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GAIL MUTRUX:
PRODUCER, KINSEY
Gail Mutrux's most recent production was Kinsey which was written and directed by Bill Condon and stars Liam Neeson and Laura Linney. Since its premiere at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival, Kinsey was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards (including Best Picture–Drama), four Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards (including Best Picture) and four Independent Spirit Awards (including Best Picture). Mutrux is President of production company Pretty Pictures. In 2003, she produced Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things, which he adapted from his stage play and directed. In 2000, Mutrux produced Nurse Betty, directed by LaBute and starring Renée Zellweger and Morgan Freeman. The film won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival and earned Zellweger a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical. Mutrux studied art history at UCLA and, upon graduating, began her career in the film business. She served as associate producer on two films for director Ulu Grosbard: Straight Time starring Dustin Hoffman and True Confessions. Hoffman then recruited Mutrux to associate produce Barry Levinson's multi-Academy Award-winning Rain Man, after which she joined Levinson's production company Baltimore Pictures. At Baltimore, Mutrux developed and co-produced Robert Redford's Academy Award-nominated Quiz Show and produced Mike Newell's acclaimed Donnie Brasco. There, she also developed and produced the Peabody Award-winning television series Homicide: Life on the Street, which ran for seven seasons on NBC. Films expected to go this year include Number Thirteen with Ewan McGregor and Dem with George C. Wolfe directing and starring Ben Stiller. Mutrux is a board member of Film Independent. .
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!)
