Right away, Mike and Steve and I are a match. I think Bob will love him too. We’d met years ago when he was working with my beloved co-writer, Betsy Roden on her (and their) screenplay about Dorothea Lange. He is heart family – funny, awake, smart, wry. And an elder. I really am...
Read more →On our way to Los Angeles, to meet with line producer Cristen Carr Strubbe and editor Steve Cohen. Here is how we do it now, in Hollywoodspeak…”Cristen Carr Strubbe, you know, American Beauty, Ali, Catch Me if you Can, Charlie Wilson’s War, the new Natalie Portman movie…” and Steve Cohen, you know, he created...
Read more →BOB ELFSTROM. Cinematographer. Except they aren’t called that any more – they are called Director of Photography. I found Bob through the magic of listening. I had gone on the Bay Area online crew directory, THE REEL DIRECTORY, to contact lighting and sound designers so we could begin to create a realistic budget. One...
Read more →Syncronicity. The making of Jane story is grounded in all of our belief in the interconnected web that surrounds and imbues us. We are clear we cannot create JANE just with will power. We are tapping in, as best we can, to that creative force which includes us inside of itself, a generous fierce...
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