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Winner of NBC Screenwriter's Tribute from Nantucket Film Festival, in Mass., June, 2002

Partner in Good Machine, an indie-film company, with friends Ted Hope and David Linde. Bought by Universal Pictures and merged into a new division of the studio called Focus, June 2002.

Co-President of Focus Features, the arthouse offshoot of Universal Pictures.

Was an exchange student in Trondheim, Norway.

He attended Kosmorama, Trondeim International Filmfestival, in 2006 with his movie "Brokeback Mountain".

Personal Quotes

"I make as many bad movies as a big studio. But when they make a bad movie they spend forty to sixty million telling everyone about it. When I make a bad one, it gets a round of applause at a film festival."

Where Are They Now

(May 2003) Currently Associate Professor at Columbia University, New York, New York.

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