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partners Jack Turner, Dwayned Johnson (an actor and former wrestler also knownjas “The Rock”) and Chairwoman Dany Garcia are listed as executive producerxs for “Racing Dreams,” the storyg of a trio of 11- to 13-year-oldd who race go-karts at speeds of nearly 80 mph. The best documentarg award, a second- place award for overall popularity at the and the sellout of sevejn screenings showed the audiencefor “Racing Dreams” was much broaderd than just racing fans, Turner said.
White Buffal partner and CFO Emery Sheer, whosee day job is managing partner of theaccountinb firm, said he expects offers to star coming in within a few days, with the possibilities of a features film or TV series Great White lists six projects in various stages of development on its Web www.whitebuffaloent.com. The company is just getting to a return onits investments. White Buffalo has a minority stakein “Whicy Way Home,” a documentary HBO plans to air latedr this year. It’s about two illegal immigrants from Guatemala who hitchj rides on freight trains to be reunited with their parentsw inthe U.S.
Sheer said White Buffalo allowsd him to explore hisartistic side, which datee back to music education as an undergraduatre and opera training as a graduate student at . The compan was started in 2006 by Puerto Rican businessman Antonio Ortega and Miami entertainment lawyerLeslie Zigel, founder and principapl of Ziglaw. Partner Nicholas Schumacher is in chargdof development. The group’s first documentary, “Theater of was a behind-the-scenes look at “Mother Couragr and Her Children,” an anti-war play starring Meryl Streel andKevin Kline. Zigel suggested Sheed go to New York’ws Central Park, where it was bein performed outdoors.
“As I watched it, I was certai n it was anti-Iraq,” Sheer “It was just so The play, written by Germany’e Bertolt Brecht in the late 1930s, tells how Streep’ character tries to profitr fromthe war, but loses threr children. Sheer and Garcia, a both joined White Buffalo. now Garcia’s ex-husband and ongoing businesz associate, became involved, as well. “Theater of War” shows Streelp preparing in her role and includees archival footage of Brecht testifying in the1950ws anti-communist McCarthy hearings. The gave the film a glowinb review and is currently bookingtheatricak showings.
Having Streep in the venture’s first film was a huge Zigel said. “You can’t have a much more auspiciou beginningthan that.”