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As general manager for Nicktoons, Keith Dawkins oversees the day-to-day production and operation of the network. The vision for the 24-hour animation network is to become a home for the next generation of animators and a laboratory for new talent and animation styles. Prior to joining Nicktoons, Dawkins held producing positions at VH1 and at Fox, where he contributed to the launch of Fox News Channel and produced hundreds of live daily shows covering topics such as the Clinton impeachment and the war in Kosovo. |
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Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1986. In October 2000, Gopnik began writing "New York Journal," a column about the culture and daily life of New York City. Previous to that he spent five years writing "Paris Journal" a similar column about the life of an expatriate in Paris. His best-selling book "Paris to the Moon" is a collection of these essays. Prior to his European assignment, Mr. Gopnik served as The New Yorker's art critic. During his tenure at the magazine, he has also written fiction and humor pieces, book reviews, profiles, reporting pieces, and several hundred stories for "Talk of the Town" and "Comment." |
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Producer/director Lynne McVeigh is an associate professor
of television, sound, and children's media and Executive Director
of Craft Studies at the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, Undergraduate
Department at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. In 1994, she won the David Payne Carter Award, Tisch School of the
Arts most prestigious teaching honor. McVeigh is also Co-Director
of The Fearless Theater Company. |
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Director Rob Minkoff began his career with Disney as an animator, contributing character design and story development to the animated features The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. Minkoff made his feature animation directorial debut with Disney's animated blockbuster The Lion King, and his live action and CGI effects film debut with Stuart Little. Most recently he directed Eddie Murphy in the Walt Disney movie The Haunted Mansion. |
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A veteran of over 30 films, Matthew Modine has starred in Alan Parker's Birdy, Jonathan Demme's Married to the Mob, Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Mike Figgis' The Browning Version, John Schlesinger's Pacific Height's, Oliver Stone's On Any Given Sunday, and Merchant/Ivory's Le Divorce to name a few. Matthew Modine has most recently appeared in Arthur Miller's play, Finishing the Picture, at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago. |
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Susan Sarandon brings sensitivity and intelligence
to every role - from her fearless portrayal in Bull Durham to her
Oscar-nominated performances in Thelma and Louise, Lorenzo's Oil,
The Client, and Atlantic City, and her Academy Award winning role
in Dead Man Walking. A short list of Sarandon's other film credits
include The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pretty Baby, The Hunger, The
Witches of Eastwick, Bob Roberts, Cradle Will Rock, Joe Gould's Secret,
and Igby Goes Down. Sarandon will next be seen in Shall We Dance with
Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez, in Noel with Robin Williams, and
in Alfie with Jude Law. |
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James Schamus, who received his Ph.D. in English from
U.C. Berkeley in 2003, is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter,
producer, and film executive. His long collaboration as writer and
producer for Ang Lee has resulted in eight films, including Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and The Ice Storm; their ninth
film, Brokeback Mountain, starring Heath Ledger and Jake
Gyllenhaal, is currently in post-production. As co-president of Focus
Features, Schamus oversees the finance, production, and distribution
of such films, including Oscar winners The Pianist and Lost
in Translation. He is Associate Professor in Columbia University's
School of the Arts. |
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Director Gus Van Sant's body of work includes many
hallmarks of 90's independent cinema, notably Drugstore Cowboy, My
Own Private Idaho, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. His direction
of To Die For won a Golden Globe Award in 1995 and was screened at
the Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals. In 1997 Van Sant received a
Best Director Academy Award nomination for Good Will Hunting. Most
recently he wrote and directed Elephant, shot in his hometown of Portland
with a cast of non-actors. Elephant went on to win the Palme d'Or and Best Director award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. |
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