In a 25 year career, Peter Newman has produced over thirty films. They include Horton Foote’s 1918, Spalding Gray’s SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA, John Sayles’ THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH, Wayne Wang’s SMOKE and BLUE IN THE FACE; and Nancy Savoca’s DOGFIGHT and HOUSEHOLD SAINTS. Most recently he produced Noah Baumbach’s THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, which won the Best Writing and Directing Awards at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE which stars Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney, was a co-production with Wes Anderson’s American Empirical Pictures. It was nominated for six Spirit Awards, including Best Picture; three Golden Globes, including Best Film - Musical or Comedy; and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Mr. Newman has been a featured speaker at the Sundance Institute’s Producers Conference in 1991 and 2005; as well as appearing on numerous film festival panels, including Cannes and New York. Additionally, he has lectured on the movie business at Yale, Columbia, and New York University. He is presently an adjunct professor at NYU in the Graduate Film program at Tisch, and the Graduate MBA program at Stern. He is currently preparing films based on the lives of Janis Joplin, Bill Veeck, and Strom Thurmond. Newman was born in New York, and is a graduate of Northwestern University.