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Gregory Segal

Date of Birth / Doğum Tarihi
22 May 1970, New York, New York, USA

Mini Biography / Biyografi
Greg Segal is a producer, sales agent, and entertainment attorney based in New York City.Greg is the founder and producer of the newly-minted Slamdance Horror Script Competition Film Slate, which, beginning in 2007, will take the winning horror script from Slamdance's wildly popular script competition and make a movie from it each year, to premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival. The slate will enlist Slamdance's enormous marketing pull and public awareness (e.g., 32 million page clicks at Slamdance.com during January 2006) to publicize the movies produced prior to their release.Greg is the producer of HBO American Black Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Acadamy Award nominee Anthony Lover's My Brother, starring Vanessa Williams, Nashawn Kearse, Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Scott and Fredro Starr, released March 16th in 19 cities with distributor Codeblack Entertainment in partnership with AMC/Loews Theaters. A winner of 26 awards and honors to date, My Brother is one of the most honored films targeting African American audiences since The Color Purple. It is distributed by Universal on DVD.Additionally, right now, he's serving as a production executive on David Wain's The Ten, which stars Jessica Alba, Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Famke Jansen, Gretchen Mol, Oliver Platt, Ron Silver, Liev Schrieber, Rob Corddry, Justin Theroux and Adam Brody, to be released theatrically by ThinkFilm in Summer, 2007. He's also working on post-production of writer-director Jeff Roenning's horror-comedy Hot Baby, a co-production with Apple, which stars Adam Scarimbolo (Guide to Recognizing Your Saints), Emily Grace (What Alice Found), and Noah Fleiss (Brick).His fifth feature, Scott Dacko's The Insurgents, stars John Shea, Henry Simmons, Michael Mosley, Juliette Marquis and Mary Stuart Masterson premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival Germany's answer to Sundance, in September, 2006, and took home the Audience Award for Best Picture in its festival premiere. With multiple distribution offers in hand, The Insurgents has begun its tour through the U.S. festival circuit, beginning with its win for Best Screenplay at the Palm Beach Int't Film Festival.Previously produced films include multiple fest (including Outfest and the Woodstock Film Festival) nominee Harsh Beauty, Alessandra Zeka's documentary about the eunuchs of India, which received funding from the NYFA, Sundance/Soros-Open Society, and the New York State Center for the Arts; and Take the Bridge, a dramatic feature directed by Sundance veteran Sergio Castilla, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2007.His company, Angel Baby Entertainment, also produced biz partner John Andrew Gallagher's seventh feature film, New York Independent Film Festival Audience Award Winner Cupidity and a TV pilot, Acting Class. In addition, Greg founded and runs the New York City shorts festival, the NYC PictureStart Film Festival.Greg has lectured on the topics of film production and entertainment law at the New York Film Academy, and at New York's School For Visual Arts. Until late 2003, and his entry into the entertainment business, Greg practiced law with firms such as Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Ernst & Young and Deloitte & Touche. In addition to entertainment law, Greg is an expert in the law of taxation and holds an MBA and CPA. IMDb Mini Biography By: Edward Rider

Trivia / Önemsiz Şeyler
Founder and Director of the NYC PictureStart Film Festival, formerly the NYC Home Film Festival (2002).Producer of ""Film of the Year,"" for ""My Brother"" at Santa Barbara African Heritage Film Series (2007).