Oscar Arslanian
Oscar’s roots are in show business.
After leaving Capitol Records as
Director of Media and Artist
Relations, he and his wife, Nyla, formed Arslanian & Associates
specializing in public relations and
management and working with such artists as Rick Nelson, The
Mamas & The Papas, Roy Orbison and
America. Oscar is personal manager to both Fabian and
Chris Montez and produces concerts
throughout the U.S. He produced the first live Oldies Rock ‘n
Roll pay-per-view TV broadcast before
85,000 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and is well known for his
work with artists of the classic rock
era. As an active member of the Board of the Hollywood Chamber
of Commerce, and past Chairman of the
Board, the California Travel Industry Association named
Oscar to the California Tourism Hall
of Fame. He received The Golden Award from the Hollywood
Chamber Foundation in 2009 for his
many contributions to the Hollywood community.
Kevin Bacon
became a household name with such hit films as Footloose,
A Few Good Men, Mystic
River, directed by Clint
Eastwood, Murder in the First, River Wild and many
others, he was writing
songs on his own and playing
percussion in Philadelphia coffeehouses with his brother and other
groups. What most don’t realize is that
guitarist/vocalist Kevin and his older brother Michael (guitar,
vocals, cello) are lifelong musicians, which is of
course part of the reason why they’ve become
so good at
turning heads and tweaking ears, harvesting an ever-growing
fan base along the way.
For his part, Kevin is more
than eager to shuffle his busy film schedule around to
accommodate a
string of Bacon Brothers shows, even if it
means he has to bend over backwards to meet all of his
commitments. “It’s hard just to play them for myself, or my
wife,” he says of his songs, many of
which he sat on for decades. “I love to play, and I love to play live.
Chuck Banner worked
in developing children's programming, working with the Dallas Symphony
on AMAZING MUSIC, a family concert series (A&E, PBS) and in
co-production with Fireworks
Entertainment
on REAL KIDS, REAL ADVENTURES for the Discovery Kids Channel. His latest
production to air nationally on PBS was AMAZING MUSIC JAZZ, which he directed, produced
and
edited. Chuck is the son of the
legendary TV producer Bob Banner
and now runs his company in
Santa Monica. Chuck's Company is doing
our FILM OF THE FILM FESTIVAL...
Les Blank is a
prize-winning independent filmmaker, best known for a series of poetic
films that led
Time Magazine critic Jay Cocks to write, "I can't believe
that anyone interested in movies or America...
could watch Blank's work
without feeling they'd been granted a casual, soft-spoken revelation."
Dr.
Wachtang "Botso" Korisheli--From 1957 through the mid-’80s, Korisheli
brought m usic into
the lives
of countless youth with an unparalleled sphere of influence. In 1965
Korisheli founded the
San Luis
Obispo Youth Symphony. On the day of his father’s execution in Joseph
Stalin’s Soviet
Union,
14-year-old Botso Korisheli was granted 20 minutes to say goodbye.
“I
was able to see Dad
in
prison; he was in a small cell, and he was holding my mom’s hand,” recalls
Korisheli, 78, of that
day in
1936 when his outspoken father, celebrated Georgian actor Platon Korisheli,
was put to death
as an
enemy of the people.
“That’s where he told me everything
he wanted to tell me for the rest of
my life,”
continues Korisheli. “He said to me, ‘When you go to bed each night, ask
yourself: ‘Have I
done
enough?’ " His influence is world renown, just ask Kent Nagano, 48, of Berlin’s
Deutsche
Symphony,
or ask Gerald Folsom with the LA Philharmonic, or ask trumpeter Bob Bennett,
veteran
of the
Woody Herman Orchestra, and the many that he taught and inspired. We are
honored to
present
him with the Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award.
William Bronston
M.D.
founder, and CEO of Tower of Youth
nonprofit organization that works
with students and teachers in the
Sacramento/Sierra service area to enhance opportunities for
students to develop mastery of digital skills
and show their work at two showcases held in
Sacramento each year, one for short videos from the region
called Teen Digital Reel and Award
Showcase held every Spring and the North American All Youth
Film and Education Day every Fall.
He is the principal architect of Digital Arts Studio
Partnership Program model. Bronston is a
Physician who also served as the Medical Director, and senior
clinical system advisor for two
state agencies in California. He has been a forceful advocate for the medical
rights of people with
disabilities throughout his career.
Del Breckenfeld: is Director of Entertainment Marketing at Fender Musical
Instruments Corp. He
developed a groundbreaking promotional program for
Anheuser-Busch, working with some of
the best marketers in the world.
Through his career, Breckenfeld has worked with some of the
biggest names in music and movies, including The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton,
Tom Hanks and
Will Ferrell and television shows such as Two And A Half
Men and American Idol just to name a
few.
Gary Busey
nominate d for an
Oscar for his first lead role in 1978's The Buddy Holly
Story,
in such films as
Lethal Weapon (1987, starring Mel Gibson) and Point
Break (1991, starring Keanu
Reeves). Raised in Oklahoma, Busey went to Hollywood in the late 1960s as a drummer in a
rock
band. In the early '70s he started working in the
movies, earning small parts in Thunderbolt and
Lightfoot
(1974, starring Clint Eastwood) and A Star is Born
(1976, starring Barbra Streisand).
Then his performance as
rock legend Buddy Holly made him a star. In addition
to roles in The Firm
(1993),
Lost Highway
(1997) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998),
Busey has done voice
work for the video game
Grand Theft
Auto and starred in Comedy Central's I'm With Busey
(03),
a "reality" show capitalizing on Busey's famously
oddball behavior.
Dave Cole has a wide
variety of feature film and TV credits as an actor and a recent
three-year term
as Vice-President of the San Luis Obispo International
Film Festival, Central Coast denizen Dave
Cole has broadened his
involvement in the indie film ‘biz to include assisting filmmakers with
the
production, marketing, distribution and film festival strategizing
for their films, promoting The Center
for the Study of Film and History,
and working with some other film festivals and their programming.
Robert Carradine
best known for portraying Lewis Skolnick in the
successful Revenge of the Nerds
series of comedy films and Sam
McGuire on the Disney Channel sitcom Lizzie McGuire.
Carradine
made his film debut in 1972 in
The Cowboys with John Wayne. He made an appearance as
a killer in the Martin
Scorsese film Mean Streets alongside his brother
David; again with David in The
Long Riders
about the Jesse James Gang, and was in Massacre at
Central High in 1976. His dad
was the actor John Carradine,
and he is the brother of Keith and the late David Carradine,
who we
were making arrangements
to have at the festival for the screening of
Bound For Glory.
Susan Morgan Cooper,
director/ producer An Unlikely Weapon. Susan was compelled to make her
first documentary, "Mirjana",about a young girl displaced by the Balkan
War." She was drawn to
Eddie Adams, the photographer in "An Unlikely
Weapon", because of his fascination with displaced
and oppressed people. In 2008 Susan is set to direct her first dramatic feature. Based on a
documentary she made a few years ago "Roadrunners" is the story of a cop
from East L.A. who
takes a group of gang kids and turns them into a
championship roller hockey team.
Gary
Conway has an extraordinary creative background from
the fine arts to the arts of viticulture
and
winemaking, it was in television where Gary first became
recognized worldwide, initially starring
in the TV
series "Burke's
Law," then
"Land of the Giants,"
the world’s most successful TV series.
Besides
starring in series and a multitude of episodic
television shows and TV movies for the three
networks,
he starred in many motion pictures. He is also a
prominent screenwriter with such credits
as
“Over the Top,”
and the “American
Ninja” series. He currently directed
and starred in the acclaimed
film
“Woman’s Story.”
A Renaissance man for our time, youngest artist to win a major
prize at the LA
County Art Exhibition and, before
age sixteen, was awarded full scholarships to the three most
prestigious art schools in the
country.
Joel Cox (Editor) has
worked with Clint Eastwood for more than 30 years, on films that include
"Bird," "Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall," Tony Bennett: The
Music Never Ends," and
co-edited Clint Eastwood's "Piano Blues." Joel
has been editor on movies like “Flags of Our
Fathers,” “Million Dollar
Baby,” “Mystic River,” “Blood Work,” “Space Cowboys,” “True Crime,”
“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” “Absolute Power,” “The
Bridges of Madison County,”
“A Perfect World,” and “Unforgiven,” for
which he won an Academy Award for Best Editor in 1992.
WE GAVE JOEL THE PADEREWSKI LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, and have great footage
of him in interviews and panel
discussion.
Sonny Curtis
My hero then was Sonny Curtis ... I admired
him so much, I wanted to
change my
name to Sonny. I even tried to stand like him.”--Waylon
Jennings From his West
Texas
beginnings as the lead guitarist in Buddy Holly’s pre-Crickets band to a
prolific songwriting
career, Sonny
Curtis is a rare talent who transcended musical genres long before the term
“crossover” was coined. He has penned over 500 songs, recorded by legendary
artists across
the music
spectrum, including Holly, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Hank Williams, Jr.,
Bing
Crosby, The
Everly Brothers, and wrote their big hit "Walk Right Back", Nanci Griffith, Roy
Orbison,
The Stray Cats, and The Clash. Might mention that he wrote the huge hit "I Fought the
Law", and
Keith Whitley's record "I'm No Stranger to the Rain," which was voted
Country Music
Assoc.
single of the year in 1989.
Ann Dandridge
With
over 30 years in Public Relations consulting, Ann has helped
many
celebrities become the stars they are today. Ann
worked with one of her clients, Earl Mills for
ten
years to get his book optioned, which finally became the HBO
Movie
"Introducing Dorothy
Dandridge" starring Halle Berry, Dorothy is Ann's cousin,
She has worked with the likes of Eric
Root,
author of Lana Turner's Biography, Motown legend Martha
Reeves of Martha Reeves and
The Vandellas, Dr. Jerry Buss, owner of the LA Lakers, Ron
Rice, founder of Hawaiian Tropic
Suntan Lotion, Elaine Young, Beverly Hills Realtor to the
Stars, Mayor Harold Washington, 1st
Black Mayor of Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Armand Hammer, CEO of
Occidental Petroleum and others.
Joel Diamond
Billboard Magazine
described Diamond as, "one of Contemporary Music's Best
Record Producers sitting behind
the board." A 30-year industry veteran, multi-platinum
producer/
songwriter Joel Diamond
has produced and/or co-written over 36 gold and platinum
recordings,
plus movie soundtracks and
television themes, and has been a recording artist himself
on five
different labels. His career has
included everything from record production and song writing
to heading up the music
publishing companies for both Mercury (at which time his
second in
command was Tommy Mottola) and
CBS/Sony Records, serving in executive and creative
capacities. During his career,
he has also worked closely with such music icons as: James
Taylor,Laura
Nyro, Harry Nilson, Van Morrison, The Bee Gees, Rod Stewart,
Barry
Manilow, David Bowie, Dr. Hook, among
others.
CLINT EASTWOOD...NEED WE SAY
MORE?
Ramblin' Jack Elliott is
considered one of the country's legendary foundations of folk
music.
Honored at the White House in 1998 with a National Medal of Arts
for his contribution to American
Folk Music, he was also awarded a
Grammy in 1996 for his "South Coast" recording. As one of the
last true
links to the great folk traditions of this country, with over 40 albums
under his belt. Jack
was a huge huge influence on Bob
Dylan.
Rich Ferguson
is a magician, entertainer and poker columnist.
He is current spokesman
for a Dream For Kids, a local, San Luis Obispo California
charity. Rich's humorous and original
magic has enchanted audiences all over the world. Rich
combines magic, hypnosis and mentalism
to create a style of magic that is highly intriguing and
sets him apart from the rest as a world-class
magician. His slogan is "Where Magic & Mentalism Join
Hands." He performs for high profile
events, award shows, magic clubs, theatres and his hands are used as
extras in movies for cheats,
gambling, hustles, pick pockets and various manipulations
Christopher Felver is a
photographer and filmmaker. His work has been exhibited
internationally,
and his works are collected by numerous libraries and
museums, including Stanford University
Special Collections. He participated in the 53rd
Venice International Film Festival, and screened
films in festivals and
museums around the globe, including presentations at the Library of
Congress,
he received the Best Art Documentary Awards at the Cinema Arts
Centre Independent Film Festival,
and he was a Visiting Artist at the
American Academy in Rome.
Max Gail
His acting debut came in 1970 in San
Francisco, California, playing the Chief in the
original stage
production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He is
best known for his
television role as Det. Stan "Wojo" Wojeciehowicz
from the sitcom Barney Miller (1975). Gail's
best known feature
film role is in D.C. Cab (1983) as Harold, Gail runs Full Circle, a production
company which has done
documentaries on such subjects as Agent Orange, Native Americans,
and
nuclear issues.
Judie Hoyt stared working with
Clint Eastwood in 1975, on The Outlaw Josey Wales, after he
arrived at
Warner Brothers from Universal. She has worked with him for a total of
20 years, with a
couple of retirements in between. During these years
she has worked on the films Letters from Iwo
Jima, Flags of
Our Fathers, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Bird, Pale Rider ,Sudden
Impact,
Honkytonk Man and many more.
Dan Jones
was recently Chairman of the Ponca Nation. He was a Field
Producer on the
Emmy
nominated documentary 500 Nations,
working with Kevin Costner. Dan worked
for Disney
Imagineering on the Disney America
Project,
and performed with Sammy Davis Jr. and Wayne
Newton at the John F.
Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts.
Jones' television
productions
include producing The World of American Indian Dance,
which premiered on NBC in 2003.
In
2001 Jones was the
co-host and co-producer of the First Americans in the Arts awards ceremony
webcast, with broadcast
partner Yahoo.com. In 1993 he received the Muse Award from the
Association of
American Museums for a work produced by the new Smithsonian National Museum
of the American Indian. Jones is a traditional
straight dancer and resides in his hometown of Ponca
City,
Oklahoma.
Kathy Kelly has over 25
years experience in all aspects of media communications. Her work has
included projects for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Turner Classic
Movies, Capitol Records,
MGM, Kal Kan, Johnson & Johnson, Toshiba,
Amgen, Gemstar, Hoover, Fitness Quest,
Braun, T-Fal, Conair, Murad, GNC,
Motorola and many other national and international consumer
brand
marketers. For two years she produced the Winery Music Awards,
then left Paso for greener
pastures.
Ken Kragen has managed some of the world's
most important entertainers, including Kenny
Rogers,
Lionel Richie, Trisha Yearwood, Olivia Newton John, The Bee Gees, Burt Reynolds,
The
Smothers Brothers and many others. He was the creator and organizer of "We
Are the
World",
"Hands Across America", and Cisco System's "NetAid".
Kragen has produced a variety
of
film and television projects, ranging from the ground-breaking "Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour"
on CBS
to Kenny Rogers' "Gambler" movies, and numerous series, mini-series and
films. He
produced the "12 Dogs of Christmas" live action, full length feature film
based on his daughter's,
Emma's, best-selling children's book.
12DogsofChristmas.com To date this project
has sold
500,000 books and 700,000 DVDs. He and his friend Quincy Jones
produced a portion of the
1992
Presidential Inauguration. He has written the best selling book
"Life is a Contact Sport"
which
is filled with unique and well tested career advice.
Archie McLaren: Archie
McLaren is no stranger to the world of fine cuisine and rare wine. He is
the founding Bailli of the Central Coast Chapter of the Confrerie de la
Chaine des Rotisseurs, a
member of the Vintners’ Club of San Francisco,
the Wine & Food Society of San Francisco, the
San Francisco Chapter of
the Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin and the Marin County Chapter
of
the International Wine & Food Society. He is one of only two Americans
inducted into the
Austrian Wine Brotherhood, and one of the few
Americans inducted into the Commanderie des
Bontemps - Medoc et Graves &
Sauternes et Barsac of Bordeaux in France.
Michael Lewis
has played with Frankie Valli,
DeBarge, Sherman Hemsley (George Jefferson),
and was keyboard
player for the great Quicksilver Messenger Service for years. Michael was
Liberace's Music Director and
arranger, and produced three of Liberace's albums. He did the
music for Barbara Walter's TV
Specials, soundtrack for the TV show "In Search Of", narrated by
Mr. Spock and Leonard Nimoy.
Besides running his own music company, he has been music
director and playing with Dave
Somerville for many years, and will join him at the Festival on stage.
Carole MacDonald
began her career at an advertising agency, producing commercials and
jingles.
The more she became involved with film, the more her career
began to take a turn towards
production. Included in a vast resume are
“TRUTH BE TOLD”, a feature film directed by Jeff Byrd
starring Blair Underwood and Regina King, “MY DARK LADY”, a feature directed by Buffalonian
Frederick King Keller, “WHO KILLED THE IDEA?” a BMW short
film and “THE BARRY WILLIAMS
SHOW”, a Sean Penn directed project for
Peter Gabriel.
Chris Montez-was
born in Los Angeles and grew up in the town of Hawthorne. He was influenced
by his Hispanic culture and the rock 'n roll success of Richie Valens.
In 1962, Chris' single,
"Let's
Dance" hit the top 10 and he was on his way. He toured with Clyde McPhatter,
Sam Cooke,
The Platters
and Smokey Robinson. In 1963, while in Liverpool with Tommy Roe, his opening
act
was a new
English group, The Beatles.Herb Alpert dropped in on one of Chris' first
sessions and
suggested
that he try a soft ballad sound. It was a more conservative style than Chris
would have
preferred
but Alpert's instincts were good and the hits "The More I See You," "There
Will Never Be
Another You," "Call Me" and "Time After Time" followed in
quick succession.
John Andres Parks is a Songwriter's Songwriter, a Poet, and a Storyteller. Park's melodic
narratives run from windblown prairies and old jalopies to shooting stars across
the cosmic canvas.
As Kenny Rogers once said on an NBC Television Special, “John
Andrew is one of the greatest
singer/songwriters I’ve heard in 20 years,
and whether or not you like this song you have never
heard anything like it
before!” Willie Nelson has him on his list of favorite songwriters.
Kenny
Rodgers produced Park's Plant Texas in a video that was well well well ahead of its time using
music, film footage and animation. John
recently performed for 600 million people on China TV.
Jim Fogelsong, a Lifetime Achievement Grammy winner, commented: “John Andrew Parks’
influence will be felt for a decade to come.”
Kathleen
Quinlan-made her film debut in George Lucas' American Graffiti.
She has appeared in
over 50 films, and
known for her roll as Deborah, a schizophrenic, in I Never Promised You a Rose
Garden, for
which she earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion
Picture
Drama, and for a Golden
Globe and Oscar nominated turn for Best Supporting Actress category
in Apollo 13 opposite Tom Hanks.
Quinlan also made a mark as Jim Morrison's Celtic Pagan
lover in Oliver Stone's
The Doors,
and won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Support Actress
for
Breakdown with Kurt
Russell. Kathleen has a huge career in TV appearing in the TV series
House, 2006 remake of "The Hills Have
Eyes".
Bruce Ricker: On
September 12, 2007, TONY BENNETT: THE MUSIC NEVER ENDS ran on
national television on PBS. This was the fourth documentary directed
and/or produced by Bruce
Ricker, creator of Rhapsody Films.
Over the past 20 years Ricker has co-produced with Clint
Eastwood an
impressive repertoire of films including Mystic River, Clint
Eastwood’s Piano Blues,
The Bridges of Madison County and
many more.
Gary D. Roach (Editor)
previously worked with Editor Joel Cox and Director Clint Eastwood as an
Assistant Editor on “Million Dollar Baby,” “Mystic River,” “Space
Cowboys,” “True Crime” and
“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,”
among others. His additional assistant director credits
include “Catwoman,”
the miniseries “The Blues,” “Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years”
and “Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall.”
Vicki
Roberts
has had quite an illustrious career to date.
August Vicki completed a
documentary
called Wiener
Strudel ("Viennese Pastry")
in which she was the producer, pianist, and
featured
protagonist. She
has been a series regular on truTV's (formerly Court TV's) Disorder
in the
Court series and she recently appeared on Issues
with Jane Velez-Mitchell on
CNN's Headline
News.
In 08, Vicki appeared on VH1's Celebrity
Rehab with Dr. Drew as herself, as Gary Busey's
attorney,
and she also co-starred
on the nationally syndicated television show, Jury
Duty, as a
celebrity juror. She
is most recognized for her many recurring appearances on the
nationally
syndicated
television legal show, Celebrity Justice. She
has also appeared on Access
Hollywood,
Extra, E! Entertainment,MSNBC's The
Abrams Report, and VH1's
legal music show, Rock and a
Hard Place.
Rick Roas will be her
playing bass with Jack Tempchin, and will be here as a musician and a
panelist after the screening of NEIL YOUNG: Heart of Gold. He
has played bass for years with
Neil Young and is in the film. Rick has
also played with the likes of Joe Walsh, CSN&Y, Johnny
Rivers and many
more.
Nigel Sinclair is an
independent film and television producer who co-founded Intermedia Films
in
1996. Queen Elizabeth appointed him a Commander of the
British Empire (CBE) in recognition
of his work in the film industry.
One of his many credits includes the definitive documentary on Bob
Dylan, No Direction Home, directed by Martin Scorsese. In
2002 Sinclair and East launched their
independent feature film and television production company, Spitfire Pictures, a
company dedicated
to
fostering the work of major artistic talents in both Britain and the United
States. Sinclair produced,
with Jeff
Rosen, Bob Dylan's Masked and Anonymous, directed by Larry Charles and
starring Bob
Dylan,
Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, and Luke Wilson.
In addition,
Sinclair
executive produced the worldwide smash hit Terminator 3: Rise of the
Machines, starring
Arnold
Schwarzenneger, as well as the Academy Award winning Adaptation,
starring Nicolas Cage
Dave Somerville-
As the lead singer on The Diamonds' "Little Darlin'" one of the
seminal
songs of rock and roll and classics
such as "Why do Fools Fall in Love?", "Silhouettes", and "The
Stroll". Dave was introduced to
his first 45 record player by Buddy Holly. This was only fitting
since Dave and The Diamonds' "Little
Darlin'" was the first hit record on that new seven inch
innovation, the 45 RPM record.
Bob Dylan said, "The songs I wrote at that age were just four
chords rhythm
and blues songs. Based on things that the Diamonds would sing."
Dave studied
acting with
Leonard “Mr. Spock” Nimoy and has guest starred in many TV shows, including
Star
Trek: The
Original Series. His song, “The Ballad of the Unknown Stuntman”, inspired
the creation
of the ABC
television series “The Fall Guy” starring Lee Majors. With additional lyrics
by the
producer, Glen
Larson, it became the show’s theme. He’s been honored in 4 musical
Halls of
Fame.
Norm Stephens
played guitar for Lefty Frizzell and on some of his super hits, he also played
with Hank Thompson, and toured with the one and only Merle
Haggard. Norm will perform on the
Pioneer Troubadour Stage
at the Festival, and discuss his part in the production of
the web based
TV series Pioneer Troubadours,
and talk about how the life of a
musician has changed from the
days he toured with Lefty on
the road with one of the kings of the road...Merle Haggard.
Jack
Tempchin
--Jack wrote a number of big
Eagles hits like ALREADY GONE and PEACE-
FULL EASY FEELING...Glenn Frey sang his
SMUGGLERS BLUES twas on Miami Vice TV
Soundtrack. has two songs on
the new Long Road Out of
Eden Album by the Eagles, on the
charts now. And, add he
wrote SLOW DANCING that Johnny Rivers had a huge hit with and
many others songs...stay tuned for
more on this very creative writer and singer of songs...
Johnny Rivers joined Jack Tempchin and band last year...
Maggie Warwhick--owner of the Louisiana Hayride"
The Hayride was where new things
happened, where people got started," said
Warwick, who appeared on The Hayride when she was
15 years old. "Shreveport was on the cutting
edge back then, Elvis had his start on The Hayride...
The Grand Ole Opry was too conservative...Elvis
" Maggie was active as a songwriter in Nashville
in the 1960s and 70s and is the recipient of ten
BMI awards for Top Ten hits.In all, Lewis has had
more than 100 songs cut by artists including
Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty and Lynn
Anderson, and two of her songs are included on
the 2005 Grammy-winning compilation of Nashville
soul, Night Train to Nashville.
Cass Warner has the
honor of being a third-generation film maker. Her father, twice
Oscar-
nominated writer/producer Milton Sperling worked on the Warner
Bros. lot and her grandfather,
Harry Warner, was the President and
Founder of Warner Bros. studios. After studying acting with
the
acclaimed Milton Katselas, and learning screenwriting under the
mentorship of her father and
Howard Koch of "Casablanca" fame, her
production company, Warner Sisters, was born. Cass
carries on the
original Warner Bros. motto--making films that "educate, entertain and
enlighten."
George Wilkins was the
"Composer in Residence " at Walt Disney Productions for over seven
years, making him responsible for writing, arranging and producing over
36 hours of music for film,
theatre and pavilion attractions at EPCOT,
Disneyworld, Disneyland California, France, Tokyo
and China.
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