Vince Hemingson — President
Vince is the founder and President of Pinnacle Entertainment. He was
a successful corporate finance specialist for public corporations during the 80's. In 1990
he joined Northern Lights Entertainment as Head of Development with responsibility
for finding and developing new projects.
A prodigious writer, he is a member of the Canadian Writers
Guild, with literary representation in LA since 1988. His screenplays have
received attention from some of the top studios, producers and directors in the industry.
A move into directing was the next natural step and Vince is already
being talked about in international film circles as one of the most exciting new talents
of the past few years.
Jeff Dowd
— Producer's Representative & Creative Consultant
Jeff is a Los Angeles-based writer/producer, producer's
representative and a nationally recognized authority on marketing, distribution and
exhibition. Jeff will help represent projects to distributors and exhibitors, plus consult
with regard packaging, marketing and creative aspects.
Mr. Dowd was a producer of Zebrahead, which Oliver
Stone Executive Produced. Zebrahead won the Filmmakers Award at the
Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures. He Co-Executive Produced Ferngully...
The Last Rainforest, the animated feature starring Robin Williams, Tim Curry and
Christian Slater. It was released by Twentieth Century Fox and won the Environmental Media
Association (EMA) Best Picture Award.
Jeff Dowd has helped raise in excess of $26 million of financing for
independent pictures in recent years.
Currently, Jeff is producing The Link, a romantic
thriller set in the subconscious the he co-wrote and is producing with Camille Cellucci,
the special effects producer of Titanic.
Jeff is also writing Nifty, a wildly optimistic
story about how one family turns the worst of times into the best of times-- "A
War Games for the nineties."
He has been involved in the marketing or been producer's
representative of such diverse films as: Blood Simple; The Black Stallion;
Chariots of Fire; The Grey Fox; Ghandi; Heart like a Wheel; War Games; Hoosiers; The Stunt
Man; Hearts and Minds; and, Desperately Seeking Susan.
Jeff just sold Finn Taylor's Dream With the Fishes
to Sony Classics for North America and Lakeshore Entertainment for foreign at the Sundance
Film Festival. He is also representing Erin Dignam's Loved for the United
States, for which MDP is handling foreign. It stars Robin Wright, William Hurt, Amy
Madigan, Sean Penn, and Joanna Cassidy.
Jeff has been on the Board of the Independent Feature Project, the
International Documentary Association, the Sundance Film Festival and the Advisory Board
of the Sundance Institute.
He was formerly associated with the Seven Gables Theatre Circuit of
Seattle Washington. During his tenure there, Seven Gables had the highest screen gross in
the United States -- on dozens of pictures. In addition, Mr. Dowd often developed and
supervised Seattle test markets for pictures requiring special handling. While in Seattle,
he was Co-Director of the Seattle Film Festival.
Mr. Dowd was involved in the planning stages of Robert
Redford's Sundance Institute. He worked with many noted screenwriter and
directors. These talented artists have all helped to enlarge and refine his knowledge and
technique in film development.
He has also worked with many directors on their first
films: Joel and Ethan Cohen on Blood Simple; John Sayles on Return
of the Secaucus Seven; David Anspaugh on Hoosiers, Carol Ballard
on The Black Stallion; Tony Drazan on Zebrahead; Bill
Kroyer on Ferngully... The Last Rainforest; and Phil Borsos on The
Grey Fox, to mention some of the most notable.
