MARTIN WEISZ (Director)
WES CRAVEN (Producer/Co-Writer)
MARIANNE MADDALENA (Producer)
PETER LOCKE (Producer)
JONATHAN CRAVEN (Co-Writer, Co-Producer)
JONATHAN DEBIN (Executive Producer)
KEITH WILSON (Production Designer)
KIRK MORRI (Editor)
SUE BLAINEY (Editor)
CHRISTINA ANDERSON (Co-Producer)
CODY ZWIEG (Co-Producer)
JAMISON GOEI (Visual Effects Supervisor)
GREGORY NICOTERO & HOWARD BERGER (Special Make-up and Effects)
TREVOR MORRIS (Composer)
DAVID FRANCO (Music Supervisor)
JANIE BRYANT (Costume Designer)
ALISTAIR KAY (Art Director)
LUCA TRANCHINO (Set Decorator)
TAMI LANE (On Set Make-Up Artist)

FILMMAKERS BIOS

MARTIN WEISZ (Director)

Co-writer Jonathan Craven and Director Martin Weisz

Acclaimed video and commercial director Martin Weisz won Best Director for his feature film debut with Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story at the prestigious 2006, Spain International Film Festival of Catalonia. The film, which stars Keri Russell and Thomas Kretschmann also won the Grand prize in silver for best European fantasy film at the Luxemburg International Film Festival. The film–based on a true story about a cannibalistic date between two men who meet on the Internet, has become something of a cause celeb due to its graphic subject matter and has been banned in Germany. Best known as a maverick video director, Weisz has worked with such acts as Sisqo, Brandy, Meat Loaf, Puff Daddy, Nickelback, Marky Mark, Enigma and LL Cool J to name just a few.

Weisz won the MTV European Video Award for Best Dance Video for Members of Mayday. He’s also been nominated for the MVPA Awards for best International Video for LL Cool J’s video “Dear Malika” and at the MTV Europe Awards for best video for Korn’s “Make Me Bad” video.

Recognized as a master storyteller, Weisz is able to create feature length exposition in a single minute populating his videos with images such as space travellers suspended in mid-air on urban streets and department stores filled with water. Extremely innovative with the camera, Weisz often insists on shooting his own videos. For Puff Daddy’s video “Public Enemy #1” Weisz used thirty-thirty-five millimeter cameras set in a full-circle on a rig that booms and dollies in order to give Puff Daddy a suspended, threedimensional, dance spin with a “Matrix” twist.

In high demand as a commercial director, Weisz has directed ground-breaking commercials for such corporations as Budweiser, McDonalds, Audi and Farmer’s Insurance.

WES CRAVEN (Producer/Co-Writer)

Wes Craven’s Scream Trilogy virtually redefined the horror genre for an entire generation of moviegoers. The three films went on to gross close to half a billion dollars worldwide and inspired a host of imitators. Similarly, A Nightmare on Elm Street and his creation of Freddy Kruger sent millions to their local cineplexes and created a franchise for New Line Cinema which spawned film sequels, a television series, comic books and toys that earned over a billion dollars for the company. Craven wrote and directed the 10th –anniversary outing, called Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, which invented a new style of self-reverential horror that blossomed in the next decade.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Craven holds a Master’s degree in philosophy and writing from Johns Hopkins University. Craven left a secure job as a college professor to follow his passion for the cinema. On a shoestring budget, he wrote, directed and edited his first film The Last House on the Left, which generated enormous controversy and attention and helped launch the resurgence of fright films in the 70’s that put horror back on the map. He then went on to write, direct and edit the critically acclaimed 1977 cult classic The Hills Have Eyes. In 2006 he produced Alexandre Aja’s reinterpretation of The Hills Have Eyes to spectacular results.

Other noteworthy Craven titles include Red Eye with Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy, Shocker, The People Under the Stairs, The Serpent and the Rainbow and Swamp Thing.

In 1999, Craven directed Meryl Streep in Music of the Heart, for which she received an Academy Award Nomination.

For television, Craven helped create and produce the series “Nightmare Cafe” for NBC. He directed the telefilms “Night Visions,” “A Stranger in the House,” Invitation to Hell,” “Chiller,” and “Casebusters.” He also directed seven episodes of the 1980’s revival of “The Twilight Zone.” In 2004 he executive produced “Project Greenlight” for HBO. In 1999, Craven published his first novel, The Fountain Society, for Simon and Schuster Press.

In 2005, Craven, along with such notable filmmakers as Alexander Payne, the Coen Brothers, Walter Salles and Gus Van Sant, each wrote and directed a five-minute love story for the film Paris, Je t’aime segment “20 arrondissement,” starring Emily Mortimer and Rufus Sewell.

With his uncanny eye for talent, Craven discovered such screen luminaries as Johnny Depp, Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone.

MARIANNE MADDALENA (Producer)

As Wes Craven’s long-time business partner, Marianne Maddalena produced last year’s The Hills Have Eyes for Fox Searchlight Pictures. In 2005, she produced the hit film Red Eye for Dreamworks, SKG. Other producing credits include the Scream trilogy, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Shocker, The People Under the Stairs, Vampire from Brooklyn with Eddie Murphy and Angela Bassett, Cursed with Christina Ricci and soon to be released The Breed, directed by Nick Mastandrea and starring Michelle Rodriguez and Oliver Hudson.

In 1999, Maddalena produced Music of the Heart, a true story about music teacher Roberta Guaspari’s experiences teaching violin to inner-city youths. The film earned lead actress Meryl Streep an Oscar nomination.

For television, Maddalena produced the series “Nightmare Cafe” for NBC starring “Heroes” villain Jack Coleman.

PETER LOCKE (Producer)

In 1976, Peter Locke produced The Hills Have Eyes, which went on to become a cult classic. In 2006, he produced the Alexandre Aja version of The Hills Have Eyes to spectacular results. The veteran film producer has produced 44 films including Pinocchio, Andre, The Brave Little Toaster I, II & III, Freeway I & II starring Reese Witherspoon and Keiffer Sutherland, Whole Wide World starring Renee Zellweger, Harvard Man starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Adrian Grenier, Basil starring Christian Slater and Jared Leto, Picking Up the Pieces starring Woody Allen and Sharon Stone, Susan’s Plan starring Rob Schneider, Lara Flynn Boyle and Dan Aykroyd, Beowulf, But I’m A Cheerleader, The Last Producer starring Burt Reynolds and Benjamin Bratt, Ringmaster, Swing, Girl, Denial starring Jason Alexander and Patrick Dempsey, The Grave, Nutcracker: The Motion Picture, and Snuff.

Locke’s television credits include the series “The Stockard Channing Show CBS,” “Automan” on ABC, six seasons of “1st & Ten” for HBO; 860 episodes of “Divorce Court,” 66 episodes of “Sweating Bullets” on CBS; “Contraption,” “Gun” for ABC; “Cracker,” and “Harts of the West” for CBS. Additionally he has produced 38 Movies of the Week, six mini-series, game shows, animated syndicated shows and over 50 directto- video/DVD titles.

Locke is co-owner of Castel Film Studios in Bucharest, Romania, one of the largest studio facilities in Europe.

JONATHAN CRAVEN (Co-Writer, Co-Producer)

Jonathan Craven made his screen debut at age seven in his father’s first film The Last House on the Left. Also a filmmaker, Craven directed the guilty pleasure “They Shoot Divas, Don’t They?” starring Jennifer Beals, Traci Lords and Johnathan Schaech for VH1 Television. Craven co-wrote and produced HBO’s The Outpost with Giovanni Ribisi which earned a nomination for best picture at the Fantasporto International Fantasy Film Festival. He also developed and was creative consultant on NBC’s series “Nightmare Café” starring Robert Englund and “Heroes” villain Jack Coleman.

As a music video director in the 90’s, he worked with such acts as Fred Durst’s band Limp Bizkit, directing their first ever music video. Branching out in the music industry, he’s also managed his three sister’s sizzling hot-rock group The Chapin Sisters through the successful completion of their first studio album.

Having grown up visiting his father’s sets, Jonathan has learned the movie business from the ground up, working in various capacities on films such as Music of the Heart with Meryl Streep and Angela Bassett and The Minus Man with Owen Wilson, Sheryl Crow and Brian Cox. Craven graduated from Northwestern University and is a prolific writer, having published articles in Rolling Stone, LA Weekly, Bikini, RayGun and Blackbook.

JONATHAN DEBIN (Executive Producer)

Jonathan Debin has been executive producer on Sunshine with Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, Max with John Cusack, and the soon-to-be released Silk starring Keira Knightley and Michael Pitt. He produced Formula 51 with Samuel L. Jackson, Bird of Prey with Richard Chamberlain and Second in Command with Jean-Claude Van Damme. For television, he’s produced both series “1st & 10,” “Hearts of the West,” “The Glory Years,” “Divorce Court,” “The Dating Game” and films The Star Maker, A Gun in the House, Carolina Skeletons and Sweet Bird of Youth starring Elizabeth Taylor.

KEITH WILSON (Production Designer)

Emmy Award winning (“Stalin”) Production Designer Keith Wilson has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in film and television. Wilson is considered one of the most versatile production designers working, having successfully captured a wide range of time periods. For television, he has designed such biblical epics as “The Ten Commandments” with Dougray Scott and Mia Mistro, “In the Beginning” with Martin Landau, Alan Bates and Jacqueline Bisset and “Mary, Mother of Jesus” with Christian Bale.

Wilson also has made several television movies based on Charles Dickens’ work such as “A Christmas Carol” with Kelsey Grammer, “Oliver Twist” with Richard Dreyfuss and Elijah Wood, “The Old Curiosity Shop” with Peter Ustinov and James Fox and “Great Expectations” with Anthony Hopkins and Jean Simmons.

He has worked on such critically acclaimed television films as “The Seventh Scroll” with Roy Scheider, “Miracle at Midnight” with Mia Farrow and Sam Waterston, “The Apocalypse Watch” with Virginia Madsen and Patrick Bergin and “Stalin” with Robert Duvall and Julia Ormond.

Wilson’s feature film credits include International Velvet with Anthony Hopkins and Christopher Plummer, Out of the Deep, Slayground, Memoirs of a Survivor, and Riding High.

KIRK MORRI (Editor)

Horror veteran, Kirk Morri has edited such films as Pulse starring Kristen Bell and Ian Somerhalder, Project Greenlight’s Feast with Balthazar Getty and Eric Dane, The Prophecy: Foresaken, Uncle P, Mimic 3, Children of the Corn: Revelation, Mimic 2 and Hellraiser: Inferno and the soon to be released He Was a Quiet Man with Christian Slater, William H. Macy and Elisha Cuthbert.

As assistant editor he worked on Soulkeeper, Phantoms, Exit in Red, Skeletons and Girl in the Cadillac.

For television, he has worked on “Assault on Dome 4,” “Back to Back” and “Jeopardy.”

As post production supervisor he contributed to Halloween: Resurrection, Suckers, The Prophecy 3: The Ascent, and Happy Texas with Steve Zahn, William H. Macy and Jeremy Northam.

SUE BLAINEY (Editor)

Emmy Award® nominee (“Lost”) Sue Blainey came to prominence with her first solo editing effort: the Academy Award®-winning Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert with Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp. She’s also edited such films as Martin Weisz’ Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story, Eye of the Beholder with Ashley Judd and Ewan McGregor, Robinson Crusoe with Pierce Brosnan, Wishful Thinking with Drew Barrymore, The Deli with Chris Noth and Gretchen Mol and The Simian Line with William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr..

For television, she has edited “Six Feet Under,” “House,” “Oz,” “Now and Again,” “Boomtown,” “Ed,” “Point Pleasant” and “What About Brian.”

Blainey performed the duties of assistant editor on such seminal films as Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome, BMX Bandits, Dead Calm and Carlito’s Way.

CHRISTINA ANDERSON (Co-Producer)

Christina Anderson makes her co-producing debut with THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2. In post-production, she has worked on The Hills Have Eyes, Freedom Writers, Red Eye, Cursed, Scary Movie 2, Dracula 2000, the Scream trilogy, Music of the Heart and Teaching Mrs. Tingle.

CODY ZWIEG (Co-Producer)

Producer of The Hills Have Eyes, Cody Zwieg has previously worked with Craven-Maddalena Films on Red Eye and Cursed. His past credits also include Lasse Halleström’s The Cider House Rules and Blast from the Past.

JAMISON GOEI (Visual Effects Supervisor)

As visual effects supervisor, Jamison Goei has worked on such films as The Hills Have Eyes, Hellraiser: Hellword, Dracula III: Legacy, The Prophey: Uprising, Cursed, Lovewrecked, Uncle P, Trekkies 2, Mimic 3, Hansel and Gretl, Halloween: Resurrection and Children of the Corn: Resurrection. His upcoming films include Feast, Santa’s Slay and Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World. Goei has received three DVD Exclusive Awards for best visual effects.

GREGORY NICOTERO & HOWARD BERGER (Special Make-up and Effects) Gregory Nicotero and Howard Berger are twenty-year veterans of the film industry. Their award winning special effects make-up work has been showcased in such diverse films as The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, for which Berger received an Academy Award, Sin City, The Green Mile, Minority Report, Kill Bill 1 & 2, and Pulp Fiction.

Cutting their teeth in the horror genre has given K.N.B. the opportunity to lend their talents to hundreds of genre pictures including Hostel, Army of Darkness, Land of the Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead 2, The Cell, John Carpenter’s Vampires, and the Rodriguez/Tarantino collaboration From Dusk till Dawn. They have had the opportunity to work with directors ranging from Steven Spielberg and Quentin Tarantino to George Romero and Sam Raimi.

More mainstream fare such as Ray, Casino, The Hulk, Vanilla Sky, Men in Black, the Scream trilogy, the Spy Kids trilogy, and Austin Powers in Goldmember have also featured K.N.B.’s work.

Their past television work includes “Dune,” “Deadwood,” “The X Files,” and currently “Masters of Horror,” and “Invasion.”

TREVOR MORRIS (Composer)

Trevor Morris composed the scores for such films as 3 Needles with Lucy Liu and Chloe Sevigny, Rancid with Mathew Settle and Teen Knight. For television, he’s composing the scores for the Jerry Bruckheimer productions “Justice” with Victor Garber and “E-Ring” with Dennis Hopper and Benjamin Bratt. He’s provided additional music for such films as The Island, Stealth, Spanglish, Shark Tale, King Arthur, Something’s Gotta Give, The Last Samurai, Bad Boys II, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.

Born outside of Toronto, Morris was playing the piano at four and composing music for Pope John Paul’s Canadian visit at eight. He graduated at the top of his class at the prestigious Music Industry Arts and soon began a thriving career as a Toronto recording engineer.

In 2000, he moved to Hollywood and began collaborating with famed music composer James Newton Howard on such projects as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Big Trouble. Shortly after, Morris began another fruitful association with legendary composer Hans Zimmer where they worked together on such films as Riding in Cars with Boys and Black Hawk Down. Morris currently lives and works in Santa Monica; his writing studio resides as part of Hans Zimmer’s state of the art remote control facility.

DAVID FRANCO (Music Supervisor)

As a former student of The New England Conservatory of Music and Boston University Film School, David Franco has spent his entire career in both the Film/TV and Record Industry as a Music Producer.

Prior to starting his own company, Franco served as Vice President of International Production for three major record companies, namely Columbia, RCA and Warner Bros. Records. Because of his international and multi-lingual expertise, he has worked in major studios with artists and orchestras around the world He now heads his own company that has packaged, supervised and produced music for well over 100 feature films, TV movies, series and miniseries, and for more than 50 soundtrack albums. These include such pictures as the Ted Turner epic feature films Gettysburg and Gods & Generals for Warner Bros. featuring an end credit song by Bob Dylan, and The Art of War starring Wesley Snipes.

As a professional violinist, he has played in Broadway shows and a number of orchestras accompanying recording artists such as Barbara Streisand, Tony Bennett, and Bette Midler.

JANIE BRYANT (Costume Designer)

Janie Bryant is best known for her Emmy Award winning costumes on HBO’s hit series “Deadwood.” As a three-time nominee of the prestigious Costume Designer’s Guild Award, her period costumes for the cutting-edge series have catapulted her into the top ranks of Hollywood costume designers. Because of the tremendous popular response to her trend-setting costumes, HBO and Billy Martin Western Wear collaborated with Bryant creating the “Deadwood” clothing collection for both men and women presently being sold at Billy Martin Western Wear and HBO stores on both coasts.

Janie Bryant studied fashion at the American College of Applied Arts in Atlanta, Georgia and designed her first film at age twenty-three. Some of her feature films include The Big Kahuna with Kevin Spacey and Danny DeVito, Simply Irresistible with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Patricia Clarkson, Alien Hunter with James Spader, Mr. Jealousy with Eric Stoltz, Bridget Fonda and Annabella Sciora, Grind with Billy Crudup, Highball with Justine Bateman and Eric Stoltz and Palookaville with Frances McDormand and Vincent Gallo.

For television, she designed costumes for HBO’s upcoming “John From Cincinnati” with Bruce Greenwood and Rebecca DeMornay and “Big Apple” starring Ed O’Neill and David Strathairn—both David Milch productions.

Presently, Bryant is hard at work on the action thriller Blackwater Transit starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, currently filming in New Orleans. “Deadwood” fans take heart, Bryant will be designing the costumes for two twohour “Deadwood” movies later in 2007.

ALISTAIR KAY (Art Director)

Emmy Award®-winning (“Stalin”) Alistair Kay is one of the most in demand Art Directors working today. Kay’s Emmy® nominations include “Buffalo Girls” with Angelica Huston, Melanie Griffith and Gabriel Byrne, “The Lion In Winter” with Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Glenn Close and “The Old Curiosity Shop” with Peter Ustinov and James Fox.

He’s also worked on the biblical epics "The Ten Commandments," "In the Beginning" and "Mary, Mother of Jesus." He has worked on such critically acclaimed television films as "A Christmas Carol", “The Seventh Scroll," “The Prince and the Pauper” with Aidan Quinn and Alan Bates, “Supply and Demand,” “Victoria and Albert” with Diana Rigg and Peter Ustinov, “the Blackwater Lightship” with Angela Landsbury and Diane Wiest, “The Little Riders” with Malcolm McDowell and Paul Scofield, "The Apocalypse Watch," “Diana: Her True Story” and "Stalin" with Robert Duvall and Julia Ormond.

For series television, he did the art direction on “Dinotopia.” Kay’s feature film credits include Loaded with Catherine McCormack and Thandie Newton.

LUCA TRANCHINO (Set Decorator)

Tranchino took home an Academy Award® for his collaboration with production designer Dante Ferretti on Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale. Again, Tranchino was nominated for an Oscar for his work with Dante Ferretti on Scorsese’s Gangs of New York with Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis and Cameron Diaz.

Other films Tranchino worked on include Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain starring Jude Law, Renee Zellweger and Nicole Kidman, Lasse Hallström’s Casanova with Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller, and Julie Taymor’s Titus with Jessica Lange and Anthony Hopkins.

His television work includes “The Ten Commandments” with Dougray Scott and Omar Sharif and “The Seventh Scroll” with Roy Scheider.

TAMI LANE (On Set Make-Up Artist)

In 2006, K.N.B. special effects make-up artistTami Lane won an Academy Award® for her work on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Lane also has the distinction of having worked on each installment of the groundbreaking The Lord of the Rings trilogy for Peter Jackson. Some of Lane’s other film credits include Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns with Kevin Spacey and Kate Bosworth, Without a Paddle with Seth Green and Dax Shepard, Soulkeeper with Brad Dourif, The Tripper with David Arquette and Courtney Cox Arquette and Tale of the Mummy with Gerard Butler and Jason Scott Lee. Upcoming releases include Disney’s Underdog starring Patrick Warburton.

Some of her television credits include “Masters of Horror,” “Xena,” “John Carpenter’s Vampires” and the BBC mini series “Lost World.” After graduating Cum Laude from Bradley University with a degree in art, Lane relocated to LA where she earned an entry position cleaning molds and sweeping floors at the renowned K.N.B. special effects and makeup house. Lane swiftly took on greater responsibilities and credits her success to her mentors Gregory Nicotero, Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman.

Presently, Lane is hard at work on the next installment of Disney’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian currently filming in Auckland, New Zealand.