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CLOUD ATLAS (2012) PRODUCTION NOTES
the Best Asian Film Award at 2007's Kuala Lumpur International Film Festival.
In 2007 Lee set up Javelin Pictures, a production company based in Beijing, as a vehicle to produce
viable cross-cultural film projects.
UWE SCHOTT (Executive Producer) has been Managing Director at X Filme Creative Pool
GmbH since October 2009.
He previously served as Managing Partner of Modern Media Filmproduktion GmbH, which made
numerous TV productions, as well as Managing Director of various film funds responsible for the
accurate execution of American productions such as "Walk the Line," "The Fast and The Furious,"
"Star Trek XI" and many others, and representing German producers with his production company,
Oberon.
Born in Dusseldorf, Schott worked as a unit manager and later as production manager for various
German production companies before serving as a line producer for several productions in Los Angeles.
He then returned to Germany where he was a producer and managing director at various production
companies.
WILSON QIU (Executive Producer) is the Chairman and CEO of Dreams of The Dragon Pictures
Co., Ltd. Once a public servant in Chinese government, he ventured into industrial investment in
2001 and subsequently initiated the Dreams of The Dragon Film Fund and drafted film projects.
His main theatrical works include serving as producer on "Adventure of the King" and "Heaven
Eternal, Earth Everlasting" in 2010, and "The Man Behind the Courtyard House" in 2011.
The company's upcoming projects include "The Old Summer Palace," an epic film in two parts, featuring
a romance during a disaster event, and the Asian remake of "Les uns et les Autres (Within
Memory)," which was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won Technical Grand Prize in 1981 at the
Cannes Film Festival.
JOHN TOLL (Director of Photography) is one of only two cinematographers to win consecutive
Oscars®: for "Legends of the Fall" in 1994 and for "Braveheart" in 1995. He was also nominated
for an Oscar® for his work on "The Thin Red Line" in 1998. Toll has been nominated for five
American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards and has won two. He is also the recipient of
a BAFTA Award and a New York Film Critics Circle Award.
Toll's most recent credits include "It's Complicated," starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve
Martin; "The Adjustment Bureau," starring Matt Damon; and "The Odd Life of Timothy Green,"
starring Jennifer Garner. He is currently in production on "Iron Man 3," starring Robert Downey Jr.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Toll began his career as a camera operator on such films as "The Last
Waltz," "Norma Rae" and "Urban Cowboy." His additional credits as director of photography include
"Wind," "The Rainmaker," "Almost Famous," "Captain Corelli's Mandolin," "Vanilla Sky,"
"The Last Samurai," "Elizabethtown," "Seraphim Falls," "Rise," "Gone Baby Gone," "Tropic Thunder"
and "The Burning Plain." He also served as director of photography on the pilot episode of the
acclaimed AMC television series "Breaking Bad," for which he received an Emmy Award nomina-
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