LIVE Filmzine #275 September 2019

RANDAL KLEISER
Randal Kleiser has been an internationally known film director since the
release of his first feature, Grease. Other credits include The Boy in the
Plastic Bubble, The Blue Lagoon, Summer Lovers, Flight of the Navigator,
White Fang, Big Top Pee-wee, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, North Shore, and
the 1996 AIDS drama It’s My Party. With George Lucas, he produced the
educational course: The Nina Foch Course for Filmmakers and Actors.
He has always been interested in cutting-edge technology. Working in
70mm 3-D, he directed Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, which ran for over
a decade at the Disney Parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. This
led to the US government signing him to develop a virtual-reality simulator
to train soldiers to deal with Improvised Explosive Devices in the Middle
East.
www.randalkleiser.com
TANNA FREDERICK
Tanna Frederick is a producer, director, actress, and activist. In her decade
plus collaboration with indie film icon Henry Jaglom, she has starred
in and helped produce six of his feature films, including the recently
released, The “M” Word, the highly anticipated, Ovation, and three of his
plays, including Train to Zakopane, which just completed a run at the
Edgemar Theatre in Santa Monica.
Frederick — who got her start performing at the Steben’s Children’s
Theatre and then the University of Iowa — is also a mainstay of the Los
Angeles theatre community. She has starred in successful productions
of A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, Richard Nash’s The Rainmaker — which was a
Los Angeles Times Critic’s Pick — and Claire Chafee’s Why Why Have a
Body, which also marked Frederick’s directing debut.