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SYNOPSIS
Two people are thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music. Nick (Michael Cera) frequents New York's indie rock scene nursing a broken heart and playing the bass with his queercore band, The Jerk Offs. Norah (Kat Dennings) is questioning pretty much all of her assumptions about the world. Though they have nothing in common except for their taste in music, their chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to find a legendary band's secret show and ends up becoming a first date that could change both their lives.
A love letter to youth, destiny and downtown Manhattan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist takes audiences on a music-fueled tour of the streets of the Lower East Side with a couple trying to figure out who they want to be-and where their favorite band is playing.
Columbia Pictures and Mandate Pictures Presents a Depth of Field Production, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. The film stars Michael Cera (Superbad), Kat Dennings (The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Alexis Dziena (Fool's Gold), Ari Graynor (Mystic River), Aaron Yoo (21) and Jay Baruchel (Tropic Thunder). It is directed by Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas). The screenplay is by Lorene Scafaria from the novel by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan and and the film is produced by Kerry Kohansky (American Dreamz), Chris Weitz (American Pie), Paul Weitz (In Good Company) and Andrew Miano (The Golden Compass). Joe Drake, Nathan Kahane and Adam Brightman serve as Executive Producers. The director of photography is Tom Richmond (Chapter 27), the film is edited by Myron Kerstein (Garden State). Production designer is David Doernberg (Junebug) with costumes by Sandra Hernandez (El Cantante). The music is by Mark Mothersbaugh (The Royal Tenenbaums) and the music supervisor is Linda Cohen (There Will Be Blood).
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist has been rated PG-13 for "Mature thematic material including teen drinking, sexuality, language and crude behavior." The running time is 89 minutes.

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As the only straight member of The Jerk Offs, music lover and soon-to-be high school graduate Nick (Michael Cera) is a regular on New York's indie rock scene. He is also recovering from the brutal breakup of his last romance, mourning his lost relationship alone in his suburban New Jersey bedroom and making a seemingly endless stream of mix CDs for his shallow ex, Tris (Alexis Dziena),
Norah Silverman (Kat Dennings) is the daughter of record industry royalty and, with college looming, she is questioning pretty much everything she knows about the world, including her on-again off-again relationship with an opportunistic musician named Tal (Jay Baruchel). A classmate and longtime frenemy of the heartless Tris, she's been retrieving Nick's mix CDs from the trash into which Tris routinely discards them. For Norah, the CDs seem to provide a window into the heart and mind of an unknown someone who just could be her perfect musical soul mate.
Their worlds collide when their favorite band, an elusive underground sensation known as "Where's Fluffy," announces a surprise concert in New York. Nick, Norah and the band's other fans plan to spend the night trolling Manhattan, following obscure clues to find them.
Early in the evening, Norah and her friend Caroline check out a club where The Jerk Offs happen to be performing and she takes a shine to Nick when she sees them onstage. When Tris arrives at the same club, Norah impulsively asks Nick to pretend to be her boyfriend so Tris won't know she's dateless. For the same reason, he obliges, and one public display of affection later, the two are flabbergasted to discover their connection.
Not interested in Tris' discards, Norah is ready to move on in her search for Fluffy, but her girlfriend Caroline has already partied too hard and Norah wants to get her home before she does anything (else) foolish. Afraid to risk getting Caroline on to a bus to New Jersey in her condition, Norah asks the band for a ride back to Englewood.
Nick's bandmates Dev (Rafi Gavron) and Thom (Aaron Yoo) think they can spot the right girl for Nick in second. Eager to get their friend out from under Tris' spell, they decide to engineer a little alone time for Nick and Norah. They agree to ferry Caroline home if Norah will stay and join Nick in the hunt for Where's Fluffy.
In the close quarters of Nick's "vintage" Yugo, the evening takes a turn for the worse as Norah and Nick rub each other the wrong way. When they run into Norah's occasional boyfriend, it's the last straw for Nick. Just as the pair decide to call it quits for the night, Dev and Thom call to alert them that Caroline has gone missing somewhere in the city.
As Nick and Norah roam Manhattan in search of Caroline, their love for music, yearning for love and quirky views of the world might just add up to one very unexpected night.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Nick: "I don't want to go. I'm taking a mental health day."

New York City at night is full of romance, adventure and a hint of the unpredictable. In Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, a boy and girl embark on an evening of music that neither will ever forget.
For Andrew Miano and Kerry Kohansky, producers of this quirky romantic comedy, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist was a chance to relive a night where parents and school are far out of mind and the night holds endless possibilities. "Kerry and I read this book probably three years ago and we bought it because we just loved the story." says Miano, whose previous collaborations with Kohansky include The Golden Compass and American Dreamz. "We'd each had a night like it in high school or college. We thought a lot of people would be able to relate to that moment when you have a magical night with a person you might never see again."
Like the film's main characters, Kohansky grew up in the suburbs, driving into the city in pursuit of the hottest new bands and boys. "When I read the book, it was with an incredible sense of nostalgia for being that age," she says. "When you're a senior in high school, life revolves around being in love and being with your friends. Everything feels so serious and so real and so complex. Nothing is ever black and white. Nick and Norah brought me back to those years.
"Most people can tell stories of that one unforgettable night that they had," she continues. "It didn't matter who you were, it didn't matter what tomorrow was. It was all about that night and spending the hours together, maybe going to a club, or listening to music or whatever, and never knowing if you would ever see that person again. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is really about these memories that will last forever. I think people who see this movie will look back and say, 'I get it.'"
Miano says he wanted to recreate the feeling he had when he first saw some of the iconic movies of the 1980s. "There are movies that I grew up with like the John Hughes movies or Say Anything where I walked out of the movie and I felt like I had actually lived through those two hours," says Miano. "You went along for the ride with these people and you were emotionally satisfied at the end. It made you happy because you cared enough about the characters to be glad when they got together.
"And that's the ride we wanted to create," he continues. "We want audiences to walk out of the movie feeling that little tingle of magic because it could happen to them or it did happen to them. That's the goal, to have people want to tell their friends about the great ride that they just went on."
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is based on the novel of the same name, written by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan. Cohn is well known for her realistic and insightful portraits of teen girls, while Levithan has been a pioneer in the genre of young adult literature. In their first collaboration, the authors conjured up a mysterious, magical New York night that brings together two reluctant romantics who may very well be destined for each other.
The novel provided the filmmakers with rich source material from which to build their movie. "The characters of Nick and Norah are so complex," says Kohansky. "And their voices come directly from the book. All the stuff was there. All we had to do was add some layers of conflict by playing up the fact that Norah's friend Caroline gets lost.
"In the beginning, we took the narrative from the book and tried to use it as voiceover, but we ended up not using any of it," she says. "The voices of the characters were so strong in the book and the screenplay that we realized we didn't need it. You know, when Norah sees Nick at the club and decides he's the guy she's going go up to and kiss, you know exactly what the two of them are thinking."
The producers approached Peter Sollett, a rising young director who had already been honored at the Cannes and Deauville film festivals. "There's a short list of people you really want to work with and Pete was on ours," says Miano. "When we described the story to him, he thought it sounded awesome-New York, music, the whole thing. He called us right back and said he was in."
Kohansky, who attended NYU with Sollett, calls the decision to have him direct the film "a no-brainer." His previous feature, Raising Victor Vargas was a critical success and a favorite of both producers. "And it was about a boy and a girl from the Lower East Side meeting and falling for each other," she says. "We have these two bridge-and-tunnel kids going into the city and having this romp. We just felt that he knew the territory and the way he gets you to fall in love with the characters made him perfect for this project. Pete just did a phenomenal job with it. He is so into the music that he was able to make choices that were absolutely fitting."
Sollett was immediately attracted to the script because, he says, it was so much like the way he was spending his time in New York. "I was in between films" says the director. "I didn't have to be up early in the morning. For the first time in my life I was really able taking advantage of how much nightlife New York City has to offer. I recognized a lot of places and experiences that I had been enjoying at the time."
But the script resonated with the director on a deeper level as well. "There's an aspect of the film that is about being 18 and falling in love," he says. "I immediately responded to that as well, because when I was in college, I met somebody I really liked a lot. At the time, I was a bridge-and-tunnel kid and she was living in Manhattan. Every night I'd go to see her and I'd stay with her until about two or three in the morning. And then I'd have to get out of Manhattan to go home. One of the themes in the script is making the most out of every hour of that late night fun time period."
Over the course of the evening, Nick and Norah cruise the streets of New York, first following the clues to the location of Where's Fluffy's performance, then trying to find Norah's missing friend Caroline. "It's a sort of magical journey through New York City," Miano says. "Over the course of one night these two kids are searching for their favorite band, and they also fall in love. But it's like the night conspires to keep them apart. There are all these obstacles. The adventure really begins when the boys agree to take Caroline home."
"The trick to making the story work was simply to have characters the audience could relate to," says Sollett. "It's not very difficult to paint scenarios that audience members can imagine themselves being in. If even one of the characters in the scene feels a little bit like you, or they're in a situation that you can relate to, suddenly things start to get funny.
"For example," he says, "when Nick and Norah are suddenly alone in a small automobile and realize that they are very attracted to one another, it is a very relatable situation, sort of like a blind date.
"The film actually says a very simple thing," according to Sollett. "If you can find the courage to allow yourself to be seen as the person you really are, then you stand a chance of finding just how much you have in common with someone else.
"What Nick and Norah have in common is a dedication to the shield that they've built around themselves," continues the director. "During the night, they put lots of individual cracks into each other's facades and all these little cracks lead them toward a nontraditional love scene, in which they slowly allow themselves to drop the guard that they've been maintaining all night. And that emotional journey is the one that both Nick and Norah are on in the film."

CASTING NICK AND NORAH

Norah: "I refuse to be the goody bag at your pity-party, Nick."
Nick: You don't have to yell. It's not a train station, we're in a tiny car."

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist boasts an ensemble of today's hottest rising young actors plus a few very familiar faces. "We were lucky to get such an amazing cast," says Andrew Miano. "Not only are they enormously talented, they're all kind of normal people. They're not like the Hollywood version of anything."
Michael Cera, who scored two huge hits in a row last year with Superbad and Juno, plays Nick, the soulful young bass player whose encyclopedic knowledge of music captures Norah's heart. "When we bought the book about four years ago, we had a whole different set of 18-year-olds to consider," says the producer. "I don't remember who we had as a prototype back then, but Michael was going to play a small role. We'd known him from "Arrested Development," long before Superbad. Then the timing made it Michael's moment."
"He is funny and he's charming, and you just fall in love with him in the film," says Kerry Kohansky. "He wears his heart on his sleeve, and you're not intimidated by him, but you fall for his charm and his wit."
Cera says that the script's dialogue and the story were the drawing card for him. "And the structure. It had all the elements that a script needs and that grabbed me.
"I read the book to get an idea of the tone and asked Pete a lot of questions," the actor continues. "We rehearsed a bit and it all just kind came together when we got on set. It wasn't so much improvising or finding jokes in a scene as it was figuring out the reality of what's supposed to be going any given point."
"Michael is the perfect antidote to the person that Norah has been seeing," says Peter Sollett. "Her ex is this very skeevy musician who's been taking advantage of her and trying to use her to get to her father's connections in the music business. Michael is the opposite of that kind of insincerity and manipulation, because he is very honest and true of heart, very charming and non-threatening to someone who's trying to get over a broken heart the way Norah is."
To play Norah, the filmmakers chose Kat Dennings, who played Catherine Keener's daughter in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. "We worked with casting director Joseph Middleton," says Miano. "He's known for bringing in great, talented young people. He cast Go; he cast American Pie. He knew Kat and he brought her in. She's so beautiful and so down to earth, which I think comes off on screen.
"Michael needs someone who can give him a hard time for his character to be successful in the movie," continues the producer. "The character only works if the woman he is falling in love with is really tough on him, and Kat does that splendidly."
"The first time I saw the film, I looked at Pete and I said, 'Kat reminds me of Julia Roberts in Mystic Pizza,'" says Kohansky. "She's got this big beautiful smile, and when she shows it, you just warm up. Yet you feel kind of like you're in her head."
The director calls Dennings "An amazing actress. She's an individual and she is not afraid to share her viewpoints and her absolutely unique personality. There aren't a lot of young actors who have the courage to be themselves on camera. And she's absolutely beautiful. For me, when I was looking for somebody to renew Nick after his horrible breakup, someone as refreshing as Kat seemed perfect."
Although Dennings admits she has never had a night like the one in the movie, she says Norah is the closest to herself of any character she's played. "Obviously I'm not exactly like the Norah in the book," says the actress. "You have to take some liberties adapting a book to film. For example, we've toned down the language because we're trying to make it more accessible."
Norah's secret for most of the movie is that she is the daughter of an enormously successful music producer. "She is terrified that people only like her because they can get her to give their CD to her dad or they think she can do favors for them," says Dennings. "With Nick, she's very guarded. It's not until the end of the film she lets him know who her dad is."
That revelation takes place in one of her favorite scenes of the movie, set in a legendary New York music studio. "Electric Ladyland? I almost passed out. David Bowie walked the same hall I did. Jimi Hendrix's ruffled shirt is there. I played the white Steinway. I was so excited, I think I cried!"
Dennings bonded closely with the actress who plays her girlfriend in the movie. "Ari Graynor is my best friend, my BFF forever," she says. "She plays Caroline, Norah's best friend. Caroline is always drunk, so Norah ends up being her mom in a weird way, always taking care of her."
Graynor, who has worked extensively in television and film, is the catalyst for much of the night's action. It's Caroline who encourages Norah to approach Nick, and it's Caroline who solves the mystery of Where's Fluffy. She is also the object of a citywide scavenger hunt after Nick's band mates volunteer to take her home, but then lose track of her.
"I think everyone knows a Caroline from high school," Kohansky says. "Everyone knew that party girl who periodically goes missing or gets up in the middle of the bar and starts singing to the audience or some other outrageous behavior."
Although Graynor's portrayal of a tipsy teenager on the town is often the comic relief in the film, the deeper emotional moments resonate strongly with her. "The movie brings up things that we all think," she says. "Norah says something to Nick about being lonely when you're with someone and how that loneliness is different from being alone. I know that feeling. I remember reading that for the first time and thinking it was incredible that they're letting these 18 year old kids have this conversation."
Working with Michael Cera was a highlight for the actress. "Michael is an absolute genius," she says. "I was a huge fan of his before this and then working with him was incredible. He is so quick and his timing is impeccable."
Dev and Thom, the gay members of their queercore band and Nick's best friends, are played by Rafi Gavron and Aaron Yoo. "When Rafi and Aaron came in to audition, it was like they were old buddies," according to Miano. "For the band, that really worked. They play guys who probably had a romantic relationship with each other, but now they're two best friends. They know each other so well, that they are constantly at each other and that dynamic was really fun and interesting."
Balancing the relationships between Thom, Dev and Nick in a realistic way was also important to the filmmakers. "I think what's beautiful about this movie is it's really honest about friendship and love, especially when it comes to gay-straight friendships," says Yoo. "There are only a couple moments in the film where it seems important to acknowledge that Dev and Thom are gay and Nick's straight, which is a lot like real life. It's one of those things that you don't really think about."
"There are not many scripts that are as good as this one," says Gavron. "It's so true in so many ways. It's the first comedy I've done and I found myself laughing a lot, which was nice. Laughing is a healthy thing to do."
Yoo's character, Thom, is the less flamboyant, more empathetic member of the team. "Dev is definitely the lead singer," he says. "He is the one who grabs all of the limelight. Nick is the kind of person who's very supportive and doesn't really take any space for himself. And I always like to think of Thom as the color in the painting. He's very emotional. He's very much about love and experience and the moment."
Jay Baruchel, who recently appeared in the summer comedy Tropic Thunder, plays Norah's lowlife boyfriend, Tal. "It was so much fun playing such a crummy guy," he says. "You get a lot of freedom when you only have to care about yourself. Playing a poser was like my revenge. I've met plenty of posers in my life who messed things up for me so this way my way of avenging all that awkwardness.
"The script was about the coolest thing I've ever read in my life," he continues. "For me doing this movie was like sitting with the cool kids at lunch hour in the cafeteria. I knew going into it that everyone involved were incredible actors."
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is also chockfull of very funny cameo performances. "We were again very lucky when it came to the cameos," says Miano. "We have Seth Meyers from "Saturday Night Live." Eddie Kay Thomas from American Pie came in and played Jesus. John Cho, who is Harold in the Harold and Kumar movies, has worked on pretty much every movie we've made. And considering this is a movie about music, it was so cool to get Devendra Banhart who's an amazing singer and performer."
Kat Dennings enthusiastically seconds that thought. "When Pete told me at the beginning of the shooting that Devendra Banhart was going to be in the movie, I was like, 'Shut up!' I couldn't believe he was in it."
Director Peter Sollett credits his cast with bringing a wealth of youthful energy to the film. "We had an ensemble of wonderful, charismatic 18-to-20-year-old actors, who were happy for once to be shooting in the overnight hours, because a lot of them are natural night owls. Our actors knew they were part of something a little bit special, and I think they appreciated that. You can never get a production to be as spontaneous and as fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants as those evenings are, but you do what you can to try to make them feel like they're doing things for the first time."
According to Ari Graynor, "Peter gives you know enough guidance that you know where you're going and he reins you in, if need be. I've been so incredibly impressed and thankful for the way he just let us go and the way he listened to all of our ideas. He's also just the greatest guy ever and he put together this incredible group of people."
The actors say they quickly formed an unusually close bond. "Everyone in the cast was a lot of fun to work with," says Cera. "We ate lunch together, hung out in the trailer and played video games."
"We're all such excellent amigos at this point," says Dennings. "Just being together immediately gets me back into the mode of the movie."
Like most of the actors, Gavron had never worked with a cast so close in age. "I can't tell you why the chemistry was so good, but I can tell you that we got along outside of work as well," he says. "On the set, we spent most of our time in Michael's trailer playing the Tiger Woods golf game on the PlayStation 3. Usually on a film, there's some tension somewhere, but there was none. We loved each other and it was always a hilariously good time."
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THE ULTIMATE PLAYLIST

Caroline: "I found Jesus."
Norah: "What??"
Caroline: "Jesus! He's much taller in person."

Set in some of New York's most popular nightclubs, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist features music by Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, Bishop Allen, Devendra Banhart, The Real Tuesday Weld, Shout Out Louds, and We are Scientists. Andrew Miano says when they put together the soundtrack, they looked for "the best music you haven't heard before."
"Linda Cohen, our music supervisor, had a very difficult job," says the producer. "She had to come up with a lot of ideas for Pete and myself and a couple other people like Myron Kerstein, the editor, who are all music freaks. But it was also one of the most fun aspects of the movie. As far as getting the bands for the movie, they were really awesome up-and-coming New York based bands that Pete was a fan of."
Sollett says he was looking for two things in the songs "In a way, we're handing over a playlist that expresses how we feel to everyone who sees the movie. It was important that we find great pieces of music that weren't familiar to most people. And on another level we wanted to find songs that were true to how the characters are feeling in the scenes."
Nick's playlists are carefully constructed creations that give the listener clues into his inner life. They also are the reason Norah falls in love with him without ever meeting him. Making a playlist, according to Sollett, can be a superficial exercise or a way to reveal oneself through the words and music of others. "You can just be generally sharing music with someone. But then there's a more pointed way of doing it. The song selection and sequencing are telling a story. For lots of people, myself included, when it's difficult to express yourself verbally, you can do it by putting together a collection of songs and sharing it with someone."
The cast has their own experience with playlists. Kat Dennings even admits to making a special Halloween playlist for her boyfriend. "I recorded some Halloween songs with Garage Band for him," she says. "I made the instruments with my voice, I did everything. I remade "Monster Mash" for him with his name in it."
Rafi Gavron says his personal playlist would consist of Bob Marley, Al Green, Otis Redding, Marvin Gay, Eryka Badu, Q Tip and Naz. "I love all the stuff before '98 when hip hop died. I'm all over the board. If it's a good song, I listen to it."
Actor Jay Baruchel is looking for a girl who loves My Bloody Valentine. "That would be as if the clouds parted and the face of God shined down on me," he says. "If I ever find a girl with a playlist that has My Bloody Valentine, New Order, Joy Division and Godspeed You Black Emperor, I will try my best to marry her."
And, says Kerry Kohansky, that is the feeling at the heart of Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. "It's about music-the effect it has on people, the bond it creates, the memories it stirs up. Nick and Norah are musical soul mates. Their love of music is what brings them together. Music is what makes them fall in love."
The opening scene of the film features a live performance of "Screw the Man," The Jerk Offs' signature tune. "In terms of the actors as musicians, I got lucky," says Sollett. "Most of them actually are musicians to some degree. Michael is an accomplished guitarist. He plays very well, and sings with a very, very sweet voice."
While Cera had played guitar before, he had to learn to adapt to the bass for the movie. "It was scary at first," he says. "We only did a few days of shooting in front of people where we were playing music, but it was the first scene we shot. In the end, it was kind of fun being up there."
Rafi Gavron had never sung before, but according to Sollett, he was a natural. "As an in-studio musical artist and on stage, he was fantastic," says the director. "Perhaps he was living out some rock and roll fantasy, or maybe he has some closeted past as a musician, I don't know."
Gavron remembers that first day as being incredibly chaotic. "I was so scared at first. I was thinking, 'How am I going to do this?' I'm on stage screaming into the microphone in front of 100 extras who were brilliant. I got the energy from them. They really just played it out and had so much fun with it that I felt comfortable on stage. I found myself doing all these very camp moves on stage with a microphone and ripping my shirt off. I had a bunch of lovely gay guys in the front of the audience who were so encouraging. I never knew I could have that much fun."
Aaron Yoo grew up playing music, but had never attempted the guitar before. "I took some lessons," he says. "I was practicing so much that first week that I was ripping the skin off of my fingers, because I didn't really know how to strum properly. I spent hours just running through these riffs, then the challenge was translating that into an actual performance in a real club.
He says they all took the performance very seriously. "We all had our different takes on it. I have some friends in bands that I stole little pieces from. It was pretty intense for our first day of shooting. But it was a great way to get it started."
The trio's co-stars have nothing but praise for their performance skills. "They're really a good band," says Dennings. "And by the end of the night, the extras were all singing the song and everybody loved it. I think it should be on the radio now."
The song, "Screw the Man'" was referred to in the book, but written especially for the movie. "We needed to have the song to open the movie," says Miano. "The minute we got Rafi into the studio to record it, we knew we had it."
"'Screw the Man' is an awesome song," says Ari Graynor. "No one could get it out of their head, it's really that catchy."
Atlantic Records will release the "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" in stores and online on September 23rd, 2008.

DRIVING THROUGH THE NEW YORK NIGHT

Tris: "It wasn't hard to find the only Yugo in the city."
Nick: "I think it's the only Yugo in the country."

The locations for Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist are a travelogue of New York City's high and low life, from famed downtown punk club Crash Mansion to Grace Church, Electric Ladyland Studio to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Veselka coffee shop in the East Village and that venerable purveyor of late night hot dogs, Gray's Papaya. Getting the settings right was essential to the filmmakers, even though it might have been less expensive and logistically problematic to shoot in, say, Toronto and try and make it look like New York.
Producer Andrew Miano was adamant that the film be shot in Manhattan. "First, as a company, we try to keep films here, as opposed to going out of the country," says Miano. "More importantly, the city has a pulse of its own, whether it's seeing the Empire State Building in the background or navigating the traffic or other things like that you can't get anywhere else."
Even so, every night presented a different challenge, according to Kerry Kohansky. "When you're dealing with a finite budget, and a finite amount of time each night, you have one chance to make the shot. But New York has this frenetic energy that was so fitting for this film. That's what Nick and Norah's night is all about.
"We'd be shooting down on the Lower East Side at four in the morning," she goes on. "People would be coming out of the bars or just walking around. Even though we hired extras, we didn't even really need to, because there was just all this crazy energy that fueled our shoot. When we were shooting and wrapping at six in the morning, it felt like the night had just ended. And that is kind of the way you feel when you're out and about in the night in New York City."
Ari Graynor found the experience of shooting on the city's streets exhilarating. "New York is so special," the actress says. "It's my favorite city in the world and it has an energy like nowhere else and the fact that we're getting to be here and to showcase that and be a part of it is really incredible."
"I don't think it would have been as much fun anywhere else, because in another city everything would be shut down," says Michael Cera. "In New York, other people are still awake when all of this is going on."
The city lent its special "glow" to the film, even in the cinematography. "A lot of the film is handheld," says Peter Sollett. "Almost all of it is shot with long lenses, a cinema veritè feeling. But with the long lenses at night especially, you get a very shallow depth of field and lights start to feel very diffused. Things begin to look very romantic, with soft warm feeling.
"There's a scene where Nick is getting a phone call. He hangs up the phone and he looks at Norah who's standing on the corner, trying to hail a cab. The shot looked sort of abstract and colorful. It seems like there are a lot of lights floating around Norah's head. And those are actually just normal New York City traffic lights and street lamps, but with those lenses, everything starts to look very glorious."
Nick and Norah make their way around New York in Nick's 1980's Yugo, a bright yellow contraption of questionable reliability.
"The Yugo is a rare Yugoslavian budget automobile from the late '80s," says Sollett. "They don't make them anymore and it's very, very difficult to shoot in something that tight. The crew was on a little bit of a learning curve.
"For the driving scenes, we usually dragged the Yugo onto a flatbed truck, and surrounded it with cameras, but there were times when we had to get cameras in the car. In the scene Caroline locks herself into the car and we wanted to shoot from her point of view. It was quite a feat.
"It's a very, very tiny car," he continues. "Since Michael and Kat were actually just getting to know each other, many situations that they were experiencing in these close quarters mirrored what the characters were going through. They were thrust into this high-pressure situation in this little car where they needed to relate to one another, and things were moving a little bit too quickly for things to be comfortable. So in a lot of ways, the acting challenge was part and parcel of the characters' challenge."

ABOUT THE CAST

MICHAEL CERA (Nick) has become one of the most sought after actors in the business. After garnering major critical acclaim for his portrayal of George-Michael Bluth in the Emmy Award® winning Fox series "Arrested Development," Cera quickly found himself amongst the young comedy elite when Judd Apatow cast him as the lead in the hit film, Superbad. The film, written by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, nabbed the top box office gross two weeks running and quickly became one of the most talked about films of 2007. On the heels of Superbad, Cera co-starred in the Oscar® nominated Juno opposite Ellen Page and former "Arrested Development" co-star Jason Bateman.
Cera recently finished shooting the lead role in Youth in Revolt, a film based on his favorite book, for director Miguel Arteta and the Weinstein Company, He will also star opposite Jack Black in the Apatow produced feature, The Year One directed by Harold Ramis. Cera recently landed the title role in the highly anticipated Scott Pilgrim vs. The World a film based on the Oni Press graphic novel "Scott Pilgrim Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life." The film will begin shooting in 2009 and will be directed by Edgar Wright
Past credits include a young Chuck Barris in George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Frequency with Dennis Quaid.
Cera's television credits include "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job", "Tom Goes to the Mayor," regular roles on the ABC Family series "I Was a Sixth Grade Alien," and Fox's "The Grubbs;" a guest starring role in the CW's popular "Veronica Mars," the telefilms "Custody of the Heart," "Familiar Stranger," and "Walter and Harry," as well as the award-winning telefilm "My Louisiana Sky." Last year Cera launched a web based series entitled Clark and Michael, which he co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in with Clark Duke. The series received tremendous attention and was nominated for several Webby Awards.
Cera currently splits his time between Los Angeles and Toronto.

KAT DENNINGS (Norah) is one of Hollywood's rising young stars. She
co-starred with Steve Carell and Catherine Keener in Universal's smash hit The 40 Year Old Virgin and was seen last February co-starring opposite Robert Downey, Jr. and Anton Yelchin in Charlie Bartlett.
Dennings most recently co-starred in the Columbia Pictures / Happy Madison feature The House Bunny with Anna Faris, Katharine McPhee, and Rumer Willis. Dennings plays an outspoken feminist college student who clashes with Shelley (Faris), an ex-Playboy bunny, when she becomes housemother to her and her misfit sorority sisters in order to increase their popularity on campus.
Dennings is currently filming Shorts, written and directed by Robert
Rodriguez, with co-stars Leslie Mann and William H. Macy. The film centers on a group of young outcasts who are swept into an unexpected adventure when
they find a mysterious box in their neighborhood.
Other film credits include New Line's Raise Your Voice, where her performance was singled out by The New York Times, Down in the Valley, opposite Edward Norton, London with Jessica Biel, and Big Momma's House 2 with Martin Lawrence. She appeared in IFC's Wanderlust for directors Robert Pucini and Shari Springer Berman and was selected to participate in the prestigious 2005 Sundance Filmmaker's Lab where she worked with Robert Redford on director Dante Harper's Dreamland.
For the small screen, Dennings has appeared on some of television's most
critically acclaimed dramas including a recurring role on NBC's "E.R.," a guest-
starring role on a highly publicized "CSI: Miami / New York" sweeps cross-over episode and a controversial role on "Without a Trace" on CBS. She also starred opposite Bob Saget in the WB series "Raising Dad." The 21- year-old is perhaps best known for her standout guest-starring role as Jenny Brier, a teen who hires Samantha to do publicity for her Bat Mitzvah, in HBO's "Sex and the City."
Dennings currently resides in Los Angeles and enjoys writing and filmmaking.

ALEXIS DZIENA (Tris) recently finished shooting Disney's When in Rome, opposite Kristen Bell and directed by Mark Steven Johnson. In February 2008, Dziena was seen starring opposite Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey in the breakout role of 'Gemma' in Warners Brothers feature film Fool's Gold directed by Andy Tennant. Last year, she completed filming the independent feature Sex and Breakfast, opposite Macaulay Culkin. This year, Dziena can be seen in Green Street Film's feature Tenderness opposite Russell Crowe. Dziena is often remembered for her memorable performance in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers opposite Bill Murray and Sharon Stone for Focus Features.
Dziena's television credits include starring opposite Marcia Gay Harden in the Lifetime film She's Too Young and in 2005 Dziena was a series regular on ABCs Invasion produced by Thomas Schlamme.
A born and bred New Yorker, Dziena holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and currently spends her time between New York and Los Angeles.

ARI GRAYNOR (Caroline) most recently finished shooting Miguel Arteta's Youth in Revolt, in which she will star with Steve Buscemi, Michael Cera and Justin Long, as well as in Drew Barrymore's feature directorial debut, Whip It!, opposite Ellen Page and Kristen Wiig.
Graynor was last seen starring with Catherine Keener and Ellen Page in An American Crime, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Her additional film credits include roles in the following: Game 6 (Sundance Film Festival 2005) with Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr; The Great New Wonderful with Maggie Gyllenhaal; Bereft, directed by Tim Daly and Clark Matthias; Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration; and Book of Love (Sundance Film Festival 2004). Her feature film debut was in Clint Eastwood's Academy Award® winning film Mystic River.
Graynor has starred on Broadway twice, making her debut in Donald Margulies's Brooklyn Boy at the Manhattan Theater Club, which garnered her a 2005 Clarence Derwent Award. Two years later she starred in The Little Dog Laughed, a 2007 Tony Award nominee for Best Play. She also appeared in the hit off-Broadway play Dog Sees God.
Graynor is perhaps most known for her portrayal of Meadow Soprano's troubled roommate, Caitlin, on "The Sopranos." Her additional television credits include roles on "Law & Order: SVU," "Veronica Mars," "CSI Miami" and "Numbers."

AARON YOO (Thom) 2007 was quite the year for Aaron Yoo and 2008 and 2009 are promising to be even better. In April of 2007 Aaron starred opposite Shia LaBeouf in the sleeper hit Disturbia. In May of the same year he played the main character in the sweet World War II drama American Pastime and after receiving tons of accolades at the Sundance Film Festival, Rocket Science hit theatres across America in August 2007. In March 2008 he had a lead role opposite Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey in 21. Yoo next co-starred in the Sundance hit, The Wackness, which opened in July of 2008. In early 2009, he will star in Friday the 13th for producer Michael Bay. He is currently shooting Labor Pains opposite Lindsay Lohan, playing her boyfriend and The Good Guy opposite Scott Porter. In September he begins work as the lead bad guy in Kid Cannabis for director/writer John Stockwell and is awaiting a release date for the sci-fi drama Game in which he stars opposite Gerard Butler and Michael C. Hall.
Yoo's career began Off-Broadway where he starred in U.S. and world premiere productions including "Where Do We Live" at the Vineyard Theatre, "wAve" and "Savage Acts" for the Ma-Yi Theatre Company, "Cellophane" at the Flea Theatre, and the National Asian-American Theatre Co.'s "Fuenteovejuna". Other NYC credits include "The Gifted Program" at the LAByrinth and "Karaoke Stories" for the Imua! Theatre Company. Yoo then turned his talents to the small screen, with guest-appearances on shows such as "Law & Order: SVU," "Love Monkey" and "Ed." He most recent TV appearance was a recurring role opposite Penn Badgely on The WB's "The Bedford Diaries," which was created and executive produced by Tom Fontana.
Born in Dallas and raised in East Brunswick, NJ, Yoo earned a BA in Theatre from the University of Pennsylvania. In what little downtime he has these days, he practices his DJ skills, plays the cello and pole vaults. He is also a soccer fiend and holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

JAY BARUCHEL (Tal) Before his debut as the star of the critically acclaimed FOX series, "Undeclared," Jay Baruchel was relatively new to American audiences. However, roles in a string of films since, including the Academy Award® winning movie Million Dollar Baby opposite Clint Eastwood, Hillary Swank and Morgan Freeman have helped cement Jay's place as a rising star in Hollywood. This summer, Baruchel will star in Tropic Thunder, opposite Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. Just Buried, a film he stars in opposite Rose Byrne will also debut this summer at the Montreal Comedy Festival in July. Baruchel recently completed She's Out of My League for DreamWorks, in which he plays the romantic lead and will soon begin work on DreamWorks' animated feature, How To Train Your Dragon, as the voice of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. It was also recently announced that Baruchel will star opposite Seth Rogen in Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse, a feature length film based on a short film they completed by the same name. Baruchel will also executive produce.
Baruchel reunited with "Undeclared" creator Judd Apatow last summer in Universal Pictures smash hit Knocked Up opposite Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl. Other feature film credits include Real Time, opposite Randy Quaid, Fanboys for the Weinstein Company, in which four guys from the Midwest drive across the country to honor the wish of their dying friend: to watch Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch, I'm Reed Fish co-starring Alexis Bledel, which premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival as well as the Canadian independent film Fetching Cody which premiered at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival, Nemesis Game, Rules of Attraction and in the memorable role of Vic Munoz, the obsessed Led Zeppelin fan in Almost Famous.
Baruchel began acting at age twelve when he landed a job on the Nickelodeon hit television series "Are You Afraid of the Dark?", transforming what was to be a one-time guest appearance into a recurring role. The role was a springboard for his career, leading to his first Canadian series, "My Hometown."
Baruchel fulfilled his dream and directed a short film entitled Edgar & Jane which he also wrote, produced and shot in Montreal. He hopes to continue to direct films. Baruchel currently resides in Montreal and is an avid hockey and soccer fan.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

PETER SOLLETT (Director) developed his first feature film, Raising Victor Vargas, with the support of the Sundance Institute in 2001. The film premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, where it was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn/Fireworks Films. Continuing on the international circuit, the film was recognized at festivals in Toronto, London, San Sebastian and Deauville, where it was awarded the Grand Prix award. Sollett returned to Sundance for the film's North American premiere in 2003. Released theatrically in March of that year, Raising Victor Vargas ran for six months in major markets while earning critical praise and five Independent Spirit Award nominations.
Sollett was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1998. His short film Five Feet High and Rising was awarded the Best Short Film Prize at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival.
While developing new projects, Sollett teaches film directing at Columbia University's Graduate School of the Arts.

LORENE SCAFARIA (Screenwriter) was a bridge-and-tunnel teenager herself, bored with her small town and obsessed with all things film and music. She began as a playwright at sixteen, putting up small "Max Fischer-esque" shows in Manhattan, followed by a career of answering phones at a now-defunct film company. After two years of being broke in the big city, she packed her car and drove to Los Angeles. Three years later, after setting up her first spec, The Mighty Flynn, at Warner Brothers, she read the manuscript of Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and absolutely had to adapt it. Her love of the music-driven book, as well as the purchase of her first piano in ten years, led to recording an album during the recent writers' strike, called Garden Party, which should hopefully have its official "drop" by the end of the year. Future film projects include Man & Wife for Universal and Double Feature Films with director Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness) attached, as well as re-teaming with Mandate Pictures for what will be her directorial debut from her original script Seeking a Friend at the End of the World.

RACHEL COHN (Based on the Novel by) is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novels Two Steps Forward, Shrimp, Pop Princess, Gingerbread, and the middle grade novel The Steps. A graduate of Barnard College, she lives and writes in Manhattan, New York.

DAVID LEVITHAN (Based on the Novel by) is the acclaimed author of Wide Awake, Are We There Yet?, Boy Meets Boy and The Realm of Possibility. His debut novel Boy Meets Boy was an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick, and the 2004 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Young Adult readers. He is the editor of the PUSH imprint at Scholastic and lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.

KERRY KOHANSKY (Producer) most recently executive produced American Dreamz and co-produced the critically acclaimed film In Good Company for director Paul Weitz. She is also executive producing his current film, Cirque Du Freak. Kohansky serves as a producer/executive at Depth of Field, Paul and Chris Weitz's Los Angeles-based production company. She is currently overseeing development and production on a diverse slate of upcoming projects. Kohansky joined Depth of Field in January 2001 after working in the development department of The Shooting Gallery and the literary department at the William Morris Agency. She is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in film and television.

CHRIS WEITZ (Producer) most recently adapted, and directed, the Oscar® winning epic fantasy adventure The Golden Compass starring Nicole Kidman (The Hours), newcomer Dakota Blue Richards, Sam Elliott (We Were Soldiers), Eva Green (Casino Royale) and Daniel Craig (Casino Royale). Based on Philip Pullman's best-selling and award-winning first novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy, The Golden Compass was released by New Line Cinema and has grossed over $350 million worldwide. Weitz also executive produced the comedy American Dreamz, which was directed by his brother and collaborator Paul Weitz, and starred Hugh Grant and Dennis Quaid. In 1999, Weitz and his brother formed Depth of Field, their Los Angeles-based production company through which he and Paul produced the critically acclaimed film, In Good Company, directed by Paul.
Weitz previously co-directed, with his brother, the award-winning hit film About a Boy, adapting the screenplay from the Nick Hornby novel. The screenplay received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as similar nominations from BAFTA, Writers Guild, Chicago Film Critics and Humanitas; the film was named one of AFI's Movies of the Year and was nominated for the Golden Globe award for Best Comedy, winning Best Studio Comedy Feature at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.
Weitz's first directorial collaboration with Paul was on American Pie, the phenomenally successful first installment of the PIE franchise, which was followed by American Pie 2 and the final installment, American Wedding, both of which he also executive produced.
Prior to their screenwriting work on About a Boy, the brothers collaborated on several screenplays, including Antz and Madeline (adapting the popular children's book). Weitz also made his acting debut in the Sundance Film Festival hit Chuck & Buck.
Depth of Field's diverse slate of upcoming projects includes The Game, based on Neil Strauss' dating tome which Dan Weiss will adapt and the company will produce with Spyglass; and the feature adaptation of Michael Moorcock's fantasy epic The Elric Saga.

PAUL WEITZ (Producer) With his brother Chris, Paul Weitz wrote the film Antz, directed American Pie, and wrote and directed About a Boy. He wrote and directed the films In Good Company and American Dreamz, and the upcoming Cirque du Freak. His plays Roulette, Privilege, and Show People are published by Dramatists Play Services. He acted in the film Chuck and Buck.

ANDREW MIANO (Producer) most recently executive produced the epic film The Golden Compass, written and directed by Chris Weitz. Miano executive produced the films American Dreamz and the critically acclaimed In Good Company for director Paul Weitz. He is currently working on Cirque du Freak with Paul Weitz.
Miano partnered with Paul and Chris Weitz in 1999, overseeing all phases of production at Depth of Field, their Los Angeles-based production company. Depth of Field's diverse slate of upcoming projects includes the feature adaptation of Michael Moorcock's fantasy epic The Elric Saga for Universal Studios and The Game which Miano will produce, based on the best-selling book by Neil Strauss. Miano also served as a producer on the WB television series "Off Centre." Prior to joining the Weitz brothers, Miano worked for the William Morris Agency, where he started in their agent trainee program. Miano is a graduate of SUNY Oswego, where he earned a Bachelors of Arts degree in theatre and creative writing.

JOE DRAKE (Executive Producer) When Mandate Pictures was acquired by Lionsgate in August 2007, Joe Drake returned to Lionsgate as co-chief operating officer and president of the Company's motion picture group, with oversight of all areas of Lionsgate's production, distribution, marketing, acquisition and international theatrical operations. He joined Lionsgate Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer, Vice Chairman Michael Burns and co-Chief Operating Officer Steve Beeks as a member of the senior decision-making team of the fast-growing $1.5 billion diversified company, a leading next generation major studio. Drake is founder and CEO of Mandate, an independent entertainment company dedicated to the self-financing, development and production of filmed entertainment. He has been the driving force at Mandate since launching the Company (previously Senator International) in 2005 and the architect of its strategy to deliver broad-appeal films to studios and major independents worldwide. Mandate has carved a distinctive signature in the world marketplace with the Grudge, Harold & Kumar and Boogeyman franchises and a diverse portfolio of other hits including Jason Reitman's sleeper hit Juno, starring Ellen Page (Hard Candy), Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman, which earned four Academy Award® nominations (including Best Picture) and grossed nearly $150 million at the domestic box office, Marc Forster's Stranger Than Fiction, The Messengers, directed by Danny and Oxide Pang and the horror film 30 Days of Night. Mandate's horror films are produced and released through Ghost House Pictures, the successful horror label run as a joint venture with legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi (Spider Man franchise, The Evil Dead) and his partner, Rob Tapert.
Formerly president of Lionsgate International, Drake structured that division to be a premier supplier of theatrical feature films to the independent world. He oversaw worldwide sales and distribution of Lionsgate's international programming and championed such projects as Nicolas Cage's Shadow of The Vampire, the highly controversial American Psycho and the Oscar® and Golden Globe® nominee Amores Perros. Before joining Lionsgate, Drake served as senior vice president of international theatrical at Rysher Entertainment.

NATHAN KAHANE (Executive Producer) Since 2001, Kahane has been the creative force behind, and an integral component of the growth of Mandate Pictures and its predecessor company, Senator International. In his role as president of Mandate, Kahane oversees the development and production of Mandate's growing feature slate, nurtures relationships with top filmmakers and other talent and has developed a unique ability to structure successful business models for the Company's most compelling films. While at Mandate, Kahane has produced films including: the Academy Award®-winning and $140 million box office sensation, Juno; the critical darling, Stranger Than Fiction; the hit Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and its sequel Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay; the Pang Brothers' The Messengers; and the $188 million worldwide box office hit The Grudge and its sequel The Grudge 2.
Kahane is currently shepherding Mandate's diverse production and development slate including Rodrigo Garcia's Passengers, starring Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson. Kahane is set to executive produce Mandate's current roster of projects including Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It, starring Ellen Page; and director/writer Michael Landers' thriller Peacock, starring Cillian Murphy. Kahane recently green-lit a feature film he will executive produce, based on the action comedy short Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse, from Superbad scribes Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, starring Rogen and Jay Baruchel.
Kahane was instrumental in establishing Ghost House Pictures, Mandate's joint venture with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert. Kahane currently oversees the daily creative operations of Ghost House and has been responsible for attracting new voices such as David Slade (30 Days of Night), Takashi Shimizu (The Grudge and The Grudge 2) and the Pang Brothers (The Messengers), to the shingle's expanding roster of talent. Ghost House's next film is the highly-anticipated, Drag Me To Hell, written and directed by Raimi. Kahane helped expand Mandate's filmmaker relationships by inking exclusive production deals with Academy Award®-winner Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List, Gangs of New York), writer/director Zach Helm (Stranger Than Fiction, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium), and most recently with Mr. Mudd (Juno), the production company headed up by partner-producers Lianne Halfon, Russell Smith and award-winning actor, director and producer John Malkovich.
Prior to Mandate, Kahane worked for nearly five years at Mark Canton's production company as the Canton Company's executive vice president of motion pictures. While at Canton, Kahane oversaw the development and production of films including Get Carter, Angel Eyes and Trapped.
A graduate from the Hass School of Business at The University of California, Berkeley, Kahane began his career at ICM in their agent-training program.

ADAM BRIGHTMAN (Executive Producer) has 20 years of experience in film production. His producing credits include On_Line (Official Entry Sundance 2002), Two Family House (winner of the Audience Award for Best Film at Sundance 2000), Race, Chris Rock's I Think I Love My Wife and Funny Games. He has also been a line producer or unit production manager on many features, including Kingpin, If Lucy Fell, Basquiat, Fur, A Price Above Rubies and New Rose Hotel.
Brightman's experience encompasses all facets of film production, including screenplay development, film financing and sales, casting, contract negotiation, set operations, labor relations and all aspects of production management. In addition, he has seen numerous projects through post-production, marketing and distribution.
In early 2003, Brightman formed Blue Raincoat Productions, which has produced two half-hour documentaries about Hollywood for AMC and a number of commercials. He is currently developing two feature films, including an original screenplay he co-wrote entitled Borderland.
Brightman graduated with honors from the State University of New York at Purchase. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and is on the advisory board of Art Start, a non-profit organization that brings artists and art projects to at-risk kids in homeless shelters and schools throughout New York.

TOM RICHMOND (Director of Photography) Richmond's recent cinematography credits include Chapter 27 and The Ex. Other credits include the films House of a Thousand Corpses, Knockaround Guys, Slums of Beverly Hills, Forearm Shiver, Palindromes, The Singing Detective, First Love, Last Rites and The Chateau.

DAVID DOERNBERG (Production Designer) Doernberg's credits include the Oscar-nominated film Junebug, Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot, Palindromes, The Mudge Boy, The Cherry Picker, Whiteboyz, Jesus' Son, Desert Blue, Girl's Town and River of Grass.

MYRON KERSTEIN (Editor) collaborated with director Peter Sollett on his first film, Raising Victor Vargas. Other credits include Garden State, In Good Company, American Dreamz and The Great Buck Howard. As assistant editor, he worked on such notable films as Velvet Goldmine, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and The Myth of FIngerprints.

SANDRA HERNANDEZ (Costume Designer) Hernandez's credits include The Secret Life of Bees, One Missed Call, El Cantante, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, The 25th Hour, Pinero, Save The Last Dance, He Got Game, Get On The Bus, Girl 6 and I Like It Like That.

MARK MOTHERSBAUGH (Music by) Emmy® Award winning composer Mark Mothersbaugh has written the music for more than 70 film and television projects. He first came to prominence in the music world in the 1970s as lead singer and keyboard player of the progressive new wave/rock band DEVO, who released a series of highly eclectic and satirical albums including "Are We Not Men?" and "Freedom of Choice."
In the mid-1980's, Mothersbaugh began to write music for commercials where he received a Clio award for his work. He then went on to composing music for numerous television projects, including the memorable theme song and underscore for "Pee-Wee's Playhouse." He then scored the popular children's series "Rugrats." He also wrote the music for the hugely successful The Rugrats Movie.
In 1996, Mothersbaugh met Wes Anderson and scored the filmmaker's critically acclaimed Bottle Rocket. He wrote the music for Anderson's "Rushmore" starring Bill Murray and The Royal Tenenbaums starring Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston and Owen Wilson. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou marks Mothersbaugh's fourth collaboration with Anderson.
Mothersbaugh's other feature film credits include Catherine Hardwicke's Lords of Dogtown and Thirteen, Joe and Anthony Russo's Welcome to Collinwood starring George Clooney, Happy Gilmore starring Adam Sandler, 200 Cigarettes and The New Age from director Michael Tolkin and producer Oliver Stone, among others. Sony Animation's Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs will feature a huge orchestral score by Mothersbaugh.
Mark was the recipient of BMI's distinguished Richard Kirk Lifetime Achievement Award. Recent television credits include HBO's "Big Love," and Sci-Fi's "Eureka."
Further extending his musical palate, Mothersbaugh has scored numerous video games including "The Sims."
Mothersbaugh is a world-renowned artist who cites Andy Warhol as inspiration. His paintings and drawings have been shown in galleries around the world.
He continues to perform with DEVO, which has had resurgence in recent years. The group has played concerts across the country including Central Park in New York last summer.
Mothersbaugh was born in Ohio and studied at Kent State University.

LINDA COHEN (Music Supervisor) is a music supervisor working in film and television. Her recent film credits include Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood and Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind She is currently working Rock On starring Vanessa Hudgens, The Secret Life Of Bees (based on the book), starring Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson and Dakota Fanning, Bride Wars starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson, and Amelia starring Hillary Swank.
Other film credits include Evening starring Clare Danes, Meryl Streep and Vanessa Redgrave, The Namesake directed by Mira Nair, The Night Listener starring Robin Williams, Sundance Jury Prize winner American Splendor starring Paul Giamatti, and the musical film Camp. He work in television includes the hit show "Queer Eye for The Straight Guy, and numerous productions for HBO Family, among them the "Classical Baby" series and "Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales".

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