David Dobkin (Director)

David Dobkin helmed his first feature film, Clay Pigeons, for Scott Free – the first film produced at Ridley and Tony Scott’s production company that they did not direct. The black comedy about a series of small-town murders starred Vince Vaughn, Joaquin Phoenix and Janeane Garofalo, and was distributed by Gramercy Pictures. Dobkin followed the film by directing the hit comedy Shanghai Nights, starring Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan.

Dobkin has directed commercials for clients such as ESPN, Heineken (which earned him honors from SHOOT magazine), Carl’s Jr., Coke, Honda, Coors Light and Sony Playstation (which won a Bronze Lion at Cannes). His spots for the Utah Symphony were named “Spot of the Month” by Adweek Magazine and featured as the year’s best in Communication Arts Magazine.

His music video credits include John Lee Hooker’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,” Elton John’s “You Can Make History” and Coolio’s “1, 2, 3, 4” (MTV best dance video award), to name a few.

A native of Washington, D.C., Dobkin graduated with honors from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Film & Television in 1991. He had launched his career six years earlier as an assistant to the production manager on John Schlesinger’s film, “The Believers.” While pursuing his NYU film studies, he worked for Warner Bros. development division. His NYU thesis film, “57th Street Serenade,” won several national and international awards including a 1992 C.I.N.E. Eagle and a Gold award at the prestigious Edinburgh Festival. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career as a director.

Quickly attracting the attention of several music labels, Dobkin made his music video debut with two video clips from rapper Tupac Shakur, both of which turned Platinum. Fifteen more videos followed in quick succession for such diverse music groups as Extreme, Robin Zander, Sonic Youth, Dada, Blues Traveler, and others.

Steve Faber (Writer)

Steve Faber was born to a family of magicians who emigrated from Eastern Europe a long, long time ago. Grandson of Harry Faber, renowned sleight-of-hand artist, Faber attended UCLA where he earned degrees in both literature and history. Faber went on to graduate from law school. It was a tremendous mistake. He did, however and once and for all, learn the great life lesson that there is no money in poetry and no poetry in money. This lesson was learned at devastating psychological cost.

After a brief flirtation with magic (which failed when the bottom, simultaneously, fell out of both the rabbit and the hat market), and a novel (which he hopes to finally publish in 2006), Faber reestablished contact with his best friend from High School, Bob Fisher. A half dozen sitcoms later, Faber realized that situation comedy was making neither him nor Fisher happy. In short, the situations were not comedic. This lesson was learned at devastating psychological cost. Shortly thereafter, films were written, pitched and sold. Some are being made. Some will never see the light of day. Some haunt Faber's dream life.

Faber's hobbies include insomnia, taking meaningless drives through the canyons of Los Angeles, and gardening. Faber recently purchased a harmonica.

Bob Fisher (Writer)

Bob Fisher grew up in various Mid-Atlantic suburbs (including his favorite: Middletown, New Jersey) before moving to California where he attended Chatsworth High School, played a lot of baseball and met his writing partner, Steve Faber. They began their partnership writing a series of inflammatory editorials for the high school newspaper.

Fisher then attended UCLA where he was mostly interested in history, politics, and literature. He then spent several years in the noble trade of bartending before finally turning to sitcom writing. Writing with Faber again, he wrote for many shows of varying quality, including “Married with Children” and “The Bonnie Hunt Show” before switching to film a few years ago. Wedding Crashers is their first produced feature.

After spending two years working on a movie about weddings, Fisher himself will be married this October to writer Karine Rosenthal. Faber will be his best man. And, as would only be fair, crashers are welcome.

Peter Abrams (Producer)

Peter Abrams is a principal founder and partner of Tapestry Films. Since the inception of Tapestry fourteen years ago as a financing and production company, Abrams has produced numerous hit films under the banner including Serendipity, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale; Pay It Forward starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment; The Wedding Planner, starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey; Van Wilder, starring Ryan Reynolds; She’s All That with Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook; Disney’s A Kid in King Arthur’s Court; and Point Break, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze.

Tapestry’s next film is The Underclassman, starring Nick Cannon, which Miramax Films will release this August.

Prior to forming his creative partnership with Robert L. Levy, Abrams produced
A Talent for Murder starring Sir Laurence Olivier and Angela Lansbury for Showtime’s “Broadway on Showtime.”

Before entering the film business, Abrams spent two years at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and then his J.D. degree at George Washington University’s School of Law.

Robert L. Levy (Producer)

Robert L. Levy has written and/or produced motion pictures for over 20 years and is a principal partner with Peter Abrams and J.P. Guerin in Tapestry Films. Levy has also directed and produced A Kid in Aladdin's Court, the sequel to Tapestry's A Kid in King Arthur's Court.

Levy recently produced the hit films Serendipity starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale The Wedding Planner with Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, Van Wilder starring Ryan Reynolds and She's All That with Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook.

His additional producing credits include Pay It Forward, Point Break, Jane Austin’s Mafia!, The Last Time I Committed Suicide, Enemy of My Enemy, Denial, Full Eclipse, Warlock – The Armageddon, A Killing Time and the soon-to-be-released The Underclassmen starring Nick Cannon.

Levy has also executive produced such films as Swing, Black & White, Payback, The Chain, The Granny and Dark Tide. He also executive produced and wrote the story for the Burt Reynolds classic Smokey and the Bandit.

Levy graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles and received a producing fellowship from the American Film Institute.

Andrew Panay (Producer)

Andrew Panay is one of three partners at Tapestry Films, a Beverly Hills-based motion picture finance and production company. He is responsible for developing Miramax’s She’s All That and co-producing Serendipity, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.

He served as Executive Producer on On the Line, starring Lance Bass and Joey Fatone of N’Sync. He also created the idea for and produced Artisan’s National Lampoon’s Van Wilder starring Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid. He is responsible for setting up and developing Pay It Forward, starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osment for Warner Brothers.

Panay recently produced the teen thriller The Underclassman, starring Nick Cannon, which is being released this August.

Guy Riedel (Executive Producer)

Guy Riedel got his first experience in filmmaking courtesy of his father – a director of photography – serving in various capacities on commercials, films, television shows and industrial films.

After obtaining a bachelor's degree in economics and Masters Degree in business from Rutgers University Riedel moved to Los Angeles and secured an as assistant position to producer Aaron Russo where he was involved in the development of Teachers with Nick Nolte and Wise Guys, directed by Brian De Palma.

In 1986, Riedel opened the Los Angeles production office for New Line Cinema where he developed and packaged a variety of films, including the Nightmare on Elm Street series as well as The Hidden, Hairspray and Heart Condition.

Leaving the studio, Riedel segued into the presidency of producer Gale Anne Hurd's Pacific Western Productions. During his tenure, the company produced Tremors, Downtown, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and the HBO film Cast a Deadly Spell.

As an independent producer, Riedel credits include The Girl Next Door, The Hot Chick Max Keeble's Big Move, Highway, Crazy Beautiful, Body Shots, Office Space, The Maddening, Under The Hula Moon, Separate Lives, The Inkwell and The Waterdance.

His television credits include “Path to War,” "Breast Men,” "The Second Civil War and HBO’s well acclaimed original film "Norma Jean and Marilyn."

Julio Macat, ASC (Director of Photography)

Julio Macat’s first film was the box office smash Home Alone. He has also photographed Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, The Wedding Planner, Cats & Dogs and Bringing Down the House; all of which opened in the number one position at the box office.

Among his other credits are the features Catch That Kid, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, A Walk to Remember, Crazy in Alabama, Home Alone 3, So I Married an Axe Murderer, My Fellow Americans (the remake of Miracle on 34th Street), Moonlight and Valentino, Only the Lonely and The Borrower.

An Argentinean native of Italian descent, Macat began his career at the age 19 and trained under distinguished cinematographers Mario Tosi, ASC, John Alcott, BSC, and Chris Menges, BSC. After studying filmmaking at UCLA, Macat became a camera operator in Los Angeles and collaborated with Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky on four films, including Runaway Train and Shy People. As a cinematographer, Macat's early work includes numerous music videos and commercials shot in the U.S. and abroad.

Macat is fluent in Spanish and Italian. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Elizabeth Perkins, and their four children.

Barry Robison (Production Designer)

Barry Robison has a diverse array of feature film credits that include The Rookie, October Sky, Highway, Bubble Boy, Home Fries, Loved, The Man Who Wouldn't Die, My Family, Sensation and Candyman: Farwell to Flesh.

His television credits include “Deadly Relations,” “Treacherous Crossing,” and “Deadly Game.” Before working as a production designer Robison worked as a set designer on Merry Christmas, George Bailey and as a costume designer L. Frank Baum's “The Marvelous Land of Oz.”

Denise Wingate (Costume Designer)

Denise Wingate has recently designed the costumes for A Cinderella Story starring Hilary Duff, Paparazzi, Radio, The Sweetest Thing starring Cameron Diaz, Soul Survivors and the hit films Cruel Intentions and She's All That. Her credits also include Blue Streak, Judas Kiss, starring Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman, The Alarmist with David Arquette, Touch Me, and The Last Time I Committed Suicide, starring Keanu Reeves.

Wingate designed the wardrobe for “Melrose Place” for four years. Her television credits also include "Models, Inc.," "Almost Perfect," "Middle Ages," "Shannon's Deal" and the telefilms "Out of Season" and "Perfect Prey," starring Kelly McGillis. Early in her career, Wingate designed costumes for the Bangles.

Mark Livolsi (Editor)

Mark Livolsi has been an editor on several films, including Vanilla Sky, Elizabethtown, Almost Famous, Pieces of April, The Girl Next Door, Max and Grace, and Spin the Bottle. As assistant editor, Livolsi worked on Crimes & Misdemeanors, The Thomas Crown Affair, At First Sight, Heaven & Earth, Meet Joe Black, Deconstructing Harry, Marvin's Room, Touch, Shadows and Fog, Alice, French Kiss and The River Wild.

His other film credits include Night and the City, Commandments, Heartburn, Dead of Winter, New York Stories, Funny Farm and Wall Street.

Rolfe Kent (Composer)

Born near Europe he has no formal musical training, but always loved sound and music, and at 12 decided he'd like to be a film scoring composer. By playing in a series of terrible bands (to whose awfulness he was a potent contributor) he did his film scoring career no good at all, so he stopped and wrote music for theatre instead, and then started composing for student films.

He has now scored feature films in Hollywood and Europe successfully for a few years. With 30+ film credits to his name, Kent has worked multiple times for several directors including Alexander Payne (Election, About Schmidt, Sideways), Mark Waters (The House Of Yes, Mean Girls, Just Like Heaven), Richard Shepard (Mercy, Oxygen, Matador) and Jeff Nathanson (The Last Shot).

Kent received a Golden Globe nomination for Sideways, and earned BMI Film Music Awards for Legally Blonde, Legally Blonde 2, Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Sideways.

Amongst the many other films for which Kent served as composer are 40 Days and 40 Nights, Kate and Leopold, Nurse Betty, starring Renee Zellweger, and Mercy. He is currently developing a musical theatre piece for which he is also the lyricist.

He is still passionate about music, and fascinated by different instruments and their sonic qualities. Some of the scores demonstrate this interest: About Schmidt has the Chinese Erhu, Freaky Friday is dominated by Japanese Taiko Drums, Mean Girls features a full African Choir, and The Jury features the haunting sound of the Armenian Duduk. Each film score is an opportunity to explore a new soundscape, to create evocative emotional and melodic music in new intriguing ways, and to make bold and powerful musical statements that capture the heart of the movie.

Kent lives in Los Angeles, and remains an enthusiastic traveler, and occasional resident of Black Rock City.