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FOUNDERS
Barrie
M. Osborne | Michael Peyser | Jon Labrie | N. Madhusudhanan
Barrie M. Osborne recently
executive produced two independent films, Roger DonaldsonÕs The WorldÕs Fastest Indian starring
Anthony Hopkins and Rowan WoodsÕ Little
Fish starring Cate Blanchett,
Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill and Martin Henderson. As producer of The Lord of the Rings: Return Of The King,
Osborne won many awards including the 2004 Academy Award and the British
Academy of Film and Television Award for Best Picture. Currently producing
Laundry Warrior and Justice League of America.
Among other credits, Osborne
executive produced The Matrix. His
other producing credits include John Woo's Face/Off
and China Moon. He has served as
executive producer on The Fan, Dick
Tracy, Child's Play, Wilder Napalm, Rapa Nui and Peggy Sue Got Married. A native New Yorker, Osborne earned a B.A.
degree from Minnesota's Carleton College. He served as 1st Lieutenant in the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers before entering the film industry in 1970.
Accepted into the Directors
Guild of America trainee program, Osborne worked under the tutelage of
directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Alan Pakula
and Sydney Pollack on films including The
Godfather Part II, Three Days of the
Condor and All The Presidents Men.
He subsequently worked on a number of films in various capacities including Apocalypse Now, The Big Chill, King of
Comedy, The Cotton Club, Cutter's Way, Fandango and China Syndrome.
During a two-year tenure as
Vice President for Feature Production at Walt Disney Pictures, Osborne oversaw
numerous features including Ruthless
People, The Color of Money, Tin Men, Three Men And A Baby, Tough Guys,
Outrageous Fortune, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Good Morning Vietnam.
Michael Peyser is an
accomplished producer of both major studio movies as well as cutting edge
independent films. He has spent
his career mastering the challenges of the film industry both as a producer and
a studio executive. Most recently he produced U2 3D stereoscopic film and Imagining Argentina starring Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson under the direction of renowned
British writer/director Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons, The Quiet American). Currently he is producing
Laundry Warrior with Barrie Osborne.
Among his extensive credits,
Michael has produced a wide range of commercially and critically successful
films, including: Ruthless People
(with Bette Midler and Danny DeVito); Big Business (with Bette Midler and Lily
Tomlin), and the childrenÕs classic Matilda
directed by Danny DeVito. He also produced the comedies The Distinguished Gentleman starring Eddie Murphy; Camp Nowhere with Christopher Lloyd, and
The Night We Never Met with Matthew
Broderick and Annabella Sciorra. He was the producer and executive
producer respectively of Hackers and Desperately Seeking Susan - hip, edgy
thrillers that featured the breakthrough performances for both Angelina Jolie and Madonna.
Michael launched the cult
classic comedy Haiku Tunnel that
premiered and was snapped up for distribution at the Sundance Film
Festival. SLC Punk! – A Sony Classics indie
hit – also made its debut at Sundance. He worked for many years with Woody
Allen, first as a production supervisor on Manhattan
then as production manager on Stardust
Memories and became Associate Producer on the following acclaimed Allen
pictures: The Purple Rose of Cairo,
Broadway Danny Rose, Zelig, and A Midsummer NightÕs Sex Comedy. He was executive in charge of
production on the huge hit comedy Arthur
(starring Dudley Moore and Sir John Gielgud in his Oscar-winning
performance).
Early in his career he worked
on Milos FormanÕs musical Hair and the classic thriller Marathon
Man. Michael has also been a motion picture executive and was the founding
Senior Vice President of Hollywood Pictures at Disney where he supervised
creative development, production and a broad release schedule for an extensive
slate of films. A New York native who makes his home with his wife and two
daughters in Los Angeles; he enjoys the challenges and camaraderie of
filmmaking and embraces all aspects of managing the creative endeavor.
Jon Labrie is a creative and
experienced engineering executive with more than 20 years of experience in the
digital technologies that drive innovation in global entertainment today. In his capacity as Chief Technical
Officer at Weta Digital from 1995-2003 he was the principle architect of the
innovative technical infrastructure used to create the multiple Academy
Award¨-winning visual effects for The
Lord of the Rings trilogy.
In that time Weta grew from two
rooms with 7 artists to become one of the largest and most respected visual
effects facilities in the world, with more than 300 creative
professionals. His credits include
Broken Arrow, Independence Day, The
Frighteners, Contact, and The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King.
Jon is also sole inventor of two proprietary, patent-pending gaming architectures targeted at
mobile devices and users, and in 2003 founded Blister Wireless to exploit the
IP. Blister currently
publishes two games in China and is developing a massively-multiplayer
mobile game for distribution in the US.
A native of Los Angeles, Jon is
also an accomplished public speaker with keynote speeches on computer-human
interface design, digital visual effects, game development, and digital storage
and networking architectures presented to capacity crowds in the US, Singapore,
New Zealand, and Japan.
Madhu is a pioneer and leader
of the Indian visual effects and computer animation industry. He produced
several TV commercials and corporate films before moving on feature film work.
Madhu has produced visual effects for more than 60 motion pictures. In 2002, at the 49th National Film Festival in New Delhi, the
honorable President of India Sri. Abdul Kalam
presented him with the National Award
for best visual effects for his supervision of Indian and Hollywood visual
effects artists on the Tamil language Film Alavandaan. Recently he received the Dr.
Zakir Hussain Memorial Award for outstanding
achievement in the Arts from the Los Angeles Indo-American community. Madhu was also awarded with a special achievement honor for Visual
Effects by Animation Xpress.com in Jan, 2008.
He has been instrumental in
promoting IndiaÕs visual effects skills to the global film industry by
supervising Indian artists in the execution of shots for The Lord Of The Rings – The Return of The King, which
ultimately won an Academy Award for best visual effects. Madhu has worked on Stormbreaker, CLICK, and Spiderman 3 etc.
Madhu is an elected member of
Visual Effects Society in Los Angeles, and in June 2005 was appointed as
founding Chairman of the FICCI (Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry) Visual Effects Community, a new post launched in Chennai on the 29th
AugustÕ 2005. He also served as Sr. Vice-President at Applause Entertainment,
Mumbai (Aditya
Birla group of Companies). He is frequently quoted in industry magazines
worldwide and is considered a leading role model in the Indian visual effects
industry.
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