My Few Net

JONATHAN SELA (Director of Photography) has worked in film, commercials and music videos.  Sela’s most recent film credits are the features Powder Blue and The Midnight Train.  In 2006, he lensed John Moore’s The Omen.  His additional film credits include Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing & Charm School, Grimm Love, Dreamland, and Randy and the Mob. 

Sela shot additional photography for The Little Black Book, The Girl Next Door and Martian Child.  Other credits include the short films The Newman Shower, and Dysenchanted, which was an official selection at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

Sela’s extensive music video work includes collaborations with Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé, Sheryl Crow, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Rhianna, Black Eyed Peas, Prince, Justin Timberlake, Destiny’s Child, Lindsay Lohan, Enrique Iglesias, Metallica, Green Day, AFI, Counting Crows, Alicia Keys, Usher, 50 Cent and Incubus.

Sela has worked on commercials for Reebok, Coca-Cola, Six Flags Magic Mountain, Nintendo, Burger King, Bacardi, Playstation, McDonald’s, Hanes, Cingular, Chase Bank, John Frieda, Jergens, Kay Jeweler’s, Cover Girl, Old Navy, Target, State Farm, All State, and HSBC.  Sela was also named in the 2004 Craft Series of The Hollywood Reporter’s “Next Generation.”

TOM KARNOWSKI (Executive Producer) most recently served as executive producer on Roland Emmerich’s prehistoric epic 10,000 BC, and as co-producer on the adventure-drama The Brothers Bloom, directed by Rian Johnson and starring Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo. 

Previous to this, he was co-producer and unit production manager on the acclaimed thriller The Illusionist, starring Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti; on writer-director Liev Schreiber’s comedy-drama Everything is Illuminated; and on the comedy EuroTrip.   His credits as unit production manager include the action comedies Shanghai Knights, starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, and I Spy, starring Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson, as well as the war drama Behind Enemy Lines, starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman.

Previously, Karnowski worked as a producer, first assistant director, associate producer and production manager.  In 1982, he received a Saturn Award nomination for best writing from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for his first feature film credit, The Sword and the Sorcerer, which he co-wrote and co-produced.

RICK YORN (Executive Producer) is co-chairman of The Firm, a leading management company representing artists, writers, and performers in film, television, music and publishing. Film clients include Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Benicio Del Toro, Amy Adams, Martin Scorsese, and Bill Condon among others.

KAREN LAUDER (Executive Producer) is the co-president and co-founder of Abandon Entertainment and managing partner of AE Capital Partners, LLC. As chairman of Abandon’s film production company, Abandon Pictures, she has overseen the development and production a dozen films. She is co-founder of Collision Entertainment, a joint venture with Miramax films and Scott Faye.

Lauder was a partner in Mythic Entertainment, one the largest developers and publishers of massively multi-player on-line games. Lauder is currently overseeing the development and publishing of multi-player, cross platform games and content for Abandon Interactive Entertainment, the game division of Abandon Entertainment. Lauder was formerly a senior associate at Metropolitan Asset Group, and was responsible for evaluating, structuring and overseeing the firm’s acquisitions and management.

SCOTT FAYE (Producer) began his career in broadcast journalism, holding positions at both NBC News and CNN.  He moved to Los Angeles, working for Michael Douglas as a feature film story editor at Stonebridge Entertainment.  Later, at Full Moon Entertainment, Faye oversaw the production of over twenty films. He became one the first creative film producers to work at establishing cross-media franchises when he was creative director at Philips Media Games in the mid 1990s.  Faye then served as senior vice president of the Universal Studios-based production company Dark Horse Entertainment.  

Faye formed his production company, Collision Entertainment, as a co-venture with Miramax Films and Karen Lauder’s Abandon Entertainment and produced the feature film Venom, based upon an original videogame design concept.  

Faye is currently the principle at Depth Entertainment, a cross media oriented film and television production company whose first project is MAX PAYNE.

JULIE YORN (Producer) is president of Firm Films, the production division of the entertainment management company The Firm, in which she is a managing partner. In addition to MAX PAYNE, she recently produced Bride Wars starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway, directed by Gary Winick for Twentieth Century Fox and New Regency.  In post production for Lions Gate Films is The Christmas Cottage starring Marcia Gay Harden, Peter O’Toole, and Jared Padalecki. 

Recent projects include Sony’s First Sunday starring Ice Cube and The Cleaner starring Samuel L. Jackson.  For television, Yorn recently executive produced the most highly watched mini series in three years, Larry McMurtry’s Comanche Moon, a prequel to the classic Lonesome Dove, starring Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn, and Rachel Griffiths.

Yorn’s past credits include The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Devil’s Rejects, Come Early Morning, Wonderland, The Caveman’s Valentine, Eve’s Bayou and Tree’s Lounge.

The Firm is a leading management company representing artists, writers, and performers in film, television, music and publishing. Film clients include Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Benicio Del Toro, Amy Adams, Martin Scorsese, and Bill Condon among others.