Curiosidades

Winner of NBC Screenwriter's Tribute from Nantucket Film Festival, in Mass., June, 2002

Was an exchange student in Trondheim, Norway.

Currently Associate Professor at Columbia University, New York, New York. (maio de 2003)

Has the distinction as a producer for three films, all with gay theme/content, which have received Oscar nominations for Best Picture: Clube de Compras Dallas (2013), Milk: A Voz da Igualdade (2008) and O Segredo de Brokeback Mountain (2005).

Partner in Good Machine, an indie-film company, with friends Ted Hope and David Linde. Bought by Universal Pictures and merged into a new division of the studio called Focus, June 2002.

Co-President of Focus Features, the arthouse offshoot of Universal Pictures.

His novelist wife Nancy Kricorian is a member of the antiwar activist group CodePink: Women for Peace.

Suffered from psoriasis when he was growing up.

He attended Kosmorama, Trondeim International Filmfestival, in 2006 with his movie "Brokeback Mountain".

Earned three degrees from the University of California, including a Ph.D. in English.

Studied 16mm filmmaking under Babette Mangolte at the Collective for Living Cinema in New York.

Interned at the Wooster Group.

Interned at Program Development Corp.