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October 3rd: NICK AND NORAH"S INFINITE PLAYLIST opens in theaters
Script Supervised by Tony Osso:

"NNIP was a blast - the cast was so funny and sweet and gung-ho - they bought me flowers and a big cupcake on my birthday - which I spent on Broadway and 10th street freezing while shooting the Andy Samberg cameo at Grace Church. Pete Sollett was so fun to work with too; one of my first jobs was production-coordinating "Raising Victor Vargas", so to get to work with Pete on his 2nd feature in a new capacity was great. Though we did do 4 weeks of overnights, primarily outdoors, pretending to be June in Nov/Dec...which was a challenge..."

September 12th: GREETINGS FROM THE SHORE opens in theaters
Script Supervised by Valerie Young

September 6th: THE WRESTLER wins the Golden Lion for best picture @ Venice Film Festival
Script Supervised by Anthony Pettine - Congrats!

August 23rd: BUICK RIVIERA wins Best Film @ Sarajevo Film Festival
Script Supervised by Ruthie Aslan - Congrats!

August 1st: FROZEN RIVER opens in theaters
Script Supervised by Andy Cesana:

“Frozen River is one of those films that had one of the more experienced, hard working and bonded crew working for almost nothing, in exterior artic winter conditions with daily frost bit warnings (It was so cold that our generator fuel froze a few times), who all stuck together to keep warm and work on something they all believed in.”

July 11th: AUGUST opens in theaters
Script Supervised by Diane Hounsell

July 3rd: THE WACKNESS opens in theaters
Audience Award winner, Sundance 2008
Script Supervised by Sharon Watt:

"Sir Ben Kingsley smoking bongs, doing drugs, rapping, quoting The Notorious B.I.G., making out with Mary Kate Olson!"

May 16th: SANGRE DE MI SANGRE opens in theaters
Script Supervised by Emily Pecot
Grand Jury prize winner at Sundance 2007(previously titled 'Padre Nuestra')

April 25th: THEN SHE FOUND ME opens in theaters
Script Supervised by Sharon Watt:

"Helen Hunt had a load on her plate with acting, writing, producing and directing her first film so she was massively stressed at times. Once we had to shoot a day exterior with her character sitting outside on the porch. We used a stand-in to line up every single shot so that Helen could see what it would look like, and sign off on it before she went back to being in the movie. Of course for this particular scene, we were about to lose the light, so we raced like crazy to get the camera outside and in position. Then the 1st AD called camera roll, the 2nd AC slated, I looked around at the people standing around me, including Helen, all waiting for the action to unfurl and watching the stand-in intently, and said, "So..... isn't Helen supposed to be in this shot?".
Helen recounted this anecdote on David Letterman last week."

April 25th: HOLLY is re-released at the Quad Cinema in New York
Script Supervised by Sharon Watt

"I'm currently in Romania working on director Guy Moshe's second feature, but here's another chance to see the first film we did together, shot on location in Cambodia, on the subject of child prostitution and sex trafficking."

April 11th: THE VISITOR opens in theaters
Script Supervised by Rachel Conners

Mar 26th: New Directors / New Films
'Frozen River' opens the festival, Script Supervised by Andrew Cesana
'The Toe Tactic' Script Supervised by Tony Osso (premiered at SXSW on March 8th)

Mar 14th: FUNNY GAMES opens in theaters
Script Supervised by Diane Hounsell

"Reading the script, with it's heavy subject matter (home invasion, humiliation, torture, murder) I knew going into it that 'Funny Games' would be a tough shoot. It was also a fascinating experience to study Michael Haneke, a master filmmaker, and I also felt quite an accomplishment of being able to script supervise for him in German.

Since it was a shot for shot remake of the 1997 Austrian film of the same title, every morning the DP, camera operator, dolly grip, gaffer, 1st AD & I would gather at the monitor to prepare for the day's work by watching the original scene, analyzing just when the dolly would start to creep, when the focus would rack.

For the scene where Paul makes a sandwich in the kitchen while mayhem goes on off camera, my big creative contribution was pointing out that Americans make their sandwiches with mayonnaise instead of butter!"

Feb 14th: DEFINITELY MAYBE opens in theaters
Script Supervised by Jodi Domanic-Riccio

Jan 26th: FROZEN RIVER wins the Grand Jury Prize @ Sundance Film Festival
Script Supervised by Andrew Cesana - Congrats!

Congratulations to all these other films that premiered in and out of competition:

'The Wackness' (Audience Award Winner) - SS: Sharon Watt
'Death In Love' - SS: Sharon Watt
'Pretty Bird' - SS: Rebecca Breckel
'August' - SS: Diane Hounsell
'Funny Games' - SS: Diane Hounsell
'Phoebe In Wonderland' - SS: Tony Osso

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