Scott Steindorff

Producer Scott Steindorff joined with prominent Las Vegas business-people Andrew Molasky, Robin Greenspun and Danny Greenspun to form Stone Village Pictures, LLC. As President and producer, Scott is committed to bringing strong, beautiful stories to the big screen and ensuring that Stone Village continues to grow and evolve while making a lasting contribution to the entertainment industry.

Steindorff filmed the adaptation of the classic novel LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA in Cartagena, Colombia and London. After a three year pursuit to convince the Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez to license the film rights, Steindorff and Stone Village VP Dylan Russell tapped Oscar-winning screenwriter Ronald Harwood to adapt the book and Mike Newell to direct with a cast including Javier Bardem, acclaimed Italian actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt, Liev Schreiber, Catalina Sandino Moreno, John Leguizamo, Fernanda Montengro, and Hector Elizondo. The film will be released domestically by New Line Cinema on November 16, 2007.

Well-known in the industry for acquiring and adapting literary properties, Scott's first feature production was the 2003 film, THE HUMAN STAIN, based on the novel by Philip Roth. A Lakeshore Entertainment and Miramax production, STAIN starred Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman.

Scott's next project teamed him with Paul Newman and producer Marc Platt, producing the critically acclaimed and award-winning miniseries for HBO, EMPIRE FALLS. Adapted from Richard Russos Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, FALLS starred Paul Newman, Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt, Aidan Quinn and Joanne Woodward. Directed by Fred Schepisi and filmed in the Fall of 2003, the miniseries premiered on HBO in May 2005 and received 10 Emmy nominations and the Golden Globe for Best Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television.

Next up was the modern-day fable PENELOPE starring Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine OHara, Peter Dinklage, and Reese Witherspoon filmed in London. Produced in association with Witherspoons Type A Films and financed by Stone Village and Grosvenor Park, PENELOPE will be released by Summit Entertainment in February 2008.

In keeping with the literary modus operandi, Steindorff is producing the adaptation of the T.C. Boyle book THE TORTILLA CURTAIN written by Dayan Ballweg and MODOC, based on Ralph Helfers book about the greatest elephant who ever lived. In 2005, Steindorff bought the rights to the Michael Connelly New York Times Bestseller THE LINCOLN LAWYER and the Nicholas Sparks New York Times Bestseller TRUE BELIEVER. Steindorff also bought the rights to the A.M. Homes novel THIS BOOK WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE.

Along with their literary adaptations, Stone Village has acquired remake rights to the 1955 French classic heist film RIFIFI and the Akira Kurosawa movie IKIRU.

In 2002, Stone Village Pictures and business entrepreneur Glenn Schaeffer formed Intellectual Property Group (IPG), a literary management company with book veteran Joel Gotler. The company focuses on the representation of writers. Clients of IPG for film and TV rights include Michael Connelly, James Ellroy, Harlan Coben, Andre Dubus, Tim LaHaye, James Lee Burke, Richard Russo and Alice McDermott, among many others.

Steindorff is a board member of the International Institute of Modern Letters, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, protection, and preservation of literature.