A MASTER BUILDER A Film by Jonathan Demme

2014 / USA / English / Drama

127 min/ HD / 1.85, 2.35 / Dolby 5.1

Sales Contact:

173 Richardson Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222 USA Office: +1.718.312.8210 Fax: +1.718.362.4865

Email: info@visitfilms.com Web: www.visitfilms.com

LOGLINE A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act. SYNOPSIS A Master Builder unites Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme with two of American theatre and cinema’s most ingenious provocateurs, André Gregory and Wallace Shawn. It is based on Gregory’s near-legendary theatrical production of Shawn’s adaptation of Ibsen’s Master Builder Solness; a production that was worked on over a 14-year period. Halvard Solness (Wallace Shawn) is a very successful architect in his sixties. He exercises tight control over his wife Aline (Julie Hagerty), who is in permanent mourning for their only two children, who died as infants. And tight control over his employees: the old architect Knut Brovik (André Gregory), Brovik’s talented son Ragnar (Jeff Biehl), whom Solness keeps in a lowly position, and Kaya (Emily McDonnell), Ragnar’s fiancée, who is Solness’s book-keeper and sexual companion. Shawn’s adaptation hues very closely to the original Ibsen with one astonishing ‘Shawnian’ departure -- while perfectly healthy in Ibsen's original version, Shawn introduces Solness on his deathbed with only hours to live. When Hilde (Lisa Joyce), a mysterious young woman comes to visit, the once dominating, controlling and narcissistic Solness finds himself apparently revived in every possible way. Intense, intimate and painful, A Master Builder is a witty, mystical and psychologically complex interpretation of Ibsen’s masterpiece. FESTIVALS International Rome Film Festival 2013 TECH SPECS Run Time: 127 min Aspect Ratio: 1.85, 2.35 Shooting Format: HD Sound: Dolby 5.1 Country: USA Language: English Production Companies: The Ibsen Project LLC Clinica Estetico Westward Productions

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT A Master Builder is dedicated to the spirit of Louis Malle, my old friend and the director of the two previous film collaborations of the twin genii of Wallace Shawn and André Gregory. We filmed their version of Ibsen's 'The Master Builder' in one feverish week in an old house in downtown Manhattan. This is Ibsen, so it is dense, deep, broad and lacerating melodrama, but with a Wally Shawn adaptation that brings hot blood, humor and something phantasmagorical to the party. Malle filmed My Dinner with Andre as a film "about" a meal, and Vanya on 42nd Street as a documentary that turns into Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya. We decided to do the reverse this time, taking the Ibsen and turning it into an old-fashioned haunted house movie, and pitting the convivial diners of My Dinner with Andre as desperate Ibsenesque architects, fiercely confronting each other on the brink of their deaths. -Jonathan Demme PRESS “Wallace Shawn, at his most audacious, goes for the jugular.” New York Times “Madly, bitingly, chillingly alive.” Indiewire “Shawn, Gregory, and Demme make beauty with Ibsen.” The Village Voice “A terrific performance film, and brilliantly cast.” Film Comment “Modern artists put their imprint on Ibsen.” Chicago Sun-Times “Masterfully adapted for the screen.” Toronto Star “A luminous, haunting evocation (…) perhaps the most accomplished and potentially lasting product of Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn’s nearly fifty year artistic partnership.” George Hunka (Theater Critic)

DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY

JONATHAN DEMME has produced and directed over 29 feature films including Rachel Getting Married, The Manchurian Candidate, Beloved, The Agronomist, The Silence of the Lambs (for which he won an Academy Award and the New York Film Critics Best Director), Philadelphia, Married to the Mob, Something Wild, Swimming to Cambodia and Melvin and Howard, for which he was named Best Director by the New York Film Critics. Additional producing credits include Devil in a Blue Dress, Household Saints, That Thing you Do!, Ulee’s Gold, and Adaptation. Demme’s films have been nominated for 20 Academy Awards. The Silence of the Lambs received five Academy Awards in 1991 – for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay Adaptation. His films have won screenplay Oscars twice, Melvin and Howard (Best Original Screenplay, 1980) and The Silence of the Lambs (Best Screenplay Adaptation, 1991), and two of the Best Actor awards of the 1990s went to Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs, 1991) and Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, 1993), with Jodie Foster receiving the Best Actress award (The Silence of the Lambs, 1991) as well. Demme, a strong advocate of human rights, has also produced and directed a number of documentaries about the Haitian plight, including The Agronomist; Haiti: Dreams of Democracy; Haiti: Killing the Dream; Tonbe Leve; and Courage and Pain. In addition, he directed the documentary Cousin Bobby, and produced the Academy Award-nominated biography Mandela as well as Into the Rope!, about Double Dutch; The Uttmost, a portrait of producer Kenny Utt; and One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave, about living with AIDS. He also produced the Peabody Award-winning documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, about the life of Beah Richards. Demme’s creative talents have also lured him into the music domain. He released the acclaimed concert film Neil Young: Heart of Gold, in 2006, re-teaming with Neil Young, with whom he worked on The Complex Sessions, the 1994 film featuring six songs from the “Sleeps with Angels” album. Demme’s follow-up film, Neil Young Trunk Show was released in 2010 and Neil Young Journeys released in 2012 completed a Neil Young trilogy.

His most recent documentary is of renowned Neapolitan saxophonist and singer/songwriter Enzo Avitabile. The film, Enzo Avitabile Music Life premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2012 and has recently been released. He directed the Robyn Hitchcock concert film Storefront Hitchcock as well as the award-winning Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. In addition, Demme has directed music videos for Bruce Springsteen, Les Frères Parent, The Neville Brothers, New Order, KRS-One, and the Feelies, among others. He also produced Konbit, an album of Haitian music.

CAST

WALLACE SHAWN – Halvard Solness Wallace, who translated Ibsen’s play The Master Builder for André Gregory and wrote the screenplay for the Jonathan Demme film A Master Builder which is based on Gregory’s theatrical production, also plays the part of Halvard Solness in the film. Shawn co-wrote the Louis Malle film My Dinner With André with André Gregory. He is a playwright whose plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and The Fever. He has acted in many films, including Woody Allen’s Manhattan, Louis Malle’s My Dinner With André and Vanya On 42nd Street, Amy Heckerling’s Clueless and Richard Ayoade’s The Double. Shawn's opera The Music Teacher, with a libretto by Wallace, was produced by The New Group in New York in 2006, directed by Tom Cairns, and Wallace's translation of The Threepenny Opera was directed by Scott Elliott at the Roundabout in the same year. In 2009 the Royal Court Theatre in London did a season of Wallace's plays, and his book of essays, called Essays, was published by the stalwartly left-wing Haymarket Books. As an actor, Wallace was a recurring character on Gossip Girl, and has frightened viewers of The Good Wife as the disturbing Charles Lester. In 2013, André Gregory directed Wallace's plays The Designated Mourner and Grasses of a Thousand Colors at the Public Theater in New York, co-produced by the Public Theater and Theatre For A New Audience.

ANDRÉ GREGORY – Knut Brovik Gregory has been one of the most important forces in the American theatre for nearly forty years. Gregory was one of the original creators of the regional theatre movement, the off-Broadway movement in New York, and with his partner Wallace Shawn, the American independent film movement. He headed the Inner-City Cultural Center, a theatre in Watts founded right after the Watts riots to bring theatre to underprivileged teenagers. He was co-creator of the Seattle Repertory

Theatre and Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Theatre of the Living Arts, where his productions included Galileo, Poor Bitos, Beclch, and Endgame. His production of The Blacks ran for years in New York and featured now legendary performers James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Lou Gossett and Maya Angelou. His production of Alice in Wonderland played for seven years, as well as touring the U.S., Europe, and the Mideast, and was made into a book in collaboration with photographer Richard Avedon. His forty-year collaboration with Wallace Shawn began with his critically acclaimed production of Shawn's Our Late Night, at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. Shawn and Gregory went on to create My Dinner With André, directed by Louis Malle. The partnership of Shawn, Malle and Gregory later created Vanya on 42nd Street. In 1999, Gregory directed Shawn's play, The Designated Mourner, in an abandoned men's club in Lower Manhattan. His most recent production of Endgame — over the years he's done three – was performed in an unfinished Donald Judd building in the middle of the Marfa Texas desert in 2005. In 2009 he directed Grasses of a Thousand Colors, also by Shawn, at the Royal Court Theatre in London, and in 2011 directed Shawn's adaptation of Ibsen's Master Builder Solness. As an actor, Gregory has performed in a dozen films, including The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese, Mosquito Coast by Peter Weir and Celebrity by Woody Allen. He wrote a play called Bone Songs that he performed at Redcat in Los Angeles and at the 92nd Street Y in New York in 2006. For the last five years he has been studying drawing, and it has become a new passion.

JULIE HAGERTY - Aline Solness Hagerty’s screen credits include Jim Abrahams and David Zucker’s Airplane!, Albert Brooks’ Lost in America, Rob Reiner’s The Story of Us, Woody Allen’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, Robert Altman’s Beyond Therapy, Frank Oz’s What about Bob?, Peter Bogdonovich’s Noises Off, Oliver Stone’s U-Turn, Tom Noonan’s The Wife and most recently, Jonathan Demme’s A Master Builder. An accomplished stage actor, Hagerty received the Drama Critics Award for her role in Raised in Captivity and the Theatre World Award (an accolade given to Broadway’s most outstanding newcomer) for John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves. She also received the Outer Critics Award for her performance in Mornings At Seven on Broadway. Additionally, her stage credits include The Odd Couple, Moon Over Miami, Born Yesterday, Front Page, A.R. Gurney’s A Cheever Evening and Shel Silverstein’s Wild Life, Christopher Durang’s The Marriage of Bette and Boo and The Master Builder directed by Andre Gregory, based on Henrik Ibsen’s play, adapted and translated by Wallace Shawn.

LISA JOYCE – Hilde Wangel Born and raised in Chicago, Lisa received her BFA in Acting from the Theatre School at DePaul University. Shortly after graduating, she received a Joseph Jefferson nomination for her performance in Adam Rapp’s Red Light Winter, which premiered at Steppenwolf before transferring off-Broadway and being named a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize. Since moving to NY, Lisa has worked extensively in theatre, film and television. She made her West End/Broadway debut in La Bete and toured nationally in the Tony Award winning production of Doubt. Some of her favorite Off-Broadway and regional credits include; Nora and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss and What I Wore, The Ugly One at Soho Rep (Drama Desk nomination) and Blackbird at The Studio Theatre in D.C. (Helen Hayes Award). Lisa’s television and film credits include: The Following (recurring), Boardwalk Empire (recurring), The Good Wife, Fringe, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, The Brave One, The Messenger and Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, (HBO).

LARRY PINE – Dr. Ejlert Herdal Larry’s Broadway credits include: The Royal Family, The Seagull, End of the World, Roy Cohn in Angels in America, Bus Stop. Off-Broadway credits include: An Unauthorized Biography…, Top Secret, Beast, Secret Order, The Shanghai Gesture, Stuff Happens, Enemy of the People, The Women of Lockerbie, Saved or Destroyed, The Designated Mourner, The Chemistry of Change, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Uncle Vanya, The Disputation, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Mandrake, Alice in Wonderland, Talk Radio. Regional credits include Kreutzer Sonata (adaptation by Larry & Margaret Pine), Carol Mulroney, Enemy of the People, Wrong Mountain, Light Up The Sky, Heartbreak House, The Taming of the Shrew, Night of the Iguana, A Life in the Theatre, Joe Egg, Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing. Film: MoonRise Kingdom, A.D. Project, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, OutSourced, TransBeMan, Sweet Flame, Empire Falls, Door in the Floor, Particles of Truth, Maid in Manhattan, The Royal Tenenbaums, A Foreign Affair, The Shipping News, Woody Allen’s Melinda and Melinda, Small Time Crooks and Celebrity, Sunday (Sundance Grand Prize winner), Vanya on 42nd Street, Dead Man Walking, Addicted to

Love, and Stranger in the Kingdom. Television: Hostages, House of Cards, Homeland, The Good Wife, Person Of Interest, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, Gilmore Girls, Oz, 100 Centre Street, A Will of Their Own, (Movie of the Week), New York Undercover, New York News, Prince Street, Feds, All My Children, One Life to Live and much, much more.

EMILY CASS MCDONNELL – Kaya Fosli Emily has collaborated with Wally Shawn and André Gregory on A Master Builder (Kaya, director Jonathan Demme), Grasses of a Thousand Colors (originated the role of Rose, Royal Court). Other credits include True West (Actors Theater of Louisville, director Adam Rapp); Richard Maxwell’s Ode to The Knelling Man; Des Moines; Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the Flames; Cagelove; American Sligo (director, Adam Rapp); Aunt Dan and Lemon (The New Group); Indoor/Outdoor (DR2); The Wooster Group’s North Atlantic. Film & TV: Marie and Bruce, Mildred Pierce (HBO).

JEFF BIEHL – Ragnar Brovik Jeff works extensively in New York City developing and performing in new plays Off-Broadway, most recently in productions of Thomas Bradshaw's BURNING with The New Group, and Lucas Hnath's ISSAC'S EYE with Ensemble Studio Theatre. He has had the good fortune to work with Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn on THE MASTER BUILDER for several years. Jeff has also performed regionally across the country and internationally, including Krystian Lupa's production of THREE SISTERS at The Edinburgh International Festival. Television credits include Southland, and several episodes of Law & Order CI, Law & Order S.V.U. and Law & Order. He is making his Broadway debut this season in MACHINAL with The Roundabout Theatre Company. Jeff is a graduate of The Juilliard School.

CREW / PRODUCERS ROCCO CARUSO Producer As an independent producer, Rocco produced Eric Mendelsohn’s award-winning short film Through An Open Window, starring Anne Meara and Cynthia Nixon with narration by Academy-Award winner F. Murray Abraham. Through An Open Window premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was the opening film of ‘Un Certain Regard’ at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. In 1997 he produced director David Kaplan’s award-winning short Little Red Riding Hood starring Christina Ricci. In 1999 he produced Eric Mendelsohn’s debut feature Judy Berlin which won the Best Director award at Sundance and had its European premiere as an official selection in ‘Un Certain Regard’ at Cannes. Nominated for 3 IFP/Independent Spirit Awards, Judy Berlin was released theatrically to critical acclaim in 2000 and was named one of the top ten films of 2000 by Kevin Thomas of the LA Times, Earnest Hardy of LA Weekly and Dennis Dermody of Paper Magazine. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called it one of the top independent films of that year. In 2006, Rocco produced director David Kaplan's debut feature Year of the Fish (Sundance Film Festival, 2007) which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Avignon Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2008. In 2010 Rocco produced 3 Backyards which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival where director Mendelsohn became the first person to be awarded the Directing Prize twice. Among many other festival appearances, 3 Backyards was selected for a coveted spot in Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA's New Directors/New Films festival and had its international premiere at the 2010 Deauville Film Festival. Rocco served as executive producer on Jonathan Demme’s documentary I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, The Mad and The Beautiful. Rocco is currently co-producer on Song One which stars Anne Hathaway and recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival DECLAN QUINN Director of Photography / Executive Producer Declan was born in Chicago, to parents newly emigrated from Ireland. Declan traveled several times to Ireland as a child and completed all of his secondary school education there. At 17, Declan returned to the United States. Influenced by Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, he studied photography and was soon working for local newspapers, where his interest in documentary or street photography became an interest in documentary film. Declan attended Columbia College Film School, Chicago for 2 (1977-1979) years where he studied Cinematography, Film History, Criticism and Screenwriting. Upon graduation from Columbia College, Declan worked as a news cameraman for NBC news. In 1981, Declan returned to Ireland and was employed by Windmill Lane Studios where he worked as an assistant cameraman. He was soon given his first opportunity as a Lighting Cameraman shooting music videos and documentaries for bands including U2 between ’82 and ’87 with directors Meirt Avis and Barry Devlin. Through the 80's Declan collaborated with many of the independent filmmakers in Ireland. Vivienne Dick, Trish McAdam, Se Merry-Doyle and Phillip King. In 1986, Mr. Quinn photographed his first feature film, Clash of the Ash in Ireland with director Fergus Tighe. The first American feature Declan photographed was The Kill-Off, an adaptation of a Jim Thompson novel, directed by Maggie Greenwald. This small budget, “color-noir” introduced him to the independent film scene in New York. After that, Declan had the honor of working with Louis Malle on what would tragically be his last film Vanya on 42 Street. Declan again

worked with Maggie Greenwald on The Ballad of Little Joe, then with Mike Figgis on Leaving Las Vegas and Mira Nair on Kama Sutra, Monsoon Wedding and Vanity Fair. Declan returned to Ireland to complete a special family project called This is My Father, which he co-produced with two of his brothers, Aidan Quinn and Paul Quinn. He has also worked with Irish directors; Jim Sheridan, In America and Get Rich or Die Tryin’ and with Neil Jordan on Breakfast on Pluto. Since 1993, Declan has lived in the Hudson Valley of New York with his wife and 4 daughters. He continues to work with the directors and producers of independent films in both Europe and the United States while also taking opportunities to photograph Studio pictures. His more recent films include Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married, A Master Builder and AMC Pilot, Line of Sight; Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and two films with Paul Weitz, Being Flynne and Admission. TIM SQUYRES Editor Squyres has edited eleven films for director Ang Lee, including Life of Pi and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, both of which earned him Academy Award nominations , as well as Lust, Caution, Hulk, The Ice Storm, Sense and Sensibility, Eat Drink Man Woman, and The Wedding Banquet. Squyres has also edited Rachel Getting Married for director Jonathan Demme, and Syriana, for director Stephen Gaghan. In 2001 he edited Robert Altman’s Gosford Park, for which he was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical). He is also credited as editor on two films by novelist Paul Auster: Lulu on the Bridge and The Inner Life of Martin Frost. He was supervising sound editor on Anna, Dogfight and True Love. His documentary editing credits include The Armstrong Lie by director Alex Gibney, Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry, Bill Moyers: What Can We Do About Violence?, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home, and American Heroes. RON BOZMAN Executive Producer Bozman has enjoyed a major film industry career since his first major production assignment on the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, shot in his home state of Texas. A long time collaborator of director Jonathan Demme, he shared with his fellow producers the 1991 Best Picture Academy Award for The Silence of the Lambs. On other Demme projects he served as associate producer of Something Wild, co-producer of Married to the Mob, and executive producer of Beloved, Philadelphia and Jimmy Carter Man from Plains. Their latest collaboration, A Master Builder will be seen at the 2013 Rome Film Festival. Bozman’s other producing credits include Waiting for the Light, director Ted Demme’s The Ref, Autumn in New York, For Love of the Game, Changing Lanes, The Human Stain, The Stepford Wives, Failure to Launch, Perfect Stranger, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Julie Taymor’s The Tempest. He also served as Executive Producer on Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place.

Bozman’s television credits include a season as Co-Executive Producer on the CBS medical drama, A Gifted Man. He is currently producing the pilot episode of Tyrant for the FX Channel. His academic career includes stints as Adjunct Professor in the Undergraduate Film Program at NYU and at NYC’s School of Visual Arts. BEAU WILLIMON Executive Producer Willimon is a screenwriter, playwright, producer and most recently, an executive producer, showrunner and creator of Netflix’s original series House of Cards, a wicked one-hour drama, from Media Rights Capital, that slithers behind the curtain of power, sex, ambition, love, greed and corruption in modern Washington D.C. House of Cards recently made television history, earning nine Emmy nominations, including Best Drama, the first online streaming show to ever be so honored. His play Farragut North, became the basis for the motion picture screenplay Ides of March, which he co-wrote with George Clooney and Grant Heslov. Ides of March earned Willimon Academy Award®, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay, and it won The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Award for Best Screenplay. Other plays include Lower Ninth (Flea Theater, 2008) and Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club, 2010). Willimon was a recipient of the Lila Acheson Wallace Juilliard Playwriting Fellowship, named 2008 Playwright-in-Residence at the Donmar Warehouse, and he is a two-time winner of the Lincoln Center Le Comte du Nouy Award. His most recent play, The Parisian Woman, premiered at South Coast Repertory in the spring of 2013. Recently Willimon co-founded Westward Productions. Among Westward Production’s current projects is A Master Builder – a film adaption of Ibsen’s play “Master Builder” developed by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, directed by Jonathan Demme, executive produced by Willimon. Other projects include two documentaries, one about adventure traveler Karl Bushby’s quest to walk the globe over the course of two decades, and another following Westerly Windina, a transgender Australian woman formerly known as legendary pro-surfer Peter Drouyn. Willimon served on a number of political campaigns, including Chuck Schumer’s 1998 senate race, Bill Bradley’s 2000 presidential race, Hillary Clinton’s 2000 senate race and Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential race. JORDAN TAPPIS Executive Producer Jordan is a 33-year-old multi-hyphenate based in Santa Monica, California. He is the president and founder of creative music studio Record Collection, along with partner Beau Willimon he is the co - founder of film and television production company Westward Productions, co - owner of publisher Dark Creek Media (Malibu Magazine) and a principal in Waves For Water, a US based nonprofit organization providing clean water solutions to communities in need around the world.

A former professional surfer, Jordan lives in Santa Monica with his wife and two daughters. SCOTT GRIFFIN Executive Producer An inveterate polymath, Scott divides his time between dedicated producing in the arts and the worlds of professional investment. Close artistic partners have included: Robert Altman, Anne Bogart, William Bolcom, Karen Finley, Aaron Jay Kernis, Arthur Miller, Shirin Neshat, Andres Serrano, Mike and Doug Starn, Elaine Stritch, Michael Torke, and Arnold Weinstein. Mr. Griffin is proud to be represented by the film A Master Builder and its brilliant creative team led by Jonathan Demme, Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn. ZAFER TAWIL Composer An accomplished Palestinian musician based in New York City, Zafer is a virtuoso on oud, violin, and qanoun, and is a master of Arabic percussion. He has performed with numerous musicians, ranging from the pop star Sting to avant-garde composer/performer Elliot Sharpe to masters of Arabic music such as Simon Shaheen, Chab Mami, Bassam Saba, and George Ziadeh, among many others. Zafer has composed music for a number of film soundtracks, most recently Jonathan Demme’s I’m Carolyn Parker, Rachel Getting Married, and the documentary Until When. He has held workshops on Arabic music at numerous universities throughout the United States. CDs include “Mumtastic,” by Shusmo; Gaida Hinawi’s debut CD, “Levantine Indulgence”; and two CDs by Amir AlSaffar’s Two Rivers: “Two Rivers Musicians,” and the yet-to-be-released, “Enaana.” THOM O’CONNOR Composer Thom is the Technical Director of the Jacob Burns Film Center Media Arts Lab and has worked with filmmakers from the US and around the world. In 2013, he worked on scores for the feature films A Master Builder, directed by Jonathan Demme, and The Brothers of the Black List, a documentary film about the longest litigated civil rights case in US history, directed by Sean Gallagher. Additionally, this year he worked as sound editor and created original music for the feature film This Time Tomorrow, written and directed by Shane Bissett. Thom is also a film editor; he recently worked with director and animator Charlie Griak on the feature film The Center. Over the past four years, Thom has collaborated with local and international artists from a wide range of countries, contributing both sound and video editing work as well as technical expertise. This list includes Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand), Zhu Rikun (China), Mohamed Siam (Egypt), Françoise Tourmen (France), Ido Haar (Israel), Yolanda Pividal (Spain), Andy Young (US), and Richard Abramowitz (US). A Master Builder is Thom’s second project with Jonathan Demme. In 2011 he worked as the Post Production Technical Advisor for the documentary film I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful.

In addition to his work at the JBFC and various other creative projects with local and international filmmakers, Thom is currently working on his first feature film, Province Lands.

CREDITS

CAST

Halvard Solness……………………………………………………………. Wallace Shawn Knut Brovik………………………………………………………………... André Gregory Aline Solness………………………………………………………………. Julie Hagerty Hilde Wangel………………………………………………………………. Lisa Joyce Dr. Ejlert Herdal…………………………………………………………… Larry Pine Kaya Fosli…..……………………………………………….…………...... Emily Cass McDonnell Ragnar Brovik…….……………….…………………………………….… Jeff Biehl Nurses……………………………………………………………………… Winsome Brown Marjorie Graham Joanna Howard Sheilagh Weymouth

CREDITS

FILMMAKERS

Director…….………………………………………………………....…… Jonathan Demme Screenplay………………………………………………………………… Wallace Shawn Created for the Stage by…...……………………………………………… André Gregory Producer…………………………………………………………………… Rocco Caruso Producer…………………………………………………………………… André Gregory Producer…………………………………………………………………… Wallace Shawn Executive Producer……………………………………………..…….…… Ron Bozman Executive Producer……………………………………………..…………. Beau Willimon Executive Producer……………………………………………..…………. Jordan Tappis Executive Producer……………………………………………..…………. Declan Quinn Executive Producer……………………………………………..…………. Scott Griffin Co-Executive Producer…………………………………………...……….. Caroline Baron Co-Executive Producer…………………………………………...……….. Anthony Weintraub Co-Executive Producer…………………………………………...……….. Annette Solakoglu Co-Executive Producer…………………………………………...……….. Kemal Solakoglu Director of Photography…………………………………………………… Declan Quinn A.S.C Editor.……………………………...………….…………………………… Tim Squyres A.C.E Production Designer…………………………………………………..…… Eugene Lee Music…….………………………………………………………………… Zafer Tawil Thom C’Connor Suzana Peric Costume Designer………..………………..…………………….………… Dona Granata Sound Design………………………………….….……………………….. Paul Urmson