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Press Release

Source: Art Directors Guild

Art Directors Guild Film Society to Screen TRON in Celebration of the Career of Production Designer Dean Mitzner June 6
Monday May 17, 3:02 pm ET Event, Open and Free to Public, Will Include Screening of TRON and Selected Scenes From Other Mitzner-Designed Films at Directors Guild Theater

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2004-- The Art Directors Guild (ADG) Film Society will celebrate the prolific motion picture and television career of Production Designer Dean Mitzner with a screening of TRON (1982), part two of the Film Society's "Art of Production Design for the Animated Film" series on Sunday, June 6, at the Directors Guild Theater, 7920 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. The program, co-sponsored by Below the Line, will begin at 2 PM with the screening of TRON followed by a Q&A and reception. TRON, directed by Steven Lisberger and starring Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner, considered a before-its-time science-fiction masterpiece was one of the first films to utilize computer-generated animation. The film is about a computer game designer who himself becomes trapped inside a deadly game that puts his life into jeopardy as he fights his way back to reality. TRON was re-released by Disney for a 10-day run at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, starting May 6.

Born in Pasadena, CA, Mitzner graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. He worked his way up as an Assistant Art Director on EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC (1977), then as Art Director on BIG WEDNESDAY (1978), and earned his first Production Designer credit for the film 1941 (1979). With a successful film career that spans four decades, Mitzner has also dominated the TV airwaves, working on many series including ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (1985), HOMEFRONT (1991-1993 for which he won an Emmy in 1993) and most recently CHARMED (1998-Present).

The Film Society event will include a look at other Mitzner designed features and television programs along with scenes from 1941 (1979), NINE TO FIVE (1980) and HOMEFRONT (1991-1993) for which Mitzner won a '91 Primetime Emmy Award. TRON will be followed by a Q&A with Miztner to discuss the process of designing TRON as well as other aspects of his versatile and prolific career. The Q&A will be conducted by ADG Film Society Chair and Art Director Linda Berger.

Admissions to this and all other Film Society programs through the year are free and open to ADG members, the industry at large and the public as space permits. RSVPs are accepted at Film Society co-sponsor Below the Line's website at www.btlnews.com (click on "screening series") or by contacting Amy at the ADG at 818-762-9995 or via her e-mail amy@ialocal800.org.

The ADG Film Society has scheduled the following additional special events and tributes through 2004: August 15 - "Wilfred Buckland and The Designers of The Silents"; September 12 - "Patricia Norris and BLUE VELVET: Designing an Era"; and November 12 - "Rick Carter, Doug Chang and POLAR EXPRESS: The Production Designer Comes Full Circle".

The Art Directors Film Society gives all who attend the unique opportunity to take a closer look at the process of designing feature films and television programs through first person accounts of the Production Designers and Art Directors who created them. Earlier this year the Society paid tribute to Production Designers Robert Boyle and Sy Tomashoff. Last year the Film Society produced six tribute/screening events that concluded in November with a tribute to Lilly Kilvert, Production Designer of THE LAST SAMURAI. On September 28, The Film Society screened SHREK and NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS in part one of The Art of Production Design for Animated Films in tribute to Production Designers James Hegedus, SHREK and Rich Heinrichs, Visual Consultant for NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. In August 2003 the ADG Film Society celebrated the legendary career of John DeCuir, Sr. with a double-bill: NAKED CITY and THE KING AND I. On June 12, the work of Designer Charles Lisanby was honored with a screening of his masterful design accomplishment BARYSHNIKOV ON BROADWAY along with selected scenes from his other distinguished work. In April, Stephen Goosson was honored with a screening of his Academy Award® winning achievement for Best Art Direction, LOST HORIZON. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, honoring Production Designer Tony Walton, started off the 2003 season. Past honorees include Polly Platt (PAPER MOON); Hans Dreier (THE SCARLET EMPRESS); Joseph Jennings (SHOGUN); Jan Scott (ELEANOR & FRANKLIN); Carroll Clark (TOP HAT); Ken Adam (DR. STRANGELOVE); Albert Nozaki (WAR OF THE WORLDS); Patrizia Von Brandenstein (SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION); Richard Sylbert (CATCH 22); Perry Ferguson (CITIZEN KANE), Albert Heschong (REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT) and Jeannine Oppewall (PLEASANTVILLE).
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A nice tribute for this odd but ground-breaking film!