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Award-winning film directors and producers RANDY BARBATO (Written, Produced and Directed by) and FENTON BAILEY (Written, Produced and Directed by) founded World of Wonder Productions after meeting at NYU Graduate Film School in 1990. Since then they have directed and produced a wide variety of films, many featured on US and UK broadcasters, such as HBO, BBC, Bravo, Channel 4, Vh1, Showtime, AMC, Trio and Court TV. Their documentaries Monica in Black and White (HBO) and The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Cinemax) gave audiences a fresh perspective on the much maligned and misunderstood Monica Lewinsky and Tammy Faye Bakker. They have created defining work for several of America’s most exciting cable channels—from Showbiz Moms & Dads (Bravo), an in-depth look into the lives of famehungry families on Bravo, to creating and produced all 100 episodes of The RuPaul Show for Vh1. Bailey and Barbato have enjoyed a long and close working relationship with the critically acclaimed Trio network, creating much of its smart, popular and edgy programming for Brilliant But Cancelled, a telling look inside television’s most creative but commercially unsuccessful shows that has also become the channel’s signature series. Other specials produced by World of Wonder and executive-produced by Fenton and Randy for Trio include A Christmas Special Christmas Special, The Blockbuster Imperative and Flops 101. They are also a creative force to be reckoned with in the UK and have created, through their London office, numerous specials and series: The Adam and Joe Show (C4), Takeover TV (C4), Rock Around the Block (ITV), Hot Property (C5), Housebusters (C5), all of which are signature productions. They are also the creators of world class documentary series Pornography: The Secret History of Civilization (C4 and HBO) and Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture (C4 and Bravo, and which won a Rockie Award in 2004). Fenton and Randy have never shied away from controversial topics or been afraid to tackle sexual themes. The variety of their work reaches from the gay themed School’s Out: The Life of a Gay High School in Texas (MTV) and 101 Rent Boys (Cinemax) to the straight Porno Valley (Sky UK)—a reality series on the Vivid Girls and their careers in the pornography industry—to the simply bizarre Plushies and Furries (MTV), about cuddly toy fetishists. World of Wonder won a CableAce Award for their exploration of comedian Steve Moore in Drop Dead Gorgeous and an Emmy for their documentary Party Monster: The Michael Alig Story. In 2003 the filmmakers released their first dramatic feature film, Party Monster, starring Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green. The film, which they wrote, directed and produced, centers on the club kid and convicted murderer Michael Alig. Screened at the Sundance, Berlin and Edinburgh film festivals, the film was later released in theaters nationwide. This past year, World of Wonder has created and produced the documentary Gay Republicans for Trio (which also won the Audience Award at the AFI Festival) and The Hidden Führer (Cinemax), a bold exploration of rumors that Hitler might have been gay. They are currently in production on a Showdogs Moms & Dads, which delves into the world of enthusiastic dog owners and breeders, and Tammy Faye: Death Defying, which follows the televangelist’s life and death struggle with cancer. For more on their exciting slate, check out The Wow Report, their daily blog at http://www.worldofwonder.net, written by legendary scribe Stephen Saban. Academy Award®-winning producer BRIAN GRAZER (Produced by) has been making movies and television programs for more than 20 years. As both a writer and producer, he has been personally nominated for three Academy Awards®, and in 2002 he won the Best Picture Oscar® for A Beautiful Mind. In addition to winning three other Academy Awards®, A Beautiful Mind also won four Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture Drama) and earned Grazer the first annual Awareness Award from the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign. Over the years, Grazer’s films and TV shows have been nominated for a total of 39 Oscars® and 42 Emmys. At the same time, his movies have generated more than $11.2 billion in worldwide theatrical, music and video grosses. Reflecting this combination of commercial and artistic achievement, the Producers Guild of America honored Grazer with the David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. His accomplishments have also been recognized by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which in 1998 added Grazer to the short list of producers with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In addition to A Beautiful Mind, Grazer’s films include Apollo 13, for which Grazer won the Producers Guild’s Daryl F. Zanuck Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award as well as an Oscar® nomination for Best Picture of 1995; and Splash, which he co-wrote as well as produced and for which he received an Oscar® nomination for Best Original Screenplay of 1986. Grazer’s list of upcoming projects includes Cinderella Man, starring Russell Crowe and Renée Zellweger, directed by Ron Howard; the animated Curious George, with the voice of Will Ferrell; the big screen adaptation of the international bestseller The Da Vinci Code, directed by Oscar®-winner Ron Howard; the comedy Fun With Dick and Jane, starring Jim Carrey; and the thriller Flightplan, with Jodie Foster in the lead. Other feature film credits include the recent Friday Night Lights; 8 Mile; Blue Crush; The Missing; Intolerable Cruelty; Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas; The Nutty Professor; Liar, Liar; Ransom; My Girl; Backdraft; Kindergarten Cop; Parenthood; Clean and Sober; and Spies Like Us. Grazer’s television productions include Fox’s 24 (receiving 8 Emmy nominations this year), Fox’s Arrested Development (which won Best Comedy and garnered 7 Emmy nominations), Fox’s Quints, NBC’s Miss Match and ABC’s The Big House. His additional television credits include the WB’s Felicity, ABC’s SportsNight, as well as HBO’s From the Earth to the Moon, for which he won the Emmy® for Outstanding Mini-Series. Grazer began his career as a producer developing television projects. It was while he was executive-producing TV pilots for Paramount Pictures in the early 1980s that Grazer first met his longtime friend and business partner Ron Howard. Their collaboration began in 1985 with the hit comedies Night Shift and Splash, and in 1986 the two founded Imagine Entertainment, which they continue to run together as co-chairmen.
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