EDEN

BIOGRAPHIES

Robert Landaas (Executive Producer) is president of Landaas & Company, a diversified investment firm with headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Landaas is directly responsible for investing more than $400 million on behalf of individuals and corporations. A leading authority on financial planning and investing, he is a general securities representative affiliated with First Securities Corporation. in addition, Landaas worked with Water Street Pictures producers Harvey Kahn and Chip Duncan as Executive Producer of Lisa Gottlieb's CADILLAC RANCH. He is also Cc-Executive Producer of the documentary TV series MYSTIC LANDS a co-production of Duncan-Landaas Limited Partnership and the Learning Channel. Landaas is also host of the popular weekly radio program MONEY TALK on Milwaukee's WTMJ AM and is executive producer on a weekly TV finance show on public television called DOLLAR SIGNS, Landaas received his education at the University of Vienna, Austria.

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Todd Hoffman (Co-Producer) EDEN marks his first cc-producing experience with producer Craig Baumgarten. In 1996 Todd produced the feature LOVELIFE starring Sherilyn Fenn, Bruce Davison, Carla Gugino, Jon Tenney, Saffron Burrows and Tushka Bergen. Recently, Todd wrapped production on DADDY. Next up for him is KILLIN' TIME starring Michael Jai White and Vincent D'Onofrio. Hoffman is a graduate of Brown University and USC School of Cinema-Television, While at USC, Mr. Hoffman won the Dore Schary Award sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League for his short film NEIGHBORS, which he wrote and directed.

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Morty Gudelsky (Associate Producer) In addition to serving as Associate Producer on EDEN, Mr. Gudelsky also appeared in the film as a featured actor in his first role. He was immediately bitten by the bug and is currently studying at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting, where he has performed in Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and Jules Fieffer's, FEIFFER'S PEOPLE, and hopes to pursue a career in acting.

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Mirjam Goldberg (Associate Producer)graduated from Law School in Leiden, Holland in 1992. She started her career in the entertainment industry during Law School as an intern at NEW REGENCY FILM for producers Steve Reuther and Arnon Milchan. After her graduation she started in the mailroom at UNITED TALENT AGENCY as an agent trainee. After being in the mailroom for two months she was an assistant to Adam Isaacs and later to Judy Hofflund (Partner) in the talent department. She left United Talent Agency to become Director of Development at PARALLEL PICTURES for producer Michael Gruskoff (Young Frankenstein, My Favorite Year). Most recently she worked as Director of Creative Affairs for Ibrahim Moussa, Senior Vice President of MEDUSA FILM (Italy's largest Film Distributor). She was one of the Producers on the feature film EDEN. EDEN was in the dramatic competition at The Sundance Film Festival and will be released domestically in March 1998. Currently she is in post-producing on a feature film entitled THE WAITING GAME. She has several other projects in development, amongst which is RARE & ENDANGERED SPECIES, a film which John Caird (Nicholas Nickleby, Les Miserables, Stanley) will be directing.

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Hubert Taczanowski (Cinematographer) was born in Warsaw in 1960. He graduated from Lodz Film School and began working as a director of photography on feature films in Poland before moving the New York in 1989. Once in the states, Hubert divided his time between photographing award winning videos for Sony Chlysalis, and CBS in New York, and feature films in London and Los Angeles including the critically acclaimed YOUNG PRISONER S HANDBOOK. Recent features include "THE BREAKUP with Bridget Fonda and Kiefer Sutherland, THE BPPOSITE OF SEX with Christina Ricci, Lyle Lovett and Lisa Kudrow, PARTS AND GABOR with Julianne Moore, John Cusak and Gillian Anderson and PERVERSION OF SCIENCE produced by Joel Silver and Richard Donner for HBO. Other credits include THE MAKER, LAST EXIT TO EARTH, ROUGHNECKS, MY LITTLE EYE and THREE BELIEVERS.

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Philip J. Meyer (Art Director) began his career on NORTHERN EXPOSURE. He worked as a draftsperson for three seasons and was then promoted to Assistant Art Director for the final two seasons of the series. Philip graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a BFA in industrial design and a BA in art.

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Elizabeth Kaye (Costume Designer) has been 8 costume designer in film and television for ten years, Her credits include THE WONDER YEARS, ONCE A HERO, PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE, the CBS movie CHILD IN THE NIGHT, the ABC television pilot movie BELIEVERS, and the feature film THE CHOCOLATE WAR, directed by Keith Gordan. Kaye has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cornish College of the Arts and a background in painting and sculpting in a variety of mediums, She has lived and worked in Europe and the United States and currently resides in Seattle, Washington.

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Steve Nevius (Editor) started out as a production assistant for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, end moved on to learn editing. Nevius got into the Motion Picture Editor's Guild and shortly thereafter met his mentor, film editor Robert Leighton, who hired Steve and his crew for THE PRINCESS BRIDE. Nevius remained part of the Rob Reiner/Leighton team as their First Assistant Editor for BULL DURHAM, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY and BLAZE. Nevius received his first editing credit on MISERY as Associate Editor, He then cut two films on his own: WE'RE TALKIN' SERIOUS MONEY and SOUTH CENTRAL Additionally Nevius constructed the main titles on the Best Editor Academy Award Nominated A FEW GOOD MEN, which earned him an Additional Editor credit. Other credits include LIFE WITH MIKEY, CONEHEADS, FALL TIME and SCORPION SPRING.

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Gene Warren Jr. (Special Effects) is a veteran Director of Visual Effects with over forty films to his credit. His groundbreaking work on TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY won an Academy Award for Special Visual Effects. Other credits include BRAM STROKER'S DRACULA, THE ABYSS, LAST ACTION HERO and STRANGE DAYS. Among his many television credits are STEPHEN KING'S IT, THE BURNING SEASON and THE WINDS OF WAR, for which he won an Emmy for Special Visual Effects.

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Brad Fiedel (Composer) has recently completed the songs and book for the animated musical, KALENDAHR. He has composed original scores for a wide range of films including RASPUTIN, JOHNNY MNEMONIC, BLINK, TRUE LIES TERMINATOR, TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY, THE ACCUSED, THE BIG EASY, THE SERPENT & THE RAINBOW, and DESERT BLOOM. His first feature film score was for Goldberg's APPLE PIE.

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Robin Urdang (Music Supervisor) started her company, Reel Music, in February 1994. Her credits as music supervisor or music coordinator include Ulu Grosherd's GEORGIA, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mere Winningham, EDIE & PEN, starring Jennifer Tilly, Stockard Channing and Scott Glenn, MOONLIGHT VALENTINO, starring Elizabeth Perkins, Whoopi Goldberg and Gwyneth Paltrow. Other credits include STONEWALL, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL, THE CROSSING GUARD, KIDS, RECKLESS, ME a VERONICA and THE MAMBO KINGS. Prior to working as a music supervisor, Urdang's music industry experience includes promotion and management in both New York and Los Angeles.

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Water Street Pictures (Presenting company)

Harvey Kahn, the managing partner, Chip Duncan, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, and Robed Landaas, a Milwaukee-based investment banker formed water Street Pictures in 1994.

Landaas and Duncan have been working together for nine years. Their successes with travel and adventure video productions were gratifying, but they shared the desire to move into independent feature film.

Kahn had a solid career producing movies for television, but felt that the best way to broaden the types of films he could make was to find partners who shared his goals.

Kahn, Duncan and Landaas realized they made a great team with complementary skills. They shared a vision of an independent company that makes quality films with emerging talent, and funds raised outside Hollywood, The strategy was to produce and co-finance low budget films and retain an ownership stake them. This would maximize the ability to protect the investors, guarantee a significant creative role and provide a supportive and open environment for bellow filmmakers.

In addition to EDEN the company produced CADILLAC RANCH in association with Davis Entertainment Classics and J. Todd Harris, The drama, about three sisters searching for their father, stars Christopher Lloyd and Suzy Amis.

Corporate sponsorships for EDEN include Reno Air, Panavision, Todd-AO Studios. Avid Rent Central and Fuji Film.

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