The Fall The Movie in Tokyo, Japan
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Synopsis:
A bedridden patient (Lee Pace) captivates a hospitalized girl (Catinca Untaru) with a fantastic tale involving heroes, mystics and villains on a desert island.
Release Date: -0/09/2008
Running Time: 118
Rating: R - Restricted
http://www.thefallthemovie.com/
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Cast:
Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Robin Smith, Julian Bleach, Leo Bill, Marcus Wesley, Daniel Caltagirone, Jeetu Verma
Crew:
Director - Tarsem , Producer - Tarsem , Screenwriter - Tarsem , Screenwriter - Dan Gilroy, Screenwriter - Nico Soultanakis, Executive Producer - Arjit Singh, Executive Producer - Tommy Turtle, Cinematographer - Colin Watkinson, Film Editor - Robert Duffy, Original Music - Krishna Levy, Production Design - Ged Clarke, Art Director - Lisa Hart, Set Decoration - Riccardo Pugliese, Set Decoration - Cynthia Sleiter, Costume Designer - Eiko Ishioka, Casting - Dan Hubbard
Production Companies:
Googly Films
Distributors:
Roadside Attractions
Notes:
- Notes provided by Roadside Attractions. - THE FALL Synopsis Award-winning director Tarsem Singh (The Cell) creates a moving and seamless blending of day to day life in a 1915 Los Angeles hospital with a visually sumptuous fantasy world of exotic bandits, evil tyrants, dream-like palaces and breathtaking landscapes. Shot on location in 18 countries around the world, The Fall stars Golden Globe nominated actor Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day) and Justine Waddell (Mansfield Park, Chaos) and features a breakthrough performance by first-time Romanian child actress Catinca Untaru. Languishing in a hospital, Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is a broken man in more ways than one: Unable to walk after a fall from a horse in a movie stunt gone wrong, his heart is also broken after his girlfriend ran off with the movie's leading man. Ready to end his life, Roy befriends five-yearold fellow patient Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), with the goal of persuading her to stealing a fatal dose of morphine pills for him. Roy launches into a story that fuses patients, staff and others at the hospital with imagined personas and exotic lands. What he describes as "an epic tale of love and revenge" is so riveting to Alexandria that she will do whatever Roy asks in order to hear the next installment. The tale loosely mirrors the ill-fated love triangle that has left him heartsick and features Alexandria's favorite nurse Evelyn (Justine Waddell), as the beautiful Princess Evelyn; Sinclair (Daniel Caltagirone), the movie star who stole Roy's girlfriend, as the detested Governor Odious; and Roy himself as the avenging Black Bandit who leads the attack on the governor with the help of a colorful posse that includes Alexandria as the Black Bandit's daughter. But as the story takes a darker turn, Alexandria begins to realize there is far more at stake than the fate of a handful of imaginary characters. It's up to Roy whether the Black Bandit-and Roy himself-will survive the climactic final scene. Googly Films presents The Fall. The film is executive produced by Ajit Singh and Tommy Turtle. Producers are Tarsem Singh with co-producers Lionel Kopp and Nico Soultanakis. The screenplay is written by Dan Gilroy, Nico Soultanakis and Tarsem Singh based on the 1981 screenplay for YoHo Ho by Valeri Petrov. Colin Watkinson is director of photography. Original music by Krishna Levy. The film's editor is Robert Duffy. The production designer is Ged Clarke. The costume designer is Academy Award®-winner Eiko Ishioka (Bram Stoker's Dracula). The Fall was shot on location in South Africa, India and in more than 25 other countries. About the Production It took award-winning director Tarsem Singh 15 years to bring his second feature, The Fall, to the big screen. The film's remarkable journey included a decade long location scout, an extensive international casting call and a four-year shoot spanning 18 countries around the globe-all financed by the director himself. It all began with Singh's quest to create a film using what he believed was a unique story structure and visual language. He found something close to what he was trying to accomplish in terms of structure in the 1981 Bulgarian film YoHo Ho, written by Valeri Petrov and directed by Zako Heskija. In that film, an actor who is hospitalized with a broken back befriends Leonid-a 10-year-old boy in the same hospital-in order to get the boy to provide him with poison so he can commit suicide. But as the movie progresses, the friendship becomes the genuine article, and Leonid's innocence and trustfulness end up making the actor abandon his plan to commit suicide and restoring his faith in life. What intrigued Singh most about the tale is the way the actor uses storytelling to manipulate the child. Singh draws a parallel to the role of the creative artist working in a commercial medium. "When you pitch a story to a Hollywood studio, you're never telling the story you want to tell them; you're telling them the story you think they want to hear," says Indian-born director. "You're trying to keep their interest and you're watching their reactions. If they start to look at their watch, you'll add more action or sex. This is what storytelling was about before the written language. It's like the difference between listening to a pre-programmed soundtrack or a DJ. The DJ will switch the timing, change the pace and the mood of the music, according to response of the crowd." Singh, who made his feature film directorial debut with The Cell in 2001, purchased the rights YoHo Ho and borrowed the basic concept for The Fall, transforming the character of the little boy into a little girl: "The idea is that a guy wants to tell a different tale than the one he's telling, but he invests enough in the characters that he can hold them hostage to the child," he says. "Sometimes, when he's drugged or drunk he takes it into places the girl doesn't want it to go. In the end, the child's sheer innocence makes him think he should give life another chance." As the character of the injured actor spins his yarn in The Fall, the characters' stories are played out against some of the world's most magnificent manmade and natural sites. It's these stunning visuals that set The Fall apart, particularly from other independent films. "When you say indie, you usually think of a low-budget affair that doesn't look very good," says Singh, Singh, who won MTV's Best Video Award for R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" video. "That's obviously not this movie." So how did the director manage to create such a sumptuous feast for the eyes on an independent budget? For starters, he spent nearly 11 years scouting the world for locations and laying the groundwork for the film while working as a commercial director. "Whenever I did an ad I would take pictures. I would also tell people on commercial shoots, 'This is a paid job, but in a few years I'll have a job that I'll need favors for,'" explains Singh, who has directed commercials for Smirnoff, Coke, Nike, Levis and Pepsi, among other global brands. "I called in a lot of favors. When we were finished with a commercial, we would shoot part of the film." This unusual, piecemeal approach to shooting posed a major challenge for Singh and his brother Ajit, one of the film's producers: finding actors who would be available and willing to traipse around the world with them over a four-year period. "I knew I would never get big names," says Singh. "And even if I had, it would have been a handicap. Shooting in 28 countries with four or five guys, it's easier if nobody's known. I've gone around with known actors, and it's difficult. You need to have a completely different approach. My approach was we'd arrive at a place and just say, 'This is what we're going to do.' We could do anything." To play injured stuntman Roy Walker, Singh tapped then unknown actor Lee Pace, who later went on to garner two Golden Globe nominations for his roles in the television film "Soldier's Girl" and the groundbreaking series "Pushing Daisies." The other actors who appear in the hospital and make up the Black Bandit's posse in the fantasy world were also all unknowns or relative unknowns, among them Julian Bleach, who plays the Mystic, Leo Bill (Charles Darwin), Marcus Wesley (the former slave, Otto Benga) and Robin Smith (Luigi, the gunpowder expert). While he scouted the world for locations, Singh also was searching for the right child to play the enthralled listener to Roy's epic stories. For this pivotal role, Singh decided he needed not only a face unknown to audiences, but someone with no prior acting experience. "I didn't know if it would be a girl or boy," says Singh. "I would send people out to schools and have them tell stories and video the children's reactions. I came to realize that after about four years old, they were already acting as opposed to reacting naturally. I was afraid the film would become like A Little Princess-a movie I really like, but not the one I wanted to make." Singh says he was aiming for a performance more like that of Victoire Thivisol in the 1996 French film Ponette. Thivisol was just three-and-a-half when she made her screen debut in Ponette. Singh finally found his leading lady when someone sent him a tape of a five-year-old girl from Romania named Catinca Untaru. "She was just fantastic," says the director. "We did a scene with her. She spoke no English, she could just communicate very basic things." For Singh and his brother, the discovery came just in time. "I had talked about making this movie for years, so finally Ajit said, 'Either we make it or we stop talking about it, otherwise we'll turn into old men and we'll still talking about this movie.' Two weeks later we found the girl." With that key role cast, Singh says he felt an urgency to make the movie before Untaru became more self-conscious as an actor. "I came back and told my brother, this girl is going to be a different person in a few months-we need to make the film right now." As it turned out, a miscommunication between the casting agent and the young actress had a profound effect on the entire production: Untaru believed that the actor playing the storyteller was a real-life paraplegic. Singh found Catinca's delivery of her lines with Pace so real, he made the audacious decision to keep not just her, but the almost the entire cast and crew under the illusion that Pace could not walk. "He had only been in one TV movie, and in that he played a transvestite," Singh says. "Nobody but me, my brother, the costume person and two executive producers knew that he could walk. I also had to tell the guy who played Alexandria's real father in the movie, so he would understand that the part was smaller than it seemed in the script because in the fantasy scenes he would be replaced by Lee." To maintain this illusion, the hospital scenes were shot first, in sequence, over a period of about 12 weeks. During that time, keeping the cast and crew in the dark about Pace's ability to walk presented some special challenges. Singh had to change Pace's name to get him down to South Africa, where the hospital scenes were shot. On one occasion, a makeup person walked into Pace's room to find him standing-and almost passed out. "I had to take this person aside and ask her not to tell anyone," Singh says. On a couple of occasions, Pace even ran into fellow actor Daniel Caltagirone at the gym, but Caltagirone-who plays Sinclair, the movie star who steals Roy's girlfriend-apparently did not recognize Pace. Caltagirone "had only seen him in a wheelchair or a bed," says Singh. "He almost got caught twice." In addition, Singh had to make an exception to the "communist rules" under which the movie was made: "Everybody in the cast and crew traveled equal. If it was a luxury hotel, everyone stayed there. If it was a crappy hotel, everyone stayed there. And everyone got paid the same amount, from the focus puller to the actors. But for Lee I had to make an exception. Not in terms of pay, but I realized he would have to stay separately so everyone on the set would still believe he couldn't walk." Finally, when the hospital scenes were in the can, Lee stood up and the illusion was broken. "Some people were laughing, some were crying and some were very, very angry," the director recalls. "Everybody said, 'You could have trusted me,' but it had nothing to do with trust. People would have reacted differently to him if they had known." Once everyone knew Pace could walk, Singh and crew went on to shoot the rest of the movie over the next four years. "We decided we would just go to however many countries we needed to," he recalls. "No CGI effects were used except to clean up certain scenes. We went to 18 countries in all, all over the world." In structuring the film, Singh took a very fluid approach to maximize interplay with Catinca's childish imagination. "Rather than a locked-down script, we just had situations I had written down over the years, such as 'elephant swims' and 'guys send messages to each other in a language no one understands,'" he says. "She pointed out the ones she thought were interesting." The scenes where the elephant swims with the Black Bandit on its back were particularly challenging to shoot, says Singh. "All elephants swim. But it's very difficult to make them swim when you want them to. Plus, they empty their bowls when they do it, so if you try to shoot from behind the visibility goes to crap, as it were." Sometimes, Singh would show pictures to Untaru, and ask her in what kind of place she thought a certain part of the story would occur. "We used her naïveté," he says. "There's no budgetary limit to a child's imagination. When she'd get bored, she would go from one location to another. At the end of the day we would decide which was the most interesting approach and that was the one we'd edit in." Even some of the lines and situations in the film grew directly out of Untaru's responses. For instance, when Pace told the story about Alexander the Great, Untaru thought the great leader's decision to dump the helmet full of water into the desert sand instead of sharing it with his thirsty men was stupid-a reaction that made it into the movie. Similarly, when Pace wrote the word "morphine" on a piece of paper, he wrote the letter "e" in such a way that Catinca thought it was a "3," and that's how she pronounces it in the film. From there, the filmmakers got the idea to have her character throw out all but three of the morphine pills-to the immense frustration of Pace's character-as a result of her misunderstanding. The fact that much of the film was shot in sequence worked to the filmmakers' advantage in some surprising ways, says Singh For example, Catinca's English rapidly improved as production went along-and one day she showed up on set with two front teeth missing. "If we had been shooting it out of sequence for a studio we would have been dead," Singh says. "All the things that would usually be a handicap, we used to our advantage." Similarly, Pace's voice became so hoarse after the scene where he has a shouting fit that the actor suggested they not film the following day. "I said it's supposed to be the same night so it made sense in the story," says Singh. "When we had to match his voice in post or dub, we had to have him scream for two hours to get his voice that hoarse." Other continuity issues were less easily corrected, as when Catinca began to develop a slight Indian accent due to the fact that she was spending so much time on set with Singh. "We had to stop production for 10 days and have her spend more time with her family to try to save her Romanian accent," he says. Singh says he received encouragement to make the film from fellow directors such as David Fincher (Zodiac, Panic Room, Fight Club) and Spike Jonze (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich). Jonze gave him a George Lucas documentary of director Francis Ford Coppola making the film Rain People. "When you see Coppola, he had this mad energy," Singh says. "I realized I needed to make this film now because he was 10 years younger than I am." Biographies TARSEM SINGH (Director) is a film director and prominent commercial director who lives in London, Italy, Los Angeles, and India. Born in India in 1961, he received his education at a boarding school in the Himalayas in that country, and came to the United States at age 24. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and got his first major breakthrough directing the REM MTV video for "Losing My Religion," which won MTV Video of the Year in the MTV Music Awards. Since then, Singh has done numerous commercials for Smirnoff, Coke, Nike, Levi and Pepsi, to name a few. For his work on The Fall-his second feature-film directorial effort-Singh won a Best Feature Film award at the Berlin International Film Festival, and a Best Film award at the Sitges-Catalonian International Film Festival, both in 2007. In 2000, he made his feature-film directorial debut with The Cell, starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D'Onofrio. In 2005, he was attached to direct two films-Nautica and the Keanu Reeves supernatural thriller Constantine. He is currently in pre-production on his next feature, Unthinkable, about an atomic bomb in the United States, and is also set to direct the upcoming feature Unforgettable. For his work as a commercial director, Singh won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Academy of Film, Television and the Arts (BAFTA) for excellence in commercials in 1999, and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials in 1997, for which he was nominated again in 1999. He has also received two Grand Prix de la Pres awards at Cannes. His work is also on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. LEE PACE (Roy Walker) Following his breakthrough performance in SOLDIER'S GIRL and several acclaimed turns on the stages of New York, Lee Pace stars in ABC's highly new acclaimed series "Pushing Daisies," which premiered this fall. Written expressly for Pace by executive producer Bryan Fuller ("Heroes"), "Pushing Daisies" protagonist Ned is a man who brings people back from the dead --with a single touch. Pace previously co-starred as Aaron Tyler, the older brother of a young woman who takes advice from inanimate objects in Fox's cult series "Wonderfalls," created by Fuller and Todd Holland. In theatres, Pace stars alongside Amy Adams and Frances McDormand in Bharat Nalluri's MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY, premiering this March. Based on the novel by Winifred Watson, the Focus Features release concerns a dowdy governess sent to the home of a glamorous up and coming actress in 1938. Pace portrays Michael, a wild misfit piano player who, upon his return from prison, returns to persuade the actress (Adams) to marry him. In Tarsem's epic fantasy THE FALL (which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival), Pace stars as stuntman Roy Walker/The Black Bandit, which will release in May 2008. Pace most recently co-starred opposite Matt Damon in Robert De Niro's CIA drama THE GOOD SHEPHERD, which centered on the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency. He also played Dick Hickcock in INFAMOUS, Doug McGrath's take on Truman Capote's chronicle of the Clutter family murders that featured Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock and Daniel Craig. Pace also stars opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in Joel Bergvall's POSESSION later this year. Pace received a Gotham Award, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit award nominations for his performance as nightclub performer Calpernia Adams in Frank Pierson's SOLDIER'S GIRL (2003). His motion picture credits also include James Ivory's THE WHITE COUNTESS with Ralph Fiennes and Natasha RIchardson. A Juilliard School alumnus, Pace began his career on stage. He most recently garnered a 2007 Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Leading Actor for "Guardians," Peter Morris' two character play inspired by the Abu Ghraib scandals. Jason Moore directed "Guardians" for the Culture Project. For his performance as a huanted Bosnian economics student/Oedipus in Craig Lucas' "Small Tragedy" (a play-within-a-lay, directed by Mark WIng-Davey for Playwrights Horizons), Pace received his first Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Actor and shared an Obie Award with the ensemble. He portrayed a gangster in Janusz Glowacki's "The Fourth Sister" (director: Lisa Peterson, Vineyard Theatre) and a painter whose obsession with a French artist sends his life into a tailspin in the Playwrights Horizons production of Keith Bunin's "The Credeaux Canvas," directed by Michael Mayer. CATINCA UNTARU (Alexandria) Catinca was born in Bucharest, Romania on March 21st, 1997, the only one child of Untaru family. When she was three years old she confessed to her grandparents that she would like to became a theatre actress waiting for people to give her flowers on a stage. From the early age she was fascinated by fantasy stories and legends. She started to take English lessons at the age of 4 and her teacher, a former Romanian flight attendant, noticed her interest and started to tell her stories about countries and customs to keep her focused. Sooner she was talking English with different accents. She ran against hundreds of children from all over the world for the part, she didn't fit the initial character's description and she almost didn't make it to her airplane. These were just a few of the obstacles that Catinca Untaru had to overcome in order to become Alexandria, the main character in Tarsem Singh's "The Fall". Some might see her story a Romanian mission impossible but for Catinca it was all in a day's, or better said, in two years' work. It is said that when you are on a mission, the whole Universe conspires for your success. If this is the case, then it was clearly Catinca Untaru's mission to become the first Romanian child to star in a international film. Right from the start, her discovery has consisted of a series of fortunate coincidences. At first, it was the recommendation of one of her former teachers that lead talent agent Andreea Tanasescu to her. Then, an incredible audition with the director of "the Cell," Tarsem Singh during which Catinca managed to switch back and forth between reality and fantasy without the slightest degree of effort. Catinca managed to convince Tarsem that she was the right child for the part of Alexandria. Finally, one day before she was scheduled to leave for South Africa and everybody thought everything was going smoothly, Catinca and her mother had to get new visas for South Africa from neighboring Hungary. People were rushed in and out of Romania in order to get the new visas but, in the end, everything turned out fine. With quite a serious face for a 10 year old, Untaru says that she enjoyed filming for "the Fall" and that her favorite part of the whole experience have been the costumes designed by Oscar award winner Eiko Ishioka. At one point, there was a hint of jealousy on Catinca's behalf because of one of her stand in's-Emma-costume, a long wavy skirt but it was soon forgotten in the thrill of the shoot. Since the whole script was never revealed to Catinca, as she started shooting for "the Fall" she was constantly kept on her toes, her interest alert, about the story. She thus managed to become an active part of the action. Ruxandra, Catinca's mother recalls that she would be Catinca in her hotel apartment but would immediately switch to Alexandria when she was the set. Catinca says that being a part of the cast of "the Fall" allowed her to see countries and learn about customs. Something she would have never been able to do had she not been a part of the Fall. As the shooting took place in more than 20 locations around the world, Catinca was most impressed with India. Upon her return in Romania, she said, "India is like a beautiful woman whose eyes you can't see." Questioned further about her statement, Catinca said, "...you can only see its eyes when you get to know it better." Although quite mature for her age, Catinca still enjoys playing with her dolls and, most of all her friends. When she was filming for "the Fall", her biggest wish was to come back home and be able to play with her friends whom she was missing dearly. She likes to read books, to write stories and maybe to do movies in one day. Now, almost 3 years after filming ended, Catinca goes to school and is head of class. She says that her biggest adventure, actually her self-titled "mission impossible" has been taking the grade register from the teacher's lounge to her class when her English teacher asked her to. Catinca's career is a group effort to say the least, and changes the lives of all who are involved. It is nothing short of love and passion that keep it all going! Currently she is working in a Romanian experimental media project called "10" where a group of kids are planning to do a movie. It is a mix of reality and fantasy production inspired from her story. COSTUME DESIGN -EIKO ISHIOKA Eiko Ishioka is a multidisciplinary designer whose internationally acclaimed work for stage, film, advertising and graphic design have made her one of the premiere visual artists in contemporary world culture. Her long list of accolades includes an Academy Award for costume design for Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula, the Award for Artistic Contribution at the Cannes Film Festival for her production design of the film Mishima, Outer Critic Circle Awards for the sets and costumes of the Broadway play M. Butterfly, and a Grammy Award for the artwork of Miles Davis' album Tutu. Ishioka's creative vision has made its indelible mark on everything from Hollywood to the circus. She designed the costumes for the film The Cell, starring Jennifer Lopez, directed a music video for the singer Björk, designed the costumes for Pierre Audi's production of Wagner's "Ring Cycle" at De Nederlandse Opera, created sportswear for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, and the team identity and uniforms for the Houston Rockets basketball team. She designed the costumes for the Cirque du Soleil production "Varekai, " for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. Most recently she designed costumes for the Spanish film "Teresa: The Body of Christ." "The Fall" is Ishioka's second collaboration with director Tarsem. Ishioka is a laureate of the New York Art Director's Club Hall of Fame, and her work is included in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. Ishioka has published two retrospectives of her work, Eiko by Eiko in 1983, and Eiko on Stage in 2000, both published by Callaway Editions in New York. In 2005, she published a behind-the-scenes account of her work on 12 international projects, in Japanese (Kodansha). Ishioka was born in Tokyo and resides in New York City. MUSIC -KRISHNA LEVY Born in 1964 Krishna Levy began playing the piano at the age of 5. 1990 : In the US, obtains degree in "Film scoring" from Berklee College of Music and Master's in "Composition" from the New England Conservatory respectively. Studies with William Thomas Mc Kinley, among others 2001 : Wins the International Music Prize for his score for Nabil Ayouch's film "Ali Zaoula" at the Music & Cinema Festival (Auxerre, France). 2003 : Cesar award nomination for best original Music for François Ozon's "8 Women". Collaboration with Avi Nesher. 2004 : Release of the film and soundtrack recording Music for Thomas Vincent's film "Je suis un assassin" 2005 : Release of the film ans soundtrack recording music for Nicolas Vannier's film "Le dernier TRappeur". 2006 : THE FALL directed by Tarsem Singh." EDITOR -ROBERT DUFFY Robert Duffy has worked extensively as an editor for commercials, music videos and feature films. He is a partner in Spot Welders Inc., a commercial editorial house with offices in NY and Los Angeles. He is based in Venice, California. There, he collaborates with such award winning advertising agencies, artists and directors as: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners (2006 Agency of the Year), Wieden & Kennedy, Johny Cash, Jay-Z, Lenny Kravitz, Madonna, Tarsem, David Fincher, Mark Romanek, and Tony Scott. He has won over 20 awards for his accomplishments and contributions in editing, including Grammy, MTV and Monitor awards. Most recently, he edited Tarsem's "The Fall". PRODUCTION DESIGNER -GED CLARKE Ged Clarke was born in Stockport, Cheshire, England ion 29th January 1957. He was educated in England and attended the Chelsea School of Art between 1976 -1980 for his BA degree. He has exhibited Paintings & Sculptures in London including at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Ged also worked as a studio Manager at Fulham Studios 1981 -- 1986 and began Art Directing Commercials in 1984. He has worked in over 50 Countries and won two AICP Awards for Production Design. Ged has been honored for his work by having two Commercials exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York and one in The Louvre, Paris. He won Best Art Direction at Festival Della Pubblicitta Anipa, Italy among many other Awards for Production Design inc. such as D&AD's / BTAA's / Cannes Lion's / / LIAA's / EPICA /ANDY's / ADDY's. Ged has made over 180 Commercials with Tarsem which led him to his work as Production Designer for The Fall 2004. He is married with three children, living in Berkshire. DIRECTOR OF PHOTGRAPHY -COLIN WATKINSON "The Director of Photography Colin Watkinson was born ages ago in Liverpool, and has worked in the film industry since 1988, starting as a loader and focus puller. He cut his teeth on a wide cross section of commercials and features including several with Tarsem, forming a relationship that has gone from strength to strength. Over time Colin became a Director of Photography and has continued to work with Tarsem on commercials for such famous Brands as Pepsi, Puma and Disney. WRITERS -DAN GILROY & NICO SOULTANAKIS & TARSEM Dan Gilroy lives in Los Angeles with his wife Rene and daughter Rose. In addition to "The Fall," he wrote and executive produced the 2005 Universal release "Two For The Money." Other projects include "Real Steel," an original script bought by Steven Spielberg for Dreamworks; and "Apache," for Jerry Bruckheimer. Nico Soultanakis co-produced and co-wrote The Fall with Tarsem Dhandwar and Dan Gilroy. Nico is a graduate of the film school at the Pasadena Art Center School of Design. After working in the film business in a variety of positions, as a grip, writer and video editor, he became a video and commercial director at Palomar Pictures where he directed music videos for artists such as The Cranberries, Dionne Farris and Rickie Lee Jones. Nico also worked with Tarsem as a creative consultant on many of his commercials and in
