Eric Sherman is executive in charge of production for Warner Sisters, Inc.
Mr. Sherman was born in Los Angeles and grew up on the Hollywood backlots watching his father, Vincent Sherman, direct films starring many of the industry's greatest figures, including Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Richard Burton, Paul Newman, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner.
Eric attended Yale University where he co-founded the Yale Film Society and graduated as Yale's first Scholar of the House in Film. His first picture, CHARLES LLOYD -- JOURNEY WITHIN, was screened at the New York Film Festival and was reviewed by Variety as "... perhaps the finest film made about a jazz musician."
Eric has been a directing and production consultant to Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures and The Mount Company and has worked with several of Hollywood's leading writers, producers and directors, successful ensuring on-time and on-budget feature film delivery. In addition to his work with the studios, Eric has owned and operated Film Transform, Inc., a full service film and video production company, since 1976.
Recent Film Transform projects have included the action film TRAINED TO FIGHT, the live television special THE MARILYN FILES and the Peabody Award winning PBS series FUTURES. Film Transform also provides video production and duplication to dozens of corporations around America.
Eric has written four widely used texts on filmmaking: THE DIRECTOR'S EVENT, DIRECTING THE FILM, FRAME BY FRAME and SELLING YOUR FILM (for more information on these books, please turn to the Warner Sisters Home Page). He has also taught at Art Center College of Design, California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), Pepperdine, UCLA, the American Film Institute and Cal Tech, and he has given guest lectures at numerous universities around the country.
In addition to his production work and teaching, Eric joined the Gallup Organization in 1993 as their chief consultant for the motion picture industry.
Eric's work has won more than three dozen awards, and he is listed in numerous biographical summaries, including Marquis' WHO'S WHO IN THE WEST. He is on the Board of Trustees of the American Cinematheque and the Board of Directors of Filmforum.
