Zimand Entertainment Opens Los Angeles Office with Options on Film Adaptations of Works by Playwright Lee Blessing, Novelist Susan Wiggs, and "Closer" Writer Ken Martin.Zimand Entertainment's Internationally Acclaimed Children's BabyToonz Series Heads List of Zimand's 2006 MIPCOM Fare LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Monaco-based Zimand Entertainment, a full-service international production company, has opened a second office in Los Angeles committed to developing and producing quality screenplays. Zimand just optioned "Going to St. Ives," by Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded. nominated playwright Lee Blessing Lee Blessing (born October 4 1949) is an American playwright. His best-known play is A Walk in the Woods, which depicts the developing relationship between two arms limitation negotiators, one Russian and one American, over years of negotiation. , "Table for Five," the best selling book by Susan Wiggs, and "Untraceables," based on an original screenplay by writer Ken Martin ("Closer"). Blessing will also adapt his stage play for the screen. This slate of feature films is the first phase of a full entertainment company. Under their Zeppelin zeppelin Rigid airship of a type designed by the German builder Ferdinand, Graf (count) von Zeppelin (1838–1917). It was a cigar-shaped, trussed, and covered frame supported by internal gas cells, below which hung two external cars with an engine geared to two Animation Ltd. banner, Zimand Entertainment also produces the acclaimed high-quality early childhood development animated series BabyToonz (www.babytoonz.com), including six airing titles (Little Fables, Grandpa's Gallery, Black & White, 1-2-3, Louie's World, and Louie's Friends). Company founder Henri Zimand will take six new BabyToonz pilots to market at MIPCOM next month for Europe and the U.S. (add product slate presented at MIPCOM). Pilots include: a) The Magic Job Box (12 minutes/26 episodes/Pre-School); b) Monkey See Monkey Do (6 minutes/13 episodes/Pre-school); c) To The Garden (5 minutes/26 episodes/Pre-school and Toddlers); d) Sally & Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. (6 minutes/26 episodes/Pre-school); e) ClayPlay (5 minutes/26 episodes/Toddlers); and f) Cosmologic (5 minutes/26 episodes/Toddlers & Pre-School). At MIPCOM, see booth 10.28 or call 0607-936-934. Heading up development of Zimand's Los Angeles operations is Kate McArdle, development and production executive, whose most recent producer credits include OUTFOXED and UNCOVERED (Robert Greenwald Prod.). Previously, McArdle was an executive at USA Network, overseeing long form and back door pilot development for USA and the Sci-Fi Channel. She has been a TV executive with Spelling Entertainment and her feature film company credits include Michael Douglas Productions and DEG Entertainment where she worked with Hawk Koch Howard Winchel Koch, Jr. (born December 14, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is an American motion picture producer, a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a former road manager for the musical groups The Supremes and The Dave . Henri Zimand commutes between the company's Monaco, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest offices. His industry affiliations include the American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase , Motion Picture and Television Foundation, and Women in Film. Zimand also founded AndaSpirit.com (www.andaspirit.com), a multi-million dollar international non-profit dedicated to breast cancer in honor of his late wife who died from the disease. |
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