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CHEF

Written by, directed by, produced by and starring Jon Favreau – Chef features an all-star cast including Sofia Vergara, Scarlett Johansson, John Leguizamo, Bobby Cannavale, Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Platt, Robert Downey Jr. and young actor Emjay Anthony. When Chef Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its controlling owner (Dustin Hoffman), he is left to figure out what’s next. Finding himself in Miami, he teams up with his ex-wife (Sofia Vergara), his friend (John Leguizamo) and his son (Emjay Anthony) to launch a food truck. Taking to the road, Chef Carl goes back to his roots to reignite his passion for the kitchen -- and zest for life and love.

EXTENDED SYNOPSIS

With his career and personal life suddenly at a crossroads, a once-celebrated L.A. chef embarks on a cross-country culinary odyssey with his best friend and young son in an effort to rediscover his creativity and love for cooking.

When he started running the kitchen at trendy Brentwood eatery Gauloises, CARL CASPER (Jon Favreau) was one of the hottest chefs to hit the L.A. food scene. Now, a decade later, the restaurant is still always full, but creatively Carl is running on empty. Divorced and disconnected from his 11-year-old son, he’s convinced cooking is the only thing he’s good at— and he yearns to reignite the spark that made him love doing it in the first place.

When he learns that popular food blogger RAMSEY MICHEL (Oliver Platt) is coming to review the restaurant, Carl plans to dazzle him with an adventurous new menu. But the restaurant’s owner, RIVA (Dustin Hoffman), insists he serve the same safe and predictable dishes that have kept the place packed year in and year out. Disappointed at the meal’s lack of originality, Ramsey writes a scathing review, which—along with a video of Carl’s embarrassing out-of-control response—quickly goes viral. With his illustrious career suddenly reduced to an internet punch line, Carl finds himself jobless with no prospects for work. Chef – Press Notes – 4

At the suggestion of his successful ex-wife INEZ (Sofia Vergara), Carl accompanies her and their son PERCY (Emjay Anthony) to Miami, where Inez’s first husband, MARVIN (Robert Downey Jr.), takes pity on Carl and offers him a beat-up old food truck. With the help of Percy and Carl’s friend and longtime grill chef MARTIN (John Leguizamo), Carl turns the rusting hulk into a gleaming rolling kitchen, where he and Martin serve up a fresh, mouthwatering take on simple Cuban fare and introduce Percy to the joys of working the line. As the trio makes the trip back to L.A. in the truck, with memorable stops in culinary hotspots including New Orleans and Austin along the way, Carl begins to reconnect with his passion for cooking—and with his son.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Jon Favreau began his filmmaking career nearly two decades ago, writing and starring with Vince Vaughn in the seminal hipster comedy, Swingers. After that he made his directorial debut with the self-scripted Made, then helmed his first big studio project in 2003 with the instant holiday classic Elf, starring Will Ferrell. More recently, Favreau effectively launched Marvel’s superhero franchise by directing the first two Iron Man blockbusters.

With Chef, the filmmaker has taken a break from big-budget extravaganzas to return to his indie roots. “I wanted to write a screenplay from scratch, let the characters speak in the voices I gave them, cast the people who I wanted to work with and then see where that led me,” says Favreau. And so, after executive producing Iron Man 3 and The Avengers, Favreau has brought to the screen the story of Carl Casper, a gifted chef who finds himself stymied by both professional and personal frustrations.

Embracing the spirit of 1996 cult favorite Swingers, Favreau saw Chef as an opportunity to tell an intimate story about a flawed hero, with an adult audience in mind. “I haven’t made a small movie like this in a very long time,” he says. “I thought it would be interesting to bring the skills I’ve developed to this type of project. I wanted to try something on a different scale and face a different set of challenges that would keep me sharp and grounded.”

Setting Chef against the backdrop of Los Angeles’ booming food-truck subculture was a natural choice for Favreau. As a longtime fan of food culture, he hosted and produced IFC Chef – Press Notes – 5

Network’s 2002 “Dinner for Five” series, filmed on location in some of Los Angeles’ most iconic fine-dining establishments. That world of high-end cuisine serves as the glossy jumping off point for Chef Carl, as he leaves the safety net of a big restaurant to become captain of his own food truck.

During pre-production research, Favreau discovered that chefs often display the same obsessive drive he’d encountered in type-A show business personalities. “I found a lot of similarities between the movie world and the culinary world,” he observes. “In both cases you’re dealing with the creative process. With Chef, we’re watching a character who wants to have an original creative voice.”

Coming off his string of studio-managed motion pictures, Favreau savored the opportunity to exercise complete creative control over Chef. “Making a small film is like writing a novel, doing a painting or putting up a play, anything you can control because the resources that you require are not that great,” says Favreau, who cites triple-threat writer-director- performers Larry David, Lena Dunham and Louis C.K. as models of creative autonomy.

Giving up big budget perks–and the accompanying constraints–to make Chef on a more modest scale, Favreau says he wanted to reinvigorate his creative mojo, much as Chef Carl trades the security of a fancy restaurant gig for the freedom to follow his own muse into the realm of low-overhead street food.

“In the case of Chef, it’s the food truck that allows Carl to explore his creative instincts,” says the writer-director. “The guy goes from working in this very successful restaurant where he’s making a lot of money but isn’t being creatively challenged to try something closer to his own passions. I found that a lot of chefs share that passion.”

Where the autobiographically tinged Swingers channeled Favreau’s experiences as a twenty-something single actor moving to Los Angeles, Chef reflects the filmmaker’s interests as a creative, middle-aged family man. “For the way I work as a director, you’ve got to really connect in some way and relate to the characters,” he says.

Chef Carl Casper represents the road not taken, says Favreau. “If I had made different decisions in my life about ten years ago, I would’ve been closer to who Carl is in the film. I Chef – Press Notes – 6 made decisions early on not to travel out of town when the family was in school and to prioritize the personal aspects of my life. Carl’s divorced. I’ve never been divorced but I have three kids, so as a father I relate to Carl on that level.”

Favreau says he also relates to Carl’s decision to prioritize freedom over monetary gains or prestige. “Part of that bargain is that you have to be happy with the fact that you’re going to let the outcome land where it does, because it’s tough to go up against the big boys. But if you feel creatively satisfied and you’re growing as an artist, that, I think, is the hero’s journey. It’s about growth.”

PIMP MY FOOD TRUCK

To ensure that Chef Casper’s immersion into food truck culture felt authentic, Favreau turned to the king of Los Angeles’ street food scene, Roy Choi. Winner of Food & Wine Magazine’s 2010 Best New Chef award, Choi pioneered the concept of gourmet fast food by embracing social media to promote local appearances of his Kogi BBQ Taco Truck.

“To really represent a chef on the movie screen, you’ve got to know what it feels like to be a cook,” says Choi. “You’ve got to know how it feels to stand on your feet and work and sit down on a milk crate and eat and drink out of a deli cup.”

Preparing himself for his fictional gig as boss of the “El Jefe” food truck, Favreau went to work incognito at Kogi BBQ. “The first time on the truck, it was small and hot and I felt like I was in the way,” he says. “By the end, I was in there yelling out orders and helping out.”

Dressed in the Kogi cook uniform, complete with bandana headband, Favreau managed to avoid recognition by the hundreds of patrons he served. “This one guy was like ‘Do I know you?’ And I’m like ‘Usually I work on the Philly Cheese Steak Truck.’ And he goes, ‘Oh, okay’.”

Likening his advisory role in the Chef project to that of baseball manager Don Zimmer, Choi offered Favreau expert advice on everything from knife selection to tattoo design. “I fed Jon all those little nuances,” he says, “Down to the girls we hang out with, the way we tie our Chef – Press Notes – 7 aprons, the way we wear our jeans, the cigarettes we smoke, the language we use, the food we serve.”

And if “Chef Carl” tried to get fancy, Choi reined him in. “Every time Jon made things too pretty, I’d tell him to let me know when to come in and dirty it up and make it real,” Choi recalls. “We’d go back and forth until we found that sweet spot. It was really about respecting what’s going on here in L.A.”

When he was originally approached about consulting on Chef, Choi worried that genuine food truck grit might get watered down by Hollywood-style glitz. But Favreau quickly won him over. “We got in my car together and drove around L.A. for six hours that first night,” Choi recalls. “Jon started talking about Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, Babette’s Feast and Big Night, all these films that took the beauty of food and really translated it for the audience. He wanted to do the same with Chef.”

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

Favreau’s commitment to the particulars of food culture extended to his insistence on filming iconic eateries—both the rolling and stationary variety—in real locations. “If you’re going to make a movie about chefs,” he explains, “part of the deal is you’ve got to make it authentic to that world. The minute you generalize you start to lose these intangible little aspects. I said, ‘I want to shoot it where it feels truthful, on Abbott Kinney in Venice, California, where you’ve got ‘First Fridays’ [the popular food truck gathering] in the parking lot of the Brig.’”

Favreau initially pictured the entire Chef saga unfolding in Los Angeles, but his story expanded in scope to incorporate a cross-country road trip for Carl and his son Percy, played by Emjay Anthony (It’s Complicated, TV’s “Rake”).

“When we shot Iron Man 3,” Favreau recalls, “We spent a wonderful night in Miami’s Little Havana at Hoy Como Ayer, so that was in my mind when I set out to write the screenplay. It all just fell out of my head. The reason I set scenes in Little Havana, the Marigny neighborhood in New Orleans, Franklin Barbecue and Guero’s in Austin is because those restaurants felt to me like beacons of something authentic.” Chef – Press Notes – 8

Favreau adds, “When I point out Frenchman Street in New Orleans, that’s the place that I wrote in the script. We’re not just on a block because they let us shoot there. We towed our truck all the way there so we could have that moment. The specificity was very important to me.”

The places Carl and Martin and Percy stop as they wend their way back to L.A. give Carl an opportunity to share his culinary passions with his young son. “I wanted to find places that would inspire Carl and bond him with Percy. That’s what a good dad does. It’s like ‘These things are cool. Here’s a life experience. Let me share this with you. When I’m long gone you’re still going to have these memories.’”

COOKING UP A STELLAR CAST

By the time Favreau embarked on the month-long Chef shoot in late summer 2013 with cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau (Game of Thrones, Thor: The Dark World), costume designer Laura Jean Shannon (Iron Man) and production designer Denise Pizzini (Like Water for Chocolate), he’d assembled a crack ensemble cast to portray the characters who alternately enrage and inspire Chef Carl Casper.

John Leguizamo came on board to portray feisty Cuban grill cook Martin. Acclaimed for his kinetic one-man show Ghetto Klown and voice-over work in the Ice Age movies, Leguizamo researched the role in Los Angeles at the A-Frame and Sunny Spot restaurants. He also tried less successfully to embed himself behind the scenes at the intensely competitive Manhattan eatery, The Lion. “I tried to work in a New York kitchen, and I wasn’t having it. It was mad dangerous. It was so tight. Everything’s hot. Everything’s sharp. And they’re running on adrenaline, all eight cylinders. You just don’t want to throw yourself in there being an amateur because I’m either gonna hurt somebody or hurt myself.”

A fan of New York City food trucks like Gorilla Cheese, Dingus Truck and Mud Coffee, Leguizamo responded to the film’s chef-as-artist metaphor. “Jon and I talked about how food is like art, and how cooking is in a way the same thing as acting,” Leguizamo says. “Some actors are out for themselves and glory. And then there are those actors who are artists. They’re not doing it for the glory, but for the art. They’re trying to say something, trying to change the world. Chef – Press Notes – 9

For this man to find himself as an artist, as a chef, as a man and as a dad who wants give his son a little bit of his culture back because his son is like half Latin—that’s a beautiful journey.”

Favreau’s portrait of contemporary foodie culture would be incomplete without a nod to the frequently adversarial relationship between restaurateur and blogger. In Chef, Casper’s viral- age nemesis arrives in the form of snarky food critic Ramsey Michel, played by Oliver Platt (Frost/Nixon, TV’s “West Wing”).

Platt’s brother Adam is the real-life and renowned restaurant critic for New York Magazine. Naturally, actor Platt showed Favreau’s screenplay to critic Platt for a reality check. “My brother read the script and really liked it,” Platt notes. “Jon was very interested in getting the language, the tone of the review right. We had to find something in there that would trigger Chef Casper’s reaction, something that he couldn’t shake, something that stuck like Velcro.”

Ramsey Michel’s nasty review leads to a viral video meltdown that sets Chef Carl on a new path. Favreau himself has nearly 1.7 million Twitter followers and uses the Vine app to post six-second video clips. But in Chef, he chose to emphasize social media’s darkly hilarious side.

“Ramsey engages in this Twitter war like it’s theater or pro wrestling, thinking Carl is a willing participant,” says Platt. “It’s disingenuous to say, ‘You weren’t supposed to take it personally.’ Of course you’re gonna take it personally!”

Platt appreciated Chef’s street-food theme, since much of his childhood was spent traveling around various Far East countries where his father served as American ambassador. “When you move around to a lot of different countries, street food is how you really figure out where you are,” he says. “It’s so unpretentious. Poetically, it makes so much sense that Jon’s character goes to work on a food truck to get his groove back. There’s something deft and wonderfully old-fashioned about Chef. It’s like a Billy Wilder movie but told in a very fresh, modern way.”

To capture the rough-and-tumble energy of actual street-food venues, Favreau encouraged his co-stars to improvise at will. Trained at Chicago’s famed Second City comedy club, Favreau coaxed free-wheeling performances from Vince Vaughn in his 2001 film Made, Chef – Press Notes – 10 then collaborated with Robert Downey Jr. to infuse the Iron Man and Iron Man 2 with lively, high-level banter rarely found in superhero pictures. For Chef, Favreau again invited the cast to improvise once they’d nailed the scene as written on the page.

“What’s in the script is one thing, but when you improvise, a lot of stuff that you’re feeling subconsciously will come out,” he says. “I find many of the most poignant moments are things that exist only in one or two takes.”

Amy Sedaris, who performed with Favreau at Second City and later appeared in his 2003 Will Ferrell comedy Elf, plays Carl’s ex-wife’s fast-talking publicist, Jen, in Chef. “Jon’s very supportive of improvisers,” says the actress. “He’s always saying ‘We’ll get this take, and then do whatever you want. Do one for yourself.’ It’s always great to work with someone who’s open to that.”

Leguizamo adds, “Jon is the guy who was kind of Larry David before Larry David. He gives you a structure and then you just improvise. It’s a lot of fun.”

The ability to offer up multiple variations on a comedic or dramatic theme appealed to Favreau the director, as well as Favreau the actor. “When you’re the central character of a film, you want to the ability to choose and modulate performances without eliminating lines, almost like you would mix tracks for a piece of music. So I gave myself a spectrum of performances within each setup, often playing different emotions through the same scene.”

In addition to improv maestro Robert Downey Jr., who enjoys a Chef cameo, Iron Man 2 star Scarlett Johansson shares on-screen sparks with Carl in her role as Molly, the floor manager at Gauloises. “In my research with chefs, I learned that it’s an extremely intense job,” says Favreau. “They work for so many hours and they come off the shift and they’re completely racing. So a lot of chefs go out drinking afterwards. When you’ve got the front of the house mixing with the kitchen staff, things happen.”

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FAMILY GUY

Carl’s ex-wife Inez is played by world-class beauty, Sofia Vergara (“Modern Family”). Favreau says he wrote the part with the former model [Vergara] in mind. “I think you get away with a certain amount because the guy’s a good chef and chefs right now are kind of like rock stars,” he says.

For Vergara, the opportunity to join the cast of Chef proved irresistible. “I said yes before I even read the script because I’ve wanted to work with Jon for a long time,” she says. “Finding out he was writing and directing and acting was very exciting to me.”

The Colombian-born actress felt an instant kinship with Inez. “She’s a mother and I am a mother so I totally understand where all her fear and all her worry comes from,” says Vergara. “Inez gives Carl the little push he needs to get out of the hole he was in. Their dynamic is pretty much about two adults who are trying to make everything better for their son.”

Percy Casper, played by 10-year old Emjay Anthony (It’s Complicated, “Rake”), makes no secret about his crush on Vergara. “The first day I met Sofia Vergara,” he recalls, “I was in shock. My jaw hit the floor for like 20 minutes. Then I got to hug her over and over and over so that was a good beginning.”

Anthony adapted easily to Favreau’s improvisational approach and even came up with a few of his own scenarios in between takes. “I made a ring for Sofia out of a dollar bill in origami, got on my knees and proposed to her,” he recalls. “Her exact words were, ‘Oh, that’s very nice. Is that the hundred dollar bill?’”

Percy’s onscreen relationship with Carl proved more challenging as they try to bond despite their fractured family background. The problematic father-son relationship came into full focus for Favreau over the course of several lengthy conversations with Dustin Hoffman. The two-time Oscar® winner, who plays imperious restaurant owner Riva, pointed out thematic similarities between Chef and one of his most famous films. “To have Dustin’s perspective on Kramer vs. Kramer—I hadn’t even considered that when I wrote Chef,” admits Favreau. “But then I just smacked my head: ‘Of course this movie shares so much with Kramer vs. Kramer in Chef – Press Notes – 12 that they both speak to divorce and the child and the relationship with the absentee parent. They’re about building those bridges.”

Ultimately, Favreau envisions Chef as a cautionary tale with a happy ending. “I’ve seen the price that’s paid by people who invest completely in their career and don’t try to achieve a balance,” he says. “Predictably, things happen—like divorce, like estrangement from your children. It’s humbling to be in service to other people and other things that are bigger than just your own concerns. Chef is really a story about a guy who’s reconnecting with that understanding. The food world is very cinematic. To learn more about it as a filmmaker, and to play this character as an actor, at my age—I think it’s kind of romantic, in a way, and of our time.”

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ABOUT THE CAST

JON FAVREAU (Carl Casper, Director, Writer, and Producer) is a multi-talented director, writer and actor who continues to challenge himself with a variety of eclectic projects. After the huge success of The Avengers, which he executive produced, Favreau reprised his role as Happy Hogan for Iron Man 3 (also executive producer). On the small screen, he recently directed the pilot for the NBC comedy “About a Boy” and both directed and executive produced the pilot for the hit NBC sci-fi drama “Revolution.” Previously, Favreau directed Cowboys & Aliens, starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde, and the blockbuster hits Iron Man and Iron Man 2, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow. He also directed the acclaimed holiday smash Elf, starring Will Ferrell, and Zathura, the family adventure starring Kristen Stewart, Josh Hutcherson and Tim Robbins. Favreau made his feature directorial debut with Made, which he also starred in, wrote and produced. Favreau first established himself as a writer of considerable talent with Doug Liman’s acclaimed indie comedy Swingers, starring alongside Vince Vaughn. As an actor, Favreau’s film credits include The Wolf of Wall Street, Identity Thief, People Like Us, Couples Retreat, I Love You, Man, Four Christmases, The Break- Up, Something’s Gotta Give, Wimbledon, Daredevil, Love & Sex, The Replacements, Very Bad Things, Deep Impact, PCU and Rudy. Acting for television, his credits include “Rocky Marciano,” “Seinfeld,” a recurring role on “Friends” and a special appearance on HBO’s critically acclaimed “The Sopranos,” in which he played himself. Favreau was also the creator, producer and host of the critically acclaimed and Emmy Award®-nominated IFC series “Dinner for Five.”

SOFIA VERGARA (Inez) is one of the funniest and sexiest stars today. She is the only actress to begin her career working on a U.S. Hispanic network and successfully cross over to the general market. Both The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard have named her one of the most talented and powerful women in Hispanic entertainment. The Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG-nominated actress can currently be seen as Gloria Pritchett-Delgado on the top-rated ABC comedy, “Modern Family”. The ensemble comedy won the Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series from 2010 to 2013, the SAG Awards for Chef – Press Notes – 14

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series from 2011 to 2014 and the Golden Globe for Best Television Series: Comedy or Musical in 2012. Vergara is set to produce and star in the buddy comedy Don’t Mess with Texas, opposite Reese Witherspoon. The film will begin production in the spring of 2014. Vergara recently took on the role of executive producer for the ABC drama “Killer Women.” Her previous appearances on primetime TV include roles on “Dirty Sexy Money,” “Entourage,” “Hot Properties” and “The Knights of Prosperity,” among many other series. On the big screen, Vergara can soon be seen in several star-studded movies. She next appears in John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo alongside Woody Allen and Sharon Stone. Vergara also co-stars with Jason Statham and Stanley Tucci in Heat, a remake of the 1986 Burt Reynolds film that is slated for release later this year. The story concerns a recovering gambling addict who finds work providing protection to his friends. Vergara got her break in the comedy Big Trouble and since then has starred in films such as Machete Kills, The Smurfs, The Three Stooges, New Year’s Eve, The 24th Day, Four Brothers, Lords of Dogtown and Tyler Perry’s box-office sensations Meet the Browns and Madea Goes to Jail. She recently lent her voice to the animated films Escape from Planet Earth and Happy Feet 2. Vergara earned rave reviews when she debuted on Broadway in 2009 as Mama Morton in “Chicago.” In the Hispanic market, Vergara’s television credits include “Fuera de Serie” and “A Que No Te Atreves” as well as a special guest appearance on 2008’s highest-rated Spanish language soap “Fuego en la Sangre.” Additionally, she executive produced the Spanish version of “Desperate Housewives.” When she’s not acting, Vergara can be found designing her exclusive line for Kmart. The line, “Sofia by Sofia Vergara,” includes women’s clothing, accessories, shapewear, swimwear, jewelry, luggage and home goods. Vergara is also the face of CoverGirl and Diet Pepsi. This is her fourth year working with both brands. This fall Vergara will launch the Sofia Vergara Collection in furniture retailer Rooms to Go. The collection will initially be comprised of living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms and accessories. Additionally, she was recently named the new brand ambassador for the hair care Chef – Press Notes – 15 line Head & Shoulders. In 2014 her real-life family members will appear in a national ad campaign. In 2001 Vergara created Peace and Hope for the Children of Colombia, a charity foundation that has helped thousands of children and funded a pediatric cancer pavilion in her native Barranquilla. She currently dedicates much of her free time to this charity. In 1994 Vergara founded Latin World Entertainment with business partner Luis Balaguer. Latin World Entertainment has grown from a management agency for top Hispanic talent to a multi-service company offering a 360-degree approach. It is now the premier Hispanic talent management and entertainment marketing firm in the U.S. Representing the biggest stars, opinion makers and trendsetters in the Spanish-speaking entertainment world, the agency leverages that star power to take brands and products directly into the burgeoning Hispanic market. Vergara currently splits her time between L.A. and N.Y. with her son Manolo.

JOHN LEGUIZAMO (Martin) is a multi-faceted performer and Emmy winner whose career defies categorization. With boundless and visceral creativity, his work in film, theater, television and literature covers a variety of genres, and threatens to create a few of its own. Leguizamo most recently starred alongside Ice Cube and Kevin Hart in the hit comedy Ride Along. In 2013 Leguizamo completed production on Cymbeline, a modern-day take on William Shakespeare’s play, as well as Stealing Cars, starring William H. Macy. He also starred opposite Rosie Perez and Radha Mitchell in Fugly, which he also wrote and produced. Fugly follows Leguizamo’s character, a New York comedian, whose near-death experience forces him to make difficult life choices. This March Leguizamo unveils his fifth HBO solo special, “Ghetto Klown,” an adaptation of his Drama Desk Award-winning one-man stage show of the same name. In 2011 Leguizamo returned to Broadway with the play, the next chapter in his hugely popular personal and professional story. Directed by Academy Award®-winner Fisher Stevens, “Ghetto Klown” follows in the unabashed, uncensored and uninhibited tradition of Leguizamo’s previous stage shows “Mambo Mouth,” “Spic-O-Rama,” “Freak” and “Sexaholix… a Love Story.” Chef – Press Notes – 16

For his performance as a sensitive drag queen in To Wong Foo: Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar, Leguizamo garnered a Golden Globe Award® nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also picked up ALMA Award nominations for his roles in Moulin Rouge (Best Supporting Actor) and King of the Jungle (Best Lead Actor). He was the recipient of the 2002 ALMA Award for Entertainer of the Year. Additional film credits include Walking with Dinosaurs, The Counselor, Kick Ass 2, Vanishing on 7th Street, The Lincoln Lawyer, the Ice Age franchise, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Happening, Righteous Kill, The Babysitters, The Take, Where God Left His Shoes, Miracle at St. Anna, Land of the Dead, Assault on Precinct 13, Sueno, Spun, Summer of Sam, Spawn, William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, Dr. Doolittle, Carlito’s Way and Casualties of War. In the summer of 2007 Leguizamo returned to television in Spike TV’s limited series “The Kill Point,” in which he played the leader of a gang of bank robbers who recently returned from serving in Iraq. Previously, Leguizamo appeared as a guest star in 12 episodes of NBC’s cornerstone drama “ER” and in 2006 had a guest arc on the NBC hit “My Name Is Earl.” In 1991 Leguizamo created an Off Broadway sensation as the writer and performer of his one-man show “Mambo Mouth,” in which he portrayed seven different characters. He received Obie, Outer Critics Circle and Vanguardia awards for his performance. Leguizamo’s second one-man show, “Spic-O-Rama,” had an extended sold-out run in Chicago at the Goodman and Briar Street theaters before opening in New York. The play received numerous accolades including the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award for Best American Play and the Lucille Lortel Outstanding Achievement Award for Best Broadway Performance. Leguizamo received the Theatre World Award for Outstanding New Talent as well as a Drama Desk Award for Best Solo Performance. “Spic-O-Rama” aired on HBO, receiving four CableACE Awards. “Freak,” Leguizamo’s third one-man show, ended a successful run on Broadway in 1998. Along with Tony Award® nominations for Best Play and Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, Leguizamo won the Drama Desk and the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance. A special presentation of “Freak,” directed by Spike Lee, aired on HBO and earned Leguizamo the Emmy for Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Music Program as well as a nomination for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special. Chef – Press Notes – 17

In 2001 Leguizamo returned to Broadway with “Sexaholix...a Love Story.” Directed by Peter Askin, the play was based on the sold-out national tour “John Leguizamo Live!” He was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance and the show received a Tony nomination for Best Special Theatrical Performance. “Sexaholix” aired as an HBO special in 2002 and also toured the country. Additional stage credits include “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “La Puta Vida” at the New York Shakespeare Festival and “Parting Gestures” at the INTAR Theatre. Leguizamo is also an accomplished author. His autobiography Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends was released by HarperCollins in October 2006. Leguizamo currently resides in New York City with his wife and two children.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON (Molly) has proven to be one of Hollywood’s most talented and charismatic young actresses. A Tony Award and BAFTA winner as well as a four-time Golden Globe nominee, she recently lent her voice to Spike Jonze’s Oscar-winning sci-fi romance Her. Johansson’s performance as the operating system Samantha earned her the Best Actress Award at the Rome Film Festival. Also in 2013, she starred as Barbara in Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut Don Jon, alongside Gordon-Levitt and Julianne Moore. Johansson will next be seen in Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, which opens April 4, 2014, after premieres at the Venice and Toronto film festivals. She also stars opposite Chris Evans in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, opening the same day. She will again reprise her role as Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, when production begins on Avengers: Age of Ultron. She recently wrapped production on Luc Besson’s action-thriller Lucy, slated for release on August 8, 2014. For her starring role opposite Bill Murray in Lost in Translation, the critically acclaimed second film directed by Sofia Coppola, Johansson received rave reviews and won the Upstream Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Previously, she starred in A Love Song for Bobby Long, opposite John Travolta, and Woody Allen’s Match Point, which netted her fourth consecutive Golden Globe nomination. Johansson also starred in such notable films as The Avengers, alongside Robert Downey Jr.; Hitchcock, opposite Anthony Hopkins; We Bought a Zoo, for Cameron Crowe; Iron Man 2, directed by Jon Favreau; In Good Company, for the Weitz brothers; Girl with a Pearl Earring, Chef – Press Notes – 18 opposite Colin Firth; The Island, opposite Ewan McGregor; The Black Dahlia, directed by Brian De Palma; and The Prestige, directed by Christopher Nolan. Additional film credits include He’s Just Not That Into You, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Spirit, The Nanny Diaries, North and Just Cause. A New York native, Johansson made her professional acting debut at the age of 8 in the Off Broadway production of “Sophistry,” with Ethan Hawke, at New York’s Playwright’s Horizons. Her breakthrough role came at the age of 10 in the critically praised Manny & Lo, which earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for “Best Female Lead.” When she was 12 years old, Johansson attained worldwide recognition for her performance as Grace MacLean, the teen traumatized by a riding accident in Robert Redford’s drama The Horse Whisperer. She went on to star in Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World, garnering Best Supporting Actress honors from the Toronto Film Critics Circle. Johansson was also featured in the Coen brothers’ dark comedy The Man Who Wasn’t There, opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand. Also a skilled stage actress, Johansson won a Tony for her Broadway debut in the Arthur Miller play “A View from the Bridge,” opposite Liev Schreiber. In 2013 she wrapped her second run on Broadway as Maggie in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

DUSTIN HOFFMAN (Riva): A two-time Academy Award winner and seven-time nominee whose arrival in Hollywood helped usher in a new and revitalized approach to filmmaking, Dustin Hoffman continues to add singular performances to a career rich with characters that have obliterated the line previously dividing the archetypes of "character actor" and "leading man." Hoffman caught the world's attention for his role as Benjamin Braddock in Mike Nichol's Academy Award nominated film, The Graduate. Since then, he has been nominated for six more Academy Awards for diverse films such as Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Tootsie (a film he also produced through his company, Punch Productions), and Wag the Dog. Hoffman won the Oscar in 1979 for his role in Kramer Vs. Kramer and again in 1988 for Rain Man. In 1997, he was awarded the Golden Globe's esteemed Cecil B. DeMille Award. Hoffman recently made his directorial debut with the feature film, Quartet starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, Michael Gambon and Sheridan Chef – Press Notes – 19

Smith. The film was recognized by the National Board of Review for being one of the “Top Ten Independent Films” in 2012. Hoffman was also awarded with the “Breakthrough Director Award” by the Hollywood Film Awards. Additionally, Maggie Smith was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and Billy Connolly was nominated for a British Independent Film Award on behalf of the film. Quartet grossed almost $60 million worldwide. Quartet was based on Ronald Harwood’s stage play of the same name. Hoffman will next be seen in Jon Favreau’s Chef and is currently in production on Dearblah Walsh’s Esio Trot opposite Judi Dench. The film is based on Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book of the same name. Hoffman will play the role of ‘Mr. Hoppy,’ a retired bachelor who harbors a secret passion for his neighbor, ‘Mrs. Silver’ (Dench), who unfortunately lavishes all of her attention on Alfie, her pet tortoise. Additionally, Hoffman recently wrapped production on the Untitled Lance Armstrong Biopic, Boychoir, and The Cobbler. In 2010, Hoffman starred opposite Paul Giamatti in Barney's Version, directed by Richard J. Lewis. The film premiered at the 2010 Venice Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics. Hoffman also reprised his role as Bernie Focker in Little Fockers starring opposite Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Barbara Streisand. Hoffman starred in Last Chance Harvey, a love story set in London, written and directed by Joel Hopkins, and co-starring Emma Thompson. He received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical category for his role. Hoffman lent his voice to the box office hit, Kung Fu Panda. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Feature Film of the Year and Hoffman received the Annie Award for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production. He also voiced the character of Shifu in Kung Fu Panda 2. Other film credits include: The Tale of Despereaux, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, Stranger Than Fiction, Perfume, Meet the Fockers, Finding Neverland, I Heart Huckabee's, The Lost City, Racing Stripes, Runaway Jury, Little Big Man, Straw Dogs, Papillon, All the President's Men, Marathon Man, Straight Time, Agatha, Ishtar, Dick Tracy, Billy Bathgate, Mad City, Hero, Sleepers, Sphere, American Buffalo, Hook, and Outbreak. On television, Hoffman starred in Michael Mann's and David Milch’s acclaimed horseracing drama, "Luck" for HBO. Chef – Press Notes – 20

On stage, Hoffman has had an equally impressive career. His first stage role was in the Sarah Lawrence College production of Gertrude Stein's "Yes is for a Very Young Man." This performance led to several roles Off Broadway, such as "Journey of the Fifth Horse," for which he won the Obie, and "Eh?", for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Best Actor. His success on stage caught the attention of Mike Nichols, who cast him in "The Graduate." In 1969, Hoffman made his Broadway debut in Murray Schisgal's "Jimmy Shine." In 1974, Hoffman made his Broadway directorial debut with Schisgal's "All Over Town." In 1984, Hoffman garnered a Drama Desk Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Willy Loman in the Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman" which he also produced. In addition to starring in the Broadway production, a special presentation aired on television and Hoffman won the Emmy Award. Additionally, Hoffman received a Tony Award Nomination for his role as Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" which he reprised from his long run on the London Stage. As a producer, Hoffman produced Tony Goldwyn's feature film A Walk on the Moon starring Diane Lane, Viggo Mortensen, Liev Schreiber and Anna Paquin. He executive produced "The Devil's Arithmetic" which won two Emmy Awards. Hoffman was born in Los Angeles and attended Santa Monica Community College. He later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse before moving to New York to study with Lee Strasberg. Hoffman serves as the chair of the Artistic Advisory Board along with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Plácido Domingo for the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage Theater, which opened on September 20, 2008. This intimate 499-seat state-of-the-art theater provides a much-needed performance facility for Santa Monica College and the surrounding community. Hoffman was honored at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors. Hoffman was also awarded the Honorary César Medal at the 2009 César Awards.

OLIVER PLATT (Ramsey Michel) has enjoyed success in film, television and the stage. He was most recently seen on Showtime’s hit series “The Big C,” alongside Laura Linney. Platt’s upcoming projects include Lucky Them, Kill the Messenger and Cut Bank.

Previously, Platt starred in Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon, opposite Frank Langella, Kevin Bacon and Sam Rockwell, and Please Give, which won critical acclaim at the 2010 Sundance Chef – Press Notes – 21 and Tribeca film festivals. Other film credits include Ginger & Rosa, Funny Bones, the fifth installment of the blockbuster series X-Men: First Class, Love and Other Drugs and 2012.

Platt made his producing debut on the indie classic Big Night, which was co-directed by Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott. He would later re-team with Tucci in The Impostors.

Platt is a founding partner of Animal Kingdom, a media production, sales and financing company. Animal Kingdom’s first film was Destin Cretton’s highly acclaimed Short Term 12, which won both the Grand Jury and Audience prizes at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival.

In television, Platt earned a SAG Award nomination for his performance as George Steinbrenner on the hit miniseries “The Bronx is Burning.” Other accolades include a Golden Globe and back-to-back Emmy nominations for his portrayal of Russell Tupper in “Huff,” as well as an Emmy nomination for playing White House Counsel Oliver Babish on the popular political drama “The West Wing.” He earned another Emmy nomination for his recurring role as flamboyant TV producer Freddy Prune on “Nip/Tuck.”

After graduating from Tufts University with a degree in drama, Platt immediately began working in regional theater and Off Broadway productions. His many theater credits include performances in the Lincoln Center production of “Ubu” as well as Jules Feiffer’s “Elliot Loves” and “Twelfth Night,” for which Platt received rave reviews. Platt received a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor for his work on Broadway in Conor McPherson’s “Shining City,” which was also nominated for Best Play.

The son of a career diplomat, Platt was born in Washington, D.C. and spent part of his childhood in Asia and the Middle East. He now resides in New York with his wife and three children.

BOBBY CANNAVALE (Tony) recently won an Emmy and received a SAG Award nomination for his role as Gyp Rosetti in the acclaimed HBO series “Boardwalk Empire.” He also received two Emmy nominations and a SAG bid for his work on Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie,” opposite Edie Falco. Chef – Press Notes – 22

Cannavale’s breakthrough role came as Joe in Tom McCarthy’s award-winning indie The Station Agent, alongside Peter Dinklage. He shared in the ensemble cast’s SAG Award nomination and worked with McCarthy again on Win Win, with Paul Giamatti. More recently, Cannavale co-starred in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine as Chili, the volatile but likable boyfriend of Jasmine’s sister Ginger (played by Sally Hawkins). Additional film credits include Annie, Imagine, Shall We Dance, Happy Endings, Roadie, Fast Food Nation, Romance & Cigarettes, Movie 43, Lovelace and Parker. Cannavale won an Emmy for his role as Will’s boyfriend on the comedy “Will & Grace.” Other television credits include “Third Watch,” “100 Centre Street,” “Ally McBeal,” “Six Feet Under” and “Modern Family.” Cannavale recently starred in Clifford Odets’ “The Big Knife” on Broadway. Other Broadway credits include “Glengarry Glen Ross,” with Al Pacino; “The Motherf**ker with the Hat,” which earned the actor a Drama Desk Award and Tony nomination; and “Mauritius,” for which he received a Tony nomination. Off Broadway, Cannavale has appeared in “Hurlyburly,” “F*cking A” and “The Gingerbread House,” among other productions. He is also a member of the Labyrinth Theater Company.

AMY SEDARIS (Jen) is a 5’0” Grecian spitfire who hails from North Carolina and studied and performed with Chicago’s famed Second City company. Her upcoming films include Goodbye to All That, Hits and Ping-Pong Summer. The latter two films debuted at Sundance this year and both are due for release in 2014. Sedaris was a series regular on “Exit 57” and “Strangers with Candy” (both on Comedy Central) and has appeared on “30 Rock,” “Necessary Roughness,” “The Good Wife,” “Raising Hope,” “Hot in Cleveland,” “Royal Pains,” “The Middle,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” “The Closer,” “Just Shoot Me,” “Sex and the City,” “Monk” and “Cracking Up.” Most recently, she can be seen on “The Heart, She Holler” on Adult Swim and “Alpha House” for Amazon. Film credits include Puss in Boots, The Best and Brightest, Beware the Gonzo, Space Buddies, Dance Flick, Tanner Hall, Dedication, Shrek 3, Snow Angels, Bewitched, Strangers with Candy: The Movie, Chicken Little, Full Grown Men, Romance and Cigarettes, Maid in Manhattan, School of Rock and Elf. Chef – Press Notes – 23

Sedaris’ New York theater credits include “Wonder of the World” (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), “The Country Club,” “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told” and “Jamboree.” She starred in and co-wrote “The Talent Family Plays” with her brother David Sedaris, which include “Stump the Host,” “Stitches,” “One Woman Shoe” (Obie Award), “The Little Frieda Mysteries” (Encore Award), “Incident at Cobbler’s Knob” and “The Book of Liz.” October 2006 saw the publication of Sedaris’ bestselling books I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence followed by Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People in 2010. She says she works to support her cupcake and cheese-ball business.

EMJAY ANTHONY (Percy) is a young actor already turning heads in Hollywood. He has a recurring role on the new Fox series “Rake,” opposite Greg Kinnear, and his upcoming big- screen roles include the thriller Incarnate, starring Aaron Eckhart and Carice van Houten. Born in Florida, Anthony began modeling at a young age and landed his first commercial when he was just 4 years old. A year later his family relocated to California where Anthony participated in an open audition for director Nancy Meyers’ comedy It’s Complicated (2009), in which he was cast opposite Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep. Since then he has been seen in episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Mentalist,” the feature film No Ordinary Hero: SuperDeafy and national television spots for brands including Hershey’s, Purina, Honda and Capital One. When he isn’t working in front of the camera or at school, Anthony enjoys snowboarding and riding his BMX and dirt bikes.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR. (Marvin) is a two-time Academy Award nominee who earned his most recent Oscar nomination (Best Supporting Actor) for his work in Ben Stiller’s comedy hit Tropic Thunder. His performance as Kirk Lazarus, a white Australian actor playing a black American character, also brought him Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award nominations. Most recently, he toplined the highest grossing film of 2013, Shane Black’s Iron Man 3. Downey recently wrapped production on The Judge for Warner Bros. Downey, his wife Susan and their production company Team Downey LLC are producing. The film is set for release on October 4, 2014. Chef – Press Notes – 24

Downey was honored with his first Oscar® nomination (Best Actor) for his portrayal of Charlie Chaplin in Richard Attenborough’s acclaimed 1992 biopic Chaplin, for which Downey also won BAFTA and London Film Critics awards and received a Golden Globe nomination. Downey received another Golden Globe nomination for his performance as a legendary detective in the hit Sherlock Holmes, under Guy Ritchie’s direction. In 2011 Downey teamed up with Ritchie and co-star Jude Law to reprise his role in the sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. In the summer of 2008 Downey received praise from critics and audiences for his performance in the title role of the blockbuster hit Iron Man, directed by Jon Favreau. Bringing the Marvel Comics superhero to the big screen, Iron Man earned more than $585 million worldwide and was one of the year’s biggest hits. Downey reprised his role in the successful sequel, which was released in 2010, and returned to the role in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers (2012), which is the third-highest-grossing film of all time. Downey’s other recent films include Todd Phillips’ Due Date, opposite Zach Galifianakis; The Soloist, opposite Jamie Foxx; Charlie Bartlett, alongside Anton Yelchin; David Fincher’s Zodiac, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Ruffalo; Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, alongside Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Woody Harrelson; Fur, opposite Nicole Kidman in a film inspired by the life of revered photographer Diane Arbus; and Shane Black’s Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, opposite Val Kilmer. Downey shared in ensemble-cast award nominations for Robert Altman’s Short Cuts (Golden Globe) and George Clooney’s true-life drama Good Night, and Good Luck (SAG). He shared in the Special Jury Prize won by the ensemble cast of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, presented at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Additional film credits include Gothika, The Singing Detective, Wonder Boys, U.S. Marshals, One Night Stand, Home for the Holidays, Richard III, Natural Born Killers, The Gingerbread Man, Heart and Souls, Soapdish, Air America, Chances Are, True Believer, Less Than Zero, Weird Science, Firstborn and Pound, in which he made his debut under the direction of his father Robert Downey Sr. In 2004 Downey released his debut album, “The Futurist,” through Sony Classics. The album contained eight original songs and showcased his singing talents. Chef – Press Notes – 25

Downey made his primetime television debut in 2001 when he joined the cast of the Fox series “Ally McBeal,” as attorney Larry Paul. For this role, he won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (TV), as well as the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Comedy Series. In addition, Downey was nominated for an Emmy (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series).

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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

SERGEI BESPALOV (Producer) is the co-founder of Aldamisa Entertainment, which is rapidly becoming one of the most innovative film finance and production entities in Hollywood. In the last four years, Bespalov has produced Standing Up, directed by D.J. Caruso; Jayne Mansfield’s Car, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, starring Kevin Bacon and Robert Duvall; and Machete Kills, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Danny Trejo. He is currently producing Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City: A Dame to Die For, which is set for release later this year. Bespalov’s strategy to combine Hollywood projects with other countries’ film endeavors generated an instant payoff, as he timed his launch to coincide with a liquidity crisis that forced U.S.-based studios to seek out different models of partnership. Bespalov holds a B.S. from Temple University and a J.D. from the Widener University School of Law. He has been admitted to the New Jersey and Pennsylvania state bars.

ROY CHOI (Co-Producer) was a chef but now considers himself a cook and “street soldier” whose mission is to make food delicious, honest, caring, inviting, challenging, fun and affordable. He’s also a guy who has a hard time saying no or taking no for an answer. Choi went to culinary school, became a chef and got laid off. He and some friends started a taco truck called Kogi that took off thanks to Twitter. Things became frenetic and a few new restaurants followed, along with a book and a hotel.

KAREN GILCHRIST (Executive Producer) is the vice president of development and production for Fairview Entertainment. She was a co-producer on Cowboys & Aliens, starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde. In 2010 she was an associate producer on Iron Man 2, starring Robert Downey Jr. In 2006 she began working with Jon Favreau as his assistant during preparation for Iron Man. Gilchrist grew up in Southern California and attended UCLA.

MOLLY ALLEN (Executive Producer) has been in the film business for over 20 years, working in various stages of feature film production. She first segued into producing for director Chef – Press Notes – 27

Denzel Washington and producer Todd Black on the critically acclaimed drama The Great Debaters, which went on to be honored with a Christopher Award. She has since co-produced Seven Pounds, starring Will Smith, and more recently was an associate producer on The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington. Allen met director Jon Favreau when she served as his location manager on Iron Man. Prior to producing, Allen was the location manager on such feature films as Pursuit of Happyness, Constantine, Along Came Polly, Vanilla Sky and Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, among others.

MARK C. MANUEL (Executive Producer) has been recognized as one of the industry’s top executives working in corporate strategy and structured finance. He is the president of Kilburn Media, an active Hollywood finance company that provides direct investments for select feature films. Manuel is a top-tier Hollywood financier and has guided Kilburn to an impressive investment track record over the past three years. Manuel is also the CEO of EI Capital, a niche entertainment-based finance company that provides financial solutions for various major and independent film studios. Previously, Manuel was the executive vice president of structured finance and corporate strategy for Lionsgate Entertainment. Manuel has extensive experience in studio-based corporate and business development, as well as structured finance. He has partnered with institutional and foreign investors, governments, select family offices and high net-worth individuals to realize their desire to invest in the entertainment industry. Manuel joined Lionsgate in 2001. Previously, he was a business development executive with Paramount Pictures’ International Television Group. At the start of his career, Manuel worked in the investment banking and consulting industries, covering the media and the entertainment industry. He holds an M.B.A. in finance from Northwestern University.

TED O’NEAL (Executive Producer) is an experienced film producer and financier who focuses on strategic investments in filmed entertainment and media-related ventures. He has served in executive leadership roles for a variety of companies. O’Neal is currently a partner in Kilburn Media and, in association with Mark Manuel, built the company’s outstanding track Chef – Press Notes – 28 record. Recent projects include Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City 2: A Dame to Die For and Neil Jordan’s Byzantium. O’Neal utilizes his financial expertise in capital placement and structured transactions to build long-term partnerships with private equity groups, family offices and high net-worth individuals, resulting in many successful transactions and exits. He has served on a variety of boards and is active in managing direct investments and providing operational leadership. O’Neal is also a licensed attorney in multiple jurisdictions and practiced law at a large international firm where his work included mergers and acquisitions, finance, real estate and media transactions. O’Neal graduated from Princeton University with honors, where he played golf and volleyball (Ivy League champion). He was the co-recipient of Princeton’s Frederick Barnard White Thesis Prize in Architecture.

GLEB FETISOV (Executive Producer) and Oleg Teterin co-founded Fetisov Teterin Films in 2013 and the new company’s credits include Some Like It Cold and Viy 3D, which together have made more than $50 million at the box office. He also heads up one of the departments of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Economic Development. Since 2012 Fetisov has led the Green Alliance People’s Party. From 1997 to 2001 Fetisov served as the deputy of the legislative assembly for the Krasnoyarsk region in Russia. For the next eight years he was a member of the Russian Federation Council in the Voronezh region. Beginning in 2009 he worked in the civic chamber of the Russian Federation, dealing with regional development and local self-governance. The following year Fetisov became a member of the directing council of the Russian union of industrialists and traders. Fetisov was born in the Moscow area in 1966. In 1988 he graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in economics. He earned his master’s degree and Ph.D. at the Russian Academy of Finances, defending his thesis in 1998. In 2003 he joined the faculty of the economics department at Moscow State University. Fetisov is married with three children.

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OLEG TETERIN (Executive Producer) has been the CEO of Sreda Fetisov Films since 2012, working in association with Alexander Tsekalo and Gleb Fetisov. Teterin specializes in motion picture production, product placement and film promotion. He produced Some Like It Cold, a comedy devoted to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Collaborating with Alexey Petrukhin, Teterin co-produced Viy 3D. He was also an advertising producer on Alexei Uchitel’s feature The Major. Since 2006, Teterin has been a marketing and advertising advisor to Gleb Fetisov. In 2013 he became the CEO of the Fetisov Teterin Films media holding company. His main activities include subway advertising in the Moscow market as well as investment in film production, television and movie product placement. Teterin produced remixes to the soundtracks of popular Soviet movies and became the head of a Russian DJs project. From 1996 to 1999 he was the CEO of the 106.8 FM radio station in Russia. He then founded and operated the radio station known as Russian Hit, which won a Best Brand/Effie Award. In conjunction with the Vershina advertising agency, Teterin founded a company producing extra-large outdoor advertising. The company was ultimately sold to News Outdoor. In 2005 Teterin pioneered an innovative technology for advertising on mobile phones, which was also sold to an investment group. Teterin was born in Moscow in 1975. In 1998 he graduated from the Russian University of Theatre Arts with a degree in producing. He also studied at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music . Teterin has been a member of the Producers Guild of the Russian Federation since 2013.

MARINA BESPALOV (Executive Producer) is the co-chairman of Aldamisa Entertainment LLC and Aldamisa International LLC, which she co-founded in 2010 with her husband, Sergei. This innovative film finance and production company utilizes unique strategies that have enabled them to embrace a multitude of different markets for partnership. In the last four years, Bespalov was instrumental in producing D.J. Caruso’s Standing Up, starring Chandler Canterbury, Radha Mitchell and Val Kilmer; and Billy Bob Thornton’s Jayne Mansfield’s Car, starring Kevin Bacon and Robert Duvall. She also was the associate producer on Machete Kills, directed by Robert Rodriguez and starring Danny Trejo. Chef – Press Notes – 30

Bespalov is currently acting as an associate producer on Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City: A Dame to Die For, slated for an August release. Bespalov successfully launched a full-service talent management company called My Talent Management. The company philosophy is that individualized direction will help promising clients grow, establishing the foundation for careers that can flourish and endure. Bespalov received her undergraduate degree from the Holy Family University in Philadelphia. She obtained her NHA certification from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

JAMES D. BRUBAKER (Executive Producer) has had a successful career both as a studio executive and a film producer credited with some of the industry’s highest-grossing films. As president of physical production at Universal Studios from 2002 to 2007, he supervised the production of more than 50 films shot in 14 countries with budgets totaling in excess of $1 billion. Brubaker executive produced Standing Up, directed by D.J. Caruso, and Jane Mansfield’s Car, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. As president of physical production at Aldamisa Entertainment since 2011, he has been responsible for the production of several films including Machete Kills and the forthcoming Sin City: A Dame to Die For (both directed by Robert Rodriguez). Additional producer credits include Bruce Almighty, with Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston and Morgan Freeman; Dragonfly, with Kevin Costner; The Nutty Professor and The Nutty Professor 2, starring Eddie Murphy; Life, featuring Murphy and Martin Lawrence; “Gia,” with Angelina Jolie (DGA Award winner, Outstanding Movie Made for Television); and Liar, Liar, with Jim Carrey. Brubaker executive produced many more films including Over the Top, Cobra and Rocky IV, all starring Sylvester Stallone; A Walk in the Clouds, with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn; and The Right Stuff, winner of four Academy Awards. Prior to beginning his producing career, Brubaker served as production manager on such films as Raging Bull, Comes a Horseman and New York, New York. He then served as associate producer on Rhinestone, Rocky III and True Confessions. Brubaker served as line producer on Patty Hearst and co-produced Rambo III. Chef – Press Notes – 31

Brubaker has been a lecturer and teacher at UCLA and served as an advisor to student filmmakers at USC. His professional associations include the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers Guild of America.

JERE HAUSFATER (Executive Producer) has been a leader in the media and entertainment industries for more than 30 years. He is both an aggregator of content and an executive managing international distribution, marketing and motion picture branding. Hausfater is an attorney with specific expertise in financing, distribution and the sale of intellectual property. He is the chief operating officer of Aldamisa International, a worldwide production, financing, sales and distribution company for theatrical motion pictures. Recent acquisitions include Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills and Sin City: A Dame to Die For. Hausfater’s career began in the music business, where he worked in legal and business affairs before transitioning to home entertainment and ultimately motion pictures. He had extensive involvement in the sales, distribution, legal/business affairs, finance and creative departments. As a studio exec at Disney, Hausfater served as executive vice president of acquisitions and business affairs for Buena Vista International/Buena Vista Home Entertainment. At Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, he was responsible for worldwide acquisition of theatrical motion pictures. Hausfater’s division within Disney surpassed $300 million in operating income. Hausfater also created the first studio in-house theatrical sales company for Disney, Buena Vista Film Sales. There, he helped to acquire and sell worldwide distribution rights for more than 500 films including blockbusters and Academy Award winners. These credits include Il Postino, Runaway Bride, Face/Off, Air Force One, The Piano, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Dances with Wolves, Koyla, 3 Ninjas and Shine. Home video properties acquired by Hausfater included the Jim Henson library, “The Chipmunks,” “The Best of Johnny Carson” and “The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.” When Disney acquired Miramax, it was Hausfater who oversaw the international acquisition and distribution of select Miramax product by Buena Vista International. Miramax subsequently hired Hausfater as an executive vice president to oversee international theatrical distribution, marketing, sales, home video, television and international business affairs. He was Chef – Press Notes – 32 in charge of the Los Angeles office and a senior executive at Miramax’s worldwide acquisition group. Under his watch, Miramax distributed Cold Mountain, Starsky & Hutch, Spy Kids 3, Scary Movie 3, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Shall We Dance, The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Sin City, The Amityville Horror, The Brothers Grimm and Garden State.

PHILIP ELWAY (Executive Producer) is a film finance specialist, attorney, business affairs executive and executive producer with many years of experience in the global motion picture business. He currently advises Aldamisa Entertainment regarding business and legal aspects of the company’s financing and film production deals. He also represents producers in both the raising of financing and the business and legal aspects of their film activities. Clients include Paradox Entertainment, Michael Douglas’ Furthur Films and Chris Evans’ Pale Blue Dot. Previously, Elway advised Endgame Entertainment regarding investments from a $150 million fund created for motion-picture theatrical releasing costs. Elway is currently executive producing The Reach, produced by and starring Michael Douglas. In 2011 Elway executive produced Gambit, which starred Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz and Alan Rickman, based on a screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen. In 2010, Elway executive produced Kevin Smith’s Red State. Elway’s executive producer credits include Steven Soderbergh’s Che: Part One and Part Two, starring Benicio Del Toro; Outlander, produced by Barrie Osborne; I’m Not There, directed by Todd Haynes and starring Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere and Heath Ledger; Death at a Funeral, directed by Frank Oz; and Let Me In, written and directed by Matt Reeves, starring Chloë Grace Moretz. Elway has been integrally involved in more than 200 high-profile motion pictures including Looper, Movie 43, Side Effects, All the King’s Men, Ask the Dust, Monster, Lord of War, Upside of Anger, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Way Back, One Missed Call, Push, Lord of War, Lucky Number Slevin, Jerry Maguire, Men in Black, Stuart Little, Stage Beauty, House of D, Face/Off, The Rainmaker, Collateral Damage, Proof of Life, Rock Star, Pay It Forward, The Replacements, Message in a Bottle, Sabrina, The Ghost and the Darkness, White Squall, First Knight, Single White Female, Geronimo, I’ll Do Anything, Mary Reilly, The Remains of the Day, Bottle Rocket, When Harry Met Sally, The Last Emperor, The Last Action Chef – Press Notes – 33

Hero, Blue Velvet, Manhunter, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, Zelig, Arthur, Stardust Memories and Manhattan. From 2008 to 2011 Elway was head of business affairs at Relativity Media, where he oversaw a department of six lawyers, negotiated the company’s foreign-output distribution arrangements and negotiated all of the principal transactions of the 10 films produced during that time. Before Relativity, Elway was a principal and co-founder of Arsenal, which provided strategic advisory services to a diverse group of independent motion-picture companies and film financiers including Kadokawa Pictures (Japan), Wild Bunch (France), Endgame Entertainment (U.S.), Studio Hamburg (Germany), Maverick Films (U.S.), Action Concepts (Germany), Baldwin Entertainment (U.S.), Exclusive Media (U.S./U.K.), Halifax Films (Canada), Paradox Entertainment (U.S./Sweden), ATO Pictures (U.S.) and Infinity Media (Canada). Prior to Arsenal, Elway was president of VIP Media USA, the U.S. division of the largest German media fund, VIP Medienfonds. In his involvement with VIP, Elway played a key role in the investment of approximately $800 million in 30 independent films. Before joining VIP, Elway worked in executive positions at a number of studios and major, independently financed production companies including Ascendant Pictures, where he served as president and oversaw production and financing; Tribeca Productions, Robert De Niro’s New York-based production company; Bel-Air Entertainment, a joint venture between Warner Bros. and France’s Canal Plus, where he was the chief operating officer for five years; Douglas-Reuther Productions, Michael Douglas’ Paramount-based production company, where he was executive vice president; Columbia Pictures and Guber-Peters Entertainment, where he was senior vice president of business affairs; Scott Free Productions, Ridley and Tony Scott’s film production company, where he was executive vice president; as well as Nelson Entertainment and De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, where he was vice president of business affairs. Elway has been a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2001.

JERRY FRUCHTMAN (Executive Producer) works very closely with his son Peter and his company DRO Entertainment. Despite the fact that Fruchtman has only been in entertainment finance since 2009, he has executive produced and helped finance well over 30 Chef – Press Notes – 34 projects. Fruchtman helped to finance and/or executive produce such notable films as Darren Aronofsky’s acclaimed Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman, and Portman’s highly anticipated new film Jane Got a Gun. Among the other projects Fruchtman has been involved in are Machete, starring Danny Trejo, and Everything Must Go, starring Will Ferrell. He has worked very closely with producer Scott Montoya on his Laugh Out Loud comedy festival. Most recently, Fruchtman and Montoya produced Andrew Dice Clay’s “Indestructible,” which aired on Showtime. Fruchtman was born and raised in Brooklyn, graduating from Brooklyn College with a B.A. in economics. A born salesman, Fruchtman started his career selling for Riverdale Fabrics. In 1983 Fruchtman started Scott Jordan International, Inc., a multi-line sales agency representing some of the finest companies in the hospitality furnishings industry. The company remains one of the most recognized companies in this space, selling its products to major hotel chains, architects, designers and hospitality furnishing suppliers. Although Fruchtman has remained active in the company, he turned over the daily operations to his son Ian in order to focus on two other companies he founded. Dynasty Investments LLC invests in commercial, residential and industrial real estate. Dynasty also has major interests in fast food and full-service restaurants. The other company, EMJA Entertainment Inc., concentrates on entertainment finance. Though entertainment finance is extremely challenging, Fruchtman continues to look for new and exciting projects to help develop.

PETER FRUCHTMAN (Executive Producer) serves as president and CEO of Dro Entertainment, the entertainment production and financing company he founded in 2008. Fruchtman and Dro are presently in development on several high-profile film and television projects, including Joe Eszterhas’ new thriller Lust and Emmy-winner Adam Mazer’s biopic Crashing Through and the “Untitled Hal Berger Project.” Fruchtman recently served as executive producer on the much-anticipated Western Jane Got a Gun, directed by Gavin O’Connor and starring Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor and Rodrigo Santoro. Previously, Fruchtman was an equity investor and executive producer on Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel. Fruchtman helped finance and co-executive produce the action-thriller Machete, co-directed by Chef – Press Notes – 35

Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis, starring Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez and Danny Trejo. Additional credits include Ryan Combs’ thriller King of the Avenue, starring Ving Rhames and Esai Morales; Alan Jacobs’ urban drama Down for Life, starring Danny Glover, Snoop Dogg and Laz Alonso; Spencer Susser’s dramedy Hesher, starring Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Rainn Wilson; the thriller Abandoned, starring Brittany Murphy, Dean Cain and Mimi Rogers; Dan Rush’s dark comedy Everything Must Go, with Will Ferrell and Rebecca Hall; and George Ratliff’s dark comedy Salvation Boulevard, starring Jennifer Connelly, Marisa Tomei and Pierce Brosnan. Since its inception, Dro Entertainment has financed and produced several television shows including the comedy series “Pauly Shore and Friends” and “Russell Peters Presents” (in association with Showtime Networks). The company just completed production on the second season of the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Festival and the accompanying 13-episode, 30-minute series chronicling the national comedy tour that they created and financed with Showtime. Over the past three years, Fruchtman has been responsible for putting more than 120 comedians on Showtime. He also produced the highly rated ABC Family telefilms starring Dean Cain and Mario Lopez, “The Dog Who Saved Christmas,” “The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation” and “The Dog Who Saved Halloween.” After majoring in business at The Ohio State University, Fruchtman worked for seven years at Scott Jordan International, a manufacturers’ sales rep company for commercial and hospitality furnishings. As senior vice president of sales, his responsibilities included overseeing key national accounts such as Marriott International and Starwood Hotels.

CRAIG CHAPMAN (Executive Producer) co-founded Kaushi/Safady Entertainment, a development and production company focused on the creation of high-level IP assets in the feature film and television space. He operates the company with partner Gary Safady. Chapman has produced and contributed to the financing of numerous high-level feature films including Marc Forster’s Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler. Chapman was born, raised in Maine and lived there until he graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1998. After graduation, he moved to the Bay Area to continue his education at Sonoma State University under a fellowship program with “Project Censored: Chef – Press Notes – 36

The News That Didn’t Make the News.” While in the Bay Area, Chapman became interested in the entertainment business after having the opportunity to work on the feature film Bicentennial Man, starring Robin Williams, and the CBS series “Nash Bridges,” starring Don Johnson. In late 1999 Chapman decided that in order to pursue his entertainment career ambitions, he would need to move to Los Angeles. With just $1000 in his pocket and a big dream, he made the five-hour trek to Hollywood and began his pursuit of a job. After six hard weeks of looking, Chapman landed a job at Dick Clark Productions as a development executive. While at Dick Clark, Chapman worked under Cindy Clark and Barry Adelman on the TV pilot “Smartest Kid in America,” produced for CBS. Chapman decided that he had what it took to produce his own product. He quickly decided to take a consulting opportunity with UrbanMind Pictures, a New York-based development company where he helped with three feature film projects. In 2002 UrbanMind was purchased by PPI Entertainment, the oldest independently held distribution company in North America. Chapman worked for PPI for more than two years, reporting directly to the CEO and owner. He educated himself on the financial aspects of the media business, building considerable knowledge and contacts with various distribution and sales companies. After leaving PPI, Chapman produced his first feature film, The Hit (2005), starring Blair Underwood. In 2005 Chapman help launch Siren Studios, a highly respected studio and production services company located in the heart of Hollywood. Siren currently owns and maintains studio facilities on the Sunset Strip and Santa Monica Blvd., including a large digital media center with motion-capture capabilities.

BORIS TETEREV (Executive Producer) has been a part of big-budget films such as Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Die For and Machete Kills but has also helped bring smaller films to fruition, including D.J. Caruso’s Standing Up and Renny Harlin’s latest, the mind- bending horror film Devil’s Pass. After years of practicing medicine at the top hospitals in his native Latvia, Teterev decided to venture into entrepreneurship. In 1995 he became the owner and president of Musa Motors Moscow, the city’s only official dealer for Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, Renault, Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce. In 2008 he sold the Chef – Press Notes – 37 company and brought to film production his innovative business acumen and constant desire to explore and succeed in new areas. Teterev and his wife Irana have contributed greatly to the preservation and promotion of Latvia. In 2010 they created the Teterev Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation that supports charitable projects throughout the world. Teterev and Irana were recently awarded the Cicero Prize and the Order of the Three Stars, which is the highest award for merit in service to Latvia. Teterev was also the recipient of the 2012 Riga Citizen Award and an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Riga Stradins University.

SCOTT STEINDORFF (Executive Producer) is well known in the industry for acquiring and adapting literary properties into commercially successful and award-winning films or television series. His Stone Village Productions is an independent film and television finance and production company committed to bringing to the screen strong stories with broad commercial appeal. Steindorff is producing the forthcoming Western Jane Got a Gun, starring Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton and Ewan McGregor. The film is set to be released by Relativity Media and the Weinstein Company in August 2014. In 2012 Steindorff formed Scott Pictures LLC with banker Peter Nathaniel to finance and produce quality, commercially appealing films for a wide audience. That same year, Steindorff formed the international film sales company Scott Pictures International LLC to handle international sales through the production company’s joint venture with Exclusive Media. The company is producing Brad Furman’s The Ballad of Pablo Escobar and Olivier Megaton’s The Land of the Living. Under the Stone Village banner, Steindorff produced the critically and commercially successful drama The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, William H. Macy and Ryan Phillippe, based on the bestselling Michael Connelly novel. His additional credits as producer include Penelope, Love in the Time of Cholera, Turistas and The Human Stain. For television, Steindorff was an executive producer of the hit NBC series “Las Vegas,” starring Josh Duhamel and James Caan. Steindorff teamed with Paul Newman and producer Marc Platt to produce HBO’s critically acclaimed and award-winning miniseries “Empire Falls,” Chef – Press Notes – 38 which won a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television and received 10 Emmy nominations. Steindorff began his career as a prominent real estate developer building shopping centers in the Southwest and Midwest. He was a business consultant to Melvin Simon, Caesars Palace and the Forum shops. Steindorff wrote the stage play for “EFX” at the MGM Grand with Tommy Tune, then moved to Hollywood to write and concentrate on producing full-time. He established his own production company in 2000.

DYLAN RUSSELL (Executive Producer) has served as an executive at Stone Village Productions (recently re-branded as Scott Pictures) since 2001, most recently as the co-president of production. Russell currently oversees business affairs for the company. He is an executive producer of the forthcoming Western Jane Got a Gun, starring Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton and Ewan McGregor, set to be released by Relativity Media and the Weinstein Company in August 2014. Russell was an executive producer on the 2008 release Penelope, directed by Mark Palansky and starring Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O’Hara and Reese Witherspoon. He helped acquire the project when it was in development and oversaw it from its production and post-production in London to the release of the film. Russell was also an executive producer on the 2007 film Love in the Time of Cholera, directed by Mike Newell, based on the famed Gabriel García Márquez novel. This time he negotiated the acquisition of the film rights to the novel, oversaw development and was part of the production and marketing teams for the film. Russell was the co-producer of the 2006 release Turistas, directed by John Stockwell and starring Josh Duhamel, Olivia Wilde and Melissa George. Russell enjoys overseeing the marketing, product placement and music-soundtrack aspects of Stone Village/Scott Pictures films. He has worked to bring companies like Vespa, Microsoft, Dolce & Gabbana, Belstaff and Luxottica into past projects. He asked Shakira to contribute music to Love in the Time of Cholera, work for which she was Oscar nominated. Russell produced Shakira’s music video for the soundtrack song “Hay Amores.” He also supervised the soundtrack for Penelope. Chef – Press Notes – 39

Prior to his time at Stone Village Productions and Scott Pictures, Russell worked with Ron Bernstein, head of the literary department at ICM Los Angeles. From 2000 to 2001 he worked at director Brad Silberling’s Reveal Entertainment, a DreamWorks company, during production of the feature film Moonlight Mile.

KRAMER MORGENTHAU, ASC (Director of Photography) has traveled the globe shooting feature films as well as television, documentary and commercial assignments. His recent feature projects include Thor: The Dark World with director Alan Taylor; Feast of Love, with three-time Academy Award-winning director Robert Benton; and Fracture, for Gregory Hoblit. In the world of television Morgenthau has been nominated for five Emmys and four ASC awards. He recently shot HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” for which he won the American Society of Cinematographers Award. He was also Emmy nominated for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” and “Too Big to Fail” as well as ABC’s “Flash Forward” and “Life on Mars.” In 2011 Variety named Morgenthau to its list of “10 Cinematographers to Watch” and in 2013 he was featured in the magazine’s “Below the Line Impact Report.” Morgenthau has worked with a wide range of directors including Jon Favreau, James Mangold, Timothy Van Patten, Alan Taylor, David Nutter, Curtis Hanson, Brian Kirk, Spike Lee, Gary Fleder, Barbara Kopple and George Hickenlooper. His feature film credits include The Express, The Man from Elysian Fields, The Big Brass Ring, Empire, Godsend and Havoc. Morgenthau began his career shooting documentaries based out of New York City. In 1996 he shot the Academy Award nominated Small Wonders for two-time Oscar-winning director Allan Miller. That same year a feature film Morgenthau shot, Joe and Joe, was accepted at Sundance. The cinematographer soon became a regular entrant to the festival with seven features and documentaries. He eventually migrated to Los Angeles to further pursue feature films. Morgenthau’s background has had a profound effect on the types of projects he chooses to work on. He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was introduced to the world of documentary film at a young age. His father Henry Morgenthau produced documentaries for Boston’s flagship PBS station WGBH. Morgenthau often tagged along with his father on Chef – Press Notes – 40 location shoots to Africa, Europe and many other places. His father also introduced him to the world of art and painting; they spent many days in art museums and galleries around the world. Morgenthau’s mother, Ruth, gave him an early introduction to global politics and rural development. She was a Polish/Jewish refugee from Nazi-occupied Vienna who went on to become an advisor to three American presidents, a professor of African politics and a forerunner in sustainable rural development. Morgenthau is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Cinematographers, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the International Cinematographers Guild.

DENISE PIZZINI (Production Designer) has spent most of the last 20 years production designing independent films and television projects, while occasionally working as a set decorator on larger studio films. The diversity in her film career has given Pizzini a wide range of film design experiences. She’s worked on everything from small independent films such as Like Water for Chocolate (Ariel Award for Best Art Direction) and the cult classic Black Dynamite to much larger films such as Thirteen Days and The Italian Job. More recently, Pizzini has production designed the last three seasons of the NBC comedy “Community,” for which her work on the “Pillows and Blankets” episode earned a 2012 Art Directors Guild Award nomination. She also did the Fox pilots “Enlisted” and “Fatrick.” After graduating from college, Pizzini pursued a career in interior design in her hometown of San Antonio, where she found success specializing in restaurants and commercial projects. Pizzini began her career in the entertainment business as a commercial art director. After working on several films as the “local hire,” then spending close to a year on location, Pizzini realized that for her the use of design in storytelling was a path that presented endless creative possibilities and challenges. She closed her interior design practice and moved to Los Angeles. Pizzini became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2004. She has curated for the Academy two acclaimed exhibits on set decoration. Pizzini enjoys working on location, exploring new cities and cultures, but she is always happy to return to Los Angeles where she lives with her chicken Prissy and her pug Sam (who Chef – Press Notes – 41 sometimes serves as the beloved art department mascot). Pizzini has two sons attending UC Santa Cruz.

ROBERT LEIGHTON (Editor) recently edited Christopher Guest’s television series “Family Tree,” for HBO and BBC. Prior to that Leighton edited the magician heist thriller Now You See Me, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Caine, and Alex Kurtzman’s directorial debut People Like Us, starring Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks. Best known for his long-standing partnership with director Rob Reiner, Leighton garnered his first Academy Award nomination and A.C.E. Eddie Award nomination for his stellar work on the Tom Cruise topliner A Few Good Men. Born in London, Leighton worked as an assistant editor at the BBC before moving to the U.S. to pursue his editorial career. He and Reiner first teamed up on the rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. The duo went on to collaborate on such enduring film classics as Stand By Me, The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally. Leighton has also enjoyed a lasting and fruitful relationship with writer/director/composer Christopher Guest. Their artistic partnership has flourished on For Your Consideration, A Mighty Wind and the Golden Globe-nominated Best in Show, which nabbed Leighton his second A.C.E. nomination for Best Editing. Other prominent feature credits include Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham, Peter Chelsom’s Shall We Dance and Rob Reiner’s Misery, Ghosts of Mississippi, The American President and The Bucket List.

MATHIEU SCHREYER (Music Supervisor) is a prolific remixer and music producer. His credits include work with artists Steve Spacek, N’Dea Davenport, Tricky, Syreeta and Leon Ware. He has also worked on movie projects with the White Stripes and collaborated with acclaimed director Michel Gondry on his 2001 film Human Nature. More recently, Schreyer scored a jazz soundtrack (alongside Robin Hannibal) for the forthcoming feature Hotel Noir. As Schreyer’s collaboration with soul-singing legend Leon Ware flourished, it inspired him to start his own label. Quires Chicle has a simple mission: to release music Schreyer believes in with his heart and soul. The first release for his imprint is from Leon Ware. Future releases scheduled by Steve Spacek, Saul Williams, Ed Vallance, Robin Hannibal (under his Chef – Press Notes – 42

Bobby moniker) and Orfeo will further cement the label’s reputation for releasing authentic, quality music. Schreyer began his life in Pontoise, just outside of Paris. His nomadic childhood led him from Morocco and Tunisia to Kuwait and Hong Kong. Schreyer soaked up the native musical vibes along the way. His family genuinely loves music and they cultivated his passion for it early on. He made his first DJ appearance at his own ninth birthday party, playing a selection of his sister’s 45s. The seeds were sown for a lifelong immersion in music. After DJing for many years in his native France, Schreyer ultimately settled in Los Angeles in 1995. He immediately began spinning at L.A. hotspots such as Louis XIV, Indochine, Little Temple and Hyde Lounge. His eclectic style of mixing everything from “Afro Beat” to “Broken Beat” established him as a resident DJ along with Garth Trinidad at Zanzibar. The club earned international respect by inviting top-notch guests from all over the world including DJ Spinna, Ron Trent, Bugz in the Attic, DJ Harvey and James Lavelle. Schreyer has since shared the stage with a laundry list of notable artists and DJs including Ben Harper, Meshell Ndegeocello, DJ A-Trak, Egyptian Lover, Peanut Butter Wolf, Questlove, Dam Funk, J Rocc and Massive Attack. In 2006 Schreyer joined the staff of KCRW 89.9, indie radio’s most highly regarded station. When longtime friend Jason Bentley became station director in 2009, he gave Schreyer the creative freedom to craft his own show. Every Friday from midnight to 3 a.m., Schreyer plays a unique selection of songs that reflect his worldwide musical tastes. He holds weekly residencies at the legendary Bar Marmont and downtown’s most chic haunt, the Edison. He is also the music curator for the city’s most revered hotel, the Chateau Marmont. His striking good looks have landed Schreyer modeling spots for Apple, Stussy, Triple 5 Soul, Converse, Joe’s Jeans, Cadillac and a featured TV and print campaign for Target. In 2010 Schreyer started a clothing brand called Unknown Soldier. It is sold in choice boutiques around the world including Collette in Paris, Opening Ceremony in the U.S. and an array of tastemaker shops as far afield as Russia, Canada, Denmark, Spain and Japan.

LAURA JEAN SHANNON (Costume Designer) has worked on major motion pictures such as Jon Favreau’s Iron Man, for which she earned a Costume Designers Guild Award. More Chef – Press Notes – 43 recently she designed costumes for Two Guns, directed by Baltasar Kormákur; Footloose, directed by Craig Brewer; and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, directed by Edgar Wright. Forthcoming releases include the period dramedy Little Boy, starring Kevin James, David Henrie and Emily Watson. Shannon’s work has a wide range. She began her career in NYC designing indie cult classics such as Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, Rose Troche’s The Safety of Objects and Jon Favreau’s Made. Over the years she has had the pleasure of designing many genres including family favorites Zathura and Elf, which afforded Shannon a spot in the prestigious costume exhibition “50 Designers/50 Costumes: Concept to Character,” curated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Shannon enjoys working all over the globe and calls a farm in central New York home, which she shares with her wonderful family.

JAY JOHNSON Unit Production Manager MOLLY ALLEN “Chef” ec v13 02/24/14 First Assistant Director GREGORY G. HALE

Second Assistant Director DAVID KELLEY

Associate Producer JOHN BARTNICKI

In Association with PRESCIENCE and ALTUS MEDIA

CAST

Carl Casper JON FAVREAU Martin JOHN LEGUIZAMO To n y BOBBY CANNAVALE Percy EMJAY ANTHONY Molly SCARLETT JOHANSSON Riva DUSTIN HOFFMAN Inez SOFIA VERGARA Ramsey Michel OLIVER PLATT Jen AMY SEDARIS Marvin ROBERT DOWNEY JR. Miami Cop RUSSELL PETERS Vendor CHASE GRIMM Mr. Bonetangles WILL SCHUTZE Flora GLORIA SANDOVAL Abuelito JOSE C. HERNÁNDEZ “PERICO” Band Members ALBERTO SALAS ALFREDO ORTIZ DANIEL PALACIO MAURICIO DEL MONTE Versailles Host LEONARDO DA NILO Marvin’s Assistant NILI FULLER Kitchen Supply Clerk CHARLES LAO Himself BENJAMIN JACOB Himself AARON FRANKLIN Himself GARY CLARK JR. Himself ROY CHOI Production Supervisor PEGGY ROBINSON Art Director ALICIA MACCARONE Set Decorator BRYAN JOHN VENEGAS, S.D.S.A. A Camera Operator DON DEVINE B Camera Operator DARIN MORAN Steadicam Operator HENRY TIRL A Camera 1 st Assistant RICHARD MASINO A Camera 2 nd Assistant LIAM SINNOTT B Camera 1 st Assistant JAN RUONA B Camera 2 nd Assistant TERRY WOLCOTT DIT RYAN KUNKLEMAN Still Photographer MERRICK MORTON Script Supervisor KATHY McHUGH

Production Sound Mixer RONALD JUDKINS Boom Operator SCOTT JACOBS Utility Sound ALEX NAMES Additional Utility Sound TOMMY GIORDANO Music Playback MARK AGOSTINO Video Assist BRYCE SHIELDS Playback Graphics Developer CHRISTOPHER CUNDEY Video Playback Supervisor DAVID HENRI

Chief Lighting Technician BRETT LAUMANN Assistant Chief Lighting Technician MARK ADRIAN Set Lighting Technicians RALPH COON • MARK GOODWIN GREG CAPP • MIKE MARQUEZ CHRIS CARROLL • ROBERT FERGUSON Rigging Gaffer EUGENE M. BERNAL Best Boy Rigging Electrician GLEN MAGERS Rigging Electric GREGORY BANTA • LAMAR HOUSTON J. ALLEN LOCKE Dimmer Board Operator CORY HART Key Grip CHARLES CRIVIER Best Boy Grip MALCOLM DORAN II A Camera Dolly Grip JIM LEIDHOLDT B Camera Dolly Grip CHARLES SIMONS Company Grips FRED TROESKEN • BEN PEREZ KATARINO BUENO JR. • DAN PREISER Key Rigging Grip DONALD SELSOR Best Boy Rigging Grip DANNY STEPHENS Libra Head Techs CHUCK HARRINGTON • AARON YORK

Property Master JAMES LEE KRONING Assistant Property Master LORRI JAKUBUV Food Stylist MELISSA MCSORLEY Property Assistant TAMMIE CHILDRESS Special Effects Coordinator MARK BYERS Special Effects Technicians STEVE SOSNER • JOE W. KLEIN

Assistant Costume Designer TABITHA JOHNSON Costume Supervisor SARAH LEE-TAYLOR Set Costumer EDDIE GOMEZ Department Head Makeup KATE BISCOE Key Makeup Artist GEORGE BLACK Additional Makeup Artist VALLI O’REILLY Tattoo Design MICHAEL MEKASH Makeup Artist to Ms. Johansson HEBA THORISDOTTIR Department Head Hair MARIE LARKIN Key Hairstylist CLARE CORSICK Hairstylists NATASHA DAVIES ALLEGRO • PEGGY SEMTOB Hairstylist to Mr. Downey Jr. DAVY NEWKIRK Hairstylist to Ms. Johansson JERI BAKER Hair Colorist to Ms. Johansson CHERRY PETENBRINK

Visual Effects Editor CORINNE VILLA

First Assistant Editor DANNY MILLER Assistant Editors GREGG LONDON • MARIA GONZALES Post Production Supervisors SHERYL BENKO • BILL WOHLKEN

Assistant to Mr. Favreau MEGHAN MALLOY

Production Coordinator LISA VIJITCHANTON Assistant Production Coordinator PETER VOGEL Production Secretary BRIDGET SWERECKI 2nd 2nd Assistant Director JAI JAMES 2nd Assistant Director MELINDA JOHNSON Production Accountant TERRI GREENING First Assistant Accountant JENNIFER K. JACOBS Payroll Accountant TIMBER KISLAN Accounting Clerk MEARA McDONALD Location Manager KEI ROWAN-YOUNG Key Assistant Location Managers CHARLES FAGIN • PETER GLUCK

Casting Associate TAMARA HUNTER Casting Assistants CLAIRE KOONCE • JASON STAMEY Extras Casting HEADQUARTERS CASTING Extras Casting Coordinator CARLA LEWIS Unit Publicist JOHN PISANI BTS Camera Operator SEAN RICIGLIANO

Art Department Coordinator LESLIE BORCHERT Graphic Designer ELLEN KING Leadmen JOSE RAY GARCIA • DAVID HOLOWACH Buyer ERIN FITE On-Set Dresser JONATHAN S. RUDNICK Set Dressers ANDREW GERSH • DAVID SLIWA LAURENCE CHRISTMAN • JOHN POLLARD CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN • SAL SANCHEZ General Forman RUSH GOMEZ Propmakers RICHARD K. HART • SCOTT HEAD ROBERT HOWETH • PATRICK BUTCHER CHRIS FORSTER • LARRY MORGAN JOHN DOUGHERTY Lead Painters ERIN McKENNA • NEALE HUGHES Painters KRISTIE MOORE-BIALUSKI • PAUL LINDSEY MICHELLE ARMITAGE • CURTIS HAMILL GRAHAME BUDD • LEONARD TRUJILLO Laborers FRANK MARTINEZ • GERMAN SANCHEZ Greensman BILLY JACKSON Set Medic CHRISTOPHER LUM Rigging Medic TOBIN HALE Construction Medic PHIL KNOEDEL

Transportation Coordinator MICHAEL D. MENAPACE Transportation Captain NATHAN HARDCASTLE Drivers GEORGE L. ANDREWS • NATHAN ANTUNEZ • RONALD BAKER • JOHN BATIUK JEFF BOVA • MICHAEL W. BROOMER • DAVE CALAWAY • RANDY CANTOR DENNIS CLARK • DELBERT CLOUGH • PHIL COPPOLA • KEVIN CORDILL KEVIN M. CORTEZ • HUMBERTO FERNANDEZ • SHANE GREEDY • CHRISTIAN G. JOHNSTON ROBERT MARCHETTI • GEORGE SACK • PETER SEBRING • JIM SGRIGNOLI STANLEY SIMON • JEFF WILLIAMS • KELLY YON Driver - Ms. Johansson BEA REMBECZKY Catering by CHEF ROBÉRT CATERING, INC. Chef ORLANDO HURTADO 1st Catering Assistant SERGIO JIMENEZ Catering Assistants LUIS FRANCO • RAUL MORALES, J r. Key Craft Service DAVID GARCIA Craft Service Assistants CHRISTINE GARCIA Culinary Skills Instructor CHEF CHRISTOPHE BERNARD Studio Teacher LOIS YAROSHEFSKY

Production Assistants SAGE ASTEAK • STELLA BAKER • DANIEL ERIKSON • SAUL GONZALEZ KATIE JOHNSON • CHRISTIAN LABARTA • JORDAN PALEY • CHELSEA LYNN PETERSON CHRISTIAN SAMPSON • PHOEBE TILLEM • PHILLIP VAN SPRONSEN MALCOLM WASHINGTON • ALISON WILSON Stand-ins MARC GESCHWIND • HEATHER L aBELLA • LOUIE NOVOA MIKE DALAGER • JACKIE ECO • BRIAN SCHAEFFER

MIAMI UNIT Splinter Unit 1 st Assistant Director STEPHEN P. DEL PRETE C Camera Operator ANDREW FISHER Splinter Unit 1 st Assistant Camera ROBERTO BALLESTEROS Splinter Unit 2 nd Assistant Camera MARVIN LEE Splinter Unit Script Supervisor MELINDA TAKSEN Sound Utility MIKE SCHMIDT Music Playback ANTONIO TAHAN Production Coordinator JEF GLENN Assistant Production Coordinator PATTY HARRIGAN Additional Costumer LORI ELLISON Makeup Artist DOLORES HERNANDEZ Additional Hairstylist TERESA MORGAN Additional Property Master ROMAIN GATEAU Additional Assistant Property Master PHIL SCHNEIDER Additional Assistant Chief Lighting Technician JACK ROSE II Set Lighting Technicians DANIEL DEMIRGIAN • JAMES SECKEL CHRIS HILL • RYAN SHOPAY Rigging Electric LOUIS MARTON Dimmer Board Operator JOHN CRIMINS Additional Best Boy Grip JORGE PARRA B Dolly Grip SEAN FISHER Grips CHRIS TARANTINO • CARLOS PEROZO FRED KIMBLE • MALCOLM JOLLEY Splinter Unit Key Grip KEVIN HIGGINS Splinter Unit Best Boy Grip NICOLAS DONADIO Special Effects Foreman BRUCE MERLIN Leadman STEPHEN DURANTE Set Dresser JEREMY READ Buyer JANE JOHNSON Location Manager SUSANNE RAGNARSSON Key Assistant Location Manager SANDRA WOODWARD Assistant Location Managers CARLOS REY DEL CASTILLO MARCEL PINKOWSKI Location Scout ALEJO MENENDEZ Extras Casting ELLEN JACOBY Scenic Artist PAUL VISTOCCO Transportation Captain K.C. COLEBROOKE Transportation Co-Captain GLENN McMURRAY DOT Coordinator NICOLE McMILLAN Drivers BRIAN J. BAILEY • SHAWN S. BECKER • WILLIE L. BELL • CONNIE LEE BROWN DANIEL DUSCH • DAVID HAMILTON • PABLO HERNANDEZ • CRAIG M. HOFSTRAND PL JACKSON • VINCENT KING • MARTIN D. KOE • RAMIRO LEIVA WILLIAM “MAC” MAQUEZ • ARTURO PENA • MAYKEL SANCHEZ GUS SARDINA • ANTONIO SERRANO • JAMES W. TAYLOR • RODNEY THORPE Medic BRANDON SELTS Splinter Unit Medics ALAIN IGLESIAS • PATRICK SELTS Catering by HANNA BROTHERS Chef JOSEPH HANNA Key Craft Service LISA PELLECHIO Craft Service Assistant JESSICA ENAMORADO Production Assistants KEVIN BREEN • NICHOLAS BURRELL • CHRISTOPHER GANZE • ASH HARRIS JIMMY MACOLINO • JOHNNY MONIZ • BENITO PORTES • SHANNON RODRIGUEZ

NEW ORLEANS UNIT Production Supervisor WILL GREENFIELD Splinter Unit 1 st Assistant Director MARK E. BROWN C Camera Operator JEFF TUFANO C Camera 1 st Assistant NORRIS FOX B Camera 2 nd Assistant BRYCE MARSHALL C Camera 2 nd Assistant TONJA GREENFIELD Lenny Arm Tech CRAIG “DAY DAY” RICE Utility Sound BRAD DUVERNET Production Coordinator JAX BAKER Additional Set Costumers AMANDA STEELEY • VANESSA LACY Assistant Property Master VIRLE REID Additional Property Assistant ALEXIS PAYMENT Assistant Chief Lighting Technician BARRY STRICKLAND Set Lighting Technician TRAVIS ELKINS Additional Best Boy Grip BARRY WILLIAMSON B Camera Dolly Grip DANIEL RECTOR Grips JASON A. COBY • MICHAEL SATTERFIELD MICHAEL TREJO Special Effects Technician JUSTIN B. JOHNSON Leadperson SIMONETTE BERRY Set Dresser DAVID O. WHATLEY Location Manager DAVID THORNSBERRY Location Assistants CANDACE MAYFIELD • EVAN EASTHAM WILLIAM O’BRIEN • CHRIS QUACKENBUSH Extras Casting ROBIN BATHERSON Extras Casting Assistants MARCY PUNCH • JASON LANDRY Transportation Coordinator ARTHUR LAMBETH Transportation Captain RICK DAVIS Local Transportation Captain OSCAR “BIG O” AUSTIN JR. Drivers ALEX ALLEN • GURSLYN BAKER • L IONEL CUNEO • CASSIDY ELI DEMOND HAYES • WAYNE JOLLA • MARY JUMPIERRE • KEITH VENSON Insert Car Driver DAVID BULLARD Set Medic JED CARTER Catering by FRENCHY’S CATERING Chefs JERI PERRIN • JUAN ACOSTA Assistant Chef CARLOS FLORES Chef’s Assistants MANUEL RAMOS • MATTHEW GREEN SEAN RICHARD • CHRIS GAVIN Catering Driver FREDERIC PERRIN Key Craft Service CHARLOTTE LANCASTER Craft Service Assistant DOTTIE BUCK Additional Craft Service Assistants WILENE MARTHINSEN • MELANIE AYMAMI Production Assistants AVA AMUNDSEN • SUMNER BOISSIERE III • BEN COLLINSWORTH • PAUL CUMBIE GEORGE FISK • ADAM GAMBREL • ANDRE HERRERA • PETER M cGREW JOEY RACCA • ALEX SALAZAR • JILLIAN SZEWSKI AUSTIN UNIT Production Supervisor JOHN K. PATTERSON Splinter Unit 1 st Assistant Director SCOTT MEYERS C Camera Operator STEVE DENNY B Camera 1 st Assistant ADAM SCHWARTZ B Camera 2 nd Assistant SAM PEARCY Sound Utility DAVID SHAWN HARPER Production Coordinator LEIGH DAVIS Assistant Property Master JONATHAN SHAFFER Chief Lighting Technician BARRY STRICKLAND Set Lighting Technicians BRAD KEFFER • DANIEL A. M cGARVEY, JR. COLIN SCHERR • MARK SEPULVEDA Best Boy Grip JOSEPH A. VASQUEZ B Camera Dolly Grip NEIL FRASER C Camera Dolly Grip JOE KENTSPETH Grips ERIC PICKETT • MATTHEW COWAN PATRICK BLACKARD • ZANE STREATER TED DAVIS Remote Head Tech CHRISTOPHER DE FRANCO Special Effects Technician STEVE WOLF Leadman DAVID S. HACK Set Dresser BART BROWN Location Manager BARRY LACINA Splinter Unit Location Manager LOGAN COOPER Locations Assistant ADAM COOK Extras Casting BETH SEPKO Transportation Captain JANICE KNOX Drivers COLIN EDLUND • PEGGY GROUNDS • DWAYNE HAEVISCHER • CODY HAYNES DUSTIN LITTLE • BOBBY NELSON • ELLIS RANDOLPH • AMANDA STARK Set Medic RANDY BILSKI Caterer LEE MAY Key Craft Service DEBBIE MANNING BILSKI Assistant Craft Service CODY HUDSON Production Assistants JUSTIN BERENS • JACOB BEYER • JOE CANIK • MERCEDES EATON CID ALICIA COOMBS • JIM FLOWERS • RICHARD GUZMAN • AJ LEDESMA KATHRYN MILES • JESSICA POESSIGER • FARHANEH SHIZAREE • SHANE WELLESLEY Post-Production Sound Services by SKYWALKER SOUND a Lucasfilm Ltd. Company Marin County, California

Sound Designer TOM MYERS Supervising Sound Editors / Dialogue Editors MICHAEL SILVERS • STEVE SLANEC Re-Recording Mixers CHRIS BOYES • GARY SUMMERS Assistant Supervising Sound Editor JON BORLAND Sound Effects Editor CHRIS SCARABOSIO Dialogue Editor BRIAN CHUMNEY ADR Editor MICHELE PERRONE Foley Editor BENJAMIN A. BURTT Assistant Re-Recording Mixer NATHAN NANCE Engineering Services BRIAN LONG • DOUG FORD Digital Editorial Support DANNY CACCAVO • SCOTT LEVINE Vice President & General Manager JOSH LOWDEN Head of Production JON NULL Head of Engineering STEVE MORRIS Bidding & Scheduling CHARLOTTE MOORE Post-Production Sound Accountant RENÉE RUSSO Client Services Coordinators EVA PORTER • SUSAN LEAHY Production Services MIKE LANE

Foley Facility FEET N FRAMES Foley Walker JOHN SIMPSON, MPSE Foley Mixer PETER SMITH Foley Editor RYAN SQUIRES

Music Editor TANYA NOEL HILL Music Services Provided by CUTTING EDGE Music Clearance & Licensing LAURA KATZ • CHRIS PICCARO Gary Clark Jr. Music Recorded and Mixed by BHARATH “CHEEX” RAMANATH On-Screen Music Recorded by KYLE LAMY • ANTONIO TAHAN ROBERT C. BIGELOW On-Screen Music Mixed by ERICH GOBEL

ADR Voice Casting BARBARA HARRIS ADR Mixers DAVID WEISBERG • RON BEDROSIAN GREG STEELE, CAS Dolby Sound Consultant DAN SPERRY Production Legal Services by BUSINESS AFFAIRS, INC. STEVE MONAS • GREG SNODGRASS NICOLE PAPINCAK • RYEL TOBY Finance Legal by GARY RASKIN, RASKIN ANDERSON LAW Script Clearance Research by INDIECLEAR, CAROL COMPTON Legal Clearances Provided by INDIEWORKS BRIDGET BRILEY • KIRK HAMILTON

PRESCIENCE and ALTUS MEDIA Legal SIMON GOLDBERG • RAZWANA AKRAM of SIMONS, MUIRHEAD and BURTON Finance Assistant SAMANTHA ALLWINTON Head of Administration ANNA BRAZINOVA Head of Business and Legal Affairs ANDERS ERDEN Finance Manager BHANITA HUNWICKS Head of Finance GRAEME LAW Head of Commercial Affairs JAMES SWARBRICK

Completion Guaranty Provided by PROSIGHT SPECIALTY INSURANCE Insurance Provided by GALLAGHER ENTERTAINMENT INSURANCE SERVICES Payroll by ENTERTAINMENT PARTNERS Production Financing ALDAMISA ENTERTAINMENT Aldamisa Production Executives JANET WATTLES • REGINA WARENDORP Aldamisa Post Production Executive TIM SWAIN Aldamisa Controller LOWELL DEAN COX Assistant to Mr. Bespalov MICHELLE FARAJI Post Production Accounting THE ACCOUNTING GROUP Integrated Marketing Consultants JORDAN YOSPE • JOHN DEMARCO BRAND-AIDE ENTERTAINMENT

Digital Intermediate by TECHNICOLOR Supervising Digital Colorist STEVEN J. SCOTT Digital Colorist Assist JUAN FLORES DI Producer MIKE DILLON DI Assistant Producer BRANDIE KONOPASEK DI Senior Editor BOB SCHNEIDER DI Editor CARRIE OLIVER Account Executive MICHAEL MONCREIFF

Dailies Provided by MODERN VIDEOFILM Dailies Post Supervisor HEIDI TEBO Dailies Data Lab Operators DEVIN BARKER • JONATHAN JUAREZ Account Executive TAL FIALA Titles by JONATHAN STERN MANAGEMENT Title Design JAY JOHNSON 35mm Laboratory Services FOTOKEM Account Representative RAY MORFINO Film Scheduler STEVEN MITCHELL Color Timer JIM WILLIAMS

Visual Effects by SHADE VFX VFX Supervisor BRYAN GODWIN VFX Executive Producer DAVID VAN DYKE Compositing Supervisor HARIMANDER SINGH KHALSA CG Lead GABRIEL VARGAS Animation Supervisor JASON DONNELLY FX Animation Lead ANDRES BERKSTEIN Digital Production Manager MOLLY PABIAN Head of Technology JOHN RIDDLE VFX Editorial Coordinator RYAN ANDERSEN Compositors CHARLES BADEN • KYLE GRAY WADE IVY 2D Artist NEIKO NAGY

Additional Music by LYLE WORKMAN

SONGS

“BROTHER JOHN IS GONE / HERC-JOLLY-JOHN” “TIRED OF BEING ALONE” Written & Performed by The Wild Magnolias Written & Performed by Al Green Courtesy of Nonesuch Records Courtesy of Hi Records By arrangement with Warner Music Group By arrangement with Fat Possum / Film & TV licensing Wixen Music Publishing, Inc.

“GET DOWN” “RUDY, A MESSAGE TO YOU” Written by Ron Brown Written by Robert Livingstone Thompson Performed by Freedom Express Performed by Grant Phabao, Carlton Livingston, Courtesy of Now-Again Records & The Lone Ranger Courtesy of Paris DJs “I LIKE IT LIKE THAT” Written by Tony Pabon & Manny Rodriguez “LUCKY MAN” Performed by Pete Rodriguez Written by Courtney Morrison, Nicole Sharpe, Courtesy of Fania Records John Holt, Tyrone Evans, & Howard Barrett Performed by Courtney John “C.R.E.A.M.” Courtesy of Fiwi Music Jamaica Written by Dennis Coles, Robert F. Diggs, Gary E. Grice, Lamont Hawkins, Isaac Hayes, “CAVERN” Jason Hunter, Russell T. Jones, David Porter, Written by Scott Hartley, Richard McGuire, Clifford Smith, & Corey Woods Salvatore Principato, & Dennis Young Performed by El Michels Affair Performed by Liquid Liquid Courtesy of Fat Beats Records Courtesy of GR Entertainment By arrangement with Truth & Soul Courtesy of Mo’Wax Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises “HUNG OVER” Written by Charles “Packy” Axton, Leroy Hodges, “BANG BANG” Mabon Hodges, Johnny Keys, & Archie Mitchell Written by Joe Cuba & Jimmy Sabater Performed by The Martinis Performed by Joe Cuba Courtesy of Light In The Attic Records and Courtesy of Fania Records The Estate of Estelle Axton “THE CHAMP” “LA QUIMBUMBA” Written by Harry Palmer Written by Jose Caridad Hernández Performed by The Mohawks Performed by “Perico” Hernández Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp. By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing “THE HUSTLER” Written & Performed by Willie Colon “TABACO Y RON (TM JUKE & THE Courtesy of Fania Records JACK BAKER TRIO REWORK)” Written by Manuel Roche Dominguez “QUE SE SEPA” Performed by Greenwood Rhythm Coalition (with Luz Mob) Written by Titti Sotto Courtesy of Names You Can Trust Performed by Roberto Roena y Su Apollo Sound Courtesy of Fania Records “ACID” Written & Performed by Ray Barretto “ALI BABA” Courtesy of Fania Records Written & Performed by Louie Ramirez Courtesy of Fania Records “HOMENAJE AL BENNY (CASTELLANO QUE BUENO BALIA USTED)” “MI SWING ES TROPICAL” Written by Alexander Delgado, Written by Nicolas Desimone, Yosdany Jocab, & Fernando Otero Hector Alomar, & Will Holland Performed by Gente De Zona Performed by Quantic & Nickodemus feat. Courtesy of Planet Records, a Trademark of Nuovi Tempo &The Candela Allstars Media & Comunicazione srl Courtesy of Wonderwheel Recordings “BUSTIN’ LOOSE” “SEXUAL HEALING” Written by Charles L. Brown Written by Odell Brown, David Ritz, & Marvin Gaye Performed by Rebirth Brass Band Performed by Hot 8 Brass Band Courtesy of Mardi Gras Records, Inc. Courtesy of Tru Thoughts Records Ltd. “TRAVIS COUNTY” “WHEN MY TRAIN PULLS IN” Written and Performed by Gary Clark Jr. Written & Performed by Gary Clark Jr. Courtesy Of Warner Music Group Courtesy Of Warner Music Group “OH, DIDN’T HE RAMBLE” “WEST COAST POPLOCK” Traditional Written by Roger Troutman, Larry Troutman, Performed by Rebirth Brass Band Mikel Hooks, & Ronnie Hudson Performed by Ronnie Hudson And The Street People “OYE COMO VA” Courtesy of Geffen Records under license from Written by Tito Puente Universal Music Enterprises Performed by “Perico” Hernández

FILMED AT LOS ANGELES CENTER STUDIOS

Special Thanks BRYAN LOURD DANNY HAROLD SPENCER BAUMGARTEN CHAD COLBY ROEG SUTHERLAND EMILY and JUNIOR ALABI LISA SHOTLAND JONATHAN GOLD GEOFFRY OBLATH DAVID CHANG INA TRECIOKAS REBIRTH BRASS BAND NATASHA PHAN SANDRA GRANOVSKY DAN GREGOIRE BRAD BARUH

SUZANNE LINDBERG - APPLE INC. JONATHAN BROIDA and SARA MOTOMURA- BROIDA - JAPANESE KNIFE IMPORTS and THE CITY OF VENICE, CA

HATFIELDS, LINUS BIKES, BILL RENTALS, BLUEPRINT CLEANSE, M3, CHEF REVIVAL, BIRKENSTOCK, BLACK HALO, ADAM DRAWAS, ERICA COURTNEY, HELEN FICALORA, DICKIES, ADIDAS, CARHARTT, LACOSTE, UGG AUSTRALIA, VANS BAREFOOT DREAMS, GREEN GARMENTO, BOB HARVEY, CHARLES BARSAMIAN, VITAMIX, AMC THEATRES and AMC SANTA MONICA 7, BIG RED SUN, FONTAINEBLEAU MIAMI BEACH

Camera Package by PANAVISION

Lighting Equipment Provided by PASKAL LIGHTING Camera Car, Camera Cranes, Dollies, Remote & Stabilized Camera Systems by CHAPMAN / LEONARD STUDIO EQUIPMENT, INC.

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