IFW Guest Speakers - Fred Roos, producer

Описание: -- Academy Award Winning Producer.

Fred Roos has worked with some of Hollywood's most gifted filmmakers and actors over the last four decades producing some of the most unique films of our time.

Roos' long-term collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola includes producing the Academy Award-winning Best Picture The Godfather, Part II and the Academy Award-nominated Best Pictures Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, Part III, and The Conversation (winner of the Palm D'Or at Cannes). Other films Roos has produced with Coppola include: One From the Heart, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, The Cotton Club, Gardens of Stone, New York Stories, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Youth Without Youth (as Executive Producer), and the recent release Tetro. Among Roos' other producing credits are: Wim Wenders' Hammett, Jack Nicholson's Drive, He Said, Barbet Schroeder's Barfly, Peter Chelsom's Town and Country, Agnieszka Holland's The Secret Garden, and the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (winner of Cable Ace Award, Best Documentary).

He also produced The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard) and the Walt Disney release in Imax, The Young Black Stallion (Simon Wincer). Roos co-produced Sofia Coppola's debut film The Virgin Suicides and served as Executive Producer on Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, Marie-Antoinette and the upcoming Somewhere. Before he began producing films, Roos had a legendary career as a casting director on such films as: The Godfather, American Graffiti, Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin Gardens, Fat City, Petulia, and Zabriskie Point. He served as casting consultant on Star Wars.