Gregory M. Wilson (Director) is a graduate of the
prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. While attending NYU he was
the sole recipient of the MCA FELLOWSHIP, interning under the
late MCA chairman, Lew Wasserman. His thesis film The Last Call
(30 min.), starring Harry Lennix (The Matrix II & III, Ray),
received a “STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD” nomination, and won many
awards for his outstanding writing, direction and production.
The film was acquired and aired on SHOWTIME as a special event.
He was also the winner of the “IFC AWARD” for Best Student Film,
whose advisory board included distinguished filmmakers such as
Martin Scorcese, Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, among other
recognized filmmakers.
Spike Lee eventually co-produced his first
feature film Home Invaders (100 min.), starring Yancy Arias
(TV’s Kingpin), Luis Guzman (Carlito’s Way and Boogie Nights),
Keith David (Platoon and Something about Mary), Judy Reyes (TV’s
Scrubs), and Larry Gillard (The Wire).
He recently directed the adaptation of the
best-selling book entitled The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum,
starring Emmy Award Winner Blanche Baker (Holocaust and 16
Candles), William Atherton (Die Hard), and introducing Daniel
Manche (Young Tarzan, in The Broadway play Tarzan) who plays the
lead.
His completed TV pilot called The Underground,
which explores the darker, untold stories of a New York City
nightclub, is in development. He also scripted a hybrid
autobiography about the life and death of 50’s screen idol and
Tenor, Mario Lanza. He plans to direct and produce this project
which is currently titled, Don’t Forget Me. He has also directed
and produced various music videos and short films.
Andrew
van den Houten
- Producer
Andrew van den Houten began his career in front
of the camera as a child actor, performing in commercials in his
native New York City. While still in his teens, he hosted a
pilot for Nickelodeon and was a familiar face on the stand-up
comedy circuit in New York City.
A film graduate of Boston's Emerson College, he
marked his freshman year by producing and co-starring in the
independent feature film Alma Mater, a recipient of the Audience
Award at the 2002 Austin Film Festival.
Andrew founded MODERNCINÉ during his junior year
of college. He has always envisioned the company as an ideal
vehicle for showcasing both his own creativity and that of his
colleagues. MODERNCINÉ's first film production, Inherent
Darkness and Enlightment, was also the first at Emerson to be
completed on a 35mm print. Andrew served as writer, producer and
director.
After graduation, Andrew returned to New York
where he produced and directed a number of award-winning short
films in addition to a variety of different television
commercials. In 2005, he directed Headspace, MODERNCINÉ's first
full-length feature, an official selection of the Brussels
International Fantasy Film Festival, a multiple award-winner at
the New York City Horror Film Festival, and winner of the "Best
Monster Movie" at the World Horror Convention in San Francisco.
Headspace is available nationwide on DVD at all major retailers
and will premiere on Showtime Channel and Starz/Encore in early
2007. Andrew and William Miller are currently in post-production
for MODERNCINÉ's latest feature film, Jack Ketchum's The Girl
Next Door. This film is based on the best-selling novel by Jack
Ketchum, "The Girl Next Door."
William M.
Miller -
Producer/Cinematographer
William
M. Miller is an award winning cinematographer from New York
City. A graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at New York
University, William has photographed over three dozen short
films, including The Last Call, which was nominated for the
Student Academy Award, Surveillances, winner of the Best
American Short Film at the Avignon Film Festival in 2003, and
The Watering Hole, winner of the Best Short Film at the 2006
Tribeca Film Festival.
William's feature film credits include
Followers, Say I Love You But Whisper, The Breadbasket, The Fast
Life, and the crime drama Home Invaders, directed by Gregory M.
Wilson and executive produced by Spike Lee.
He recently finished principal photography on the supernatural
thriller, Headspace, in New York City. Headspace stars actors
Udo Kier, Sean Young, Dee Wallace Stone, and Olivia Hussey.
Prior to its theatrical premiere in New York and Los Angeles,
Headspace took double honors for Best Cinematography and Best
Screenplay at the 2005 New York City Horror Film Festival. It is
currently available nationwide and premieres on the Showtime
Channel and Starz/Encore in early 2007.
William's feature, Lbs., an official selection at the 2004
Sundance Film Festival will be in theaters in 2007. He and
Andrew van den Houten are currently in post-production for
MODERNCINÉ's latest feature film, Jack Kethcum's The Girl Next
Door. This film is based on the best-selling novel by Jack
Ketchum, "The Girl Next Door."
Daniel
Farrands
- Writer (screenplay)
A lifelong horror aficionado, Daniel Farrands started writing
screenplays at the age of 14, when he sent a query letter and screenplay
he’d penned for a sequel to Paramount Picture's iconic Friday the 13th
series to producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. Mancuso didn’t buy his script but
did respond enthusiastically to Daniel’s writing, urging him to follow
his dream and to continue his passion for the horror genre.
This early validation impelled Daniel to relocate to Los
Angeles from Santa Rosa, California immediately after high
school where, at the age of 18, he landed a literary agent and
sold his first project, a modern take on The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow, to producer Robert Kosberg and TriStar Pictures. Shortly
thereafter, Daniel wrote the screenplay for Rave, directed by
acclaimed choreographer Adolfo “Shabba-Doo” Quinones and
produced by Smart Egg Pictures.
Daniel’s passion for the horror films he grew up
on – the Halloween series in particular – led him to the offices
of the late Moustapha Akkad who, five years after hearing his
pitch for Halloween 6, remembered Daniel’s enthusiastic take for
the next entry in the hugely-successful franchise. Impressed by
his encyclopedic knowledge of the series, Akkad subsequently
hired him to write the screenplay for Halloween: The Curse of
Michael Myers, which was released by Dimension Films.
Daniel also wrote the screenplays for Maskmaker
(Touchstone), Fear Itself (Fox), and wrote, produced and
directed the History Channel documentaries Amityville: The
Haunting and Amityville: Horror or Hoax? which are
widely-regarded as the definitive account of the true story
behind The Amityville Horror.
In addition, Daniel co-wrote and executive
produced the horror film The Tooth Fairy for renowned producer
Stephen J. Cannell, and co-wrote the adaptation of Jack
Ketchum's The Girl Next Door. Daniel also served as editor and
co-publisher of the book Crystal Lake Memories – The Complete
History of Friday the 13th, which is currently in its third
printing.
His next project is the supernatural horror
film... A Haunting in Connecticut, starring Oscar-nominated
actress Virginia Madsen, which he will produce for Gold Circle
Films and Lionsgate.".
Philip Nutman
- Co-Screenwriter
Philip
Nutman's writing career began when he sold his first movie
review at age 15. By 18, he began contributing feature articles
to international film magazines such as L'ecran Fantastique
(France) and Fangoria (US), becoming the latter's first British
Correspondent, a position he held for over 10 years for which he
wrote over 130 feature articles.
After five years as a producer’s assistant for BBC TV, he quit
to write fulltime and Phil sold his first professional short
story to the groundbreaking George Romero-influenced anthology
“Book Of The Dead”(1988). The following year he sold an expanded
novel version of that story –“ Wet Work” –achieving the highly
unusual feat of selling a first novel on the basis of a 16-page
outline.
Further short stories followed in quick succession in highly
acclaimed anthologies such as “Borderlands 2” and “Splatterpunks.”
The latter featured the novella “Full Throttle,” which garnered
his first nomination for a Bram Stoker Award by the Horror
Writers of America. Three further nominations followed over the
next few years, two of which as a finalist (Superior Achievement
in a First Novel and Best Short Story).
Beyond prose fiction, Phil also has written and edited 50-plus
comic books and over a dozen screenplays. In 2003, he was hired
by Gryphon Films (producers of the Oscar-nominated “The Cooler”)
to adapt the bestselling adventure-thriller novel “Thunderhead”
into a big budget studio script. In ‘04/’05, he was commissioned
to write three low budget projects – The Last Blood, Witchbitch
and Shiver. The latter was filmed in 2005 with Phil at the helm
as initial producer.
He currently has three screenplays in various stages of
development: Ring Tone, which he co-wrote and will produce; the
true crime tale Across The Border for producer Christopher
Tuffin; and an untitled project he will direct within the next
year.
Ryan Shore
- Composer
Ryan's recent films include Prime (Universal
Pictures) starring Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman, which was
written and directed by Ben Younger (Boiler Room); and the
horror film Headspace, which he recorded and conducted with the
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra. He also composed original
on-camera music for Fur (New Line Cinema), starring Nicole
Kidman and Robert Downey, Jr., for which he was also seen in the
film performing his original music.
Upcoming releases in 2007 include Numb, starring
Matthew Perry and Academy Award winner Mary Steenburgen; and the
period drama The Girl Next Door, based on the best-selling novel
by Jack Ketchum.
Shore's scores also include Harvard Man (Lions
Gate) starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Adrian Grenier
(Entourage); Scout's Honor starring Bill Murray and Alec
Baldwin; Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (20th
Century Fox) starring Jamie-Lynn Sigler (The Sopranos); Vulgar
(Lions Gate) produced by Kevin Smith; Kettle of Fish starring
Matthew Modine and Gina Gershon; Lift (Sundance Film Festival
premiere) starring Kerry Washington (Ray); 212 (Sundance Film
Festival premiere); Confession starring Chris Pine (Just My
Luck); and Coney Island Baby (Sundance Channel).
For his score to Cadaverous, he received the
first-ever Elmer Bernstein Scoring Award, which was personally
judged and presented by Academy Award winning composer Elmer
Bernstein (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Magnificent Seven). This
began a friendship which continued until Elmer's passing. Ryan's
extensive work in film also includes producing the music for the
Saturday Night Live Studios theatrical logo, orchestrating for
Analyze This (Warner Bros.) and Dogma (Lions Gate); and
arranging source music for The Game (PolyGram).
William
M. Miller is an award winning cinematographer from New York
City. A graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at New York
University, William has photographed over three dozen short
films, including The Last Call, which was nominated for the
Student Academy Award, Surveillances, winner of the Best
American Short Film at the Avignon Film Festival in 2003, and
The Watering Hole, winner of the Best Short Film at the 2006
Tribeca Film Festival.
Philip
Nutman's writing career began when he sold his first movie
review at age 15. By 18, he began contributing feature articles
to international film magazines such as L'ecran Fantastique
(France) and Fangoria (US), becoming the latter's first British
Correspondent, a position he held for over 10 years for which he
wrote over 130 feature articles. 
Ryan's recent films include Prime (Universal
Pictures) starring Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman, which was
written and directed by Ben Younger (Boiler Room); and the
horror film Headspace, which he recorded and conducted with the
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra. He also composed original
on-camera music for Fur (New Line Cinema), starring Nicole
Kidman and Robert Downey, Jr., for which he was also seen in the
film performing his original music. 
