pirates of the caribbean - Cannes International Film Festival

His career began at Paramount Pictures as a production executive. Sandston discovered
his true calling in post-production when he began to work at Walt Disney Studios, where
he was rapidly promoted to vice president of post-production and visual effects for
aspects of post-production on more than 35 feature films, three EPCOT Center shorts
and four Walt Disney Tour films. A partial list of Sandston’s credits while at Disney
includes “James and the Giant Peach,” “Operation Dumbo Drop,” “Honey, I Shrunk the
Kids,” “Mr. Destiny,” “Miami Rhapsody” and “Beaches.”
MELISSA REID (Associate Producer) is senior vice president of production for Jerry
Bruckheimer Films, and has been with the company for 10 years.
Reid was born and raised in New York City and graduated from New York University with
a degree in art history. A stint as a legal assistant in Manhattan following graduation was
enough to convince her to head westward to Los Angeles and pursue her real passion:
film. Her first job in film was as assistant to actress Nancy Travis, gaining additional
knowledge by working as an assistant to the head of the literary department at Writers
& Artists Agency.
Reid next took on the task of assistant and story editor at Lawrence Gordon
Productions, followed by a development position at Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher’s Red
Wagon Productions. During her time there, she worked on developing the Academy
Award®–winning “Gladiator,” “Stuart Little 2” and Paul Verhoeven’s “Hollow Man.”
Reid joined Jerry Bruckheimer Films immediately afterwards, and has worked on the
company’s blockbuster hits ever since. Reid received executive in charge of production
credit on “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” “G-Force” and “Prince of Persia: The
Sands of Time” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” and associate producer credit on
“Confessions of a Shopaholic.”
Melissa Reid lives in Los Angeles with husband David Lillard, a partner at IFA Talent
Agency, and their daughter, Emma.
DARIUSZ WOLSKI, A.S.C. (Director of Photography) returns for his fourth tour of
“PIRATES” duty following his acclaimed work on both “The Curse of the Black Pearl,”
“Dead Man’s Chest” and “At World’s End.” Wolski has also worked with Johnny Depp
on Tim Burton’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” and “Alice in
Wonderland,” and Bruce Robinson’s “The Rum Diary.”
Wolski has collaborated with several notable directors, including Gore Verbinski on “The
Mexican” (preceding the first three “Pirates” films); D.J. Caruso on “Eagle Eye”; Andrew
Davis on “A Perfect Murder”; Alex Proyas on “Dark City” and the cult favorite “The
Crow”; Peter Medak’s “Romeo is Bleeding;” John Polson’s “Hide and Seek”; as well as
with Tony Scott on “The Fan” and the Don Simpson-Jerry Bruckheimer production
“Crimson Tide.” For his work on the controversial, highly acclaimed “Crimson Tide,” he
garnered an ASC Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography.
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