Stuart Cornfeld, the producing partner with Ben Stiller on Zoolander, Dodgeball and Tropic Thunder, died Friday of cancer. He was 67.
His friend, actress Liliana Greenfield-Sanders confirmed the news on Twitter.
Very sad to let you know that our dear friend Stuart Cornfeld died today from cancer. He was the funniest person on the planet. I will miss him terribly. Do yourself a favor and watch one of the many amazing films he produced. He was truly one of the greats. pic.twitter.com/ONcuOl56Hk
— Greenfield-Sanders (@Liliana) June 26, 2020
Cornfeld was born in Tarzana in 1952, and graduated from the American Film Institute in 1975. While working with Anne Bancroft on two Directing Workshop for Women projects, she introduced him to husband Mel Brooks. That led to Cornfeld becoming the assistant on 1977’s High Anxiety.
He worked on several other Bancroft and Brooks projects, becoming the executive producer on the Brooks-produced The Elephant Man.
His friend, actress Liliana Greenfield-Sanders confirmed the news on Twitter.
Very sad to let you know that our dear friend Stuart Cornfeld died today from cancer. He was the funniest person on the planet. I will miss him terribly. Do yourself a favor and watch one of the many amazing films he produced. He was truly one of the greats. pic.twitter.com/ONcuOl56Hk
— Greenfield-Sanders (@Liliana) June 26, 2020
Cornfeld was born in Tarzana in 1952, and graduated from the American Film Institute in 1975. While working with Anne Bancroft on two Directing Workshop for Women projects, she introduced him to husband Mel Brooks. That led to Cornfeld becoming the assistant on 1977’s High Anxiety.
He worked on several other Bancroft and Brooks projects, becoming the executive producer on the Brooks-produced The Elephant Man.
- 6/27/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Ben Bradlee movies: From 'All the President's Men' to 'Born Yesterday' (photo: Jason Robards as 'The Washington Post' executive editor Ben Bradlee in 'All the President's Men') Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee aka Benjamin C. Bradlee, best known for his key role in the Watergate scandal that destroyed the Richard Nixon presidency, and who was later played by Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Jason Robards in Alan J. Pakula's film version of All the President's Men, died of "natural causes" last October 21, 2014, at his home in Washington, D.C. Bradlee, who had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease, was 93. The Washington Post of the 21st century may look increasingly like a more pedantic version of the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid New York Post, but things weren't always like that. Back in the days when the American media — at least some of the time — actually bothered reporting news...
- 11/7/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The hamlet of Wassaic, New York has long been a hub for the artist communities in the Hudson Valley. And for another year, the arts org known as the Wassaic Project is putting on its own film festival. This mini-fest runs August 1-3 as part of the broader Wassaic Project Summer Festival. A short train ride from the bustle of NYC, the Wassaic Fest gives city-dwellers a chance to escape and see some (free) flicks from some of the emerging voices in indie cinema. Wassaic Project Director of Film Liliana Greenfield-Sanders had this to say: We've created something I'm very proud to be a part of - an inclusive and free arts festival that's only a train ride away from NYC. We offer our audiences...
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- 7/29/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The 2012 Tribeca All Access program has selected eleven works in progress for its lineup this year (six narratives and five documentaries), and since one of the films is described as "a modern day twist on Frankenstein", of course we have to share the details.
The film in question is Bypass, written and directed by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders and produced by Amy Basil and Rowen Riley.
Synopsis:
20-year-old Katie is popular, high-achieving, and obese; but all of this is about to change when she undergoes a series of radical gastric and plastic surgeries. Bypass is a modern day twist on Frankenstein in which the protagonist is herself both creator and monster.
Sounds horror-ish at least, right? There's one other selection that might fall a bit on our side of the fence, and that's Abigail Harm, directed by Lee Isaac Chung and written and produced by Samuel Gray Anderson, although it's likely more in the fantasy category.
The film in question is Bypass, written and directed by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders and produced by Amy Basil and Rowen Riley.
Synopsis:
20-year-old Katie is popular, high-achieving, and obese; but all of this is about to change when she undergoes a series of radical gastric and plastic surgeries. Bypass is a modern day twist on Frankenstein in which the protagonist is herself both creator and monster.
Sounds horror-ish at least, right? There's one other selection that might fall a bit on our side of the fence, and that's Abigail Harm, directed by Lee Isaac Chung and written and produced by Samuel Gray Anderson, although it's likely more in the fantasy category.
- 1/19/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
The Tribeca Film Institute has awarded its annual grants of $15,000 to ten films through its Tribeca All Access program, most notably Ondi Timoner's "Mapplethorpe." Timoner, the only filmmaker to twice win Sundance's Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, will make the transition to narrative film with the project. James Franco has signed on to play the controversial gay photographer. Other notable projects include an untitled documentary about the world's fascination with gold, directed by "Chop Shop" filmmaker Ramin Bahrani, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders' "Bypass," a modern-day Frankenstein retelling, Lee Isaac Chung's "Abigail Harm," and "The New Black," a documentary on the links between the civil rights and Lgbt movements. Full list of films reprinted below: Untitled Ramin Bahrani Gold Documentary Directed and produced by Ramin Bahrani, produced by Jason Orans -- Set in today’s global...
- 1/12/2012
- Indiewire
Filmmaker Kasi Lemmons (Talk to Me, The Caveman’s Valentine, Eve’s Bayou) attended this year’s Sundance Director’s Lab as an advisor, and here is a blog report about her experience.
I’ve been back in Manhattan for a few days, but my head is still on the Mountain. I’m thinking about the fellows, who are shooting and editing their final scenes. The progress and maturity of vision that I witnessed while I was there was incredible. I saw the filmmakers grow and stretch and discover themselves in the process. The rigorous shooting schedule taught them how to organize their day so that they could get their shots, how to communicate with their crew and get deep and nuanced performances from their actors. There was very little time for indecision. The crews were fabulous, and the actors brought an incredible array of talent to the projects. The...
I’ve been back in Manhattan for a few days, but my head is still on the Mountain. I’m thinking about the fellows, who are shooting and editing their final scenes. The progress and maturity of vision that I witnessed while I was there was incredible. I saw the filmmakers grow and stretch and discover themselves in the process. The rigorous shooting schedule taught them how to organize their day so that they could get their shots, how to communicate with their crew and get deep and nuanced performances from their actors. There was very little time for indecision. The crews were fabulous, and the actors brought an incredible array of talent to the projects. The...
- 6/30/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Sundance Institute has announced fourteen projects for its 30th director and screenwriting labs. To be held at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 30-June 30, 2011, the lucky lab participants are listed below, along with details of their selves and their feature projects. Here’s the official word from the Institute:
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
The Sundance Institute has announced fourteen projects for its 30th director and screenwriting labs. To be held at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 30-June 30, 2011, the lucky lab participants are listed below, along with details of their selves and their feature projects. Here’s the official word from the Institute:
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
Sundance Institute today announced the 14 projects selected for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Utah May 30 – June 30, 2011. Under the leadership of Michelle Satter, Director of the Sundance Feature Film Program, and the artistic direction of Gyula Gazdag, the projects selected for this year’s program include emerging filmmakers and projects from the United States, Israel, Romania, Mexico, the Philippines and Algeria. Sundance Institute is marking the 30thanniversary of its first Directors Lab, led by Robert Redford and Satter in 1981.
Over the course of the Directors Lab, Fellows work with an accomplished group of Creative Advisors,...
- 5/2/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
You and I may not know them now, but plenty of the folks mentioned in the press release below will be among those that we cover in our Park City adventures in the years to come. Following in their natural progression from a workshopped screenplay to practising certain scenes behind the lenses, today the Sundance Institute announced the eight directors who'll be joining them during the June Directors lab and the six writer/filmmakers that'll hit the June Screenwriters Lab. Of the eight projects in the Directors Lab, seven were previously worked on in previous screenwriters labs -- they include: Sara Colangelo (pictured above) who was in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces 2010 edition, we have Romanian filmmaker Bodgan Mustata (who we previously featured) and Carlo Mirabella-Davis' genre film (not your typical Lab project) will also be included it now goes by the title of The Storm King instead of previous title On Evil.
- 5/2/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Wingnuts from the Westboro Baptist Church face off against Kevin Smith supporters outside the premiere of Red State. Photograph by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders. Heading into Sundance, the film-nerd buzz had it that indie director Kevin Smith planned to auction off the distribution rights to his latest film, Red State, at its Sunday-night premiere. Fanboys hoping to see Harvey Weinstein himself lingering in the aisles, bargain-basement offer in hand, were disappointed, however, when Smith preempted the auction by selling the rights to himself, for $20. He then announced his intention to become that rarest of multi-hyphenates: a writer-actor-director-distributor. Smith will take Red State on the road old-timey style, extending yet another middle finger to Hollywood’s eternally unloveable studio system. Then again, Red State is a film that would probably clog a studio’s plumbing if it ever came down the pipeline. Shifting from gross-out sex humor to horror, to Rambo-style action...
- 1/24/2011
- Vanity Fair
Lou Reed in Park City. Photo by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders. Sunday saw the semblance of normalcy return to Park City, as the weekend revelers and heat-seeking party bunnies melted away, enabling a visitor to walk along Main Street without hitting a hipster playing a harpsichord. Rumor had it that early risers (i.e. those who hadn’t caught a midnight Sundance movie like Catechism Cataclysm) caught Paul Rudd’s latest hilarious outing, in My Idiot Brothers—a packed screening at the Eccles boded well for the film, which was co-written by Vanity Fair contributing editor Evgenia Peretz and her husband, David Schisgall. Meanwhile, tips continued to circulate on Park City’s free bus system: Miranda July’s The Future was an early favorite, The Redemption of General Butt Naked was a hot ticket, and Elgin James’s Little Birds was the must-see movie of the night.
- 1/24/2011
- Vanity Fair
The Sundance Institute announced their 2011 January Screenwriters Lab participants and among the talents who come packing the dozen projects we find one of the best dps in the indie film biz, and an American New Wave 25 personality in Jody Lee Lipes (see pic), we have Diane Bell, the filmmaker who brought her feature debut Obselidia to the festival last year and Ian Olds - the director behind the doc film Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi. We have a Cannes resident and a couple of Filmmaker Magazine Top New Faces in the mix as well. Knowing all too well that these labs end up being integral part of the festival's annual output (especially in the Dramatic Comp categories) we love to keep tabs on the journey of these filmmkers as they go from Screenwriters to Directors lab and onwards towards production. One recent example is Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene...
- 12/16/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Last year, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders (my multi-talented daughter) produced and directed "Adelaide", an award winning short. Actually, "Adelaide" won ten awards, including both the Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award at Gen Art, Best Short film at Woodstock and New Orleans, Audience Awards & Special Jury Prizes at Austin, Indie Memphis, BeFilm, First Run and screened at over 50 more festivals. "Adelaide" also won a National Board of Review Student Grant Award. The film stars Anna Margaret Hollyman, Hank Harris (Pumpkin), and Damian Young (Californication, The Comeback). Her friend Gregori Viens, whom she met on the festival circuit, is the main attraction with "Punching the Clown," which Sarah Silverman calls "the best movie about comedy" and the Village Voice says "may be the funniest movie ever made about trying to hold on to one's artistic integrity in an image-obsessed world." This...
- 10/20/2010
- by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
- Huffington Post
Austin Film Festival organizers said Thursday that Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" has drawn this year's Out of Competition Audience Award.
"Herpes Boy," written by Byron Lane and directed by Nathaniel Atcheson, pulled down the comedy Vanguard Audience Award, and "Happy Ending," from writer-director Atsuhiro Yamada, won the Narrative Feature Competition Audience Award.
The winners were determined by audience voting during the festival's Oct. 22-29 run.
Tim VandeSteeg's nonfiction feature "My Run" shared the documentary feature competition audience award with Tisha Blood's "Torey's Distraction." Audience award winners for short films included Kat Candler (narrative), Liliana Greenfield-Sanders (narrative student), T.G. Herrington (documentary) and Chris Perry (animated).
Next year's fest will run Oct. 21-28.
"Herpes Boy," written by Byron Lane and directed by Nathaniel Atcheson, pulled down the comedy Vanguard Audience Award, and "Happy Ending," from writer-director Atsuhiro Yamada, won the Narrative Feature Competition Audience Award.
The winners were determined by audience voting during the festival's Oct. 22-29 run.
Tim VandeSteeg's nonfiction feature "My Run" shared the documentary feature competition audience award with Tisha Blood's "Torey's Distraction." Audience award winners for short films included Kat Candler (narrative), Liliana Greenfield-Sanders (narrative student), T.G. Herrington (documentary) and Chris Perry (animated).
Next year's fest will run Oct. 21-28.
- 11/5/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The awards luncheon for Austin Film Festival was held today, with the following winners announced for the film, screenplay and teleplay competitions:
Film Competitions
Documentary Feature Jury Award: Grown in Detroit - Directors: Manfred Poppenk, Mascha Poppenk Documentary Feature Special Jury Mention: Downtown Calling - Director: Shan Nicholson Animated Short Jury Award: Lost and Found - Director: Philip Hunt Narrative Student Short Jury Award: Welgunzer - Writer: Bradford Schmidt Narrative Student Special Jury Mention: Adelaide - Writer: Liliana Greenfield-Sanders Narrative Short Jury Award: Nice Shootin' Cowboy - Writer: Ben Phelps Narrative Short Special Jury Mention: The Taxidermist - Writers: Bert & Bertie; Washdays - Writer: Graham Lester George Narrative Feature Jury Award: Tobruk - Writer: Vaclav Marhoul Narrative Feature Special Jury Recognition for Acting: Myna Se Va Narrative Feature Special Jury Recognition for Independent Filmmaking: Thor at the Bus Stop
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Film Competitions
Documentary Feature Jury Award: Grown in Detroit - Directors: Manfred Poppenk, Mascha Poppenk Documentary Feature Special Jury Mention: Downtown Calling - Director: Shan Nicholson Animated Short Jury Award: Lost and Found - Director: Philip Hunt Narrative Student Short Jury Award: Welgunzer - Writer: Bradford Schmidt Narrative Student Special Jury Mention: Adelaide - Writer: Liliana Greenfield-Sanders Narrative Short Jury Award: Nice Shootin' Cowboy - Writer: Ben Phelps Narrative Short Special Jury Mention: The Taxidermist - Writers: Bert & Bertie; Washdays - Writer: Graham Lester George Narrative Feature Jury Award: Tobruk - Writer: Vaclav Marhoul Narrative Feature Special Jury Recognition for Acting: Myna Se Va Narrative Feature Special Jury Recognition for Independent Filmmaking: Thor at the Bus Stop
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- 10/25/2009
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
The 28th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff) will be held October 1-16, 2009. Founded in 1982, Viff's mandate is "...to encourage the understanding of other nations through the art of cinema, to foster the art of cinema, to facilitate the meeting in British Columbia of cinema professionals from around the world and to stimulate the motion picture industry in British Columbia and Canada..." Over 150,000 people are expected to attend 640 screenings of 360 films from 80 countries. Here is an up-to-date list of directors, confirmed to attend Viff 2009, along with their films : "1428" Du Haibin "1999" Lenin Sivam "65_RedRoses" Philip Lyall & Nimisha Mukerji "Adelaide" Liliana Greenfield-Sanders "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector" Vikram Jayanti "Ana & Arthur" Larry Young "The Anchorage" Anders Edström & Curtis Winter "Antoine" Laura Bari "Argippo Resurrected" Dan Krames "The Art of Drowning" Diego Maclean "At Home By Myself... With You" Kris Booth "At The Edge Of The World" Dan Stone...
- 9/27/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
2009 Gen Art Awards 2009 Gen Art Film Festival: April 1-7, 2009 In David Lee Miller’s comedy My Suicide, Gabriel Sunday (above) stars as teenager whose final school video project will be his own suicide. Also in the My Suicide cast: David Carradine, Mariel Hemingway, Brooke Nevin (above), Nora Dunn, and Joe Mantegna. Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Feature: My Suicide, by David Lee Miller Acura Grand Jury Award for Best Short: Adelaide, by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders Audience Award for Best Feature: My Suicide, by David Lee Miller Audience Award for Best Short: Adelaide, by Liliana Greenfield-Sanders “Stargazer Award” for breakout acting: Gabriel Sunday, My Suicide Special jury prize for best use of music: Punching the Clown, directed by Gregori Viens, music by Henry Phillips Feature Jury: Kevin Corrigan, Matt Dentler, Mike Landry, Moby, Ted Sarandos Short Jury: Cary Fukunaga, Dana Brunetti, Kurt Keunne, Matt Stein, Terry Kinney Stargazer Jury: Izabella Miko,...
- 4/9/2009
- by Deborah Arthur
- Alt Film Guide
David Miller's "My Suicide" copped the grand jury award for best feature at the 14th annual Gen Art Film Festival, which handed out its prizes Tuesday at a closing-night party at New York's Club Blvd. The award for best short film went to Liliana Greenfield-Sanders' "Adelaide." Both films also took home the fest's audience awards.
The Stargazer Award honoring breakout talent for excellence in acting went to Gabriel Sunday from "My Suicide."
Musician Moby presented a special jury prize for best use of music in a feature film to "Punching the Clown," directed by Gregori Viens, with music by Henry Phillips.
"Finding Bliss," directed by Julie Davis and starring Leelee Sobieski, Matthew Davis, Donnamarie Recco, Denise Richards, Kristen Johnston and Jamie Kennedy, had its U.S. premiere as the closing-night film.
The Stargazer Award honoring breakout talent for excellence in acting went to Gabriel Sunday from "My Suicide."
Musician Moby presented a special jury prize for best use of music in a feature film to "Punching the Clown," directed by Gregori Viens, with music by Henry Phillips.
"Finding Bliss," directed by Julie Davis and starring Leelee Sobieski, Matthew Davis, Donnamarie Recco, Denise Richards, Kristen Johnston and Jamie Kennedy, had its U.S. premiere as the closing-night film.
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