‘Winter Solstice’ Publicity Materials

“Winter Solstice” is an intense drama about a young widower named Jim Winters, who is raising two teenage sons in the emotional aftermath of their mother’s death. As he struggles to come to terms with his older son’s decision to leave home and his younger son’s self-destructive behavior, Jim finds himself increasingly attracted to his new neighbor. The cast of “Winter Solstice” is led by Anthony LaPaglia, who won a Golden Globe Award in 2004 for his lead role on the CBS television series “Without A Trace.” The co-stars are Aaron Stanford, Mark Webber and Emmy Award-winning actress Allison Janney. Other featured actors include Ron Livingston, Brendan Sexton, and Michelle Monaghan. “Winter Solstice” is the debut feature film by writer/director Josh Sternfeld. Josh previously wrote and directed the short film “Balloons, Streamers” which screened at both the Sundance Film Festival and the New York Film Festival and was later sold to the Sundance Channel. Electronic press materials can be found at http://www.soundpictures.com/tribeca/press.htm

Talent Anthony LaPaglia – Jim Winters Anthony LaPaglia is one of the most soughtafter and versatile talents in Hollywood. He received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Leon Zat in “Lantana.” Other notable appearances include “Summer of Sam,” “The House of Mirth” and “The Salton Sea.” Anthony has won a Golden Globe for his lead role in CBS’s “Without a Trace” and an Emmy for his portrayal of Daphne’s brother in NBC’s “Frasier.” His stage credits include Arthur Miller’s “A View From The Bridge” (which won him the 1998 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play,) “Northeast Local” and “The Rose Tattoo.” Anthony lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Gia Carides, and their daughter.

Aaron Stanford – Gabe Winters A graduate of Rutgers University and the London Academy of Theater, Aaron Stanford is one of the hottest young talents working in Hollywood today. Aaron can currently be seen in David Mamet’s “Spartan” and recently played the role of Pyro in the blockbuster feature “X2: X-Men United.” His breakthrough role as Oscar Grubman in “Tadpole” received critical acclaim at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and a Golden Satellite nomination. He was also featured in Woody Allen’s “Hollywood Ending,” and Spike Lee’s “25th Hour.” Aaron’s stage credits include “Equus” and “Death of a Salesman.” He has also played a recurring role on the popular NBC show “Third Watch.”

Mark Webber – Pete Winters Raised in the slums of North Philadelphia, Mark Webber is an outspoken advocate in the battle against poverty and homelessness. In 1998 he made his feature film debut in “Edge City” and has since built an impressive résumé with roles in “Jesus’ Son,” “Boiler Room,” Todd Solondz’s “Storytelling” and Woody Allen’s “Hollywood Ending.” Mark’s performance in Disney’s “Snow Day” garnered a 2000 YoungStar nomination for Best Young Actor/Performance in a Motion Picture Comedy. His stage performances include “Henry V.” “Waiting For Godot,” David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” and Neil LaBute’s “The Distance From Here.”

Alison Janney – Molly Ripken Educated at Kenyon College, Ohio and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London, Allison Janney has built an impressive career spanning film, television and theater. Her feature roles include such diverse work as “The Ice Storm,” “Private Parts,” “Primary Colors,” “American Beauty” and “The Hours.” Allison is perhaps best known for her lead role as C.J. Cregg in NBC’s highly-acclaimed “The West Wing,” for which she has won three Emmy Awards. On the stage, her credits include “A View From The Bridge” which brought her a Tony Award nomination, and “Present Laughter” for which she received the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress.

Ron Livingston – Mr. Bricker Raised in Iowa, Ron Livingston attended Yale University where he earned his BA in Theater Studies and English Literature. Ron played the lead role opposite Jennifer Aniston in the cult classic “Office Space.” Other notable performances include “Swingers,” “Ink” and “The Low Life.” He recently appeared in Spike Jonze’s “Adaptation” and Wayne Kramer’s critically-acclaimed black comedy “The Cooler.” Ron’s television work includes the role of Assistant D.A. Alan Lowe in the Emmy-winning drama “The Practice” and Captain Lewis Nixon in HBO’s “Band of Brothers,” for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. He was recently featured in a romantic arc on HBO’s “Sex and the City.”

Brendan Sexton III – Robbie Trained at the Cyd Mitchie Theater, Virginia and The Neighborhood Playhouse, New York, Brendan Sexton III has appeared in numerous award-winning features. The Staten Island native first came to attention for his role as Brandon McCarthy in “Welcome To The Dollhouse,” which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. Brendan also received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Breakthrough Appearance for his performance. Brendan followed up with a starring role in Morgan J. Freeman’s “Hurricane Streets” which won the 1997 Sundance Audience, Directing and Cinematography Awards. He has also had featured roles in “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Session 9” and “Black Hawk Down.”

Michelle Monaghan – Stacey Michelle Monaghan is one of Hollywood’s most in-demand actresses. She has a starring role in Shane Black’s upcoming directorial debut “Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang.” She will also appear with Keanu Reeves in “Constantine,” Brad Pitt in “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and Matt Damon in “The Bourne Supremacy.” Michelle made her feature debut in “Perfume,” which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. She followed up with roles in “Unfaithful” with Richard Gere and Diane Lane, “It Runs In The Family” with Michael and Kirk Douglas. On television, Michelle has appeared on NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” in addition to recurring roles on “Young Americans” and David E. Kelley’s Emmy-winning “Boston Public.”

Josh Sternfeld – Writer/Director A 1998 graduate of New York University's Graduate Film Program at Tisch School of the Arts, Josh Sternfeld won immediate acclaim for his work. His first short film, "Balloons, Streamers" premiered at the 1997 New York Film Festival and subsequently screened at the 1998 Sundance Festival. Broadcast rights were later sold to Canal+ in Europe and Showtime Networks/Sundance Channel in the U.S. After completing his second short, "Colin's Date," Josh worked as an assistant editor for Steeplechase Films, a documentary production company. While at Steeplechase Films he worked on Ric Burns' Emmy-winning series "New York: A Documentary Film." “Winter Solstice” marks Josh’s feature writing and directing debut.

Production Team Sound Pictures – Production Company

Sound Pictures NYC, Inc. is a New York-based motion picture production company formed in 2002 by John Limotte and Doug Bernheim, co-producers of the upcoming feature film “The Assassination of Richard Nixon” starring Academy Award Winner Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Don Cheadle.

John M. Limotte – Producer, co-founder of Sound Pictures Prior to starting Sound Pictures, John Limotte was a senior executive at Independent Pictures, a motion picture production and distribution company formed by New Line Cinema and producer Cary Woods. Before that, John was an entertainment attorney with the New York law firm of Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz & Weinstein, LLP, where he served as production counsel on numerous films.

Doug Bernheim – Producer, co-founder of Sound Pictures In addition to producing films with Sound Pictures, Doug Bernheim is a film and television music supervisor. Previously, Doug was an entertainment attorney with the New York law firm of Epstein, Levinsohn, Bodine, Hurwitz & Weinstein, LLP, where he specialized in music industry transactions.

George Paaswell – Co-producer George Paaswell has been part of the production team on more than fifteen feature films, in addition to television programs and short films. His expertise lies in physical production and film-making in the Northeastern U.S.

Press April 24, 2003 Trio warms to tyro Sternfeld’s ‘Winter’ – Limotte, Bernheim will produce indie pic By DAVID ROONEY Anthony LaPaglia, Aaron Stanford and Allison Janney will star for first-time writer-director Josh Sternfeld in “Winter Solstice,” which starts shooting April 28 in locations around New York. Indie feature will be produced by former Independent Pictures exec John Limotte and film and TV music supervisor Doug Bernheim through their recently-launched, New York-based company Sound Pictures. LaPaglia and entertainment lawyer Jodi Peikoff will serve as exec producers. Developed at the Sundance Institute’s 2001 Screenwriter’s Lab, the script centers on a widower in his mid-40s raising two sons, and the family’s attempt to come to grips when the eldest son leaves home. The drama will star Mark Webber (“Storytelling,” “People I Know”) and Ron Livingston (“Sex and the City”). NYU alum A graduate of NYU’s Graduate Film Program at the Tisch School of Arts, Sternfeld’s short film “Balloons, Streamers” played at the Sundance and New York Film Festivals and was acquired by the Sundance Channel. Tony and Emmy winner LaPaglia starts in the Jerry Bruckheimer/CBS drama “Without a Trace.” His feature credits include “The Guys,” “Analyze That,” “The House of Mirth” and “Lantana,” for which he won the Australian Film Institute’s best actor award. Stanford starred in “Tadpole” and appears in Fox’s “X2: X-Men United,” which opens May 2. In addition to her three-time Emmy-winning role on “The West Ring,” Janney’s feature work includes “The Hours,” “American Beauty” and “Nurse Betty.”

May 26, 2003 Home Alone Emmy winner Anthony LaPaglia (The House of Mirth, Summer of Sam), Aaron Stanford (the Oedipal adolescent in Tadpole), Ron Livingston (Office Space), and The West Wing’s Allison Janney are shooting the indie film Winter Solstice in locations around the New York metro area this month, Writer-director Josh Sternfeld is making his feature debut on the film, which centers on the turmoil a widower faces when his eldest son leaves home. Newly launched indie company Sound Pictures produces.

May 21, 2003 Stars shine in Glen Ridge Home is scene for ‘sweet movie’ – Town stands to gain $8,000 in shooting of low-budget film By PHILLIP READ The Volvo wagon, U-Haul trailer in tow, was backed into the driveway, exposing its newly smashed right front. “A mishap on the way here this morning,” John Limotte, one of the producers of the feature film “Winter Solstice,” said yesterday of the automobile prop that had fallen off a flatbed truck en route to the film set outside a colonial on Glen Ridge’s Woodland Avenue. “It just kind of rolled off,” Limotte said. “Now, all of a sudden the main character has a beat-up car.” And a new wrinkle. “That’s a new thing added to my character. She’s a bad driver,” said Allison Janney, a.k.a. C.J. Cregg of TV’s “The West Wing.” “She’s having a bad day.” Just blocks from where Julia Roberts graced a porch for “Mona Lisa Smile” last fall, the stars again descended on Glen Ridge for this film drama about a suburban widower, played by Anthony LaPaglia (a.k.a. agent Jack Malone of “Without a Trace”) who must confront his older son’s decision to leave home and his younger son’s self-destructive behavior. The “oldest son” wasn’t in yesterday’s scene, however, Aaron Stanford, who played the mutant Pyro in “X2: X-Men United” is to be in one at the Dairy Queen in Oradell later in the week, a day after the film-makers wrap up a shot at Krauszer’s in Bloomfield. The 22-day production is in its final stretch, and producer Limotte and crew were thinking ahead, looking at an itinerary for next week’s wrap party at Fuel at Phoebe’s in New York. Continued...

But under a bright sun yesterday – and the nevertheless obligatory camera lights – LaPaglia and his “romantic interest,” played by Janney, filmed the scene of their first encounter. He, the helpful widower, wheeled over a hand truck to assist Molly, played by Janney, on her move-in day. The “backgrounders” – boys on skateboards imported from New York – did their thing on Woodland Avenue, part of the scene’s backdrop. Just moments before, Janney – on a cell phone call to London – stood at Woodland and Douglas, dressed in blue jeans and untucked pink- and whitelined short-sleeved shirt covering a blue blouse. She had just emerged from a Tudor-style house two doors down from yesterday’s shoot, the Douglas Road home of Robert and Stacey Fishman and their school-age children, Tyler and Evan. “They just knocked on the door,” Stacey Fishman said of how their basement became a wardrobe and makeup studio and two of their bedrooms places for the stars to get a rest between scenes. Come Saturday, Janney said, she’d be en route to Rome. Yesterday’s filming in itself, she said, was a bit of a break from her usual role fielding questions in the fictional pressroom of TV’s West Wing. “This is a sweet movie, a beautiful movie,” she said of “Winter Solstice.” “It’s just about relationships.” “Ordinary people,” said producer Limotte. Among the ordinary people during the unordinary day in Glen Ridge yesterday was Mary Hanan, whose home of five years was being filmed for yesterday’s scene. She had introduced herself to Janney that morning. Her family’s house had been “discovered” by Jim Price, the location manager whose job it was to scout places for the film and who was the Hanans’ contact after a flier appeared in their mailbox asking them if they’d be interested in letting out their home for the shoot. “We were also looking for a porch in case it rains,” Price said. And it wasn’t strictly for aesthetics. “Yeah, a limited budget,” Limotte said. “Let’s say, less than $2 million.” The independent production, written and directed by Josh Sternfeld, is already destined to recoup some of those costs. “Yes, of course,” Hanan said when asked about seeing the release in 2004. “Got to see how the house and the yard look.”

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On the film’s expense sheet are a bunch of daily $500 permit fees, as well as various rental and application fees, being funneled to Glen Ridge, which stands to gain more than $8,000 from this film alone. Premiere Caterers of Clifton, the outfit whose truck carried the slogans “serving the motion picture and television industry” and “experience the difference,” was gathering some income of its own. David Zimmerman, the film-set chef, has been on the job for weeks, most recently at the shooting of another scene on Glen Ridge’s Lincoln Street. He’s only, as he put it, “exchanged pleasantries” with the stars during the performers’ 30-minute meal breaks at his stove-filled caterer vehicle. He had also met the young Stanford, who played a mutant whose flamethrowing fingers could readily be ignited by a butane lighter in the film “X2: X-Men United.” “I think he was jealous,” Zimmerman said of Stanford, “because we use butane.”

Credits Jim Winters Gabe Winters Pete Winters Molly Ripken Stacey Robbie Mr. Bricker Steve Bill Brennan Tim Chris Bender Mrs. Burton History Teacher Bob Math Teacher Andrew Pete's Friend #1 Pete's Friend #2

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Unit Production Manager First AD Second AD

Production Coordinator Set Decorator Unit Manager Production Accountant Camera Operator First Assistant Camera Second Assistant Camera Loader Stills Photographer Sound Mixer Boom Operator Additional Boom Operator Gaffer Best Boy Electric Company Electrics Key Grip Best Boy Grip 3rd Grip Prop Master Assistant Prop Master Leadman

Anthony LaPaglia Aaron Stanford Mark Webber Allison Janney Michelle Monaghan Brendan Sexton Ron Livingston Ebon Moss-Bachrach Frank Wood Kel O'Neill Thomas Sadoski Kathleen Kelly Welker White Jason Fuchs Dana Segal Lars Engstrom Rocco Rosiano Tim Dowlin

Tim Gallin

George Paaswell Amanda Slater Alfonso Trinidad

Anita Sum Lisa Kent Hakim Quest Tom Wallin Bill Trautvetter Ron Travisano Milly Itzhak Ethan Borsuk Larry Riley Brian Miksis Dan Wesson Karl Wasserman Bobby Sciretta Michael Brennan John Mitchell Nate Scaglione Don Cerrone Wesley Battle Martin L. Jones Dylan Sheridan Roxy Toporowych Marc Newman

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Makeup Artist Key Hairstylist Wardrobe Supervisor Wardrobe Assistant Wardrobe Intern

Assistant Editor Sound Supervisor & Re-Recording Engineer Sound Designer Dialogue Editor Foley Artist Dolby Technician Audio Post Facility Technicolor Coordinator Film Processing and Printing Color Timer Video Dailies Dailies Advisor Office Guru Location Manager Assistant Location Manager Locations Assistant 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Transportation Captain Office Production Assistant Key Set Production Assistant First Team Production Assistant Set Production Assistants

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Donna Paul Tom LaVecchia Michele Mayas Chrissy Skubish Anjie Dufresne Jim Geyer Heidi Kulow Brian Sherratt Erika Goyzueta Heather Patton Aimee Schlectman

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Music Recorded at Music Produced and Performed by “THE ROOKIE YEAR” “Written by Myk Porter, Matt Traxler, “John Sayre and Jared Jolley “Performed by Brandston “Published by “Bookhouse Boys Music (SESAC) “Courtesy of Deep Elm Records, Inc. “By arrangement with Crusty Old Timer, Inc.

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Thanks to: Michelle Satter and The Sundance Institute Anne Hubbell and Kodak Joey Violante, Ray Chung and Technicolor Charlie Tammara, Hardwick Johnson, Glen Vanderlinden and CSC Eitan Hakami and Post Production Playground John Fundus, Chaim Kantor and The East Coast Council of the I.A.T.S.E. Thomas O'Donnell Jr. and Teamsters Local 817 The Screen Actors Guild The New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting The New Jersey State Film Commission The Borough of Glen Ridge, NJ D'Angelo Farms Marc and Arleen Sternfeld Jon Sternfeld Bill Reilly Boris Frumin David Irving Carol Dysinger Donjiro Ban Christine Verdi

Milo Addica Sean DeCoster Jean and Joseph Sternfeld John and Carmen Limotte Marc Limotte Susie Flax Katharine Morgan Elizabeth and Hazel Nantze Spring Water Crissy Brosig and Victory Records Shawn Rogers and SubPop Records Fred Feldman and Triple Crown Records Ari Martin and Nettwerk Management Greg Hunt and DC Shoes Daryl Berg and Crusty Old Timer, Inc. Deep Elm Records

Contact Information Producers John Limotte Doug Bernheim Sound Pictures 1790 Broadway 10th Floor New York, NY 10019 Tel: (212) 388-0024 Fax: (888) 459-7957 Email: [email protected]

Sales and Marketing Contact Steven Raphael Tel: (917) 287-1679 Email: [email protected]

Publicity Contact Jeanne Berney Brook Travis P&F Communications/The Berney Group 210 E 86th Street, Suite 203 New York, NY 10028 Tel: (212) 861-2100 Email: [email protected] [email protected]

Electronic press materials can be found at http://www.soundpictures.com/tribeca/press.htm