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ANDY
TENNANT (Director/Screenplay) made his feature film directorial debut with "It Takes Two," starring Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg and twins Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. Tennant's second feature, the romantic comedy "Fools Rush In," starred Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek.Born in Chicago, Tennant studied theater under John Houseman at the University of Southern California. A former dancer, Tennant appeared in the blockbuster film "Grease," with John Travolta. He then became a scriptwriter on television films such as "Moving Target" and "What She Doesn't Know." Tennant first directed Drew Barrymore on the television movie "The Amy Fisher Story." He also helmed the telefilms "Desperate Choices" and "Keep the Change," an adult drama starring William Peterson, Jack Palance, Buck Henry and Lolita Davidovich. He previously directed multiple episodes of the series "Wonder Years," followed by "Parker Lewis Can't Lose," "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." and "The Byrds of Paradise." His television pilot credits include the popular science-fiction series "Sliders" as well as "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure."
SUSANNAH GRANT and ANDY TENNANT & RICK PARKS wrote the screenplay for EVER AFTER. GRANT previously wrote the animated feature "Pocahontas" and was a writer/producer/director for three seasons on the popular series "Party of Five." She attended Amherst College and the American Film Institute, and received a Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. PARKS has been a writing partner of Andy Tennant for several years, and has worked with the director on the features "Fools Rush In" and "It Takes Two" and the television series "Sliders." A native of Vermont, he attended Carnegie-Mellon University. His uncle is noted film composer Van Dyke Parks. EVER AFTER represents his first screen credit.
MIREILLE SORIA (Producer) also recently served as executive producer on the cable television film "Underwraps." From 1990-95 she was vice president of production at Walt Disney Pictures. Among the films she oversaw at Disney were "The Mighty Ducks" trilogy, "Cool Runnings" and Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book." From 1987-1990, Soria was
producer/vice president at the Steve Tisch Co. There she oversaw the television
films "Victims of Love" and "Out on the Edge"; the Afterschool Special "Lies
of the Heart"; the "Dirty Dancing" television pilot plus 13 episodes; and a
pilot called "Vidiots." She previously was director of development for drama
series at ABC-TV, and was the ABC executive on the hit series "thirtysomething."
Upon returning to the United States, Trench enrolled at UCLA, where she earned an MBA degree in Finance. During that time she also did research for a number of directors, including recording oral histories of Japanese-Americans for Alan Parker's film "Come See the Paradise."
After working in various capacities in motion picture development, Trench joined Fox Family Films as director of production. Among the films she oversaw at Fox were "Dunston Checks In," "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie" and its sequel "Turbo: A Power Rangers Adventure," and "Home Alone 3."
Trench took time off from her duties at Fox to produce the widely-hailed documentary "Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary," which received the Freedom of Expression Award at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival and has since aired several times on PBS. She eventually left her position at Fox to produce EVER AFTER.
She is currently producing the holiday feature film "I'll Be Home For Christmas," starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
A much-in-demand cinematographer, Dunn's films have included "Hush," "Addicted to Love," "L.A. Story," "The Bodyguard," "Clean Slate," "A Simple Twist of Fate," "Chattahoochie" and "The Grotesque." He has won three BAFTA Awards for "Edge of Darkness," "Tumbledown" and "Threads," and a nomination for "Monoculed Mutineer," all BBC productions.
MICHAEL HOWELLS (Production Designer) collaborated with director Peter Greenaway three times: on "M For Mozart," "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" and "Prospero's Books." He then designed the stylish Sally Potter cinematic adaptation of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando." Howells' other motion credits include the independent films "Sophisticated Lady," "Library Love," "Everybody Wants to Help Earnes," "The Ghosts of Oxford Street," "Strange Fish," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "To Mention But a Few," "Restless in Thought Disturbed in Mind" and "Second Best." Howells then worked on "Princess Caraboo," "Talk of Angels Enter," "Achilles Menix" and "The Shepherd's Calendar." Most recently, he designed "Emma," directed by Doug McGrath and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and the critically-hailed family film "FairyTale: A True Story."
JENNY BEAVAN (Costume Designer) is an Academy Award winner for her work on the Merchant Ivory production "A Room With a View." Beavan was also Oscar nominated an additional five times, for "The Bostonians," "Maurice," "Howard's End," "Remains of the Day" (all Merchant Ivory productions) and for "Sense and Sensibility," directed by Ang Lee. She also designed the costumes for the Merchant/Ivory productions "Hullaballo Over Bonnie and Georgie's Pictures," "Jane Austen in Manhattan," "The Deceivers" and "Jefferson in Paris." Beavan's other major credits include "Mountains of the Moon" for director Bob Rafelson, "Black Beauty" for Caroline Thompson, and "Metroland" for Philip Saville. She won the David di Donatello Award for her costumes on Franco Zeffirelli's recent version of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." Beavan has also worked extensively in theater. She has designed for the Royal Shakespeare Company ("Tis a Pity She's a Whore"), York Theatre Royal ("The Merchant of Venice," "Threepenny Opera"), the Royal Opera House ("Carmen") and for opera companies in Germany and Holland. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work in the lavish television production "Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy," starring Nicol Williamson, Ian Richardson and Janet Suzman.
KEVIN REIDY and TIMOTHY M. BOURNE are the film's Co-Producers. Last year, REIDY served in that capacity on "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation." He was a producer on the critically acclaimed independent feature "The Whole Wide World," and an associate producer on the provocative dramatic comedy "Swimming With Sharks." He has also worked on several television films. BOURNE was co-producer on "The Preacher's Wife" and "Renaissance Man." He worked in various production capacities on the features "Money Train," "A League of Their Own," "Sleeping With the Enemy," "Radio Days" and "Broadway Danny Rose," among others. Reidy's television credits include the series "Matlock" and the acclaimed television film "The Summer of Ben Tyler."
ROGER BONDELLI, A.C.E. (Editor) marks his third collaboration with director Andy Tennant on EVER AFTER, having worked on "Fools Rush In" and "It Takes Two," the director's previous films. Bondelli also edited the feature films "George of the Jungle" and "Bye Bye, Love," and co-edited "The Ghost and the Darkness" and "Gymkata." His television credits include two seasons of the series "Moonlighting" (winning an Emmy in 1987 and a nomination in 1986), as well as "Designing Women," "Midnight Caller," "Brooklyn Bridge" and the pilot for the series "SeaQuest DSV." He has earned a total of four Emmy Award nominations and one Emmy Award. Bondelli joined the mailroom of a Los Angeles television station while still in high school. After being promoted into the film department he continued working through college. After graduation, he began training as an editor with a Los Angeles based production company.
British composer GEORGE FENTON (Music) is one of today's most prolific and distinguished motion picture composers. A five-time Oscar nominee ("Gandhi," "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Fisher King" and "Cry Freedom"), Fenton is also an Emmy winner (for "China: Beyond the Clouds"). Fenton has composed the scores for almost 40 films, 110 television shows and 40 theatrical productions. His recent scores include "The Object of My Affection," "Dangerous Beauty," "My Name Is Joe," "The Woodlanders," "The Crucible," "Carla's Song," "Multiplicity" and "In Love and War." He will compose the score for the upcoming feature film "You've Got Mail," starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Fenton began his career writing music for Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. He then became a prolific composer for British television, winning three BAFTA awards for best original music for television.
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