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PRODUCER MICHAEL FITZGERALD
Producer MICHAEL FITZGERALD was KUBRICK, starring John Malkovich,
born in New York City, raised in Italy and about a con-man who impersonates di-
educated in Ireland. After graduating rector Stanley Kubrick, and THE THREE
from Harvard University he began his BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA,
film career as a screenwriter in Rome. directed by and starring Tommy Lee
In 1979, he produced and co-wrote Jones. For its realization of life, death
John Huston’s celebrated film adap- and redemption along the Texas-Mexico
tation of Flannery O’Connor’s WISE border, THE THREE BURIALS won the
BLOOD. His second film with Huston, Actor prize for Tommy Lee Jones and
UNDER THE VOLCANO was nomi- the Screenplay prize for Guillermo Arria-
nated for two Academy Awards (Best ga at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Actor - Albert Finney and Best Music-
Alex North). He then produced THE In 2014 he produced THE HORSE-
PENITENT, starring Raul Julia, Mister MAN, directed by Tommy Lee Jones
Johnson with Academy Award-winning and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary
director Bruce Beresford and Blue Swank,and Meryl Streep. The film was
Danube Waltz with the world-renowned accepted in competition at the Cannes
Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó. Film Festival in 2014.
A producing partnership with actor / An adaptation of J.M.Coetzee’s WAIT-
director Sean Penn culminated in their ING FOR THE BARBARIANS is slated
critically acclaimed production of THE for production in 2018. It will be directed
PLEDGE, starring Jack Nicholson. In by Ciro Guerra (The Embrace Of The
2005 he completed both COLOUR ME Serpent) and star Mark Rylance.
