Gary Winick | John
Sloss | Jake Abraham | Mandy
Tagger | Emily
Gardiner |
Nancy Israel
Gary Winick teamed up with John Sloss and IFC Productions to create Independent Digital Entertainment (InDigEnt) to produce digital video feature films to be released theatrically.
Winick’s producing credits include: Final, directed by Campbell Scott starring Hope Davis and Denis Leary; Chelsea Walls, directed by Ethan Hawke, starring Kris Kristofferson, Steve Zahn, and Natasha Richardson; Tape, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman; Women In Film, directed by Bruce Wagner, starring Beverly D'Angelo, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Portia de Rossi; Ten Tiny Love Stories, directed by Rodrigo Garcia starring Radha Mitchell, Elizabeth Pena and Deborah Unger; Wake Up And Smell The Coffee directed by Michael Rauch, starring Eric Bogosian; Personal Velocity, directed by Rebecca Miller, starring Kyra Sedgwick and Parker Posey, which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Cinematography award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival; Pieces of April, directed by Peter Hedges, starring Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt, and Patricia Clarkson who was nominated for an Academy Award for her role; Kill The Poor, directed by Alan Taylor, starring David Krumholtz; November directed by Greg Harrison, starring Courteney Cox, which won the Cinematography Award at Sundance 2004; Mark Christopher’s Pizza starring Ethan Embry; Land Of Plenty directed by Wim Wenders, starring Michelle Williams and John Diehl; Lonesome Jim directed by Steve Buscemi, starring Casey Affleck and Liv Tyler; Sorry,Haters directed by Jeff Stanzler, starring Robin Wright Penn and Abdel Kechiche; and Flakes directed by Michael Lehmann, starring Aaron Stanford and Zooey Deschanel.
Winick’s film directing credits include Curfew (1988), Out of the Rain (1991), Sweet Nothing (1996) starring Mira Sorvino and Michael Imperioli, distributed by Warner Brothers and The Tic Code (2000), starring Polly Draper and Gregory Hines, distributed by Lion’s Gate. Winick directed two digital feature films, Sam the Man (200), starring Fisher Stevens and Annabella Sciorra and Tadpole, distributed by Miramax, starring Sigourney Weaver, John Ritter, Bebe Neuwirth and Aaron Stanford. Tadpole won the Best Director Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. In 2004 Winick directed 13 Going On 30 starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo for Revolution Studios. Currently Winick is in post-production on Charlotte's Web for Paramount Studios due out in June 2006.
John Sloss was born in Detroit, Michigan, received his B.A. with high distinction from the University of Michigan in 1978, and was awarded his law degree from the University of Michigan School of Law in 1981. In March 1993, he left his partnership at the international law firm Morrison & Foerster to form Sloss Law Office P.C., a law firm providing counsel in business transactions for the entertainment, sports, and media industries.
Mr. Sloss represents clients in all aspects of motion picture financing, production, and distribution, including motion picture producers, directors, and writers. Clients include Michael Almereyda, Brad Anderson, Jonathan Demme's production company Clinica Estetico, Ted Demme, Todd Haynes, Richard Linklater, Errol Morris, Victor Nunez, Kimberly Peirce, Paul Rudnick, Kevin Smith, Whit Stillman, and Christine Vachon's Killer Films. He has acted as Executive Producer on John Sayles' CITY OF HOPE, PASSION FISH, THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH, LONE STAR, and MEN WITH GUNS; Maggie Greenwald's THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO; Richard Linklater's BEFORE SUNRISE, SUBURBIA, THE NEWTON BOYS, and his upcoming WAKING LIFE; Michael Corrente's AMERICAN BUFFALO; Edward Burns' SHE'S THE ONE, and NO LOOKING BACK; Victor Nunez's ULEE'S GOLD; Whit Stillman's THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO; Errol Morris' MR. DEATH; Brad Anderson'sHAPPY ACCIDENTS; and Kimberly Peirce's BOY'S DON'T CRY. Mr. Sloss also serves as counsel to NHK, the largest Japanese broadcaster, to Paul Allen and Jody Patton's Clear Blue Sky Productions, to Bravo and the Independent Film Channel, and as team counsel to the National Basketball Association New Jersey Nets.
Mr. Sloss and his Special Projects division have acted as producer representatives for numerous projects, including Karyn Kusama's GIRLFIGHT, co-winner of the 2000 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Film, Marc Singer's DARK DAYS, winner of the 2000 Sundance Audience Award for Documentary Film, Maggie Greenwald's SONGCATCHER, Chris Smith's AMERICAN MOVIE, Kimberly Peirce's BOY'S DON'T CRY, Francois Girard's THE RED VIOLIN, Bruce McCulloch's DOG PARK, Don McKellar's LAST NIGHT, Marc Levin's SLAM, winner of the 1998 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the 1998 Cannes Camera d'Or, Scott Ziehl's BROKEN VESSELS, winner of the Best Feature at the 1998 LAIFF, and Michael Almereyda's HAMLET, starring Ethan Hawke. Sloss Special Projects is also a partner in Independent Digital Entertainment (InDigEnt), a series of digital features made in collaboration with established filmmakers.
Jake Abraham (producer) has
been active at InDigEnt since 2000, having worked in various capacities
on all the InDigEnt titles. He is now the
partner of Gary Winick, supervising the production of all InDigEnt films
and overseeing operations at the company. In 2003, Abraham produced “November”,
directed by Greg Harrison and starring Courteney Cox, “Pizza”,
directed by Mark Christopher and starring Ethan Embry and “Land
Of Plenty”, the new Wim Wenders film starring Michelle Williams
and John Diehl. Abraham previously served as associate producer
on Winick’s “Tadpole” (Best directing award, Sundance
2002), production supervisor on Richard Linklater's DV feature film "Tape" (American
Spectrum, Sundance 2001), and as post-production supervisor on all InDigEnt
titles.
In 2000, he formed Syncopation Films with partner/director Renny Maslow, focusing
on commercial and music video production. Subsequently, he was producer and head
of sales at Northern Lights Post, where clients included MTV, VH1, Bravo/IFC
and spot TV advertising agencies.
He has spoken about and moderated forums on digital filmmaking for numerous entities
including the Sundance Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, Independent Feature
Project, New Work Women in Film & Television and the LA DV Expo.
Prior to her entry into the entertainment industry, Mandy Tagger served two years in the Israeli Defense Force. Then after studying at the School of Visual Arts, She went on to work in production for ABC Television's "Who Wants to be a Millionaire."
Tagger joined the Independent Film Channel’s InDigEnt (Independent Digital Entertainment) in May 2001 and currently serves as the company’s Production Supervisor. During her tenure at InDigEnt, Tagger has worked as Production Coordinator on films such as Gary Winick’s "Tadpole", Peter Hedges "Pieces of April” and Greg Harrison’s “November” Recently Tagger served as the associate producer on Wim Wender’s “Land of Plenty”, Steve Buscemi’s “Lonesome Jim” and Jeff Stanzler's "Sorry Haters"
Emily Gardiner started in the film industry after a two-year stint in investment banking, working for Foundry Film Partners, a film financing company in New York City. She then worked as Production Coordinator and Post Supervisor on Mira Nair’s “Monsoon Wedding,” and Associate Producer on Nair’s short film “11-09-01”. She joined InDigEnt in October 2002 as Director of Post-Production. Emily received her bachelor’s degree in 1996 from Harvard University.
Nancy Israel is
in charge of feature project development at InDigEnt.
Ms. Israel's previous experience in independent film production as a
producer, co-producer and production manager was on feature films, television,
music videos and commercials. Her credits include The Five Heartbeats
(20th Fox), Roadside Prophets (Fine Line Cinema), and Valley Girl (Atlantic
Releasing).
Gary Winick
| John Sloss | Jake Abraham | Mandy
Tagger | Emily
Gardiner |
Nancy
Israel