Without A Home

RACHEL FLEISCHER – DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

Rachel Fleischer is a Los Angeles based writer and director. Fleischer earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Film at The USC School of Cinematic Arts.  After graduation, she began work on her first feature film, the award winning documentary WITHOUT A HOME.  The film chronicles her personal experiences documenting the lives of the homeless in her native city.

The daughter of actor/comedian Charles Fleischer, best known as the voice of Roger Rabbit, Rachel was constantly surrounded by artists growing up and found herself, performing, playing music and directing at an early age.

Today, Fleischer is actively writing and developing a slate of film and television projects for herself to direct. Amongst other projects, she is preparing to shoot her feature film “The War”,  a screenplay that was shortlisted at the Sundance Screenwriting Labs.

She recently forayed into directing music videos, helming Ariana Delawari’s newest music video “We Came Home”. Delawari is an Afghan American musician on David Lynch’s music label.   A multidisciplinary artist herself, Fleischer is also a musician, poet, actress and photographer.

Fleischer’s Huffington Post Blog features her articles and videos that show the human side of homelessness, providing readers with information and tools to help others become more engaged, informed and compassionate about the issue.

Still very active in the homeless community, Rachel is in the process of putting together a grass roots campaign to raise awareness and compassion about homelessness through art, that will launch in early 2011.

Fleischer sits on the Jewish Federation’s Entertainment Council and Social Action Committee.

JOANNA ADLER – PRODUCER

Joanna Adler is currently the Vice President of Intuition Productions, an independent feature film and television production company. Most recently, Intuition produced the romantic thriller PASSENGERS, directed by Rodrigo Garcia (In Treatment) and starring Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married) and Patrick Wilson (Little Children). Next up on Adler’s docket is a theater show that she co-wrote and is producing entitled, IF YOU CAN’T JOIN ‘EM SERVE ‘EM. It is a chic reinvention of the dinner theater concept and is starring celebrity caterer, Mary Giuliani. The show will be mounted in NY in early Spring 2011

Prior to joining Intuition, Adler worked on the Sony Classics and John Calley film, THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB. In addition to working closely with the producers and writer/director Robin Swicord during filming, Adler also worked on post-production for the film.

Adler’s first job in the industry was at Revelations Entertainment, Morgan Freeman’s production company as the assistant to the co-founder/CEO. While there she worked on the film 10 ITEMS OR LESS.

While simultaneously pursing her full time career, Adler produced both an award- winning documentary about homelessness in Los Angeles and a theater show. The theater show Adler produced, THE MISTAKES MADELINE MADE written by Yale alum Elizabeth Meriwether, was directed by Sandra Seacat, legendary acting coach and founding member of the Actor’s Studio, and starred a handful of young film/TV actors. The documentary, WITHOUT A HOME, is currently screening in film festivals. It won the Jury Prize for Best Feature Documentary at the Durango Independent Film Festival.

Hailing from New York, Hollywood is Adler’s second career. Previously, she worked at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for four years as manager of the outpatient Thoracic Service.

Adler’s interests extend beyond the walls of Hollywood. Adler is actively involved in many philanthropic endeavors including; Children Mending Hearts, where she serves on the board of  directors and The Downtown Women’s Center, where she serves on the development committee. She attended Georgetown University and Yale University and then graduated from NYU.

SALLY RUBIN – EDITOR/CO-PRODUCER

Sally Rubin, the show’s Co-Producer and Editor, is a documentary filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles. A graduate of Stanford’s MA program in Documentary Film and Video, she has worked in documentary film for almost 15 years. Rubin is currently at work on “Mine: a story of friendship divided by mountains”, a feature-length documentary about mountaintop removal mining and America’s increasing energy consumption. Her last film, “The Last Mountain,” has garnered international critical acclaim and is distributed in universities across the country. Most recently she edited “The Freedom Files,” a 9-part series for the ACLU produced by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films. Her latest editing credits include a short piece that screened at the 2007 SAG Awards in Los Angeles and Greenwald’s “Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers.” Before that, she associate produced David Sutherland’s 6-hour Frontline special “Country Boys” (2006).

MAX GOLDBLATT – ASSOCIATE EDITOR/ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Max Goldblatt is a second-generation filmmaker, the son of Oscar-nominated editor and director Mark Goldblatt.  Max’s short film Kinetoscope was awarded High Honors at Wesleyan University and went on to play in a number of festivals including the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and the Northampton Independent Film Festival.  He has directed music videos and created web content for a variety of recording artists including MGMT, Pete Yorn, Robert Francis, Sunny Levine and Hello Stranger.

JACQUES BRAUTBAR – COMPOSER

You may not recognize his name, but you’ve heard and seen Jacques Brautbar’s work on television, in magazines, on the radio and on the big screen. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Jacques began his music career at the age of 15. As a founder, guitar player, arranger and songwriter for Sony Recording artist Phantom Planet, Jacques collaborated on the band’s three singles, “California”, “Lonely Day” and “Big Brat.” These songs soon found an audience on MTV, international radio and movies. “California” became the theme song to the hit show The O.C. Jacques left Phantom Planet in 2004 and has been working as a photographer, songwriter and composer. Jacques’ first professional experience as a photographer was at the 2004 Coachella festival where he was able to shoot bands such as Radiohead, The Pixies and The Flaming Lips. Jacques hit the ground running shooting for Spin, Nylon and High Times magazines soon after. Jacques has also performed with Beck, OK Go, The Pharcyde and Jack’s Mannequin. As a songwriter, Jacques has collaborated with Joe Brooks, whose song “Getting Away” was featured on radio Disney, and with Brie Larson, whose song “Coming Around” was featured in the film Hoot. The song was the lead single off of the film’s soundtrack. Jacques has also written scores to several student shorts and the Who is Bill Beall, an official selection at the Philadelphia film festival in 2007. As a writer for HUM, Serpent and Spank music houses, Jacques has the opportunity to compose for the biggest names on the market: McDonald’s, Sears, Lexus and the NHL just to name a few.

JOSHUA HOMNICK- CO-PRODUCER/STORY CONSULTANT/ART DIRECTOR

Success as a break-dancer and teenage actor on Chilean TV in the 80’s, and a hopeless addiction to photographic experimentation, sent Joshua Homnick packing for film school in New York City. Homnick hadn’t studied film long before MTV scooped him up and gave poetic license to his playful visual sense and knack for break-beat editing. While at MTV he directed segments for numerous pilots and shows like House of Style (with Cindy Crawford) and MTV news. In addition, he created and directed on-air promo content for the launch of MTV Latino.

Homnick’s first exposure to the world of advertising came via Wieden+Kennedy, one of the top ad agencies in the world. W+K tapped Homnick to work his laser honed musical and editorial sensibility for TokyoLab, their newly launched record label… and then immediately put him to work on an experimental Nike ad campaign for the Japanese market.

Since then, Homnick has directed spots in the global market with Ogilvy & Mather, JWT, Lowe, Satchi & Satchi and Story WorldWide for mega-clients like eBay, Samsung, American Apparel, Lexus, Mars.

Just a few years ago Homnick was commissioned by ResFest to shoot a series of short films for Panasonic cell-phones. He returned to his childhood home of Peru to shoot the series. He fell in love, got married and re-established himself there with the mission to bridge Peruvian myth and lore with Hollywood. Just last year he shot six commercials in Peru for such clients as Nestlé and DirecTV, gaining valuable contacts and experience in that country’s burgeoning entertainment industry.

Currently, Homnick is getting ready to shoot his first feature film. A horror film set in Lima, Peru. He is also developing a TV series with Breck Eisner. And he is getting ready to launch an online entertainment site with Rainn Wilson focused on spirituality and creativity, called Soul Pancake.