“Next was the poundin’ and thumpin’ of the goon squad runnin’ upa coupla’ flights of metal stairs -- sorta like jungle drums in some old timey movie.”

Corrado Schoner Films, LLC

50 Devonshire Road
Cedar Grove, NJ 07009
973-857-5824

Gregory J. Corrado (writer/director)

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On the set of ELECTING JACK POWELL: writer/director Greg Corrado, cinematographer Ly Bolia, and producer Dave Schoner.

Writer/director Gregory J. Corrado and David W. Schoner, Jr. are in post-production with their first feature, ELECTING JACK POWELL. The film was accepted into the 1999 Independent Feature Film Market in NYC. The company is developing several projects and will be in production with one of the following in the Spring of 2000.

Features in Development

MINIMAL KNOWLEDGE
Finalist, IFP West Screenwriters Lab. Starring Adam Pascal (romantic lead from Broadway's RENT and the lead in new Elton John/Disney musical AIDA).*

90 SECONDS
Starring Zoe Bui (lead in 1999 Sundance award-winning THREE SEASONS)*, Maxwell Caulfield (THE REAL BLOND)*, and Ethan Erickson (Buffy, the Vampire-Slayer, JAWBREAKER).*

IN SEARCH OF JOHN JR.
Finalist, Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Finalist, LA Film Festival Production Grant. Finalist, IFP West Screenwriters Lab.

THE TROUBLES
Finalist, Academy's Nicholl Fellowship

*Credits not contractual.

Gregory J. Corrado - writer/director

Greg is the Assistant Business Administrator for the City of Jersey City -- New Jersey's second largest city -- and a senior aide to Mayor Bret Schundler. ELECTING JACK POWELL is the true story of his experiences in the rough world of Hudson County politics.

BA - Columbia University
MFA- NYU, film and screenwriting
Visiting Scholar - UCLA grad film and screenwriting
Finalist - Academy's Nicholl Fellowship - THE TROUBLES
Semifinalist - Academy's Nicholl Fellowship - THE LAND OF NO
Semifinalist - Warner Brothers Screenwriting Fellowship - KISMET

David W. Schoner - producer

Dave is the statewide Production Coordinator for the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission.

BA - New Jersey City University Produced the shorts:

THE DROWNING (Student Academy Award Nominee)
SQUEEGEE BOYS (Winner, Paramount Pictures Production Award)
BROKEN FENCES (Winner, Warner Brothers Production Award) New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission - Location liaison for:

WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL, STONEWALL, HAPPINESS, GETTING TO KNOW YOU (Sundance Film Festival)