A PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
A FILM BY DEREK CIANFRANCE
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THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
SYNOPSIS
An epic crime drama exploring the unbreakable bond between fathers to sons, The
Place Beyond the Pines follows four men – two generations – as they fight to overcome
a legacy of blood.
A mysterious and mythical motorcycle racer, Luke, (Ryan Gosling) drives out of a
traveling carnival “globe of death” and whizzes through the backstreets of Schenectady,
New York— desperately trying to connect with a former lover, Romina, (Eva Mendes)
who recently and secretly gave birth to the stunt rider’s son. In an attempt to provide for
his new family, Luke quits the carnival life and commits a series of bank robberies aided
by his superior riding ability. The stakes rise as Luke is put on a collision course with an
ambitious police officer, Avery Cross, (Bradley Cooper) looking to quickly move up the
ranks in a police department riddled with corruption. The sweeping drama unfolds over
fifteen years as the sins of the past haunt the present days lives of two high school boys
wrestling with the legacy they’ve inherited. The only refuge is found in the place beyond
the pines.
From the producers of the Academy-award nominated film, Blue Valentine, directed by
Derek Cianfrance, A PLACE BEYOND THE PINES stars Ryan Gosling, Bradley
Cooper, Eva Mendes, Mahershala Ali, Ben Mendelsohn, Ray Liotta, Rose Byrne and
introduces Dane DeHaan and Emory Cohen.
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THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
An Interview with Derek Cianfrance
Tell me in your words what The Place Beyond the Pines is all about.
It’s about legacy— what we’re born with and what we pass on. It’s about the choices we make
and how those choices echo throughout generations. It is a classic tale of the sins of the father
visiting the son.
I am drawn to stories about families. My first film, BROTHER TIED is about brothers. BLUE
VALENTINE is about husbands and wives. And PINES is about fathers and sons. I feel that the
cinema is a place where secrets are told. It’s a place where we can travel to intimate places, to
homes and bedrooms, and witness private moments that reflect our own lives.
Whereas BLUE VALENTINE looked at this intimacy, this single relationship, under a
microscope I wanted a larger palette and larger scope with THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES.
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES tells three linear stories - about a motorcycle stunt rider who
turns to a life of crime to support his newborn son, an ambitious rookie cop who takes on a
corrupt police department rather than confront his own demons, and two troubled teenage boys
who confront the mysteries of their past by battling each other. And each of these stories builds
towards one conclusion.
Let’s start with Luke (Ryan Gosling’s character’s) story.
A number of years ago when Ryan and I were working on the script for Blue Valentine, we
started talking about this fantasy Ryan always had of robbing a bank on a motorcycle. And I
said, “You’ve gotta be kidding me because I’m writing that movie right now.” We both imagined
it in the identical way. It was one of several moments where I knew we were meant to make
films together.
Luke is a guy who has this dark and mysterious past. He’s seen and done everything, and had
everything happen to him. He’s damaged, wounded— a person who was kind of covered, not
necessarily in scars, but in these tattoos that were signs of the pain he had experienced. On the
outside, he had this mythical presence—the kind of guy that 1960’s girl groups like the ShangriLa’s used to sing about. He’s a bit of a contradiction - wounded and scarred on the inside, but
with a wall of armor on the outside, the muscles, the tattoos, the hair, the charisma, etc… He’s
like a big cat in a small cage - abused and dangerous and utterly compelling.
So, this guy, with all this pain, finds himself performing in a traveling motorcycle show. Moving
from town to town, from girl to girl, from heartache to heartache. And he comes back to this
place he’d been a year earlier, Schenectady, and he finds the girl he had a fling with a year
earlier, Romina, has had a baby. The moment he sees the baby, the moment the baby sees
him, changes the course of his life forever. Here’s a guy who is clearly tainted, and he sees this
thing that he created, this thing that is pure, that has no hate, to cynicism, no marks. And he
doesn’t even feel like he can hold the baby because the baby is so clean. And in that moment
his life suddenly has purpose. His life has meaning. Only that he has no real skills to be a father.
He becomes a force of love. And that is a dangerous force.
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The baby’s mother, Romina (Eva Mendez), is really torn because she clearly loves this guy. But
she knows he’s dangerous. And so she must choose between security and love. Between her
son and his father.
Then on the flipside there’s Avery (Bradley Cooper).
I have always loved Hitchcock’s PSYCHO—I loved how that movie did that amazing hand off
from Janet Leigh to Tony Perkins. I wanted to do something like that. I also wanted to make a
film where characters would have real consequences for their actions—where guns come into
the movie and actually have an effect. There is a glorified gun culture in movies and this
country—what I wanted to explore is the effect, the aftermath.
Avery is guy who, since childhood, has had the ability to see and find the way, he’s the high
road example for all. He’s always been known and renowned for his best traits—he’s a good
fellow, he’s popular, fair, honest, truthful, strong, high IQ, etc. And he’s born into this small city
royalty – he’s the son of a very powerful local judge. And everyone in his life, his dad, his
college sweetheart, etc. they all assume that Avery will follow in his father’s footsteps. Only
Avery wants to be his own man. Against his father’s wishes, he drops out of law school to build
himself from the ground up. And nobody understands why he would resist the silver spoon, you
know? When we first meet Avery, he is a 28-year old rookie cop.
It is as a rookie cop that Avery makes his first mistake. This mistake creates a toxic shame in
Avery – one which he can’t speak about. And when we first meet him, he is living in a state of
being wrong for the first time and he is painfully aware of his guilt. Meanwhile, the world and
public at large considers him to be a hero. And so he feels like even more of a sham, a liar, and
inadequate.
This inner conflict creates a gulf in his relationship with his wife and young child and also puts
him at odds with growing corruption at work.
And so he must chose to battle against the demons inside him or go to battle against the people
in his real life. He’s this modern man who decides to bury his problems and, instead, focus on
problems in the world. And he does good things. He’s a good man. But his tragic flaw is that
instead of healing the wounds inside himself, he tries to fix everything else around him. And that
haunts him.
Talk About The Performances of the Two Leads (Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper).
They are both much more than actors in this film. They are true collaborators. They both have
tremendous instincts for character and story and dialogue and they are both brave enough to go
to the vulnerable places I need them to go up on the screen. They are tireless workers, they do
the research and they can go in rush for 200 yards if you need them to.
Ryan has this incredible presence and charisma on the screen and in real life. He’s inherently
interesting and cinematic and is just such an amazing human being who just makes everyone
better around him. He is a magic man. I have learned so much from him and feel incredibly
fortunate each time I collaborate with him.
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When I met Bradley, he had that same kind of incredible charisma that Ryan has. But the thing
that really convinced me on Bradley more than anything else was how hard he worked. After
meeting with Bradley a couple of times I went back to the script and completely re-wrote the
character for him because I knew he could go deep. Much deeper than I originally had
suspected of him.
I think the reason Pines works is because Ryan and Bradley are not only huge movie stars and
great actors, they are compelling human beings, and each of them brings totally different
energies to the film. It creates this balance, this dichotomy in the film.
Let’s talk about the significance of the pines itself and the imagery of the trees and
upstate NY. Why the pines?
The Iroquois translation of Schenectady is “a place beyond the pines.” Schenectady is where
my wife, Shannon, grew up. I have been going up there for about nine years visiting her family.
I’ve always found it to be such an interesting place. It’s this place with such a rich history and it’s
in the midst of this economic struggle. My co-writer, Ben Coccio, who grew up there, describes it
as a small town version of Detroit. Ben came up with the title THE PLACE BEYOND THE
PINES and I really loved it because it has this literal meaning bit there are other, more
metaphorical meanings to it as well…
And so we shot the film last summer in Schenectady. We shot for 47 days, which was pretty
much unheard of for our budget. Because of my training in documentary film, it was important to
me to shoot in real places and surround the actors with real people as much as possible to give
the film that sense of place and truth. So we shot in live locations – a functioning police station
with real Schenectady police officers, a live hospital with real nurses and patients in the next
room, a live fair with a cast 500 real people who we were counting on not to look in the lens, real
banks with real bank tellers and bank managers who had been robbed before, and a real high
school with real students. This was all in an effort to lend authenticity to the moments we were
capturing. I asked the cops and the bank tellers and doctors and judges to make sure the
scenes we were telling were true. And if they weren’t, I would re-write it on the spot with them
until we were being honest.
There was a lot of pressure on me to re-locate the movie to Louisiana or North Carolina
because of tax credits. But I knew that this movie, made this way, only could happen in
Schenectady.
Where did your inspiration come to tell this story?
Many years ago, in film school, I saw Abel Gance’s NAPOLEON and I became obsessed with
the idea making a triptych film. I studied under Avant Garde legends Stan Brakhage and Phil
Solomon and they really gave me strong roots in aesthetics and formalism. However, Phil used
to always tell me “form must illuminate content.” I thought I could make the 3 screens sing, but I
didn’t know the song. And so I kept marinating on the idea of 3 until I had a story with purpose.
Then, in 2007, a few months before the birth of my second son Cody, the film came to me. I had
been thinking a lot about becoming a father again and the responsibility that came with it. And I
was thinking about what kind of dad I was, and what kind of things I was gonna pass down to
my new boy. And I got to thinking a lot about the fire I felt inside me. This fire had been with me
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for as long as I could remember. And it helped me do a lot of things in my life. But it was also, at
many times in my life, a destructive and painful force. I knew that my father also had this fire in
him. And his father, my grandfather had it in him as well… I started wondering how many
generations back this fire went. And, thinking about my unborn son, I began to wish that he
could be born clean, without this fire. I didn’t want to give him all of my pain and mistakes. I
wanted him to have his own path.
At that time I had also been reading just about everything that Jack London wrote. And I was
taken with this ideas of legacy and the calling back of ancestors.
And it was instantaneous. I had a story that I had to tell. And so I went out to find somebody to
write with, because I simply cannot write alone—I’m a filmmaker because I like working with
others. If I wanted to do things alone I would be a painter.
My agent at the time introduced me to Ben Coccio, the writer and director of the
underappreciated and great ZERO DAY. We met at the Donut Pub in NYC and he told me he
was from Schenectady. We hit it off—had the same reference points, watched the same films
growing up—GOODFELLAS was both of our favorite movies, we had read the same books, and
we both had this connection to Schenectady. And he just latched on to the idea and he just lit it
up. I went off to make BLUE VALENTINE and he started writing THE PLACE BEYOND THE
PINES.
Darius Marder also wrote on the film.
This movie is so big it took three writers to get it together. Ben worked on the script while I went
off to work on BLUE VALENTINE. And for years, I’d give notes on it and every so often we
would work on it together. And I gotta hand it to Ben, he was working with a script on a massive
scale. His first draft came in at over 160 pages! He would always reference GIANT. And his
script was definitely that—big and ambitious. And then when Ben and I started writing together
we spent a lot of time working it and working it and refining it and making it more and more
concise and efficient.
About four months before we started to shoot my good friend Darius Marder, who directed the
documentary LOOT, got involved. LOOT was all about fathers and sons and men who were
haunted by their past, and Darius just really had a handle on those themes and on the story. We
also have kids in the same school in Brooklyn and writing together just kind of evolved out of
dropping our kids off in the morning and writing all day until we had to go pick them up. And the
story and characters just continued to gel. By the time we shot, we hit 37 drafts.
And, just as with BLUE VALENTINE, I consider all of the actors in the film to be additional cowriters. I was always urging them to throw away the script and make it fresh, make it alive,
make it true.
This is a much bigger cast than BLUE VALENTINE. How did that affect your shooting
style?
One thing that I feel really fortunate about was the universal commitment from all of the actors
involved in this film. There were no fancy hotels in Schenectady, we couldn’t afford big trailers
for them, we had a shoot and a preparation schedule that required incredible amounts of their
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time and energy, and we were shooting in places with swarming bee hives and mosquito
infestations. I never heard a complaint. Everybody was there to play on the same team and
leave it out on the playing field.
Talk about Eva Mendes and what she brings to the film and the role of Romina.
I had met Eva just after I did BLUE VALENTINE and I had always been a fan of her work,
especially her work in James Gray’s WE OWN THE NIGHT. She has such a magnetic screen
presence but she seemed to often end up in gratuitous roles as the sex object – although I liked
how she played with that in THE OTHER GUYS. As PINES started looking like a reality I met
with a number of actresses, but I kept thinking about Eva. I had a hunch that, if given the
chance, she could really knock this role out of the park. And she came to the audition with no
makeup on, still looking beautiful, of course, but trying her hardest not to look beautiful. And it
just meant so much to me that she did that. So instead of having her audition, I asked her to
take me for a ride around Los Angeles and show me the places where she grew up. And, sitting
in her passenger’s seat, I saw there was this deep, thoughtful, warm, generous, and
unpredictable person inside of Eva. She opened up about herself, her life, her past, and so I
offered her the role.
The first scene we shot with her was the sex scene in the trailer with Ryan. And I know she was
terrified to do it because she was trembling. But she is a brave soul. She embraced her fear and
confronted it and bared her soul immediately. The crew was very small that day, and we were
all left speechless and inspired by her bravery. And that just continued everyday on set.
Her and Ryan had known each other a little before we shot and that history really added a
tangible dimension to their relationship on screen.
What was the rehearsal process like? Was there extensive improvisation like Blue
Valentine?
Yes. To me, process is everything. The experience of making a film is more important to me
than the film itself. I love shooting. I love working with actors. I love being surprised. I love
making discoveries. I love it when things break, don’t go as planned, etc.
On BLUE we were dealing with love as a theme. And that’s a universal thing. Everyone knows
what it feels like to be in love. And so the points of reference for the actors were inside
themselves. With PINES, not everyone has robbed a bank, not everyone has been a cop, etc.
So we had to go to the well and do a lot more research.
For instance, Ben Mendelsohn and I spent a lot of time with this great guy who had robbed a
half-dozen banks in Schenectady. He was fresh out of prison and very open with us about
everything. I remember him saying, “the one thing movies get wrong is that bank robberies are
messy in real life and in movies they are always perfect.” We tried to make him proud.
Bradley and Ray Liotta and Gabe Fazio and Luca Pierrucci spent a great deal of time with the
real police department up there, riding along with officers, getting invited over for family feasts,
etc.
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It was total and complete immersion into that world. And in that immersion, we learned
everything we needed. And that was the key – we were open to throwing everything away if it
wasn’t true.
And we did this process with every performer in the film. Rose Byrne spent time with divorced
wives of cops and then she spent countless days playing house with Bradley. These are days
where we aren’t shooting, mind you. These are days where they were learning how to live
together. When an actor of Rose’s caliber commits herself like this, it is a true gift. Bruce
Greenwood shadowed the Schenectady D.A. for a week. Etc.
I am very proud and eternally indebted to every one of them. Ray Liotta is the best. He is kind of
like a human knife that guy, because he is just so sharp and he will cut you if you’re not
watching out. The fact that Ray Liotta is actually in one of my movies is like a dream come true.
I mean, I watched GOODFELLAS 30 times in the movie theater when I was 16 years old. And
Mahershala Ali is another great actor, with not an easy role to play. At the end of the movie he
becomes the best father in the film, but he has a lot of pain to deal with, and a lot of tension to
get there. And Ben Mendelsohn is one of the all time great actors. He definitely taught me a lot
and I have the deepest respect for him. Also Robert Clohessy, Harris Yulin, Gabe Fazio. I really
had a dream cast.
Can you talk about the action scenes?
One thing BLUE VALENTINE was noted for was its frank sexuality. Well, on PINES I wanted to
approach the action scenes in the same way. That meant that Ryan had to learn how to ride a
motorcycle. There is one scene in the film where Ryan has to go into a bank, rob it, leave the
bank, get on his motorcycle, and drive at tremendously fast speeds through a busy intersection
while he is pursued by a cop. All of this happens in a single take. No cuts. No place to do a
“Texas switch.” So Ryan had to become very proficient on his bike. He trained with Rick Miller,
one of the great Hollywood stunt men. And he just took our breath away. In order to get the
aforementioned scene completed, Ryan had to do 18 takes. It was a little crazy.
Of course, some scenes required stunt men. And I was blessed with a really great team of stunt
drivers led by Brian Smyj. And I think they were all excited to be a part of this film because
normally they would risk their lives doing a stunt for a Michael Bay movie or something and then
go see the final film and see their death defying feat reduced to 14 frames of movie. I didn’t
want to cut in the action scenes. COPS and AMERICA’S WILDEST POLICE CHASES were my
points of reference. And the stunt guys and gals were turned on by that. I will never forget the
feeling in my stomach though watching Ricky Miller lay down his bike at 65 miles per hour for a
shot—twice. Those guys are true warriors.
Let’s talk about the boys. The third story flashes forward 15 years later.
In a way, the first 2 acts of this movie serve as prologue to the 3rd. The 3rd part of this film is
where it becomes about legacy. Part 3 is really the movie.
In terms of Ryan’s kid (Dane DeHaan), he does come from a very warm home, he has good
parents, he has a lot of love in his house. He has a good stepfather, a good mother, but there’s
something missing from his life and he knows it. And he had been lied to, protected from that
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truth, and that mystery won’t let him go. Yes, he is a good kid but he needs to know the truth,
and he’s a hero because he searches for that truth even if it destroys him.
The other kid, Avery’s son AJ (Emory Cohen), is a kid who seemingly has a lot: born into
money, he has his mother’s love and attention, but he doesn’t have is his father present in his
life.
Both of these boys are missing a father, and they both deal with it in different ways. AJ doesn’t
really have a connection with his father and is really hurt by that and everything he does is
screaming for attention from his dad. He puts up this barrier to show he is not hurting. AJ is a
really tragic character— this over privileged kid who is extremely charismatic, charming, popular
and has a lot of the attributes of his father, but is so deeply wounded. It fills him with a great
deal of self-loathing and self-hate.
Talk about casting these kids.
Filling the shoes of Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper is a mighty task. I auditioned over 500
kids for these roles and found, very late in the casting process Dane Dehaan and Emory Cohen.
Working with the two of them was so thrilling because they are both so good and so fresh.
And just as Ryan and Bradley are opposing dualities, so are the kids. I remember the first
audition I had with the two of them and I asked them who their favorite actor was. And it turned
into a huge fight between them with Dane insisting it was either James Dean or Al Pacino and
Emory insisting it was either Marlon Brando or Robert DeNiro. Once we got on set, I just let that
dynamic go.
You spent over a decade trying to make BLUE VALENTINE, what was it like getting the
financing for this film.
During the 12 years I spent on the bench waiting to make BLUE VALENTINE, I kept myself
busy preparing for other opportunities. And because BLUE had some level of success, I was
able to put PINES together rather quickly.
The crew over at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment really got the script and from my first meeting
with them it was clear that they were passionate and interested in seeing the best version of the
film. I am very thankful to them. They gave me a lot of trust and a lot of space and a lot of time
to make the film the way I wanted. They also pushed me to go further where and when I needed
to and they gave me the right boundaries. I feel like boundaries are important for a filmmaker
like me. It lets me know where the edge is. And so I can play very close to the edge and not fall
off. Without a boundary, I might just go on forever and get lost.
What was the craziest thing to happen during production.
Hurricane Irene struck and Schenectady was hit with the biggest floods in 500 years. The night
before she struck, I had to move my family out of the house where we were staying. The next
morning the house was under 15 feet of water. It was really devastating to the town. We had to
cancel production for 1 day because our equipment trucks were buried under water. The
scariest thing was when I found out that we had 2 days worth of shot film on one of the trucks. I
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was beside myself because I’ve lost film negative before and it is like death. The camera
department, led by first AC Ludovic Littee took a canoe out to the trucks and rescued our film.
that guy is my hero for real.
Let’s talk about your design team.
The production designer was Inball Weinberg who did BLUE VALENTINE with me. I love
working with her because she never hesitates to disagree with me and fight for her ideas. She
was in the Israeli army and I just love her spirit and her taste. She has a way of going into
places and making them iconic without being quirky. She made every room of every house fully
functional, even if we weren’t going to be shooting in those rooms. Since we were shooting in so
many live locations, this allowed the actors to continue living in the real world.
The DP was Sean Bobbitt. I originally had planned on using Andrij Parekh who did BLUE
VALENTINE, but he had this vision one night that he was going to die if he did PINES and so he
dropped out. I’m not kidding. So I met a number of DPs and when I met with Sean, he was
telling me things about his process, the way he approaches his work and how he prefers using
handheld cameras and natural lighting, and his theories on camera movement, etc. I had come
to find out that Sean was a war photographer and I asked him if he thought he was going to die
doing Pines and he said, “No, he had been to war many times.” He was just fearless and he
helped us all be fearless in the film. We knew the first shot of this film should be an epic shot. It
should take us, like a dream, from the space of Luke’s trailer, through a working fairground, and
into a circus tent where HANDSOME LUKE AND THE HEARTTHROBS would begin riding their
motorcycles in a metal globe of death upside down. And Sean had wanted to go inside of that
globe (where the motorcycle riders race). He suited up in armor and we did the whole 5 minute
shot and he went in the center of the globe and it was a beautiful shot and I’m watching the
monitor and I hear a crash. The monitor that I’m looking at goes fuzzy and I look over at the
globe and I see Sean on the bottom of a pile of 3 motorcycles. He was run over. The
paramedics run in and everyone’s asking if he’s ok. Sean gets up and he’s not okay – he’s
angry he didn’t get the shot!! And he says, “Let’s do it again.” And I said, “Sean, don’t do it
again.” And he said, “I’m doing it again. We must get this shot and go to the center of it.” So we
went back, filmed from the trailer all the way into the center of the globe of death, and again at
the same exact moment, the monitor goes static and I look up to find Sean under a pile of
motorcycles again. This time he was even more shaken up and even angrier at himself for not
getting the shot. We cancelled the shoot for that night. Then later, at around 3AM, Sean woke
up in the hotel and didn’t know what country he was in. So we took him to the emergency room
and he had a concussion. And the next night we did it again, and I forced him not go inside, but
he is a warrior. To me, Bobbitt has such a strong composition and I wanted this to be like a story
book. Like flipping through the pages of a mythical storybook.
The costumer was Erin Benach who did BLUE VALENTINE. I don’t ever want to make a movie
without her— because she creates such iconic clothes for people to wear. And, even more
importantly, she collaborates with the actors to find clothes that help them to discover their
characters. I also completely trust her.
My producers—Jamie Patricof, Lynette Howell, and Alex Orlovsky—they are the greatest. I
hope to make every movie with them. They were the first people to read the script (besides
Ryan) and they are the perfect storm of producers. They challenge me. They aren’t pushovers.
And when they have to, they defend me. They push protect me and that’s exactly what I want
out of a producer. They make the crazy dreams in my head come true.
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Editing this film was a beast. And I hate editing. It is murder. The only thing that makes it
bearable for me is the fact that 2 of my closest friends edited this movie. I have been working
with Jim Helton for about twenty years and Ron Patane about ten. Editing this movie was like
climbing Everest. Our first rough cut took us six months and it was three and a half hours long.
We had been trying to get to the Cannes deadline but we just couldn’t get it done in time. It took
nine months to edit the film. There’s a lot of story to get through and characters to explore, and
we had a boundary of 2 hours and 20 minutes to tell it in, and that took us nine months. It was a
full pregnancy editing this film— seven days a week sixteen hours a day for nine months.
And the score…
When I was a teenager the single greatest concert I ever went to was Mr. Bungle in Denver in
1991. I remember Mike Patton, wearing a bondage mask and horse blinders, licking the head of
a bald bouncer. From that moment forward, he became my hero. I always felt his music was so
cinematic, and for all my high school films I always put his music on. So when I had the chance
to pick a composer for PINES, Mike and I kind of just bumped into each other. He had read the
script and his brother is a police officer and it just felt like it was fate. And so we worked
together, and it was another dream come true for me to be able to work with Mike Patton. He
understood the haunted qualities of the movie right away.
What do you hope audiences take away from the film?
I’m not a message filmmaker. I just want people to be entertained by it—to be absorbed by it
and to take what they will into their own lives. The best response I’ve heard so far to the film
came from a very well respected and powerful man, who for the purposes of this interview will
remain nameless. After seeing the film, he told me, he cancelled the business dinner he had
that night. Then he called his ex-wife and asked her, “I know it’s your night tonight, but can I
come pick him up?” He then drove across town and picked up his teenage son, brought him
home, and they spent the night together.
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THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
About the Cast
RYAN GOSLING (Luke)
Landing the controversial lead role in the film, The Believer, was a career breakthrough for Ryan
Gosling. After his performance garnered rave reviews and industry-wide attention, Gosling won
the ‘Grand Jury Prize’ at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. He also received ‘Best Actor’
nominations from the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the London Film Critics’ Circle.
Gosling received strong critical praise for his follow-up performances in both the independent
feature The Slaughter Rule, opposite David Morse and the psychological thriller, Murder By
Numbers, opposite Sandra Bullock. His penchant for taking on challenging and complex
characters led him to take the title role in The United States of Leland, opposite Kevin Spacey
and Don Cheadle. Subsequently, he starred in the blockbuster romantic drama The Notebook
and the New Line thriller, Fracture, opposite Anthony Hopkins. In 2004, he was lauded as
‘ShoWest’s Male Star of Tomorrow’.
In 2007, Gosling received an Academy Award Nomination for ‘Best Actor’ for his role in Half
Nelson as Dan, a drug-addicted inner city junior high school teacher. He also garnered ‘Best
Actor’ nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the
Film Independent Spirit Awards, the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Online Film Critics’
Society, the Toronto Film Critics Association, and the Satellite Awards. He received the ‘Male
Breakthrough Performance Award’ from the National Board of Review and won ‘Best Actor
Awards’ from both the Seattle and Stockholm International Film Festivals.
The following year Gosling was honored again with both a Golden Globe and SAG Actor
nomination for his work in Lars and The Real Girl and once more by the HFPA in 2011for the
drama Blue Valentine, opposite Michelle Williams.
Last year, Gosling starred alongside Steve Carell and Julianne Moore in the marital crisis
comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love; Drive, an action film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn; and
George Clooney’s The Ides of March. He is currently in production on Warner Bros’ Gangster
Squad, directed by Ruben Fleischer, as well as Terrence Malick’s latest untitled project. Today
Gosling continues to be noticed as “one of the most exciting actors of his generation,” as
declared by Manohla Dargis, critic for The New York Times.
BRADLEY COOPER (Avery)
With extensive training and experience in theater, television and film, Bradley Cooper is one of
the industry’s most sought after actors. Recently, Cooper signed a two-year, first-look deal with
Warner Brothers announcing his production company, 22 & Indiana Pictures.
This summer, Cooper starred on the Nikos Stage in Williamstown, PA in The Elephant Man.
Directed by Scott Ellis and starring alongside Patricia Clarkson, this marks Coopers second run
at the theatre in which he first performed The Understudy in 2008.
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Cooper recently wrapped production on the independent drama Serena, based on the
adaptation of Ron Rash’s period novel. Directed by Oscar winner Suzanne Bier, Serena takes
place in a depression-era, 1929 North Carolina and follows the story of traveling newlyweds
George (Cooper) and Serena (Lawrence) Pemberton looking to make their fortune in the timber
business. When they realize Serena is not able to bear children, she attempts to murder
George’s illegitimate son.
Cooper will next be seen in the action comedy Hit & Run, romantic drama The Words, and The
Silver Linings Playbook. In Hit & Run, Cooper stars opposite Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard as a
misfit criminal chasing a couple in a fast-paced road trip. Hit & Run was written and directed by
Dax Shepard and will be released by Open Road Films on August 22nd, 2012. In The Words,
Cooper stars opposite Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, and Dennis Quaid and portrays a writer at
the peak of his literary career when he discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing
another man's work. The film is written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal and
will be released by CBS Films on September 7th, 2012. Directed by David O’ Russell, The Silver
Linings Playbook is an adaptation of the Matthew Quick serio-comic novel. The film also stars
Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver and follows the story of a former high
school teacher (Cooper) who returns home after four years in a mental institution and moves
back in with his parents to reconcile his relationship with his estranged wife. The Silver Linings
Playbook will be released on November 21st, 2012 by The Weinstein Company.
Later this year, Cooper will be seen in the Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine) thriller, The Place
Beyond The Pines alongside Ryan Gosling, Rose Byrne and Eva Mendes. The film follows
Gosling, a professional motorcycle stunt rider who turns to bank robberies to support his family.
When he crosses paths with a rookie police officer (Cooper) there confrontation spirals into a
generational feud.
In May 2011, Cooper starred opposite Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha in the
Warner Brothers comedy sequel The Hangover Part II directed by Todd Phillips. The opening
weekend of the film marked the highest-grossing worldwide opening for any comedy and in
June 2011, the film out-grossed the original Hangover in worldwide earnings to become the
highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time. This September, Cooper, Galifianakis and Helms
will reprise their roles in the final installation, The Hangover Part III which will be released by
Warner Brothers on May 24, 2013.
In 2010, Cooper was seen on The A-Team, a remake based on the original television series.
Cooper played the role of Lt. Templeton (Faceman) Peck starring opposite Liam Neeson,
Jessica Biel, Sharlto Copley and Quinton (Rampage) Jackson. Directed by Joe Carnahan, 20th
Century Fox released the film on June 11, 2010.
In 2009, Cooper starred in New York I Love You, the American version of the acclaimed film,
Paris, Je T’aime and the hit comedy He’s Just Not That Into You opposite Jennifer Connelly and
Scarlett Johansson and based on The New York Times’ best-selling novel by Greg Behrendt
and Liz Tuccillo. Cooper’s other film roles include the box office success Yes Man opposite Jim
Carrey, All About Steve, Wedding Crashers opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in which
he came to prominence portraying a quintessential jerk and the 2001 cult favorite Wet Hot
American Summer, opposite Janeane Garofalo, Molly Shannon, Paul Rudd, and directed by
David Wain.
Cooper made his Broadway debut in the spring of 2006 in Joe Montello’s production of Three
Days of Rain opposite Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd. In July 2008, Cooper joined the cast of the
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critically acclaimed Theresa Rebeck play The Understudy, which premiered at Williamstown
Theatre Festival to rave reviews and sold out performances.
In 2009, Cooper reprised his role as Aidan Stone on the critically acclaimed F/X drama Nip/Tuck
who’s sixth season premiered this January. In 2005, Cooper starred in Fox’s single camera
comedy Kitchen Confidential based on the trials and tribulations of renowned chef Anthony
Bourdain. Other television credits include the Golden Globe nominated series Alias, Jack &
Bobby, Touching Evil, Law & Order: SVU and Trial By Jury.
Born in Philadelphia, PA, Cooper graduated with honors in the English program at Georgetown
University. After moving to New York City, he obtained his Masters in the Fine Arts program at
the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School University.
Cooper currently resides in Los Angeles.
EVA MENDES (Romina)
Eva Mendes captured the attention of moviegoers in a small, but pivotal role in the criticallyacclaimed film, Training Day. Since then, she has proven she is adept in both comedic and
dramatic roles. Since arriving on the motion picture scene, she has had the opportunity to work
with an esteemed and diverse group of directors and co-stars, earning the reputation as a
serious actress who is committed to her craft.
Mendes’ first serious role came when she was cast as Denzel Washington’s girlfriend in
Training Day, for director Antoine Fuqua. Her portrayal led to the celebrated director, Carl
Franklin, hiring Mendes for the MGM feature Out of Time, starring opposite Denzel Washington
once again. The same year, Mendes appeared in Robert Rodriguez’s Once Upon A Time in
Mexico opposite Johnny Depp. She also starred in the action blockbuster 2 Fast 2 Furious, the
comedic All About the Benjamins opposite Ice Cube, and the Farrelly Brothers comedy, Stuck
on You, opposite Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear.
Eva went on to star opposite Will Smith and Kevin James in the Columbia Pictures comedy
blockbuster, Hitch. She subsequently co-starred in Trust the Man, opposite Julianne Moore,
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup, directed by Bart Freundlich and she starred opposite
Nicolas Cage in Sony Pictures’ supernatural action-adventure, “Ghost Rider,” based on the
Marvel Comic, which broke box office records around the world in its opening weekend,
grossing over $200 million worldwide.
She starred in the gritty, critically-acclaimed 2007 drama, We Own the Night, opposite Joaquin
Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg and Robert Duval, as well as the independent feature, LIVE!, which
also marked her debut as an executive producer. Eva co-starred in the all-star remake of The
Women, for director/writer/producer Diane English, with Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra
Messing and Jada Pinkett-Smith, as well as the fantasy thriller, The Spirit, opposite Samuel L.
Jackson, Gabriel Macht and Scarlett Johanssen, directed by Sin City and 300 creator Frank
Miller. She went on to reunite with Cage in Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New
Orleans, and played the female lead in the comedy, The Other Guys, alongside Will Ferrell and
Mark Wahlberg. Eva starred in the relationship drama, Last Night, opposite Keira Knightley and
Sam Worthington.
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In May, Eva was seen in the independent drama, Girl in Progress. She has completed Derek
Cianfrance's follow-up to his critically-acclaimed Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, a
drama in which she stars opposite Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper. The film is set to
premiere at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival. Next up, Eva appears in the French feature Holy
Motors set to premiere in the UK in September.
Eva has been a part of numerous prestigious international advertising and endorsement
campaigns. She is currently the face of Thierry Mugler’s Angel Eau de Parfum and Angel Eau
de Toilette and sings the classic, “Windmills of My Mind” over the spots. She is also currently a
celebrity ambassador for Pantene and Reebok’s EasyTone footwear line. She has shown her
comedic prowess in such Funny or Die videos as S.E.X. Tape and Pimps Don’t Cry, a duet with
Cee-Lo Green, which is featured in The Other Guys.
Eva participated in Glamour Reel Moments, a program that gives women in Hollywood the
opportunity to direct a short film based on readers’ real life stories. She debuted her short,
entitled California Romanza, in October 2010.
Design and textiles have always been a passion of Eva's, which led to the launch of an original
home décor line, Vida. Her first Vida bedding collection debuted exclusively at Macy’s stores
across the country in 2008 and a tabletop collection, Vida for Espana, was introduced in 2009.
Mendes, who is Cuban-American, was born in Miami in 1975 and raised in Los Angeles, where
her mother was as an accountant for an aerospace company and her father worked as a meat
distributor.
MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ ALI (Kofi)
Born in Oakland, California, Mahershala Ali was raised in the neighboring city of Hayward by his
parents and extended family. Ali played basketball for St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California
(just east of Berkeley), where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications.
He began taking acting classes in his junior year, and in his senior year, he had a featured role
in the school’s production of Spunk.
The summer after his graduation, Ali made his professional debut performing for a season with
the California Shakespeare Festival in Orinda, California, where he also served as an
apprentice. Soon after, he was accepted into graduate school at New York University, where he
received a Master’s degree in acting.
While at NYU, Ali appeared in productions of Blues for an Alabama Sky, The School for
Scandal, A Lie of the Mind, A Doll’s House, Monkey in the Middle, The Merchant of Venice, The
New Place and Secret Injury, Secret Revenge. His additional stage credits include appearing in
Washington, D.C. at the Arena Stage in the title role of The Great White Hope, and in The Long
Walk and Jack and Jill.
His first TV appearance was as Dr. Trey Sanders on the television drama series Crossing
Jordan. Following a multitude of other prominent guest roles, Ali landed the role of Richard
Tyler, a Korean War pilot, on the critically acclaimed drama The 4400 for three seasons.
In 2010, Ali was seen opposite Julia Ormond in the television film The Wronged Man for which
he subsequently received a 2011 NAACP Nomination For Best Actor in a Television Film.
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In addition to his numerous television credits, Ali’s feature film credits include David Fincher’s
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Wayne Kramer’s Crossing Over starring Harrison Ford,
and Derek Cianfrance’s upcoming The Place Beyond the Pines opposite Ryan Gosling and
Bradley Cooper.
Ali can currently be seen in recurring roles on HBO’s Treme, SyFy’s Alphas, and Netflix’s House
of Cards.
BEN MENDELSOHN (Robin)
Ben Mendelsohn is widely recognized as one of Australia’s most outstanding actors.
Ben recently completed filming on Anne Fontaine’s The Grandmothers with Naomi Watts and
Robin Wright and can currently be seen in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, opposite
Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway. In 2012, Ben will appear in Derek Cianfrance’s The Place
Beyond the Pines with Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper and Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them
Softly, opposite Brad Pitt, which screened in Official Competition at the 2012 Cannes Film
Festival. He has most recently been seen in Joel Schumacher’s Trespass, alongside Nicole
Kidman and Nicholas Cage, and Gary McKendry’s action thriller The Killer Elite, with Clive
Owen, Jason Statham and Robert de Niro, both of which premiered at the 2011 Toronto Film
Festival.
In 2010, Ben starred opposite Guy Pearce in David Michod’s highly acclaimed feature Animal
Kingdom (winner of the Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Jury Prize). His performance in
the film earned him both of Australia’s top awards - an AFI Award and an IF Award for Best
Lead Actor. His other recent work includes Rachel Ward’s feature debut Beautiful Kate
alongside Rachel Griffiths (for which he received an AFI Award nomination for Best Lead Actor),
David Caesar’s Prime Mover, Alex Proyas’ Knowing starring Nicholas Cage and Rose Byrne
and Baz Luhrmann’s Australia.
Ben’s other credits include Vertical Limit, Black and White, Mullet, Cosi, Idiot Box, Metal Skin,
Spotswood, The Big Steal, The Year My Voice Broke and Terrence Malick’s The New World.
Ben has received multiple award nominations for his role as ‘Lewis’ in Love My Way (including a
Logie nomination for ‘Most Outstanding Actor’ and an AFI nomination for ‘Best Lead Actor in a
Television Drama’) and he has played guest lead roles in some of Australia’s most acclaimed
television productions including Halifax F.P., GP, Police Rescue, The Secret Life of Us and
Tangle. For his role in Tangle, Ben won the 2010 ASTRA award for ‘Most Outstanding
Performance by a Male Actor’ and was nominated for the 2010 Silver Logie for ‘Most
Outstanding Actor’.
Throughout his career, Ben has devoted a substantial amount of time to theatre including the
roles of Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar and Tom in The Glass Menagerie for STC. His other
theatre credits include Paul Peplow in My Zinc Bed, Lewis in Cosi for Belvoir Street Theatre and
Andy Pettigrew in The Selection for MTC.
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DANE DEHAAN (Jason)
Dane DeHaan has made a formidable impression on film audiences and is currently one of the
industry’s most sought after actors of his generation. Most recently, DeHaan starred in 20 th
Century Fox’s box office hit, Chronicle. Chronicle was released on February 3, 2012 to rave
reviews. The film follows three teenagers who develop superpowers and chronicle their
experience on video.
DeHaan will next be seen in The Weinstein Company’s Lawless directed by John Hillcoat (The
Road,) starring opposite Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clark, Gary Oldman and Guy
Pearce. The film, set in a depression-era, gritty Virginia, follows three brothers who are part of a
bootlegging gang, illegally selling moonshine. Lawless will be released on Wednesday, August
29, 2012.
Dane recently completed production on the independent film Devil’s Knot opposite Reese
Witherspoon and Colin Firth. The film is based on the 2002 crime book by Mara Leveritt, Devil's
Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, about the 1993 savage murders of three
young children and the controversial trial of three teenagers accused of the killings.
Earlier this year, DeHaan wrapped production on the independent film, Kill Your Darlings.
Directed by John Krokidas, Kill Your Darlings is loosely based on the life of poet Allen Ginsberg.
DeHaan portrays Ginsberg’s friend, Lucien Carr, who documented their years together at
school. The film tells the story of the 1944 untold murder bringing together a young Allen
Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, played by Daniel Radcliffe, Ben Foster and
Jack Huston. DeHaan also completed production on and the independent film, The Place
Beyond the Pines directed by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine). DeHaan stars opposite Ryan
Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes as Gosling’s young son Jason. The Place Beyond
the Pines will debut on Friday, September 7th at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
DeHaan, most known for his portrayal of Jesse on HBO’s critically acclaimed drama series In
Treatment, starred in the third season of the series alongside Gabriel Byrne. His performance
was lauded as a “revelatory breakthrough” by Variety and “brilliant” by the Chicago Sun Times.
In 2010, DeHaan received an Obie Award for his performance the critically acclaimed OffBroadway production of The Aliens, directed by Annie Baker. A Rattlestick Theatre production,
The Aliens was given the prestigious honor of ‘Play of the Year’ by The New York Times.
DeHaan made his Broadway debut in 2008 with American Buffalo.
DeHaan began his film career under the direction of two-time Oscar Nominee John Sayles and
opposite Chris Cooper in Amig, released by Variance films in 2011. A graduate of the University
of North Carolina School of the Arts, Dane currently resides in Los Angeles.
EMORY COHEN (AJ)
With three upcoming film projects in 2012, New York City native Emory Cohen, is making his
mark as one of Hollywood's fastest rising young stars. He can be seen in the upcoming The
Place Beyond The Pines, as AJ, alongside Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling, which will debut
at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2012.
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Also set for theatrical release, Emory is the lead in Four, playing June, alongside Wendell
Pierce. Four debuted at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it was reviewed as “A Remarkable
and Moving Portrait of Solitude.” The cast won ‘Best Performance in the Narrative Competition.’
Currently, Emory is filming the independent feature Blue Potato as Casper, a dreamer with no
ambition to fuel those dreams. The film is written and produced by Gita Pullapilly and Aron
Gaudet, whose documentary project The Way We Get By won 18 festival awards.
In the fall of 2012 Cohen will reprise his role as ‘Leo’ on NBC’s SMASH as ‘Julia Houston’
(Debra Messing)’s son.
His past film credits include: Tess and Nana, Afterschool, Lucky Dog, Nor’Easter and Hungry
Ghosts, a feature directed by Michael Imperioli.
RAY LIOTTA (Deluca)
With more than 60 feature films to his credit, Ray Liotta has chosen diverse and challenging
roles in both comedies and drama. Liotta started his career with a Golden Globe nominated
performance in Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild and followed this playing the title character
of ‘Eugene’ opposite Tom Hulce in Dominic And Eugene, and then the iconic role of ‘Shoeless
Joe Jackson’ in the Oscar-nominated, Field Of Dreams.
But perhaps the film that brought Liotta his most widespread acclaim was his portrayal of reallife mobster ‘Henry Hill’ in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas starring opposite Robert De Niro and
Joe Pesci. His performance helped the film earn a ‘Best Picture’ Academy Award nomination
and solidified Liotta's status with critics and the public alike.
Liotta continued to create notable performances is films like Copland opposite Robert De Niro
and Harvey Keitel for director James Mangold, Hannibal opposite Anthony Hopkins for director
Ridley Scott, Heartbreakers with Sigourney Weaver, and Blow opposite Johnny Depp.
Liotta then produced and starred in the intense cop drama Narc for director Joe Carnahan. The
film would received critical acclaim and earn Liotta an Independent Spirit Award nomination for
his searing performance as Henry Oak.
Liotta’s upcoming films include The Place Beyond The Pines for director Derek Cianfrance and
opposite Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, and he will next be seen opposite Brad Pitt in
Cogan’s Trade for director Andrew Dominik, The Details opposite Tobey Maguire, and The Son
Of No One opposite Al Pacino and Channing Tatum. He also has a fun cameo in the
Judd Apatow produced comedy, Wanderlust with Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston.
Other recent films include Date Night opposite Tina Fey and Steve Carell,
Observe And Report opposite Seth Rogen, Youth In Revolt opposite Michael Sera, Wild Hogs
opposite Tim Allen and John Travolta, and Smokin’ Aces opposite Ryan Reynolds which would
reunite him with director Joe Carnahan.
Liotta made a guest appearance on the television drama ER which ignited the series ratings and
was the most talked-about episode earning him an Emmy award win for ‘Best Guest Actor’. Also
on Television, Liotta starred in HBO’S The Rat Pack playing Frank Sinatra. His portrayal would
earn Liotta a Screen Actors Guild nomination for ‘Best Actor’.
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For his 2004 Broadway debut opposite Frank Langella in Stephen Belber's Match, Liotta
received a Distinguished Performance honor at the 70th Annual Drama League Awards.
A New Jersey native, Liotta began acting while a student at the University of Miami. He now
resides in Los Angeles, California.
ROSE BYRNE (Jennifer)
In a short amount of time, Rose Byrne has established herself as a rising star of the big screen.
The Australian native commands the attention of filmgoers and television viewers with her
beauty, talent, versatility and poise.
For two consecutive years, Byrne was nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of Ellen
Parsons on the critically acclaimed and Emmy-nominated FX Network series Damages. She
also received a Golden Globe nomination for ‘Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting
Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture’ in 2010 and 2008. The third season finished
airing on FX in May 2010 and the series was picked up by DirecTV for a fourth and fifth season.
The fifth and final season of the Sony-produced series premiered July 2012. Glenn Close costars in the series.
Byrne is scheduled to begin shooting the new comedy The Internship in Atlanta this month
alongside Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. Vaughn and Wilson play men in their forties who
have been laid off and find work as interns at a young and successful Internet company. Byrne
plays a manager with a wandering eye.
Last year, Byrne starred seen in three blockbuster films. The first film Insidious is a paranormal
thriller co-starring Patrick Wilson. In the film, she portrays the mother of a young boy who is
haunted by a paranormal channel, from which she and her husband (Wilson) must rescue him.
The film is directed by James Wan (Saw) and produced by Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity). It
screened at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival and was released April 1, 2011.
Byrne also appeared in the comedy Bridesmaids, which was written by and co-stars Kristin Wiig
(Saturday Night Live). Bridesmaids marked Byrne’s second collaboration with comedy producer
Judd Apatow and Universal Pictures. Byrne and Wiig portray rival bridesmaids in the film which
was released on May 13, 2011. The film won multiple awards including ‘AFI Movie of the Year’
for the AFI Film Awards, ‘Best Ensemble’ for the 2011 New York Film Critics Online Awards,
‘Favorite Comedy Movie’ for the 2012 People’s Choice Awards and was nominated for ‘Best
Original Screenplay’ for the 2012 Academy Awards, ‘Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a
Motion Picture’ for the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards, ‘Favorite Movie and Favorite
Ensemble Movie Cast’ for the 2012 People’s Choice Awards, ‘Best Acting Ensemble’ and ‘Best
Comedy’ for the 2011 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, ‘Best Picture for a Comedy or
Musical’ for the 2011 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Awards, ‘Best Picture’ for the
2011 Producers Guild of America Awards, ‘Best Ensemble’ for the 2011 Screen Actors Guild
Awards, ‘Best Acting Ensemble’ for the 2012 Critics Choice Awards and ‘Best Motion Picture’
for the 2012 Golden Globes.
In addition to both in Insidious and Bridesmaids, Byrne starred in the prequel to the X-Men
franchise, X Men: First Class as CIA agent Moira MacTaggert. The latest film in the franchise
provides an origin foundation for the series and co-stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender,
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January Jones, Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Lawrence. The film was released on June 3, 2011
and brought in over $50 million dollars at the box office in its opening weekend.
Byrne starred in producer Judd Apatow’s 2010 film Get Him to the Greek. Written by the film’s
director Nicolas Stoller and Jason Segal, Get Him to the Greek is a spin-off of 2008’s hit
Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Russell Brand reprises his role as Aldous Snow, the rocker exboyfriend of Byrne’s ‘Jackie Q,’ an outrageous pop star. Jonah Hill and Sean Combs also star.
Universal Pictures released the film on June 4, 2010.
Illustrating her inimitable range and versatility, Byrne co-starred alongside Nicolas Cage in the
mega-thriller Knowing. The film was released by Summit Entertainment on March 20, 2009 and
came in number one at the box office on its opening weekend.
Also in 2009, Byrne co-starred in Adam, a unique love story set against the backdrop of
Manhattan, with thespians Hugh Dancy and Peter Gallagher. The film was purchased by Fox
Searchlight at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was released on July 29, 2009.
Her additional credits include Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, the sci-fi thrillers 28 Weeks
Later and Danny Boyle’s Sunshine, critically acclaimed independent film The Dead Girl,
Wolfgang Peterson’s epic Troy opposite Brad Pitt, Paul McGuigan’s thriller Wicker Park with
Josh Hartnett, the acclaimed I Capture Castle, based on the classic English romance, the BBC
Drama Cassanova with Peter O’Toole and Danny Green’s The Tenants opposite Dylan
McDermott.
Byrne’s fame in Australia began with her role in the gritty crime comedy Two Hands in which
she starred with Heath Ledger. She went on to star in Clara Law’s The Goddess of 1967 for
which she was awarded ‘Best Actress’ at the Venice Film Festival.
Byrne resides in New York, Los Angeles and Australia.
BRUCE GREENWOOD (Bill Killcullen)
Bruce Greenwood most recently starred in the ABC Horror/Drama series The River as wildlife
explorer and TV personality Emmet Cole who goes looking for magic in the uncharted Amazon
and disappears while his family and friends set out on a mysterious and deadly journey to find
him. Oren Peli, creator of Paranormal Activity and Steven Spielberg are Executive Producers.
He will next be seen in the drama Flight opposite Denzel Washington for Paramount Pictures,
directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film centers on airline pilot Whip (Washington) with substance
abuse issues who steers an endangered flight to a crash-landing, saving nearly all passengers.
Greenwood plays Charlie, the president of the Pilots’ Union who used to fly with Whip and tries
to help him through a scandal. The film is slated for a November 2012 release.
He just wrapped production on Devils' Knot drawn from the book by the same name opposite
Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth for acclaimed Canadian director Atom Egoyan and marks
their fourth film together. His 3 previous films include a leading role in Exotica as a tax inspector
obsessed with a stripper. The film was nominated for the Palm D’Or at Cannes and named ‘Best
Canadian Feature Film’ at the Toronto International Film Festival. He also starred in the drama
The Sweet Hereafter playing a father of two children killed in a tragic bus accident. The film
earned the ‘Jury Grand Prize’ at Cannes and swept the Genie Awards including ‘Best Motion
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Picture’ and also earned him a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor. Additionally he starred
in the drama Ararat.
He recently reprised his role as Captain Christopher Pike in Paramount Pictures next installment
of Star Trek opposite Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana for director J.J. Abrams. The
follow up to the 2009 blockbuster is slated for a 2013 release.
This summer he starred opposite Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper in A Place Beyond the
Pines about a motorcycle stunt rider who considers committing a crime in order to provide for
his family, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician. Greenwood
plays Bill Killcullen an Assistant District Attorney. The film is written and directed by Derek
Cianfrance.
Earlier he starred opposite Steve Carell and Paul Rudd in the comedy Dinner for Schmucks for
director Jay Roach. His other credits include Mao’s Last Dancer for director Bruce Beresford.
The film is based on the best-selling memoir of dancer Li Cunxin, The film premiered as a
Special Presentation at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. The Walt Disney action
thriller National Treasure: Book of Secrets as the President of the United States opposite
Nicholas Cage. In 2007, his dual role in the unconventional biopic of legendary
singer/songwriter Bob Dylan I’m Not There opposite Cate Blanchette and Richard Gere for
writer/director Todd Haynes earned the Independent Spirit Awards inaugural Robert Altman
Award.
He is well known for his outstanding portrayal of President John F. Kennedy negotiating the
Cuban Missile Crisis and its fallout in the riveting drama Thirteen Days, opposite Kevin Costner
and Steven Culp. The film earned Greenwood a Golden Satellite Award for ‘Best Supporting
Actor’.
In 2006 he appeared in the thriller Déjà Vu for director Tony Scott alongside Denzel Washington
and Val Kilmer. In 2005 he starred opposite Philip Seymour as Truman Capote’s partner, writer
Jack Dunphy, in Capote. That performance earned him a Screen Actors Guild Nomination for
‘Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture’.
In 2004 he appeared opposite Will Smith in the sci-fi box office hit I, Robot in which he played a
ruthless CEO of U.S. Robotics who was suspected of murder. That same year he played the
dashing paramour of an aging actress (Annette Bening) in the critically- praised Being Julia.
That role earned him a Genie Award nomination for ‘Best Supporting Actor’.
In 1999 he starred opposite Ashley Judd as a murderous plotting spouse in the suspense thriller
“Double Jeopardy,” which earned him a Blockbuster Entertainment Award nomination for
Favorite Supporting Actor.
Greenwood’s other film credits include Meeks Cutoff opposite Michelle Williams for director
Kelly Reichardt, Barney’s Version, Donovan’s Echo opposite Danny Glover, as well as
Firehouse Dog, Hollywood Homicide, The World’s Fastest Indian, Eight Below, Rules of
Engagement, Racing Stripes, Here on Earth, The Lost Son, Thick as Thieves, Disturbing
Behavior, Passenger 57 and Wild Orchid.
Greenwood also enjoys a diverse and successful career in television. In 2009 he performed in
the Hallmark Hall of Fame holiday movie A Dog Named Christmas, based on the Greg Kincaid
novel. In 2007 he starred in the David Milch HBO series John from Cincinnati.
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Earlier in his career he was a regular as Dr. Seth Griffith on the award-winning series St.
Elsewhere. He also appeared on the critically-acclaimed Larry Sanders Show.
He also starred in the remake of the Magnificent Ambersons, as well as several movies-of- the
week presentations, including The Riverman, for A&E and Saving Millie for CBS.
Bruce and his wife Susan divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and Vancouver.
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THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
About the Filmmakers
DEREK CIANFRANCE (Co-Writer/Director)
Derek attended the University of Colorado’s film school, where he studied under avant-garde
film legends Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon. His first three student films took the university’s
top prize and earned him a Special Dean’s Grant for Achievement in the Arts as well as the
Independent Film Channel’s top award for Excellence in Student Filmmaking.
Derek went on to shoot and edit his first feature, Brother Tied, at the age of 23. The film made
its American premiere at Sundance, where it was lauded as “one of the most striking American
independent debuts in some time” by The Guardian’s Jonathan Romney and hailed as a work of
“visual genius” by Newsday’s John Anderson. The film traveled to over 30 festivals and won
international awards at six of them.
With credentials in narrative filmmaking, Derek ventured into documentary work where he
explored a wide array of subjects and characters for both theatrical exhibition and TV. His work
has includes profiles of such artists as Mos Def, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and Run-DMC. He has
also turned his lens on various topics, from Mixed-Martial Arts fighters for Cagefighter, to
Vietnam veteran biker clubs for Rolling Thunder-Ride For Freedom.
Serving as director of photography, Derek revealed teen racing and Hispanic subculture in
Streets Of Legend for which he won the Excellence in Cinematography Award at Sundance
2003. Derek has also directed numerous commercials and various high profile branded content
work including the pioneering internet serial Meet The Lucky Ones which made Adweek’s Top
Ten Ad Campaigns of 2004, and the award-winning internet documentary Ford: Bold Moves,
which he co-directed with documentary legends Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. Other
campaigns, for which Derek has directed, include ESPN, Honda, the University of Phoenix, and
Apple.
His second feature, Blue Valentine, had its premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The
Weinstein Company immediately acquired the film, which starred Ryan Gosling and Michelle
Williams. Gosling and Williams received a great deal of critical recognition for their roles,
including ‘Best Actor’ and ‘Best Actress’ Golden Globe nominations and a ‘Best Actress’ Oscar
nomination for Williams.
Derek's most recent feature, The Place Beyond The Pines, stars Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper,
and Eva Mendes. He is also at work on an adaptation of the memoir Muscle for HBO.
JAMIE PATRICOF (Producer)
Jamie Patricof is a co-founder of Electric City Entertainment, a production company based in
Los Angeles. In 2010 he completed Blue Valentine, a film co-written and directed by Derek
Cianfrance, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, which premiered at Sundance 2010
and was released by The Weinstein Company. The film earned multiple Golden Globe
nominations as well as a ‘Best Actress’ nomination for Williams. His most recent film Little Birds,
written and directed by Elgin James, debuted at Sundance 2011 and will be released later this
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year by Millennium Entertainment.
Currently, Patricof is in post-production on The Place Beyond The Pines, the latest film by
director Derek Cianfrance, The film stars Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Rose
Byrne and Ray Liotta.
His first feature, Half Nelson, by filmmakers Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden, premiered in 2006 and
garnered significant awards attention, highlighted by Spirit and Gotham Award victories as well
as an Academy Award nomination for star Ryan Gosling. Patricof later produced Fleck and
Boden’s sophomore feature Sugar.
Patricof is an Executive Producer for the The Rachel Zoe Project on Bravo. His documentary for
ESPN’s 30/30 series, Straight Outta L.A., directed by Ice Cube, debuted at the 2010 Tribeca
Film Festival. Patricof executive produced Players: Ludacris and Run DMC and Jam Master
Jay: The Last Interview for VH1. Prior to that, he produced ESPN’s Emmy nominated series The
Life, a behind-the-scenes look at athletes’ lives off the field.
He lives with his wife and two daughters in Los Angeles.
LYNETTE HOWELL (Producer)
In January 2012, Lynette Howell ventured with longtime producing partner, Jamie Patricof, in
launching, Electric City Entertainment, a filmmaker driven Production Company based in Los
Angeles. Their first film under the Electric City banner is Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond
The Pines starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, and Eva Mendes, which will have its world
premiere at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival.
Lynette also recently completed Matt Ross’s directorial debut 28 Hotel Rooms starring Chris
Messina and Marin Ireland, which had its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival
and will be released by Oscilloscope later this year.
Lynette’s most recent films include: Blue Valentine directed by Derek Cianfrance and starring
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams in performances that garnered Golden Globe nominations
for both actors and an Oscar nomination for Michelle. The film premiered at the 2010
Sundance, Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals and was released by The Weinstein Company.
Other movies produced by Lynette in release last year include Terri written by Patrick deWitt
and directed by Azazel Jacobs, starring Jacob Wysocki and John C. Reilly, which was released
by ATO Pictures and premiered in competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Also in
competition that year was On The Ice written and directed by Sundance Lab alum Andrew
Okpeaha MacLean. The film also competed at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it
won the ‘Crystal Bear Award’ and ‘Best First Feature’. Last year Lynette also completed Shark
Night 3D, which was released by Relativity Media Labor Day Weekend 2011; and The Space
Between written and directed by Travis Fine, starring Melissa Leo, Anthony Keyvan and
AnnaSophia Robb, which was released on the USA Network on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
Lynette’s previous films include, Half Nelson, directed by Ryan Fleck and starring Ryan Gosling
in a performance which garnered him a ‘Best Actor’ Oscar nomination; Stephanie Daley,
starring Oscar winners Tilda Swinton and Timothy Hutton, and Amber Tamblyn, written and
directed by Hilary Brougher; Mark Heller’s The Passage, which premiered at the 2007 Toronto
International Film Festival; Phoebe In Wonderland, written and directed by Daniel Barnz and
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starring Elle Fanning; The Greatest, starring Pierce Brosnan, Oscar winner Susan Sarandon
and Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan; and An Invisible Sign Of My Own starring Jessica Alba and
Chris Messina.
Originally from Liverpool, England, Lynette began her career in London theatre and then went
on to become the Theatrical Executive for Broadway and West End production company East of
Doheny based in Los Angeles.
Lynette is an Advisor to the Sundance Creative Producing Initiative and Film Independents
Producers Lab. In 2007 Lynette was named in Variety’s ‘Ten Producers to Watch’ list.
ALEX ORLOVSKY (Producer)
In 2012, Alex Orlovsky completed two films, The Place Beyond the Pines, starring Ryan Gosling
and Bradley Cooper and Kiss Of The Damned, directed by Xan Cassavetes. He is also in
production on Towheads, written, directed by and starring performance artist Shannon Plumb.
Previous projects include Terri, directed by Azazel Jacobs, starring Jacob Wysocki and John C
Reilly. It premiered in Competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was released by
ATO Pictures. Prior to that, he produced Blue Valentine, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle
Williams, which was released theatrically by the Weinstein Company and screened at the 2010
Sundance Film Festival, 2010 Cannes Film Festival and at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival. Blue
Valentine was nominated for multiple major awards, including two Golden Globes and an Oscar
nomination for Michelle.
Momma's Man premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and was distributed by
theatrically Kino International. Orlovsky was an Executive Producer on Gerardo Naranjo’s Voy A
Explotar, which premiered at the 2008 Venice Film Festival and was released by IFC Films.
Also premiering at the Venice Film Festival was Natalie Portman’s directorial debut, a short film
called Eve, on which Alex served as Co-Producer.
Previous feature films include Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson, which premiered in August of 2006 and
went on to win three Gotham Awards and two Independent Spirit Awards. Its star, Ryan
Gosling, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Alex was also the producer of
Point and Shoot, which screened at the Tribeca and Hamptons film festivals.
Alex currently sits on the board of Artists Public Domain (APD), a non-profit organization
dedicated to the production of innovative film and media projects. In addition to Momma’s Man,
APD recently premiered Another Earth at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it was
acquired by Fox Searchlight, Josh Fox’s film Memorial Day at the 2008 Cinevegas Film Festival,
and Zero Bridge at the 2008 Venice Film Festival.
Alongside his feature work, Orlovsky has produced fine art projects that have shown at some of
the most prestigious galleries and museums in New York including the Mary Boone Gallery, the
Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art and MoMA. He has also produced music videos, short
films & commercials. He also is a faculty member of the film department of SUNY Purchase.
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SIDNEY KIMMEL (Producer)
Veteran producer Sidney Kimmel is chairman and CEO of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, the
Los Angeles-based motion picture financing and production company.
Active in the motion picture industry for more than 30 years, Kimmel’s passion as an
independent producer throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s eventually led to the founding of
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment in October 2004. The Company develops, finances and produces
three to five features per year, working with esteemed filmmaking talent to create quality,
commercial films.
Prior to his success in filmed entertainment, Kimmel founded Jones Apparel Group in 1975,
which has since grown into a $4.5 billion diversified fashion industry empire. Kimmel also
founded the Sidney Kimmel Foundation and its subsidiary, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for
Cancer Research, which is one of the nation's largest individual donors to cancer research.
Kimmel is extremely involved in philanthropic endeavors benefiting his hometown of
Philadelphia as well as Jewish education and continuity. He oversaw the opening of the Kimmel
Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, home of the world-renowned Philadelphia
Orchestra. He is also a partner in Cipriani International, the acclaimed international restaurant
and catering establishment, and is a part owner of The Miami Heat.
Kimmel and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment co-financed and produced or co-produced more than
35 motion pictures since its inception. Kimmel most recently executive produced Sony’s
Moneyball, and produced the hit thriller The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey,
Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe and William H. Macy, in association with Lakeshore Entertainment
released by Lions Gate Entertainment. Upcoming releases include Stand-Up Guys, directed by
Fisher Stevens, starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin, produced in association
with Lakeshore Entertainment for release by Lions Gate Entertainment; the Taylor Hackford
directed Parker, starring Jennifer Lopez and Jason Statham, in association with Sierra/Affinity
and Incentive Filmed Entertainment, to be released by Film District; and The Place Beyond the
Pines, directed by Derek Cianfrance, starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes,
to premiere at TIFF.
Kimmel financed and produced, both independently and with studio partners, Adventureland,
the Greg Mottola-directed critical hit, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, co-financed
and co-produced with Miramax; Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut of Academy
Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Sony
Pictures Classics; and the remake of its own 2006 British comedy Death at a Funeral, with cowriter/co-producer Chris Rock leading an all-star ensemble cast; the Academy Awardnominated United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass, in association with Universal Pictures, who
was nominated for an Academy Award for his direction of the film; and the critical hit Breach,
starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe and Laura Linney.
Prior Kimmel releases include Marc Forster's The Kite Runner, based on the acclaimed novel of
the same name, produced with DreamWorks Pictures, Participant Productions, and
Parkes/MacDonald Productions, released by Paramount Vantage; the Academy-Award
nominated Lars and the Real Girl, starring Ryan Gosling, Patricia Clarkson, and Emily Mortimer,
directed by Craig Gillespie and released by MGM.
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BEN COCCIO (Writer)
Coccio’s award-winning first feature Zero Day was a controversial hit on the festival circuit
before it premiered theatrically in America. Coccio was nominated for the 2004 ‘Someone to
Watch’ Independent Spirit Award. Recently, he co-wrote The Place Beyond The Pines with
acclaimed director Derek Cianfrance. Ben Coccio studied film at the Rhode Island School Of
Design. He is represented by CAA and Media Talent Group.
DARIUS MARDER (Writer)
Darius Marder is a writer, director and editor. His directorial debut, Loot, premiered on HBO in
2009. Loot was awarded the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the 2008 Los Angeles Film
Festival, was nominated for five Cinema Eye Awards and a Spirit Award.
A long time editor, Darius has worked on films including the Oscar® and Sundance-winning
documentary Freeheld, Emmy award-winning Good Fortune, and the Oscar® nominated Sun
Come Up.
In 2011 Darius collaborated with Derek Cianfrance and Ben Coccio to write the script, The
Place Beyond The Pines starring Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper. Darius lives in Brooklyn,
NY, with his wife and two children.
JIM TAUBER (Executive Producer)
President and COO, Jim Tauber, has extensive experience working on both studio and
independent productions. At SKE he has overseen the company’s financing, production and
distribution of 25 films, including Lars and the Real Girl, The Lincoln Lawyer and the soon to be
released Stand-Up Guys. He joined SKE after a three year stint at Twentieth Century Fox,
where he was Worldwide Executive Vice President, Acquisitions & Co-productions. He formerly
served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Anonymous Content, helping to found and
manage the multimedia company. Tauber segued to Anonymous from Propaganda Films
where, during his tenure as president and COO, he oversaw the production of more than 1000
music videos, 700 commercials and 30 feature films including David Fincher’s The Game and
Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich. While at Propaganda he also helped to create the
theatrical distribution company Gramercy for Polygram. From 1983-91, Tauber was Executive
Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs and Acquisitions for Columbia/Tri-Star Pictures,
responsible for structuring and negotiation for all home video, television and theatrical
acquisition and sales agreements, as well as the production of over fifty films including sex, lies
and videotape, and One False Move.
MATT BERENSON (Executive Producer)
Matt Berenson is President of Production at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, where he has
executive produced and overseen production on films including the upcoming The Place
Beyond The Pines from writer/director Derek Cianfrance, starring Bradley Cooper and Ryan
Gosling. He also served as an executive producer on SKE’s co-production with Lakeshore,
Gone starring Amanda Seyfried, which Summit released February 24, 2012. Upcoming films
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include Stand Up Guys starring Al Pacino and Christopher Walken and Mr. Morgan’s Last Love
starring Michael Caine.
In 2003, he produced Daddy Day Care starring Eddie Murphy with Davis Entertainment. It
grossed $105 million domestic and has sold 5 million DVDs to date. He was also an executive
producer on its sequel, Daddy Day Camp (2007).
Following that, he was President of Production at Carsey-Werner Films for three years, during
which time he produced Universal’s Let’s Go To Prison starring Dax Shepard and Will Arnett.
He also produced the Sony/Revolution comedy The Brothers Solomon starring Will Forte & Will
Arnett, and executive produced Smother starring Diane Keaton and produced by Jay Roach.
Before Carsey-Werner, Berenson was the Executive V.P. of Production for Red Wagon
Entertainment. There, he developed the Robin Williams family comedy RV and was the
executive in charge of production on Dreamworks’ Win A Date With Tad Hamilton.
He also served for two years as the Vice President, Production at Jersey Films, where he
worked on such films as Erin Brockovich and Out Of Sight.
Berenson graduated from Princeton University in 1990 with a B.A. in History.
INBAL WEINBERG (Production Designer)
Inbal Weinberg (Production Design) has been working as a production designer for feature films
and TV since her graduation from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2003 with a B.F.A. in film.
Her film credits include Academy Award nominated Frozen River (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance
Film Festival 2008), Sundance Lab projects Don't Let Me Drown (Sundance Film Festival 2009),
Pariah (Sundance Film Festival 2011) and Return (Cannes Film Festival 2011), and the
comedies Ceremony and Our Idiot Brother, starring Paul Rudd, Zooey Deschanel and Elizabeth
Banks.
Inbal art directed Half Nelson, her first collaboration with Ryan Gosling and with the producing
team behind The Place Beyond The Pines. She then went on to design Derek Cianfrance's
Academy Award nominated Blue Valentine, starring Gosling and Michelle Williams (Sundance
and Cannes Film Festival 2010). The team reunited once more for the filming of The Place
Beyond The Pines in the summer of 2011.
Most recently, Inbal designed The Perks Of Being A Wallflower starring Emma Watson and
Logan Lerman. Inbal is currently in production on The Angriest Man In Brooklyn, a dark comedy
starring Robin Williams and Mila Kunis.
SEAN BOBBITT (Director of Photography)
Sean began his career as a news cameraman in the early 1980s working with the American
Networks covering the major hotspots of the world. He then went on to shoot documentaries
working with such directors as Angus McQueen, Nick Read and Jonathan Miller, and
companies such as Brook Lapping.
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In the late 90’s Sean began shooting drama for both film and television and in 1999 shot
Wonderland for Michael Winterbottom. Other film credits include The Situation directed by
Philip Haas, starring Damian Lewis and Connie Neilson; The Baker directed by Gareth Lewis,
starring Damian Lewis, and Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution for director Billie Eltringham starring Iain
Glenn and Catherine Tate.
In 2008 he shot Director Steve McQueen’s debut feature Hunger, which garnered huge critical
acclaim and won, amongst others, the prestigious Camera d’Or at Cannes. Sean also won a
BIFA Technical Achievement Award for his work. Sean has collaborated with Steve on several
art installations including his 2009 Venice Biennale piece, Giardini.
Television credits include such award winning dramas as Sense And Sensibility (for which Sean
was Emmy-nominated for ‘Best Cinematography’), The Long Firm (for which he received a
BAFTA Nomination for ‘Best Photography’), Canterbury Tales (for which he won an RTS Award
for ‘Best Photography’), and Unforgiven for director David Evans.
2010 was a particularly busy year for Sean, which saw him re-team with Michael Winterbottom
on both Seven Days and The Killer Inside Me. That same year, Sean also shot Africa United
and Hysteria; a romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator. Sean reunited with Steve
McQueen on Shame starring Michael Fassbender and, most recently, Twelve Years A Slave
starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Brad Pitt. Sean also completed Neil Jordan’s Byzantium starring
Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton and Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond The Pines
starring Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes and Bradley Cooper.
ERIN BENACH (Costume Designer)
Erin’s work on Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, starring Carey Mulligan and Ryan Gosling
garnered her a nomination by the Costume Designer’s Guild in 2012. Benach designed the
Lionsgate feature Lincoln Lawyer which stars Ryan Phllippe, Marisa Tomei, and Matthew
McConaughey. She collaborated with director Derek Cianfrance on Blue Valentine pairing her
with actor, Ryan Gosling and the Oscar Nominated actress, Michelle Williams. Erin is
responsible for the costume design on director Ryan Fleck’s Sugar, his follow up feature to
Erin’s first feature, Half Nelson. Derek Cianfrance’s new film The Place Beyond The Pines with
Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendez will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in
September 2012. Erin most recently completed Andrew Niccol’s science fiction feature, The
Host which is currently scheduled for a US release on March 29, 2013.
JIM HELTON (Editor)
Jim Helton is best known for his collaborations with director Derek Cianfrance, having co-edited
Blue Valentine, Black and White: A Portrait of Sean Combs, the upcoming Place Beyond the
Pines and Cagefighter. Jim previously edited, Kill the Ego, The Power of Dreams - Dream the
Impossible, Ironic Iconic America, Lovely by Surprise, Lately There Have Been Many
Misunderstandings in the Zimmerman Home, Battlegrounds: King of the Court, Fade to Black ,
Battlegrounds: King of the World, and Quattro Noza.
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RON PATANE (Editor)
Ron is best known for his collaborations with director Derek Cianfrance, having co-edited the
critically acclaimed Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, as well as The
Place Beyond The Pines with Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, and Eva Mendez, which is set to
premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September. Both films were co-edited with frequent
collaborator Jim Helton. Ron graduated from Vassar College in 1999 with a degree in
Philosophy and shortly thereafter moved to New York and has been working in the film industry
ever since, moving between the worlds of narrative, documentary, experimental film,
commercials, television, and music videos.
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THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
Unit Production Manager
First Assistant Director
Second Assistant
Director
CARRIE FIX
MARIELA COMITINI
BRAD ROBINSON
Associate Producers
KATIE McNEILL
CRYSTAL POWELL
CAST
(In Order of Appearance)
Luke
RYAN GOSLING
Jack
CRAIG VAN HOOK
Romina
EVA MENDES
Malena
OLGA MEREDIZ
ANTHONY ANGELO
PIZZA, JR.
Baby Jason
Kofi
MAHERSHALA ALI
Priest
REV. JOHN FACCI
Robin
BEN MENDELSOHN
Robin's Dogs
TULA
PENNY
Teller #1 - Bank #1
Teller #2 - Bank #1
CYNTHIA PELLETIER-SULLIVAN
MACKENZIE
TRAINOR
Teller #3 - Bank #1
NICOLE CALIFANO
Lady In Ice Cream Shop
SHANNON PLUMB
Teller #1 - Bank #2
TRACEY AGUSTIN
Teller #2 - Bank #2
EAN EGAS
Banker Outside Bank #2
Booking Officer
Arresting Officer
Court Lawyer
Judge #1
Court Officer
BOB DIETERICH
THOMAS MATTICE
ADAM NOWICHI
MARK J. CARUSO
G. DOUGLAS GRISET
VANESSA THORPE
Teller - Bank #3
GAIL MARTINO
Officer Jefferson
BRIAN SMYJ
Avery
Mother At Home
Officer at Shootout Scene
Scott
Jennifer
BRADLEY COOPER
DOROTHY
RUTHERFORD
PAUL STEELE
GABE FAZIO
Baby AJ
ROSE BYRNE
TRAVIS JACKSON
CAMPBELL
TREVOR JACKSON
CAMPBELL
Al Cross
HARRIS YULIN
Nurse
Chief Weirzbowski
JAN LIBERTUCCI
ROBERT CLOHESSY
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Bill Killcullen
Reporter #1
Jennifer’s Mother
Cory Gilbeau
Deluca
Doc Crowley
Reporter #2
Funeral Director
Preacher
BRUCE
GREENWOOD
SUBRINA DHAMMI
HEATHER
CHESTNUT
GRETA SEACAT
RAY LIOTTA
LUCA PIERUCCI
JESSICA LAYTON
JAMES J. GLEASON
PATRICK HUSTED
AJ
EMORY COHEN
Campaign Manager
JOE McCARTHY
Campaign Advisor
JEFREY POLLOCK
Political Media Advisor
LYNETTE HOWELL
Guidance Counselor
SARAH CURCIO
Jason
DANE DEHAAN
Benny
EPHRAIM BENTON
Drug Busting Cop #1
MARK McCRACKEN
Drug Busting Cop #2
ADRIEL LINYEAR
Interrogating Cop
Public Defender
Judge #2
Alex
KEVIN GREEN
JENNIFER SOBER
MELISSA MILLS
ALEX PULLING
Dante
DANTE SHAFER
Vanessa
KAYLA SMALLS
Pharmacy Clerk
Leah
FRANK J. FALVO
LEAH BLIVEN
Whitney
WHITNEY HUDSON
Breanna
BREANNA DOLEN
State Senator
HUGH T. FARLEY
Mr. Anthony
MICHAEL CULLEN
Extra Special Thanks
JEREMIAH
BAGLEY
DR. DAVID
FORD
DEAN DENISIO
GEORGE FORRESTER
KAREN GAZDA
MATT MORTIER
URSULA C.
PASQUERELLA
LAWRENCE C. MICHAELIS
ERIC REYELL
KEVIN CRAIG WEST
Stunt Coordinator
Co-Stunt Coordinator
BRIAN SMYJ
RICKY MILLER
Stunt Drivers
FREDDY ESPOSITO
BOB BECKLES
PEEWEE PIEMONTE
STEPHANIE STOKES
BILLY ANAGNOS
RICH STURTEVANT
MIC OROURK
JOHN FAVRE
JEFFREY GIBSON
EUGENE HARRISON
DON HEWITT, SR.
TIM SMITH
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CHRIS CENATIEMPO
DAVID OTT
FRANK FERRARA
Stunt Camera Driver
CRAIG HUNTER
Stunt Camera Work
LOUIE FRANCO
Luke Stunt Double
RICKY MILLER
Luke Globe Stunt Double
Globe Rider #1
MONTE REX PERLIN
SAMUEL JACK
WAGNER
Globe Rider #2
ERWIN URIAS
Stunts
RYAN GOSLING
BRADLEY COOPER
Loop Group
CHARLES A. BURKS
BLANCA CAMACHO
DAVID CROMMETT
DANN FINK
SELENIS LEYVA
LORI PRINCE
AMANDA RIESCO
SHIRLEY RUMIERK
BRUCE NIELSON WINANT
PRODUCTION
Production Supervisor
Post Production
Supervisor
Sidney Kimmel
Entertainment SVP,
Production
NICOLA
WESTERMANN
LOUISE RUNGE
Location Manager
DYLAN TARASON
MARSHALL
JOHNSON
Script Supervisor
DUSTIN BRICKER
Assistant Editor
Assistant Location
Managers
SAM JAFFE
JEAN PESCE
JENNIFER
SONNENFELD
JARED UHRICH
Production Coordinator
Assistant Production
Coordinator
Production Secretary
Production Accountant
1st Assistant Accountant
2nd Assistant Accountant
Add'l Assistant
Accountant
Payroll Accountant
HOLLY PILCH
MORGAN NEWELL
ETHAN WEINSTOCK
DEREK YIP
PAUL BISCHOT
JUNE FRANCES
COLEMAN
CARISSA O’HARA
MICHAEL WOODY
Accounting Clerk
KEVIN CHANG
Art Director
Art Department
Coordinator
MIKE AHERN
ARTHUR
JONGEWAARD
Art Production Assistants
BRIDGET RAFFERTY
DYLAN PETTENGILL
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Set Decorator
Lead Man
JASMINE BALLOU
MAT KOWALSKI
Set Dressers
FRANK FOSTER
JOHN ASHTON
DAVID BRANUM
JAMES ANZIANO
HENRY BIERNACKI
JOSEPH DELUCA
ROBERT IGOE
DEREK KIRKALDY
On Set Dresser
MATTHEW AMENTA
Property Master
MAX SHERWOOD
Assistant Property Master
MICHAEL POWSNER
Third Props
LIZA DONATELLI
Additional Props
RICHARD PEETE
JERRY DEROGATIS
ISAAC GABAEFF
Motorcycle Mechanic
GARY SLESS
Casting Associate
ADAM CALDWELL
Casting Assistant
CYNTHIA DEGROS
Add'l LA Casting by
Extras Casting provided
by
Extras Casting
WENDY O'BRIEN
RITA POWERS
CASTING GROUP
RITA POWERS
SEAN POWERS
Extras Casting Intern
2nd 2nd Assistant
Director
Add'l 2nd 2nd Assistant
Directors
COOPER WRIGHT
ALEX FINCH
DAVID FISCHER
DEREK PETERSON
1st Assistant 'A' Camera
LUDOVIC LITTEE
2nd Assistant 'A' Camera
Add'l 1st Assistant 'A'
Camera
SPENCER GILLIS
CHRISTOPHER
RAYMOND
Add'l 2nd Assistant 'A'
Camera
B' Camera Operator
LINDA SLATER
MICHELLE
CLEMENTINE
GARCIA
JONATHAN BECK
JON DELGADO
1st Assistant 'B' Camera
2nd Assistant 'B' Camera
JULIEN ZEITOUNI
SHANE
DUCKWORTH
NATHAN McGARIGAL
JASON CLEARY
Loaders
CAI HALL
SAMANTHA SILVER
Still Photography by
ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA
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Add'l Photography by
Add'l 1st Assistant
Camera
Add'l 2nd Assistant
Camera
Sound Mixer
Boom Operator
Sound Utility
REED MORANO
GEORGE TUR
FRANK LARSON
DAMIAN ELIAS
CANELOS
VINCENT CAMUTO
SETH TALLMAN
JOHN SEMBER
Gaffer
Best Boy Electric
Electric / Lamp Operators
J.P. DOLAN
MICHAEL P. PRISCO,
JR.
MICHAEL J.
SARLUCO
MICHAEL COONEY
TOM POHL
Rigging Gaffer / Genny
Operator
DAVE KISSINGER
Lamp Operators
NATE SCAGLIONE
Rigging Electrician
JAMES FRYER
RICHARD KOENIG
Add'l Electricians
MIKE ARISOHN
RUSSELL BOUCHELLE
GLYNIS BURKE
LANCE GOODELL
THOMAS HEARN
JOHN NASTA
JAMES PETERSEN
MICHAEL REPRESA
JOE VALLE, SR.
Key Grip
ROB HARLOW
Best Boy Grip
ABRAHAM ALTBUCH
Dolly Grip
DAVE GANCZEWSKI
Company Grips
MATT FARRELL
ERIC WILLIAMS
Add'l Grips
EDDIE JONES, JR.
JAMIE MERRITT
BRENT POLESKI
Make-up Department
Head
Hair Department Head
LEO WON
PATRICIA GRANDE
Key Make-up
DAVID KALAHIKI
Key Hair Stylist
GREG PURCELL
Hair Stylist to Mr. Gosling
Make-up Artist to Mr.
Cooper
MEDUSAH
Hair Stylist to Mr. Cooper
Hair Colorist for Stunt
Riders
LORI McCOY-BELL
ANDREA GRANDE
CAPONE
JANEEN SCHREYER
Tattoo Design
BEN SHIELDS
Prosthetic Make-up
MIKE MARINO
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Designer
Prosthetic Make-up Artist
MIKE FONTAINE
Prosthetic Make-up Crew
CHRIS KELLY
KAZU TSUJI
DAVE PRESTO
Prosthetic Production
Management
CHRIS CONOVER
Assistant Costume
Designer
STEPHANI LEWIS
Wardrobe Supervisor
Set Costumer
Costume Coordinators
CHRISSY KUHN
EWA NOSKOWICZ
MEGHAN COREA
OLIVIA JANCZYK
Costume Production
Assistants
EMMA STRACHMAN
RACHEL DAINERBEST
Picture Car Coordinator
Assistant Picture Car
Coordinator
Picture Car Production
Assistant
GRAY MADDER
Video Assist Operators
NEIL BLEIFELD
JAMES M. ANZIANO
BEN WOODWARD
BRIAN CARMICHAEL
EGOR PANCHECKO
ROBIN PONTBRIAND
24 Frame Video Playback
Special FX Coordinator
Special FX
JAMES DOMORSKI
DREW JIRITANO
MIKE MYERS
DREW JIRITANO, JR.
RICHARD MORAN
Set Medics
BOB BRODER
CRAIG APOLITO
Dialect Coach
Construction Coordinator
Construction Key Grip
Key Carpenter
Carpenter Foreman
Shop Electric
Charge Scenic
THOMAS JONES
RICHARD HEBRANK
LEE SHEVETT
PETER BUNDRICK
BEN ROSS
KURT KROLL
LAURA LERNER
Scenics
MARY LOVENDUSKY
MARIO MERCADO
JOHN SHIMROCK
JULYE P. CALDERSPINELLI
AKIM HOVANECZ
ANDREW KANUCK
DAVID PALUMBO
STEVEN GIBBS
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Transportation Captains
Transportation CoCaptain
VICTOR
ALLEND
JAMES CORAPI
VINCENT
MARTUCCI
DANNY
YANNANTUONO
JAMIE
CECCACCI
TIMOTHY PAUSTIAN
TONY
INGRASSELLINO
ROBIN MONAGHAN
Drivers
JOSEPH BARTH
STEVE FRITSCH
REBURN McDADZEAN
PAUL YEVOLI
JORGE DELVALLE
DAVID GARHARTT
BRIAN FLYNN
JAMES McCANU
THADDEUS
RUTHERFORD
MICHAEL PAPA
GABE TURIELLO
JAMES WRISUT
PAUL YEVOLI
Catering provided by
Chefs
1st Assistant Chef
2nd Assistant Chef
Craft Services provided
by
Key Craft Service
Craft Service
Add'l Craft
TRIBE ROAD
CATERING
ANDREW GILBERT
JAMES DEGEORGIA
ALBERTO PETER
VILLAFANE
BRIAN “SKIP”
WHITFIELD
SALMANE A. SOUINI
EATCATERING
DANIELLE WILSON
CLAIRE WIEGAND
SEAN CARROLL
LUIE MORALES
MICHELE WEEKS
Key Production Assistant
1st Team Production
Assistant
Background Production
Assistant
Walkie Production
Assistant
Paperwork Production
Assistant
Office Production
Assistants
STEVEN LAFFERTY
ROBERT WILHELM,
JR.
DAN MAJKUT
BLAIR HOWLEY
CHELSEY CARY
TAYLOR KIM
BILLY ZAYAC
Location Assistant
Location Scouts
ELIAV MINTZ
WING YEONG
ELIAV MINTZ
MIKE CAMION
Unit Production Assistant
Location Production
Assistant
ZACHARY MANDELL
GEORGE
LOOKSHIRE
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RICHARD
BUSARDO
DEAN
LEBARRON
THOMAS R.
MICHEL
JOSEPH
BRENNAN
MICHAEL
DINARDO
RUSSELL
KUHLES
TOM REILLY
RUSSEL
TYRRELL
Additional Location
Assistants
JIM POWERS
BRIAN KETCHUM
Assistant to Mr.
Cianfrance
SCOTT CERNY
Assistant to Mr. Patricof
JACK HART
Assistant to Ms. Howell
JESSICA ENGEL
Assistant to Mr. Gosling
LAUREN LEBEOUF
WESTON
MIDDLETON
CHRISTINA
ACEVEDO
Assistant to Mr. Cooper
Assistant to Ms. Mendez
Additional Production Assistants
ROMY FEDER
JOHN STEGEMANN
ANNA ABRAMS
JONATHAN ARGUDO
JAMES BRACE
SUSAN
CORDERO
HAROLD BRYANT
BEN EGAN
BRYANT DONOHUE
SAL FUSCO
JOHN GELLER
SANDI
GREENBERG
DANIELLE GIAIMO
MICHAEL KANE
CHANCE
LOMARIE
MATT KLEIN
LINDSAY McKEARN
DAVID MICEVIC
ANDY MITCHELL
ADAM PARDI
JOANNA
ROCKWELL
JAMES PARSONS
EMILY HILTS
SCOTT ROGERS
SARAH ROMER
KATHERINE RUBASKY
TIFFANY SOTO
NICOLE
VHALLO
CRAIG STAUFENBERG
GABY ALLEN
Interns
NICK BATSON
ROXY CAMPOS
CHRISTINA CARMODY
BRIAN DETRANI
STEPHEN GEMMITO
CHRIS MURPHY
HANNA LINDNER
AMANDA
MESSENGER
SCOTT
SWARTZ
MAX NEWMAN-PLOTINICK
DAVID WEAVER
KARL STURK
MATTHEW
BELLINGER
AMANDA
CHENG
CONNOR DOUD
BRENDAN
GALLAGHER
NICOLE GIAIMO
JEFF
HOLLINGER
BRETT LAMBIE
CHUCK
McCUHORTER
MARGARET
MUNOFF
STEVEN
POWERS
BENJAMIN
ROMER
JOSEPH
SALTERS
KELSEY
THOMAS
ELIZABETH
WHELAN
JON CAMPANO
ANITA
CASAMASSIMA
SARI
GREENBERG
DANIEL
LACHMAN
LAKOTA
POLACSEK
LAUREN WELLS
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
Chief Financial Officer
EVP, Business and Legal
Affairs
RICHARD LEWIS
VP, Finance / Controller
MONIQUE JONES
VP, Production
NICK HANKS
MARK MIKUTOWICZ
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Assistant Controller
APRIL TASKIN
Staff Accountant
Executive Assistant to
Mr. Kimmel & Mr. Lewis
KEISYA RITO
Assistant to Mr. Tauber
VICKI HIGGINS
Assistant to Mr. Berenson
Assistant to Business &
Legal Affairs
Production Counsel
Provided by
Production Insurance
Provided by
TABATHA MALETICH
JONATHAN HERR
SIOBHAN GORSKI
BARKIN SMITH, LLP
JILL L. SMITH
DEWITT STERN
GROUP INC.
RICHARD
EISENBERG
CHRISTINA BORN
JENNIFER BOND
Completion Guarantor
Film Finances, SVP
Payroll Company
Medical Services
Provided by
Script Clearance
Research Provided by
Unit Publicist
Camera Equipment
Provided by
Grip Equipment Provided
by
Electric Equipment
Provided by
Production Lab
Telecine Provided by
Picture Vehicles Provided
by
FILM FINANCES, INC.
SUSAN MUIR
ENTERTAINMENT
PARTNERS
LOUIS A. KATZ, M.D.
ENTERTAINMENT
CLEARANCES, INC.
CASSANDRA
BARBOUR
DANI WEINSTEIN
ARRI CSC
THUNDERWOLF
GRIP SERVICES INC.
CPMK LIGHTING LLC
DELUXE
COMPANY 3
BMW
HONDA
Production Vehicles
Provided by
TOPO CUSTOMS
ENTERPRISE RENTA-CAR
HERTZ
Walkie Talkies Provided
by
VTR Provided by
24 Frame Playback
Provided by
HADDAD’S
ROCKBOTTOM
RENTALS
IGS
NAVASYNC
POST PRODUCTION
Post Production
Accounting Provided by
Post Production
Accountant
Assistant Post Production
Accountant
Assistant to Derek
Cianfrance
TREVANNA POST
YANA COLLINS
LEHMAN
KELSEY SCHUYLER
CHRISTA HALEY
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Post Production Assistant
Post Production Services
Provided by
Onezero Supervisor
Onezero Post
Coordinator
TRACE HENDERSON
ONEZERO FILMS
SAMANTHA
HOUSMAN
MARY
PRENDERGAST
Digital Intermediate Provided by
COMPANY 3
Digital Intermediate
Colorist
Digital Intermediate
Producer
Digital Conform
Digital Intermediate
Technologist
Digital Intermediate Color
Assistants
TOM POOLE
MARIE DE LEON
JOHN DIESSO
LIAM FORD
ANDREW GEARY
JAIME OBRADOVICH
Dailies Colorist
Head of Production
Account Executive
CO3 Executive Producer
Title Design
SEAN DUNCKLEY
MARCELO GANDOLA
DAVID FELDMAN
STEFAN
SONNENFELD
CHARLES
CHRISTOPHER
RUBINO
Post Production Sound Provided by
SOUND LOUNGE
Sound Design and
Effects Editor
Dialogue Editor
ADR Editor
DAN FLOSDORF
STEVE "MAJOR"
GIAMMARIA
ADR Recordist
EVAN BENJAMIN
PATRICK
CHRISTENSEN
Foley Artist
LESLIE BLOOME
Foley Recordist
CARL SHILITO
Foley Recorded at
ALCHEMY POST
Re-recording Mixer
Assistant Re-recording
Mixer
Producer/Studio
Coordinator
TONY VOLANTE
DAN TIMMONS
ROB BROWNING
Visual Effects Provided by
METHOD STUDIOS
Visual Effects Supervisor
Visual Effects Producer
Head of Production
Visual Effects
Coordinator
Digital Artists
JIM RIDER
RAVEN SIA
CARA BUCKLEY
ALICE KAHN
ALEKSANDAR
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DJORDJEVIC
DAVID PLOMBINO
RYAN LEONARD
DAVID MARTE
ADAM GANDOLA
ALEXANDER KOEHL
Pipeline TD
IGOR BOSHOER
System Engineers
DAVID TOEPFER
DENNIS HUYNH
Add'l Post Production
Sound Provided by
ADR Engineer
Add'l Post Production
Sound Provided by
ADR Mixer
ADR Recordist
STUDIO-LINE
VENDOME UHL
DE LANE LEA
NICK KRAY
JAMES HYDE
Artwork Provided by
JOYCE
D'ANNIBALE
ROBERT
COLLIN
CAROLYN
TAYLOR
GAIL KESSLER
STEVE HONICKI
STEPHEN RITZKO
Wardrobe Provided by
ADIDAS
AMACORD VINTAGE
ALTAMONT
BLK DNM
CARHARTT
CONVERSE
CLARKS
CREATIVE RECREATION
DIESEL
DR. MARTENS
EDDIE BAUER
GANT
JENNI KAYNE
JIM SANDERS
DICKIES
KANGOL
KEDS
LACOSTE
LA GEAR
MOTHER
JEANS
LEVI'S
LNA
PAIGE DENIM
RUDNICKS
SEIZE SUR
VINGT
TRETORN
NIKE
PAM KEENAN
SCHENECTADY POLICE DEPARTMENT
SUBURBAN RIOT
VENA CAVA
1 OF A FIND VINTAGE
Additional Music by
ERIC V. HACHIKIAN
Additional Music
Orchestrator
Additional Music Score
Producer
Additional Music Score
Recording Engineer
Music Coordinator
Music Engineer
MARY
KOUYOUMDJIAN
JOHN JENNINGS
BOYD
GARY CHESTER
JACOB NATHAN
ERIC HOLLAND
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OUT OF PRINT
PORTIA AND
MANNY
SCHOTT
SUPERGA
WOLVERINE
MUSIC
"Miserere Mei"
Written by Gregorio Allegri
Arranged by Vladmir Ivanoff
Performed by Osnabrück Youth Choir
Johannes Rahe, Director
Courtesy of DA MUSIC/CCnC, Germany
"Maneater"
www.ccnc.com / CultureWare
Written by Sara Allen, Daryl Hall and John Oates
Music/Marren MV
Performed by Daryl Hall & John Oates
By Arrangement with Hearts of Space Records
Courtesy of RCA Records Label
Valley Entertainment, Inc.
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
"Che"
“Fratres (for Cello and Piano)”
Written by Martin Rev/Alan Vega
Written by Arvo Pärt
Performed by Suicide
Performed by I Fiamminghi
Courtesy of
Concord Music
Group, Inc.
Courtesy of Blast First and Mute Records, Ltd.
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music
"Fratres (for Violin, Strings and Percussion)"
"Contrapositive"
Written by Arvo Pärt
Written by Mike Patton
Performed by I Fiamminghi
Performed by Mike Patton
Courtesy of Concord Music Group, Inc.
Courtesy of Ipecac Recordings
"Fratres for Strings and Percussion"
"The Snow Angel"
Written by Arvo Pärt
Written by Mike Patton
Performed by I Fiamminghi
Performed by Mike Patton
Conducted by Rudolf Werthen
Courtesy of Ipecac Recordings
Courtesy of Concord Music Group, Inc.
"Dancing in the Dark"
“Get On My Hype”
Written and performed by Bruce Springsteen
Written by Marvin Watson
Courtesy of Columbia Records
Performed by Messy Marv
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
Courtesy of Empire Distribution, Inc.
By arrangement with Fine Gold Music
"Fratres"
Written by Arvo Pärt
"Trap Door"
Performed by Eric V. Hachikian
Written by Heather Marie Marlatt,
Courtesy of soundcat productions
John Alexander Holland and John Merlo Donoghue
Performed by Salem
"The Weight of Consequences"
Courtesy of Iamsound Records
Written by Mike Patton
Performed by Mike Patton
"Fall Back"
Courtesy of Ipecac Recordings
Written and performed by YONAS
Courtesy of YONAS
"Ninna Nanna Per Adulteri"
Written and performed by Ennio Morricone
"Fools Rhythm"
© & (P) EMI General Music Publishing Srl
Written by Amon Tobin
Courtesy of EMI General Music Publishing Srl
Performed by Two Fingers
Courtesy of Big Dada Recordings
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“Bank Robber Blues”
By arrangement with Third Side Music Inc.
“A Bad Decision”
“We Shouldn’t Be Here”
“Kodo March”
“The Air of Betrayal”
Written by Mike Patton
“And Then It Hit Me”
Performed by Mike Patton
“Dread”
Courtesy of Ipecac Recordings
"Return What Isn't Yours”
“Descending Dread”
"The Wolves (Act I and II)"
“Insidious Air”
Written by Justin Vernon
Written and performed by Jim Helton
Performed by Bon Iver
Courtesy of Jim Helton Music
Courtesy of Jagjaguwar
By arrangement with Bank Robber Music
"Borriquito"
Written by Pedro Pubil Calaf
Performed by Ryan Gosling
Filmmakers Wish to Thank
MAYA
BREWSTER
CODY AND
WALKER
CIANFRANCE
JASON AND
JEN
CIANFRANCE
IDA ELLIS
CRAIG GERING
JON KAMEN
MARK McNEILL
SHANNON
PLUMB
ARMAND CAPULLO
GREGG
CARLESIMO
GARY CIANFRANCE
JANICE
CIANFRANCE
JOSLYN AND JADE CIANFRANCE
ROMY FEDER
GUY AND MICHELLE GUILBEAU
FREDRIC KING
ANDRIJ PAREKH
ALEX SCHAFFER
PHIL SOLOMON
JOHN STOTTS
JUSTIN WILKES
JOHN
BUHRMASTER
CHIZUKO
NIIKAWAHELTON
ALLIE AND RAY
LEGERE
ALAN AND
SUSAN
PATRICOF
DIANE AND
TOMMY
PUSTOLKA
KEITH ZIMMERMAN
MIKE SEBER
CHARLOTTE
WISEMAN
HUNTER GRAY
DAVID BRENT HELTON
PAUL F. MAYERSOHN
KELLY SAWYER PATRICOF
DON RITTNER
GRAHAM TAYLOR
ED WISEMAN
SYDNEY WISEMAN
Special Thanks
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CIANFRANCE
SAMUEL
FUSSELL
KIRT GUNN
FREDRIC KING
DICK PLUMB
MICHAEL
SCHENKMAN
NADEAN
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TOM PUSTOLKA
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