JOHN
DALY
Producer
The founding father of independent film that produced films the studios wouldn't touch; The Terminator , and two Oscar winning Best Pictures.
John Daly is considered by many to be the founding father of the independent film movement.The creative and entrepreneurial force behind many of the big and medium-budget independent films of the '80s and '90s, he is respected as a risk-taker and maverick that backed films the big studios wouldn't touch.The Return of the Living Dead (1985), The Terminator (1984), The Last Emperor (1987) which won 9 Oscars, including Best Picture, Platoon (1986) which one 4 Oscars, including Best Picture, Criminal Law (1988), Shag (1989), and Tournament of Dreams (2000) are only a few of the films he has nurtured from conception to completion.He founded the Hemdale Company in 1966, which originally began as a talent agency that Daly fostered into a profitable production and distribution company. He truly understands the components necessary for getting a picture made and gives tools here that will thoroughly equip actors who desire to begin working on projects that will satisfy their creative aspirations.
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