DAN DUBIECKI:

PRODUCER, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING

Daniel Dubiecki produced his first feature film, Waiting for Mo at the tender age of eighteen. The film played at the New York Film Festival and Sedona Film Festival and has garnered many honors for the director, Zaki Gordon. Since then, Daniel has produced countless award winning short films, directed by his creative partner Jason Reitman including Operation, H@, In God We Trust, gulp, and Consent. Daniel recently produced another short directed by Newton Thomas Sigel and J. Lisa Chang, starring Selma Blair, Elias Koteas, and Richard Kind. In all, he has produced over 20 shorts and four features, which have played at over 100 film festivals, winning over 30 awards around the world, including awards at Sundance, Aspen Shortsfest, Toronto, Cannes, LA Film Festival, New Directors/New Films (MOMA), ShortShorts (Tokyo), Edinburgh, Melbourne, Sydney, and US Comedy Arts. As well as producing short films, Daniel produces commercials at Tate USA in Santa Monica for clients such as Heineken, Honda, BMW, Wal*Mart, GM and Nintendo. Currently, Daniel and partner producer, Lara Alameddine are developing their Australian science-fiction series of books, beginning with Galax-Arena and Terra-Farma into motion pictures. He and Lara have also acquired rights to another best selling Australian book, Undercover followed by its sequel White Lies with their counterpart down under, Torus Tammer. In September 2005 at the Toronto Film Festival, Daniel and Jason premiered their first feature film "Thank You For Smoking" starring Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, Rob Lowe, William H. Macy, and Robert Duvall and sold it to Fox Searchlight who released it on March 17, 2006. One week later, Daniel and Jason announced the opening of their new comedy production company Hard C which has a two-year first look deal with Fox Searchlight. Announced only weeks ago, their next film they are about to begin is the highly anticipated indie comedy/drama Juno.

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!)