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Forensic Films (Producer)
Forensic Films is a New York and Paris-based production company headed by producers Robin O'Hara and Scott Macaulay. Formed in 1995, Forensic develops and produces American independent feature films, often by new directors and with financing from private, European and other non-studio sources.
Among Macaulay, O'Hara and Forensic's recent credits are Peter Sollett's debut feature, "Long Way Home," which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The film, which is a Studiocanal production in association with Forensic Films and was produced by Alain de la Mata, Macaulay, O'Hara and Sollett, was bought by the Samuel Goldwyn Company and Fireworks Pictures and will be released in early 2003. Forensic's previous production, "The Chateau," stars Paul Rudd, was directed by Jesse Peretz, and will be released by IFC Films in August, 2002.
Forensic recently announced a partnership with the New York-based casting agency Hopkins/Smith/Barden to represent for the purposes of securing American cast and financing films by both new and established international directors. Under its partnership with Hopkins/Smith/Barden, Forensic was a co-producer of Olivier Assayas's 2002 Cannes competition entry "Demonlover," which stars Connie Nielsen, Chloe Sevigny and Gina Gershon. Forensic and Hopkins/Smith/Barden are currently working with director Alison Murray on her "Mouth to Mouth," which is produced by Anne Beresford and executive produced by Atom Egoyan.
Previous Forensic productions include "Chasing Sleep," a psychological thriller starring Jeff Daniels for Studiocanal. The film premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival and was released by Lion's Gate Entertainment. They are also completing "Jokes," an anthology feature film written by Harmony Korine with the first section directed by Gus Van Sant. In 1999 they produced Korine's second feature, "julien donkey-boy" which was the first official Dogme 95 film to be shot in America, and was released by Fine Line Features. Their previous production, "Joe the King," actor Frank Whaley's directorial debut, premiered in January, 1999, in the Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival and won the Best Screenwriting Prize. The film stars Noah Fleiss, Val Kilmer, Ethan Hawke, and John Leguizamo and was released by Trimark. Macaulay and O'Hara also produced Jesse Peretz's debut feature, "First Love, Last Rites," starring Giovanni Ribisi, Natasha Gregson Wagner, and Robert John Burke. In 1997 O'Hara and Macaulay co-produced "Gummo," the directorial debut of Harmony Korine, which won the FIPRESCI prize at the Venice Film Festival and was released domestically by Fine Line Features.
Macaulay and O'Hara's first film, "What Happened Was...," directed by Tom Noonan, won the 1994 Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by the Samuel Goldwyn Company. Macaulay and O'Hara produced in 1995 Noonan's "The Wife," an ensemble drama starring Noonan, Julie Hagerty, Wallace Shawn, and Karen Young for the French financier CIBY 2000.
O'Hara's solo producing credits include Michael Almereyda's Pixel-vision film, "Another Girl, Another Planet," a winner of the Best Experimental Film award from the National Society of Film Critics. She produced a number of television pieces, music videos, and television commercials for the Academy Award® winning director Zbig Rybczynski, including his influential "Steps" and "The Fourth Dimension."
Macaulay's other credits include associate producing Raul Ruiz's feature "The Golden Boat" for producer James Schamus. He is also on the Advisory Committee of both the Toronto Film Festival Industry Center and the Rotterdam Film Festival Cinemart. In addition to his producing work, Macaulay is the Editor of Filmmaker Magazine, a national quarterly devoted to American independent film published by the Independent Feature Project and Independent Feature Project/West.
In March, 1998, Macaulay and O'Hara were awarded a special Independent Spirit Award -- the Polo Ralph Lauren Producers Award -- by the Independent Feature Project/West for their combined work in independent film.
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