Edward Norton Biography
Edward Norton has starred in the films Primal Fear, Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs Larry Flynt, American History X, Rounders, Fight Club, Keeping the Faith, The Score, Death to Smoochy, Frida, Red Dragon, The 25th Hour, The Italian Job, Down in the Valley, The Illusionist, The Painted Veil, The Incredible Hulk and the upcoming Pride & Glory.
He has been nominated for two Academy Awards, for Primal Fear and American History X, and won a Golden Globe along with numerous other awards for his performances. The film Frida, for which he wrote the screenplay, was nominated for six Academy Awards and won two. He won the Obie Award in 2003 for his performance Off-Broadway in Burn This, by Lanford Wilson.
He produced and directed Keeping the Faith, produced Down in the Valley (Cannes Film Festival selection), The Painted Veil, and The Incredible Hulk. He is currently producing and will star in Leaves of Grass, which will go into production this fall, and is developing adaptations of Dan O‘Brien‘s Buffalo for the Broken Heart and Jonathan Lethem‘s Motherless Brooklyn for which he is currently writing the screenplay.
Norton also founded and runs Class 5 Films in partnership with writer Stuart Blumberg and producer Bill Migliore. Class 5‘s first two features, Down in the Valley and The Painted Veil, were released in 2006. The company‘s documentary division produces nature, science and documentary films independently, including a feature length film about Barack Obama and the American political system currently in production.
Other Class 5 documentary productions include The Great Rivers Expedition, Dirty Work, and Strange Days on Planet Earth, which Norton hosts and narrates.
Class 5 also recently announced a partnership with Brad Pitt‘s Plan B and National Geographic to produce an epic 10 part series for HBO based on Stephen Ambrose‘s acclaimed book Undaunted Courage about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Norton and Brad Pitt will executive produce the series.
Norton is also a committed social and environmental activist.
Charlize Theron Biography
Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron is one of the great known actresses of our time. With her ability to capture a plethora of characters, she relentlessly demands the audience‘s full attention as soon as she appears on screen. This South African native is continuously being praised and admired for her inspiring and powerful performances.
Theron captivated audiences as female serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the independent gem Monster. Theron received the Independent Spirit Award & the National Broadcast Film Critics Association as well as winning the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, New York Film Critics Online and Southeastern Film Critics awards, the Breakthrough Performance Award from the Nation Board of Review and the Academy Award, all for her emotionally devastating performance in Monster.
Continuing with her busy schedule Charlize was next seen in the drama North Country opposite Frances McDormand and Sissy Spacek for director Niki Caro. Based on the real life story of a group of women coal miners and the hostile work environment they faced on a daily basis, North Country received great praise. Her incredible performance as Josey Aimes garnered her nominations for a Golden Globe, SAG, Critics Choice, and an Oscar.
Theron also captivated audiences in HBO‘s The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers opposite Geoffery Rush, for which she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the Emmys.
Charlize was most recently seen as Detective Emily Sanders in the film In the Valley of Elah written and directed by Paul Haggis.
She will next be seen in Hancock starring alongside Will Smith and Jason Bateman. Directed by Peter Berg, Hancock is an action comedy which is being released by Sony Pictures on July 2,2008.
Theron recently returned from the Sundance Film Festival where she received rave reviews for her new film Sleepwalking in which she both produces and co-stars alongside Dennis Hopper, Woody Harrelson, Nick Stahl and AnnaSophia Robb. Overture Films‘ Sleepwalking comes out on March 14, 2008. Theron is currently filming and executive producing Guillermo Arriaga‘s directorial debut The Burning Plain.
Moviegoers were first introduced to the seductive charm of Charlize Theron in her feature film debut, MGM‘s 2 Days in the Valley, with James Spader, Eric Stoltz, and Jeff Daniels. She‘s also been seen co-starring alongside Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves in Devils Advocate, with Tom Hanks in That Thing You Do and in Jonathan Lynn‘s Trial and Error. In addition Theron starred in Woody Allen‘s Celebrity which she then followed with Mighty Joe Young with Bill Paxton. In 1999 Theron starred in the Oscar nominated The Cider House Rules and in New Line Cinema‘s The Astronaut‘s Wife with Johnny Depp. Soon following in 2000, the much in-demand Theron tackled back-to-back roles in the following movies: Robert Redford‘s The Legend of Bagger Vance with Will Smith and Matt Damon, Fox 2000‘s Men of Honor with Robert DeNiro and Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Frankenheimer‘s Reindeer Games with Ben Affleck and Miramax‘s The Yards co-starring Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, James Caan and Faye Dunaway.
In 2001, Theron illuminated the screen in the Warner Bros tearjerker Sweet November alongside Keanu Reeves, as well as in Woody Allen‘s Curse of the Jade Scorpion, co-starring Helen Hunt, Dan Aykroyd and David Ogden Stiers. In the fall of 2002 Theron starred opposite Patrick Swayze, Natasha Richardson and Billy Bob Thornton in Waking Up in Reno which she then moved on to star alongside Kevin Bacon, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Dakota Fanning in the feature film Trapped directed by Luis Mandoki.
Jean-Baptiste Mondino Biography
French photographer and director born in 1949. Of Italian descent, he‘s based with his family in Paris. He started his career as a DJ in London in the 70‘s.
In the ad world, after an experience as an art director at Publicis - advertising agency - in Paris he became both a photographer and a director for both video clips and commercials.
His work has been featured by magazines such as : Vogue, Numero, Arena, Interview, Vanity Fair, The New York Times,...
He has been commissioned by celebrities such as musicians (Madonna, Bjork, David Bowie, Sting, Lenny Kravitz, Vanessa Paradis, Tom Waits, Ben Harper, Prince, Neneh Cherry, Courtney Love, Britney Speras, Placebo, Marianne Faithfull, Robbie Williams, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé,...) actors and directors (Sharon Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Charlize Theron, Tommy Lee Jones, Catherine Deneuve, Pedro Almodovar, Maggie Cheung, Scorsese, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julian Schnabel, George Clooney, Vincent Cassel, Juliette Binoche, Monica Bellucci, Maggy
Cheung,...), designers / artists (Philippe Starck, Ora-Ito, Andree Putman, Sophie Calle...), fashion designers (John Galliano, Calvin Klein, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent, Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana, Giorgio Armani,...)
Some of his advertising clients : Jean-Paul Gaultier, Dior,Calvin Klein, Dolce&Gabbana, Armani, Tag Heuer, Flos, ...
Two monographs have been published at Schirmer Mosel « Déjà-vu » and « Two much », andmore recently « Guitar Eros » a tribute to guitars and guitar players.
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