to the role. Joe plays Ed as a hardworking guy and that’s the way he seems when you meet him. She was the life of the party and he was the dullest guy in the room.” Gordon-Levitt has nothing but praise for his co-star. “I’m so happy Shailene did this role,” he says. “She is such a great actress and such a smart, warm person. That’s a crucial part of this story. She brings a kind of rebellious spirit that comes from a place of love and positivity.” In Stone and Fitzgerald’s original outline for the script, Mills’ role was more peripheral, but they later came to understand how important she was to Snowden’s evolution. “The media have always portrayed her as a bit of a bimbo,” says Stone. “She was very much a young woman who wanted to see the world. She was a good photographer and was working on a career. As all of this was going on, she was always on social media. Ed makes her aware that by being so public, she’s making herself vulnerable.” Woodley was already quite familiar with the Snowden saga. “When I found out that Oliver Stone was making a project about him, I got very excited,” she says. “Edward Snowden’s actions deeply affected me. I spent hours reading about it. From my perspective, Oliver Stone is the only person who could do this story justice. He is a fearless filmmaker who is always keen on telling the other side of any story. I don’t know that there are many filmmakers out there who would be as brave as he has been.”While Woodley didn’t meet her real-life counterpart before making the movie, she was able to learn a lot about her through the Mills’ Twitter account. “It went back many years,” she says. “I read every single post to get a feeling of her personality. It’s the first time I’ve ever played a real person. Oliver wanted me to be very specific about certain details in Lindsay’s life. To have a director who knew this woman, inside and out, and was so eager to properly represent her was invaluable.” The free-spirited Mills and her reserved boyfriend first met when they were both 20 years old. “I bring some laughter into this story,” says the actress. “Lindsay is a glass-half-full kind of a person. She brings air and lightness to his life and he brings her down to earth. That could be why their relationship flourished.”Because she wants to see the world, Mills tags along with Snowden on all his postings. “She also watches his professional life slowly deteriorate,” says Woodley. “He’s not there for her as much as she might need or want. When they get to Hawaii, she begins to recognize that he’s holding onto a lot of secrets.” The film has the potential to add a new dimension to the public conversation about Snowden’s acts, she believes. “We don’t take a stance on whether Edward Snowden was a hero or not, but regardless of whether you agree with what he did, you walk away with the knowledge that, if your laptop screen is open, somebody can watch you. Isn’t that incentive enough to at least fight for your own privacy?” Snowden tells a sweeping international story with as many outsized characters, unexpected twists and fascinating insights into intelligence culture as a John le Carré thriller. Stone packed the cast with acclaimed actors including Emmy?-nominee Zachary Quinto as reporter Glenn Greenwald, Oscar-winner Melissa Leo as documentarian Laura Poitras, Oscar-nominee Tom Wilkinson as journalist Ewen MacAskill, Emmy-nominee Timothy Olyphant as an unscrupulous CIA agent and Rhys Ifans as a senior intelligence operative. Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage plays a sidelined computer expert at the NSA, inspired by real-life whistleblowers like Thomas Drake and William Binney. Olyphant speaks for the entire cast when he says, “Working with Oliver Stone, there is never a dull moment. He has terrific unpredictable energy that is always surprising and inspiring.”SNOWDEN’S WORLDAs befits a story with such global impact, Snowden took the cast and crew to numerous locations around the world. The filmmakers started in Munich, then flew to Washington D.C. for scenes in front of the White House. They continued on to Hawaii, Hong Kong and Moscow before heading back to back to Germany. “In Hong Kong, the Mira Hotel, which is the real hotel Snowden was holed up in for three weeks, gave us permission to shoot,” says Stone. “We got all of the right perspectives, and then we built the interior of the room in Munich.”Production designer Mark Tildesley managed to transform unusual locations into distinctive sets. He converted an abandoned post office in Munich and the hallways of the Munich Olympics Stadium into the NSA Hawaii headquarters. He found a forest several hours outside the city that had the right feel to substitute for Fort Benning, Georgia. “We had to build a world,” says Stone. “I can’t tell you how Mark did it. We’d walk into a room somewhere in Munich and he’d say, ‘Well, this room is awful but look at that ceiling!’ I think the production designer has the hardest job on a movie. He’s conceiving the movie on paper before anything else happens.” Snowden will be Oliver Stone’s first narrative feature shot entirely on digital cameras. British cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle is known for his collaborations with dogme pioneer Lars Von Trier as well as such visually striking films as Ron Howard’s Rush and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, for which he won an Academy Award. “I was scared of digital,” admits Stone. “I have always preferred to work on film and use digital only as necessary. Anthony loves digital, so it worked well. He’s a wonderful cameraman. He’s fun to work with and always open to experimentation.” Mantle utilized a wide variety of cameras and formats on Snowden in addition to the industry standard Alexa ST. He worked with everything from Leica bodies specially adapted to fit prime lenses to the same backpack/lipstick cameras he used on Rush. The cinematographer’s relationship with ARRI gave Stone access to a new 6k prototype that the company designed as the digital equivalent of a 65mm film camera. Stone’s primary concern was making a world filled with computers into something cinematic. “Anthony brought that up many times,” Stone says. “He’d say, ‘This is all talk, Oliver! This is a computer, what the hell do you do?’” The fundamental plan was to keep things simple without sacrificing authenticity, according to Stone, by designing a variety of different angles, close-ups and unique coloring to help keep the scenes moving. The extra intensity given by the ultra-high-resolution 65 mm camera makes a difference as well, says the director. The production faced an area of concern that most filmmakers don’t have to worry about. The story of the ultimate hacker could be a magnet for other hackers of all kinds, from both inside the government and out. Producer Eric Kopeloff, who has collaborated with Stone on a number of films, says he has no doubt the NSA was watching them. “You make these kinds of movies and you look over your shoulder, but you can’t live in fear.” Security and encryption became paramount concerns for the production. “We took extraordinary measures,” Stone says. “We closed off the system. We never went online for anything. We had hand deliveries. And we had a certain amount of encryption. If an actor needed to read the script, we might allow it to be onscreen at a certain time in a certain place.” Data was created in an analog environment as much as possible. The production even had the offices swept for bugs. “I hope the NSA doesn’t come after me,” says Stone. “I really think they’ll leave us alone. I think it’s done in a way that’s human and not overly in their face.” Edward Snowden’s story is far from over, Stone acknowledges. “He’s working on a Constitutional reform program that addresses internet issues. He comments on daily developments on a continuing basis. He has a Twitter account and he speaks out. Can he be given a fair trial in the United States? One doubts that, given the charges Mr. Obama and the Justice Department have leveled against him under the Espionage Act. But it’s dangerous for our country.” Kopeloff compares the issues Snowden’s actions have raised to another ongoing fight about fundamental rights. “What if I said to you I will take away your 1st Amendment Rights, you don’t really need freedom of speech because you don’t have anything to say right now? That’s not acceptable. That’s not America. We all want to be safe, but you can’t go into people’s lives at will through email, texts, and hard drives. This is not about today. It’s about where this can go in the future.”Stone has no illusions about changing the world with his movie. “My goal here was to simply tell a solid, dramatic story,” says Stone. “Maybe some people won’t get it. We’re a country that likes blockbuster action movies and violence. There are no shootings or chases, but it brings attention to the real Edward Snowden, who is still young and alive and vibrant. He has very good, well thought out ideas about how the U.S. can protect itself, because he does care about that. The U.S. has a right to defense, but the difference between using that right and abusing it is huge to him. And I agree with that totally. The question is, to what degree do you go to stop what you believe is abuse?” ABOUT THE CASTJoseph Gordon-Levitt (Edward Snowden) will next be seen starring will star in Oliver Stone’s SNOWDEN, in which he plays Edward Snowden, the American who fled to Russia after leaking classified CIA documents.? He most recently starred in The Walk, Robert Zemeckis’s feature adaptation of the documentary Man on Wire, in which he portrayed Philippe Pettit, the high-wire artist who successfully walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers in 1974, as well as The Night Before, opposite Seth Rogen and Anthony Mackie for which he is reteamed with 50/50 director Jonathan Levine. Gordon-Levitt is also in development on a variety of feature films including Fraggle Rock at New Regency, In Sight at Universal with Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, K Troop at Amazon Films and an untitled comedy musical at Universal with Channing Tatum.? Gordon-Levitt’s additional film credits include the following: Don Jon, opposite Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore, which he wrote (Independent Spirit Award-nominee for Best First Screenplay) and was his feature film directorial debut; the English-language version of Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-nominated animated feature The Wind Rises, for which he provided the voice of lead character Jiro Horikoshi; Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, in which he played Johnny, a character Miller created for the film; Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated Lincoln with Daniel Day Lewis and Sally Field; Looper, for which he reunited with his Brick director, Rian Johnson, and starred opposite Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt; The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s third and final installment in the Batman series (People’s Choice Award nomination for Favorite Movie Actor); Premium Rush, directed by David Koepp; 50/50, directed by Jonathan Levine and also starring Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick and Bryce Dallas Howard, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination; Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award-nominated action-drama INCEPTION, also starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard and Ellen Page; HESHER, directed by Spencer Susser with Natalie Portman and Rainn Wilson (Sundance Film Festival 2010); Marc Webb’s (500) Day of Summer, also starring Zooey Deschanel, for which he received Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award and People’s Choice Award nominations; the global action hit G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra for director Stephen Sommers; Spike Lee’s World War II drama Miracle at St. Anna; the controversial drama Stop-Loss, in which he starred with Ryan Phillippe under the direction of Kimberly Peirce; and the crime drama The Lookout, which marked Scott Frank’s directorial debut.? In addition, Gordon-Levitt has received widespread praise for his performances in such independent features as John Madden’s Killshot with Diane Lane and Mickey Rourke; Lee Daniels’ Shadowboxer; Rian Johnson’s award-winning debut film, Brick: Mysterious Skin for writer/director Gregg Araki; and Manic with Don Cheadle.? He also adapted the Elmore Leonard short story Sparks into a 24-minute short film that he directed (Sundance Film Festival 2009).? Early in his career, Gordon-Levitt won a Young Artist Award for his first major role, in Robert Redford’s drama A River Runs Through It.? He went on to co-star in Angels in the Outfield, The Juror, Halloween H20 and 10 Things I Hate About You. Gordon-Levitt is also well known to television audiences for his starring role on NBC’s award-winning comedy series “3rd Rock from the Sun.”? During his six seasons on the show, he won two YoungStar Awards and also shared in three Screen Actors Guild Award? nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Comedy Series Ensemble.? Following the series, Gordon-Levitt took a short break from acting to attend Columbia University.Gordon-Levitt founded and directs hitRECord, an open collaborative production. ?hitRECord creates and develops art and media collectively using their website where anyone with an internet connection can upload their records, download and remix others’ records, and work on projects together. When the results of these RECords are produced and make money, hitRECord splits the profits 50/50 with everybody who contributed to the final production.??hitRECord has published books, put out records, gone on tour and has screened their work at major festivals including Sundance and TIFF.? Most recently, hitRECord’s community of over 350,000 artists completed Season Two of their Emmy Award-winning series "Hit Record on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt," a half hour variety program which included short films, live performances, music, animation, conversation, and more.? Shailene Woodley (Lindsay Mills) is best known for her award winning performance opposite George Clooney in Academy Award nominated film The Descendants from writer/director Alexander Payne. Among the many accolades she received for her work in the film were a 2012 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress, the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe nomination and a Critics Choice award nomination.Next, Woodley will star opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Oliver Stone’s highly anticipated drama about the infamous NSA whistle blower, Edward Snowden. She will portray Snowden’s real-life love interest, Lindsey Mills. The film will be released in the U.S. by Open Road on September 16, 2016.Most recently, Woodley wrapped production on HBO’s new limited series Big Little Lies with director David E. Kelly. The series was adapted from Liane Moriarty’s 2014 novel about three women who meet as parents at a local school, and then become entangled in each other’s secrets. Woodley will play ‘Jane’, a single mom whose troubled son is accused of bullying. Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern co-star in the limited series which is set to release next year.Woodley cemented her status as a star in the big screen version of Divergent for Lionsgate, based on the popular YA series of the same name from best-selling author Veronica Roth.? Woodley reprised her roll as ‘Tris Prior’ in the second and third installments of the franchise. The third film Allegiant is set to release nationwide March 2016.Woodley seamlessly shifted from her role as the indomitable ‘Tris’ to star in the critically acclaimed film, The Fault in Our Stars, the big screen adaption of John Green’s hugely popular novel. Woodley earned glowing reviews from the most respected critics in the country and it dominated the box office on opening weekend. The film has earned over $250 million worldwide thus farJust prior to the Divergent series, Woodley starred in The Spectacular Now opposite Miles Teller. The co-stars shared the Special Jury Prize for Dramatic Acting at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013; and Woodley was nominated for a Gotham Award, and an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress.Woodley also stared in the dramatic film? White Bird in a Blizzard for director Gregg Araki, which premiered at Sundance in January 2014.? Magnolia Pictures will release the film on VOD on September 25th?and then in theaters on October 24th.Woodley began her career at the age of 5 when an agent recognized her potential and signed her in an instant and she has been working ever since. She cut her teeth in commercials and then earned her first TV role in the 1999 MOW Replacing Dad, which starred two time Oscar nominee Mary McDonnell.Other roles include playing the lead character in the hit ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager for five years; the lead in the popular WB movie Felicity: An American Girl Adventure, which was produced by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Julia Roberts; and recurring roles on Crossing Jordan (as a young Jill Hennessy), The O.C., and Jack & Bobby. She also had a lead role opposite Ann Margaret and Matthew Settle in the TV movie A Place Called Home.When she is not on set, Woodley spends as much time outdoors as possible thinking of ways she can help keep the environment beautiful and healthy for future generations.Melissa Leo (Laura Poitras) received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award and a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for her tour de force performance in The Fighter. She also received Oscar and SAG Award nominations for her starring role in Frozen River, for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and a Spotlight Award from the National Board of Review, among countless other accolades.Her recent films include Prisoners opposite Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal; Oblivion, opposite Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman; and the blockbuster Olympus Has Fallen, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Freeman and Aaron Eckhart and its upcoming sequel, London Has Fallen. She also appeared in Robert Zemeckis’s critically acclaimed drama Flight, with Denzel Washington. Leo appeared in The Equalizer which reunited her with both Fuqua and Washington and Adam McKay’s Oscar-winning film, The Big Short. Her upcoming film projects include Oliver Stone’s Snowden portraying Oscar winning documentarian Laura Poitras, The Fixer opposite James Franco, along with Novitiate a 1960s catholic drama and The Ashram a fantasy-thriller set in the Indian Himalayas. Additionally, Leo will star in the Netflix original film, The Most Hated Woman in America, as prominent atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair.Leo’s other notable film work includes Conviction, with Hilary Swank; The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, in which she starred opposite Dwight Yoakam and Tommy Lee Jones, with Jones directing; and?Hide and Seek, starring Robert De Niro. Leo also shared a Best Ensemble acting award from the Phoenix Film Critics Society for her?outstanding work in 21 Grams, opposite Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn.On the small screen, Leo earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her hilarious and outrageous performance on FX’s Louie which People magazine called the best in television all year. Additionally, Leo earned a Best Supporting Actress Emmy nomination for her work in Mildred Pierce, the HBO miniseries directed by Todd Haynes, which she starred with Kate Winslet. Leo is also known for?her?groundbreaking portrayal of Detective Kay Howard on Homicide: Life on the Streets. Her other television credits include the?HBO series Treme and the FOX event series, Wayward Pines. She can next be seen opposite Bryan Cranston in the HBO telefilm, All The Way, portraying former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson.Leo studied drama at Mount View Theatre School in London, England, and later at the SUNY Purchase Acting Program.Zachary Quinto (Glenn Greewald) is a star of stage and screen, appearing in film, television and theatre, as well as working behind the scenes as a film producer.?He will next be seen reprising his role as ‘Spock’ in the third installment of the Star Trek franchise. Coming in September, Quinto will appear in Oliver Stone’s film Snowden alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley. Quinto will also executive produce the film adaptation of Vicky Ward’s novel The Liar’s Ball, which is currently in development. J.C. Chandor will direct and A24 Films will distribute.?Most recently, Quinto starred in the Off-Broadway production “Smokefall” alongside Tom Bloom. Quinto’s other work on stage include “The Glass Menagerie” and “Angels in America.” In 2008, Quinto founded Before The Door Pictures with producing partner Neal Dodson. Together they produced All is Lost starring Robert Redford and Margin Call starring Kevin Spacey.?On television, Quinto received rave reviews for his role in Ryan Murphy's "American Horror Story" and for his memorable role in "Heroes."? ??Tom Wilkinson (Ewen MacAskill) is an award-winning actor of stage and screen. ?Wilkinson received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in Tony Gilroy's Academy Award-nominated Michael Clayton. ?He received an Academy Award nomination for Leading Actor for his unforgettable performance in Todd Field's acclaimed drama In The Bedroom, opposite Sissy Spacek. Wilkinson also received a BAFTA nomination, won the Independent Spirit Award, a Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for the role. ?Prior to that,?Wilkinson won a BAFTA for his role in the 1997 British and international box-office sensation The Full Monty, and garnered another BAFTA nomination the following year for his performance in the Oscar-winning Best Picture Shakespeare In Love. ?He received Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations for his courageous performance in HBO's 2003 film Normal, opposite Jessica Lange. Wilkinson won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actor for the HBO miniseries John Adams, in which he portrayed Benjamin Franklin. His most recent foray into television was for the Reelz Channel, in the U.S. playing Joe Kennedy in The Kennedys and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a mini series. Wilkinson was also Golden Globe nominated for his?Co-starring role in the Golden Globe winning TV movie Recount playing James Baker opposite Kevin Spacey.Mr. Wilkinson was most recently seen playing LBJ in the Oscar-nominated Paramount/Plan B Martin Luther King film Selma. ??Upcoming films include Participant Pictures' Denial opposite Rachel Weisz, Lennart Ruff's Titan with Sam Worthington and the indie This Beautiful Fantastic opposite Jessica brown Findlay.?Other credits include Fox Searchlight indie hit Belle, ?Wes Anderson's Oscar-nominated Grand Budapest Hotel, New Regency's Unfinished Business, ?Mary Agnes Donohue's indie Jenny’s Wedding,?Felony opposite Joel Edgerton, Good People opposite James Franco and Kate Hudson, The Lone Ranger with Johnny Depp, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol opposite Tom Cruise, the Golden Globe nominated The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith (SAG Award nomination, BIFA nomination); The Debt opposite Helen Mirren, The Conspirator for Robert Redford, Roman Polanski's The Ghost, Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet, Tony Gilroy's Duplicity with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen; John Landis' Burke and Hare; Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, with Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor; Guy Ritchie's London-set crime caper RocknRolla, with Gerard Butler; and Bryan Singer's World War II-set drama Valkyrie, with Tom Cruise. ?His previous film credits include Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, with Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey; The Last Kiss, starring Zach Braff; Stage Beauty, with Billy Crudup; Wilde; The Governess; Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility; Smilla's Sense of Snow; Gillian Armstrong's Oscar and Lucinda; Ride with the Devil; The Importance of Being Earnest; Girl with a Pearl Earring, starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; Roland Emmerich's The Patriot; A Good Woman; Ripley Under Ground; The Exorcism of Emily Rose; and Separate Lies, with Emily Watson and Rupert Everett.On the British small screen, Wilkinson?received BAFTA TV Award nominations for his roles in Cold Enough for Snow and the award-winning BBC miniseries Martin Chuzzlewit. ?His other notable television credits include such long-form projects as the HBO movie The Gathering Storm and the BBC telefilm Measure for Measure, to name only a few.?An accomplished stage actor, Wilkinson has played the role of John Proctorin The Crucible at the Royal National Theatre; the title role in King Learat the Royal Court; the role of Dr. Stockmann in the award-winning West End production of Enemy of the People, with Vanessa Redgrave; a London Critics Circle Award-winning performance in Ghosts; and David Hare's production of My Zinc Bed, with Julia Ormond.Scott Eastwood (Trevor James), a multiple faceted actor and producer, is quickly emerging as one of Hollywood’s most highly sought after actors.Scott is currently working alongside Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, and Charlize Theron for F. Gary Gray’s Fast 8. The film is the 8th installment of Universal’s immensely successful The Fast and Furious franchise. It is set to release in April 2017. Audiences will next see him in David Ayer’s DC Comics film Suicide Squad which will be released by Marvel on August 5, 2016. Additionally, audiences will see him starring alongside Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto and Joseph Gordon Levitt in Oliver Stone’s biographical drama Snowden. The film will be released by Open Road on September 16, 2016. Recently, Scott completed production alongside Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana and Sienna Miller on Affleck’s Live by Night, an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s prohibition-era crime thriller of the same title. Scott also recently wrapped production on the French action film Overdrive for director Antonio Negret. The film centers around two car thieves who journey to the south of France for new opportunities and wind up in the cross hairs of the local crime boss. In 2015, Scott co-starred alongside Britt Robertson as champion bull-rider ‘Luke Collins’ in the romantic drama The Longest Ride, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. He also appeared opposite Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf in the war drama Fury for director David Ayer. His other film credits include Gran Torino, Dawn Patrol, Invictus and Flags of Our Fathers.Aside from his various films, Scott can also be seen in Taylor Swift’s music video “Wildest Dreams,” which he stars as her love interest. The video was released in August 2015 and received over 10 million views in its opening weekend. Scott is the face of Davidoff CoolWater Cologne, Persol Sunglasses, and IWC Watches.Logan Marshall-Green (Male Drone Pilot) commanded the screen as “Charlie Holloway” in the blockbuster Prometheus opposite Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace and directed by Ridley Scott.? He most recently appeared in Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation which premiered at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival in the midnight screening series and can next be seen in Oliver Stone’s Snowden, to be released in theaters this fall. He is currently shooting QUARRY for Cinemax, playing the titular lead.Previously, Marshall-Green appeared on the big screen in Sophie Barthes’ film adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s novel, Madame Bovary, alongside Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti and Rhys Ifans. His other credits include Cold Comes The Night, James Franco’s big screen adaptation of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Devil, produced by M. Night Shyamalan. He also co-starred in?Julie Taymor’s?Across the Universe, Antoine Fuqua’s?Brooklyn’s Finest,?as well as The Kindness of Strangers?and?The Great Raid. Marshall-Green starred on television as “Dean Bendis” in Jerry Bruckheimer's gritty drama?Dark Blue on TNT. His other television work includes roles on Bruce Cohen and Dan Jenk’s Traveler, 24,?Law & Order,?Law & Order: Special Victims Unit?and?The O.C.A graduate of New York University’s Tisch Graduate Acting Program and a prolific stage actor, Marshall-Green appeared opposite Lily Rabe at the Geffen Theater in Neil LaBute’s Miss Julie. He previously appeared in Adam Rapp’s Hallway Trilogy: Nursing for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Featured Actor in a Play. He earned a Drama League nomination for his work as the villainous “Edmund” in King Lear opposite Kevin Klein?at the Public Theatre and Greg Kotis’ Pig Farm at the Roundabout Theatre?off-Broadway. He also earned Lucille Lortel Award nominations for his performances in?Dog Sees God?and?Neil LaBute’s The Distance from Here, the latter also earning him a Drama Desk Ensemble Award. Marshall-Green’s other off-Broadway productions include?Michael Weller’s?Beast,?Swimming in the Shallows,?US Drag?and?Turn of the Screw. He is also a regular at the Williamstown Theatre, appearing in such shows as?Bus Stop,?Street Scene, Skin of Our Teeth,?The Blue Bird, Light up the Sky, Tonight at 8:30,?The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other,?Servant of Two Masters,?and?Xanadu.Timothy Olyphant (Matt Kovar) is an Emmy Award nominated actor with an expansive list of diverse film and television credits, known for his poignant roles in both dramas and comedies and most starred in the critically acclaimed FX series?Justified, based on Elmore Leonard’s short story?“Fire in the Hole.”In 2016, Olyphant returned to the theater in Kenneth Lonergan’s “Hold on to me Darling” at the Atlantic Theater Company which opened on March 14th, 2016. Olyphant also appeared on Gary Marshall’s ensemble cast for?Mother’s Day, which was released on April 29, 2016.He will next be seen in Oliver Stone’s Snowden starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Snowden is set to hit theaters September 16, 2016 and will be released by Open Road Films. Olyphant will star opposite Drew Barrymore as married a couple in Netflix’s dark comedy “Santa Clarita Diet”, set to be released in 2017.In Spring 2014, Olyphant completed his sixth and final season portraying “US Marshal Raylan Givens,” a modern day 19th century-style lawman. Olyphant earned an Emmy nomination as Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2011.Recently, the actor returned to television in a recurring guest-star role playing a fictionalized version of himself on FOX’s?The Grinder?starring Rob Lowe, for which he won a Critics’ Choice Award for “Best Guest Actor/Actress In A Comedy Series.”In September 2014, Olyphant appeared as “Horry” in director Shawn Levy’s film?This is Where I Leave You.?The film, adapted from the bestselling novel by Jonathan Tropper, included an ensemble cast of Jane Fonda, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Rose Byrne, Corey Stoll and Kathryn Hahn.Demonstrating his penchant for comedy, Olyphant also recurred as a guest star on the 7th?(2010 – 2011) season of NBC’s hit comedy series?The Office, playing “Danny Cordray” a rival paper salesman, and an ex-boyfriend of “Pam”, who steals clients from Dunder Mifflin.In 2011, Olyphant was seen in DJ Caruso’s adaption of James Frey’s novel?I Am Number Four, playing the guardian to the title character, “Number Four” (Alex Pettyfer). He voiced the role of “The Spirit of the West” in Paramount Pictures’ animated film?Rango?for director Gore Verbinski.In 2009, Olyphant starred as the town sheriff in Breck Eisner’s remake of the horror classic?The Crazies, which revolve around a small town beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply.? Olyphant also starred in Gary Yates’ independent feature?High Life, a comedy about four hapless junkies who plan to rob a bank, which won Best Canadian Feature at the 2009 Calgary International Film Festival. Also in 2009, Olyphant played the lead in David Twohy’s action-adventure thriller?A Perfect Getaway?for Relativity Media, starring opposite Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich.??????????? In June 2007, Olyphant starred as the villain ‘Thomas Gabriel’ opposite Bruce Willis in director Len Wiseman’s Live Free or Die Hard. He followed this performance in November with Agent 47, a genetically engineered elite assassin, in 20th Century Fox’s Hitman.In 2004, Olyphant co-starred with Elisha Cuthbert and Emile Hirsch in 20th?Century Fox’s The Girl Next Door. Olyphant brilliantly portrayed “Kelly,” the porn producer and ex-boyfriend of “Danielle” (Cuthbert), who tries to convince her to come back to the business.? Olyphant also starred in Doug Liman’s?GO, playing the role of “Todd,” a drug dealer being double-crossed by “Ronna” (Sarah Polley) and “Claire” (Katie Holmes).Olyphant’s other film credits include GreeneStreet Films’ independent feature?Meet Bill, which he co-starred opposite Aaron Eckhardt and Jessica Alba, the romantic comedy?Catch and Release, which he starred in opposite Jennifer Garner and the film adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling novel,?Dreamcatcher. Olyphant also appeared in Warner Bros’?Rockstar, Disney’s?Gone In 60 Seconds, and New Line Cinema’s?A Man Apart,?Scream 2, and?A Life Less Ordinary.Olyphant also enjoyed a prominent arc on FX’s award winning series Damages?and guest appearances on popular shows such as FOX’s?The Mindy Project, FX’s?The League?and?Archer, NBC’s?My Name Is Earl, ABC’s?Samantha Who?and HBO’s?Sex and The City.?He first garnered critical notice for his powerful portrayal of the tough, honorable, natural born-leader “Seth Bullock” in HBO’sDeadwood.? The groundbreaking series was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild for Best Ensemble for the third season.?Ben Schnetzer (Gabriel Sol) is a talented actor on the rise who brings dynamic characters to life in a wide range of film, theater and television roles, consistently elevating his body of work.Ben is currently in production on Miranda de Pencier’s independent film The Grizzles in Iqaluit, Nunavut in Arctic Canada. This film is based on the inspiring true story of high school teacher Russ Sheppard (Schnetzer), who arrives in a struggling Arctic community ravaged by alcoholism, abuse and the highest suicide rate in North America. Russ starts a lacrosse league which galvanizes the town and sparks a change in the local children who transform their lives for the better.Ben can currently be seen co-starring in Duncan Jones’?Warcraft, an epic fantasy adventure based on the popular video game series. This film tells the tale of the peaceful realm of Azeroth, which stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders. Ben plays Khadgar, a former guardian of Azeroth, who is fighting to lead a normal life. Despite his choice to turn his back on the Guardianship, he is ultimately drawn back into the conflict and learns to live up to the adult responsibilities that come with his great power. Universal Pictures released the film?June 10, 2016. Following this, Ben will be seen in Oliver Stone’s film Snowden, co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Nicolas Cage, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans, Joely Richardson and Timothy Olyphant. The thriller is based on Luke Harding's book The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man, which chronicles Snowden's move from Hawaii to Hong Kong, where he handed over the NSA documents to journalist Glenn Greenwald; and Time of the Octopus, the upcoming novel by the whistleblower's Russian lawyer,?Anatoly Kucherena, who tells the story of?Snowden's time waiting for the government in Moscow to grant him asylum. Open Road Films will release Snowden in the U.S. on September 16, 2016. Ben was most recently seen in Andrew Neel’s Goat at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of Brad Lend’s acclaimed memoir, also Nick Jonas. The story follows a 19-year old (Schnetzer) who enrolls into college with his brother (Jonas) and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there tests the boy and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways. Ben’s performance ultimately led to him being named one of the festival’s breakout stars of the year. Paramount Pictures and MTV Films acquired the theatrical distribution and VOD rights (respectively) and plan to release the film fall 2016.Earlier this year, Ben filmed Bronwen Hughes’ Journey Is the Destination, in which he will star. Ben will portray ‘Dan Eldon,’ a Reuters photojournalist who was set upon by an angry mob while covering Somali’s Civil War and went on to be stoned to death in Mogadishu in 1993 at age 22. The film is not yet slated for release. Ben recently starred in the period dramedy,?Pride, directed by Matthew Warchus. The film is based on the true story about a group of gay and lesbian activists and their efforts to raise money for the National Union of Mineworkers strike in the summer of 1984. Ben stars as young Irish gay activist, “Mark Ashton,” alongside a cast including Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, and Dominic West. The film received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture, Musical or Comedy in 2015.Ben was also recently seen in The Riot Club, an adaptation of Laura Wade’s West End play Posh. Directed by Lone Scherfig and with Wade adapting it for the screen, the film centers on the controversial, exclusive world of the Riot Club, a drinking society made up of Oxford University’s privileged elite. Ben co-stars alongside an ensemble cast that includes Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Freddie Fox, Sam Reid, Matthew Beard, Olly Alexander, Jessica Brown-Findlay, Natalie Dormer and Holliday Granger.He was also previously seen in Brian Percival’s?The Book Thief, based on the novel of the same name by Markus Zusak. The film centered on the courageous story of Liesel Meminger (Sophie Nélisse), a young foster girl living outside of a Munich neighborhood at the start of World War II Germany. As Liesel seeks comfort in the pages of a stolen book, she soon discovers that reading is her only escape in life. When her adoptive parents decide to shelter a Jewish refugee named Max (Schnetzer), Liesel brings peace to his horrific plight, passing down one stolen back after another. Ben co-starred opposite Emily Watson, Geoffrey Rush and Sophie Nélisse.First making his film debut in the indie drama?Ben's Plan, Ben played the lead role of “Ben Stephens,” a 14-year-old boy living in New York whose mother disappeared three weeks earlier while shopping for Christmas gifts. From there, he went on to appear as a series-regular on ABC’s?Happy Town, a mystery thriller around the decade-long kidnappings that occurred in a small town in Minnesota. Ben studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he appeared in numerous productions including?Oedipus,?As You Like It,?Merrily We Roll Along?and?Widower’s Houses, among many other stage credits. He first began acting at age eleven when he played the Artful Dodger in a production of?Oliver.Ben currently resides in New York, NY.LaKeith Lee Stanfield (Patrick Haynes) will be seen this year in Donald Glover and FX’s new series “Atlanta”, Brad Pitt’s Netflix original film?War Machine, and Oliver Stone’s?Snowden,?opposite Shailene Woodley and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Up next, he will begin shooting Netflix’s Death Note opposite Nat Wolff and Margaret Qualley.Lakeith recently wrapped the lead role in Matt Ruskin’s untitled film based on the story of wrongfully convicted prisoner Colin Warner.?Lakeith was recently seen opposite Don Cheadle and Ewan McGregor in the Miles Davis biopic?Miles Ahead. Additional credits include playing Snoop Dogg in?Straight Outta Compton, as ‘Bug’ in?Dope, and as the Civil Rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson in the Oscar nominated film?Selma.Stanfield's breakthrough performance was in 2013's?Short Term 12, written and directed by Destin Cretton. The film premiered at SXSW and won the Audience and Grand Jury awards for Best Narrative Feature. Stanfield delivered a raw performance as Marcus, a teenager faced with the imminent threat of out-aging the foster care system, and earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his role in the film.Stanfield is also a talented vocalist for the group Moors, and recently toured with James Vincent McMorrow. Moors will release their first full album via Haven Sounds in 2016.Rhys Ifans (Corbin O'Brian) is a gifted actor known for his enduring presence, his distinctive approach to comedy, and his ability to elegantly disappear into compelling and complex roles that are always memorable. Ifans has just completed filming ‘Berlin Station’s a TV spy series for Epix and has recently also filmed the Oliver Stone’s new film Snowden, alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailane Woodley. James Bobin’s Alice and Wonderland: Looking through the Glass (2016) opposite Johnny Depp Depp, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter is currently showing in our cinemas. In 2014, Ifans starred in the National Theatre’s one man show Protest Song the play received excellent reviews across the board from both audiences and critics. Rhys Ifans is perhaps the most commercially known for his scene-stealing performance in Roger Michell's Notting Hill (1999) where he starred opposite Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. For this portrayal of Hugh Grant’s roommate Spike, Ifans received a BAFTA nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. Additional credits include: ‘Dominion’, as Dylan Thomas directed by Steven Bernstein; Kevin Allen’s Under Milk Wood as ‘Captain Cat’ and ‘Len and Company’, directed by Tim Godsall. Judd Apatow's The Five---Year Engagement, opposite Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, independent film Serena directed by Susanne Bier and also starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, Isabel Coixet’s Another Me, Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spiderman, Anonymous, directed by Roland Emmerich; the closing chapter to the Harry Potter franchise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Noah Baumbach's dark comedy, Greenberg with Ben Stiller; The Boat that Rocked, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman; Shekhar Kapur's, Elizabeth: The Golden Age; Peter Webber's Hannibal Rising; Once Upon A Time in the Midlands, directed by Shane Meadows; Michel Gondry's comedy drama, Human Nature, where he starred opposite Patricia Arquette, Mike Figgis, Hotel; Lasse Hallstr?m's ‘The Shipping News; and Howard Deutch's comedy, The Replacement’s, where he starred alongside Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman. On television, he played the role of Peter Cook in Terry Johnson's Not Only But Always, for which he won the BAFTA for Best Actor. He also appeared in Shakespeare Shorts; Trial and Retribution; The Two Franks; Judas and the Gimp; Night Shift; Spatz; Burning Love; and Review. Rhys played the lead in Marc Evans' Sky Playhouse short Gifted. On stage, Ifans starred at the Donmar Warehouse in Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho, Robert Delamere's Accidental Death of an Anarchis’t, and Michael Sheen's Bad Finger. He was seen at the National Theatre in Matthew Warchus' Volpone and Roger Michell's, Under Milk Wood; the Duke of York Theatre in Hettie MacDonald's Beautiful Thing; at the Royal Court Theatre in James MacDonald's Thyesters; and at the Royal Exchange in Braham Murray's Smoke and Ronald Harwood's Poison Pen. Ifans is now set to play the role of the Fool in the West End production of King Lear at the Old Vic Theatre this autumn. Nicolas Cage (Hank Forrester) is an Academy Award winner and one of the most versatile actors of all time, equally known for his poignant portrayals in both drama and comedy.Cage will next be seen in Oliver Stone’s Snowden with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, which Open Road Films will release on September 16th. Also upcoming, is Larry Charles’ satirical comedy Army of One for The Weinstein Company, in which Cage portrays an American civilian who sets out on his own to find Osama Bin Laden. Cage recently completed production on Vengeance: A Love Story based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel and is currently in production on DreamWorks Animation’s The Croods 2, the sequel to the worldwide hit The Croods, in which he reprises the voice of Grug alongside Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds and Catherine Keener. The film is set for release in December 2017.Currently, Cage stars in Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog with Willem Dafoe, which premiered at the closing night of the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Recently, Cage starred alongside Elijah Wood in The Trust, which premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival and in David Gordon Green’s Joe, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. In 2011, Cage was seen in the comic book sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Seeking Justice with January Jones and Guy Pearce, and the Charles Roven produced epic, Season of the Witch. He also starred in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Cage’s seventh collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer. In addition, Cage starred in the action comedy, Kick-Ass directed by Matthew Vaughn. In the 2009 critically acclaimed film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Cage plays an unhinged and drug-addicted detective in post-Katrina New Orleans. Prior to this film, Cage lent his voice to two animated features: the Jerry Bruckheimer produced family adventure G-Force, and the Summit Entertainment family adventure, Astro Boy. Cage also starred in Summit Entertainment's sci-fi thriller Knowing, and the Pang Brothers directed action-thriller Bangkok Dangerous.Cage starred in the worldwide box office success National Treasure: Book of Secrets. It marked Cage's fifth collaboration with producer Jerry Bruckheimer following The Rock, Con Air, Gone in 60 Seconds and National Treasure.? His memorable performance as an alcoholic drinking himself to death in the drama, Leaving Las Vegas, directed by Mike Figgis, earned him an Academy Award? as well as Golden Globe? and Best Actor awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics and the National Board of Review.? Cage further solidified his leading man status when he received Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominations for his dual role as twin brothers ‘Charlie' and ‘Donald Kaufman' in Spike Jonze's quirky comedy, Adaptation, which also co-starred Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper.In addition, Cage portrayed ‘Johnny Blaze' in Ghost Rider, based on the Marvel Comic book character, directed and written by Mark Steven Johnson.? The film immediately set a new record as the highest-grossing opening film for the President's Day weekend in 2007.? Cage's other starring roles include that of Neil LaBute's The Wicker Man, and Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, both released in 2006, and Gore Verbinski's The Weather Man and Andrew Niccol's Lord of War, released in 2005.? He was also heard as the voice of ‘Zoc' in the animated film The Ant Bully.In fall of 2002, Cage made his film directorial debut with Sonny, where he cast an impressive group of actors, including Golden Globe winner James Franco, Mena Suvari, Brenda Blethyn and Harry Dean Stanton.? The film was accepted at the 2002 Deauville Film Festival.?Cage's many other films include The Frozen Ground, The Dying of the Light, Next, Matchstick Men, Windtalkers, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, The Family Man, Bringing Out the Dead, Eight Millimeter, Snake Eyes, City of Angels, Face Off, Kiss of Death, Guarding Tess, It Could Happen to You, Red Rock West, Honeymoon in Vegas, Joel and Ethan Coen's Raising Arizona, Vampire's Kiss, Peggy Sue Got Married, Valley Girl, Racing with the Moon, Pay the Ghost, The Cotton Club and Rumble Fish.?It was Cage's portrayal of a tormented Vietnam vet in Birdy that first established him as a serious actor.? Directed by Alan Parker, Birdy won the jury prize at Cannes.? Cage then received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor for his role as Cher's lover in Moonstruck.? David Lynch's Wild at Heart, starring Cage and Laura Dern, won the Palme d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.Some of Cage's other honors include a 1993 Golden Globe nomination for his role in Honeymoon in Vegas, the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Montreal World Film Festival in 1996, the first ever Distinguished Decade in Film Award at ShoWest in 2001, and the prestigious American Cinematheque honored him in 2001.In 2013 Cage renewed his appointment as a UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for Global Justice for the United Nations committing to a second tenure of two years. Cage’s original appointment took place in 2009. He traveled to Africa to undertake a mission with the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime in Gulu, Uganda, Mombasa, Kenya and Nairobi, Kenya. Here he met with child soldiers, gang members, inmates, Kenyan judges and magistrates to help stop human trafficking, child slavery and kidnapping. Cage is also a Luminary for Amnesty International and helps with their focus on human rights.Joely Richardson (Janine Gibson) will soon star as the lead role of Glinda in NBC’s epic new drama series Emerald City. She has recently filmed Hatton Garden with Matthew Goode and is currently shooting The Time of Their Lives opposite Joan Collins and Pauline Collins.Richardson starred for five seasons on the television series Nip Tuck, which earned her two Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. She also played the last queen in Showtime series The Tudors, opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers.Some of Richardson’s recent film work includes Snowden directed by Oliver Stone, Maggie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Universal feature Endless Love, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo directed by David Fincher, Anonymous directed by Roland Emmerich, with whom she had worked with on The Patriot opposite Mel Gibson, and Thanks for Sharing with Tim Robbins.Richardson has also returned to her theatre roots and recent credits include Side Effects (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Actress), Lady from the Sea, Ivanov opposite Ethan Hawke (Outer Critic Circle nomination for Outstanding Actress), one-woman show Belle of Amherst (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance),??and last year The Wars of the Roses trilogy directed by Trevor Nunn, in which she played Queen Margaret in all three plays.American audiences first saw Richardson in 101 Dalmatians. Other work includes Lady Chatterley’s Lover directed by Ken Russell, Event Horizon, Peter Greenaway’s Drowning By Numbers, Sister My Sister and Maybe Baby with Hugh Laurie and the yet unreleased films Scott Hicks’ Fallen and Papa Hemingway, shot in Cuba.ABOUT THE FILMMAKERSOliver Stone (Director, Screenplay By) is an Academy Award winner who has written and directed over 20 full-length feature films, among them some of the most influential and iconic films of the last decades. Some have been at deep odds with conventional myth—films such as Platoon (1986) the first of three Vietnam films; Born on the Fourth of July (1989); JFK (1991); Natural Born Killers (1994); and Nixon (1995). Stone’s films have often reached wide, international audiences and have had significant cultural impact. These include Salvador (1985), deeply critical of the U.S. Government’s involvement in Central America; Wall Street (1987), an exposé of America’s new capitalism; World Trade Center (2006), a true story of 2 (of only 20) 9/11 survivors; and The Doors (1991), a poetic look at the 1960s and Jim Morrison’s ecstatic music. His other films include Any Given Sunday (1999), an unconventional view of the world of American sports; an epic historical drama Alexander (2004), and Alexander—The Ultimate Cut (2014); W. a satirical view of former U.S. President, George W. Bush; and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) a realistic sequel about the 2008 financial crash and Gordon Gekko’s fate after prison. In a series of crime-related films, Stone has, in addition to Natural Born Killers, made U Turn (1997) and Savages (2012), both dark in tone and humor. His written screenplays, though not directed, gave him an early taste of the difficulty of his ideas. An uproar greeted Midnight Express (1979) which only grew with Scarface (1983). He also wrote Year of the Dragon (1985) and Conan the Barbarian (1982). He has produced or co-produced a dozen films including The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Joy Luck Club (1993), and Reversal of Fortune (1990). His documentaries include three on Fidel Castro (Comandante (2003); Looking for Fidel (2004); and Castro in Winter (2012)); one on South America, South of the Border (2009), prominently featuring Hugo Chavez and six other Presidents in a continent undergoing huge social changes. He also made Persona Non Grata (2003) on Israel-Palestine relations. His latest work The Untold History of the United States (Showtime, 2012), 5 years in the making, is a monumental 12-hour interrogation of the conventional, triumphalist narrative of U.S. History.Stone was born September 15, 1946 in New York City. He wrote a novel at 19, A Child Night’s Dream about his youth, which was published in 1997 by St. Martin’s Press. He served in the U.S. Army Infantry in Vietnam in 1967-68, and was decorated with the Bronze Star for Valor. After returning from Vietnam, he completed his undergraduate studies at New York University Film School in 1971. He worked as a taxi driver, merchant marine, messenger, advertising salesman, and production assistant. Kieran Fitzgerald (Screenplay By) began his career writing and directing documentaries. His feature documentary The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández was nominated for an Emmy in investigative journalism and aired as part of the 2008P.O.V series on PBS. His first narrative project was an adaptation of the acclaimed western novel, The Homesman. Fitzgerald co-?‐wrote the film with Tommy Lee Jones, who directed and starred alongside Hilary Swank and Meryl Streep. The Homesman premiered in competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.Fitzgerald has since gone on to write screenplays for Fox, HBO, and Plan B.His script for Ridley Scott, The Cascade, made one of the top spots on Hollywood’s prestigious “Black List”. He has also been selected as one of “Variety’s Top 10 Screenwriters to Watch”. He’s currently writing a script for Activision Blizzard based on the popular video game, Call of Duty: Black Ops.Originally from Boston, Fitzgerald now lives in West Hollywood. He has a BAfrom Harvard and a MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin. He’s represented at WME by Stuart Manashil and Ryan Feldman, and by his attorney, Penelope Glass.Mortiz Borman , P.G.A. (Producer) has produced or executive produced filmsranging from major studio releases to smaller independent films. Currently Moritz is inPost Production on Oliver Stone’s latest feature film, “Snowden”. His other recentcredits include the Oliver Stone directed features “Savages“, “Alexander”, “World TradeCenter” and “W.” Borman’s other producing credits include “Terminator Salvation”“Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” “Basic,” “Dark Blue,” “The Quiet American,” “K-19:The Widowmaker,” “The Wedding Planner” and “Nurse Betty.”Previously, Borman was Chairman and CEO of Intermedia, one of the largestindependent production and financing companies in the motion picture industry. Prior tojoining Intermedia, he founded and ran Pacifica Film, an entertainment financingcompany backed by the German production fund IMF. In 2000, Borman mergedPacifica with Intermedia and took the combined entity public on the German stockexchange.In the `80s and early `90s, Borman produced a number of features, includingJohn Huston’s “Under the Volcano,” which received two Academy Award? nominations;“The Lightship,” starring Robert Duvall and Klaus-Maria Brandauer; “Homer and Edie,”starring Whoopi Goldberg and Jim Belushi; and “Seven Minutes,” starring BrianDennehy and Klaus-Maria Brandauer, which was voted outstanding film of the year atthe London Film Festival.Borman began his career in German television production, working as a producerand director. In 1977, he moved to Los Angeles and became a Directing Fellow at theAmerican Film Institute. He later produced and directed numerous programs forEuropean television, as well as commercials for American and European ad agencies.Borman is the Chairman of the Tony Fitzjohn/ George Adamson African Wild LifePreservation Trust, which has been running the The Mkomazi Game Reserve inTanzania for almost 20 years.Eric Kopeloff, P.G.A. (Producer) has produced both independent and big-budget-studio films and has worked with a variety of filmmakers and actors ranging from first-timers to Academy Award? winners.Currently, Kopeloff produced the much-anticipated “Snowden,” (2016) directed by Oliver Stone and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson and Nicolas Cage. This marks the fourth time Kopeloff has worked with Oliver Stone, having also produced “Savages,” (2012) starring John Travolta, Salma Hayek, Benicio Del Toro, Aaron Johnson, Taylor Kitch and Blake Lively, “Wall Street Money Never Sleeps,” (2012) starring Academy Award winner Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan and Josh Brolin and the critically-acclaimed "W,” (2008) which featured Josh Brolin in the title role of George W. Bush.Kopeloff also produced “Goats” (2012) starring Vera Farmiga, David Duchovny, Keri Russell, Dakota Johnson and Ty Burrell directed by Christopher Neil, “Barry Munday,” (2010) written and directed by Chris D’Arienzo starring Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer and Chloe Sevigny, “What Just Happened?,” (2008) directed by Barry Levinson starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Bruce Willis, Robin Wright Penn, John Turturro, Stanley Tucci and Catherine Keener.Kopeloff produced “Stranger Than Fiction,” (2006) directed by Marc Forster starring Will Farrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah and Emma Thompson. Previous collaborations with Forster include producing “Stay,” (2005) with Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling and Naomi Watts, as well as “Sueno,” (2005) which stars John Leguizamo, Elizabeth Pena and Ana Claudia Talancon. Kopeloff forged his relationship with Marc Forster on the acclaimed drama “Monster’s Ball,” (2001) featuring Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger and Peter Boyle. “Monster’s Ball” earned Berry an Oscar? for Best Actress in a Motion Picture and garnered awards from critics' groups and festivals around the world.Kopeloff was an executive producer on “Pretty Persuasion,” (2005) Marcos Siega's controversial satire starring Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Ron Livingston, and Jane Krakowski and produced the supernatural drama “Godsend,” (2004) starring Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn, directed by Nick Hamm. Additionally, Kopeloff was an executive producer on “Confidence,” (2003) starring Ed Burns, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia and served as associate producer on “Get Well Soon,” (2001) starring Vincent Gallo and Courteney Cox.Kopeloff served as the associate producer and line producer on “Perfume,” (2001) starring Jeff Goldblum, Rita Wilson, Mariel Hemingway, Paul Sorvino, Peter Gallagher and Michelle Williams. He co-produced the independent feature “Ropewalk,” (2000) starring Peter Facinelli and Max Perlich, associate produced “Home Sweet Hoboken,” with Ben Gazzara (2001) and produced an Eric Bogosian monologue “The Wedding Toast,” (1999) directed by Bob Balaban, which aired on Showtime.Kopeloff began his career assisting Woody Allen's editor, Susan Morse. He worked with Morse on “Deconstructing Harry,” (1997) “Everyone Says I Love You,” (1996) “Mighty Aphrodite,” (1995) and “Bullets Over Broadway.” (1994)Kopeloff holds an MA in Global Marketing & Communications from Emerson College as well as a BA in film from Emerson College.Philip Schulz-Deyle, P.G.A. (Producer) produces German films as well as international films ranking from feature films to event television movies. His latest film was Oliver Stone’s “Snowden” which is currently in post-production.?He previously produced “Dead Fish”, “Open Water 2” and the German comedy “Eine ganz hei?e Nummer” which had an outstanding box office in Germany. Schulz Deyle is the CEO of KrautPack Entertainment and tnf telenormfilm. Previously he was the CEO of Orange Pictures, specialising in coproduction, line producing and media consulting for the German production fund IMF, during which period “Alexander” and “Aviator” were produced. Coming from a film family of long standing he attended the HFF Film School in Munich after his previous studies of ethnology and graduated in Production and Media Business.?Philip Schulz Deyle lives with his family in Munich, Germany. Fernando Sulichin (Producer) bio forthcomingBahman Naraghi (Executive Producer) is an independent producer with 25 years of senior executive positions at both major studios and independent production companies. He is currently the COO of ZAG America, a newly formed animation company that produces and distributes animated feature films and TV series for the world market.? Most recently and until July 2012, Mr. Naraghi was COO of GK Films, a highly respected production company founded by the Academy Award winning producer Graham King, and whose most recent credits include the acclaimed box office and critical successes?Argo, Tim Burton’s?Dark Shadows, Martin Scorsese’s?Hugo,?Rango,?The Town?and the Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie pairing in?The Tourist.? In his capacity at GK Films, Naraghi was also the co-founder of Film District, launched in 2010, the most successful independent distribution company start-up with commercial successes such as?Insidious,?Soul Surfer?and?Drive?in its first year.? Prior to joining GK Films, in 2006 Naraghi founded and ran Red Envelope Entertainment as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netflix, spearheading Netflix’s foray into ownership and distribution of original content.? Previously, Mr. Naraghi worked alongside Moritz Borman as COO of Intermedia from 2002 through 2005.?Mr. Naraghi started his career in entertainment in 1990, when he was appointed by the French bank Credit Lyonnais to be their permanent representative to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., where on behalf of the bank he supervised the rebuilding of the studio until it was sold in late 1995.? Mr. Naraghi then joined Universal Studios, where he became CFO of Universal Pictures in 1997 and was put in charge of the integration of Polygram Films into Universal’s operations in 1999, which included the build-up of wholly owned international film and video distribution operations for the first time in Universal’s history.? During his tenure at the studio, Naraghi also spearheaded, along with key business units, strategic initiatives to exploit and reinvigorate the Universal film library, which resulted in such new content business as?The Mummy?franchise.? In 2000, Mr. Naraghi joined Miramax Films as EVP Finance & Operations, where he also acted as chief liaison with the company’s parent, The Walt Disney Company, and he put key emphasis on better leveraging the Miramax film library through the various Disney distribution channels.Tom Ortenberg (Executive Producer) is the CEO of Open Road Films, the successful theatrical distribution company founded in 2011 by AMC Entertainment and Regal Entertainment Group, the two largest exhibitors in the U.S.Under Ortenberg’s leadership, Open Road has become the leading independent theatrical distribution company, acquiring and releasing an impressive and diverse roster of films, and has recently ventured into feature-film production and international distribution. Highlights have included writer-director Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay and a Golden Globe nomination for actor Jake Gyllenhaal; Chef, written and directed by and starring Jon Favreau; The Nut Job, which grossed more than $25 million in its debut weekend, the biggest opening ever for an independent animated feature; director Joe Carnahan’s action-adventure The Grey, starring Liam Neeson, and David Ayer’s crime drama End of Watch, both of which opened No. 1 at the domestic box office.Upcoming Open Road releases include Oscar-nominee Tom McCarthy’s critically acclaimed Spotlight, starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Liev Schreiber; Oliver Stone’s political thriller Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Tom Wilkinson, Zachary Quinto and Nicolas Cage; the Marlon Wayans comedy Fifty Shades of Black; John Hillcoat’s heist thriller Triple 9, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus, Gal Godot and Kate Winslet; Garry Marshall’s romantic comedy Mother’s Day, featuring an all-star cast including Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis; the first film produced and financed by Open Road, Baran bo Odar’s thriller Sleepless Night, starring Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan; Ben Younger’s fact-based boxing drama Bleed for This, featuring Miles Teller, Katey Sagal and Aaron Eckhart; and animated family-feature Blazing Samurai from producers Yair Landau and Rob Minkoff, which features the voices of Sam Jackson, Mel Brooks and many more.Prior to the formation of Open Road, Ortenberg spent more than a decade at Lionsgate Entertainment, opening their Los Angeles office in 1996 and ultimately serving as president of theatrical films. His tenure at Lionsgate included some of the company’s most auspicious milestones, including the acquisition of Saw in 2004, the 2006 Best Picture Oscar for Crash, and a longstanding partnership with filmmaker and star Tyler Perry. Ortenberg joined The Weinstein Company as president of theatrical films in 2009 before leaving to build Open Road.Ortenberg began his film career with Columbia Pictures in 1985. He joined Hemdale Film Corporation in 1989, where he served as president of distribution and marketing before moving to Lionsgate.Among numerous accolades from film festivals and industry organizations, Ortenberg has been honored with the Hollywood Film Festival’s Leadership Award and was listed at No. 2 in The Hollywood Reporter’s “Indy Power Issue.” Ortenberg is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and a trustee of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He has served on the board of directors of several non-profit organizations including Film Independent, producer of the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival; the ACLU of Southern California, which honored him with their Bill Of Rights Award in 2011; and The Creative Coalition, the non-profit, nonpartisan social and political advocacy organization of the entertainment industry.Born and raised in Briarcliff Manor, New York, Ortenberg graduated from Penn State University in 1982. It was while at Penn State that Ortenberg recognized his passion for film, organizing campus screenings of recent theatrical releases to raise money for non-profit student organizations.Ortenberg has three sons and lives in Santa Monica, California, with his wife, Edie.Peter Lawson (Executive Producer) was recently the Executive Vice President of Production and Acquisitions for Open Road Films.?At Open Road, he served as an executive producer on Tom McCarthy’s critically and commercially acclaimed film Spotlight (Oscar winner for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay) starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schriber, Stanley Tucci. He is also an executive producer on John Hillcoat’s crime drama Triple Nine that stars Kate Winslet,Woody Harrelson,?Aaron Paul, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, ?and Norman Reedus. He also executive produced Sleepless, Open Road’s first in-house production, starring Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan, along with Oliver Stone’s Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley. Lawson joined Open Road Films from Thunder Road Films, where he was President of Production for two years. Prior to joining Thunder Road, he was Executive Vice President, Acquisitions and Co-Productions at The Weinstein Company.?Under his tenure at Thunder Road, Lawson executive produced the box office, action thriller hit John Wick, starring Keanu Reeves and Willem Dafoe. He set up remakes and is a Producer on the French gangster film Gang Story. Lawson also serves as executive producer on the Marie Colvin Story, based on the Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner and starring Charlize Theron.At The Weinstein Company Lawson oversaw a diverse slate of award-winning and critically acclaimed films including John Hillcoat’s Lawless (starring Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain) The Intouchables ($350 million worldwide gross), Undefeated (Academy Award? winner for Best Documentary and winner of the Critics' Choice Award), The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep (Winner of Academy Award for Best Actress, SAG Award and Golden Globe for Best Actress), Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams (Academy Award nominee for Best Actress), Bully (Critics Choice Award), The Tillman Story (National Board of Review winner) and John Wells' The Company Men starring Ben Affleck and Kevin Costner.?Previously Lawson headed up the acquisitions team at Miramax and?was responsible for acquiring such films as Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (nominated for four Academy Awards and winner of two Golden Globe Awards).James Stern (Executive Producer) is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Endgame Entertainment. He founded Endgame as a private entertainment financing and production fund in 2003.Since its inception, Endgame has financed and co-financed more than 30 films, several Broadway shows, and various other entertainment properties. Endgame is now one of the fastest-climbing companies in Hollywood. The company recently launched a $150 million revolving facility called Endgame Releasing, an innovative new marketing venture that will partner with equity investors, third-party producers, and studios to provide prints and advertising for commercial, wide-release films.Endgame is currently in post-production on Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery, starring Robert Redford, Jason Segel and Rooney Mara. The company’s past feature films have included Rian Johnson’s sleeper hit Looper; Tarsem Singh’s Self/Less; Lone Scherfig’s An Education, which earned three Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress (Carey Mulligan); Steven Soderbergh’s acclaimed Side Effects; and the popular documentary Every Little Step, exploring the creation and revival of Broadway’s beloved musical A CHORUS LINE, which was co-directed and produced by Mr. Stern. Endgame’s other notable movies include Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There, for which Cate Blanchett won a Golden Globe Award and was an Academy Award nominee; Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom; Danny Leiner’s Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle; and Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda, nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Actor (Don Cheadle).Douglas Hansen (Executive Producer) has primary responsibility for sourcing, structuring and negotiating Endgame’s investments and financing. He also serves as the CEO of Endgame Releasing, which was founded in 2013 to finance P&A (Prints and Advertising) for wide release films. Hansen has over 25 years of experience as a financier and adviser to the entertainment industry.? Prior to the founding of Endgame in 2002, Mr. Hansen oversaw the financing of more than 150 individual film productions, totaling more than $2.0 billion of financing, and managed capital commitments of more than $4.0 billion for Banks active in financing Entertainment. Mr. Hansen was Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Corporate Finance for the Entertainment Finance Division of Union Bank of California from 1999 through 2002. Mr. Hansen was Director-Manager of the Entertainment Finance Group of Banque Paribas from 1991 through 1999 and prior to Banque Paribas, Mr. Hansen worked in Bank of America’s Entertainment Industries Group. Mr. Hansen has a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.Anthony Dod Mantle, ASC, BSC, DFF (Director of Photography), has worked around the world on many critically acclaimed films, collaborating with some of the most exciting directors in modern cinema including Lars Von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Danny Boyle and Kevin Macdonald.? The sheer variety of Anthony’s work, from The Celebration, Dogville and Manderlay to 28 Days Later, The Last King of Scotland and 127 Hours is testament to his creativity and talent.?For Slumdog Millionaire, Anthony won the Academy Award and also picked up a BAFTA, an ASC Award, a BIFA and the Golden Frog at Camerimage.? For The Last King of Scotland, Anthony received The Evening Standard Technical Achievement Award and Best Cinematography at the Stockholm Film Festival. For Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh, Anthony received a BAFTA Craft Award. Anthony has also been nominated four times for Best Cinematography at the European Film Awards, winning for Dogville and 28 Days Later. ?Anthony has collaborated extensively with director Ron Howard, working on both Rush and In the Heart of the Sea. More recently, Anthony has completed work on Susanna White’s Our Kind of Traitor, starring Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris, due for release later this year. Born in the United Kingdom, Anthony now lives in Copenhagen with his wife and family.Mark Tidesley (Production Designer) bio forthcomingAlex Márquez (Editor), began his editing career as an Associate Editor on?Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday. He started as an Apprentice Editor, but by the end of?post-production he was cutting scenes and stayed on to help Mr. Stone with?the director's cut of the film. This led to his next job as Editor of Mr. Stone's first?feature-length documentary Comandante, which premiered at the 2003 Sundance?Film Festival and was sold to HBO. He continued his work?with Mr. Stone on a second HBO documentary Looking for Fidel and the feature film, Alexander, editing the theatrical release in 2004, the Director's Cut in 2005, the Extended Cut in 2006, and the Ultimate Cut in 2013.?Between?the different versions of Alexander Alex Márquez worked on the documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis which premiered at the Tribeca Film?Festival in 2006, the Mexican feature film El Búfalo de la Noche (The Night Buffalo) which was written and produced by?Guillermo Arriaga, The Propaganda Game which was nominated for a Goya, Criminal Activities directed by Jackie Earle Haley, and the Netflix original series Narcos to name a few.Alex resumed his working relationship with Mr. Stone in 2008 working on a 12 hour documentary series, The Untold History of the United States for Showtime that took 5 years to edit. He continued to work with Mr. Stone on his next feature film Savages and most recently finished work on Snowden premiering September 2016.Lee Percy, A.C.E. (Editor) won the Emmy in 2010 for the HBO production of?Taking Chance?and was nominated that same year for?Grey Gardens. Both films were again nominated for American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards (by editors for editors) and Lee took home the Eddie, this time for Grey Gardens. He enjoyed working with Oliver Stone on Snowden. Originally trained as an actor at the Juilliard School Lee credits this with helping him shape performances that garnered Oscars for such actors as William Hurt in?Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jeremy Irons in?Reversal of Fortune, Hilary Swank in?Boys Don't Cry,?and a nomination for Catalina Sandina Moreno in?Maria Full of Grace. He enjoys the mixture of independent projects?such as Sundance Grand Prize winner The Believer?and studio productions like?Salt?with Angelina Jolie. Long associated with Barbet Schroeder, one of the progenitors of French New Wave cinema, on such films as Before and After with Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson, Kiss of Death with Nicolas Cage and Samuel Jackson, Single White Female, with Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Lee, as well as Reversal of Fortune which starred Glenn Close along with Irons.?Percy has also worked with such Hollywood powerhouses as Philip Noyce, Kathryn Bigelow, Harold Ramis and was reunited with Kimberly Peirce on her film?Carrie.Percy was?Supervising?Producer on Starz’ stylish series Magic City.??Recently Percy wrote and directed the award-winning short,?Dreaming American,?and is at work on the feature version.Percy is a regular Creative Advisor for the Independent Feature Project, as well as the Sundance Directors Lab, where he helped start a post-production intensive program.Bina Daigeler (Costume Designer) whose life made her travel from Munich to Madrid, where she managed to get work on the two things she is truly passionate about: costumes and film. Languages and her vocation were crucial in becoming part of the team of Bille August's La Casa de Espíritus and Ridley Scott's 1492.Diageler’s first job as Head of Costume Design came with a film that, at the time, broke box office and commercial molds in Spanish cinema: Airbag by Juanma Bajo Ulloa. Subsequently, she has worked with Pedro Almodóvar on two of his most acclaimed films: Todo Sobre Mi Madre and Volver. For these works, along with her costume designs for Joaquin Oristrell's Inconscientes and Fernando Leon de Aranoa's Princesas, Diageler was nominated for the Goya Awards.She has had the opportunity to work with Antonio Banderas in his second film as director, El Camino de los Ingleses, and also in the directorial debut of Jordi Molla’s No Somos Nadie. Bina has also worked in La Fiesta del Chivo with Luis Llosa, Capitanes de Abril with Maria de Medeiros, El Lápiz del Carpintero with Anton Reixes, and more recently in Pájaros de Papel, Emilio Aragon's first film.Internationally, Diageler has been in charge of costume design in the two parts of Che by Steven Sodenbergh, with Benicio del Toro, in Imagining Argentina by Christopher Hampton, with Antonio Banderas (this time as an actor) and Emma Thompson. Diageler made costumes in John Malcovich's behind-the-camera debut as director, The Dancer Upstairs, in the drama about the Spanish Civil War, Las Mujeres del Anarquista directed by Marie Noelle and Peter Sehr, in the German box office hit Der Schuh des Manitu by Michael Herbig, and - more recently - with Jim Jarmusch in The Limits Of Control, Alejandro González I?árritu in Biutiful, and Dominik Moll in The Monk.Diageler credits her work with these films to giving her the opportunity to dive into different times, characters and worlds. Turning an actor into a character and infusing truth and life into the movies through costume design is still her main goal and her passion.Budd Carr (Executive Music Producer) is one of the film industry's top talents in the field of Film Music Supervision and is best known for his work with Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone. Budd has applied his expertise to every Stone film since Salvador, including, Platoon, JFK, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers, Any Given Sunday and Snowden. He has supervised over 90 films and worked with many renowned directors in addition to Stone including Michael Mann, James Cameron, Terry George, Norman Jewison, Mike Newell and Tate Taylor. Budd began his professional career as a music agent with the national talent agencies, representing acts including The Cream, James Taylor, Carole King, Crosby-Stills-Nash and Young, and Eric Clapton. Launching his own management company in 1980 he handled the careers of multi-platinum acts Kansas, Captain & Tennille, Heatwave, Asia and Slaughter.He served as the Head of Music for Peter Guber’s Mandalay Pictures at both Sony Pictures and Paramount Films, and as the Senior Film Music Supervisor for EMI Music Publishing, Windswept Pacific, and Overture Films. Budd continues to work as a producer and music supervisor for motion pictures, television and soundtracks. He has produced many soundtrack albums including; Natural Born Killers, the critically acclaimed and Academy Award nominated film Hotel Rwanda soundtrack as well as soundtracks for the award winning Showtime TV series Californication starring David Duchovony. As a content producer Budd is developing films, TV series and a slate of music documentaries, the first of which Miracles Out of Nowhere celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the rock group KANSAS. The film had its world premiere at the 2015 Santa Barbara film festival and is currently available on DVD and screening on Vh1. Budd was nominated for the 2010 Hollywood Music & Media Award for Outstanding Music Supervision in Film for his work on Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps and he received the Hollywood Music & Media Award for Outstanding Music Supervision Television for his work on the Showtime Series "Californication."His most recent film project is Oliver Stone’s” Snowden”, based on the life of NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden. The film will be released in September 2016.He is a member Executive Committee of the City of Hope’s Music, Film and Entertainment Industry Group and on the Advisory Board for California State University Entertainment Studies Program. He has served on the Board of Governors for The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and is the founder and Co-Chairman of the Grammy Foundation's Film Music Scoring Program. Craig Armstrong (Music By) was born in Glasgow, and studied composition and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, London from 1977 to 1981.From his base in Glasgow, Armstrong has written for film, classical commissions and solo recordings. He has collaborated with director Baz Lurhmann on William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, and The Great Gatsby; the latter for which Armstrong was Grammy nominated for his original score. Armstrong has also composed the scores for The Quiet American, Ray, Orphans, Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Far From the Madding Crowd, and Victor Frankenstein.Most recently, Armstrong composed the original score for the Emilia Clarke-Sam Claflin romantic drama Me Before You as well as the next installment in creator Helen Fielding’s romantic comedy series Bridget Jones’s Baby starring Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth scheduled for release on September 16th, 2016.For his film scores, Armstrong has been awarded two BATFAs, two Ivor Novellos, a Golden Globe, an American Film Institute Award, a Grammy and, in 2007, an Outstanding International Achievement award from Scottish BAFTA. He was presented with ASCAP’s Henry Mancini Award in Los Angeles in March 2016.Armstrong has released two solo records to Massive Attack’s label, “Melankolic,” and “Piano Works on Sanctuary.”? “Memory Takes My Hand” was released on EMI Classics in 2008 featuring the violinist Clio Gould and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Armstrong’s latest solo album “It’s Nearly Tomorrow” was released by BMG Chrysalis on October 2014 and features guest collaborations from the Blue Nile’s Paul Buchanan, Brett Anderson and Chris Botti, among others.Armstrong has composed concert works for the RSNO, London Sinfonietta, Hebrides Ensemble and the Scottish Ensemble. Armstrong’s second Scottish Opera commission, “The Lady From The Sea,” premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2012 winning the Herald Angel Award.Armstrong is currently visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London and was awarded an O.B.E for services to the music industry. ................
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