Mark Lane

In 2000, Executive Producer Mark Lane produced the independent Film, The Cure for Boredom, starring Judd Nelson, Seymour Cassel and the late Joe Vitterelli. Fusing all his talent and abilities, Mark went on to form Fully Attired Film Group, focusing on the production of quality, family features. His next feature, the comedy Checking Out, is slated for release in September,l 2006. Mark’s present position in the film industry culminates years of expertise both behind and in front of the camera.

Over thirty years ago, Mark started out as an actor in New York, eventually producing and starring in over twenty off-Broadway plays. Following the path of numerous talented New Yorkers, Mark headed West to Hollywood where he quickly gained recognition working as an actor on such network television shows as Hill Street Blues, MacGyver, and Capitol.

Desiring to expand his creativity, Mark began working behind the camera on numerous projects for the three major networks: ABC, CBS, and NBC; as well as for several motion picture studios, including: Paramount Pictures, Universal, Warner Brothers and Lion’s Gate, to name a few. Quickly, Mark rose to Producer, heading up three feature shorts for HBO/Showtime: When Angels Cry, Galatea’s Wish, and Hope’s Creek. He also produced and directed the nominated documentary, Our Father the Bank Robber.

Mark studied acting in New York City under the tutelage of Lee Strassberg, Warren Robertson, Uta Hagen, and Alan Rich.

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Jon Karas

Jon has been engaged in the personal management business since 1990 and is the founding officer of Infinity Management International, an established talent management company based in Beverly Hills, California. He has represented film and television writers and directors as well as musical groups and record producers through IMI since the company’s inception. Some of his more notable writer and director clients include: Roger Towne (The Natural), Norman Steinberg (Blazing Saddles, The Cosby Show), Douglas Day Stewart (An Officer and a Gentleman), Clancy Sigal (Frida), and Raymond and Eugenia Singer (Mulan).

Graduated cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law
where he was Executive Editor of the Internal Law Review. He received a masters degree in corporate finance from NYU Law School immediately thereafter. He majored in theater at Vassar College then attended the Eugene O’Neill National Theatre Institute and St. Edmunds’ Hall at Oxford University, where he studied international law and finance.

Ryhuei Kitamura - Writer/Director/Producer/Actor

Ryuhei Kitamura is a Japanese film director growing in popularity worldwide. Kitamura is represented by John Campisi at Creative Artists Agency, managed by Adam Krentzman at Anonymous Content. A DGA director.

Born in Osaka, Japan, Kitamura quit high school and went to the School of Visual Arts in Australia at age 17. His first film was the short Exit, which he made as his graduation piece at age 19. After graduating, he returned to Japan to establish napalm Films, his independent film production studio. While his films Down to Hell and Heat After Dark were successful in film festivals, Kitamura's rise to international fame came from Versus.

Kitamura went on to direct several movies, including adaptations of the manga Azumi and the popular Japanese TV drama Sky High. He had also collaborated with director Yukihiko Tsutsumi in the Duel Project, in which the two agreed to produce the best dueling movie with minimal production time and budget, with Aragami being Kitamura's part. He also ventured into the world of video games by directing the cutscenes and motion capturing of Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. Kitamura also served as producer on 2003's Battlefield Baseball, the directorial debut of Yudai Yamaguchi (Versus co-writer).

Kitamura owns his Tokyo based-production company napalm Films and is represented by Anonymous Content in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Kitamura's Versus (2000) was mentioned in Jean-Luc Godard's Notre musique (2004).

* Kitamura has directed Midnight Meat Train, which is based on Clive Barker's short horror story of the same name for Lakeshore Entertainment and Lionsgate and will release it on August 1st, 2008. This film marks Kitamura's American filmmaking debut.

Ryuhei has signed a four picture agreement with Capitol Motion Pictures, he will oversee along with Mark Lane and Jon Karas the films to be shot in Thailand beginning June of 2008.

FILM

• MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN - Writer, Director, (2008)
• ESCAPE VELOCITY – Writer (original story), Executive Producer (2010)
• BOILED BLOOD – Writer (original story), Executive Producer (2009)
• YOROI – Producer (2009) MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN – Director (2008)
• BANDAGE – Director (2008)
• AZUMI 2: LOVEDEATH – Director, Writer (screenplay), Producer (2006)
• SAKURAJIMA (VIDEO DOCUMENTARY) – Director (2004)
• GODZILLA: FINAL WARS – Director, Writer (screenplay) (2004)
• LONGINUS (VIDEO SHORT) – Director, Writer (2004)
• THE MESSENGER (SHORT) – Director (2003)
• BATTLEFIELD BASEBALL – Producer (2003)
• AZUMI – Director (2003)
• ARAGAMI – Director, Writer (2003)
• ALIVE – Director, Writer (screenplay) (2002)
• VERSUS – Director, Writer (2000)
• DOWN TO HELL – Director, Writer, Producer (1997)
• HEAT AFTER DARK – Director, Writer (1996)
  
  

TELEVISION

• ROMANCE NOVEL (TV MOVIE) – Director, Tokyo Broadcasting System (2006)
• SKY HIGH (TV SERIES) – Director, TV Asahi (2003)