DANIELLE RENFREW:

PRODUCER, NOVEMBER

Danielle Renfrew is an accomplished independent producer with credits ranging from grassroots documentaries to major motion pictures. She was nominated for Film Independent's Spirit Award for Producing. Danielle got her start working in documentary film in San Francisco. In 1998, she made the short documentary Dear Dr. Spencer, narrated by Lili Taylor. It received numerous awards including an Emmy Award nomination and The Los Angeles Times called Dear Dr. Spencer "fascinating...an illuminating documentary" and New York's Village Voice called it "the real and far more subversive Pleasantville." During this time, Renfrew was the Distribution Coordinator and Associate Producer of From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond, a three-part documentary series for public television. Awards for the trilogy include an Academy Award nomination, an Emmy Award, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Gold Medal. Danielle's first feature, Groove, chronicling one night in the underground rave scene in San Francisco, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000 and was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. The film garnered national press attention, with feature stories appearing in The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone, among others. Groove also received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. In 2001, Danielle formed Map Point Pictures with Groove director Greg Harrison. Through Map Point, she's produced a handful of films including November for IFC and InDigEnt, a thriller starring Courteney Cox, Anne Archer, and James Le Gros as well as Double Dare, Amanda Micheli's feature documentary about Hollywood stuntwomen. Double Dare—featuring interviews with Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Lucy Lawless, and Lynda Carter—premiered internationally at Toronto and won the audience award for Best Documentary at both the AFI FEST in Los Angeles and the San Francisco International Film Festival, among others. It was broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens in 2005 and had a limited theatrical and a broad DVD release. Sony Pictures Classics released November last summer after it premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the award for best cinematography. Concurrently, she produced Katrina Holden Bronson's first feature Daltry Calhoun for Quentin Tarantino's L. Driver Productions and Miramax. The film stars Johnny Knoxville, Juliette Lewis, and Elizabeth Banks. Currently, Danielle's developing The Radioactive Boy Scout with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. The project recently received an Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Commission Grant through the Sundance Institute. Danielle lives in Los Angeles and periodically serves as a guest speaker for UCLA's Graduate Film Program, San Francisco's Film Arts Foundation, Film Independent, and the Sundance Institute. She was recently on the narrative feature competition jury for the Los Angeles Film Festival.

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!)