Showcase Entertainment

Showcase Entertainment is helmed by David Jackson, its President, and Shauna Shapiro Jackson, its Executive Vice President. Showcase is a member of the Independent Film & Television Alliance (formerly known as AFMA) and attends all of the major film and television markets each year (i.e., AFM, Cannes, MIFED, NATPE, MIP TV and MIPCOM). Showcase has an excellent line up of product and maintains exceptionally strong, ongoing relationships with the leading distributors worldwide. Showcase was recently listed as having one of the best reputations in the industry by one of the major international trade publications.

Over the last sixteen years, Jackson and Shapiro Jackson have successfully marketed well over two hundred feature films throughout the world in all media. Many of the titles that Showcase represents are features acquired through the William Morris Agency and ICM. The pictures span all genres and include the following: "Purple Violets" starring Edward Birns, Debra Messing, Selma Blair and Patrick Wilson; "Puerto Vallarta Squeeze" starring Harvey Keitel and Scott Glenn; "The Right Temptation" starring Kiefer Sutherland, Rebecca DeMornay and Dana Delany; the National Lampoon movies "Dorm Daze" and "Dorm Daze 2"; "Left Behind" and "Left Behind 2" based on the best selling book series of the same name; "Joyride" starring Tobey Maguire, Benicio Del Toro and Amy Hathaway; "Ladies Room" starring John Malkovich, Greta Scacchi and Lorraine Bracco; "Kiss Toledo Goodbye" starring Christopher Walken and Michael Rapaport; "FourPlay" starring Mariel Hemingway and Colin Firth; "Our Italian Husband" starring Brooke Shields and Chevy Chase; "Home Team" starring Steve Guttenberg; "Hugo Pool" starring Sean Penn, Robert Downey, Jr. and Alyssa Milano; "In Pursuit" starring Daniel Baldwin and Claudia Schiffer; "The Book of Stars" starring Mary Stuart Masterson and Jenna Malone; "Sand" starring Michael Vartan, Kari Wuhrer, Emilio Estevez, Jon Lovitz and Julie Delpy; "A Gun, A Car, A Blonde" starring Billy Bob Thornton, John Ritter and Jim Metzler; "Last Call" starring Ben Affleck, Alyssa Milano and French Stuart; "Mindbender" directed by the acclaimed Ken Russell and starring Terence Stamp about the life of psychic wonder Uri Geller; "Sex and the Other Man" starring Stanley Tucci, Kari Wuhrer and Ron Eldard; "Lookin' Italian" starring Matt LeBlanc; and "Super Sucker" starring Jeff Daniels.

Both Jackson and Shapiro Jackson were previously the co-founders of Curb/Esquire Films (currently Curb Communications), where they also served as President and Executive Vice President, respectively. In addition to their film licensing activities over the last ten years, Jackson and Shapiro Jackson served as Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer and Vice President Production and Acquisitions, respectively, of Curb/Musifilm whose partners included Universal Pictures. Amongst other things, Curb/Musifilm developed and co-produced "sex, lies and videotape" and maintains an equity interest in that picture.

In 1990 Jackson negotiated a multiple picture production deal with RCA/Columbia (ultimately Columbia/Tristar) where he and/or Shapiro Jackson produced features with Morgan Mason ("sex, lies and videotape"), John Hardy ("Ocean's Eleven," "Eric Brockovich") and Jason Clark ("Stuart Little"). They have also recently produced several films which were financed through foreign pre-sales and currently have several projects in development.

Further, both Jackson and Shapiro Jackson are attorneys specializing in the area of Entertainment. Prior to establishing and building Curb/Esquire Films, Jackson served as an attorney at Capitol Records and was then recruited by MCA Records where he served as the Vice President of Business Affairs. Thereafter, Jackson went into the private practice of law where he represented recording artists, record and film producers and film distribution companies. Shapiro Jackson began her career as an in-house attorney for a production/distribution company where she dealt in all aspects of film production and distribution, and where she first established her strong relationships in the international film community.

At Showcase, Teresa Dokey successfully manages the worldwide licensing department in all media. Dokey's many years of experience in both international and domestic distribution, along with her relationships with the top buyers worldwide, help to set Showcase apart from other independents. Acquisitions are helmed by Cara Shapiro, a Canadian native with a distinctive eye for quality, yet commercial films who has been with the company for over nine years and was responsible for acquiring many of the company's top selling features. Scott Bedno, Showcase's Director of International Sales, is formerly of Paragon Film Group and The Gordon Steele Company and adds another strong dimension to the company's impressive sales team. AFMA and foreign sales veteran Leslee Allmon oversees all aspects of delivery and Bruce J. Livingston heads Showcase's financial department.

Showcase intends to maintain its reputation of producing and licensing pictures spanning all genres and featuring both contemporary, up and coming actors and well known stars. The company believes that knowing the market and what the buyers are looking for are key elements in producing and licensing successful motion pictures and other programming with worldwide appeal. Showcase attributes its success in attracting quality product to its strong international relationships, its aggressive salesmanship, its creative marketing abilities and its reputation for accurately reporting sales and paying its producers promptly.