Barry Sonnenfeld, director/executive producer
Noted film director Barry Sonnenfeld had found commercial and artistic success with such films as The Addams Family, Addams Family Values, both Men in Black films, Get Shorty, Wild Wild West, Big Trouble and RV. He has produced or executive-produced the Coen Brothers' Lady Killers, Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events and Out of Sight. He won a 2008 DGA Award and was nominated for a 2008 Emmy Award for directing for his work on Pushing Daisies.
Sonnenfeld began his career as a cinematographer, collaborating with the Coen Brothers on their first feature film, Blood Simple, and continuing with Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing. In addition he served as director of photography on Penny Marshall's Big, Danny DeVito's Throw Momma from the Train and two films for Rob Reiner, When Harry Met Sally and Misery. He has also directed Clio Award-winning commercials for Nike, Reebok and Isuzu. In television he has executive-produced Karen Sisco and 1998's Fantasy Island. He executive-produced and directed Maximum Bob, The Tick, as well as the ABC series Notes from the Underbelly.
For the last five years, Sonnenfeld has been a contributing editor for Esquire Magazine, where he writes his monthly column, The Digital Man. He lives in East Hampton, NY and Telluride, CO with his wife, Susan, and daughter Chloe.
Dan Jinks & Bruce Cohen, executive producers
Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen just produced Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk. Milk will be released this fall by Focus Features.
The pair won the Best Picture Academy Award in 2000 for producing American Beauty, which won a total of five Oscars and was the first film produced through The Jinks/Cohen Company. Their second film was the sex comedy Down with Love, starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. Next up was Big Fish, which was nominated as Best Picture for both the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs. Other films include The Forgotten, starring Julianne Moore, and John August's directing debut, The Nines, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hope Davis. On television, along with Pushing Daisies, they also served as executive producers on the series Traveler(ABC) and Side Order of Life (Lifetime).
Previously, Jinks produced Nothing to Lose, starring Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins, and executive-produced The Bone Collector, starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.
Cohen produced The Flintstones and the prequel, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, as well as Mousehunt. He executive-produced To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everthing, Julie Newmar! and co-produced Alive.
Peter Ocko, executive producer
Peter Ocko served as co-executive producer and writer on Boston Legal and as a consulting producer and writer on Dead Like Me. He also served as creator and executive producer of the CBS series 3LBS.
Other television writing credits include Dinosaurs, Parker Lewis Can't Lose and the TV version of Weird Science. In 1989 Ocko received the Writers Guild Award for the farcical news show, Not Necessarily the News.
A film student at Harvard University, he got his start in Hollywood as a production assistant at Gracie Films, James L. Brooks' production company. Ocko grew up in Boston, the son of a toy inventor, and currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Elizabeth, and their three sons.
