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| The Writer/Director: Sande Zeig |
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| Sande Zeig's first short film Central Park (produced in association with Good Machine, Inc.) was presented in over 30 film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno, Rio de Janeiro and Taipei. Central Park was broadcast on Canal+ (France) and SBS (Australia). The Girl is her feature film debut. Zeig worked for many years in theater as an actor, writer and producer, where her credits include the New York Equity Showcase of Behind the Heart, an adaptation of Djuna Barnes' stories, the Paris premiere of The Constant Journey, written and co-directed by Monique Wittig, and the New York production of Impersonators, a one-person show. Zeig has been an artist in residence at Goddard College and the University of Wisconsin as well as a MacDowell Colony Fellow. She has received a California Council for the Arts' Artist in Residence grant, an Astraea Foundation grant and an Art Matters Fellowship. Zeig is President of Artistic License Films, a New York based distributor of independent film. | ||||||||||||
| The Co-Writer: Monique Wittig |
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| Monique Wittig received the Prix Medicis for her first book, The Opoponax. Her other books include Les Guerillères, The Lesbian Body, Across the Acheron, The Straight Mind and Other Essays, Paris-la-Politique, and with Sande Zeig, Lesbian Peoples: Material For a Dictionary and the play, The Constant Journey. Wittig's works have been translated into a dozen languages from their original French. Her work has secured increasing critical and theoretical interest, and is the subject of a book, several hundred articles, and several doctoral dissertations. Wittig is a Professor in the department of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The Girl is based on her first fiction written in English, also titled The Girl. |
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| The Producer: Dolly Hall |
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| Named as "Producer to Watch" by Variety. Hall began her producing career in 1990 and went on to Line Produce the 1993 Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner The Wedding Banquet, directed by Ang Lee. Hall's other producing credits include such award-winning films as The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, Siao Yu, johns. All Over Me, Eye of God, High Art, 54 and Wirey Spindell. In 1999, Greenestreet Films tapped Hall to head its Digital Film Division. The first digital feature under DFD's banner, entitled Famous, which was directed by Griffin Dunne and produced by Mira Sorvino and Hall, was an official selection of the 2000 Cannes International Film Festival. As of July 2000, Hall resumed her duties as President of dollface, inc. She is currently executive producing Fisher Steven's Still A Kiss, and Jesse Peretz, The Inherited Château. |
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| The Editors: Geraldine Peroni |
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| Geraldine Peroni has been a long-time collaborator with Robert Altman. In addition to Dr. T and the Women, their films together include Vincent & Theo, Short Cuts, Ready to Wear, Kansas City, The Gingerbread Man, and The Player, for which Geraldine received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Editor. Peroni has also worked with directors Nora Ephron on Michael, Tom DiCillo on Johnny Suede and Tim Robbins on Cradle Will Rock. Most recently she edited Jesus Son based on the short stories of Denis Johnson and starring Billy Crudup. |
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| Keiko Deguchi | ||||||||||||
| Keiko Deguchi came to New York from Japan in 1985 to study cinema at NYU. She has been working in film editing since 1987, and has assisted on film by Robert Altman, Brian DePalma, Nora Ephron, Paul Shrader and Tom DiCillo. Her credits as an editor include DiCillo's The Real Blonde, Bette Gordon's Luminous Motion and Yoshifumi Hosoya's. Home Sweet Hoboken. She is currently editing Patrick Stettner's The Business of Strangers. |
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| The Director of Cinematography: George Lechaptois |
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| Chilean born cinematographer George Lechaptois, works in Paris in independent film and television. His feature film work includes Bourlem Guerdjou's Vivre au paradis, Naceaur Ktari's Sois mon Amie, Malik Chibane's De quelque part and Douce France, Francois Lunel's Heroji, Antoine Desrosiéres's A la belle etoile. His television work includes Baldipata: radio trottoir and Le serment de Baldipata for France 2. |
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| The Music: Richard Robbins |
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| Long known for his association with Merchant Ivory Productions, Richard Robbins has composed original sound tracks and created scores from period music for them for seventeen feature films including The Europeans, Quartet, Heat and Dust, A Room with a View, and Maurice. He also composed the scores for Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Jefferson in Paris. Robbins scores for Howard's End and Remains of the Day were both nominated for Academy Awards. In addition to the scores for The Proprietor and Surviving Picasso, Robbins has written the musical scores for A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, Place Vendôme, Cotton Mary and The Golden Bowl. |
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| The Casting and Co-Producer: Claude Martin |
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| Early in her career, Claude Martin was assitant casting director on Jean de Florette. Her recent casting work includes Medhi Charef's Au pays de Juliette, Marie France Pisier's The Governor's Ball, Prince's Under the Cherry Moon, Bourlem Guerdjou's Vivre au paradis, Arno Desplechin's Comment je me suis disputé ma vie sexuelle, Héléne Angel's prize winning Coeur d'homme, peau de bête. She was assistant to Kristin Scott Thomas on Robert Redfords The Horse Whisperer. She is currently casting the new film by Rithy Pahn's Que la barque se brise. The Girl marks her first producer credit. |
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