OVERVIEW
CinemaLab is an independent-minded motion picture studio bringing commercial, inventive and imaginative films to the marketplace, featuring some of the top new filmmakers and talent, both in front of and behind the camera.
CinemaLab is unique in its ability to form collaborative relationships with both experienced and first-time filmmakers and empower them to produce quality, commercial films that speak from a unique voice, take creative risks, and break new ground.
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PHILOSOPHY
CinemaLab believes that talent, recognized and carefully nurtured, is always a solid investment. In seeking out new projects, we are identifying and collaborating with talented filmmakers who are fully ready to break through to mainstream success. If there is a fine line between independently minded and commercially viable cinema, we intend to walk that line successfully.
Operating as a stepping-stone, CinemaLab selects valuable film projects through the good, old-fashioned virtues of hard work and flawless taste. We go the extra mile because we know that it’s worth it – both emotionally and financially.
Wherever cutting-edge filmmaking is, CinemaLab wants to be there. We’ve got the necessary experience to guide young filmmakers to commercial success, as well as the creative support to assist more experienced filmmakers in fully realizing their vision.
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PEOPLE
ANDREW ADELSON
CinemaLab Managing Partner and award-winning producer Andrew Adelson has more than 25 years experience managing both the creative and business aspects of film, television and digital media businesses. Through his company, Adelson Entertainment, he has financed and produced numerous award-winning, high quality entertainment projects that have garnered considerable critical, award winning, and commercial success. Most recently he has formed CinemaLab with partner Steven Molasky.
Throughout his history in producing and financing theatrical, television, cable films, Adelson has focused on developing intriguing, complex themes into commercial films, while implementing the cost-control discipline needed to bring in projects on time and on budget.
Adelson has produced 26 films to date, some of which are:
- "Sex and Breakfast," starring Macaulay Culkin, Kuno Becker, Eliza Dushku and Alexis Dziena, now in post-production
- "Hiroshima," nominated for two Emmys and winner of the Humanitas Prize, 3 Gemini Awards (Canada), the Penn/Faulkner Award, the Monitor Award
- "I Know My First Name is Steven" Golden Globe nomination, 4 Emmy nominations, the Parents' Choice Foundation Award, and the Young Artists Award
- "Thanks of a Grateful Nation," winner of the Humanitas Prize
- "Gulag," with David Keith and Malcolm McDowell for HBO
- "Blood and Orchids," starring Madeleine Stowe, Kris Kristofferson and Jane Alexander, winner of the Asian-Pacific Media Award and nominated for Emmy
- "An Inconvenient Woman," starring Jason Robards, Elaine Stritch, and Rebecca DeMornay, nominated for 3 Emmys
- "The Hunley," with Armand Assante, winner of Emmy for sound editing;
- "Out of Darkness," starring Diana Ross, nominated for the Humanitas Prize and a Golden Globe, winner of the NAMI award
- "Joyce Carol Oats' We Were the Mulvaneys," starring Beau Bridges and Blythe Danner, nominated for 3 acting Emmys
- "Desperate Choices," starring Reese Witherspoon
- "Desperate for Love," starring Christian Slater
- "The Amy Fisher Story," starring Drew Barrymore
- "Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future," Emmy winner.
STEVEN D. MOLASKY
Steven D. Molasky is the sole owner, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Molasky Pacific LLC, a multi-dimensional real estate development company. He is a second generation builder and has developed over 12,000 apartments and homes and several master-planned communities. Retail centers and office hi-rises account for more than $1 billion in portfolio costs.
In the past year, Steven has also diversified his interests into entertainment and media, as partner and financier of CinemaLab, and with music label, Ifiymm Entertainment. With Fleetwood Mac producer, Richard Dashut, and former Warner Bros. music exec Kevin Moran, Ifiymm is currently on tour with its first up and coming band, “Fletch.” Both companies share the mission to develop new talent, which Steven has practiced with fine artists over the last 20 years.
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