BLUE SHARK PICTURES - Key Persons
Bailey Coppola is the son of Christopher Coppola and is positioned to be the next A-list actor of the Coppola family, and was the star of the movie "Sacred Blood".
Job Titles:
- President of PlasterCITY Productions Inc
Christopher R. Coppola is the older brother of movie star Nicolas Cage and they both are the nephews of Francis Ford Coppola, and first cousins of Sofia Coppola, Roman Coppola, Gia Coppola, and Jason Schwartzman. Christopher is also the nephew of Talia Shire, who played Adrian in the Rocky movies and Connie Corleone in The Godfather films.
Christopher Coppola, President of PlasterCITY Productions Inc., has been a champion of and leader in digital media for over a decade. Since 1987, he has directed ten feature films, numerous television shows and developed and produced content for alternative distribution and interactive platforms. He has spoken at CES, NAB, SHOWWEST as well as many film festivals about the future of digital filmmaking. His production company is producing a slate low-budget feature films on which SFAI film students can intern and learn by working on set alongside professionals. In 2006, he created Project Accessible Hollywood (PAH), a non-profit digital film festival designed to reach the "everyday person." PAH educates people in the use of digital media while encouraging them to express themselves artistically. To date, over sixty digital media festivals, called PAH-FEST s, have been held across the U.S. and abroad. Christopher is the head of the film program and a tenure professor at the San Francisco Art Institute. As a California Arts Council councilman reappointed by Governor Jerry Brown to a second term, Christopher advocates for arts education in public schools and digital media literacy. He has been a member of the Directors Guild of America for 21 years.
Jeffrey Greenstein joined Millennium Media in 2010 and has worked on more than fifty films during his tenure at the company, including The Expendables franchise ($800M), Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen ($375M), The Hitman's Bodyguard ($175M), Criminal ($38M), and Mechanic Resurrection ($125M).
Greenstein has risen through the proverbial ranks of Millennium's corporate ladder with lightning speed. Named President of International Sales & Distribution at Nu Image/Millennium Films in April 2015, Greenstein oversaw the sales and distribution of all Millennium productions. In 2016, Greenstein became President of Millennium Media. In this role, he manages all aspects of the independent studio.
Greenstein is a graduate of the University of Central Florida - College of Business Administration, where he majored marketing with a concentration in sales.
John Markland is an American director, screenwriter, producer and teacher. He is the founder of the award-winning Moth Theatre where he directed over 15 productions most notably Proof which garnered the Ovation Nomination for Best Production in Los Angeles.
Outside of writing and directing, John established The Markland Studio and has become recognized as one of the top coaches in the industry, coaching multiple Emmy, Golden Globe and Oscar winning performances most recently that of Rami Malek for his portrayal of Freddy Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. Others include Scoot McNairy, Dakota Johnson, Mackenzie Davis, Eiza Gonzalez, Lee Pace, Jeremy Allen White, Jonathan Tucker… and many more of the most sought after up and coming actors in Hollywood.
John has an immersive approach in that he works with the writers and directors as well as the actors to align a vision amongst the three. This has recently transitioned into producing. John currently has four projects in development and is also working in partnership with Jeffrey Gliwa on the launch of Apparition Entertainment.
Rob Nilsson is an independent director, based in San Francisco. Nilsson and co-director John Hanson won the Camera d'Or at Cannes for Northern Lights (1978) and Nilsson won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for Heat and Sunlight (1987). He is the first American film director to have won both awards. In 2010, The Anthology Film Archive featured a retrospective of Nilsson's work with Cine Manifes t, a film collective he co-founded in San Francisco during the 1970's. Works screened included Northern Lights (1978) and Signal 7 (1986). He is the director/writer of Arid Cut, which is completed and set to be released, which is produced by Jeffrey Gliwa.
He is the creator of the Direct Action style of digital filmmaking taught in the Tenderloin Group Actor's Ensemble, San Francisco and featured in workshops conducted around the world. Nilsson is a pioneer in the techniques of video to film transfer which led to today's digital revolution. In 1985, Signal 7 (1986) was the first small-format video feature to be blown up to film and distributed around the world. Chalk (1996), his first feature with the Tenderloin Action Group (later the Tenderloin Group), a San Francisco inner city acting workshop, was featured in the Locarno and Toronto film festivals. It was voted one of the top films of the year by the Village Voice.
The 9 @ Night film series, nine feature films sharing characters and circumstance with dialogue improvised by the Players, received the San Francisco Film Critic's Circle Marlon Riggs Award for courage and innovation in cinema in 2008. Seven of Nilsson's 9 @ Night film series, nine Direct Action digital features cast from the Group, Stroke (2000), Singing (2000), Scheme C6 (2001) and Need (2005), Pan (2006), Used (2007) and Go Together (2007) had their World Premieres at the Mill Valley International Film Festival. Attitude (2003) had its World Premiere at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2003 and Noise (2002) at the Virginia FF, also in 2003. The World Premiere marathon screening of all 9 feature films took place at the Harvard Film Archive in 2007.
In collaboration with studio Malaparte in Japan, Nilsson completed a Direct Action digital feature film shot on Sagi Island off the coast of Hiroshima. Winter Oranges had its world premiere in 2000 at the Fukuoka Film Archives in Fukuoka and its US Premiere at the Mill Valley International Film Festival in 2000. In 2000, Nilsson shot another Direct Action digital feature (Samt) in Jordan, working with a cast of young Jordanians assembled by Zenid, a Jordanian institute for social development. Samt had its world premiere at the Mill Valley International Film Festival in 2004.
Award winning, international producer Sam Sleiman began his career interning at a small independent studio, moving up to become the in house producer and head of production within two years.
Since that position, Sam has worked on over 20 films, producing 9 of them including the TV series "L.A. Heat", which aired on TNT and is now in syndication worldwide.
Sam speaks three languages and has extensive world traveling experience, which has made him an asset while filming in various countries all over the world. Although still young, he has amassed a wealth of experience and knowledge in development, production and distribution. His hard work, collaborative approach and dedication have made him successful as a producer and manager.
Stevie Long has been working in Hollywood for 25 years. His experience includes working as a producer and ghostwriter for all the major studios and TV networks. His resume includes a wide range of both comedy and drama, from the smash hit ‘Starsky & Hutch' on the big screen to the gritty drama ‘Sons Of Anarchy' on television.
While he has enjoyed making movies and shows for the world's largest media companies, his focus now is to take advantage of the booming market in independent content creation.
Stevie Long was at the beginning of this new gold mine and will continue to cash in for his investors and himself, creating movies to keep up with the billions of people around the world constantly scrolling for something new to watch.
Born and raised in on New York's Upper East Side., Timothy Spuches schooled and socialized with the rich and famous heirs and heiresses in his neighborhood (Columbia SIPA) he created a marketing and promotions company which utilized his extensive Rolodex to fill the most prestigious nightclubs of the era with wealthy and notable young socialites.
After an extremely successful run, Spuches decided to bring his clientele which had expanded to celebrities and Downtown celebutantes under one roof. He opened SOHO uber rest-lounge Veruka which immediately became an internationally famous hot spot for stars in film, music and sports. The spot became legendary among other things for being among the very first to feature bottle service as commonly practiced today.
In 2000 he partnered with Studio 54 to open a VIP club above the theater which garnered intense media coverage due to its high profile clientele. After a successful run, Spuches and his brother took over an art deco boutique hotel in South Beach, The Marlin on Collins Avenue. There he transformed the lobby and patio into a restaurant/bar known as Rex which became a favorite of other NYC ex pats.
Returning to NY in the midst of the financial crisis. Spuches came upon an ambitious project on Ludlow Street that was struggling mightily after opening with little fanfare months earlier. Partnering with ownership he and a longtime associate resuscitated the endeavor by completing design and opening a restaurant on the "roof" level and a bottle service nightclub (SGTs) in the cellar. By spring 2011 Hotel Chantelle took LES nightlife to an entirely different level with queues stretched around the block.
Warren Zide is the producer of the most successful comedy franchise in cinema history, American Pie and one of the top-grossing horror franchises of all time Final Destination. His first 8 films grossed over $2.5 Billion Dollars at the Box Office.
He is the most sought-after producer in Hollywood because of his ability to forecast & select Box Office Gold. Many have nicknamed him ‘The Oracle of Hollywood Producers". This Box Office Gold is now in the hands of everyone who is part of our team, and our investors are the most important part of our team.