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In a coming-of-age story straight out of Jersey, an unlikely rapper finds her voice as Rodrigo Teixeira (THE WITCH, FRANCES HA), Dan Janvey (BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN a one-of-a-kind hip-hop legend in the making as PATTI CAKE$, the first feature film WILD, HEART OF A DOG), Daniela Taplin Lundberg (THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, WHAT from acclaimed commercial and music-video director Geremy Jasper. Set in gritty MAISIE KNEW) and Chris Columbus (HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE, strip-mall suburbia, Patti Cake$ chronicles an underdog’s quest for fame and glory HOME ALONE). Director of photography is Federico Cesca (ROXANNE ROXANNE, with humor, raw energy and some unforgettable beats. CRONIES). Editor is Brad Turner (GOAT, BREAKING A MONSTER). Production designer is Meredith Lippincott (SHAME, CAROL). Costume designer is Miyako Bellizzi (AS YOU Written, directed, and with original music and songs by Geremy Jasper, the film stars ARE, DIAMOND SOLES). Original music is by Geremy Jasper & Jason Binnick (SUSIE Danielle Macdonald (EVERY SECRET THING, THE EAST), Bridget Everett (TRAINWRECK, Q, THE EMERYVILLE EXPERIMENTS). FUN MOM DINNER), Siddharth Dhananjay, Mamoudou Athie (“The Get Down,” THE CIRCLE), Sahr Ngaujah (Broadway’s “Fela!”, MONEY MONSTER), McCaul Lombardi Executive producers are Lourenço Sant’Anna (THE WITCH, FRANCES HA), Sophie (AMERICAN HONEY, SOLLERS POINT), Wass Stevens (“Public Morals,” “House of Mas (LITTLE MEN, MISTRESS AMERICA), Eleanor Columbus (THE WITCH, HARRY Cards”) with hip hop legend MC Lyte (THE DEMPSEY SISTERS, CIVIL BRAND) and POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE), Josh Penn (BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN Cathy Moriarty (RAGING BULL, ANALYZE THAT). WILD, APPROACHING THE UNKNOWN), Jonathan Bronfman (THE WITCH, THE VOID), Lon Molnar (LONDON HAS FALLEN, “Orphan Black”), Fernando Fraiha (BOCA, EL PATTI CAKE$ is produced by Michael Gottwald (BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, REVENGE), Bill Benenson (BEASTS OF NO NATION, SUBURBAN KINGS) with Jonathan CONTEMPORARY COLOR), Noah Stahl (CELESTE & JESSE FOREVER, HEART OF A DOG), Montepare (LITTLE MEN) serving as co-producer.
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Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, a.k.a. Killa Patti is living with her mother Barb, who drinks too and Joan Tewkesbury, and his script began to take P. (Danielle Macdonald), has had it with life in her much and leaves Patti with too much responsibility for shape, relying less on fantasy and more on character rundown New Jersey hometown. At 23, she is ready to her ailing Nana, as well as keeping the family afloat development. hit the road and make a play for the kind of musical financially. “They’re stuck in this house together and immortality that her idol rap god O-Z enjoys. But Patti really wants to leave but she can’t,” explains plain and plus-sized Patti is stuck at home with her Jasper. “She hangs out with her best friend, Jheri, “The project really took off when we went to the wheelchair-bound grandmother (Cathy Moriarty) and who’s her biggest fan and hype man. She wants to Sundance Lab,” says producer Michael Gottwald. A bitter, boozy mother (Bridget Everett). When she gets rap and he is an R&B crooner. They dream their lives member of Department of Motion Pictures along with caught up in a parking-lot freestyle battle and easily away.” producers Dan Janvey and Noah Stahl, they have a demolishes the competition, the thrill of victory makes escape from a lifetime of tending bar and cleaning up Patti’s rich inner life is depicted in hallucinatory history that involve field organizing and digital work on other people’s messes seem possible — and Patti will sequences that turn classic hip-hop tropes into the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns, and running surreal dreams. Jasper admits to his own musical do whatever it takes to grab onto her dream. With the the Court 13 collective with Zeitlin. The group has been help of her best friend Jheri (Siddharth Dhananjay), aspirations as founder of the indie band The Fever. “I mysterious musician Basterd (Mamoudou Athie) and dreamed of meeting Bob Dylan every night,” he says. making movies together since 2007. “The character her loving Nana, she leads a charge against the army “We’d be hanging out and playing music together and of Patti changed a great deal. She went from very of haters, unpaid bills and broken dreams that are he would mumble some sort of wisdom to me. Then I broad and jokey to something much more personal holding her back. An origin story for an imaginary hip- would wake up and be living in my parents’ basement.” and intimate. She became someone you could really hop heroine who deserves to exist, PATTI CAKE$ deftly straddles the line between fantasy and reality — just But hip hop was Jasper’s first musical love. At nine root for. It’s a classic story, but at the same time, you like Patti herself. haven’t seen it before, certainly One of the most anticipated not told this way.” After movies at the 2017 Sundance completing the script, Jasper Film Festival, PATTI CAKE$ has was one of eight filmmakers its roots in writer and director invited to participate in the Geremy Jasper’s post-college ABOUT THE PRODUCTION years, a time when he was month-long Sundance Institute living in his parents’ home, “Rapping is her super power, which we see Directors Lab, where he would helping to care for an ailing rehearse, shoot, and edit key grandparent and scraping by when her fantasy life is up on screen.” on a series of demoralizing scenes under the guidance of food-service gigs. His own – Director Geremy Jasper seasoned filmmakers. sense that life was speeding past him informs the story of Patti Cake$, an aspiring years old, he heard his first Run-DMC track and was Producer Noah Stahl describes PATTI CAKE$ as a rapper trapped in a small New Jersey town filled with hooked. He began writing his own raps with a friend musical, a drama, an underdog tale and a coming- the low-end shopping centers, fast food restaurants, and performing at local talent shows. “In some ways, of-age story all rolled into one. “The movie has some and highway on-ramps that stand between her and this movie was an excuse for me to write rap music her dreams of big-city stardom. again,” he says. “I didn’t have an outlet for that for really emotional aspects to it, but it’s also got a lot years until the idea of Patricia Dombrowski blossomed of levity, fun, some weirdness and really colorful Patti, Jasper says, is a contemporary, female version in my brain. Then I thought, Ah! I have all this material. characters,” he observes. “It’s a little bit difficult to fit of his younger self. “Growing up in New Jersey, I had I can actually channel it into something.” this Springsteen-esque angst to get out,” he explains. it into a box, which is one of the things that we were “Patti could be my sister. In the film, she is going For Jasper, the appeal of rap is its ability to most excited about.” through what I was going through when I was 23. I transform limitations into assets. “Rappers take took those experiences and combined them with my the crappy circumstances of their lives and make Producer Chris Columbus says: “Upon seeing the first lifelong obsession with rap music and my admiration them mythological,” explains the filmmaker. “Places cut of PATTI CAKE$, I was immediately struck by how for the big, tough, strong women that raised me and like Queensbridge or Compton or Lodi, New Jersey, much the film reminded me of movies like ROCKY, created what I think is a larger-than-life Jersey Girl become bold and colorful and interesting, instead of who is not quite like anyone you’ve ever met. I wanted drab and mundane. Through the rhymes, artists show SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER and ON THE WATERFRONT. to create a tribute to the women in my life as well as different sides of their personalities — in Patti’s case, These are all films that share a common theme and Jersey.” her sense of humor, her bravery and her balls.” manage to create a naturalistic portrayal of real, Danielle’s character is also conjured from the teenage Jasper’s interest in filmmaking was sparked by friend three dimensional characters, who because of their girls who played basketball for Jasper‘s dad, a and fellow Wesleyan alumnus Benh Zeitlin, who made surroundings and upbringing, struggle to achieve their legendarily successful high school coach. “They could the arthouse hit BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. dreams. Yet all of these films, leave the audience with kick the boys’ asses on the court,” he says. “They were With Zeitlin’s encouragement, Jasper banged out larger than life and there was something subversive the first draft of his first screenplay in 19 feverish an emotionally uplifting high when they leave the about it. I thought an overweight, white girl from days and submitted it to the prestigious Sundance cinema.” suburban Jersey went against the norms of what a hip- Screenwriters Lab. To his surprise, he was selected hop artist could be. That was really interesting to me.” to work with mentors including Quentin Tarantino 4 PRESS NOTES PATTI CAKE$
I took those experiences and combined them with my lifelong obsession with rap music and my admiration for the big, tough, strong women that raised me and created what I think is a larger-than-life Jersey Girl who is not quite like anyone you’ve ever met.
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To play the one-of-a-kind title role, the filmmakers knew they needed to feels sincere. There’s a genuine joy to how they both experience life and find an actress with a particular look and the ability to bring the character’s it’s infectious.” vulnerability and grit to the screen. “Patti is rock-hard on the outside and Dhananjay, too, was astonished by the similarities between Jheri and the she curses like a sailor, but, underneath it all, she’s just protecting herself,” hip-hop alter ego he had created for himself in the homemade videos. Jasper adds. “She really has a poet’s sensitivity. She has something to “We came up with the idea separately, but it’s like they share the same express that her situation is preventing her from sharing.” soul,” he marvels. “Jheri is the more realistic, human side of my ridiculous The director knew he was not looking for a typical starlet or for anyone the character. That was interesting for me. I knew how to be this crazy, audience might be familiar with. “I had a very clear idea of who she was,” flamboyant, big character, but having to find the person behind all that says Jasper. “There aren’t a lot of films that put a spotlight on someone was really fun.” like Patti. She might figure in as the funny best friend or some kind of Under all his bluster, Jheri is really a sweetheart, the actor says. “He’s just comic relief, but here she carries the picture.” a normal kid who works at a drugstore, but he has these crazy dreams of With the Sundance Institute Directors Lab approaching quickly, producer doing something bigger, better, and more fun with his life. And he loves Stahl had an idea. He remembered an actress he had seen in a small Patti. He’s her best friend, but he’s also her life coach and her No. 1 fan. role in Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling’s corporate-espionage thriller THE He thinks Patti Cake$ is the most badass chick of all time. She’s the EAST, and suggested Jasper meet with her. On paper, Danielle Macdonald sweetest girl with her friends, but watch out if you’re her enemy. She’s was not an obvious contender. First of all, she’s Australian and had never larger than life, and she’s got so much heart. People fall in love with her attempted a New Jersey accent before. Perhaps more importantly, she when they watch her on screen.” had no musical experience at all. Patti’s dreams of becoming a global superstar come one step closer to But Jasper says he knew instantly she was the right actress for the role. reality when she and Jheri meet punk rocker Basterd the Anti-Christ playing “I didn’t know if she could act,” the director recalls. “I didn’t know if she at the local VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Hall. “Basterd is the classic could rap. But that was the face that had been in my head the entire time. suburban Goth kid,” says Jasper. “He wants to take down the government, She looked like a young girl, but she also had this toughness to her. I knew doesn’t want anything to do with his parents and lives in a shack in the that I wanted to watch that face.” woods cut off from society. He also has a sophisticated recording set-up No one could have been more doubtful about the casting than Macdonald stashed there. Basterd is the only person Patti has ever met who seems herself. “I read the script and thought, what on earth makes them think I like a genuine artist. He’s obviously wearing a mask and a costume, but can do this?” she says. “It was just so different from anything I’d ever done. there’s something poetic about him.” It’s so different from who I am, but it sounded terrifying and really cool. I Casting directors Jessica Kelly and Rebecca Dealy brought in Mamoudou went to Utah for the Labs and we were able to figure out the character and Athie to meet with Jasper about the role. A Yale-trained actor, he seemed hone the script. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life.” the antithesis of the character to the director. “He was clearly really sharp, Burdened at home with the care of her ill Nana and caustic mother but he is so different from Basterd when you meet him,” says Jasper. “He Barb, cruelly mocked by the locals and burdened with far too much was very preppy and I just didn’t see it. But he brought real depth and responsibility at a young age, Patti could easily give up her dreams and authenticity to a far-out character. He’s an actor with a capital A and we become another lost soul, but she refuses. “The movie is about an unlikely were so lucky to get him.” heroine who is just trying to navigate life,” Macdonald says. “It’s a coming- Athie says he had his doubts about the project when he was asked to of-age story about following your dreams, finding your passion and inner audition. “I read the sides and saw he was referring to himself as the confidence, and not stopping when people tell you no. Patti feels like Anti-Christ,” he recalls. “I thought, no thank you. I don’t want to put that she has something to say. It’s not easy to do and she gets beaten down into the world. But when I read it, I saw that was not all the part was. He in every possible way. But that just forces her to be true to herself. She has to dig deep into her anger and despair and passion to make it real.” Selecting an Australian actress with no rapping experience as a blue-collar New Jersey hip-hop queen was not the only unusual choice Jasper made. To cast Patti’s confidante and partner-in-crime Jheri, a young pharmacist by day and R&B crooner after hours, the filmmaker stumbled upon videos by “Dhananjay the First” on WorldStarHipHop, on which aspiring performers can post their own videos. In those videos he watched a South Asian college student remixing R&B classics like Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name,” dressed in do-rags and oversized jerseys, smoking Newports and counting wads of cash. It seemed like Jheri already existed. Jasper tracked down the performer, whose full name is Siddharth Dhananjay, at Grinnell College in Iowa. He and his friends had been making spoof rap videos as a lark. “We would take the beat, write our own lyrics to them and make these crazy videos,” Dhananjay says. “We were just doing it for fun, and then I got an email one day from Michael Gottwald asking if I wanted to be a part of this movie.” Dhananjay is actually very much like Jheri, says Jasper. “His performance
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But her expiration date has passed worked with her on a short film and I knew she would from a world he finds brutal.” and she wasn’t able to achieve her dreams. Barb was bring so much humor and rawness to the character.” a really attractive woman with a lot of swagger and Fortunately, Moriarty loved the script and was not Patti seems to be the first person he has let into his strut when she was younger, but the years of drinking life in a while. “I think they recognize something in going to let vanity keep her from playing a juicy part and self-destructive behavior have taken that away. like Nana. “I was actually flattered he thought I could each other,” Athie says. “It’s the pain that they go For Patti to even have aspirations of making music is through just living. Patti’s situation is really awful, but pull this off,” the actress says. “To me, the story is enough to throw Barb into a jealous tailspin, but they about the three women and how they grow together, she handles it like a champ. They’re also both really, also share so much. They escape through music.” really committed to this dream they have of making grow apart and what happens to them in their lives.” music.” The film also contains small gems of supporting With few lines, Athie manages to communicate performances, including McCaul Lombardi all of that emotion with just his presence, who says he had always dreamed of playing a says Stahl. “His performance is a physical rapper and got his wish when he landed the expression of his character as opposed to a role of Danny Bagadella, the swaggering townie lot of words. Mamoudou is the kind of actor Patti is futilely crushing on. Sahr Ngaujah, best that can make you wonder what’s going on known for playing Fela Kuti in the five-year run inside his head when he’s saying nothing.” of “Fela!” on Broadway, plays Patti’s idol, hip- hop impresario O-Z, with quiet authority. And Gottwald agrees: “There was kind of a stillness Nick Sandow, known to “Orange is the New and sturdiness to his performance. It’s a nice Black” fans as prison warden Joe Caputo, plays balance with Siddharth, who had never really Danielle’s catering boss. acted before, so he’s a lot rawer. Mamoudou was a kind of anchor for him.” The filmmakers cast real-life rappers including the legendary MC Lyte, who paved the way for a Patti’s mother Barb is an intimidating force generation of female MC’s, as the fairy- both physically and emotionally and she had godmother-like character of DJ French Tips. to be played by someone who could hold Rising New York hip-hop artist Kirk Knight, her own with Macdonald, says Jasper. “I was and Anthony Ramos, best known for playing looking for an actress for whom balls-to-the- both John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in the wall performance comes naturally, who pushes original Broadway cast of “Hamilton,” play rapper boundaries and has a tongue as razor-edged as Everett poignantly captures Barb’s pain and Nomad and his producer, Swisha, respectively. The Patti’s,” says Jasper. “And like Patti, I didn’t want to disappointment, as well as the thrill she still gets from part of strip club-owner Benzo was written for rap see her played by anyone the audience was familiar singing, even if the venue is a shabby bar and her star Action Bronson’s sidekick Big Body Bes. Other with. I wanted someone who looked like the women band is a karaoke machine. “I love stories that are area rappers, including Bishop Nehru and Aaron Rose, that I grew up around. I just happened to see Bridget about big dreams,” says Everett. “I related to Barb. appear or contribute songs to the soundtrack, and O-Z Everett performing on ‘Inside Amy Schumer’, and I She always wanted to be a rock star, but then she protégé Yung Nurple is played by renowned rapper immediately said, that’s Barb. She had the musicality got knocked up, so now she spends a lot of her time and writer Skyler “Skyzoo” Taylor, who also served as and the physicality I was looking for. She is a big, sexy in bars, drinking, singing karaoke and sleeping with Macdonald’s movement coach. woman with a sense of both darkness and beauty. But the wrong men. Most of my life has been struggling I didn’t know if she had the acting ability for such a to achieve my dream, so I understand feeling trapped demanding role.” and lonely and desperate. I felt like I wanted to take Everett, a singer and comedian notorious for her care of her somehow.” fearless and uninhibited original performances, Patti’s grandmother brought her up and provided the has been a favorite on the New York cabaret scene affection and attention her own mother was unable to for years, but this would be her first dramatic role. give. “Nana is the classic adoring grandmother, but “Geremy said he was looking for an unruly sex bomb she’s hard as nails,” the director says. “She’s got a with a voice of an angel,” remembers Everett. “I was voice like sandpaper, drinks and smokes too much, afraid it would take some dramatic muscle that I and now she’s laid up in her La-Z-Boy with a broken didn’t think I had, but I went to the Sundance Lab hip, watching court shows all day and taking too many anyway.” Percocets. She couldn’t really care less about hip Barb had her own rock ’n’ roll dreams that were put hop or the music world. She likes Dirty Limericks and on hold when she became pregnant with Patti. “The Virginia Slims, but she provides the emotional stability biggest difference between Patti and her mother is in Patti’s life.”
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not used in the rest of the film — are a direct reference to Dorothy’s trip over the rainbow. “There are very stylized elements in every set,” says Lippincott. “But everything comes from Patti Cake$ is one of a long line of creative souls who her eyes. When we go a solid realistic core.” grew up on the wrong side of the Hudson River longing into her fantasy life, Costume designer Mi- for the buzz of the big city, a tradition that includes things are much flash- yako Bellizzi dressed musicians from Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith to ier and more colorful each of the characters Frank Sinatra and rapper Fetty Wap. Recreating New and perhaps elegant. with a unique style that Jersey’s unique sense of place with authentic details Fede stayed open and offers clues to their was extremely important to the director, who even adventurous. The crew personality. A pair of took his cast and crew on a guided tour of his old was always hungry for Timberland boots gave stomping grounds. some new breakthrough: a fresh camera angle Macdonald a new way to carry herself and a greater “Understanding the specifics of the setting is essen- or a weird wash of color. We experimented constantly understanding of Patti. Basterd’s all-black skinny-jean tial to the story, even though the characters and their and there was genuine joy in the process.” ensembles spoke volumes about the character. And emotional journey are universal,” Jasper says. “I want- Production designer Meredith Lippincott surprised the designer went all out establishing a signature look ed them to experience it first hand, so they would see the director at their first meeting by producing a col- for O-Z that any aspiring superstar would covet. how much more New Jersey is than just a national lection of imagery that drew upon the same sources Patti’s dream-world wardrobe is an amped-up version punch line or a backdrop for mob politics that often he was using. To his delight, she had found ways to of her real clothing, according to Bellizzi. “Finding her shows up on screen. Making the film allowed all of convey both the joy and the pathos of Patti’s exis- character through wardrobe was the most fun part of us to see these everyday people and places, all the tence through locations, sets and props. It was her the job for me,” she says. “We tried to stay as realistic things I wanted to run from as a kid, as something team that located the “Patti Wagon,” the ancient Cad- as possible and shopped in places Patti could actual- beautiful and valuable.” dy she tools around in. (The car stayed in character ly afford. I went to thrift shops all over New Jersey, as Multiple locations, grueling hours, weather issues and through the shoot, repeatedly breaking down and well as Penney’s and Sears. A lot of her clothes have a crowds of background players to be wrangled com- amassing some $800 worth of parking tickets.) They sort of ’90s feeling because she’s immersed in the rap plicated the ambitious shooting schedule, according built Basterd’s cluttered shack in the woods from the world of that time.” to producer Noah Stahl. “There are a lot of scenes ground up, tricking it out with everything from old vol- umes of Shakespeare and Gray’s Anatomy to some of Bellizzi says both she and Jasper are themselves influ- and a lot of different settings, which means a lot of enced by ’90s hip hop. “Wu Tang Clan, Method Man, details to manage,” he says. “Almost every day we had Jasper’s own heavy metal records and a mound of old tube TVs and — then perfectly punctured the exterior that kind of thing, so getting Jehri’s costumes right a new location, from a quintessential New Jersey diner was important to me. His style is probably the most to the small town VFW hall, as well as a strip club, an walls to allow light to stream in for the high-energy music-making scenes. like my own. We made do-rags to match all his outfits abandoned shack, a cemetery and even a mansion and he has the best vintage items. And we got pretty in Alpine. Geremy was meticulous about everything, To create the look of Patti’s gritty working-class life far out with O-Z’s jewelry. He has some custom-made which allowed us to pack each day to the fullest.” and her soaring fantasies of fame and fortune, Lip- items like his pendant and that great grill.” Director of photography Federico Cesca prioritized pincott drew on influences as far-ranging as classic Roman sculpture and rap album covers and posters. In one of the film’s most memorable fantasy se- making Patti’s New Jersey colorful, alive and filled quences, Patti reclines in a bathtub decked out as a with dynamic energy. Excited by the potential for vi- “Her reality is unglamorous in the extreme,” says mermaid in a music video. “That was a bit of a feat,” sual experimentation in the fantasy sequences, he the production designer. “Her home pulls a lot from Bellizzi says. “I really wanted the body of the tail to be helped conceive the film’s opening scene, a dream- Crewdson, who is known for his journalistic depictions shiny and three dimensional, so we tried a few differ- like tableau bathed in psychedelic green light, as Patti of American suburbia. Geremy gave me candid family ent tactics to achieve that. We went with a gold sequin imagines what her life will be like once she escapes snapshots to use as well. We kept in mind that there fabric for the body and a gold lamé with boning for the the narrow confines of her hometown and becomes are three generations of women in this house, so it tail. For the body, we added dimension by spray-paint- superstar Killa P. includes items are a little antiquated.” ing scales in black to create shadows. Then, because “For the look of the film, I wanted two separate Juxtaposed with that hyper-real environment, Patti’s real metal catches the light best on film, I cut out worlds,” says Jasper. “Patti’s day-to-day existence has fantasies are set in a streamlined, elevated world that metal sequins and then sewed them on one by one.” a raw, almost vérité documentary style. I wanted it reinforces the broad divide between her everyday life to feel like we were experiencing Patti’s life through and her ambition. Elements of brilliant green— a color
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hip-hop coach, helping her polish her rhyming, while she and Jasper experimented until they found a voice that was distinctly Patti. “I don’t know if I was more worried about the accent or the rapping,” says Macdonald. “I think melding them together was the real challenge. I just kept practicing and hoping that the film would get made. It almost became my whole world.” During that time, the director gave the actress a cover song each week to work on, which she would record for him. She was rough around the edges at first, he says, but her dedication proved that she was ready to go for it. “Danielle was really freaked out about rapping. But I preferred casting an actress who could be trained — like you would for the role of an athlete in a sports movie — to a rapper who hadn’t acted before and might not be able to find the emotional depth required. We started really simple like Salt-N-Pepa and by the end she was doing the Control verse by Kendrick Lamar. She got better and better and better and better. She approached it like it was Shakespeare and it became second nature.” Being in character made the musical numbers easier for Macdonald. “That helped me find the confidence to be able to rap in front of people While working with his designers in pre-production, Jasper was also who really are rappers,” she confides. “And being writing and recording the film’s original music, compiling an entire with the other members of PBNJ made me feel much more relaxed. album’s worth of songs. Some of the beats had been in his head for Sidd especially has the attitude that it’s all good. He brought out a years, and some lyrics were written when he was Patti’s age, but as whole other side of me.” the script and the character developed, he was constantly making Seeing the movie for the first time, Macdonald was apprehensive changes. about a performance that included so many new challenges. “I hate “It’s a massive task to record a whole album in the course of six watching myself on screen, so I was hiding in the back somewhere,” weeks, while you’re also trying meet with your department heads, go she admits. “But I left feeling completely uplifted. It was so hopeful. over costume choices and finalize production design,” says producer This movie inspires you to take chances and not be deterred by Michael Gottwald. people who tell you not to try because you might fail. Everyone feels like they can’t do something, but you won’t know for sure until you Jasper continued to rewrite lyrics even during the shoot, inspired by do it anyway.” new things Macdonald was discovering in the character. “Geremy was reworking as Danielle was learning,” says Stahl. “They were both working at such a high level. It put a smile on my face to watch them.” By then, Macdonald had spent over two years finding Patti’s voice. She had moved to the East Coast to prepare for filming and began working with renowned dialect coach Tim Monich, who helped her nail down her Jersey accent and attitude. Rapper Skyzoo served as her
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PATTI CAKE$ returned to Park City, Utah for this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it was one of the most buzzed-about features and was in competition for the Grand Jury Prize. Jasper says that as gratifying as that experience was, he is even more excited about having the picture seen by a broad audience. “Having Fox Searchlight pick it up is a dream come true for me. They’ve put out some of my favorite movies of all time. I want this movie to go out to small towns across the country and have all the Pattis out there actually see themselves up on the screen.”
Jasper says he thinks of PATTI CAKE$ as a big juicy love letter to his home state, his family and the creative spirit. “It’s a two-hour valentine to both hip-hop music and the big-mouthed, big-bodied Jersey women who raised me. It’s an emotional call to arms for open hearted, music-obsessed dreamers who give zero f’s. It’s a film about aching to get out, but being anchored by the weight of reality. It’s about the importance of finding a surrogate family of misfits to make music with if that’s what you need. It’s about all those things and more.”
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The Australian-born actress DANIELLE by storm including The MACDONALD (Patti Cake$) moved to Los Angeles Oddball Comedy Festival, The Melbourne to appear in Rachel Weisz’s short film THE THIEF, in International Comedy Festival, The which she was featured alongside Joel Edgerton and Latitude Festival, Montreal’s Just For Rosemarie DeWitt. She made her feature debut in Zal Laughs, Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Batmanglij’s THE EAST, which premiered at Sundance Tenacious D’s Festival Supreme, and The in 2013 and starred Brit Marling, Ellen Page and San Francisco Sketchfest. Last summer (SID) DHANANJAY (Jheri) on WorldstarHipHop, Alexander Skarsgård. she spent two weeks headlining the famed Soho Theater in London. where he parodied rap videos under the pseudonym ‘Dhananjay the First’. The film is his first since Her film, theater and television graduating college. Sid was born in India, raised in credits include “Inside Amy Indonesia, and currently resides in New York. Schumer,” “Two Broke Girls,” “Sex and the City”, TRAINWRECK, “Girls” and the off-Broadway smash Rock MAMOUDOU ATHIE (Basterd) will play opposite Bottom. Her live television special Brie Larson in her directorial debut, UNICORN “Bridget Everett – Gynecological STORE. Additionally, Mamoudou can be seen on Baz Wonder” premiered on Comedy Luhrmann’s “The Get Down” on Netflix in the sought- Central, and she can also be seen after role of ‘Grandmaster Flash,’ and he recently featured on the hit Netflix show “Lady starred in the NBC comedy pilot “Me & Mean Margaret” opposite Stockard Channing. He will appear in Danielle was featured in Clark Gregg’s TRUST THE CIRCLE, based on Dave Eggers’ novel of the ME and was the lead in Amy Berg’s EVERY same name, alongside Emma Watson and Tom SECRET THING, which co-starred Dakota Hanks. Athie made his stage debut earlier this Fanning, Diane Lane, and Elizabeth Banks. year opposite Diane Lane and Tony Shalhoub She has also made guest appearances on in The Mystery of Love and Sex at the Lincoln shows including “Glee”, “Pretty Little Liars” “2 Center Theater, for which he received critical Broke Girls”, “The Middle”, and most recently, praise. Athie is a recent graduate of the Yale “American Horror Story: Roanoke” School of Drama.
BRIDGET EVERETT (Barb) is a world- renowned cabaret artist. She was named “the Dynamite”. She is the star of most exciting performer in New York City” on the cover the upcoming films LITTLE EVIL of the Village Voice, and called “raw and riotous” by and FUN MOM DINNER. She The New York Times. Everett and her band, The Tender is the co-creator, co-writer and Moments, perform regularly to sold-out theaters and star of the new Amazon series have welcomed special guests as varied as Fred “Love You More”, premiering Armisen, Flea, and Patti LuPone. Their album, POUND this fall. IT, is available on iTunes. Everett has headlined her own major multi-city US Director Geremy Jasper tour, and has taken comedy festivals all over the world discovered SIDDHARTH
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acting as announcer for the again with Robert De Niro in the Warner Bros. feature past eight years. ANALYZE THAT from director Harold Ramis which also As her enterprise continues starred Billy Crystal who Moriarty had worked with to expand, she and business before in the film FORGET PARIS. Others include BUT partner Lynn Richardson have I’M A CHEERLEADER with Natasha Leon, the remake of several projects in various GLORIA in which she starred with Sharon Stone and stages of production, including George C. Scott, Antonio Banderas’ CRAZY IN ALABAMA a miniseries based on Lyte’s with Melanie Griffith, as well as THE PRINCE OF incredible life story, currently in CENTRAL PARK with Kathleen Turner and Harvey Keitel. development with L. Plummer Media. Nearly 30 years after A favorite among Moriarty’s younger fans was Fox Hip-hop pioneer, music icon, actress, inspirational breaking onto the scene at Home Video’s CASPER MEETS WENDY in which she speaker, and entrepreneur all describe one of the just 17 years old, MC Lyte is still a charismatic and starred in the role of the accessible good witch Gert most prolific and well-respected female artists of all commanding creative force. where she teamed up with Teri Garr and Shelley Duvall. time: MC LYTE (DJ French Tips). Audiences of all ages enjoyed hearing her distinct In the world of music, Lyte was the first solo female CATHY MORIARTY (Nana) made her feature deep voice as Ruby The Junkyard Dog in Disney Home artist to release a full album and the first female hip- film acting debut at the age of seventeen in Martin Video’s LADY AND THE TRAMP II, SCAMP’S ADVENTURE. hop artist to be nominated for a Grammy (Best Rap Scorsese’s RAGING BULL opposite Robert De Niro. In between all of her very busy film work Moriarty Single, “Ruffneck”). Since 1988’s “Lyte as a Rock”, Her portrayal of the wife of legendary boxer Jake decided to jump into television. In 1995 she co- she has chalked up several other firsts: first African LaMotta earned her a BAFTA nomination, two Golden starred with Andrew Dice Clay in the CBS’ “Bless This American female to serve as the President of the LA Globe nominations, and ultimately a Best Supporting House.” She followed that up with a role in “Séance,” chapter of the Recording Academy, first rap artist Actress Academy Award® nomination. an episode of HBO’s “Tales from the Crypt” from which to perform at Carnegie Hall, first female rapper to A native New Yorker, Moriarty was born in the Bronx, she earned an ACE Award. perform at the White House, and the first and only raised in Westchester, graduated early from high female rapper to release a full length album in her school and immediately began her acting career. Moriarty’s first outstanding performance on the NBC forties (2015’s “Legend”). She followed up her RAGING BULL performance with hit crime drama series “Law & Order “in 2001 led the A veteran of film and television, MC Lyte first appeared well-known, critically acclaimed roles in feature films producers to invite her back many times to appear in off-Broadway in 1991 in the play Club Twelve such as KINDERGARTEN COP, SOAPDISH, THE MAMBO guest starring roles on “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” alongside Wyclef Jean and Lauryn Hill. She continued KINGS, MATINEE, ANOTHER STAKEOUT, and Steven and the very popular “Law & Order: SVU” which still with appearances on series such as NBC’s “In the Spielberg’s CASPER. Cathy received a Comedy Award airs today. House”, CBS’ “The District”, and Fox’s “Get Real” nomination for her role in SOAPDISH with Robert Married in the summer of 1999, Moriarty resides before becoming a favorite on UPN’s primetime hit Downey, Jr. and has appeared in more than seventy in New York with her husband Joseph Gentile, their sitcom “Half & Half” playing the recurring role of Kai, a other feature and short films throughout her almost sixteen-year-old twins Joseph John and Catherine hard but fair record company president. Lyte has also 40 year acting career. Patricia, and fifteen-year-old daughter Annabella Rose. co-starred in several films including PLAYAS BALL (with Films from many other genres that Moriarty has Logan’s Elise Neal), Lionsgate’s CIVIL BRAND with Mos starred in while working with some of the most Def, and THE DEMPSEY SISTERS with Lynn Whitfield. respected talent in Hollywood include NEIGHBORS, 2017 is set to be one of her biggest years yet, with WHITE OF THE EYE, THE GUN IN BETTY LOU’S upcoming roles in BET’s anthology series “Tales” (from HANDBAG, Robert Downey, Sr.’s HUGO POOL, Miramax Executive Producer Irv Gotti), and in USA’s “Queen of Films COPLAND (again with De Niro), A BROTHER’S the South”. KISS with Rosie Perez, Sony Pictures Classics’ DREAM Lyte has also lent her distinctive voice to campaigns WITH THE FISHES, and Timothy Hutton’s DIGGING TO for major brands including Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, CHINA. She starred in THE BOUNTY HUNTER with Nike, GM, Nissan, and AT&T, and to the BET Awards, Jennifer Aniston, and prior to that in 2002 she worked
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“TUFF LOVE - we them New Jersey demons, so put your hands to the ceiling, coz it’s the realness your feeling.”
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GEREMY JASPER (Written and Directed By, Original Songs By, Music 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, for Time Inc.; and production By) is a writer, director, and composer born and bred in North Jersey. managed episodes of “High Maintenance” for Vimeo. PATTI CAKE$ is the He co-directed VMA-nominated videos for Florence + The Machine and first narrative feature of Court 13 affiliate the Department of Motion Selena Gomez, and his direction for the “Target Kaleidoscopic Fashion Pictures, and Stahl’s first feature film as producer. Spectacular” won a Cannes Golden Lion, TED Prize, and was inducted into MoMA’s permanent collection. PATTI CAKE$, which went through the RODRIGO TEIXEIRA (Produced By) is one of Brazil’s top movie Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs, is Jasper’s debut feature producers, having founded RT Features in 2005. RT Features is an film; a lifelong music freak, also wrote all of the movie’s original songs. innovative production company that focuses on developing, producing and financing high quality content ranging from original projects to Originally from Richmond, Virginia, MICHAEL GOTTWALD acquisitions, for both film and television. The company has had a banner (Produced By) worked on the presidential campaign of Barack Obama year with 10 films on its slate, including two of the most anticipated films in 2008, before moving to New Orleans to work with Court 13 to of the year premiering to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival: make BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. Following another stint on the Luca Guadagnino’s CALL ME BY YOUR NAME starring Armie Hammer, Obama campaign of 2012, he’s since produced three films with the which was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics, and Geremy Jasper’s PATTI documentary filmmakers the Ross Brothers (TCHOUPITOULAS, WESTERN, CAKE$, which was acquired by Fox Searchlight. and CONTEMPORARY COLOR), episodes of the series “High Maintenance,” Teixeira won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature for Robert and Michael Tully’s PING PONG SUMMER. In the works since 2013, Egger’s THE WITCH, which was distributed by A24. He is currently in pre- Geremy Jasper’s feature debut PATTI CAKE$ is the first narrative feature production on the sci-fi film AD ASTRA, which he has been developing of Court 13’s new production company affiliate the Department of with director James Gray and will star Brad Pitt, and recently announced Motion Pictures. His favorite Springsteen album is “Darkness on the Olivier Assayas’ next film, WASP NETWORK. Edge of Town” and his favorite New Jersey rest area is the Walt Whitman.
Since launching RT Features, Teixeira has produced, co-produced NOAH STAHL (Produced By) joined Court 13 in 2013 after working and financed a remarkable slate of feature films including: Ira Sachs’ for documentary directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, as associate critically acclaimed LOVE IS STRANGE for Sony Pictures Classics and producer on CELESTE & JESSE FOREVER starring Rashida Jones and Andy LITTLE MEN; James Schamus’ INDIGNATION; Noah Baumbach’s Frances Samberg, and as a development executive for producer Scott Rudin. In Ha and Mistress America for Fox Searchlight; Kelly Reichardt’s NIGHT 2015, he co-produced Laurie Anderson’s essay film HEART OF A DOG and MOVES; and Gaspar Noé’s LOVE. Other feature projects include Teddy Bill and Turner Ross’s Sundance award-winning documentary, WESTERN; Williams’ lauded THE HUMAN SURGE; Dominga Sotomayor’s LATE TO DIE produced NEW ORLEANS HERE & NOW, a documentary series about the YOUNG; and Karim Aïnouz’s THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURIDICE GUSMAO. TV
14 PRESS NOTES PATTI CAKE$ credits include “The Hypnotist” for HBO Latin America, For over twenty-five years, Academy Award® nominated Festival. In 2016 they released Sian Heder’s TALLULAH which will begin season two this year. filmmaker CHRIS COLUMBUS (Produced by) starring Ellen Page, Allison Janey, and Zachary Quinto. Dedicated to working with talented young directors has written, directed and produced some of the In 2011, Columbus released the blockbuster hit THE since its inception, Teixeira formed a joint venture with industry’s most successful box-office hits, establishing HELP starring Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions which aims to him as a major force in contemporary Hollywood. Allison Janney, Sissy Spacek, Jessica Chastain and produce films from emerging filmmakers worldwide. Along with being a prominent figure in film, Columbus Viola Davis under his 1492 Pictures banner. At the Their first project, Jonas Carpignano’s A CIAMBRA, is also a New York Times best-selling author. His novel, 84th Academy Awards®, THE HELP garnered four premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2017 House of Secrets, the first iteration of an epic new nominations, including two for Best Supporting Cannes International Film Festival. fantasy series, was published in April 2013 to rave Actress and one for Best Picture. Octavia Spencer won reviews and quickly rose to the top of the charts. Teixeira started his career in the financial market, the award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her followed by a shift into development and finance for Columbus and his daughter, Eleanor Columbus, portrayal of the character Minny Jackson. up-and-coming authors in Brazil, where he found his launched Maiden Voyage Productions in 2014. The duo’s first film, Sara Colangelo’s LITTLE ACCIDENTS passion for development of the written Columbus is the masterful filmmaker word. behind several of the most revered and successful literary adaptations of the DAN JANVEY (Produced by) is Harry Potter series. As the director of a producer with the Department of HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S Motion Pictures, a film production STONE, the first picture based on J.K. company based out of New Orleans, Rowling’s monumentally successful Louisiana, and sibling of Court 13. book series, Columbus delivered a His past credits include BEASTS OF film that was equally satiating to both THE SOUTHERN WILD, HEART OF A readers and fans, while capturing the DOG, CONTEMPORARY COLOR, and essence of the beloved characters. BRIMSTONE & GLORY. Dan has been He cast newcomers Daniel Radcliffe, nominated for an Academy Award, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in the won the Indian Paintbrush Sundance leading roles, demonstrating his facility Producing Prize, and is an alumnus for nurturing and cultivating young of the Sundance Producing Labs. He talent. The film triumphed at the box resides in Los Angeles, California. office and Columbus followed the film as director and producer of HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMGER OF SECRETS DANIELA TAPLIN LUNDBERG in 2002, and as producer of the third (Produced by) is founder of the recently film of the series, HARRY POTTER launched Stay Gold Features, a New- AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, in York based finance and production 2005. company. She has produced over 25 Columbus produced the highly features including the recent Sundance successful family/adventure comedy hit, PATTI CAKE$, Cary Fukunaga’s NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM and its two African child soldier film BEASTS OF sequels, NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE NO NATION, Michael Showalter’s HELLO, MY NAME IS starring Elizabeth Banks, premiered at the 2014 OF THE SMITHSONIAN and NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: DORIS starring Sally Field, and Lisa Cholodenko’s THE Sundance Film Festival and was released by Amplify SECRET OF THE TOMB. Other film credits include: the KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT. in January 2015. They followed up with Robert Eggers’ 2005 screen adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lundberg is a member of AMPAS and YPO and sits on THE WITCH, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Broadway musical, RENT; STEPMOM, starring Julia the board of the Signature Theater in New York City. Film Festival to rave reviews. Also in 2015, Maiden Roberts and Susan Sarandon; NINE MONTHS with She is a graduate of Princeton University and lives Voyage produced Jonas Carpignano’s MEDITERRENEA, Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore; MRS. DOUBTFIRE in Westport, CT with her husband Ted and her three a feature based on the Venice Film Festival short A starring Robin Williams and Sally Field; ONLY THE children, Rosie, Bea and Walt. Chjana, that premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film LONELY based on his original screenplay; as well as
15 PRESS NOTES PATTI CAKE$ the classic hits HOME ALONE and HOME ALONE 2: His other film scores include FIT TO PRINT, NORMAN GIRL, and the Comedy Central digital series NEW LOST IN NEW YORK. PINSKI COME HOME, and MISSED CONNECTIONS. TIMERS. Her films have premiered at Sundance Film In Hollywood, Columbus first gained prominence by Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Tribeca Film Festival. Lippincott received a BA in writing several original scripts produced by Steven FEDERICO CESCA (Director of Photography) Spielberg, including the back-to-back hits GREMLINS Production Design at New York University’s Gallatin studied music and architecture before receiving School of Individualized Study. and THE GOONIES both of which became decade- a MFA from NYU. He was awarded the 2014 ARRI- defining films that intertwined high notes of offbeat, CSC Volker Bahnemann Award for his outstanding edgy, often outrageous humor against more classic cinematography as a student. His films have been MIYAKO BELLIZZI (Costume Designer) is a adventure-thriller backdrops. These screenwriting screened at numerous film festivals including Venice, fashion stylist/costume designer who lives and works achievements led Columbus to direct his first feature, Cannes, Locarno, Berlin and Sundance, where his first in New York City. Originally from the San Francisco Bay ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING, starring Elisabeth Shue. feature film, CRONIES, premiered in 2015. His last two Area, CA, she moved to NYC in 2007 and graduated Growing up outside Youngstown, Ohio, Columbus feature films, PATTI CAKE$ and ROXANNE, ROXANNE from FIT with a Bachelor’s of Science in Advertising originally aspired to be a commercial artist, spending were screened as part of the 2017 Sundance US and Marketing in 2011. Over the years, she’s worked years studying art and interested in drawing for dramatic competition. for various publications such as VICE, NY Times, comics. He eventually made the connection between Details, Ladygunn and Dazed Digital. After working as comic books and movie storyboards and graduated a Fashion Editor at Vice, she left to pursue her interest from NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts where BRAD TURNER (Editor) is a New York-based in film. She balances her time between fashion styling, he sold his first script, Jocks. editor, and a partner in SeeThink Films, a Brooklyn- film costume design, 35mm photography and dice based production company. His eight feature credits chains. She has recently worked on films such as, AS include DARKON, winner of the 2006 SXSW Audience YOU ARE, PATTI CAKE$ and GOOD TIME. JASON BINNICK (Music By) is a frequent musical Award for documentaries, KING KELLY, winner of collaborator of Geremy Jasper’s who has worked on the Puchon International Film Festival’s Jury Choice several of his previous projects, including his short Award in 2012, and GOAT, which was purchased by JOE RUDGE (Music Supervisor) is an established film OUTLAWS. PATTI CAKE$ is his first narrative feature Paramount at Sundance 2016. He has cut music music supervisor based in Brooklyn, NY best known for score. videos for TV on the Radio, Wolfmother, and others, his work on the feature films ROOM, BLUE VALENTINE Binnick studied composition and arrangement at in addition to hundreds of internationally broadcast & BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. An experienced Wesleyan University. He spent the subsequent years in commercials, which have won a smattering of awards. licensing professional and music fanatic, he works Brooklyn as a musical director, writing and performing Brad holds a Film Studies degree from Columbia with film, TV, commercial, and multimedia directors to music for theater, and recording and touring as a University. enhance the moving image with sound. bassist - most notably with The Flesh and Botanica (who’s last album was the soundtrack to a celebrated MEREDITH LIPPINCOTT (Production Designer) Recent music supervision highlights include the German theater production of The Master and recently worked as production designer on PIMP upcoming Amazon Studios feature film THE BIG SICK, Margarita). It was during these rock and roll days that starring Keke Palmer, THE BOY DOWNSTAIRS starring directed by Michael Showalter and produced by Judd he and Jasper played in a band together and started a Zosia Mamet and the short film APPROACHING A Apatow as well as the much anticipated Grateful recording project that ultimately laid the groundwork BREAKTHROUGH starring Kieran Culkin. Past design Dead documentary LONG STRANGE TRIP, also released for the PATTI CAKE$ music production process. credits include DON’T WORRY BABY, THE MISSING through Amazon Studio.
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JHERI: Thick N Thin, Thin N Thick They call her Bitch Cassidy I’m the Lapdance Kid I got that platinum voice You got that poison pen They call us Guns N Rosay (3x) Killa P go in… Uh, uh, it’s the Jheromeo remix C’mon, let’s get it…. PATTI: Patti & Jheri we will be legendary From the bottom like sodomy Fuck the game up missionary I’m in my own trap As I flip the world the birdie My verses full of curses coz I’m stuck in Dirty Jersey Uh, let’s move to New York City We’ll make a couple milli split that shit up 50/50 I’d give my left titty and a kidney just to cross that shitty river Bridge & Tunnel, come on Jheri sing it with me…. JHERI: Beauty and the beast, Thelma to Louise You know real G’s talk that talk Killa P won’t you please… PATTI: Over that rainbow We pay tolls Where roads all are paved gold And angels in gold chains And night time is dayglo I’m Jane Doe a loser This shit’s so confusing I just want to move where my life’s like a movie Should be getting busy But I’m feeling Gary Busey We drop that hot shit like a Deus in your jacuzzi
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Unit Production Manager SARA BLECHMAN First Assistant Director INNA BRAUDE Second Assistant Director NATASHA RIVERA
MADE IN ASSOCIATION WITH TSG ENTERTAINMENT
Associate Producers GREGORY SKYLER TAYLOR KRISTEN KONVITZ
CAST (In order of appearance)
O-Z SAHR NGAUJAH Patti DANIELLE MACDONALD Barb BRIDGET EVERETT Nana CATHY MORIARTY Slaz PATRICK BRANA Jheri SIDDHARTH DHANANJAY Manager ANNA SUZUKI Mr. Bagadella WARREN BUB Danny Bagadella MCCAUL LOMBARDI Lou JOHN SHARIAN Singing Electrician JAMES CAULFIELD Shmitty DANIEL STEWART SHERMAN Joe Puppy RAY IANNICELLI Pony ADAM SCARIMBOLO Drewsky DYLAN BLUE Basterd MAMOUDOU ATHIE Officer Nichols WASS STEVENS Diner Waitress LOIS JASPER Ray NICK SANDOW Swisha’s Mom JOHANNA TOLENTINO Nomad KIRK KNIGHT Trev TREVOR JOHNSON Swisha ANTHONY RAMOS Little Patti ALEXANDRA MORUZZI Benzo BESNIK “BIG BODY BES” SADIKAY Nester ROBERT ECKARD DJ French Tips MC LYTE Catering Waitress DEBBIE TROCHE O-Z Security VINCENZO VICCARO Promoter BRETT DIGGS Peter Jazzy BISHOP NEHRU Yung Nurple GREGORY SKYLER TAYLOR Rookie Monster Crowd Member 1 BARRINGTON WALTERS, JR. Rookie Monster Crowd Member 2 ANTHONY SAMUELS Barflies HENRY LAMBERT PETER COLUMBIA LAURA COSTAGLIOLA SANDRA BLOOM
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JOE MARMO AL BECKER JIM LAVIN JOHN CHIBBARO KEVIN MCCAULEY ROSS DIVITO JEANNE SCHRAGER DENNIS REES NJPD Blues Band Bassist EARL GRECO NJPD Blues Band Drummer KEVIN HUDSON NJPD Blues Band Keyboardist SKIP FISHER OZ Rookie Monster Entourage MIYAKO BELLIZZI SYNMIA ROSINE Stunt Coordinator MANNY SIVERIO
Fi rst Assistant Camera CHRISTIAN CRUZ Additional First Assistant Camera KARIM KASSEM Second Assistant Camera CHARLES MILLER Additional Second Assistant Camera JOHN DIBLASI DIT BOON SHIN NG B-Camera Operator FELIPE VARA DE REY First Assistant Camera B-Camera DOMINICA ERIKSEN RODIN HAMIDI Second Assistant Camera B-Camera ALEJANDRO MIYASHIRO Still Photographer JEONG PARK Camera Production Assistants NESTOR CELAYA NORBERTO PENA JOE BRADY Additional Photography KHYBER JONES Gaffer CEDRIC CHEUNG-LAU Best Boy Electric ALEXANDER PROKOS Additional Best Boy Electric CODY WALSH Third Electrics JOHN BLAZZI ALBERTO SALA DAVID WILLIAMSON Additional Electrics ROSS PHILIPS GULAB SINGH 18 PRESS NOTES PATTI CAKE$
JOE WANNAMACHER Key Grip MATT KESSLER Best Boy Grip BRIGID SWANICK Third Grip JACKSON BOSWORTH Additional Grips KEVIN BACON MICHAEL DIMMIT ZACH FRANK KENNETH KILDEE JACK MCDONALD Art Director HEATHER YANCEY Art Department Coordinator MARIANNE BARTHELEMY Art Department Production Assistants EMMA VERNER AMANDA ADAMA YIWEN GONG Set Decorator SALLY LEVI Leadman THOMAS LOVE Set Dressers BLAKE LARUE JARED THOMAS On-Set Dresser ANNA LITTLE Additional On-Set Dresser JENNIFER JOSEPHBERG Additional Set Dressers MARISSA GOLDMAN NELS ERICKSEN SEAN KEHOE SHANE TORRES MADELINE SADOWSKI-LOVELL ELIZABETH FLOOD LISA MAXWELL MATT MORRISON CHRISTINA O’NEIL HENRIETTE VITTEDINI JAMES PEPPE STORM GARNER Property Master MICHAEL AITKEN Props Assistants T.V. ALEXANDER KATIE LEVANDER Graphics Artist VANESSA RIEGEL Wardrobe Supervisor SYNMIA ROSINE Additional Wardrobe Supervisor LYNDSEA LAMARR Costume Production Assistant ALEX LEE Makeup Department Head AMY WADFORD Hair Department Head JON CARTER Additional Hair and Makeup Artists NICOLE BRIDGEFORD RAKHIAL SHAMAILOVA Additional Hair Assistant ELVIRA GONZALES Hair and Makeup - Photo Shoot HEIDI PAKDEL Production Sound Mixer JIM MORGAN Boom Operator MATTHEW JOYER Additional Boom Operators CATHERINE HOOD DYLAN GOODWIN Playback CATHERINE HOOD Location Managers KATARINA DEDICOVA JUSTIN STOWELL Script Supervisor KIM RIDEOUT 19 PRESS NOTES PATTI CAKE$
Additional Script Supervisor CLAIRE FOWLER Second Second Assistant Director LUCAS ISABELLA Additional Second Second Assistant Director ALICE JOHNSON Key Production Assistant LAUREN MARK Talent Production Assistant MICHAEL FULLER Background Production Assistant RASHID HARRISON Paperwork Production Assistant JAKE GRAHAM-FELSEN Unit Production Assistant NICK COVELL Production Assistants JULIA WEINBERG ROBINSON CRUZ NATHAN MUKA RYAN COLEMAN Additional Production Assistants KEVIN PADILLA ALEXANDER ARIANNA ANDERSON TYLER CULLEN JOHNNY JARRET-GRAHAM WILLY MCGEE SPENCER PAZER DENISE VIOLANTE ERENA WILLIS Production Coordinator TATIANA BEARS Office Production Assistants BRENDEN GREGORY JARED BIUNNO LYDIA DILLINGER Stunt Rigger/Stake Bed Driver CHRIS COLOMBO Riggers JOHNNY MACK STEPHEN MAN SCOTT KELLY Rig Tester JEREMY SAMPLE Payroll Services Provided by INDIEPAY & JFA Production Accountants MICHELE MILLER NATHANIEL CAROTA Caterer MY KITCHEN WITCH Head Chef KARYN JARMER Craft Services JOE FACEY Craft Services On-Set BEATA ZACHAR On-Set Medic ROD RODRIGUEZ Clearance Coordinator DAWN CULLEN JONAS Behind the Scenes Photography KHYBER JONES Dialect Coach TIM MONICH
SECOND UNIT
Production Coordinator MAGGIE AMBROSE Production Assistant DANNY GARFIELD First Assistant Camera MARIA SIMEONOVA DIT GARRETT KAFCHINSKI Set Dressers ROSA CALLEJAS JOHANN POSCHUNG Shopper LISA LOEW Production Sound MATT KING Makeup NICHOLE HERNANDEZ Location Manager QUINCY MORRIS
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POST PRODUCTION
Post Production Supervisor JAVIAN LE First Assistant Editor HENRY HAYES Second Assistant Editor LEE SCHATZMAN Additional Assistant Editor NATHAN WHITESIDE Additional Music Video Editing JOSE COTA Editorial Consultants MEG RETICKER AFFONSO GONÇALVES Editorial Facilities Provided by SEETHINK FILMS Additional Post Production Facilities Provided by NICE DISSOLVE
Digital Intermediate by LIGHT IRON
DI Colorist SEAN DUNCKLEY DI Producer CAROLYN CURY DI Executive Producer MEGAN MARQUIS Finishing Artist MATTHEW BREITENBACH Conform Editor KEVIN SZCZEPANSKI DI Assists KEVIN KAIM MATTHEW MARQUEZ DEAN MOZIAN DI Management MICHAEL CIONI PETER CIONI CHRIS PEARISO Engineering CARLOS CANO ERIC MITTAN JAMES REYES DI Administration DANA BLUMBERG RACHAEL BLACK RUBEN GLORIA XYLINA GOLDING CARRIE RADIGAN
Post Production Sound Services by RUMBLE AUDIO
Supervising Sound Editor RYAN BILLIA Dialogue Editor JOHN MOROS Sound Editor BEAU EMORY Sound Effects Editors DAVID FORSHEE TOMMY STANG ADR Mixer RYAN BILLIA Foley Studio ALCHEMY POST SOUND Foley Artists LESLIE BLOOME JOANNA FANG Foley Mixer RYAN COOLISON Foley Editor NICK SEAMAN Additional ADR Services ANARCHY POST Additional ADR Mixer KYLE LANE Mix Technician DUNCAN MCRAE Re-Recording Mixer RYAN BILLIA
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VISUAL EFFECTS
HEY BEAUTIFUL JERK VFX Supervisor MARK SZUMSKI VFX Supervisor ALEX NOBLE VFX Artist DULANY FOSTER IV 3D Artist DYLAN TRIEU VFX Supervisor LOGAN SEAMAN
ART JAIL Creative Director STEVE MOTTERSHEAD Executive Producer JOHN SKEFFINGTON Producer ADRIANA WONG Compositors ELSA TU CHRIS MEMOLI Designer RYAN HAWTHORNE On-Set Supervisor CHRISTOPHER FUNG
MUSIC Music Recorded and Mixed by JASON BINNICK Music Coordinator ROBERT GOLD Additional Score by CHRIS RUGGIERO Organ ALAN HEWITT Saxophone KYLE SCHWEIZER A Cappella Vocals DAVID COPE ABBY POWELL Recorded at VIRTUE AND VICE STUDIOS Special Thanks J. PERIOD
SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY Executive Director NOAH COWAN Director Film360 MICHELE TURNURE-SALLEO Narrative Program Coordinator TAMARA MELNIK
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SONGS
“GREEN DREAMZ (WHO Y’ALL COME TO SEE?)” “CYCLES” Written and Produced by Geremy Jasper & Jason Binnick Written by Gayle Caldwell Performed by Sahr Ngaujah & Danielle MacDonald Arranged and Produced by Jason Binnick Performed by James Caulfield “MYLIFEISFUCKINAWESOME” Written and Produced by Geremy Jasper & Jason Binnick “THESE DREAMS” Performed by Danielle MacDonald Written by Martin George Page & Bernard JP Taupin Arranged and Produced by Jason Binnick “GODFATHA” Performed by Bridget Everett Written and Produced by Geremy Jasper & Jason Binnick Performed by Sahr Ngaujah “GOON SQUAD (PUNCH THE SKY)” Written and Produced by Geremy Jasper & Jason “HAIL ZEAZUR” Binnick Performed by McCaul Lombardi & Patrick Brana Written and Produced by Geremy Jasper & Jason Binnick Performed by Sahr Ngaujah “WAKE UP, SHEEP!” Written by Geremy Jasper “THICK N THIN” Produced by Jason Binnick & Geremy Jasper Written by Geremy Jasper Performed by Mamoudou Athie Performed by Danielle Macdonald & Siddharth Dhananjay “JERSEY MOON” Written by Geremy Jasper Performed by Hallelujah
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“RULER” “ORFEO ED EURIDICE: AH, SE INTORNO A Written and Performed by Kirk Knight QUEST’URNA FUNESTA” Written by Christoph Willibald Gluck “SWISHA BEAT” Performed by Grace Brumbry & Leipzig Gewandhaus Written by Geremy Jasper Orchestra Produced by Jason Binnick & Geremy Jasper Courtesy of Naxos of America, Inc. “CROSS ROAD BLUES” o/b/o Brilliant Classics Written by Robert Leroy Johnson “O-Z FREESTYLE” Performed by Wass Stevens & Bridget Everett Written by Geremy Jasper “TUFF LOVE (BARB WIRE)” Performed by Danielle Macdonald Written by Geremy Jasper “WAVEY” Produced by Jason Binnick & Geremy Jasper Written and Performed by Aaron Rose Performed by Bridget Everett “COMMA SUTRA” “I’M NOT GONNA BE HER” Written and Produced by Geremy Jasper & Jason Binnick Written by Geremy Jasper & David Cope Performed by Danielle MacDonald & Siddharth Dhananjay Performed by Danielle Macdonald & Abby Powell “GHOST ROCK” “APOCALYPSE THEN!” Written by Robert Kelly Written and Produced by Geremy Jasper & Jason Binnick Performed by Bob Kelly & The Pikes Performed by Geremy Jasper Courtesy of Whirled Music Publishing Inc.
“PBNJ” “MOBB DIZZLE” Written by Geremy Jasper Written and Performed by Bishop Nehru Produced by Jason Binnick & Geremy Jasper Produced by Raz Fresco Performed by Danielle Macdonald, Siddharth Dhananjay & Cathy Moriarty “KISS ME DEADLY” Written by Mick Smiley Performed by Bridget Everett “BENZO’S THEME” Arranged and Produced by Jason Binnick & Written and Performed by Jason Binnick Geremy Jasper
“HUNGER GAMEZ” “TUFF LOVE (PBNJ)” Written by Geremy Jasper Written by Geremy Jasper Produced by Jason Binnick & Geremy Jasper Performed by Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett Performed by Danielle MacDonald & Siddharth Dhanajay & Siddharth Dhananjay “DOUBLE DARE YA” Produced by Jason Binnick & Geremy Jasper Written by Kathleen Hanna, Kathi Wilcox, “THE TIME THAT NEVER WAS” Tobi Vail & Billy Karren “The Time That Never Was” Performed by Bikini Kill Performed by Bruce Springsteen Courtesy of Bikini Kill Records Written & Published by Bruce Springsteen By Arrangement with Terrorbird Media (Global Music Rights) Courtesy of Columbia Records By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
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Featured Background Performers CHRIS AIELLO OLU FUNMILAYO ALABI LARRY ALBERT ASHLEY ALLEN BRANNA ALLEN VANCE ALLEN GEORGE ALOI JASON ALVARADO JOHN ANANTUA EVANN ANDERSON MARIAMA ANNAN ELAINE APRUZZESE LORI ARKIN DAVID ALLEN ASENCIO EMMANUEL ASUQUO RODWIN AVERY ORGES BAKALLI JOHN BAKER NEEV BAR-DAVID JOSEPH BASILE SIDNEY BEITZ S. MICHAEL BELLOMO SHAWNA LYNELL JOE BIAMONTE DANIEL BIRCH CASHMERE BLOCKER KYELLE BORRERO BERMENDER JEREMY BRENA LASHAMBI BRITTON TAYLOR BROWN ALLAN BROWN TRAVIS BRANCH DONATELLO BROWN JUSTIN BROWN TAYLOR BROWN BRANDON BULLOCK DANA K. BROWN KEVIN CANNON TALIA BELLA CARNEVALE NNANDI CASON KENZIE CASTLE ISACE CAMPBELL MARC CHOUEN MILENA CORIN SAND CROON ISAAC CRUZ VERONIQUE CHALARCA MELANIE CUBILETE ROSE DAMATO CLIFFORD DANIEL ADAM DAVENPORT ODALYS CRUZ ROBERTA DEAN JADE RAIN DEAVER DOMENICO DEL GIACCO FRANCISCO DELA CRUZ MARYANN DE JOSEPH GIANNA DESENA TRISTIN DEVITO MIGUEL DIAZ NATALLIA DRAVLIANKOVA DARREN DEMPSTER ALEX ECKSTORM ETHAN EISENBERG EYAKENO EKDO I ENEMUO LEO DURRANT ANDREW FEBBRARO KENDALL FELIX DEBORAH FISCHER DANIEL FISHER MICHAEL ESPINOSA KERI FLAHERTY CHLOE FONTAIN EURYN FRANCISCO RON FRIEDMAN BRYAN FITZGERALD ANGELA GALLUCCI RAYMOND GANTT RYDER GERING HOLLY GLASSER NAOMI GALARA CALIE GOLDMANN JOHNA- THAN GOMEZ LUIS GONDOLA DENZEL GORDON TROY GOCHENOUR DALTON GRANT ENVIAS GREENE SANJAY GUMAN LUZ GUMAN JACQUELINE GRABOIS MISSY HARGRAVES LOUIS HARRIS KAREEM HARVEY MARLEE HENDRIX KAT GUTIERREZ JOSEPH HERNANDEZ ASHLEY HIATT GENO HILL KING HOLLYWOOD CAROL HEREDIA SEAN HUNTE JUSTIN HURTT-DUNKLEY MICHAEL IACONO ADRIENNE IVY CONOR HOVIS JESSICA JACOBY KEN JACOWITZ SEAN JAY NIGEL JEREMIAH TIFFANY JACKSON AGILA JOHNSON TERRI JOHNSON ADRIENNE JONES SHALISSE JOWNES BERHANE JOHN DENNIS KARAGOVALIS DIMANI KEY ALEXANDER KHALT JOHN KHINDA BRIAN JUNG YAIR KOOJ ANNA KUCHMA CENGIZ KUCUK DELILAH LAGARES WAHNITA KING LISA LANDINO SOMER LAWRENCE OMAR LEDRON KYRA LEE GREGORY LAHKEN GENE LIN FAITH LOGAN JORGE LOPES ANFERNEE LOPEZ STEPHANIE LEE MICHAEL LOPEZ ZANNIE LOWE ROSEANNE LUDWIGSON HEIDE LUSCHER DIANNA LOPEZ KEITH MACKLER CHRISTOPHER MACYZK CLIFTON MALONE GARY MANSQUIRE ANDREA LYNN CARYL MARDER JASMITH MARIN PAM MCCOOL ANTHONY MCDONALD DARRIUS MARCELLIN KIMBERLY MCLEOD NICHOLAS MEADE BRIELLE MELILO KARINE MENDONCA JUSTIN MCLEAD LINDA MILLER TIFFANIE MIMS BRYAN MIRANDA CORRINE MISKOWSKY ROBERT MICHEAL KYLE MISKOWSKY JOHN MITCHELL KEVIN MOLDUENE ALFREDO MONTEZ DAN MISKOWSKY MARTHA MORGAN LAURA MORRISON JOHN MOYLER JAIMYL MURPHY KEVIN MOREIRA IRHAD MUTIC BRIANNA NEGLIA PHILIP O’REILLY CARLA OCCHIOGROSSO EIAD ODEH MALEEK ODUSANYA OSARO OGEDENGBE MATTHEW ORLOFF ERNEST PADILLA CHAUNCIE PARCHMENT ERNEST PARRILLA ALEXANDER PENNISE LAMAR PERRY BRIAN PETERKIN FRANCIS PIENEISSANCE KETTLY PIERRE-LOUIS GAYLE PIESS CALLIE POETA ANDI POLAND KOSTAS PORAGIS AVERY POWERS CHRISTOPHER PRAWL AHJAH PROM PORTIA RACASI RALIDZ RAHERO ALEX RAK RYAN REDEBAUGH DARIUS REED CONOR REEVES JACK RICARDO LUKE ROBERTIELLO JACK RODGERSON SAMANTHA SALLAM PETER SANSKY-TRAFICANTI NATHAN SCALA MEG SCANLON PAULA SCHOPPE ALAN SCOTT SABRINA SERRETTI JAYSON SIMBA NECO SMART IBRAHIM SOLLY ED SQUIRES TRAVIS ST. MARTHE LOUIS STANCIL BECKHAM STERN DENZEL STEVENSON EI TALLEY ROBERT TESTUT BRIANNA THOMAS ALSTUN THURMAN JONA- THAN TJHANG DEVIN TORRES SHALISE TOWNES JOVAN TYLER GRAHAM VINCENZO VACCARO RANDI VALERIO EDWIN VALERO NATALIE VARGAS MARTI VENDETTI SHANNON WALLACE ARIEL WALLER BILL WARD JUSTIN WHANG CRIS WILLIAMS JERMEI WILSON BOBBY WOODY ERIKA WOZUNK KIRA YAMANASHI WALLACE YOUNG SHAWN ZAYAS
The Producers Wish to Thank AMERICAN LEGION, EDWARD M. MCKEE POST 131 • BLUEBELL • BROOKLYN MASONIC TEMPLE • DELTA EXPRESS • DRUG MART OF SUFFERN • ELMORA EXCHANGE • GLENROWAN SPORTS BAR • HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL & TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY • LAKELAND COUNTY PARK • LIBERTY DINER • M&J PIZZA • PATHMARK • PETLAND DISCOUNTS • REBEL STUDIOS • SILVER MT. CEMETERY • STARLET’S GENTLEMEN’S CLUB • ST. JOSEPH’S MEDICAL CENTER • THOMAS CORNELL ACADEMY • V.F.W. POST 347 • WELWYN PRESERVE • WIDDI HALL
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Special Thanks
RUSSELL ABRUTYN ANDREW ADAIR GABRIELA AMARAL ALMEIDA JOSHUA AMIR SHEINY AMIR MARK ANKNER ANDY ARCAND MICHAEL ARNDT NNAMDI ASOMUGHA KAMYL BAZBAZ BRAD BECKER-PARTON CLAUDIA BELDI TOM BERENDSEN HAMISH BERRY LENA BEUG STEVEN BINNICK IYABO BOYD HENRY BRUSIC SCOTT BURNS JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL GABRIELE CAPOLINO BARBARA CARR FATHER CARROZZA DEAN CIVITELLO FRANCESCA CONSARINO KAREN CONWAY BRIAN CONWAY JOSE COTA KEVIN COTTER PETER CRON JOAN DARLING ZUSHA DEAN RANDY DEAN SARAH DELANEY QUINN DELANEY ANNE DELANEY RYAN DICKIE ALEX DIGERLANDO MEREDITH DIMENNA AMY DOTSON MARK EDGAR KARA EDGAR AMY EISENBERG JENNIFER ELWORTH BEN FEDERMAN JOAN FEEHAN NAOMI FONER DARYA FOWLER AARON FRANK KIERAN GALLAHUE MEL GALLAHUE ANTHONY “ROCKY” GALLO GYULA GAZDAG OORLAGH GEORGE PARKER GIBBS
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RUTH GISCOMBE CHARLOTTE GLYNN MICHAEL GOLDENBERG SANTIAGO GONZALES BILL GOTTWALD CONNIE GOTTWALD WILLARD GRANT SARA GRECO MARGIE GREVILLE NICK GREVILLE AKIN GREVILLE CHARLOTTE GREVILLE GEORGIE GREVILLE JASPER CARLOS GROS BETH HALPERN JENNIFER HANDERSON CATHERINE HARDWICKE ED HARRIS KEVIN HILL DAVID HINOJOSA JESSE HONIG KATE HOPE ABBY HORTON KEVIN HUDSON DEBORAH HUENNEKENS SCOTT HUENNEKENS JENNIFER HULL PAUL IORIO JEFFREY JACOBS JACOB JAFFKE MAUREEN JAKOB SHANIQWA JARVIS SYD JASPER LOIS JASPER JEFF JASPER JUSTIN JASPER GAVIN JASPER CHRISTINA JASPER PATTY JENKINS LUCAS JOAQUIN TREVOR JOHNSON MORGAN KAPLAN AVA KERR CRAIG KESTEL DOTTY KING WENDY KIRK DANIEL KITROSSER LISA KJERULFF RYAN KOO BEN KRAMER EILEEN KRIEB ARI KUSCHNIR DANIEL KWAN ANNE LAI JON LANDAU ARTIE LANGE JOE LAVERY JAMES LAXTON KASI LEMMONS DARREN LEW 27 PRESS NOTES PATTI CAKE$
CAROLINE LIBRESCO ROSE LICHTER-MARCK TED LUNDBERG WALTER LUNDBERG ROSIE LUNDBERG BEA LUNDBERG DELANEY LUNDBERG BRUCE LUNSFORD JOHNNY MA PAMELA MARTIN BRENDAN MCHUGH ILYSE MCKIMMIE CHANTELLE MCLEAN TAMARA MELNIK LEWIS MEYER PAUL MEZEY EMILY MILLER DARIUS CLARK MONROE GRANT MURRAY PAYSON MURRAY LUIZ MUSSNICH DUSTY NAKAO-HAIDER ANA NEGRÓN ANDREW NEEL KATHERINE NOLFI ANDRE NOVIS ANGELICA NDIDI NWANDU JOSE ORLANDO LOBO NOELLE PAFFETT-LUGASSY CAROLINE PARKER DR. BEN PASCARIO STEFAN PAVLOVIC JULIO PEREZ EMILY PONTECORVO MIKE PRALL AUSTIN PURNELL MARIA RADUAN BENTO RADUAN TEIXEIRA ANA RADUAN TEIXEIRA CAROL RAGIONE MAZDACK RASSI ROBERT REDFORD JEANIE RIESS SHIRA ROCKOWITZ JOHN ROSENBERG RACHEL ROSENBERG LEEANN ROSSI SOPHIA ROTHBART MICHELLE SATTER DANIEL SCHEINERT JOAN STEIN SCHIMKE MIKE SEELEY NOAH SIMON DARRELL SMITH PETER SOLLETT JORDANA SPIRO BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 28 PRESS NOTES PATTI CAKE$
ETHAN STAHL HAYLEY STAHL LEAH STAHL SAM STAHL ZOE STAHL KEITH STAPLETON ANDREW STERN JOHN STRANDBERG PETER STRAUGHAN JILLIAN STRICKER MILK STUDIOS QUENTIN TARANTINO RICHARD TAYLOR JOAN TEWKESBURY MATT THURM JULIEN THUAN DERRICK TSENG MASA TSUYUKI ACHILLES TZOULAFIS MICHELLE TZOULAFIS PIERCE VAROUS CATHLEEN VERDEJO GEORGE WACHSMANN MONIQUE WALTON SCOTT WHITWORTH FREDDY WIDDI TYGER WILLIAMS JEREMIAH ZAGAR BENH ZEITLIN
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