Toby Corbett, a three-time Emmy Award nominee, received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington where he studied painting with renowned African-American artist Jacob Lawrence and film theory with noted film scholar Richard Jameson.
Hope Hanafin was born in North Carolina, but raised in New York City, New York and San Diego, California. She earned her B.A. with Honors from Santa Clara University and an M.F.A. from New York University (NYU). She has designed costumes for numerous television movies, including Lackawanna Blues, Normal, A Lesson Before Dying and Geppetto - for which she won the Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence for Costume Design for Television - Period/Fantasy and was nominated for an Emmy®. Her film work includes Because of Winn Dixie, Kazaam, House Arrest and After Dark, My Sweet.
Film composer Mason Daring has explored many paths on the way to his current career -entertainment lawyer, folk singer, cabbie and truck driver, commercial director, and potential rock star among them. But his professional life has always returned to the world of music.
Dick Pope, BSC became interested in photography as a young boy, when his father gave him a box brownie camera and he began making portraits of his family and neighbors in Kent, England. A few years later, an uncle suggested a career as a cameraman. Pope began as a trainee at the Pathé Film Laboratory in London and then started crewing on movies before moving across to 16mm factual documentaries, first working as an assistant and then cameraman, for many companies including the BBC. He traveled the world, often to remote and inaccessible places including war zones, and also specialized in films about the planet’s threatened and disappearing indigenous tribes. Eventually he moved into drama via these documentaries and many music promos/concerts.
Maggie Renzi has been John Sayles’ creative partner since 1978 and she has produced nearly all of his movies. She has also acted in many of them. Renzi and Sayles were students together at Williams College in the early 1970s, and have been together since 1973.
Honeydripper is John Sayles’ 16th feature film. His career began as a novelist and short story writer with the publication in 1975 of Pride of the Bimbos, followed in 1977 by Union Dues, a National Critics’ Circle and National Book Award nominee. A short story collection, The Anarchists’ Convention appeared in 1979, when he began working as a screenwriter for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. Early screenwriting credits include Piranha, Battle Beyond the Stars, The Howling and Alligator.
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