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 Cass Warner, Founder and President, founded Warner Sisters in January 2003. As President, Cass is responsible for acquiring and developing projects for motion pictures, television and home video, the internet, and cell phone downloads or other media.
Under Cass’s guidance, each project seeks to “educate, entertain and enlighten”—carrying on the original goal set forth by her grandfather, Harry Warner, president and co-founder of the Warner Bros. studio.
Growing up in Hollywood and on the studio lot inspired Cass to take every opportunity to learn about the film making process and the business of film making. The magic of watching this collaborative art was inspiring. Raised on a steady diet of classics, she watched and apprenticed under her father, writer/producer Milton Sperling, twice nominated for an Academy Award for his films, which include THE SANDS OF IWO JIMA, and THE COURT MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL. While raising her four children, she studied acting with Milton Katselas and Robert F. Lyons, and expanded into screenwriting under the mentorship of her father and Howard Koch of CASABLANCA fame. Her affiliation and admiration for Koch grew into a close friendship which led to her having the honour and privilege of acquiring the right to promote and develop his unproduced works which include screenplays, plays, short stories and letters to the editor of the New York Times.
Besides writing and developing screenplays, Cass authored the book on her family, newly titled The BROTHERS WARNER and formerly sold under the title of HOLLYWOOD BE THY NAME: THE WARNER BROTHERS STORY.
As a producer, she has a “Consulting Producer” credit on Warner Bros. studio’s five-part series, “You Must Remember This”, to be released in 2008. Clint Eastwood narrates this. Warner Sisters also has a “Produced in Association With” credit.
In 2007, Cass wrote, independently produced, directed and narrated the feature documentary, “The Brothers Warner”. Cass got the HBO Producer’s Award at one of the 35 festivals the film screened at. Warner Home Video is now distributing the DVD.
At the Cannes Film Festival in 2008, it was announced that Alain Goldman, the producer of “La Vie En Rose” had optioned Cass book, and Nick Pileggi, writer of such films as “Casino” and “Good Fellas” was writing the script. Cass is also a co-producer, and will shooting a documentary on the making of the film.
She is, also, creating a non-profit foundation called “The Dream Factory”— designed to assist in making one’s dream a reality. She has created, “Conversations with Cass”, a series of one-on-one interviews with Matthew McConaughey and others that share their private stories of accomplishment and the overcoming of obstacles they encountered along the way. The Starz Channel has aired several of these.
She is a member of Artists for Human Rights, and serves as a Commissioner on the Board of Advisors for the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a non-profit organization dedicated to reforming the field of mental health. (www.cchr.org) She is also a member of the International Documentary Association and the American Film Institute.
As a devoted mother, Cass has raised four wonderful children – Tao, Cole, Vanessa & Jesse. Her son, Jesse, is a talented computer graphic artist and website designer and author of this fine website. Her daughter, Vanessa Mooney, is a talented jewellery designer. Her son, Cole Hauser, is an established film star and has received several notices and awards for his work as an actor.
To all those who know and work with Cass, her commitment to all facets of life interweave to create a solid foundation from which Warner Sisters is producing relevant projects that entertain, educate and enlighten. |
