Ross Katz

Ross Katz is primarily an American film producer. He is also a screenwriter and film director working predominantly in the Hollywood film industry. He was born on May 19th, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Of America. His journey to being a producer is fascinating. Katz was a commercial rock DJ on the channel 94 WYSP FM in Philadelphia. His journey into cinema began while working as a grip on Quentin Tarantino’s film Reservoir Dogs. After that, he did an internship at Good Machine.

It is an independent film production, film distribution, and foreign sales company. Producers Ted Hope and James Schamus started Good Machine in the early 1990s. Katz eventually became Ted Hope’s assistant. It was Hope’s encouragement that pushed Katz into producing. His first film was Jim Fall’s Trick starring Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, and Tori Spelling Tori Spelling, whose birth name is Victoria Davey >> Read More... . Trick explores the same-sex relationship in a comic light. In his next project, he as a co-executive produced an HBO television mini-series of Moises Kaufman’s play The Laramie Project, along with Ted Hope and Anne Carey.

Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theatre Project of New York Click to look into! >> Read More... adopted the miniseries version of the Laramie Project after the murder of Matthew Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming. Matthew was beaten and tortured and left to die near Laramie. The movie has been created based on the interviews of more than 200 interviews with the residents of Laramie, Wyoming. The film follows Shepard going to the bar, being kidnapped, being tortured and finally killed.

The movie mixes real-life events with the actors playing out the scenes as it may have gone. Katz next two projects were both Academy Award nominees for Best Motion Picture. Todd Field’s In the Bedroom that came out in 200; it is an American Crime drama film based on Andre Dubus’s short story Killings and Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation that came out in 2003: rated as one of the best movies of the 2000s. In 2009, Katz wrote and directed a real-life short drama film for HBO: Taking Chances.

His directorial debut was met with praises by the television critics. The serial follows the experiences of Marine Colonel Michael Strobl, played by Kevin Bacon Kevin Bacon is a renowned actor and musician. He w >> Read More... , who brought back the body of a fellow fallen Marine, Chance Phelps, to his hometown from the Iraq War. Katz got nominated for an Emmy for Taking Chance and he co-won the WGA Award with Michael Strobl in 2009. Sundance Festival saw three of Katz’s films in competition. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences asked Katz to join their department in 2005.