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CIRCUS ROAD FILMS

Glen Reynolds and Zac Reeder founded Circus Road Films in 2006. Sebastian Twardosz and Tara Reynolds joined the team in 2009.

In its first three years, Circus Road provided its services to the following feature films: Night Train (E1) with Danny Glover and Steve Zahn; Older Than America (IFC Films); Remarkable Power (Warner Bros) with Kevin Nealon; Fight Night (Phase 4); Blood and Bone (Sony) with Michael Jai White; A Quiet Little Marriage (IFC Films) which won the Critic’s Prize at Slamdance; Manhunter (Lions Gate) with Dean Cain; Home (Monterey Media) with Marcia Gay Harden; Midnight Movie (Phase 4); Special (Magnolia Pictures) which stars Michael Rappaport and premiered at Sundance;  The Uninvited (IFC Films); The Go-Getter (Peace Arch) which stars Zoe Deschannel and premiered at Sundance; August Evening (Maya Releasing) which won an Independent Spirit Award; Pop Skull (Halo8 Releasing); Gooby (Monterey Media) with Robbie Coltrane and Eugene Levy; Night of the Living Dead 3D (Lions Gate); Big Bad Wolf (Universal); Perfect Witness (First Look) with Wes Bentley; A Perfect Fit (Warner Brothers) with Adrien GrenierThe Godfather of Green Bay (Image) with Lauren Holly and Tony Goldwyn; California Dreaming (Fox/Showtime) with Dave Foley; American Zombie (Cinema Libre); Park (Fox/Showtime) with William Baldwin; and Haunted Forrest (Lions Gate).

Documentaries sold by Circus Road Films included Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (Warner Bros); If I Die Tonight (Indican); Boobs: An American Obsession (Cinema Epoch); Cafe Chavalos (Cinema Libre); The Gits (Liberation); The Jesus Guy (Cinevolve); Made in China (Documentary Channel); Small Voices (Cinema Libre); and Your Mommy Kills Animals (Halo8 Releasing).

Sales of television series included the purchase by ABC Television of MVP, a Canadian dramatic series which aired on SoapNet.

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.

 

Sebastian Twardosz

Sebastian has been very fortunate to work with leading companies in both film and television for the past sixteen years.  Before joining Circus Road, he was a senior acquisitions executive for Allumination FilmWorks (a division of ContentFilm) which specialized in the domestic distribution and foreign sales of independently produced feature films.  While there he managed one of the company’s main accounts—a licensing agreement with the Slamdance Film Festival.  Previously, Sebastian was the head of development for a Paramount-based production company called Craftsman Films which developed numerous projects, including the feature film reinvention of the Star Trek franchise.  He worked in comedy and drama development at Touchstone Television, the tv production division of the Walt Disney Company and ABC, where he staffed on six produced pilots.  He also spent four years with Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner’s production company as an assistant and development executive from 1995 through 1999, participating in the making of Mission Impossible 1-2 and Without Limits.  Sebastian started in the business as an agent's assistant in the motion picture department at ICM.  He graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.  His short film, Silent Rain, received a Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as the Student Emmy. 

Sebastian recently co-produced the upcoming independent feature Small Town Saturday Night starring Chris Pine, and he has been an adjunct professor at both UCLA and USC teaching about the art and business of film since 2006.

As an acquisitions executive, some of the films for which Sebastian negotiated the distribution rights include the following:  305, The Attic (Elizabeth Moss), The Beacon (Teri Polo and Elaine Hendrix), ESL (Kuno Becker), Full Count (Chris Klein and Jason Ritter), Heavens Fall (Timothy Hutton, David Strathairn, Leelee Sobieski), The Insurgents (John Shea and Mary Stuart Masterson) which premiered at Tribeca, Loaded (Jesse Metcalfe, Monica Keena, Chace Crawford), Magic Man (Billy Zane and Bai Ling), and Rock the Paint (Douglas Smith and Kevin Phillips) which also premiered at Tribeca.

Sebastian has also been intricately involved in fostering the careers of numerous development executives, screenwriters, directors, and even agents. He grew up on Westlake Street in Taylor, Michigan.

Tara Reynolds 

Before joining Circus Roads Films as Director of Business Affairs, Tara Reynolds was Sales, Marketing and Distribution Coordinator at Marvista Entertainment. Her responsibilities included both international and domestic distribution of the company’s film and television catalogue. She oversaw campaigns for “Beyond the Break” a Nickelodeon series, various Lifetime films, including “Cries in the Dark,”  “A Decent Proposal,” and “Love Thy Neighbor,” the PBS series “The Zula Patrol” and “Treasure Hunt: The Legend of the Tillamook Gold,” a feature film. 

Since leaving Marvista, Reynolds was admitted to the California Bar and has been in private practice, representing producers, actors and other clients in the entertainment industry. In addition to her experience negotiating and drafting deals, she has been collaborating creatively with clients on a variety of projects in development for cable and network television, along with selective features. 

Reynolds, who began her career in Michigan, was a labor and employment litigator at Kienbaum, Opperwall, Hardy & Pelton representing Fortune 150 companies. She also served with the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association’s (DMBA) pro bono program, and was a speaker on legal ethics with local Chambers of Commerce and the American Bar Association.  She is the recipient of the DMBA Recognition Award for her diligent pro bono work in the Detroit area.  

Reynolds earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Central Michigan University and a JD from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. 

Reynolds volunteers with Peace4Kids, a Los Angeles-based children’s charity and is a children’s mentor.  

Tara grew up on Lake Road in Ironwood, Michigan.