
Birthday:
06-15-1962
(62 years)
Birthplace:
Reykjavík, Iceland
Biography
Sigurjón Sighvatsson is an Icelandic film producer based in Hollywood. He is a founder of the music video and film production company Propaganda Films. He left the eight-year-old company in late 1994. From 1995 to 1998, Sighvatsson was president of the film production company Lakeshore Entertainment. In 1999, Sighvatsson became the controlling shareholder of the independent production company Palomar Pictures.
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Arlington Road
Executive Producer
event1999 star_border 7
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Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes a backseat when a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door.
Wild at Heart
Producer
event1990 star_border 7
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Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Basquiat
Producer
event1996 star_border 6.6
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The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Red Rock West
Producer
event1993 star_border 6.7
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When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Producer
event1995 star_border 5.5
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Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.
Kalifornia
Producer
event1993 star_border 6.6
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A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
The Good Heart
Executive Producer
event2009 star_border 6.2
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Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing.
Brothers
Producer
event2009 star_border 7.3
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When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
Polish Wedding
Executive Producer
event1998 star_border 5.1
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The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop Russell and becomes pregnant by him. Russell is pressed hard to marry Hala.
Valhalla Rising
Executive Producer
event2009 star_border 6.1
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Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
Killer Elite
Producer
event2011 star_border 6.3
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Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.
A Pig's Tale
Executive Producer
event1996 star_border 6.1
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Kids' comedy with all the clichés. Six boys (hero, pudgy, dumb, romeo, etc), reluctantly sent to summer camp, are grouped together in a ramshackle hut, and instantly identified as losers and outcasts by the overconfident camp bullies, who target gorgeous Tiffany (Jakub) as their Lothario's girlfriend. They set out to make everyone's life miserable as they impose their authority on the other kids and ineffective counselors alike. Andy, the good-guy hero, of course has a crush on Tiffany, but hasn't a clue how to approach her. Gradually, the nice guys gain the edge over the bullies, by honest endeavor and standing up for themselves - and in doing so, win over the other kids, even Tiffany. Until the bullies frame them and have them expelled.
Rust
Producer
event1990
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After 15 years Pétur returns to Baddi's auto garage that is still located at the end of the world. Baddi lives there with his two children and worker. 15 years before terrible events occurred at the garage that forced Pétur to leave.
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Executive Producer
event1996 star_border 6.1
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A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effects.
Screaming Masterpiece
Producer
event2005 star_border 6.5
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A documentary about the bustling Icelandic musical scene. This documentary covers some of Iceland's most talented and well-known musicians.
A Little Trip to Heaven
Producer
event2005 star_border 5.5
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Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horrific car accident. As Holt examines the scene of the wreck, it all seems a bit too perfect. And when he interviews Isold Mcbride and her shifty husband, Fred -- the impoverished beneficiaries of the massive, recently initiated life-insurance policy -- he begins to suspect that something is amiss.
Fear, Anxiety and Depression
Producer
event1989 star_border 5.9
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An unsuccessful playwright faces trials and tribulations as he seeks to find himself in New York City.
Dead Connection
Executive Producer
event1994 star_border 4.3
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After a series of murders in motel rooms are connected, police detective Matt Dickson heads out on the trail to find a serial killer. He discovers that he signs the motel guest-books with the names of boxers, and gets a lead on him. However, just when he fails to catch up and arrest him, the chase becomes personal.
MK Ultra
Producer
event2022 star_border 5.6
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Set during the true and unconscionable Central Intelligence Agency MK ULTRA drug experimentations in the early 1960s. The journey of Ford Strauss, a brilliant psychiatrist, whose moral and scientific boundaries are pushed to the limit as he is recruited to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi Mental Hospital.
Pantera: Cowboys From Hell
Executive Producer
event1991 star_border 7.5
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Pantera's first home video release. It contains behind the scenes footage of the band partying as well as music videos and live performances.
Z for Zachariah
Producer
event2015 star_border 5.7
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In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others. A fragile, imperative strand of trust connects them. But when a stranger enters the valley, their precarious bond begins to unravel.
Wild Game
Executive Producer
event2023 star_border 6
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At a dinner party in Vesturbær, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. They put their phones on the table and agree that all incoming calls and messages will be shared with the party to prove that none of them have anything to hide
Cold
Producer
event2023 star_border 5.6
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An investigation by Óðinn on decades old deaths at a juvenile treatment center, as he proceeds he suspects that the sinister secrets are connected to his ex-wife's mysterious suicide.
I.T.
Co-Producer
event2016 star_border 5.4
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Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art “smart home”. But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant, Ed, starts using his skills to stalk Mike’s daughter and endanger his family, his business, and his life. In a world where there is no privacy, and personal secrets can go viral by the click of a mouse, Mike needs to rely on his old connections to defeat a new kind of nemesis.
I Remember You
Producer
event2017 star_border 6.1
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After an older lady hangs herself in a church, a new psychiatrist discovers she was obsessed with the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, who vanished three years earlier. Meanwhile, three city dwellers are restoring a house when they realize it is haunted.
Gospel According to Harry
Executive Producer
event1994 star_border 5.2
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Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get everywhere. Harry, a tax collector, is a witness to this marriage falling apart.
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
Executive Producer
event1993 star_border 8.5
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Actress Sharon Stone hosts this documentary about the life and career of 1930s sex symbol Jean Harlow. Included are clips from many of her films, photos and stories about her life before she became a movie star, and accounts of her troubled personal life, including a domineering mother, the failure of her three marriages and the suicide of her second husband.
Last Call
Producer
event2018
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Iceland is the smallest nation ever to qualify for the World Cup, and the team and its incredible story have caught the attention of the entire world. But is it possible that the same forces that turned these boys into heroes also got the nation into trouble during the 2008 financial crisis? Through the players themselves and others, we learn what Icelanders hope for and what they fear.
Full dekning
Executive Producer
event2022 star_border 6.6
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Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.
Summerlight and Then Comes The Night
Executive Producer
event2022 star_border 6.5
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The village is brimming with stories and if you listen closely it might tell you a few. Perhaps the one about the businessman who dreams in Latin, or the one about the delicate boy who carves moorland birds, or maybe the one of the open-air sexual affair that has explosive consequences.
Box of Moonlight
Executive Producer
event1996 star_border 6.8
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Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering takes him into the life of Kid, a free-spirited young man who helps Al escape from the routine of everyday life and find freedom to enjoy himself.
Kill Me Again
Producer
event1989 star_border 6
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After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.
End of Sentence
Producer
event2019 star_border 6.3
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Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see each other again following the trip. After revelations surface about an old flame of Frank’s wife and a charming hitchhiker with plans of her own intervenes, father and son find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways.
Wind River
Executive Producer
event2017 star_border 7.4
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An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Aria
Associate Producer
event1987 star_border 5.7
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Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
200 Cigarettes
Executive Producer
event1999 star_border 5.9
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In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve.
Rhythm Nation 1814
Executive Producer
event1989 star_border 7.9
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Story about two boys, whose dreams of pursuing music careers are destroyed through substance abuse and drug trafficking.
Lord of Illusions
Executive Producer
event1995 star_border 6
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During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Behind Schedule
Associate Producer
event1993
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A French man from an international record company is sent to Iceland where he is supposed to find the next big hit.
Homegrown
Executive Producer
event1998 star_border 5.6
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Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up with go-between Lucy in the next town, they plot their next move.
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
Producer
event1990 star_border 5.2
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Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed.
Ruby
Producer
event1992 star_border 5.5
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Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
Passion of Mind
Executive Producer
event2000 star_border 5.9
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A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.
A Thousand Acres
Producer
event1997 star_border 5.8
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The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.
Heat Wave
Executive Producer
event1990 star_border 6.2
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A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Candyman
Producer
event1992 star_border 6.6
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The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
K-19: The Widowmaker
Producer
event2002 star_border 6.5
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When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
The Last Winter
Executive Producer
event2006 star_border 5.4
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In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.
Memphis
Executive Producer
event1992
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Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black family, mistakenly believing that no one will try to stop them.
A Stranger Among Us
Producer
event1992 star_border 5.5
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Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in.
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
Executive Producer
event1990 star_border 6.1
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After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.
Going All the Way
Producer
event1997 star_border 4.7
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Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman and "Sonny" Burns reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty is good enough for him, while Sonny, who was stationed stateside, is torn between loyal Buddy and tempting Gale Ann. As they commiserate, the men realize that they're outgrowing the lives they lived before the war.
The Weight of Water
Producer
event2000 star_border 5.5
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A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
Everything in This Country Must
Executive Producer
event2004 star_border 6.3
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Northern Ireland. Soldiers, through inattention, run into a car with a woman and her young son. Two years later, a horse is stuck in the river, and the soldiers happen along, but the horse's owner is violently opposed to their help; he relents, but his hostility is obvious when his daughter invites them inside afterward to warm up.
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Producer
event2006 star_border 5.8
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Halfway between a sports documentary and an conceptual art installation, "Zidane" consists in a full-length soccer game (Real Madrid vs. Villareal, April 23, 2005) entirely filmed from the perspective of soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane.
P.I. Private Investigations
Producer
event1987 star_border 4.8
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A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.
Phoenix
Executive Producer
event1998 star_border 5.4
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Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.
The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Executive Producer
event2013 star_border 6.8
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After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
S.F.W.
Executive Producer
event1994 star_border 6
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An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
The Real Blonde
Executive Producer
event1998 star_border 5.6
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An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment with a blonde.
American Drive-In
Associate Producer
event1985 star_border 2.6
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The goings-on at a typical drive-in on a summer night.
The Blue Iguana
Producer
event1988 star_border 3.6
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To stay out of the slammer, down-on-his-luck bounty hunter Vince Holloway reluctantly agrees to do the bidding of two crooked IRS agents. Tasked with recouping $20 million of laundered drug money, Holloway heads south of the border to the Blue Iguana, a bar crawling with thugs, killers, smugglers, evil women, and crazy action.
'Til There Was You
Executive Producer
event1997 star_border 3.9
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Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
Isabelle
Executive Producer
event2019 star_border 5.2
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A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.
Dream Lover
Producer
event1993 star_border 5.9
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Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married.
Canadian Bacon
Executive Producer
event1995 star_border 5.8
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The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Madonna: Truth or Dare
Supervising Producer
event1991 star_border 6.3
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From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990 'Blond Ambition' concert tour. Filmed in black and white, with the concert pieces in glittering MTV color, it is an intimate look at the work of the icon, from a prayer circle before each performance to bed games with the dance troupe afterwards.
Destricted
Executive Producer
event2006 star_border 4.4
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A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.
Pretty Persuasion
Executive Producer
event2005 star_border 5.8
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A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Hard Rock Zombies
Associate Producer
event1985 star_border 3.8
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A hard rock band travels to the tiny and remote town of Grand Guignol to perform. Peopled by hicks, rubes, werewolves, murderous dwarves, sex perverts, and Hitler, the town is a strange place but that doesn't stop the band's lead singer from falling in love with a local girl named Cassie. After Nazi sex perverts kill the band to satisfy their lusts, Cassie calls the rockers back from the grave to save her, the town, and maybe the world.
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Producer
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Nombeko Mayeki is a young woman from Soweto who finds herself caught in an international whirlwind from South Africa to Sweden. A heroine born in the slums of South Africa, she rises from obscurity to become the key player in an international nuclear conspiracy, accidentally saving the Swedish monarchy and averting global catastrophe with her quick-witted resourcefulness.
Tales of the City
Executive Producer (5 ep.)
event1993 star_border 8
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Mary Ann Singleton, a naïve young secretary from the mid-west, tumbles head first into the colorful world of San Francisco, where carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane.
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