Born in Santiago, Chile, Salvador Alejandro Litvak moved to New York at age five. His mother is a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, his father the grandson of a Russian emigre.

As a gangly Jewtino redhead, Litvak forever felt like an outsider, but he was also blessed with a few good friends, lots of adventures, and one preposterous dream after another; dreams he realized by falling on his face early and often, and always getting up for more. These challenges led him to future successes including a state cycling championship, an ivy league degree, rowing on a championship crew team, earning a black belt in tae kwon do, and making When Do We Eat?

Litvak majored in English and graduated with honors from Harvard College. As an immigrant, he honored his parents' wishes that he enter a safe profession and enrolled at NYU Law School. It was during this period, however, that he looked deep inside and discovered that his parents' plans for him were just that: his parents' plans. In search of his real self, he filled many journals, wrote poems, and even had a short career as a performance artist in Greenwich Village. He realized, however, that he'd never make rent telling his Stories for Voice, Drum and Ladders, and so moved on to more serious writing. Litvak did practice mergers & acquisitions law for two years at powerhouse firm Skadden Arps, but he worked on his first novel in every spare moment and earnestly sought a way to turn his avocation into an occupation. The surprise answer arrived when a friend went to film school.

A filmmaking career had simply never appeared on Litvak's radar - if asked who gets to direct movies, he would have said, "Children of celebrities?" It seemed like such a long shot, and he was still holding law school loans, so he applied to one film school, UCLA, the only affordable choice among the top three. Knowing they would accept only 18 of 700 applicants, he figured he'd end up writing novels, but "if fate plays its hand, I'll ride with it." Amazingly, he talked his way in, and it was at film school that he found his true calling, and won numerous prizes for his short films. After graduating, Litvak got by as a script reader, film professor, building manager, and tae kwon do instructor, all the while writing scripts and chasing that ever-elusive financing for his first feature. Not once, nor twice, but three times he had a picture set up, only to receive the heartbreaking call that the deal fell through.

Unwilling to wait any longer for somebody else's green light, Litvak teamed up with his writing-partner, wife and soulmate, Nina Davidovich, to pen a small Passover comedy, one that could be shot with their friends and a video camera if necessary. They would not compromise, however, on three points: 1) the picture had to matter, so they drew from experiences that mattered in their own lives; 2) it had to be cinematic, which led to the biblical tent and the father's hallucinations; and 3) it had to make people laugh. Funnily enough, it was precisely these three elements which impressed executive producer Horatio Kemeny enough to ask, "What do you need?" and for that, Sal Litvak will be forever grateful.

Nina Davidovich moved to LA from NY with dreams of becoming a screenwriter, but was sidetracked by a career in feature production working for the Donners' Company and producer Jennie Lew Tugend. Davidovich worked on films such as Lethal Weapon 3 and Free Willy, and is very proud of having found Keiko, the killer whale who played Willy, and who was later rescued from his tiny tank in Mexico City and released into the wild. Davidovich entered the corporate world as a Creative Executive at Disney's Touchstone Pictures, and spent several years in movie development before returning to her first love, writing. She makes her feature film writing debut alongside her husband, director Salvador Litvak.

Steven J. Wolfe is Co-Owner of SNEAK PREVIEW ENTERTAINMENT, the twelve year old Production and Talent Management company. With an eclectic list of films under his belt, Mr. Wolfe continues his interest in producing stories which examine the human condition in a less than conventional manner.

He is currently in production with partner Bobby Newmyer and Outlaw Productions on the debut feature of filmmaker, Nnegest Likke', "PHAT GIRLZ" an urban comedy starring Mo'Nique, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Godfrey, Jack Noseworthy and Eric Roberts. Concurrently he completed the multi-award winning, "THE CIVILIZATION OF MAXWELL BRIGHT" a tale of a misogynist (Patrick Warburton) who learns an important life lesson when he purchases and Asian mail order bride (Marie Matiko). Also starring Eric Roberts, Carol Kane, John Glover, Jennifer Tilly and Simon Callow, "MAX BRIGHT" represents the fourth film Wolfe has done with writer / director David Beaird and fifth film with Academy Award © nominated actress Jennifer Tilly.

Always looking to shepherd new talent, Wolfe produced "HELLBENT" by first time writer-director Paul Etheredge-Ouzts. Wolfe developed the script in-house with partner Joe Wolf ("Halloween", "Nightmare on Elm Street") and Josh Silver. Starring a group of talented young Hollywood actors, "HELLBENT" breaks new ground as the first Gay-themed horror film to be produced for a wide audience and is being released theatrically by Regent Entertainment / HERE! Films.

Wolfe produced "FAST SOFA", starring Jake Busey, Crispin Glover, Adam Goldberg, Natasha Lyonne, Eric Roberts and Jennifer Tilly, the story of one man's obsession with a porn actress), despite the negative consequences to his life, and "CIRCUIT", director Dirk Shafer's hard-hitting look at one man's journey into the drug and sex-filled under world of the gay circuit party scene. "FAST SOFA" was acquired by Lions Gate Entertainment and "CIRCUIT" recently enjoyed a successful US theatrical release.

Wolfe partnered with Rena Ronson to produce, "TWIN FALLS IDAHO"; acquired by Sony Pictures Classics at its world premier in the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. The story of young woman who finds herself with feelings for one of two, adult conjoined twins, "TWIN FALLS" is the debut feature of award winning writers Mark and Michael Polish, identical twin brothers who play the role of conjoined twins Blake and Francis in the film, with Michael directing as well. "TWIN FALLS" won the Special Jury Prize at the Deauville Film Festival and was nominated for Two Independent Spirit Awards including Best First Film over $500,000.

Also a Sundance favorite, "RELAX...IT'S JUST SEX", accumulated exceptional grosses and gushing reviews in it's US Release. The film initially premiered at Sundance '98 and was the opening night selection of OUTFEST '98, eventually playing at over 100 festivals around the world. Starring Jennifer Tilly, Lori Petty, Mitchell Anderson, Serena Scott Thomas, Cynda Williams, Seymour Cassel & Paul Winfield, "RELAX" is the first feature from Writer/Director P.J. Castellaneta, since his award-winning debut "Together Alone" garnered critical raves around the world. Almost six years after it's initial premier, "RELAX" continues to be an audience pleaser and perennial favorite on the festival circuit.

Wolfe produced the stylish European thriller, "BIRD OF PREY," the first privately financed American/Bulgarian co-production. Shot on location in Sofia, Bulgaria, directed by Temistocles Lopez ("Chain of Desire), starring Jennifer Tilly, Richard Chamberlain, Lenny Von Dohlen, Robert Carradine and Lesley Ann Warre. The off-beat romance "TOLLBOOTH" world premiered at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Daily Variety gave it a stellar review and proclaimed "Director Salomé Breziner's 'TOLLBOOTH' is generating more heat than the Riviera sun!". The film stars Fairuza Balk, Lenny Von Dohlen, Will Patton, Seymour Cassel, James Wilder,William Katt and Louise Fletcher. "TOLLBOOTH" competed against 4100 entries in the Houston International Film Festival where it won the Gold Award for "Best Theatrical Feature by a First Time Director." In its US theatrical release, Kevin Thomas at the LA Times called "TOLLBOOTH," a giddy contemporary comedy that's romantic on the one hand, gleefully prankish on the other, that's distinctive and funny."

Wolfe Co-Produced Director Betty Thomas' first feature, the romantic comedy "ONLY YOU," starring Andrew McCarthy, Kelly Preston and Helen Hunt, David Beaird's "SCORCHERS," starring Faye Dunaway, James Earl Jones, Emily Lloyd, Denholm Elliott, Jennifer Tilly and James Wilder, "THE CLEAN & NARROW" starring Jack Noseworthy, Laura Leighton ("Melrose Place"), Wings Hauser and Sondra Locke. William Katt ("Big Wednesday", "The Greatest American Hero") made his directorial debut with this film.

The Producer of the highly successful Crown International Pictures release, "MY MOM'S A WEREWOLF," with Susan Blakely and John Saxon, Wolfe also served as Supervising Producer on the Crown features "NIGHT CLUB" and "DEATH ROW GAME HOW"; as Associate Producer on "HUNK"; and as Production Manager on "TOMBOY" and the critically acclaimed "MY CHAUFFEUR" during his seven year tenure at Crown International Pictures. His vast production background includes diverse credits on thirty feature films as well as numerous shorts and commercials.

Mr. Wolfe is a member of the Producer's Guild of America, Director's Guild of America, Independent Feature Project/West, American Film Institute, and the Los Angeles Conservancy, Mr. Wolfe is also President of the Whitley Heights Civic Association and a board member of the Philadelphia Film Society.

Amy Salko Robertson originally started in the business as an agent at CAA where she represented actors and eventually segued into producing films. Aside from her first feature film When Do We Eat? she is currently in production on the Danny Devito/Parker Posey/Mischa Barton film The OH in Ohio.

Mullen is a prolific award-nominated Cinematographer with such stellar indie credits as Northfork, Twin Falls, Idaho and D.E.B.S. He is currently working on the films Cordless with Steve Buscemi , Dot with Edie Falco and Shadowboxer with Helen Mirren.

Lerner has appeared in numerous feature films, television series and on stage during a career that spans over thirty years. His portrait of a crass, fictitious film mogul in Barton Fink earned Lerner a best supporting actor Oscar nomination and a best supporting actor award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

An original member of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, Lerner made his film debut in the feature Alex in Wonderland with Donald Sutherland. After several roles including The Candidate with Robert Redford, he gained notice for his role in Postman Always Rings Twice and in John Sayles' Eight Men Out.

He has since appeared in Harlem Nights, Amos and Andrew, Radioland Murders, The Road to Wellsville, Godzilla, Celebrity, My Favorite Martian, The Mod Squad and Elf among others. He will next be seen in 29 Palms with Chris O'Donnell, Mockingbird Don't Sing with Sean Young, Larceny with Tyra Banks and Shallow End with Nancy Allen.

One of Hollywood's most versatile actresses, Warren plays emotionally fragile women, tough-minded careerists, hardworking single moms, and downright wacky ladies with equal verve and skill. She made her first show-biz splash right out of her teens, playing the lead in a 1966 TV musical production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.

Walt Disney saw her and signed the wholesome, fresh-faced Warren to play a supporting role in The Happiest Millionaire , the last film he personally supervised. She also appeared in the Disney studio's The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band before taking "adult" roles in the TV series Mission: Impossible and a slew of made-for-TV movies, as well as the lowbudget Pickup on 101. She worked extensively in TV movies and miniseries throughout the rest of the decade, most notably The Legend of Valentino, Portrait of a Stripper, and Beulah Land.

Blake Edwards gave Warren a juicy part on the big screen in Victor/Victoria, competing with Julie Andrews for the attentions of James Garner; she showed a real flair for broad comedy, and was Oscar-nominated for her uninhibited supporting performance. She followed up with Choose Me, Songwriter and Baja Oklahoma, in which she starred as a Texas barmaid who wants to be a songwriter. Mel Brooks gave her a good showcase in his Life Stinks as a homeless woman teetering on the edge of sanity. She remains active on television, and starred in Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story and the feature Color of Night.

Trained at New York's American Theatre Wing, this late-coming character actor made his film debut at age 34 in the crime program Timetable. Klugman was active in the "golden age" of live TV drama during the 1950s, and worked extensively on stage; he even sang in the original Broadway cast of "Gypsy." He attained small-screen stardom in 1970 as the slovenly sportswriter Oscar Madison in the TV version of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple," which enjoyed a five-year run. It also earned him two Emmy Awards.

(Klugman and Randall reunited for a TV movie, The Odd Couple in 1993.) Later he enjoyed more success as a crime-solving medical examiner on TV's Quincy (1976-83).

This native New Yorker has proved effective in comic supporting roles on TV and in independent features. After attending the High School of Performing Arts, Lynn soon began her career-making guest appearances on TV sitcoms, including the 1988 two-part series finale of NBC's The Facts of Life. The petite, curly-haired actress landed her first regular series gig as Leslie Barash, the tart-tongued friend to Joshua Rifkind's titular nebbish, in the short-lived sitcom The Marshall Chronicles. Lynn reprised the character in a 1992 episode of the Fox sitcom Flying Blind. She went on to land regular roles on three other sitcoms, honing her sarcastic delivery as Dudley Moore's ambitious middle daughter in Daddy's Girls, a legal secretary with attitude to spare in The Pursuit of Happiness and Maurice Godin's ex-wife in Life With Roger.

Lynn made her feature acting debut as a teenager searching for her birth father in the independent film The Girl in the Watermelon. Supporting roles in Gregory Hines' Bleeding Hearts and Take a Number followed before she joined the ranks of hyphenates.

Lynn served as executive producer and co-star of Julie Davis' debut comedy I Love You...Don't Touch Me! and assumed similar duties on Tommy O'Haver's Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss. Both films featured the actress as the advice-doling sidekick to the lead. Lynn moved to the director's chair, sharing responsibility with Bradford Tatum on Standing in Fishes, an independent comedy about a struggling artist whose life is disrupted by both a mysterious woman and his girlfriend. She has since starred in such features as Hollywood Homicide, Legally Blonde and Loser.

Shiri has been acting since the age of 4, landing jobs in several commercials for Cheerios, M&Ms and Taco Bell. Her first television job was on the soap opera Santa Barbara.

Next came various roles on thirtysomething , Bronx Zoo and Doogie Howser, M.D. She made her film-debut in the low budget sequel, Curse II: The Bite. I Love You to Death came next and Shiri finally started to get secure work as an actress. For the next four years she worked steadily in television movies and made various television appearances.

When she entered high school she took a small break and took part in Yearbook, Student Council and was a cheerleader. In 1997 she graduated from Calabasas High School, where she was voted 'Most Spirited' by her class. Roles on 7th Heaven and City Guys followed and then Shiri enrolled into the University of Southern California where she planned on taking a break from acting and studying English. However, her plans gave way when she landed the role as Liz Parker on the WB Hit Roswell. It was then that she gave her education a break and decided to try acting full-time. With the success of Roswell, Shiri rose to fan-magazine fame and was seen everywhere through the show's success. With small roles in past films such as The Thirteenth Floor and The Other Sister, in 2002, after Roswell ended, Shiri landed the lead role as Amy Miller, the trusting girlfriend of Jesse Bradford, in the suspenseful teen-film Swimfan.

Born in Jerusalem and raised near Tel Aviv, Mili got her first big break at age 15, in the Tel Aviv production of Dangerous Liaisons. She had already made a name for herself in the Israeli film industry before she left for America. In 1991, she won the Israeli Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the feature Over the Ocean and later received a nomination for Best Actress for her role in Groupie. But Israeli films have limited appeal, and though Mili was highly regarded in her native country, she relocated to New York, found work as a waitress, and took acting lessons. It sounds like the Cinderella story. A talent agent discovered Mili one day in the restaurant, and she landed the female lead in Stargate. The main thing holding her back was her accent - not too many roles were available to foreign actresses. Mili went to work on learning to speak English like an American, and her efforts were rewarded. Mili starred alongside Johnny Depp in the independent western, Dead Man, but her entire part lasted maybe ten minutes and ended with Avital's character getting shot through the chest. She then went on to work non-stop on three different pictures. Mili's most recent Israeli film role was in Minotaur. After her role in Kissing A Fool, Vanity Fair Magazine described Mili as one of the five most promising actresses in Hollywood today. Since finishing Arabian Nights, Mili has completed the thriller Preston Tylk and After the Storm, with Benjamin Bratt.

Newcomer Ben Feldman has appeared in several feature films including Frozen Impact and Sing Out Louise. On television he starred in the WB series The Mayor and on Less Than Perfect.

Adam was born in New York City and grew up a normal kid going to school at PS183. When he was 7, he auditioned and won the part in an American Express commercial. The rush of acting got him hooked. As a boy, he made small parts in movies I'm Not Rappaport and Radiant City. His first big role occurred in the Disney Channel's show, Lizzie Mcguire where he costars with Hilary Duff, followed up by the hit adaptation, The Lizzie McGure Movie.

Max is a native New Yorker and relative newcomer to show business. His first break was as a regular in the MTV series "Undressed" and has since starred in the film Cross Bronx as well as multiple guest starring roles on television including Gilmore Girls and Boston Public.

A Chicago native, Cynda has starred in countless feature films including With or Without You, MacArthur Park, Relax It's Just Sex, One False Move (where she met and married her first husband Billy Bob Thornton), Mo Betta Blues and on television in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge.

Mark Ivanir has appeared in multiple films including; Terminal with Tom Hanks, and Shindlers List as well as on television in A Secret Affair, and the series 24.

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