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BACKGROUND
Glen
Reynolds and Zac Reeder are principals in Circus Road Films.
Glen Reynolds:
Prior to founding Circus Road Films, Glen Reynolds served as the
president of Fabrication Films. In its first two years, Fabrication
acquired 16 films, distributing 7 of them in the United States. The
titles released theatrically by Fabrication include Conversations with Other Women with Aaron Eckhart and
Helena Bonham Carter and executive produced by Glen; Last
Dispatch and La
Tropical, both music documentaries; Zombie
Honeymoon, a 2005 Slamdance favorite; Her
Name is
Carla with Julianne Nicholson and executive produced by Glen; The
Californians with Noah Wyle; and Once
Upon a Wedding with Kuno Becker.
Fabrication sold the foreign rights to 10th and Wolf, a Bobby Moresco film with Giovanni Ribisi;
The Game of Their Lives with
Gerard Butler; The Dark Hours,
winner of the 2005 Dead by Dawn Festival; The
Roost, a 2005 SXSW Festival favorite; The
Virgin of Juarez, with Minnie Driver; Keep
Your Distance with Gil Bellows; The
Circle with Angela Bettis and executive produced by Glen; and The
Second Front with Ron Perlman.
Before Fabrication Films, Glen served as Head of Acquisition,
Production & Business Affairs for Curb Entertainment. The films
produced and sold include Oxygen
(HBO) directed by Richard Shepard (The Matador) with Adrian Brody; Mexico City
(Miramax) with Robert Patrick and also directed by
Richard Shepard; Kill Me Later (Lion’s
Gate) with Selma Blair; The
Proposal (Miramax) with Jennifer Esposito; Family
Tree (Warner Home Video) with Robert Forster; Out
of Line (First Look) with Jennifer Beals; Water’s
Edge (Lion’s Gate) with Nathan Fillion and written by Craig Brewer
(Hustle & Flow); Pressure (Blockbuster)
with Kerr Smith and also written by Craig Brewer; and Tough Luck (Blockbuster) with Armand Assante. In addition, Glen
produced Her Name is Carla (Hart
Sharp).
Curb acquired over 70 independent feature films including Sunday,
the Sundance Film Festival Jury Award winner in 1997; Deja
Vu, a Henry Jaglom film with Vanessa Redgrave; Coastlines,
a Victor Nunez film with
Timothy Olyphant and Josh Lucas; Merci
Docteur Rey, a Merchant/Ivory production with Vanessa Redgrave; Dummy
with Adrien Brody and Mila Jovovich; A
Good Baby with David Strathairn;
Ring of Fire with Keifer Sutherland; Little
Boy Blue with Ryan Phillipe; Wendigo
with Patricia Clarkson; 100 Mile
Rule with Maria Bello; Nailed
with Harvey Keitel; Just
Write with Jeremy Piven; Happy
Hour with Anthony LaPaglia; Bug
with Brian Cox and Jaime Kennedy; Almost
Salinas with Virginia Madsen; The
Doe Boy with James Duval;
Wedding Bell Blues with Illeana Douglas; Plan
B with Jon Cryer; In Quiet
Night with Julian McMahon; Nice
Guys Sleep Alone with Vanessa Marcil; Blue
Moon with Ben Gazzarra; and A Fish in the Bathtub with Mark
Ruffalo.
Glen holds a BA in English
from New York University, a JD from the University of Texas at Austin
and is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Glen grew
up on Circus Road.
Zac Reeder:
Zac
is former Head of Acquisitions at PorchLight Entertainment and MarVista
Entertainment, where for the past ten years he has acquired distribution
rights to over 150 films and television programs. Films acquired
by Zac include the successful family film trilogy, Shiloh,
the award-winning The
Blue Butterfly starring William Hurt, The
Kid &I directed by Penelope Spheeris and starring Tom
Arnold, and The
Sasquatch Dumpling Gang, which stars Justin Long and was
produced by Kevin Spacey and the team behind Napoleon Dynamite.
Zac also acquired and helped arrange financing for the highly-acclaimed
film Hunt
for Justice: The Louise Arbour Story, which screened at the
United Nations in New York and Geneva.
Zac
has almost 20 years of experience in the film distribution business.
Zac also ran his own independent film distribution company, 4 Corners
Entertainment, which was involved in the international distribution of
the Academy Award nominated film, Hoop
Dreams. In his career, Zac has been involved in every
aspect of filmmaking and distribution, including developing, writing,
financing, directing, and selling films.
Zac
is currently on the Advisory Boards of the Heartland Film Festival and
the San Diego Film Festival, and has been a featured speaker at several
film festivals, including the prestigious Toronto International Film
Festival.
Zac
holds a BA degree in Psychology from UCLA, where he was also a four-year
letterman on the NCAA Division 1 baseball team. Zac grew up on
McKinley Avenue in San Bernardino, California.
zreeder@circusroadfilms.com
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