May 2011 Contest

Sherryl Clark began her career at Walt Disney Studios, where she worked at Touchstone Pictures, and later at the Jacobson Company. She left Disney to work for Mario Kassar’s MK Productions, where she worked on Adrian Lyne’s Lolita. Sherryl then joined Kopelson Entertainment. During her tenure, she worked her way up the ranks from Director of Development to President of Production. She worked on Don’t Say a Word, starring Michael Douglas, Unfaithful, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, and also co-produced Twisted, starring Samuel Jackson and Ashley Judd. Currently, Sherryl is Head of Film at J.J. Abrams’s production company Bad Robot, where she executive produced Cloverfield and Morning Glory.

Director/Producer Ivan Reitman began his film career with horror-comedy Cannibal Girls, starring Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin, and television show Greed featuring Dan Aykroyd. Reitman produced the Broadway hit The Magic Show, and the Off-Broadway hit The National Lampoon Show, with then-unknowns John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and Joe Flaherty. Reitman earned Tony nominations for the Broadway musical Merlin. He then joined forces with National Lampoon for Animal House. He returned home to direct Meatballs, still one of the most successful Canadian films ever made.

Reitman directed Stripes, the Ghostbusters series with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis; Dave with Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver; Legal Eagles with Robert Redford; 6 Days/7 Nights with Harrison Ford and Anne Heche; Evolution with David Duchovny and Julianne Moore; and Twins, Junior and Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Reitman’s producing endeavors include Beethoven and Beethoven’s 2nd, Heavy Metal, Howard Stern’s Private Parts, Space Jam, Road Trip, Eurotrip, and Old School.

Reitman’s recent work includes Hotel For Dogs, The Uninvited, I Love You, Man, Post Grad, Chloe, Oscar-nominated Up in the Air directed by his son Jason and starring George Clooney, and No Strings Attached, with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher.

In 1994, Variety honored Reitman in a special “Billion Dollar Director” issue. In 2000, his films Animal House and Ghostbusters were named two of the past century’s funniest movies by AFI. He currently heads The Montecito Picture Company with partner Tom Pollock, in association with Paramount Studios.