BIOS
Lydia Dean Pilcher, Producer
Thomas De Napoli, Creative Executive

LYDIA DEAN PILCHER

Producer

Lydia Dean Pilcher is the founder of Cine Mosaic, a production company committed to producing independent feature films for theatrical release and for television. With an energetic focus on developing entertaining stories that promote social, cultural and political diversity, Cine Mosaic is based in Tribeca and has a first look deal with HBO Films.

Currently Pilcher is producing, The Darjeeling Limited, a feature with writer/director Wes Anderson and she recently completed The Namesake, based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri and directed by Mira Nair for Fox Searchlight. In 2005, she produced Vanity Fair directed by Mira Nair and starring Reese Witherspoon for Focus Features.

Pilcher was nominated in 2003/04 for a Golden Globe Award for the HBO feature film, Iron Jawed Angels directed by Kafja von Garnier and starring Hilary Swank and Anjelica Huston. She was nominated in 2004/05 for an Emmy Award, Golden Globe and Producer's Guild Award as the Executive Producer of Normal with writer/director Jane Anderson and starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson.

Other producing credits include Hysterical Blindness, directed by Mira Nair and starring Uma Thurman, Gena Rowlands and Juliette Lewis for HBO Films; Jesus' Son, directed by Alison Maclean, based on the novel by Denis Johnson, starring Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton; Cradle Will Rock directed by Tim Robbins for Touchstone Pictures; Chinese Box directed by Wayne Wang with Gong Li and Jeremy Irons filmed on location in Hong Kong; Kama Sutra - A Tale of Love filmed on location in India and directed by Mira Nair; The Perez Family directed by Mira Nair with Anjelica Huston and Marisa Tomei; Disappearing Acts, for HBO Films, based on the novel by Terry McMillan, starring Wesley Snipes and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood; The Kill-Off, directed by Maggie Greenwald and Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint (Michael Moore's documentary sequel to his controversial Roger and Me).

Pilcher Co-produced "Longtime Companion"(dir: Norman Rene); My New Gun (dir: Stacy Cochran); and Red Hot + Dance (dir: Mark Pellington-an AIDS benefit performance film for MTV). Last year Pilcher and Mira Nair teamed on a short film about September 11th for Studio Canal's package of international shorts entitled 11 Minutes, 9 Seconds, 1 Frame.

After receiving an MFA at NYU Film School in 1983, Pilcher began her career making documentaries and working in the production department of films including After Hours (dir: Martin Scorsese); F/X (dir: Robert Mandel); Round Midnight (dir: Bertrand Tavernier); Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (dir: John Hughes); Mississippi Burning (dir: Alan Parker); and Quiz Show (dir: Robert Redford). She was the Associate Producer of Mississippi Masala (Goldwyn/dir: Mira Nair); Strapped (HBO/Forest Whitaker's directorial debut); and Criminal Justice (HBO/dir: Andy Wolk).

Pilcher is Vice Chair of the Producers Guild of America East and serves on the Board of the New York Production Alliance. She was named one of the 21 Leaders for the 21 st Century by Women’s eNews for 2005.



THOMAS DE NAPOLI

Creative Executive

Thomas De Napoli has been working in the film industry since the age of seventeen when he interned for the international commercial production company, Hungry Man. After graduating from Georgetown University, he worked as a production assistant on numerous commercials and music videos before moving to Argentina. In Buenos Aires he worked in the development of an independent film production and distribution company. Upon returning to the States, De Napoli took an internship at This is that, which quickly led to a position as assistant to production designer Therese DePrez. De Napoli has been working at Cine Mosaic since January, 2005.