ADAM RESURRECTED

PAUL SCHRADER - Director
Filmmaker & Cast Biographies
One of America's most highly regarded writer-directors, Paul Schrader began his involvement
with film by taking a summer cinema course at Columbia University while he was a student at
Grand Rapids' Calvin College. After graduation in 1968, he attended UCLA's film school, quickly
becoming a film critic for the L.A. Free Press and an editor of Cinema magazine. His thesis on
Ozu, Bresson and Dreyer was published as Transcendental Style in Film by the University of
California Press. Schrader's first success came with his screenplay for THE YAKUZA, directed
by Sydney Pollack in 1974. This was followed by his classic screenplay for Martin Scorsese's
TAXI DRIVER (1976). In 1977 Schrader began his own directorial career with the working-class
drama BLUE COLLAR (Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor). He has written scripts for such directors
as Brian De Palma (OBSESSION,1976), Joan Tewkesbury (OLD BOYFRIENDS, 1978), Peter
Weir (THE MOSQUITO COAST, 1986), Harold Becker (CITY HALL, 1995) and, of course,
Scorsese (RAGING BULL,1980, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, 1988 and BRINGING
OUT THE DEAD, 1998).
In 1999 Schrader received the Writer’s Guild Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2002 he
was the recipient of the Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion Tribute and in June of 2005, was
awarded the Franklin Schaffner Alumni Medal by the American Film Institute.
Schrader's career as a director reflects his vast knowledge and love of different film styles and
genres, ranging from the Neo-Western HARDCORE (George C. Scott), to the romantic thriller
AMERICAN GIGOLO (Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton), the supernatural CAT PEOPLE
(Natasia Kinski), the artist's biography MISHIMA (produced by George Lucas and Francis Ford
Coppola), the political docudrama PATTY HEARST (Natasha Richardson), the erotic thriller THE
COMFORT OF STRANGERS (Natasha Richardson, Rupert Everett and Christopher Walken,
Helen Mirren), the haunting LIGHT SLEEPER (Willem Dafoe and Susan Sarandon) and the ironic
TOUCH (Skeet Ulrich, Christopher Walken and Bridget Fonda). In 1997 Schrader adapted and
directed Russell Banks’ AFFLICTION (Nick Nolte, James Coburn), released to critical acclaim in
late 1998. In 2001, he shot his fourteenth film entitled AUTOFOCUS (Greg Kinnearm Willem
Dafoe). After making film trivia history as one of the two directors of the twice made prequel to the
EXORCIST (Schrader’s version was titled DOMINION), he returned to writing/directing with his
original screenplay of THE WALKER (Woody Harrelson) which premiered at the 2007 Berlin Film
Festival. Schrader filmed ADAM RESURRECTED, based on the novel by Yoram Kaniuk and
featuring Jeff Goldblum, in the Spring/Summer of 2007 and it is premiering at the 2008 Toronto
International Film Festival. Most recently he oversaw the tele-cine of MISHIMA, which was
released by Criterion in the Summer of 2008.
He lives in New York with his wife, actress Mary Beth Hurt, and their two children.
EHUD BLEIBERG -Producer
Producer Ehud Bleiberg launched Los Angeles based production and international sales
company Bleiberg Entertainment in September 2005. The company develops, funds, produces
and sells a diverse array of feature films geared toward both the domestic and foreign theatrical,
DVD and TV markets. The company recently wrapped the period drama ADAM RESURRECTED,
directed by Paul Schrader and starring Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe; and the horror comedy
DANCE OF THE DEAD, directed by Gregg Bishop, which will be distributed by Lionsgate in the
fall. Also coming up is Danny Lerner's sophomore project, the action thriller KIROT, starring Olga
Kurylenko, star of Marc Forster’s upcoming Bond film QUANTUM OF SOLACE and of 2007’s
HITMAN.
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