Malcolm Clarke
Director / Producer
Stuart Sender
Director / Producer
Jake Eberts
Executive Producer
David Eberts
Co-Producer
Malcolm Clarke - Director / Producer
Two-time Academy Award winning Producer, Director and Documentarian MALCOLM CLARKE has been making films since the mid-seventies. Most of his early work was produced in his native England, while in recent years he has worked in the United States. Mr. Clarke's work has received wide recognition, including an Academy Award® for best documentary feature for SOLDIERS IN HIDING-a portrait of Vietnam veterans who return home unable to cope and live in the American wilderness and YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIE about a young boy's successful battle against cancer which won the Academy Award® for best short documentary.
Currently, Mr. Clarke is writing and producing a number of feature film projects. They include DANCING WITH GIANTS (The Life of Tom Thumb) for the Bubble Factory. As a writer he is developing A LIFE APART for Kevin Costner and Warner Brothers; BLOODLINES with Joe Esterhaus; and PRIOR LIVES for Sid Sheinberg and The Bubble Factory.
Mr. Clarke began his career at the BBC, directing everything from the Nightly News and Documentaries, to Game Shows and Music programming. Upon leaving the BBC in 1975, he worked for Granada TV, Thames TV and London Weekend TV, directing the films THE SECRET GARDEN and EASTERN PROMISE, plus several episodes of the award-winning dramatic series UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF STEVE BIKO (shot entirely in secret in South Africa) about the murder of the celebrated political activist, brought Mr Clarke's work to a wider audience. The Monte Carlo Film Festival awarded the film its Grand Prize, making Biko's murder a 'cause celebre' around the world. The film also brought Mr. Clarke to the U.S. to produce and direct his first American film. TERROR IN THE PROMISED LAND was a highly controversial investigation into the inner workings of a Palestinian Terrorist Suicide Squad.
In 1995, Mr. Clarke directed his first theatrical feature, VOICES FROM A LOCKED ROOM for Sony, a period film-noir about the true-life tragedy surrounding the destructively bizarre relationship between a powerful English music critic and an ambitious young composer which starred Jeremy Northam.
Through Media Verite, the production
company that produced PRISONER OF PARADISE, Mr. Clarke and his partner
Stuart Sender are developing a feature film version of Kurt Gerron's story.
They are also developing ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZ, the true story of a Nazi
guard and Jewish inmate who escape together from the Concentration Camp;
PRISONER IN A RED ROSE CHAIN, a romantic comedy; and an action movie entitled
CITIZEN SOLDIER. They are also creating a reality series set in the world
of broadcast journalism, and they are beginning work on their next feature
documentary, which is described as "an environmental thriller."
Stuart Sender - Director / Producer
Stuart Sender has written, produced and directed award-winning news and documentary programs that have appeared on public and network television, including PBS, CBS, CNN, NBC and MTV. He is currently writing and producing a number of feature films, including PICTURES AT 11 for director John Irvin and a political thriller PROGRAMMED TO KILL in development at Warner Brothers.
Stuart Sender was Senior Producer of the weekly PBS series South Africa Now, which won an Emmy Award for best newsmagazine and the prestigious Polk Award for excellence in journalism. He produced the first exclusive interview with Nelson Mandela following Mandela's release from prison for the PHIL DONAHUE SHOW; and was Senior Producer of Mandela: Free At Last, a nationally broadcast PBS special. He was also a producer of Countdown to Democracy, a critically-acclaimed documentary film about South Africa's first democratic, non-racial election, which was released theatrically and broadcast on HBO and Cinemax.
He produced Beyond JFK, a feature-length documentary about the Kennedy assassination and the controversy surrounding Oliver Stone's film "JFK." His short film expose' of former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke's run for governor of Louisiana premiered on MTV.
Stuart Sender has been a contributor to the CNN World Report, where he has appeared as an on-air commentator. His articles and editorial pieces have appeared in various publications including the Los Angeles Times. He has worked on six continents and interviewed a range of world leaders and personalities, including Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Yassir Arafat, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, and entertainers from Kevin Costner to Ziggy Marley. Stuart Sender began his career as a producer for CBS news and has a Masters degree in journalism from Columbia University. He is married to film producer Julie Bergman Sender. Their daughter is five years old.
Jake Eberts- Executive Producer
Jake Eberts was born in Montreal in 1941 and grew up in Montreal and Arvida, Quebec. He attended Bishop's College School in Lennoxville and graduated from McGill University (Bachelor of Chemical Engineering 1962) and Harvard Business School (MBA 1966). Eberts began his business career as a start-up engineer for L'Air Liquide in Spain, Italy, Germany and France. After three years on Wall Street, in 1971 he joined Oppenheimer & Co. in London, England, where he became Managing Director in 1976.
In 1977 Eberts founded Goldcrest Films in London. From 1977 through 1983, Goldcrest became one of the most successful independent producers of motion pictures, financing the development and/or production of Watership Down, The Howling, Chariots of Fire, Local Hero, Gandhi, The Killing Fields and The Dresser. Together these films received 30 Oscar nominations, winning 15, including two for Best Picture (Chariots of Fire and Gandhi).
In 1985 Eberts founded Allied Filmmakers, based in London and Paris, an independent feature film development and production company. Since then, he has served as the executive producer or producer of The Name of the Rose, Hope and Glory, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Driving Miss Daisy, Dances with Wolves, Black Robe, A River Runs through It, James and the Giant Peach, The Wind in the Willows, The Education of Little Tree, Grey Owl, Chicken Run, The Legend of Bagger Vance and Open Range. Six of these films received 34 Oscar nominations, winning 12, including two for Best Picture (Driving Miss Daisy and Dances with Wolves). In addition to the above, Eberts served as Executive Producer of Prisoner of Paradise, which was nominated for Best Picture in the feature documentary category for the 2003 Academy Awards. Nominations to date in all categories total 65, of which eight were for Best Picture.
Currently Eberts is producing Jean-Jacques Annaud's Two Brothers starring Guy Pearce, and Greg Hoblit's Emperor Zehnder starring Richard Gere. He is also executive-producing Jon Long's large format film Sacred Planet, Louis Schwartzberg's feature documentary America - Heart and Soul, and Christian Volckman's animated feature Renaissance.
In 1991 Eberts published My Indecision Is Final, his autobiographical study of the film industry. In 1992 he became an Officer of the Order of Canada. Eberts was awarded honorary doctorates by McGill University in 1998 and by Bishop's University in 1999. He currently serves on the Board of the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Channel, is Chairman of National Geographic Feature Films and is Co-Founder and CEO of MPI International, which provides high-speed, two-way video transmission capabilities to telcos, cable companies, hotels, hospitals, and schools.
He is married and has two sons and a daughter.
David Eberts began his career in documentaries in 1996 as a cook on a film for Turner Broadcasting in Northern Alaska, 100 miles north of the Artic Circle. After graduating from Boston College in 1998 he worked as an assistant on several films directed by Dr. John Michalczyk for PBS. This series of documentaries, focusing on the challenges of conflict resolution, brought him to Bosnia Herzegovina, Northern Ireland and England.
After moving to Los Angeles in 1999 he began working
for Original Productions, a company newly formed by producer Thom Beers.
During his time at Original Productions, David worked on more than 17
documentaries produced for the Discovery Channel, serving as Director
of Photography, Assistant Editor and Co-producer. These films include
The World’s Deadliest Job, Motorcycle Mania, The Road to Miss America,
Mysteries of the Aleutian Mummies, and Twisted Lives. He joined PRISONER
OF PARADISE in February of 2001 as Co-Producer. He is currently producing
and directing documentaries from Los Angeles, California.