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PARADISE - Filmmaker Team
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| Roger
Steinmann
Writer, director, executive producer
A filmmaker from his heart. He has putting
up a camera at the tender age of eight. Since then, he constantly
works on developing stories into screenplays with the goal to direct
and produce them himself. In 1976, he found his perfect filmmaking
idol, Austrian writer/director Billy Wilder, as he saw a retrospective
of the master of cinema. 17 years later, now in Hollywood, he was
able to meet the six-time Academy Award winner in his office in
Beverly Hills. Up to Wilder's death they remained in contact and
the master even helped to structure the first draft of PARADISE.
Since 1982 respect. 1990, Roger is happy to have found two regular
collaborators: PARADISE-producer Markus Imthurn and PARADISE-co-executive
producer Bruno Koller.
info@paradise-film.com
http://www.roger-steinmann.com/
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| Markus
Imthurn
Producer
Entertainment executive with 20 years experience
as producer/writer/director. As producer, he is responsible for
over a 150 films, commercials, documentaries, interactive and online
projects, games and artistic ventures. He was trained by his lifelong
mentor, twice OSCAR winner Ernst A. Heiniger, nature film director
for Walt Disney Productions. Markus Imthurn, a distant cousin of
couturier Gianni Versace, is founder of two entertainment production
companies. Using his vision to make people happy is at the heart
of all his work.
info@paradise-film.com
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| Bruno
Koller
Executive producer
Born 1960 in Zurich, Switzerland, where
he grew up. Graduated from the Business School of Switzerland, he
moved on to various fields of financing, trading and marketing.
Presently, he is managing a private hold property company near Zurich.
During his longtime friendship with Roger Steinmann, he got more
and more involved in financing of international films and other
cultural projects. His free time is dedicated to his family of wife
Gerda and two children. His hobby are sports such as squash, tennis
and swimming. His personal wish is to catch Andie Mc Dowell for
the role of PP...
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| Ruurd
M. Fenenga Jr.
Director of photography
Ruurd M. Fenenga Jr. was born in Hilversum,
the radio and tv capitol of The Netherlands. As a child, he was
often visiting his father's filmstudio what formed his inner calling
of becoming a director of photography at this early age. He has
learnt the craft from scratch by working at a film laboratory and
at a camera-rental house. At 21, Fenenga moved to Hollywood, where
he worked as an assistant-cameraman on TV series such as "Twin
Peaks" as well as movies such as "The Rapture" and
"The Hidden". His more than 30 other features includes
assisting directors of photography such as Stewart Dryburgh ("The
Piano" -- "Portrait of a Lady") , Bojan Bazelli ("Kalifornia"),
and Jim Weisiger ("Titanic" Spec. Fx Unit). Fenenga teaches
classes at UCLA such as: "Master Lighting".
Currently he is shooting high-end commercials on film and on high-definition
while preparing the soon restart of PARADISE.
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| Marco
De Luca
Investigator
Our private investigator Marco De Luca
was born on April 1, 1960, in Zurich, Switzerland. He was raised
in Germany, moved later back to Switzerland, where he still lives
today. His education ranges from marketing to science to film and
its history, but as well to music, painting and architecture. His
last seen, awarded, film was: "Roma, città aperta"
by Roberto Rosselini.
Sunset International Ltd. is enthusiastic to have found this well-versed
multitalent who investigates the myth of Patricia Paradise and answers
any questions related to PARADISE.
info@paradise-film.com
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Arvind
Rai
PARADISE-correspondent, New Delhi/India
Born
on 13 February 1975 in New Delhi. A Software Engineer by profession,
Arvind was always attracted to the world of Cinema. He grew up watching
Bollywood movies. An ardent fan of Hindi movies, he takes pride in
spreading the awareness about movies from Bollywood. Also a big fan
of Hollywood movies, he keeps himself updated with a weekly dose of
latest from Hollywood. He likes watching Tom Hanks's movies. According
to Arvind, Ingrid Bergman was awesome in 'Casablanca'.
A chance meeting with PARADISE-filmmaker
Roger Steinmann in London in Feb 2001 helped him know more about filmmaking
in Hollywood. Arvind devotes most of his time in IT consulting nowadays.
His future plans include doing his MBA from US and opening a fansite
for his trusted friend Roger Steinmann. Quiz him about PARADISE and
prompt comes the reply that PARADISE is a collective dream and that
he is proud to be a part of this movie making experience.
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Neeraj Shah
PARADISE-correspondent, India
An Entrepreneur and an ardent movie fan
is how Neeraj Shah describes himself. He comes from a business family
and graduated as an Engineer. He continues the tradition of being
self employed, heads a steel manufacturing unit and an export trading
company. Movies are his prime source of recreation. Be it Hollywood
or Bollywood, he doesn't miss a single one. With his passion for
writing, Neeraj offered to contribute to the PARADISE-site and writes
regularly on its columns. Impressed by Patricia's story, he created
a fan page as a tribute to Patricia Paradise which was appreciated
well by her fans world over. Believes that "Anything is possible
in this world, as long as the mind can envisage it".
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