Women in Film interview with President Cathy Schulman at Sundance 2013!
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Devin Faraci of Badass Digest interviews Women in Film President Cathy Schulman at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Academy Award winning producer Cathy Schulman became President of Mandalay Pictures in January 2007, at which time she also established Mandalay Independent Pictures alongside Peter Guber. Her experience as both an executive and producer dates back to 1987.
As President of Mandalay Independent, Schulman is a part of an elite group of women who head self-financed production companies. She started Mandalay Independent in order to produce self-distinguished projects with a social conscience and youth awareness, in the hopes of illuminating stories of consequence not commonly exposed in film.
Schulman recently served as a producer on the documentary “Darfur Now,” alongside Don Cheadle and Mark Jonathan Harris. “Darfur Now,” while still in its early development, was brought to her attention after she won her Oscar® for producing “Crash” in 2006, and Schulman immediately knew how to best utilize the prestige she earned from the award winning picture—she would focus on a film that could give a worldwide voice to those who aren’t being heard. The documentary, which made its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this year, details the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Sudan’s western region of Darfur as seen through the eyes of activists working to end this crisis. Schulman and director Ted Braun were granted unprecedented access to the internally displaced people of Darfur, international aid workers, the government and the rebels. “Darfur Now” made its theatrical release on November 2nd , 2007 through Warner Independent Pictures.