The New York film scene lost a friend on Sunday when Gary Winick , 49, died of brain cancer . Comfortable in commercial film—Winick directed a number of movies the average filmgoer would know from 13 Going on 30 to Charlotte’s Web to Letters to Juliet —he was also a real force in what remained of independent film in the aughts. The independent film company he founded in 1999, InDigEnt, produced a number of flicks including Pieces of April , Personal Velocity , Tape and Tadpole (which he also directed and sold to Miramax for $6 million at the 2002 Sundance festival). [ more › ]
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Gary Winick, Producer and Director, Dies at 49