Enjoy the opportunity to meet and share your script with Academy Award Winning Producer, Ed Saxon, in Los Angeles or virtually.
Edward Saxon, an Oscar winner, is a graduate of the USC Peter Stark Producing Program and received his undergraduate degree at McGill University. He is best known for producing the film The Silence of the Lambs, which swept Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards. His other films have been nominated for over twenty Academy Awards and have won eight Oscars.
He produced Philadelphia which won two Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Tom Hanks). He also produced Adaptation, nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actor winner Chris Cooper, and the Academy Award-nominated documentary Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation.
Most recently, Ed has been a producer of Enlightened, the acclaimed HBO comedy series, starring Laura Dern and Luke Wilson. He produced Sam Mendes' Away We Go at Focus Features in 2009, and Our Family Wedding at Fox Searchlight in 2010, which stars Forest Whitaker and America Ferrera. Other past credits include Tom Hanks’ directorial debut, That Thing You Do, Ulee's Gold, Devil in a Blue Dress, Beloved, Fast Food Nation, Something Wild, and Miami Blues.
Saxon was a founding advisory board member of the Independent Film Channel, and is a mentor for the Sundance Institute, Producer's Guild, McGill University, and the Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program at USC. He is a member of the Advisory Board of The Center for Body Computing at USC and speaks often on the importance of storytelling in mobile health. Mr. Saxon has extensive experience working in Haiti both as a documentary filmmaker and as an activist. Saxon is married to the artist, Kirsten Coyne. They have two daughters and lives in Los Angeles.
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