Gail Katz
Gail Katz is an American film and television producer .
Life
Katz grew up in Beverly Hills , where her father ran a coffee shop.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley and, since 1980, a Master of Business Administration from the Yale School of Management. Already during college she worked in a film studio.
After completing her studies, she began working for New World Pictures, where she was first Vice President of Finance and later Vice President of Production. After leaving New World Pictures, she began making her own films. From the 1990s she worked several times with director Wolfgang Petersen and produced his films Death in the Mirror , In the Line of Fire - The Second Chance , Outbreak - Silent Killer , Air Force One and The Storm . Petersen had moved to Los Angeles in 1987 and the following year had reorganized his production company Radiant Film in collaboration with Gail Katz as Radiant Productions . Katz acted as the company's CEO.
In 2008 she founded Gail Katz Productions , with whom she produced the TV series Cashmere Mafia and the feature film Peasant Sacrifice - Game of the Kings . In 2015, she secured the rights to film the board game The Settlers of Catan .
She is a professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts . Katz has also taught at Yale University , UCLA School of Film, Art Center College of Design , University of California at Santa Cruz, and Berklee College of Music .
Her marriage to lawyer Bruce Wessel had a daughter and a son.
Filmography (selection)
Co-producer
- 1991: Death in the Mirror (Shattered)
Executive Producer
- 1993: In the Line of Fire - The Second Chance (In the Line of Fire)
- 1997: Red Corner - Labyrinth with no way out (Red Corner)
- 1998: My great friend Joe (Mighty Joe Young)
- 1999: Instinct (Instinct)
- 2001–2003: The Agency - In the crosshairs of the CIA ( The Agency , TV series, 45 episodes)
- 2008: Cashmere Mafia (TV series, 7 episodes)
Producer
- 1995: Outbreak (Outbreak)
- 1997: Air Force One
- 1999: The Bicentennial Man
- 2000: The Storm (The Perfect Storm)
- 2014: Pawn Sacrifice - Game of Kings
Web links
- Gail Katz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Mary Cox: A conversation with 'Pawn Sacrifice' producer Gail Katz . In: The Telegraph of September 10, 2015
- ↑ Anna Dolinsky: The perfect moment: why Gail Katz is in the biz ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: yaleherald.com of November 3, 2000
- ↑ a b c Gail Katz (Producer / SCA Professor) . In: cinema.usc.edu, accessed April 24, 2017
- ↑ Christine Haase: When Heimat Meets Hollywood: German Filmmakers and America, 1985-2005. Studies in German Literature, 2007, ISBN 978-1571132796 , page 83 .
- ↑ Gail Katz On Board With 'Settlers of Catan', Lands TV & Film Rights . In: deadline.com from February 19, 2015
- ^ Barbara Thornburg: The Living is Easy . In: Los Angeles Times Magazine July 6, 2008, online version at davidhertzfaia.com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Katz, Gail |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and television producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |