About The Filmmakers

CHRIS WEITZ (Director) most recently adapted, and directed, the Oscar-winning epic fantasy adventure The Golden Compass starring Oscar® winner Nicole Kidman (The Hours), newcomer Dakota Blue Richards, Sam Elliott (We Were Soldiers), Eva Green (Casino Royale) and Daniel Craig (Casino Royale). Based on Philip Pullman's best-selling and award-winning first novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy, The Golden Compass was released by New Line Cinema and has grossed over $350 million worldwide.

Weitz previously co-directed, with his brother, Paul, the award-winning hit film About a Boy, adapting the screenplay from the Nick Hornby novel. The screenplay received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as similar nominations from BAFTA, Writers Guild, Chicago Film Critics and Humanitas; the film was named one of AFI's Movies of the Year and was nominated for the Golden Globe award for Best Comedy, winning Best Studio Comedy Feature at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.

Weitz's first directorial collaboration with Paul was on American Pie, the phenomenally successful first installment of the PIE franchise, which was followed by American Pie 2 and the final installment, American Wedding, both of which he also executive produced.

Prior to their screenwriting work on About a Boy, the brothers collaborated on several screenplays, including Antz and Madeline (adapting the popular children's book).

In 1999, Weitz and his brother formed Depth of Field, their Los Angeles-based production company through which he and Paul produced the critically acclaimed film, In Good Company, directed by Paul; the comedy American Dreamz, starring Hugh Grant and Dennis Quaid, also directed by Paul; and the hit romantic comedy, Nick & Norah's Playlist, starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings. Depth of Field's diverse slate of upcoming projects include: Tom Ford's drama A Single Man, starring Julianne Moore and Colin Firth; The Game, based on Neil Strauss' dating tome which Dan Weiss will adapt; and the feature adaptation of Michael Moorcock's fantasy epic The Elric Saga.

Weitz also made his acting debut in the Sundance Film Festival hit Chuck & Buck.

MELISSA ROSENBERG (Screenwriter) is proving to be one of Hollywood's most versatile and sought-after writers, seamlessly transitioning from television to the silver screen.

Rosenberg wrote the screenplay for the vampire romance phenomenon Twilight. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, and based on the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer, Twilight tells the story of a high school girl named Bella (Kristen Stewart) who finds her soul mate in the stunning vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson). The film, released by Summit Entertainment, opened on November 21, 2008 to a record $70m. The film has grossed over $383m worldwide.

Rosenberg also scripted the highly-anticipated sequel, New Moon, which will open on November 20, 2009, as well as the third film, Eclipse, set to open on June 30, 2010. With her extensive background in teen-related drama, Rosenberg seemed a natural fit for the adaptation of Twilight, a task she was given only six weeks to complete. She was more than happy to sign on. "You get to be inventive with these pieces," Rosenberg said. "I can live the high school experience I never had, because on film, anything can happen."

Rosenberg is set to return to television as both head writer and executive producer of the Showtime original series Dexter, which begins its fourth season this September. Her work on the show helped earn it the prestigious Peabody Award, an Emmy nomination, and a Writer's Guild of America award nomination. "On this show, I'm allowed to take risks, with the character development, as well as the story," said Rosenberg. "When you're doing 22 episodes a year for network, you may not get the time you need to do your best work. On a cable show, doing 12 episodes, I have the time to develop my thoughts, to connect all the dots and make a strong, well-rounded story."

Rosenberg launched her screenwriting career with the box-office smash Step Up. A trained dancer herself, Rosenberg was perfect to the write the film, an urban romance between a naturally gifted troublemaker (Channing Tatum) and an upper-class ballerina (Jenna Dewan). Released in 2006, the film has earned over $114 million worldwide and launched Tatum into Hollywood heartthrob status. Rosenberg was no stranger to writing for the teenaged set; before signing on to write Step Up, Rosenberg wrote several episodes of Fox's series The O.C.

Inspired by character-driven projects, Rosenberg's other credits include Ally McBeal, Party of Five, Boston Public, The Outer Limits and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Although she appreciates her start in network television, she feels she has found a comfortable niche in cable programming.

Rosenberg earned her B.A. in dance and theatre from Bennington College in Vermont, with a goal toward becoming a choreographer. When Rosenberg moved to Los Angeles, she pursued a different avenue: writing. While working as an assistant to a television producer, Rosenberg went on to earn an MFA at the University of Southern California, through the Peter Stark Producing Program at the School of Cinematic Arts.

STEPHENIE MEYER (Based on the Novel By) was a stay-at-home mother of three young sons in 2003 when she had a vivid dream about a group of characters she could not get out of her head. Putting everything she could on the back burner, Meyer invented the plot during the day and wrote it on her computer late at night when the house was quiet. Three months later she finished her first novel, Twilight.

Picked out of a slush pile at Writers House, the manuscript quickly made the rounds among publishers. Megan Tingley at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers made a major six-figure preemptive bid for three books. Within weeks of its release in 2005, the book debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times best seller list. The rights to Twilight have been sold in 45 countries around the world.

The highly-anticipated sequel, New Moon, was released in September 2006 and spent 31 weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times best seller list. The book was so highly anticipated by Meyer's eager fans that Advance Readers Copies were being sold on eBay for as high as $380. The third book in Meyer's Twilight saga, Eclipse was released on August 7, 2007 and sold 150,000 copies its first day on sale. The book debuted at No. 1 on best seller lists across the country, including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. It was also a No. 1 best seller in Bulgaria, Germany, Spain and Argentina.

The fourth and final book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, was published on August 2, 2008, with a first printing of 3.2 million copies-the largest first printing in the publisher's history. Breaking Dawn sold 1.3 million copies its first day on sale in the US, rocketing the title to No. 1 on best seller lists nationwide.

2008 was a landmark year for Meyer. On May 6, Little, Brown and Company released The Host, Meyer's first novel for adults which debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller lists. Additionally, USA Today declared Stephenie "Author of the Year" citing that she "did what no one else - not even JK Rowling - has done in the 15 years of the USA Today bestselling book list" and swept the top four slots in 2008.

Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature. She lives in Arizona with her husband and sons.

WYCK GODFREY (Producer) produced the recent features When a Stranger Calls and Eragon, the latter film based on a bestselling fantasy novel. After producing or executive producing six films in a four-year span, Godfrey felt ready to strike out and make films for an audience that he and his friend Marty Bowen felt Hollywood had forgotten-the people of the heartland of America, many of whom are left yearning for films with meaning and spiritual content. Godfrey and Bowen partnered to form their own production company, Temple Hill.

Their first project was The Nativity Story, directed by Catherine Hardwicke. The company's most recent film was the romantic comedy Management, starring Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn.

Godfrey began his career as a creative executive at New Line Cinema after graduating from Princeton University in 1990 with a degree in English. At New Line, he worked on such hits as The Mask, Dumb and Dumber and various films in the popular House Party and A Nightmare on Elm Street franchises. In 1995, he moved on to Horizon Pictures, production company of Paul Schiff and Michael London. As senior vice president of production, he oversaw their development slate and staff at 20th Century Fox.

Two years later, Godfrey joined John Davis at Davis Entertainment as an executive vice president. There, he oversaw the surprise action hit Behind Enemy Lines, directed by John Moore and starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. He was promoted to president in 2001 and later that year developed and produced the family comedy Daddy Day Care, directed by Steve Carr and starring Eddie Murphy. In 2003, he produced the summer blockbuster I, Robot, starring Will Smith and directed by Alex Proyas, and the rousing adventure Flight of the Phoenix, his second film with director John Moore. He also developed and served as an executive producer on Alien vs. Predator, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson of Resident Evil fame.

KAREN ROSENFELT (Producer) is a producer based at 20th Century Fox, where she executive produced The Devil Wears Prada, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Marley & Me. For 16 years, Rosenfelt was a production executive at Paramount, where she oversaw live-action features such as The First Wives Club, Indecent Proposal, Runaway Bride, Save the Last Dance, Coach Carter and Mean Girls. She was instrumental in setting up Paramount's partnership with Nickelodeon Movies, overseeing film adaptations of the Nickelodeon television properties "Rugrats" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" as well as Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the bestselling children's books.

Rosenfelt began her career at ICM as an assistant to talent agent Sue Mengers. She went on to become a Creative Executive at Jerry Weintraub Productions and a Senior Vice President at MGM.

Rosenfelt is currently working as producer of the upcoming Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, along with Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus and Mark Ratcliffe. She's also working as executive producer on Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.

BILL BANNERMAN (Co-Producer) graduated with Specialized Honors in Film from York University in Toronto, Canada. After being awarded several scholarships, including the Famous Players Award of Excellence, a screening of his student work at the Montreal Film Festival in 1981 led Bannerman to be invited to Los Angeles to train on various films including One From the Heart, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

With a background in visual effects, Bannerman segued into production and began a lengthy tenure as an assistant director working with acclaimed filmmakers such as Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner and Frank Marshall.

This led to numerous assignments as a second unit director on features. Most notable was the 14th century Japanese civil war epic Heaven & Earth, for which Bannerman designed and directed complicated and dangerous battle sequences. This project notably set the record for the largest number of saddled horses (800) ever used in-camera for a battle sequence.

In 1992, after a short development period with Kadokawa Films, Bannerman saw his first screenplay produced in Japan as Rex: Story of a Dinosaur. Shortly after that, Bannerman reconnected with Clint Eastwood for a number of projects including Oscar® winner Unforgiven and A Perfect World, Bridges of Madison County and Absolute Power.

In 1997, Bannerman produced Dead Man on Campus for MTV Films/Paramount, which segued into him producing four original movies for the MTV Networks division by the end of 2003, most notably Steven Kay's critically acclaimed heroin drama Wasted.

In 1998, Bannerman was also executive producer on the action film Chill Factor, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. Following this, he worked extensively with Gale Anne Hurd on Hulk for Universal Pictures. In late 2000, Dimension/Miramax convinced Bannerman to helm a new chapter in the successful Air Bud franchise, Air Bud III: World Pup. The project generated the most revenue from DVD sales of any chapter of the franchise.

Since 2003, Bannerman has produced and served as second unit director on the comedy Good Boy! and a big budget remake of the '70s classic Walking Tall starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Johnny Knoxville. Early in 2006, filmmaker Sam Raimi tapped Bannerman to produce a sequel for his very successful horror franchise, The Grudge II, which filmed entirely in Japan.

During late 2007 and 2008, Bannerman produced the mixed martial arts film Never Back Down and the soon-to-be released horror project Sorority Row. He also produced the 2008 thriller Shelter, starring Oscar® nominee Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

MARTY BOWEN (Executive Producer) left his post in spring of 2006 as UTA Partner and Agent to pursue a career in producing. Bowen partnered with veteran producer Wyck Godfrey, to create their own production company, Temple Hill Entertainment. They secured a deal with New Line Cinema and immediately entered into production on their first film, The Nativity Story, from director Catherine Hardwicke. Next, the two went on to produce the Catherine Hardwicke-directed fantasy love story, Twilight, based on the best-selling series of books by Stephanie Meyer. They followed up Twilight with the Sydney Kimmel Entertainment-financed, romantic comedy, Management, starring Jennifer Aniston and Steve Zahn, which premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival and was released theatrically in May 2009.

Temple Hill Entertainment's most recent productions are Lasse Hallstrom's Dear John, starring Channing Tatum (Step Up, GI Joe) and Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls, Mamma Mia) based on the best-selling novel from Nicholas Sparks, and Chris Weitz's The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second film in the Twilight saga.

Bowen was raised outside of Ft. Worth, Texas. He graduated Cum Laude from Harvard in 1991 with a B.A. in American History. He began his career in UTA's Agent Training Program. He resides in Los Angeles.

GREG MOORADIAN (Executive Producer) began his film career in 1991 as a Creative Executive for Academy Award-winning producer Arnold Kopelson, working on classic films such as Falling Down, The Fugitive and Seven. In 1995, he became Vice President for Academy Award-winning producer Wendy Finerman, developing films such as The Fan, which he associate produced, Fairytale: A True Story and Stepmom. In 1999, he became president of the company, executive producing Sugar and Spice and Drumline.

In 2004, Mooradian started his own production company, Greg Mooradian Productions. The latest films are The Stepfather, starring Dylan Walsh and Penn Badgley, which opened in October and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, which opens in February.

Mooradian currently works as Senior Vice President at Paramount Pictures.

MARK MORGAN (Executive Producer) is currently producing Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, to be directed by Chris Columbus for 20th Century Fox; The Stepfather, for Sony/Screen Gems; and The Stanford Prison Experiment, written and to be directed by Christopher McQuarrie, Oscar-winner for The Usual Suspects. Morgan is also executive producing "The Riches" for Fox Television Studios and FX. Morgan began his career in the entertainment industry working as Creative Executive for Ridley Scott on films including Thelma & Louise. In early 1995, Morgan joined New Regency, where he ran the story department and also oversaw films such as Under Siege II, Free Willy, The Client and A Time to Kill.

In 1996, Morgan was hired at Orion Pictures as Director of Development and promoted to Vice President of Production the following year. At Orion/MPCA, Morgan supervised the development, packaging and production of film projects including Dumb and Dumber, Beverly Hills Ninja and Kingpin.

In 1998, the upper management of Orion Pictures split off to form Destination Films, where Morgan served as Executive Vice President. He produced several films in this capacity, including Beautiful, starring Minnie Driver and directed by Sally Field, and The Wedding Planner, starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey.

Hired next as President at Maverick Films, Morgan soon rose to President and CEO. At Maverick, Morgan oversaw the entire production slate, executive ranks and first-look deals. He produced multiple films distributed by MGM, including Agent Cody Banks and its sequel, 30 Days Until I'm Famous, Chasing Christmas, Cruel World and Material Girls.

GUY OSEARY (Executive Producer) began his career at Maverick Records and rose through the ranks to chairman of the label, developing a roster of artists that included Prodigy, Alanis Morissette, Deftones, The Wreckers, Paul Oakenfold, Michelle Branch, and soundtracks including The Wedding Singer, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, Austin Powers I & II, as well as releasing soundtracks on Quentin Tarantino's films including Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2. Oseary guided Maverick to sell over 100 million albums worldwide and secured its spot as one of the industry's leading boutique record labels. In the TV world, Guy serves as executive producer on Last Call With Carson Daly, which is currently in its 9th season, as well as on NBC's New Year's Eve which is also hosted by Carson.

In May 2004 Guy partnered with Jason Weinberg and Stephanie Simon to become a principal in Untitled Entertainment, a top entertainment management company with offices in Beverly Hills and New York. Untitled's list of clients includes Hilary Swank, David Caruso, Penélope Cruz, Naomi Watts, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Lucy Liu, etc. In 2005 Guy became the manager for his longtime business partner Madonna and guided her through the 2006 Confessions Tour, and the 2008, 2009 Sticky & Sweet Tour, both are on the lists of the top-grossing tours of all time. In 2007 he negotiated the most talked about and groundbreaking deal in music business by partnering Madonna with Live Nation, the number one touring promotion company in the world. This move encompasses all aspects of Madonna's music. Her latest studio album was the multi-Grammy nominated "Hard Candy" which debuted at #1 in 37 countries in 2008. His other clients include New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, a three time American League MVP who is considered by many to be the game's top player, and magician David Blaine.

In the print world, Oseary has authored three book, with a fourth due out Autumn 2009

a photography retrospective from his own camera of Madonna's 2008 tour titled "Madonna: Sticky & Sweet, photography by Guy Oseary." Previously he authored a photography book on Madonna's 2006 tour, and "On the Record" which is a collection of first-hand accounts on how to break into the music industry from many of the most successful artists, producers and executives in the business today. He is also the author of "Jews Who Rock," a look at Jewish influences in the music industry.

JOSEPH MIDDLETON (Casting) has cast some of Hollywood's most popular films, including Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, Legally Blonde and American Pie, for which he won the 2000 Artios award for best comedy casting, given by the Casting Society of America. His upcoming films are: The Twilight Saga: New Moon" Fair Game, Little Fockers and Tom Ford's directorial debut, A Single Man.

Additional films include Old School, In Good Company, Bring it On, and Law Abiding Citizen, as well as such renowned independent films as Donnie Darko, Go, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Broken Hearts Club, and Strangers with Candy.

Mr. Middleton's casting expertise and colorful on-camera personality were sought out by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for the first two seasons of their groundbreaking hit "Project Greenlight" series on HBO. Subsequent to "Project Greenlight," he joined Faye Dunaway and Vivica A. Fox on the panel of industry expert judges on the WB's reality series, "The Starlet.

Joseph Middleton is the president of his own company, Middleton Casting, Inc. and was elected in 2008 to serve on the board for the Casting Society of America. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

ALEXANDRE DESPLAT (Composer) After composing the music for over 50 European films and being nominated for 2 Cesar Awards, Alexandre Desplat, burst onto the Hollywood scene in 2003 with his evocative score to Girl With The Pearl Earing (starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth), which earned him nominations from the Golden Globes, BAFTA and European Film Awards.

His reputation was solidified by his critically acclaimed score to Jonathan Glazier's film Birth (starring Nicole Kidman) and Stephen Gaghan's film Syriana (Produced by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney and Matt Damon), which earned him yet another Golden Globe nomination. The Queen (directed by Stephen Frears and starring Helen Mirren) garnered him his first Academy Award nomination. In the same year he was also won a Golden Globe Award for his score to The Painted Veil (starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts).

In 2007, he wrote the music for The Golden Compass (directed by Chris Weitz and starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig), which is the first movie based upon the beloved trilogy, His Dark Material by Philip Pullman and Lust, Caution (for Academy Award winning Director Ang Lee).

In 2008, Alexandre wrote the score for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) which earned him his second Academy Award nomination and his fourth Golden Globe nomination. In 2009, he wrote the scores for Nora Ephron's film Julie & Julia (starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams), Cheri (directed by Stephen Frears and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend and Kathy Bates), Coc Avant Chanel (starring Audrey Tautou) The Fantastic Mr. Fox (directed by Wes Anderson) and The Prophet, the official French selection for the Oscars for best Foreign Picture.

Upcoming movies include the second installment of The Twilight Saga : New Moon (directed by Chris Weitz, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson), Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life (starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn) and Roman Polanski's The Ghost (starring Ewan McGregor, and Pierce Brosnan).

ALEXANDRA PATSAVAS (Music Supervisor), owner of Chop Shop Music Supervision, got her start in the music business as a rock promoter in Champaign, Illinois. She moved to Los Angeles in 1990 and worked in the Film/TV department at BMI. She then moved on to work in 1994 for Roger Corman at Concorde Films, where she was music coordinator and supervisor on over 50 B-movie classics (Caged Heat 3000, Piranha 2, Bucket of Blood, etc.) in a three-year span.

After her stint at Concorde, Alexandra started her own company, Chop Shop Music Supervision, where she music supervised projects including "Roswell," "Carnivale," "Boston Public," and "The OC," and the films Happy, Texas and Twilight. Alexandra and her staff are currently working on the TV shows "Grey's Anatomy," "Private Practice," "Chuck," "Gossip Girl," " "Rescue Me," "Mad Men," "Supernatural" and the feature film The Twilight Saga: New Moon.

Alexandra produced the soundtracks for Twilight, "Mad Men", "Grey's Anatomy," "The OC," "Rescue Me," John Tucker Must Die and "Roswell." The critically acclaimed "Music from the OC" soundtrack series (Mixes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) have sold over a million copies worldwide and "Grey's Anatomy Volume 2" was nominated for a Grammy.

Alexandra has been profiled in Wired, Glamour, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, In Style, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, Elle, Jane, Billboard, Giant and The New York Times, CNBC and MTV. She was named by Advertising Age as "Entertainment Marketer of the Year," The Los Angeles Times as one of "The West 100," Variety as one of fifty honorees for their annual "Women's Impact Report," and as one of Billboard's "Top Women In Music" in 2007,2008, 2009. She was also named one of Fast Company Magazine's "Most Creative People" in 2009.

PETER LAMBERT (Editor) began his career cutting factual television programs in London, before taking a masters in editing at the UK's National Film & Television School. He has since worked as an assistant editor on films including Love Actually, Children of Men and Body of Lies, as well as editing British independent features Oona & Me and Tonight Is Cancelled.

JAVIER AGUIRRESAROBE (Director of Photography) is a long-time master of Spanish cinema who first gained international acclaim for lensing Secrets of the Heart, which was selected by American Cinematographer magazine as one of its top 50 films since 1970. Already boasting seven Goya nominations for Best Cinematography and three wins, Aguirresarobe's acclaim was further enhanced with Nicole Kidman's atmospheric thriller The Others, directed by Alejandro Amenabar, for which the D.P. won his fourth Goya.

Aguirresarobe has since worked on major American and international features such as Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her, gaining his ninth Goya nomination; Amenabar's The Sea Inside, which won the Oscar® for Best Foreign Film and netted Aguirresarobe's fifth Goya; John Hillcoat's soon-to-be-released The Road, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy; and Woody Allen's Oscar nominated Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

In its review of Milos Forman's recent Goya's Ghosts, Variety described Aguirresarobe as a masterly painter of light and praised the film for having the most exciting visuals of any movie to come out of Spain in the last decade. Aguirresarobe was also director of photography for the soon-to-be-released James Ivory film The City of Your Final Destination, starring Anthony Hopkins and Laura Linney.

TISH MONAGHAN (Costume Designer) has worked as a costume designer on a wide range of projects such as The Day the Earth Stood Still, starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates and Jon Hamm; Christopher Nolan's Insomnia, starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hillary Swank; Hot Rod, starring Andy Samberg and Isla Fisher; The Exorcism of Emily Rose, with Jennifer Carpenter, Laura Linney and Tom Wilkinson; and Catch and Release, starring Jennifer Garner, Timothy Olyphant and Juliette Lewis.

Other film credits include An Unfinished Life, The Invisible, Chaos Theory, The Underclassman and Cats & Dogs. Monaghan recently completed the next feline/canine franchise film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.

Monaghan began working in the film industry in 1981 after working as a cutter for several theatrical productions in British Columbia. She initially worked as a costumer, cutter and supervisor. Her first design job was for the miniseries "Brothers by Choice" in 1983. She has also worked on several other television projects, including the miniseries "Traffic," two episodes of "Monk" and "The Heights."

DAVID BRISBIN (Production Designer) counts among his production design credits The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Exorcism of Emily Rose for Scott Derrickson, The Lookout for Scott Frank, Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho for Gus Van Sant, City of Ghosts for Matt Dillon, After Dark, My Sweet for James Foley and In the Cut for Jane Campion.

Trained initially as an architect (B.F.A., Rice University) and interning under noted American architect Robert Venturi, Brisbin also studied filmmaking (M.F.A., Cal-Arts) under the late director Alexander Mackendrick. After receiving the Henry Luce Scholars grant, he worked as a television news reporter in Manila, where he covered the fall of the Marcos regime.

In recent years, Brisbin has pursued his related interests in new media as a resident at the Habitat New Media Lab of the Canadian Film Centre and in documentary film as director and producer of Nice Hat! 5 Enigmas in the Life of Cambodia.

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