THE FILMMAKERS

Jane Weinstock (Writer-Director)
Jane Weinstock has participated in the Sundance Director's Lab. She has written and directed several highly acclaimed, visually striking short films that have screened at festivals including Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Venice, and London. Her short, "The Cleanup", was distributed theatrically in the U.S. and was shown on European television. Weinstock has taught film history at UCLA and Cal Arts and written numerous articles on film and art for "Art in America" and other publications. EASY is her first feature.

Gloria Norris (Producer)
Gloria Norris has worked for Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Brian DePalma.She has written screenplays for many of the major Hollywood studios including a project for Twentieth Century Fox with producer Jon Landau ("Titanic"). She wrote and directed the short film, "Cold Sweat". She is currently writing "Triangle" for producer Judith Zarin and is developing a film based on Judith Freeman's award-winning book, "Red Water".

James Welling (Executive Producer)
James Welling is an internationally-known photographer. He has had retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Wexner Center, the Baltimore Museum, and the Palais des Beaux Arts. His photographs are in the collections of numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles).

Paul Ryan (Cinematographer)
Paul Ryan began his career as a second-unit director of photography on Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven" which won an Academy Award for cinematography. He was second-unit DP on Robert Redford's "A River Runs Through" and "The Horse Whisperer". As director of photography he filmed "Box of Moonlight" with John Turturro and "Big Bad Love", with Debra Winger. He recently completed "Admissions" with Lauren Ambrose and "Spin" with Stanely Tucci .

Aradhana Seth (Production Designer)
Aradhana Seth has designed a number of films in India, including "Earth" and "Fire" directed by Deepa Mehta. She designed the Indian sections of Daisy von Scherler Mayer's "The Guru" and the upcoming "Bourne Supremacy" with Matt Damon. She has also produced and directed a documentary on Booker-Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy for the BBC.

Robert Hoffman (Editor)
Robert Hoffman edited Terry Zwigoff's "Bad Santa" and "Fathers and Sons". He is currently editing Zwigoff's "Art School Confidential".

Lauren Zuckerman (Editor)
Lauren Zuckerman edited "The Deep End" and "Suture" directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel. She is currently editing "Bee Season" with Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche.

Mona May (Costume Designer)
Mona May has designed costumes for such features as "Clueless", "8mm", "Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion", "The Wedding Singer" and "Haunted Mansion".

Olivia Harris (Casting)
Olivia Harris has cast numerous films and television series in association with Phyllis Huffman, including Clint Eastwood's "Blood Work" and "Mystic River". She cast the independent features, "Blood Oranges" directed by Philip Haas and "No Vacancy" starring Christina Ricci. Harris was the casting director for the TV film "Martin and Lewis" with Jeremy Northam and Sean Hayes.

Grant-Lee Phillips (Music)
Grant-Lee Phillips is best known as the vision and voice of the critically-acclaimed group, Grant Lee Buffalo. Phillips was cited by Rolling Stone as the Best Male Vocalist of 1995. His songs and scores have appeared in "Velvet Goldmine", "Six Feet Under" and "Zig Zag".