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LINDSAY DORAN:
PRODUCER, STRANGER THAN FICTION
Lindsay Doran began her career at Embassy Pictures where she received her first credit as Executive in Charge of Production on Rob Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap. Later, she joined Paramount Pictures where the films she supervised included Ferris Bueller's Day Off; The Naked Gun and Ghost. Doran then joined Sydney Pollack's Mirage Enterprises where she produced Dead Again, Leaving Normal, and Sense and Sensibility which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture, Drama and the Academy Award® for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1996, Doran became president and chief operating officer of United Artists Pictures where she presided over a number of films including the 18th and 19th installments of the James Bond franchise, Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough. Later she resumed her career as a producer and started her own production company, Three Strange Angels. Through Three Strange Angels she has produced Nanny McPhee and Stranger Than Fiction.
Panelists:
The current list of 2006 Filmmaker Forum speakers:
- Stephanie Allain (producer, Hustle & Flow)
- Aric Avelino (director, American Gun)
- Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting)
- Effie T. Brown (producer, Real Women Have Curves)
- Caldecott Chubb (ChubbCo) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Howard Cohen (Roadside Attractions)
- Patrick Creadon (director, Wordplay)
- Eric d'Arbeloff (Roadside Attractions)
- Mark Damon (Foresight Unlimited)
- Neill dela Llana (co-writer/co-director, Cavite)
- Kirby Dick (director, This Film is Not Yet Rated)
- Michael Donaldson (lawyer and author, Negotiating for Dummies) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Lindsay Doran (producer, Stranger Than Fiction)
- Dan Dubiecki (director, Thank You For Smoking)
- Udy Epstein (Seventh Art Releasing) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Mesh Flinders (lonelygirl15)
- Ian Gamazon (co-writer/co-Director, Cavite)
- Richard Gladstein (FilmColony)
- Micah Green (CAA)
- Rebecca Green (Linda Obst Productions) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Callum Greene (co-producer, Marie Antoinette)
- Matthew Greenfield (Fox Searchlight)
- Robert Greenwald (Director, Iraq for Sale )
- Greg Harrison (director, November) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Preston Holmes (producer, Waist Deep)
- Craig Kestel (William Morris Agency) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- Sam Kitt (executive producer, Sucker Free City)
- Richard Klubeck (UTA)
- Ted Kroeber (producer, American Gun)
- Linda Lichter (Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler, and Goodman)
- David Magdael (TC:DM & Associates)
- Gail Mutrux (producer, Kinsey)
- Christine O'Malley (producer, Wordplay)
- Joe Pichirallo (Overbrook Entertainment) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- John Pierson (keynote speaker)
- Mark and Michael Polish (The Astronaut Farmer)
- Rich Raddon (director, Los Angeles Film Festival)
- Peggy Rajski (executive producer, Bee Season)
- Ben Rekhi (producer/director, Waterborne)
- Danielle Renfrew (producer, November)
- Kendall Morgan Rhodes (producer, Southland Tales)
- Rena Ronson (William Morris Independent)
- Ted Sarandos (Netflix)
- Jeff Schenck (Regent Studios)
- John Sloss (Cinetic Media)
- Victoria Thomas (casting director)
- Nancy Utley (Fox Searchlight)
- Cameron Watson (writer/director, Our Very Own)
- Eric Watson (producer, The Fountain)
- Lance Weiler (producer/writer/director, Head Trauma)
- Wash Westmoreland (co-writer/co-director, Quinceañera)
- Greg Whiteley (New York Doll)
- Caveh Zahedi (director, I Am a Sex Addict)
- Amotz Zakai (Echo Lake Entertainment) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
- David Zeiger (producer/director, Sir! No Sir!)
