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Filmmaker Conference 2009 – A Conversation With Peter Saraf

Moderator: Scott Macaulay, Editor-in-Chief, Filmmaker Magazine; Panelists: Peter Saraf, Producer – Big Beach – Away We Go, Sunshine Cleaning

Peter Saraf co-founded Big Beach, partnering with Marc Turletaub, in 2004. The company’s recent releases include Christine Jeff’s Sunshine Cleaning starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt, John Crowley’s Is Anybody There? starring Michael Caine and the Sam Mendes directed Away We Go, starring Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski. Saraf has also produced Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Little Miss Sunshine, Liev Schrieber’s adaptation of Joanthan Safran Foer novel Everything Is Illuminated, and executive produced Ramin Bahrani’s Chop Shop. Big Beach is currently in post-production on two projects, Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating, and a documentary called Lucky by Jeffrey Blitz.