Steven G. Menkin

Steven Menkin has served as a Vice President of feature film distribution and production with TOKYOPOP, Keystone Pictures, Crystal Pictures, International Harmony, and Unapix Entertainment. He has also worked as a consultant in the sales and marketing of domestic DVD product for Fantasia Homevideo, and Slamdunk Films.He is currently developing two feature films, Johnny Girl and Miss Havana with Big Fish/Tall Tales Entertainment. Steve Menkin is the Producer of the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival 2000 competition film The Love Machine directed by Gordon Ericksen, Executive Producer with Ted Hope of the 1998 Venice Film Festival Officina selection and Good Machine co-production The Sticky Fingers of Time directed by Hilary Brougher, and Executive Producer with James Schamus and Ted Hope of the 1997 Sundance and Rotterdam Film Festival Good Machine co-production Love God directed by Frank Grow. He Produced with Andrew Braunsberg and Ted Hope, Nick Broomfield's Edinburgh Film Festival audience award winning Driving Me Crazy, Produced the Twentieth Century Fox theatrical release Only the Strong as well as the films' original soundtrack featuring the single "Zoom Zoom Zoom" the musical theme of Mazda car commercials worldwide. Mr. Menkin produced Conquering Space for Showtime, The Party for the Disney Channel, Twentieth Century Fox's' video release Mondo New York, Island Pictures' Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen starring Tim Allen & Chris Rock and co-produced with Ted Hope. He was Executive Producer of the Keystone/Republic Pictures' The Final Cut, Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus sequel, Otalia De Bahia, and Lech Kowalskis' DOA , the rock & roll cult classic of the Sex Pistols' notorious American Tour. For Television he is Executive Producer of the Outdoor Life Channels' Outdoor Survival, Executive Producer of Tribal Journeys, directed by Academy Award nominee Jean Pierre Dutilleux. Both series are currently airing on cable television. He has recently represented the rights owners in licensing Jackie Chan My Stunts and Jackie Chan My Story directed and produced by Jackie Chan to Showtime and Encore. I n 1982 Menkin formed Manhattan Pictures Inc. to distribute programming to the public performance video market. Manhattan Pictures licensed over two hundred hours of programs from Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, Films Inc. and New Line Cinema, to distribute titles such as; Road Warrior, Easy Rider, Animal House, 1941, Polyester, Pink Flamingoes, Heavy Metal, The Three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, The Little Rascals, and the Warner Cartoon Classics.For seven years from 1980 he was partnered in the distribution/production company International Harmony Inc. IHI distributed twenty five feature films beginning with the Joe Roth/Neil Isreal independent hit Tunnelvision, Neil Young's' concert opus Rust Never Sleeps, Reggae Sunsplash with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, the animated, Tarzoon Shame of the Jungle, Andy Warhol's Blank Generation and Cocaine Cowboys, and Lech Kowalskis' Dead On Arrival. IHI also released Jim Sharman's The Night The Prowler, Marcel Camus' Otalia De Bahia, and the Academy Award nominated Documentary feature Raoni. Steven Menkin began his entertainment career in 1970 when he was cast in the lead role of George Berger in the hit Broadway Musical Hair. In 1972 he was cast in the Sydney premier of the Broadway Musical Jesus Christ Superstar, and subsequently in Godspell. In 1973 he played the Doctor in the Off-Broadway musical comedy hit Dr. Selavys Magic Theatre, which was nominated for the Village Voice Obie Award for Best Musical, and he recorded the original cast album on United Artists Records. In 1974 he starred in the world premiere of Lanford Wilson's' Hot l Baltimore, and Terrence McNally's' Things That Go Bump in the Night at the world renowned Cafe LaMama. The following year, television audiences saw him as Dr. Munson in the long running soap opera, One Life to Live. Hide

Steven G. Menkin's FILMOGRAPHY

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Only the Strong [Sub: Eng]