Jeff "The Dude" Dowd
Jeff Dowd is a Los Angeles-based writer/producer, producer’s representative, and a nationally recognized authority on marketing, distribution and exhibition. Mr. Dowd was a producer of ZEBRAHEAD which Oliver Stone Executive Produced. ZEBRAHEAD won the Filmmakers Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures. He Co-Executive Produced FERNGULLY...THE LAST RAINFOREST, the animated feature starring Robin Williams, Tim Curry and Christian Slater. It was released by Twentieth Century Fox and won the Environmental Media Association (EMA) Best Picture award.
Dan Ireland
Dan Ireland began his career as the co-founder/co-director of The Seattle International Film Festival In the 1980's, Ireland was the co-owner /cooperator of The Egyptian Theatre, the most successful independent theatre in the state of Washington. Ireland remained at the theatre and festival until 1986, where he was Executive Vice President of Acquisitions for Vestron Pictures. It was at Vestron that Ireland developed his filmmaking skills. During his time there, he was Executive Producer of fifteen films including John Huston's final film ‘The Dead’ (two Oscar nominations), Bernard Rose's feature debut ‘Paperhouse’ and Ken Russell's ‘The Rainbow’. Read More
Julia Ransom
Julia Ransom has been working in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles for 10 years. She started out as an actress, photographer and poet which all led her to explore the discipline, dirt and magic of screenwriting. She learned the craft by jumping in with both feet and by studying/working at Writers Boot Camp where she doubled as a script reader for WBC Productions. She joined Jeff Dowd and Associates in October 2008 and has been directly involved in the development of many scripts and films. Her formal theatrical training at Yale University grew the foundation for her love of entertainment and her desire to help others develop their vision.
Richard Linklater
Director and writer Richard Linklater's first nationally distributed feature, Slackers (1991), thrust him into the spotlight as a talented, self-taught filmmaker. His second - Dazed and Confused (1993)- catapulted him into the top tier list of Hollywood writer/directors with unique voices. A native of Texas, Linklater helped found the the Austin Film Society and - along with a handful of others filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Wes Anderson - showed that independent films could compete in the marketplace with big-budget Hollywood productions. Throughout the 1990s he made critically acclaimed movies known for their unusual narratives and clever dialogue, including Dazed and Confused (with future stars Milla Jovovich, Matthew McConaughey and Ben Affleck), SubUrbia (1996 with Steve Zahn) and Before Sunrise (1995, with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy). His 2003 comedy School of Rock (starring Jack Black) was a hit with both critics and audiences and proved Linklater was not simply a maverick with a cult following. His other films include the animated feature Waking Life (2001), Before Sunset (2004) (which earned him an Oscar nomination), Bad News Bears (2005, with Billy Bob Thornton), Fast Food Nation (2006) and Me and Orson Welles (2009, starring Zac Effron).