About The Filmmakers

DAVID GORDON GREEN (Director) garnered the Best First Film Award from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival with his directorial debut, George Washington. The film also landed on the annual top-10 lists of Roger Ebert, the New York Times, and Time magazine.

Green's most recent film is Snow Angels, starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale, released earlier this year after making its debut at the Sundance Film Festival.

Other credits include Undertow, which starred Dermot Mulroney and Jamie Bell and was an official selection at the Toronto and New York Film Festivals, and All the Real Girls, which received two jury awards at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and starred Paul Schneider and Zooey Deschanel.

Green was born in Arkansas, raised in Texas, and currently resides in New Orleans.

JUDD APATOW (Producer/Story by) made his feature directorial debut with the 2005 summer box-office smash The 40-Year-Old Virgin and followed up with the Universal release Knocked Up. His next film as a writer, director and producer is Funny People, starring Adam Sandler, Leslie Mann and Seth Rogen, which will start production in September.

Apatow recently co-wrote the hit film You Don't Mess with the Zohan. He also produced the current release Step Brothers, as well as April's Forgetting Sarah Marshall, last December's comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (a film he also co-wrote), last summer's Superbad, the summer 2006 hit Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and 2004's Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

Upcoming Apatow productions include 2009's Year One.

Apatow's credits on the small screen include the critically praised, award-winning series "Freaks and Geeks," as well as the series "Undeclared," which was named one of TIME magazine's Ten Best Shows of 2001. Apatow also worked as a writer, director and producer on the award-winning and widely acclaimed series "The Larry Sanders Show."

Born in Syosset, New York, Apatow aspired to become a professional comedian at an early age. While still in high school, he created a radio show and began interviewing comedy personalities he admired, including Steve Allen, Howard Stern and John Candy. Inspired, he began performing his own stand-up routines by the end of his senior year.

SHAUNA ROBERTSON's (Producer) most recent film is the spring hit Forgetting Sarah Marshall, starring Jason Segel and Kristen Bell. The summer of 2007 was bookended by two of Robertson's films: Knocked Up, written and directed by Judd Apatow and starring Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann for Universal Pictures, and Superbad, starring Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen and Bill Hader, and directed by Greg Mottola for Columbia Pictures.

Previously, Robertson produced the summer breakout smash The 40-Year-Old Virgin. The film garnered more than $100 million at the domestic box office and made a confirmed star of Steve Carell. Prior to that, she executive-produced the box office hit Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, the Will Ferrell comedy, which was produced for under $25 million and went on to gross over $85 million domestically.

In another successful teaming with Ferrell, Robertson produced the surprise smash Christmas hit Elf, which was directed by Jon Favreau and co-starred Zooey Deschanel, James Caan and Bob Newhart. She also served as a co-producer on Jay Roach's Meet the Parents, starring Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro.

A native of Toronto, Canada, Robertson moved to Los Angeles in 1992, where she immediately gravitated to the thriving comedy feature film community.

SETH ROGEN & EVAN GOLDBERG (Executive Producer/Screenplay by/Story by) grew up in Canada together and wrote their first screenplay, Superbad, at the age of 15. Superbad, which the duo also executive produced, was released by Columbia Pictures in the summer of 2007 and opened to overwhelming acclaim from critics and audiences alike, taking in more than $120 million at the US box office.

Rogen also co-wrote the Owen Wilson feature Drillbit Taylor, released by Paramount Pictures earlier this year, and served as co-producer on Apatow's sleeper hit The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Rogen and Goldberg also executive produced the summer smash hit Knocked Up, which was written and directed by Judd Apatow and starred Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd, and are set to executive produce Apatow's next feature film, Funny People, starring Rogen and Adam Sandler.

The team's next project as writers and executive producers is The Green Hornet, which is set for a June 25, 2010 release by Columbia Pictures.

After moving to Los Angeles, Rogen was a staff writer on Judd Apatow's television series "Undeclared." Rogen and Goldberg went on to write for Sacha Baron Cohen's cult hit "Da Ali G Show."

A native of North Carolina, TIM ORR (Director of Photography) studied cinematography at the North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his first feature, George Washington directed by David Gordon Green. Peter Sollett's award-winning Raising Victor Vargas followed in 2001 along with Sundance award winner All the Real Girls.

Orr spent the last several years in New York working on numerous independent feature films and commercials, before relocating with his family to Los Angeles in the spring of 2006. Some of his other feature credits include: Dandelion, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, Imaginary Heroes, Undertow, Little Manhattan, Trust the Man, Come Early Morning and Off the Black.

Most recently, Orr's work was seen in David Gordon Green's fourth feature, Snow Angels, and Mike White's Year of the Dog. He is currently filming Observe and Report with Seth Rogen for director Jody Hill.

Pineapple Express is CHRIS SPELLMAN's (Production Designer) third assignment as production designer, having previously designed Superbad and the live action portion of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. He is currently designing Observe and Report for director Jody Hill.

Spellman's credits as a set decorator include Joel and Ethan Coen films The Man Who Wasn't There and The Big Lebowski, Robert Altman's Dr. T and the Women and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.

Other credits as set decorator include Albert Brooks' Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World; Daddy Day Care and Holy Man, both starring Eddie Murphy; Anger Management, with Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson; Jake Kasdan's Orange County; as well as October Sky, Grosse Point Blank, The Indian in the Cupboard and Michael Mann's The Insider.

In addition to Superbad, Spellman worked with Judd Apatow on the television series' "Freaks and Geeks" and "Undeclared," as well as the films Knocked Up and Heavyweights.

Born in New Orleans, Spellman moved to Los Angeles after college where he met production designer Dennis Gassner and set decorator Nancy Haigh, who served as mentors for the journeyman.

CRAIG ALPERT (Editor) previously worked with Judd Apatow on the hit film Knocked Up. Some of his other credits as an editor include Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Meet the Fockers. Alpert got his start as an assistant editor on such films as Toy Story 2, The Matrix Reloaded, Hulk, and Austin Powers in Goldmember. His work will next be seen in Yes Man, starring Jim Carrey.

JOHN DUNN (Costumer Designer) most recently designed for Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There starring Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett and Matthew Weiner's "Mad Men" for AMC. His work will next be seen in Diane English's The Women.

Previously, Dunn worked on the Edie Sedgwick period piece starring Sienna Miller, Factory Girl, The Notorious Bettie Page with Gretchen Mol and Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers with Bill Murray and Sharon Stone as well as Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai with Forest Whitaker.

Other credits include Julian Schnabel's Basquiat, Martin Scorsese's Casino and New York Stories, John Sayles' City of Hope, Birth starring Nicole Kidman, and The Object of My Affection, starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd.

Since GRAEME REVELL (Composer) first appeared on the film scoring scene with his chilling score to the Australian thriller Dead Calm, for which he won an Australia's version of the Oscar for best score. He has gone on to score films for such high-profile directors as John Woo, Wim Wenders, Robert Rodriguez, Ted Demme and Michael Mann.

His many credits include Strange Days, The Crow (for which he also collaborated with Jane Siberry on the ballad "It Can't Rain All the Time"), From Dusk Till Dawn, The Basketball Diaries, Hard Target, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The Craft, Until The End of the World, The Saint (which re-teamed him with Dead Calm director Phillip Noyce), Chinese Box, The Negotiator, The Seige, The Insider, Red Planet, High Crimes and Out of Time (both for Carl Franklin), Double Take, Blow, Below, Human Nature, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Collateral Damage, Daredevil, Sin City, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, and Grindhouse: Planet Terror (both of which re-teamed him with Robert Rodriguez), Bordertown, and the documentary Darfur Now.

Most recently, Revell scored The Ruins starring Jena Malone and Jonathan Tucker, 20th Century Fox's Street Kings starring Keanu Reeves and Forest Whitaker, and the upcoming Days of Wrath directed by Celia Fox.

Proving that his sound can successfully cross both genres and platforms, Revell scored the first season of "CSI: Miami," helping it to become an instant hit for CBS and Jerry Bruckheimer.

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