[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: Opportunity for UCR students to meet
Hollywood producer/director; please RSVP by Feb. 17, 2006
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> From: <rickerby at ucr.edu>
> Date: February 15, 2006 4:45:59 PM PST
> To: johnsh at ucr.edu
> Subject: Fwd: Opportunity for UCR students to meet Hollywood
> producer/director; please RSVP by Feb. 17, 2006
>
> John,
>
> can you please post for grads.
> Rickerby Hinds
> Assistant Professor, Playwriting
> University of California, Riverside
> Department of Theatre
>
> 304 Arts Building
> Riverside, CA 92521
>
> 951.827.3871
> 951.827.4651-fax
>
> From: "Audrey Pearson" <audreyp at ucr.edu>
> Date: February 14, 2006 1:41:02 PM PST
> To: "'Audrey Pearson'" <audreyp at ucr.edu>
> Subject: Opportunity for UCR students to meet Hollywood
> producer/director; please RSVP by Feb. 17, 2006
>
>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Because of the B. Traven Archive in Special Collections, we have been
> working with the Kohner family of Hollywood, who knew the author well.
> We have very recently arranged to have Mr. Pancho Kohner, the
> producer and director, come to UCR on Thursday, March 2 from 3:15 to
> 4:30 pm in Special Collections on the 4th floor of Rivera Library.
> Mr. Kohner will speak on the process of making his very first film
> _The Bridge in the Jungle_, starring John Huston. This film is based
> on Traven’s book of the same name. Mr. Kohner was not only the
> director, but also the screenwriter and producer. Mr. Kohner’s
> biographical blurb and filmography are pasted below.
>
> This event will consist of our showing excerpts from the 1970 film
> with Mr. Kohner giving a “Director’s Commentary.” Afterwards, the
> students will have a chance to ask questions and seek advice from a
> real Hollywood insider about the both the artistic and financial
> aspects of filmmaking. A brief reception, ending at 5 pm, will
> follow. In addition to his own impressive achievements, Mr. Kohner is
> the son of the late Paul Kohner, one of Hollywood’s most legendary
> agents, and Ms. Lupita Tovar, one of Mexico’s best-loved and most
> popular film stars. Mr. Kohner is also the uncle of Paul and Chris
> Weitz, of _American Pie_ fame. There is also a possibility that Ms.
> Tovar will accompany Mr. Kohner to this event, depending upon her
> availability.
>
> As we have only limited space for this event, we wanted to give the
> professors involved in Film Studies and Visual Culture a chance to
> reserve space for any of their students who might be interested in
> meeting Mr. Kohner before we advertise the event more widely. Please
> let us know before Friday, Feb. 17 if you or any of your students
> would be interested in joining us for this event.
>
> We look forward to seeing you at this event!
>
> Yours,
>
> Melissa Conway
>
> Melissa Conway, Ph.D., Special Collections, UCR Libraries, P.O. Box
> 5900, University of California, Riverside, CA 92517-5900,
> 951-827-3233, FAX 951-827-4673, melissa.conway at ucr.edu
>
>
> Pancho Kohner
>
> 1527 Tigertail Road
> Los Angeles, CA 90049
> (310) 472-6278
> fax: (310) 472-4398
> e-mail: pjkohner at aol.com
>
> Mr. Pancho Kohner is a well-known and respected Hollywood
> insider. His extensive network of professional relationships and
> friendships spans a multifaceted career in Europe and the United
> States. During his career producing, directing and writing numerous
> feature films and television programs (see the attached filmography)
> he has worked with many of the motion picture industry’s most talented
> actors, writers, and directors – and most of the major studios and
> distributors.
>
> Educated at the University of Southern California, the
> University of Mexico and the Sorbonne in Paris, the multilingual
> Pancho Kohner began his career as an assistant to John Huston in
> Germany on Universal Studio’s Freud. He next worked as a talent
> agent in Rome, negotiating agreements for Hollywood talent with the
> leading Italian film makers. From Rome he went to Madrid, as the unit
> production manager with the Samuel Bronston Studios on Fifty-Five Days
> in Peking, Fall of The Roman Empire and Circus World.
>
> With his multinational experience, United
> Artists appointed Mr. Kohner to supervise their feature film and
> television productions in Spain, Italy, France, Germany and
> Czechoslovakia. In this role he worked closely with numerous European
> film personalities for more than 5 years.
>
> In 1970, he returned to the United States to write,
> produce and direct his first film, The Bridge In The Jungle (the
> sequel to Treasure of the Sierra Madre), starring John Huston. This
> began a career in independent production in the United States
> encompassing all aspects of motion picture finance, production, and
> distribution. Mr. Kohner now has accumulated more than three decades
> of motion picture development expertise including talent brokering,
> contract negotiation, financing, taxation structures, completion bonds
> and studio agreements. In that period, he has had direct involvement
> in more than 20 successful cinematic releases.
>
> As a twenty-five year member of the Academy of Motion
> Picture Arts and Sciences, Mr. Kohner has kept in close touch with
> European and international film making. In this capacity he is a
> permanent member of the annual Academy Awards selection committee for
> the best foreign film.
>
> Mr. Kohner is from a family long-identified with the
> motion picture industry. He is the son of Mr. Paul Kohner, one of
> Hollywood’s most famous and respected agents, and Ms. Lupita Tovar,
> one of Mexico’s greatest and most popular screen stars. His parents
> were married in Czechoslovakia and lived in Berlin where Mr. Paul
> Kohner was the head of Carl Laemmle’s Universal Pictures. In Germany,
> in the early thirties, Mr. Paul Kohner produced such pictures as
> Doomed Battalion, Next Time We Love, The Rebel, S.O.S. Iceberg and
> Prodigal Son. Later, in the United States, the Paul Kohner Agency
> specialized in representing talent from the European community and
> represented, among others, Billy Wilder, William Wyler, Ingmar
> Bergman, Maurice Chevalier, O. W. Fisher, Max von Sydow, Horst
> Buchholzt and Liv Ullmann.
>
> Mr. Kohner is well known in the entertainment industry for
> mentoring new talent. In his spare time he restores and races vintage
> cars.
>
> Pancho Kohner
> Filmography
> 1999 Produced MADELINE, animated feature, Disney Studios.
> 1997 Produced MADELINE, live action movie, TriStar/Sony Studios.
> 1992 Executive Produced 75 MADELINE animated TV episodes.
> 1991 Executive Produced MADELINE, Emmy nominated H.B.O. special.
> 1989 Produced KINJITE, FORBIDDEN SUBJECTS, starring Charles
> Bronson.
> 1988 Produced MESSENGER OF DEATH, starring Charles Bronson.
> 1987 Produced DEATH WISH 4, starring Charles Bronson.
> 1986 Produced ASSASSINATION, starring Charles Bronson.
> 1985 Produced MURPHY’S LAW, starring Charles Bronson.
> 1983 Produced THE EVIL THAT MEN DO, starring Charles Bronson.
> 1982 Produced TEN TO MIDNIGHT, starring Charles Bronson.
> 1981 Produced WHY WOULD I LIE, starring Treat Williams for M.G.M.
> Studios.
> 1980 Executive Produced CABO BLANCO, starring Charles Bronson.
> 1979 Wrote and Executive Produced Knut Hamsun’s VICTORIA.
> 1977 Produced LOVE AND BULLETS, Lew Grade/ITC.
> 1976 Produced THE WHITE BUFFALO, Dino De Laurentiis/United
> Artists.
> 1975 Produced ST IVES, starring Charles Bronson for Warner
> Brothers Studios,.
> 1973 Wrote, Produced, and Directed MR. SYCAMORE, starring Jason
> Robards,
> Sandy Dennis and Jean Simmons.
> 1972 Associate Producer and Second Unit Director for Roger
> Corman’s YOUNG NURSES.
> 1971 Associate Producer and Screenwriter THE LIE, by Ingmar
> Bergman for CBS/Hallmark.
> 1970 Wrote, Produced, and Directed B. Traven’s THE BRIDGE IN THE
> JUNGLE, starring John Huston and Katy Jurado.
>
>
>
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