Credits

DIRECTOR  Oren Moverman
WRITERS Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman
PRODUCERS  Mark Gordon, Lawrence Inglee, Zach Miller

Biography

Oren Moverman (director)

Born in Israel, Oren moved to New York to work in film in 1988 after completing four years of military service as an infantry soldier.

He co-wrote Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, starring Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore and Charlotte Gainsbourg, a Weinstein Company release. Oren also collaborated with Ira Sachs on Married Life, a 2008 Sony Pictures Classics release, starring Rachel McAdams, Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnen and Patricia Clarkson, and on The Goodbye People, currently casting. Oren penned Interrupted about legendary director Nicholas Ray, for City Lights Pictures with Phillip Kaufman directing, and William Burroughs' Queer for actor/director Steve Buscemi. Both films are currently casting for a 2009 shoot. Oren served as screenwriter of Face, an Indican release, starring Bai Ling, Treach and Kristy Wu. Directed by Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, Face premiered in competition at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

Oren was also a screenwriter and associate producer of Jesus' Son, a 2000 Lion’s Gate/Alliance Release. Directed by Alison Maclean, the film stars Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Jack Black, Holly Hunter & Dennis Hopper.

The Messenger is his first film as a director

Mark Gordon (producer)

Mark Gordon is an award-winning producer with more than 60 motion picture and television projects to his credit.

Gordon's recent credits include 2012 directed by Roland Emmerich, The Messenger starring Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson, 12 Rounds directed by Renny Harlin, 10,000 BC directed by Roland Emmerich, Kasi Lemmons’ Talk To Me starring Don Cheadle, The Hoax directed by Lasse Hallstrom and starring Richard Gere, and John Curran’s The Painted Veil starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts.

For television, Gordon is currently an executive producer on the smash hit ABC series Grey's Anatomy, spin-off series Private Practice, as well as the hit CBS
drama Criminal Minds, Lifetime’s Army Wives, and the CW’s Reaper.

Gordon earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations and won a Golden Globe for Best Picture as producer of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. The film also won Best Picture honors from the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London and Broadcast Film Critics, among others, and brought Gordon a Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America.

Gordon’s wide-ranging film credits as a producer also include Casanova, starring Heath Ledger and directed by Lasse Hallstrom; Hostage, starring Bruce Willis; the Roland Emmerich-directed films The Day After Tomorrow, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid, and The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson; Paulie, which won a BAFTA Award for Best Children’s Film; Broken Arrow, starring John Travolta; and Jan de Bont’s action hit Speed, which catapulted Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock to international stardom.

Gordon is the former chairman of Teach for America Los Angeles and a former board member of The Holocaust Documentation and Information Center. He is the current vice president of the Producers Guild of America and is a board member of the Virginia Film Festival, University Elementary School at UCLA and The JTN. He is a graduate of New York University Film School.

Lawrence Inglee (producer)

Chief Creative Officer Lawrence Inglee spearheads all story development and production efforts at Lightstream.

Lawrence’s fast-rising career trajectory has been fueled by a passion for storytelling and education, from his early days at Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment (A Beautiful Mind) through his rise from Creative Executive to Co-President of The Mark Gordon Company (Saving Private Ryan, Grey's Anatomy, Speed).

At The Mark Gordon Company, Lawrence was instrumental in developing tent pole movies including The Day After Tomorrow. He most recently produced The Messenger, a character drama starring Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster and Samantha Morton and has developed and supervised a large slate of projects including Tripoli (director Ridley Scott and writer William Monahan), Olympia (writer Jacob Aaron Estes) and Rampart (director Stephen Frears and writer James Ellroy).

Lawrence was also an adjunct screenwriting professor at The University of Southern California and an inspirational lecturer for Inner-City Filmmakers, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating lasting positive change in the lives of inner-city youth.

Zach Miller (producer)

Zach Miller received a B.A. in English in 2001 from The University of Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. in Film from U.S.C.’s Peter Stark Program in 2005. Since 2006 Zach has been responsible for overseeing development and production at GOOD (formerly known as Reason Pictures). During that time GOOD produced The Power of the Game directed by Michael Apted and Son of Rambow directed by Garth Jennings. The latter was the highest selling film at Sundance 2007 and was released in May 2008 by Paramount Vantage. GOOD also financed the Untitled Barack Obama Documentary, which will air on HBO in 2008. Most recently Zach served as a producer on GOOD’s first homegrown feature The Messenger, directed by Oren Moverman and starring Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson and Samantha Morton. Other projects GOOD currently developing at are Marching Powder, which will star Don Cheadle and is currently being written and will be directed by Jose Padilha (Elite Squad); The Futurist, which will be written and directed by Andrew Adamson (Shrek, Narnia); the Jerzy Kosinski biopic About the Author, written and to be directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (Brothers of the Head); Live Nude Girls Unite!, written by Shauna Cross (Whip It!) and to be directed by Nicole Kassell (The Woodsman); and The Outsider, based on the novel by Richard Wright.