Biographies

Peter Jackson is a three-time Academy Award-winning director, producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Academy Award-winning producer Jon Landau has repeatedly demonstrated an ability to oversee and deliver major motion pictures. Alongside the widely anticipated James Cameron film Avatar, Landau has also produced such films as Titanic and Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris. Throughout the early nineties, Landau was the Executive Vice President of Feature Film Production at Twentieth Century Fox

Lisa Fitzpatrick is a non-fiction book & audio editor, writer and packager.  She has developed dozens of quality entertainment, art and photography publications including numerous film & television titles such as the award-winning 24: Behind the Scenes, The Art of Kung Fu Panda, The Complete X-Files, ANTARCTICA (essays by Leonardo diCaprio, Mikhail Gorbachev) and an anniversary edition for the USC School of Cinematic Arts (foreword by George Lucas). A graduate of the Stanford Publishing Course for Professionals she also served as co-author and image editor for the follow up The Making of AVATAR (ABRAMS Books) and has produced dozens of long form audio titles, with authors such as NYTimes bestsellers Peter Matthiessen, Dr. Dean Ornish and Pema Chodron. Her next work, an authorized, in-depth publication covering the feature filmmaking methods of Clint Eastwood will be released in Fall, 2012 (ABRAMS). Lisa can be reached at ljfitzpatrick1@gmail.com.