Hilary brings a background in writing and documentary filmmaking to Tully, her feature directing debut.

After earning a masters in English Literature from Georgetown University, Hilary worked for a year as a story editor for Largo Entertainment, a Los Angeles based feature film development company, before moving to documentary filmmaking. She spent the next few years working as an associate producer, field producer and director of development for Academy Award winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple at Cabin Creek Films. There she developed New Passages (1996), an ABC primetime special, executive produced by Barbara Kopple; and Generations (1996), a feature documentary on the 25th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival, directed by Barbara Kopple. Hilary was also the associate producer and field producer for Vis a Vis: Behind the Veil and Vis a Vis: Blue and Black (1997) two hour-long documentaries using state of the art digital satellite technology, with a nationwide premiere on Public Television. In 1999 Hilary worked as a producer for the Sundance Channel's Sundance Film Festival 1999, directing on-location interviews and profiles of filmmakers and their projects at Park City, UT.

Hilary began working on Tully four years ago while living and working in Budapest, Hungary. This is her first screenplay.

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ANNIE SUNDBERG - Producer

Annie's most recent filmmaking credits include In My Corner, a feature documentary film on the world of amateur boxing and the lives of young men who train in the South Bronx, which premiered nationally as part of PBS' award winning P.O.V. series (1999). As a director, Annie is currently developing her own documentary for Home Box Office on the personal and social issues behind the devastating reality of teen infanticide, and has recently begun production on her next film The Last Good Times, documenting the rise of a New York internet start-up company from its inception through the IPO.

Annie was the Associate Producer on the 1996 Academy Award and Emmy winning One Survivor Remembers, a co-production of HBO and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

She began her career as story editor for Joan Micklin Silver's feature group Silverfilm Productions, and as assistant to director Jay Craven on the feature Where the River Flows North.. Since then, Annie has worked as a freelance writer, story editor and researcher for various feature film groups, including HBO Original Films, HBO/NYC Productions, Talking Wall Pictures, Lower East Side Films, and Montage Entertainment. Annie has worked with Oscar-nominated director/writer Terry George on the 1998 Emmy nominated film, A Bright Shining Lie and with HBO NYC on the 1998 Emmy winning Miss Evers' Boys.

After completing a National Outdoor Leadership School semester in Kenya, Annie taught English language skills through the World Food Programme in Nairobi. Annie graduated from Dartmouth College where she earned a BA in English Literature.

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JOHN FOSTER - Director of Photography

John Foster was Director of Photography on the feature film Sunday, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997. In USA Today, Harlan Jacobson wrote, "Sunday is stunningly shot and classically framed and contained." Sunday was also an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival and won first prize at the Deauville Film Festival. For his cinematography on Sunday, John was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
As Director of Photography on Java Burn, John travelled 13,000 miles to work with a crew of ninety-five Indonesians and one Chinese to make a spy-thriller set in Semarang, on the north coast of Java. He routinely lit three city blocks at a time, as the film was 80% night exteriors. John also managed many three- and four-camera set-ups to cover stunts and crashes, such as a Mercedes going through the ceiling of a theatre full of people, or explosions such as the firebombing of a hotel.

Resident Alien, featuring John Hurt and Sting, was an intimate look at the flamboyant New York milieu of Quentin Crisp. About Resident Alien, the Florence Gazzetta wrote, "Elegant and stylistically refined," and the Berlin Tatzeitung wrote "beautifully photographed." The film received a five-minute ovation at the Florence Film Festival.

John's most recent credits include the feature films The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (Paramount Classics, produced in association with Good Machine, released in August 1999), and Fear of Fiction. Two feature documentaries broadcast in 1999 were Innocent Until Proven Guilty (HBO) and The Green Monster (PBS).

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MATT DRAKE - Co Screenwriter

Matt has been an english teacher, a technical writer, a community organizer, and a bon vivant. Now he is a screenwriter. He adapted Tully, his first screenplay, while living in Budapest, Hungary. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where he lives with his girlfriend's cat, and also his girlfriend. He has written screenplays for The Jim Henson Company, Walt Disney Feature Animation and Intermedia Films. He has also written for episodic television, but he doesn't like to talk about it.

AFFONSO GONCALVES - Editor
Affonso's recent work includes The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (Toronto Film Festival '98, Sundance Competition '99) and he was an editor in residence at the 1999 Sundance Institute directing workshops. Affonso's editing credits include several feature narrative and documentary films, among them Trans (Toronto Int'l '98, Sundance '99) and The Delta (Toronto Int'l '97, Sundance '98, Rotterdam '98).

DEBI ZELKO - Line Producer
Debi has a broad background in film and television production, and has worked with New York based companies including The Shooting Gallery, Good Machine and Eureka Pictures, as well as on Michael Moore's current TV series, The Awful Truth.

MARCELO ZARVOS - Music
Marcelo has recently completed his first cd release entitled Labryinths, and can often be heard performing at The Knitting Factory (NYC).