Talent Guide

Neil Kopp

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Grants and Awards 2008

Bio

Neil Kopp is a film producer based in Portland, Oregon, where he was born and raised. Kopp was the recipient of the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards’ Producers Award. Kopp is the producer of Kelly Reichardt’s two Portland-based features Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy, and Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park. Wendy and Lucy will premier in Cannes in May 2008 in the Un Certain Regard category.

Current Project

Wendy and Lucy (Narrative Feature)

Logline

Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish Cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy, when her car breaks down in Oregon. The thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and her dog.