MEGAN CHARPENTIER (Victoria) dancedbarefoot into her first commercialaudition at the age ofthree and hasn’t looked back.She made the transition intofilm and television, includingthe features Jennifer’s Bodyand Red Riding Hood,in which she played theyounger version of AmandaSeyfried’s character.Quebec actress ISABELLE NÉLISSE (Lilly)quickly conquered hearts inher earliest public appearancesand print advertisingwhen she was barely fouryears old. Television commercialsand series followed,including roles in FabienneLarouche’s French CanadianTrauma and Parallel Lives.She starred in her first majorrole as Chloé in the series Mirador.ABOUT THEFILMMAKERSA graduate of Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires,ANDY MUSCHIETTI(Directed by/Screenplay by/Story by) directed severalshort films (Rosendo, FierroChifle and Nostalgia en laMesa 8) that received awardsat festivals including LaHabana, Bilbao and Biarritz.He wrote the full-lengthplays Todo al Cero and LosJardines de Abril while working in Argentina as astoryboard artist.In 1999, Muschietti began his career as a commercialdirector. In 2001, Muschietti and director AgustínBerruezo were contracted by a Barcelona productioncompany under the pseudonym Doble Nelson. In 2003,he founded the production company Toma 78 with hissister, producer Barbara Muschietti.In 2008, he co-wrote, with Barbara, his third fulllengthfilm script, The Yearning, and directed the shortfilm Mamá, which won awards at several film festivals.NEIL CROSS (Screenplay by) was born inBristol in 1969. He lived in Edinburgh, Brighton,Leeds and London before settling down in NewZealand with his wife and two sons. He is the authorof several novels, including “Always the Sun,”“Burial” and “Captured,” as well as the best-sellingmemoir “Heartland.”Cross was lead scriptwriter for the acclaimed sixthand seventh seasons of the BBC spy drama seriesSpooks and is the creator of the multi-award-winningBBC crime thriller Luther, starring Idris Elba, whichairs in more than 160 territories worldwide. Followingthe British publication of his novel “Luther: The<strong>–</strong> 22 <strong>–</strong>
Calling” in 2011, he started working on a new bookonce again featuring DCI John Luther.Cross continues to write for the screen in Britainand the United States. His additional credits include athird season of Luther, Doctor Who, NBC’s new actionadventureseries Crossbones and several film projects,including a new adaptation of The Day of the Triffids,for director Sam Raimi, and an upcoming film fromGuillermo del Toro.In 2011, Cross was included in Variety’s prestigiouslist of “10 Screenwriters to <strong>Watch</strong>.”BARBARA MUSCHIETTI (Screenplay by/Storyby/Produced by) studied media and communicationat the University of California, Los Angeles. Duringher college years, she rendered her services as a scriptreader for Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures andseveral independent producers.Once she finished her studies, she started workingas a production coordinator. Her first film, Evita(directed by Alan Parker, 1996), led her to shoots inArgentina, Hungary and England. She then decidedto engage in script development and film financing atCecchi Gori Group in Los Angeles, where she took partin the development of movies such as Life Is Beautiful(directed by Roberto Benigni, 1997).After three years with Cecchi Gori and nine in LosAngeles, she decided to move to London, where shereturned to production coordination and where shecreated The Visual Factory after taking an interest inthe emerging world of visual effects.Two years later, longing to work with herbrother, Andy, she moved to Spain and joinedGroup Films, an advertising production company inBarcelona, where she produced many commercialswith directors of international prestige, such as LucBesson and Alan Parker.In 2003, Muschietti was awarded a Carolinagrant to develop the script Los Jardines de Abrilwith her brother. Later that year, she opened her ownadvertising production company, Toma 78, with herpartners Andy Muschietti and Agustín Berruezo andproduced the short film Mamá (directed by AndyMuschietti, 2008). In 2008, she co-wrote with Andyher third script, The Yearning.J. MILES DALE (Produced by) recently servedas executive producer on the box-office smash TheVow, starring Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams;The Thing, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and JoelEdgerton; Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, starring MichaelCera and Oscar ® -nominated actor Anna Kendrick;Flash of Genius, starring Greg Kinnear and LaurenGraham; Love Happens, starring Jennifer Aniston andAaron Eckhart; Talk to Me, starring Academy Award ®nominee and Golden Globe Award winner Don Cheadleand Chiwetel Ejiofor; and Hollywoodland, a film noirstarring Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Diane Lane.Dale’s credits as executive producer also includethe hit comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle;LeVar Burton’s family Christmas film Blizzard, starringKevin Pollak, Christopher Plummer, Brenda Blethynand featuring the voice of Whoopi Goldberg; and JamesToback’s Harvard Man, starring Sarah Michelle Gellarand Adrian Grenier.For television, Dale produced USA Network’shighest-rated movie of 2000, the critically acclaimedAll-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story,starring Penelope Ann Miller and Mercedes Ruehl. Heproduced and made his feature directorial debut withThe Skulls III, the sequel to the 1999 box-office hitThe Skulls. During the years he spent producing anddirecting television pilots and series for most of themajor networks and syndication companies, Dale coexecutiveproduced the two-hour pilot and two seasonsof the popular action show F/X: The Series, for whichhe directed multiple episodes.Dale helped adapt the RoboCop franchise fortelevision and produced the two-hour pilot and 22episodes of RoboCop for worldwide syndication. He<strong>–</strong> 23 <strong>–</strong>
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