About the Filmmakers

PIETER JAN BRUGGE (Producer) Collaborating with Michael Mann for the third time, PIETER JAN BRUGGE (Produced by) was nominated for an Academy Award® as the producer for Mann's The Insider, starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe.  He also was the executive producer of Heat, starring Pacino and Robert De Niro, which Mann directed. Most recently, Brugge directed, produced and was credited with a “story by” credit on The Clearing, starring Robert Redford, Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe. Previously, he produced Warren Beatty's political satire Bulworth and produced The Pelican Brief  (with Alan J. Pakula), starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.  He also co-produced Glory, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman, which won three Academy Awards, and co-produced Clifford, starring Martin Short and Charles Grodin. Brugge was the executive producer of Carl Reiner's Fatal Instinct, as well as the thriller The Vanishing and Alan J. Pakula's Consenting Adults. He received his degree from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy. Brugge was then awarded a scholarship by the Dutch Ministry of Cultural Affairs to study in the United States at the American Film Institute, where he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree. ANTHONY YERKOVICH (Executive Producer) Anthony Yerkovich grew up outside of Buffalo, in western New York State.  After completing his schooling, he headed west.  Soon after his arrival in California, he wrote a freelance script for the yet-to-be-aired NBC show Hill Street Blues and was subsequently hired as a writer and supervising producer, a position he held from 1980 to 1983. His work during this time resulted in his being awarded three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes and two Image Awards, as well as numerous nominations from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Writers Guild, the Humanities Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.   After moving to Universal Studios, Yerkovich created the hit show Miami Vice, which he also executive-produced during the first season. His work on Miami Vice brought him a Writers Guild Award for the “Outstanding Script of 1985” in the category of Television Drama, as well as a People's Choice Award for “Favorite New Television Dramatic Series” and numerous Emmy nominations. His next show at Universal was Private Eye, a highly stylized film-noir detective thriller. Yerkovich's next stop was Paramount Studios, where in 1995 he created and produced the two-hour UPN premiere of Hollywood Confidential, starring Edward James Olmos, Richard T. Jones, Charlize Theron and Thomas Jane. Again at Paramount, in 2000, Yerkovich co-created and executive-produced the critically acclaimed New York television cop drama Big Apple, starring Ed O'Neill, Michael Madsen, David Strathairn, Donnie Wahlberg and Kim Dickens. In addition to his work in television and film, Yerkovich has found success in the restaurant business, as owner of the highly acclaimed Buffalo Club in Santa Monica. DION BEEBE ACS, ASC (Director of Photography) Dion Beebe earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for Best Cinematography for his work on Rob Marshall's Oscar-winning Best Picture Chicago.  Most recently, he re-teamed with Marshall on Memoirs of a Geisha, the film adaptation of the best-selling book. Other recent work also includes Gillian Armstrong's biopic Charlotte Gray, starring Cate Blanchett in the title role, and Jane Campion's thriller In the Cut, starring Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo, for which Beebe was honored with the Australian Cinematographers Society's Golden Tripod Award. Beebe had earlier been recognized by the Australian Cinematographers Society for his lensing of John Curran's Praise, for which he also earned an Australian Film Critics Circle Award nomination, and the short films Down Rusty Down and Black Sorrow.  In addition, Beebe won an Australian Film Critics Circle Award for John Hughes' What I Have Written, and earned another nomination for his work on Clara Law's The Goddess of 1967. He is also the winner of two Australian Film Institute Awards for his work on Eternity and The Space Between the Door and the Floor. In 2003, the Institute honored him with the prestigious Byron Kennedy Award, marking the first time that award had ever been presented to a cinematographer. Beebe's other film credits include Kurt Wimmer's sci-fi thriller Equilibrium, Jane Campion's Holy Smoke, My Own Country, Memory & Desire, Floating Life and Crush. VICTOR KEMPSTER (Production Designer) Victor Kempster's (Production Designer) career has been varied as he has worked as an art director, set decorator and currently as a production designer. Recent credits as a production designer include Envy, Bandits, Bamboozled, Any Given Sunday, U Turn, That Thing You Do!, Nixon, Natural Born Killers, Heaven & Earth, JFK and And God Created Woman. Other credits as an art director include Kindergarten Cop, Born on the Fourth of July, Driving Miss Daisy and Last Rites. Kempster was nominated for an Emmy for his work as a set decorator on Kane and Abel.  Other credits in this capacity include Streets of Gold, Compromising Positions and Svengali starring Peter O'Toole and Jodie Foster.    WILLIAM GOLDENBERG, ACE (Editor) Twice nominated for an Academy Award, William Goldenberg has notched over 20 years in the film and television industry. He was nominated for his work on Seabiscuit (with Paul Rubell and David Rosenbloom) and Michael Mann's critically acclaimed film The Insider.  Goldenberg has a longstanding relationship with Mann, having worked with him on both Heat and Ali. Recently, Goldenberg edited the hit film National Treasure, starring Nicolas Cage. Other motion picture editing credits include Kangaroo Jack, Coyote Ugly, Pleasantville, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Alive (co-editor), The Puppet Masters and the IMAX feature, The Journey Inside. He also collaborated with editor Michael Kahn on Hook, Toy Soldiers, Arachnophobia and Always.  In addition, he edited the short film Kangaroo Court, which was directed by Sean Astin and nominated for an Academy Award. For television, he was the editor for HBO Films' Body Language and Chris Gerolmo's Citizen X, for which he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Editing for a Miniseries or Special. He recently completed the pilot for Gerolmo's controversial FX series Over There. PAUL RUBELL, ACE (Editor) Paul Rubell earned Academy Award nominations for Best Editing for Collateral (with Jim Miller) and The Insider (with William Goldenberg and David Rosenbloom), both directed by Michael Mann. Collateral also garnered him an Eddie Award nomination from the American Cinema Editors, along with a BAFTA nomination. He won a Golden Satellite Award for the film.  For The Insider, he was nominated for an Eddie Award. Rubell's most recent editing efforts were on Michael Bay's The Island.  Other credits include the live-action remake of Peter Pan, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, S1m0ne, xXx, The Cell, Blade, John Frankenheimer's The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Stone Boy. Rubell has also edited a number of acclaimed long form television projects. He received an Emmy Award nomination and won an Eddie Award for his work on the miniseries Andersonville, earned both Emmy and Eddie Award nominations for the telefilm, My Name is Bill W. and also gained an Eddie nomination for the telefilm The Burning Season. His other television work includes David, The Jacksons: An American Dream, Stay the Night, Finding the Way Home, Challenger, Home Fires Burning, Echoes in the Darkness and Dress Gray, among others. JANTY YATES (Costume Designer) Academy Award winner Janty Yates has garnered a respected reputation as a costume designer for both contemporary and period motion pictures. In 2001, Yates won an Oscar for Gladiator for Best Costume Design. She was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for the same project.  Most recently, she was nominated for Excellence for Costume Design-Period/Fantasy from the Costume Designers Guild for De-Lovely. Some of her other feature film credits include Kingdom of Heaven, Charlotte Gray, Hannibal, Enemy at the Gates, With or Without You, Plunkett & MacLeane, The Man Who Knew Too Little, Welcome to Sarajevo, Jude and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. Yates also has numerous television costume design credits. MICHAEL KAPLAN (Costume Designer) Assembling an eclectic resume of feature film credits, Michael Kaplan has won both a BAFTA Award and Costume Designers Guild Award. The cult classic, Blade Runner, is among Kaplan's illustrious film credits in which he shared a BAFTA Award with Charles Knode.  Other feature films include Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Matchstick Men, Gigli, Trapped, Panic Room, Pearl Harbor, Keeping the Faith, Fight Club, Armageddon, The Game, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Diabolique, Se7en, Malice, Curley Sue, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Cat Chaser, Cousins, Big Business, Tough Guys Don't Dance, Clue, Perfect, American Dreamer, Against All Odds, Thief of Hearts and Flashdance. JOHN MURPHY (Composer) Liverpool-born John Murphy became a session player at the age of 15 and toured and recorded with many successful British bands of the '80s.  Primarily a songwriter, he made his film debut at age 23 with the award-winning score for the British hit Leon the Pig Farmer. Since scoring Snatch, Murphy has worked out of Los Angeles, alternating between orchestral music and his own eclectic brand of scoring.    In the last two years, he scored Guess Who, The Man and Millions.  He will next write the music for Danny Boyle's sci-fi film Sunshine. Murphy has won several awards for best original music, including the Silver Award (first prize) at Cannes, the British D & AD Award and the Palme d'Or.  He has won nominations for an Ivor Novello, a Music Week Award, an RTS Award and a Brit Award for Best Soundtrack (Lock, Stock and Two Smokin' Barrels). Murphy has previously composed the music for Basic Instinct 2, 28 Days Later, The Perfect Score, Intermission, Friday After Next, City by the Sea, New Best Friend, All About the Benjamins, Mean Machine, Strumpet, Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise, Chain of Fools, One More Kiss, The Bachelor, The Real Howard Spitz, Stiff Upper Lips, Black Velvet Band, Darklands, Clockwork Mice, Dinner in Purgatory, A Feast at Midnight and Beyond Bedlam.