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FOUNDER and PRESIDENT
Cass Warner
Cass Warner founded Warner Sisters in January 2003. As President, Cass is responsible for acquiring and developing projects for motion pictures, television and home video.
Under Cass’s guidance, each project seeks to “educate, entertain and enlighten”—carrying on the original goal set forth by her grandfather, Harry Warner, president and co-founder of the Warner Bros. studio.
Growing up in Hollywood and on the studio lot inspired Cass to take every opportunity to learn about the film making process and the business of film making. The magic of watching this collaborative art was inspiring. Raised on a steady diet of classics, she watched and apprenticed under her father, writer/producer Milton Sperling, twice nominated for an Academy Award for his films, which include THE SANDS OF IWO JIMA, and THE COURT MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL.
While raising her four children, she studied acting with Milton Katselas and Robert F. Lyons, and expanded into screenwriting under the mentorship of her father and Howard Koch of CASABLANCA fame. Her affiliation and admiration for Koch grew into a close friendship which led to her having the honor and privilege of acquiring the right to promote and develop his unproduced works which include screenplays, plays, short stories and letters to the editor of the New York Times.
Besides writing and developing screenplays, Cass authored the book on her family, newly titled The BROTHERS WARNER and formerly sold under the title of HOLLYWOOD BE THY NAME: THE WARNER BROTHERS STORY.
As a producer, she has a “Consulting Producer” credit on Warner Bros. studio’s five-part series, “You Must Remember This”, to be released in 2008. This is narrated by Clint Eastwood. Warner Sisters also has a “Produced in Association With” credit.
She is, currently, creating a non-profit foundation called “The Dream Factory”— designed to assist in making one’s dream a reality. She has created, “Conversations with Cass”, a series of one-on-one interviews with Matthew McConaughey and others that share their private stories of accomplishment and the overcoming of obstacles they encountered along the way. The Starz Channel has aired several of these.
She has been a creative consultant and supporter of the restoration of her family’s original theater in New Castle, Pennsylvania that has engendered a downtown revitalization project. www.firstwarnertheatre.com
In Spring 2004, she assisted in founding the Harry M. Warner Film Institute and Harry M. Warner Film Festival at the Slippery Rock University in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. http://academics.sru.edu/warner/history.htm
In 2005, Cass became a founding supporter of the International Youth for Human Rights Film Festival that encourages youth from ages 12-21 to use the medium of film to demonstrate their solutions to human rights issues. The UN Declaration of Human Rights is the document that is used as the basis for the education of children and adults about their rights. youthforhumanrights.org
She is also a member of Artists for Human Rights.
www.artistsforhumanrights.org.
Cass serves as a Commissioner on the Board of Advisors for the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a non-profit organization dedicated to reforming the field of mental health. www.cchr.org
She is also a member of the International Documentary Association and the American Film Institute
As a devoted mother, Cass has raised four wonderful children – Tao, Cole, Vanessa & Jesse. Her son, Cole Hauser, is an established film star and has received several notices and awards for his work as an actor. Her son, Jesse, is a talented computer graphic artist and website designer and author of this fine website.
To all those who know and work with Cass, her commitment to all facets of life interweave to create a solid foundation from which Warner Sisters is producing relevant projects that entertain, educate and enlighten.
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