1/3/01 – 9/1/02	VERITAS MEDIA
	President

11/90 – 12/98	AMERICAN ZOETROPE
	President

	After producing several movies for Francis Coppola on a free-lance basis I
	was asked to take over as President of Coppola’s San Francisco based production
	company.  While there I continued to work as his producer and also oversaw
	operations and management of the company.  Other responsibilities and
	accomplishments while I was at Zoetrope include:
		o Helped develop and produce 7 feature films, 6 of which were
		   directed by Mr. Coppola
		o Created television division in 1995 that produced two Emmy
		  nominated mini-series and helped create, finance, and produce
		  a successful 66 episode syndicated TV series
		o Supervised creation of a new award winning short fiction magazine,
		  which also launched interactive web site
		o Administrated Zoetrope’s innovative production and post-production
		  facility. Helped develop electronic cinema applications
		o Supervised distribution and sales agreements for international
		  distribution of small film library including Apocalypse Now
		o Board member involved in supervision of successful winery and
		  food product division of Coppola Companies

Feature Film Credits	
	
	  	BEAUTIFUL JOE    (Capitol Films, HBO)		PRODUCER
                  	Director:  Stephen Metcalfe           	Stars: Sharon Stone, Billy Connelly
	 	THE THIRD MIRACLE (Franchise Pictures, Sony Picture Classics)    PRODUCER		 
	          	 Director: Agnieska Holland           	Stars: Ed Harris, Anne Heche
	       	THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (Canal Plus, Paramount Classics)	EXEC.PROD	
	          	 Director: Sofia Coppola              	Stars: James Woods, Kirsten Dunst
	   	JOHN GRISHAM'S THE RAINMAKER (Paramount/Constellation)	PRODUCER	
            	 	Director: Francis Ford Coppola        	Stars: Matt Damon, Danny Devito, John Voight       	    
	   	JACK (Disney)					PRODUCER 
                   	Director Francis Ford Coppola         	Stars: Robin Williams, Bill Cosby, Diane Lane
                BUDDY (Columbia)                           	PRODUCER	
	              	Director: Caroline Thompson           	Stars: Rene Russo, Alan Cummings
	   	DON JUAN DEMARCO (New Line)                     PRODUCER
	            	Director: Jeremy Levin                	Stars: Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp	  
	        MI FAMILIA  (Fine Line/Majestic)		EXEC. PRODUCER
			Director:  Greg Nava                  	Stars:  Jimmy Smits, Jennifer Lopez		
		HAUNTED (Lumiere)                               EXEC. PROD.
             		Director: Lewis Gilbert               	Stars: Aiden Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, John Guilguid
	   	MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTIEN (TriStar)          EXEC. PROD.
                	Director: Kenneth Branaugh            	Stars: Robert DeNiro, Ken Branaugh, Helena Bonham Carter
		THE SECRET GARDEN (Warner Brothers)             PRODUCER   
                	Director: Agnieska Holland            	Stars: Maggie Smith, John Lynch, Kate Maberly
	    	BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (Columbia)                PRODUCER
                	Director: Francis Ford Coppola        	Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Winnona Ryder, Gary Oldman
               	WIND (TriStar Filmlink)                        EXEC. PROD.
                	Director: Carrot Ballard              	Stars: Matthew Modine, Stellan Skarrsgard
	   	THE SPIRIT OF '76 (Castle Rock)			EXEC.PROD.
                	Director: Lucas Reiner                	Stars: David Cassidy, Olivia Adabo
          	HEARTS OF DARKNESS (Trimark/Showtime)   	EXEC.PROD.
                	Director: George Hickenlooper/Eleanor Coppola
	   	THE GODFATHER PART III (Paramount)              EXEC. PROD.
                	Director: Francis Ford Coppola         	Stars: Al Pacino, Dianne Keaton, Andy Garcia                        
	    	NEW YORK STORIES  (Life Without Zoe)   (Touchstone) PRODUCER
                 	Director:  Francis Ford Coppola         Stars:  Giancarlo Gianni, Talia Shire
	    	TUCKER: A MAN AND HIS DREAM   (Lucasfilm)	PRODUCER
                	Director:  Francis Ford Coppola         Stars:   Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen,  Martin Landeau 

Television credits   (all as Executive Producer)

	    	MOBYDICK		4 Hour mini-series 			(USA Networks/Hallmark)                     
     	    	OUTRAGE			2 Hour MOW				(ABC/Polygram)
	        FIRST WAVE		22 Hour Syndicated Series		(Pearson/Viditron)
		THE ODYSSEY		4 Hour mini-series 			(NBC/Hallmark) 
	        RIOT			2 Hour MOW 				(SHOWTIME)
	        TITANIC			4 Hour mini-series 		 	(CBS)
		DARK ANGEL		2 Hour MOW (Pilot)                   	(FOX/Tri-Star)
	        TECUMSACH		2 Hour MOW 				(TNT)
	        KIDNAPPED		4 Hour –mini-series 			(FAMILY CHAN.)                                                     
	 	WHITE DWARF		2 Hour MOW (Pilot)                    	(FOX)
		VIETNAM WAR STORIES 	13 Show 1/2 hour Anthology Series    	(HBO)              
	 	TALLTALES & LEGENDS 	13 Show 1hour Anthology Series         	(SHOWTIME)                      
		FAERIE TALE THEATRE  	26 Show 1 hour Anthology Series		(SHOWTIME)                 
	 

Awards

		Emmy Award Nomination 		Best mini-series 	MOBY DICK
		Emmy Award Nomination 		Best mini-series 	THE ODYSSEY
	        Golden Globe Nomination 	Best mini-series 	THE ODYSSEY
		Saturn Award Winner 		Best Feature Film 	BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA
		Academy Award Nomination	Best Picture 		THE GODFATHER PART III
          	Golden Globe Nomination 	Best Picture 		THE GODFATHER PART III
		ACE Award Winner 		Best Dramatic Series 	VIETNAM WAR STORIES
		ACE Award Winner 		Best Dramatic Series 	FAERIE TALE THEATRE
		ACE Award Winner 		Best Children's Program FAERIE TALE THEATRE
		Peabody Award Winner	                        	FAERIE TALE THEATRE

His own laboratory studies fundamental mechanisms for manipulating information (which led to the development of molecular logic used to implement the first complete quantum computation and to analog circuits that can efficiently perform optimal digital operations), the integration of these ideas into everyday objects such as furniture (seen in the Museum of Modern Art and used in automobile safety systems), and applications with partners ranging from developing a computerized cello for Yo-Yo Ma and stage for the Flying Karamazov Brothers to instrumentation used by rural Indian villagers and nomadic reindeer herders.

Beyond his many technical publications and patents, he is the author of best-selling books including "When Things Start To Think" and the texts "The Nature of Mathematical Modeling" and "The Physics of Information Technology." His work has been featured by the White House and Smithsonian Institution in their Millennium celebrations, and been the subject of print, radio, and TV programs in media including the New York Times, The Economist, CNN, and PBS.

Dr. Gershenfeld has a B.A. in Physics with High Honors from Swarthmore College, was a member of the research staff at Bell Labs where he studied laser interactions with atomic and nuclear systems, received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University for experimental tests of order in complex condensed matter systems, and was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows where he ran an international study on prediction techniques.

He's been affiliated with Pixar for almost a decade, where he was the New York office for a few years, and also the Chicago Office for a few years - he's currently at the studio in Emeryville. At Pixar he has worked on tools for almost all facets of the production workflow, from writing new tools for directors, story board artists, lighters, shaders, set dressers, animators, as well as working on the overall production system Pixar uses to make all of its feature films.

Lindheim most recently spent seven years as executive vice president of Paramount Television Group, where he launched the Digital Entertainment division. Previously he graduated through the ranks of Universal and MCA, beginning as a producer for Universal Television in 1979 and progressing through four posts with MCA Television Group/Universal Studios. They include vice president, current programming, senior vice president series programming, executive vice president, creative affairs and, finally, executive vice president, program strategy. During his tenure with Universal, Lindheim also served as a producer on several television series, and co-created the popular Universal/CBS program "The Equalizer" (1985-89).

Transitioning to MCA/Universal from NBC, Lindheim served as vice president, dramatic programs following a nine-year post as vice president, program research for the network. Prior to work in audience studies, he began his entertainment career in 1962 as an administrative assistant in the story department of CBS. Lindheim earned a B.S. in electronic engineering from the University of Redlands, with postgraduate studies in telecommunications and engineering at the University of Southern California.

A member of the Writers Guild of America, Lindheim is the author of several publications including two textbooks on television, PrimeTime: Network Television Programming and Inside Television Producing.

In the late 1970's Alex McDowell honed his visual tools while studying as a painter at Central School of Art in London. With the eruption of the punk movement in London, he founded the design group, Rocking Russian, to produce record sleeve graphics for the burgeoning punk music industry (The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Clash, Iggy Pop, amongst many). Concurrently, he experimented with primitive digital graphics as Art Director for video magazine Rewind, and collaborated with famed British designer, Terry Jones on the early issues of I-D fashion magazine.

In the 1980's, with the emergence of MTV he teamed up with director Tim Pope to design some of the earliest music videos. He moved to Los Angeles in 1986, having designed over a hundred music videos, and began a new career as production designer for many of the most cutting-edge young directors in commercials.

In 1991, McDowell was called upon to production design the virtual reality cult film The Lawnmower Man, followed by The Crow; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with director Terry Gilliam, Fight Club with director David Fincher, and Minority Report with director Steven Spielberg. He is currently designing a Seussian universe for The Cat in the Hat with Director, Bo Welch.

For Minority Report, McDowell established the first fully integrated digital design department in the film industry, enabling the strands of 2D and 3D design, set construction, camera, prop manufacturing and post-production VFX to be efficiently linked and managed by the Design Team.

McDowell is the founder and an active member of the revolutionary design and engineering think tank known as matter.

McDowell works wherever in the world a project takes him, but his home is in Los Angeles with his wife, painter Kirsten Everberg, and their two children.

Professor Minsky is a members of the NAS and NAE, and has been awarded the Japan Prize, the Franklin Medal. the Rank Prize of the Royal Society, and the R.W. Wood Prize of the Optical Soc. of America.

For the past three years Jacki she has been part of the core team at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies and serves not only as Associate Director for Creative Development but also as Project Lead for the Sensory Environments Evaluation (SE Project) which explores the creation of emotionally evocative virtual environments.

She holds two Masters degrees from the University of Florida: one in Fine Art, for which she studied Photography with premier photographer Jerry Ueslmann, and the second in Computer Science, studying with John Staudhammer. She is an member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Council and served as Chair of the 1994 SIGGRAPH emerging technology venue "The Edge". She is a member of IEEE and the Visual Effects Society. Her interest besides creating art include neurobiology, marine biology, the sources of emotions and doing things that have never been done before.

    Dr. Simon has worked on the mechanism of site specific recombination in bacteria and on the mechanism of bacterial movement and chemotaxis.  He and his colleagues were the first to demonstrate that bacterial flagella were driven by a rotary motor.  They uncovered the mechanism of phase variation showing that the specific inversion of a segment of DNA that carries a flagellin promoter region controlled the ability of the organism to switch from one flagellar antigen type to another.  Dr. Simon's laboratory helped characterize the components involved in sensory transduction in bacteria.  They were the first to show that the process involved protein-histidine phosphorylation and helped define the nature of "two component" sensory systems in bacteria.  They subsequently determined the three-dimensional atomic structure of the protein histidine kinase that plays a central role in this process.

    Dr. Simon's most recent contributions have advanced our understanding of signal transduction and intracellular signaling in animal cells.  He is currently working on the mechanisms involved in G protein function.  G-protein subunits play a crucial role in transmitting signals from cell surface receptors resulting in changes in intracellular metabolism.  They are central to the visual, gustatory, olfactory and nervous systems function in complex organisms.  Dr. Simon's laboratory played a major role in the characterization of the genes that encode the subunit proteins that make up the G protein family.  He and his co-workers have generated a variety of mutant mice deficient in components of the G-protein signaling cascade.  Their work on the visual system together with Dr. Denis Baylor's laboratory at Stanford has helped to define the in vivo function of elements of the G-protein mediated phototransduction cascade, and the molecular mechanisms involved in retinal degeneration.  More recently Dr. Simon has been working on G-protein receptors that are involved in nociception.

    Dr. Simon's group has also played an important role in the Human Genome Project.  They invented the Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) vector and built many of the initial libraries that provided the basic material for the Human Genome Project.  They played an integral role in developing the maps of human chromosomes 16 and 22.  Their work was the basis for determination of the complete sequence of chromosome 22.

    In recognition of his research accomplishments, Dr. Simon received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1978.  He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986 and received the Selman Waxman award from the National Academy of Sciences in 1991.  He has chaired a variety of national and international meetings and has presented many special named lectures.  Dr. Simon served as Chairman of the Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology from 1995-2000.

    Dr. Simon has been involved in a variety of capacities with philanthropic and commercial organizations.  He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Agouron Institute and he was a founding member of Agouron Pharmaceuticals.  He is also a founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Diversa Corporation and serves as consultant and member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of a number of biotechnology companies.  Dr. Simon has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the advisory board of the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), the Hutchinson Institute, the Board of Governors of the American Society of Microbiology, and as a member of a variety of advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. 

    Dr. Simon also serves on the Editorial Board of a number of journals and is co-editor-in-chief with Dr. John Abelson of the Methods in Enzymology series.

Among Alex's awards are an Emmy and a Humanitas Award. He has lectured and taught film production and directing at a number of universities including UCLA and USC, private institutions and the Directors Guild of America.

He is a member of the DGA's Committee on the Future of Directing. The group's function is to examine and prepare for the consequences of the transformations in film making arts and commerce arising from Information Technology.

In 1968, he was instrumental in obtaining a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity for a school where film production crafts were taught to disadvantaged young people, many of whom entered the mainstream.

Under contract to MCA/Universal Studios in 1990/91, he headed a task force assigned to integrate established motion picture technologies with computer mediated forms of entertainment at the Orlando Florida theme park. Continued with MCA as principal consultant on the development of the entertainment applications of advanced forms of Virtual Reality technologies.

In 1993/94, he worked with the National Research Councils' project on the convergence of computers, telecommunications, and entertainment. In 1996/97, he worked on the NRC's project examining possible synergies between the Defense Modeling and Simulation Organization and the entertainment industry.

He is a longtime Network member of Global Business Network, a business think tank whose particular strength is in developing scenario building strategic planning skills within organizations.

At the University of Southern California Engineering Schools' Integrated Media Systems Center, he held the title of Senior Research Scholar and is now on their Science Advisory Board. The Center's faculty and laboratories are devoted to developing the basic technologies that underlie the revolution in communication.

He is on the Board of Advisors for the Institute for Creative Technologies, a joint U.S. Army and USC effort to explore and meld the creative resources of the cinema arts and communication technologies towards improving training and planning for the military.

In 1999 he was part of a DARPA sponsored ISAT (Information Science and Technology) study group on "Building a (digital) Time Machine". Through 2000 he was a member of a second .ISA T study group on "Total Recall: Combining Human and Digital Memory".

In the Spring semester of 2001 Singer taught a full credit 17 week course at USC's School of Electrical Engineering entitled; ENHANCING POWERS OF EXPRESSION FOR ENGINEERS: Effective communication for engineers at the intersection of technology, the arts and multimedia.

Last August, as part of an annual "Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence" Conference in Seattle, Microsoft Research asked him to give a banquet address on aspects of Uncertainty in both the actual production of films and as it occurs within a films' intrinsic form.

A nation's width earlier, John was a researcher and student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which after fifteen years he emerged mildly scathed but with three degrees. During that interval he was associated with the Spatial Imaging Group, in which he was responsible for innovations in both optical and electronic holography; and then subsequently with the Tangible Media Group, in which he developed the I/O Bulb concept and prototypes. An application built on this latter system, an Urban Planning simulation workbench called Urp, is in ongoing use as a teaching and research tool in MIT's School of Architecture & Planning.

His technology-based art- and design-works have been exhibited on several continents and have received various awards. He is one-third the founder of the self-scripting performance troupe Hoist Point Orchestra. He is a lapsed member of the U.S. Bobsled Federation but has also fallen from the top of a four-story building. He finally insists that the English language's greatest living (or recently so) authors must include Toby Olson, Nicholas Mosley, D.F. Wallace, Don DeLillo, Alasdair Gray, and William Gaddis.