DAVID LYNCH (DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER)
David Lynch has directed the following feature films: ERASERHEAD (1972),
THE ELEPHANT MAN (1976), DUNE (1984), BLUE VELVET (1986), WILD AT HEART
(1990), TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992), and LOST HIGHWAY (1996).
DEEPAK NAYAR (PRODUCER)
Deepak Nayar has produced two previous projects for David Lynch, "Hotel
Room," an HBO anthology and "On The Air," an ABC series.
Among his credits as producer are the CBS series "Second Chances"
and "Hotel Malibu" for Lynn Latham and Bernard Lethowick for Sweet
Eugenia Films. He produced the Fox pilot "White Dwarf" for American
Zoetrope. As producer for Merchant Ivory he worked on THE PERFECT MURDER
and several other films. Most recently, he produced Wim Wenders' THE END
OF VIOLENCE, which stars Bill Pullman and Andie McDowell.
Nayar began his producer experience in his home country, India. His film
credits there include TUM LAUT AAO and CHARONDA, both for Climb Films.
TOM STERNBERG (PRODUCER)
Tom Sternberg includes among his credits as a producer, Francis Ford Coppola's
APOCALYPSE NOW, THE BLACK STALLION, directed by Carroll Ballard, THE BLACK
STALLION RETURNS, directed by Robert Dalva, and DIM SUM and EAT A BOWL OF
TEA, both directed by Wayne Wang.
Sternberg has also been instrumental in bringing some of the best foreign
language cinema to the U.S. over the last fifteen years. As a producer's
representative, he has been responsible for the North American sale of many
of Francois Truffaut's and Eric Rohmer's films as well as JEAN DE FLORETTE,
MANON DES SOURCES, EUROPA EUROPA, TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE, UN COEUR EN
HIVER, QUEEN MARGOT, INDOCHINE, CINEMA PARADISO, MEDITERRANEO, IL POSTINO,
THE STORY OF QIU JU, and TO LIVE, among others. MARYSWEENEY (PRODUCER/EDITOR)
MARY SWEENEY (PRODUCER/EDITOR)
Mary Sweeney made her debut as a producer on the critically-acclaimed Michael
Almereyda film NADJA.
Sweeney has worked as an editor on both feature and documentary films since
1979, including a series of projects at Lucasfilm and Fantasy Film in the
San Francisco Bay area. She first began working with David Lynch on BLUE
VELVET, and continued on subsequent feature films including WILD AT HEART,
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, and LOST HIGHWAY Sweeney also collaborated
with Lynch on the television projects "Twin Peaks," "On The
Air" and "Hotel Room," and on the theatrical production "Industrial
Symphony Number T."
An artist as well, Sweeney studied painting at the Corcoran School of Fine
Art in Washington D.C..
BARRY GIFFORD (CO-SCREENWRITER)
Barry Gifford is the author of the novels Cat Face, Night People, Arise
and Walk, Port Tropique, Perdita Durango and Wild at Heart: The Story of
Sailor & Lula among other books.
Gifford has received the Maxwell Perkins Award and a PEN Syndicated Fiction
Prize. He has been awarded the Premio Brancari, an award established by
Pier Paolo Pasolini and Alberto Moravia in Italy, for his novel Night People.
PATRICIA NORRIS (PRODUCTION DESIGNER/COSTUME DESIGNER)
Patricia Norris has had a working relationship with David Lynch which began
on THE ELEPHANT MAN for which she received an Academy Award Nomination for
her Victorian costumes. She continued in the capacity of production and
costume designer on BLUE VELVET, WILD AT HEART and the pilot for "Twin
Peaks," for which Norris received an Emmy. Her work in films includes
JOURNEY OF AUGUST KING, 2010, and THE ROSE GARDEN.
Norris has received other Oscar nominations for her work as costume designer
on VICTOR/ VICTORIA and DAYS OF HEAVEN.
PETER DEMING (DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY)
Peter Deming has worked with David Lynch on the HBO production of "Hotel
Room," the ABC television project "On the Air," which Lynch
produced, a music video for Yoshiki, as well as several commercial projects.
Deming has worked on projects in both film and television, including the
Academy Award-nominated dramatic short, THE SILENCE, directed by Michael
Uno.
Feature credits include MY COUSIN VINNY, JOE'S APARTMENT, S.F.W., SON-IN-LAW,
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S LOADED WEAPON I, EVIL DEAD TI, among others. Deming has
also shot several projects with the Hudlin brothers including HOUSE PARTY,
for which he was awarded the I 990 Cinematography Award at the Sundance
Film Festival and a nomination from the Independent Feature Project.
ANGELO BADALAMENTI (MUSIC COMPOSER)
Angelo Badalamenti received a Grammy for the music from "Twin Peaks,"
the series. The album has gone gold in 15 countries. He composed the acclaimed
scores for BLUE VELVET, WILD AT HEART and TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME,
all by David ynch, as well as Paul Schrader's THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS.
Together with Lynch, he co-wrote and produced the Brooklyn Academy of Music
theatrical production "Industrial Symphony Number 1," which received
the American Music Video Entertainment Award. He and Lynch also collaborated
on two Julie Cruise albums, "Floating into the Night" and "Mysteries
of Love."
Badalamenti has written songs for many artists including Patti Austin, George
Benson, Mel Tillis, Nancy Wilson, Melba Moore and Roberta Flack. He has
also arranged and orchestrated music for such performers as Liza Minnelli
and the Pet Shop Boys. Badalamenti has also written and recorded music for
Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video.
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