Gill Holland  

T:  212-868-5233  F: fax: 212-581-6906    gill@thegroupentertainment.com

"Gill is, if not the busiest producer in Indie film, then certainly among the top two or three" (IndieWIRE - 2/16/99)… Nominated for the Spirit Award for Producer of the Year 1998, Gill's producing credits include Morgan J. Freeman's triple Sundance award-winning Hurricane Streets (MGM) and Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward which REM’s Michael Stipe and Girlstown director Jim Mackay are co-producing. 

His recent film include in Sundance 2005 Competition 'Loggerheads' and  2006-released 'Sweet Land.'

Gill is a half-Norwegian, half North Carolinian reformed lawyer and adjunct professor at NYU Graduate Film School and is the producer and owner of cine!BLAST!.

Co-Producers

Aimee Schoof & Isen Robbins

Aimee Schoof and Isen Robbins, top producers of over 20 Indie films are the co-producers of David & Layla. Their "Brother To Brother'" film won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2004.

For more information visit Aimee & Isen's company website Intrinsic Value Films. 

T 1 212 989 7200     F 1 212 691 3054  aimee@intrinsicvaluefilms.com    Isen@intrinsicvaluefilms.com

  Writer/Producer/Director

Jay Jonroy

T: 1-212-757-4743   F: 1 212 757  4743      jj@newrozfilms.com 

Jay  Jonroy, Writer/Director/Producer.

British & American citizen.  Received First Class Honors B.Sc, D.I.C, and M.Sc Degrees- Leicester University, Imperial College, and London University.

After several years in film marketing, promotion and advertising in London went back to college in London to study Creative Photography. Worked briefly as a fashion photographer in London. (Discovered Koo Stark before her royal romance with Prince Andrew). Also studied Acting, Movement and Speech at the City Literary Institute in London.

Moved to San Francisco as a photographer and later to Los Angeles. Studied at UCLA Film School-Adult Program. Jay assisted in the preparation of the Acting without Agony class manuscript, authored by Don Richards, ex-original Actors Studio, with foreword by Helen Hayes (winner of two Oscars, three Tonys and an Emmy). Acting without Agony has become a collector’s book (Simon & Schuster 1988).  

Jay also completed the Advanced Practicum in Screenwriting at USC where he studied under such veteran screenwriters as Stewart Stern (Rebel without a Cause), Julius Epstein (Casablanca), etc….

At AFI - American Film Institute in LA - Jay attended in an intensive workshop with resident guest director David Lean (Great Expectations, Lawrence of Arabia…) screening and analyzing all of Lean’s major films.

Jay was obliged to abandon his film projects unfinished for about ten years, returning to Europe to help his family stuck in Kurdistan to escape Saddam’s genocidal horrors. (Most of his siblings and relatives now live in diaspora in England, Holland, Germany, France and United States).

He used this period to study in Paris the ‘French Language and French Civilization’, receiving Sorbonne University’s Diploma.

He is a student of both Eastern and Western drama and literature. In New York he became a member of WGA - Writers Guild of America - where he has participated in seminars by such writing gurus as Robert McKay. Jay has been an active supporter of IFP- Independent Film Project in New York.

Jay was a volunteer mentor to graduate students at NYU’s Graduate Film Department. Has coached actors for their final year scenes and plays at the Circle in the Square Theater on Broadway in New York.

 A cinephile of both East and West cinema, he is an internet film critic of World Cinema, a writer on Human Rights, a supporter of Amnesty International and a free-lance advisor to the Programmer of Human Rights International Film Festival.

His passion for visual expression led him to be an art collector. He has loaned paintings and objects of art to museums, including a 13^th c. French sculpture of an Angel’s Head to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

An amateur musician, (harmonica and dombak) he collects ethnic music and is listed as a patron of the arts at World Music Institute in New York at www.worldmusicinstitute.org. 

His screenplays include: To Catch an Angel, Losing Touch, David & Layla, and Gilgamesh- inspired by man’s first epic, etched on clay tablets 5000 years ago. More information on Jay is at  www.newrozfilms.com