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LYDIA DEAN PILCHER – PRODUCER
Lydia Dean Pilcher is founder of Cine Mosaic, a production company committed to producing independent feature films, with an energetic focus on developing entertaining stories that promote social and cultural diversity. Pilcher produced the 2007 Fox Searchlight releases of The Darjeeling Limited, with director Wes Anderson and The Namesake, based on the novel by Pulitzer prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, and directed by Mira Nair. Pilcher was nominated in 2004/05 for a Golden Globe Award for the HBO feature film, Iron Jawed Angels directed by Katja von Garnier and starring Hilary Swank and Anjelica Huston. She was nominated in 2003/04 for an Emmy, Golden Globe and Producer’s Guild Award for Normal with writer/director Jane Anderson and starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson. Other producing credits include: Vanity Fair, Jesus’ Son, Hysterical Blindness, Cradle Will Rock, Kama Sutra - A Tale of Love, and Mississippi Masala. Pilcher is Vice Chair of the Producers Guild of America East and serves on the Board of Directors of The New York Production Alliance. She was named one of the 21 Leaders for the 21st Century by Women’s eNews for 2005.

JESSICA LEVIN – PRODUCER
Jessica Levin produced the Cannes - Director's Fortnight Youth Prize and Independent Spirit Award-winning feature Day Night Day Night (IFC Films). She co-produced Sundance Audience Award and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award winner Grace is Gone (starring John Cusack) and associate produced Justin Theroux's directorial debut Dedication (starring Billy Crudup and Mandy Moore) both being released by the Weinstein Company. She is currently post-production supervising features for Paramount Vantage and HBO Films, as well as Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York, now in production.

MARILYN S. FU – SCREENWRITER
Marilyn S. Fu was awarded the Tribeca Film Festival's 2007 Creative Promise Award in Screenwriting for The Sisterhood of Night. She has two other feature films in development. Riders on the Storm, which was honored with Columbia University's William Goldman Screenwriting Fellowship in 2000, is the real-life vampire story of five troubled teens in Louisiana. Wunderkind is a portrait of three child prodigies struggling with their genius as adults. Marilyn received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, and an MFA from Columbia University's Film Division in 2003. She lives in New York City.

CARYN WAECHTER – DIRECTOR
Caryn Waechter's short film "God is Good," (written by Dennis Lee, 2004) follows the curious mind of a seven-year-old Korean-American boy on a hot summer day. The film was awarded the New Line Cinema Award for Best Director (Columbia University Film Festival), Narrative Short Finalist (IFP Market), and Special Jury Prize (USA Film Festival). Inspired by dance and music, Waechter's style has been described by critics as "lyrical" and "intuitive,” a style that she developed in a Super 8mm short film, "BEAT" (2001), which was recognized at festivals throughout Europe and the U.S. Caryn completed her MFA in Directing at Columbia University’s Film Division in 2004. She is a freelance film editor in New York City, and continues to write and direct projects inspired by music and movement.

STEVEN MILLHAUSER – NOVELIST ("The Sisterhood of Night")
Steven Millhauser was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up in Connecticut. He was educated at Columbia College and Brown University. His first novel, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Times of an American Dreamer, was published in 1972 and received the Prix Medicis Etranger in France. Since then, he has published ten works of fiction, including several collections of stories and the novel Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. His story "Eisenheim the Illusionist" (2006), from The Barnum Museum, was the basis of the film The Illusionist (2006), starring Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti. Millhauser's work has been translated into fourteen languages.

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