| Roger has also collaborated with director
Quentin Tarantino as co-author of his Cannes Film Festival Palm
d'Or winner “Pulp Fiction.” In 1995 the two shared
best writing accolades from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association,
the New York Film Critics' Circle, the Boston Society of Film
Critics, the National Society of Film Critics, the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the British Academy of
Film and Television for their work on "Pulp". This
phenomenal success has led to a prolific writing career for
Roger, working at Warner Brothers, Paramount, Dreamworks, and
others.
Roger has been very active as a producer,
both on his television projects, and the independent films
“Boogie Boy” and “The Last Man.” Roger
is a spokesperson for Apple Computer and their prosumer editing
software, Final Cut Pro, with which he edited his 35mm feature
“The Rules of Attraction.” An avid Apple evangelist,
Roger’s full page spreads have appeared worldwide in
Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Post Magazine, Rez
Magazine, Videography Magazine, Millimeter Magazine, and many
more.
He dropped out of the Art Center College
of Design, screaming at one of his professors “you don’t
need a degree to study film!” He now lectures yearly
at Art Center. Roger collects and restores vintage Atari X-Y
monitor arcade machines, as some people might specialize in
restoring old automobiles. One of Roger’s more interesting
drunken party talents is to inhale dentil floss through his
nose and cough one end out of his mouth.
Roger is currently editing his digital video
feature of the footage shot in Europe for Victor’s travels,
to be titled “Glitterati.” He is also preparing
the screenplay for his next film as director.
James Van Der Beek (Sean Bateman) had fate
on his side for his entrance into the acting world, but it
has been his dedication and talent that earned him a leading
role in Dawson’s Creek and breakthrough film roles.
Prior to The Rules of Attraction, Van Der
Beek starred opposite Dylan McDermott in Texas Rangers. He
also made a cameo appearance in Kevin Smith’s recent
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as well as a starring role
in Todd Solondz’s controversial Storytelling, opposite
Selma Blair.
Suffering a mild concussion when he was
13 years old, the athletic Van Der Beek was not permitted
to play on the football team that year. So, for the first
time, he decided to try out for the school play and landed
the lead role of Danny Zuko in the school’s production
of Grease. Bitten by the acting bug, he continued to do local
theatre in his hometown of Cheshire, Connecticut.
He was still focused on acting at age 16,
so his mothered agreed one summer to travel three hours each
way into New York city for him to pursue acting professionally.
The next year, he was cast in the off-Broadway play Finding
the Sun, which was written and directed by Pulitzer prize-winning
playwright Edward Albee. He describes this as the defining
experience for him as an actor, and commuted six hours everyday
during the limited three-month run for rehearsals and performances
in the middle of high school.
Van Der Beek’s first on-screen performance
came with a role in the 1995 film Angus, and he was featured
in I Love You . . .I Love You Not with Claire Danes. His first
major starring role was in the box-office hit Varsity Blues,
which earned him a 1999 MTV movie award for breakthrough performance.
He also made a cameo appearance in Scary Movie, which earned
him an award in a movie awards poll for mtv.com
A dean’s list student, Van Der Beek
received an academic scholarship from Drew University in Madison,
N.J where he studied Enlglish until the call came from Dawson’s
Creek. In what little free time he has, he enjoys writing
and playing all kinds of sports.
Released: 28 March 2003
Distributer: Icon
Running Time: 110 mins
Cert: 18
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