By his early teens, Damon Santostefano (Director) was writing and performing stand-up and sketch comedy in his home town of Boston. He combined this with his love for filmmaking and, at New York University School of the Arts, began working professionally as a director, creating award-winning short films and documentaries. Out of college, Santostefano established a New York-based production company with the publishers of Starlog and Future magazines, where he developed, wrote and directed film and television projects for HBO, Showtime, PBS and Paramount Television. He continued to perform stand-up comedy in New York and Boston clubs, while also directing several Off-Broadway stage productions (at the American Place Theater), as well as the contemporary opera "Leben" for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Santostefano sold his first screenplay, "The Brandenburg," to producer Joel Silver, and quickly began a screenwriting career, co-writing the feature scripts "The Immortal," "Sanctuary" and "Passengers" and writing "Falling Sky," "I, Swinger" and "Drift." He also co-wrote the recent MTV comedy pilot "Love Dies and Then You Do." As a director, Santostefano received a CableACE Award for Best Series for his direction of Nickelodeon's popular "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." His other directing credits include ABC's pilot, "Not Me"; Nickelodeon's pilot, "Skwid Zone"; the series "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and "Clueless"; HBO's/David Letterman's "The Highlife" (aka "Emmet and Earl"); and Comedy Central's "Bob and Sully," which he also created and wrote. He is currently developing several features to direct with Warner Bros., Touchstone Pictures and 20th Century Fox through his company, Sicily Pictures. Return to Top

Partners Bobby Newmyer (Producer) and Jeffrey Silver (Producer) founded Outlaw Productions in 1988. During the last 10 years they have produced a number of both independent and major studio features, including Steven Soderbergh's "sex, lies and videotape," which won the Palme D'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival; "Crossing the Bridge" and "Indian Summer," both written and directed by Mike Binder; "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead," starring Christina Applegate and directed by Stephen Herek; "Mr. Baseball," starring Tom Selleck and directed by Fred Schepisi; the box-office hit "The Santa Clause," starring Tim Allen; "Don Juan De Marco," starring Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp; and most recently, "Addicted to Love," starring Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick and directed by Griffin Dunne. Newmyer and Silver's Outlaw Productions is in the fifth year of an overall deal at Warner Bros., providing the studio with the first opportunity to finance their productions. Outlaw is also partners in a joint venture with Intermedia Films and Fuji Entertainment, which provides them with development and production funds for other projects. Upcoming productions for Outlaw include "Gossip," which will be financed by Warner Bros. under the direction of Davis Guggenheim; "Training Day," financed by Intermedia, starring Samuel L. Jackson; and "Sadness at Leaving," which will be financed by Steven Reuther's Bel Air Entertainment and will star Richard Gere. Return to Top

Bettina Sofia Viviano (Producer) is President and Producer of Viviano Entertainment, Inc., a production and literary management company, and is currently executive producing "Nightmare Man," a television series for international syndication. She also recently co-executive produced the ABC telefeature "Alibi" (with Tori Spelling) and produced the USA Network movie "Caught in the Act" (starring Gregory Harrison). During her tenure at Amblin Entertainment, Viviano worked as Creative Executive on the development of such successes as "Schindler's List," parts two and three of the "Back to the Future" trilogy and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." Viviano has a full slate of upcoming projects, including co-producing "The Billionaires" at Fox; executive producing both Spelling Entertainment's "Undying Love" and King World's "Freedom Summer"; and producing the independent feature "Antique White," set for production in 1998. She also has several studio-level projects in active development (several of which she is also producing), including "The Black Box" (action-thriller based on the life of an NTSB crash site investigator), "Bulletproof," "Lost City," "Pandora," "Lost in Translation" (a romantic comedy with Chow Yun-Fat), "Bamboo Man" and a bio of Libby Holman starring Sophie B. Hawkins. Return to Top

Keri Selig is Senior Vice-President of Production at Kopelson Entertainment, which is based at Twentieth Century Fox. At Kopelson, Selig has brought in such feature projects as "The Sleeping Man" and "Writer’s Cramps." Selig is also a prolific independent producer and has three films being released this year: "Three to Tango"; "In the Company of Spies," (executive producer) written by Roger Towne and starring Tom Berenger and Ron Silver for Showtime; and "After the Rain," (producer) a South African independent film with Cappella International that premiered at the Seattle Film Festival and was also featured at the Toronto Film Festival. Selig is executive producing "Harlan Country USA" (starring Holly Hunter, directed by Tony Bill and shooting in Toronto) for Showtime’s feature film division. She is also producing "Cinderfella" at New Line with Industry Entertainment and executive producing "The Stepford Wives" at Paramount with Scott Rudin Productions. Selig has a television deal with Columbia Tri-Star and is in development on two television miniseries–"The Family Doctor," set up with World 2000, and "Coco Chanel," which is currently out to talent. Return to Top

Prolific Canadian filmmaker John Eckert (Co-Producer) most recently executive produced John Woo's and Terence Chang's "The Big Hit." Working in a wide variety of production capacities, Eckert has also been involved with "Booty Call," "Fly Away Home," "The Scarlet Letter," "Legends of the Fall," "Car 54, Where Are You?," "Deep Sleep," "Millennium," "Silver Bullet," "Cat's Eye" and "The Dead Zone." Among Eckert's television credits are the critically acclaimed telefeatures "Getting Gotti," "Special People" and "The Terry Fox Story" and the mini-series "Family Pictures"; he also served as show runner for three successful seasons on Disney's "Danger Bay." Return to Top

Lawrence Abramson (Executive Producer) currently presides over Incognito Entertainment, a film and television production and management company. His most recent feature credits include executive producing "Revenant," starring Casper Van Dien. His upcoming projects include producing the feature "Traveling Bowls of Soup," starring Gary Sinise and Amy Madigan. Abramson also has two projects in active development: "Ida Tarbell" and Malcolm Clarke's spec action-thriller "Stalker." Previously, he was a partner in and chief administrator of Canadian-based Palmer Productions, where his production credits (in conjunction with the company) included the sketch comedy series "Laughing Matters" and the acclaimed telefeature "The True Gift of Christmas"; he also co-produced the sports series "World Golf Showdown" and "All-Pro Countdown." Return to Top

Bruce Berman (Executive Producer) began his career in the entertainment business (while simultaneously completing law school at Georgetown) working as assistant to Jack Valenti at the MPAA in Washington, D.C. Berman subsequently worked at Casablanca Films and then Universal, where he eventually became a vice president of production. Berman next segued to Warner Bros. as a production vice president. He was promoted to President of Theatrical Production and later, President of Worldwide Theatrical Production for Warner Bros. Under his aegis, the studio produced and distributed such titles as "Presumed Innocent," "GoodFellas," "Robin Hood," "Driving Miss Daisy," "Batman Forever," "Malcolm X," "The Bodyguard," "JFK," "The Fugitive," "Dave," "A Time to Kill" and "Twister." In 1996, Berman started Plan B Entertainment, the Warner Bros.-based independent production company, which was acquired by Village Roadshow Pictures. Village Roadshow Pictures (where Berman now holds the post of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer) currently has 21 projects in various stages of development at Warner Bros. Return to Top

Rodney Vaccaro (Screenwriter) has worked extensively as an actor, playwright and stage director throughout the United States, France and Monaco. He trained at the Actors Studio and the Chekhov Studio in New York and worked in the South of France under the tutelage of Michael Stewart. He has published five plays, "American Still Life," "Stop Me if You've Heard This One," "Brown, Red, Yellow," "Home of the Brave" and "Screenplay By." Currently, he is writing "Stand By," a feature to be produced by Disney, as well as the swashbuckler "Island of the Moon" for Illya Salkind and director Michael Cimino. This summer, his screenplay "Run the Wild Fields" will be produced by Showtime. A graduate of Harvard University, Aline Brosh McKenna (Screenwriter) has completed screenplays for a number of studios and has co-written television pilots for CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox. She is also the co-author of A Coed's Companion, published by Pocketbooks. Return to Top

Award-winning cinematographer Walt Lloyd (Director of Photography) recently shot the hit film "Howard Stern's Private Parts." His other feature work includes "Empire Records," "Frank and Jesse," Robert Altman's "Short Cuts" and Charles Burnett's "To Sleep With Anger." For his work on Steven Soderbergh's "Kafka," Lloyd was awarded the Independent Feature Project's Spirit Award. Previous collaborations with Outlaw Productions include "The Santa Clause" and "sex, lies and videotape," for which he received the Agfa Diamond Award. For television, he has shot "Love and Madness," "David's Mother" and "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City," among many others. His work will next be seen in the feature "Dark Harbor" starring Alan Rickman. Return to Top

David Nichols' (Production Designer) work was most recently seen in the feature film "Buddy." His vast body of work includes collaborations with director Martin Scorsese on "Boxcar Bertha," "Mean Streets," "New York, New York" and "Taxi Driver." Nichols has worked with Wes Craven on both "Swamp Thing" and "Serpent and the Rainbow." He designed and associate- produced Taylor Hackford's "The Idolmaker" and was visual consultant on "Rocky." He has also designed "Testament," "Hoosiers," "Great Balls of Fire," "Groundhog Day," "Airheads" and "Mr. Holland's Opus." An accomplished actor, Nichols has also appeared in the films "New York, New York" and "Hardcore," as well as numerous plays. Return to Top

Stephen Semel's (Editor) feature-film credits as editor include "My Giant," "187," "The Truth About Cats & Dogs," "Jury Duty," "Airheads," "Miracle Mile," "You So Crazy: Martin Lawrence in Concert" and "Kuffs." His additional credits include "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" and "Fandango." For television, he has edited Oprah Winfrey's acclaimed "Before Women Had Wings," the pilot for "Melrose Place," "Going to Extremes," "Blood Ties," "Life on Mars" and several episodes of "Tales from the Crypt." Return to Top

Susan Novick (Associate Producer) has been with Outlaw Productions since its inception. She has served as associate producer on numerous Outlaw films, including "Addicted to Love," "Born to Be Wild" and "The Santa Clause." Novick supervises Outlaw's projects from pre-production through release.                                                     Return to Top