Zeitgeist Films | Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Julie Anderson, CC Goldwater, Tani Cohen
Film Info
2006
90 mins
Color
USA
In English
Julie Anderson

Julie Anderson, director of MR. CONSERVATIVE: GOLDWATER ON GOLDWATER, has a long career in television production. She began her work as a producer at ESPN, contributing on SportsCenter, the Olympics, the NFL and NBA. She later worked as a production liaison for Lorne Michaels at “Saturday Night Live.” After a five-year stint as a documentary filmmaker at HBO Sports, Anderson was hired as an executive at HBO Original Programming by Sheila Nevins, President of HBO Documentaries.

Over her ten years at HBO, Anderson produced and directed many award-winning features and documentaries, including the Peabody Awardwinning documentary “Dare To Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports,” about the history of the fight for women’s equality in sports, and the Emmy® Award-winning “Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World.” She served as associate producer on the Academy Award®-nominated “4 Little Girls,” about the 1963 bombing of the Birmingham Baptist Church in Alabama.

Anderson recently departed her position as Director of Documentary Programming at HBO to found her own production company, Lioness Productions. She has been producing, consulting and developing projects for among others, Russell Simmons’ production company, The Simmons Lathan Media Group, Court TV, BET as well as a wide variety of cable and network broadcast companies.

Over her career, Anderson has garnered four Emmy® Awards, several CableACE Awards, and two Peabody Awards for her work on documentary films. She was a 2001 Sundance Institute Fellow and is a consultant for the Hamptons International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Aspen Comedy Festivals. A native of Scarsdale, NY, Anderson graduated from the University of Vermont and now lives in New York City.



CC Goldwater

CC Goldwater founded Sweet Pea Films in 2005 and MR. CONSERVATIVE: GOLDWATER ON GOLDWATER is her first film.

Ms. Goldwater has served as a television entertainment correspondent in New York for “Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee,” and in Los Angeles with “Hollywood Close-Up.” In addition to her television work, Ms. Goldwater has contributed to several regional and national travel and lifestyle publications, including ITEM and METRO New York. She has also partnered in a public relations firm in New York and a public relations/advertising firm in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Ms. Goldwater was born and raised in Paradise Valley, Arizona, where she currently resides.


Tani Cohen

Tani Cohen, producer of MR. CONSERVATIVE, recently produced the 2005 feature film “The Dust Factory” starring Hayden Panettiere, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Ryan Kelley. Cohen received an Emmy nomination for executive producing the 2001 Showtime Original feature “Snow In August.”

Cohen started her film career at Brian de Palma’s Fetch Productions. The feature films “Scarface” and “Body Double” were produced during her tenure there. Since then, many festivals have recognized Cohen’s work as an independent film producer, and three of her projects have screened in competition at the Sundance Film Festival: “Inside Monkey Zetterland,” “EggSalad” and “Guinevere.”

Additionally, Cohen produced “The Souler Opposite,” which was featured at the AFI Film Festival, and co-produced “How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog,” which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. Cohen served as consulting producer on the independent film, “Living ‘til the End,” which made its premiere at the Hamptons Film Festival in October 2004. Cohen also served as the producer of “Septuplets” and “An American Town” for 20th Century Fox Television, and co-produced the films “Replicant” and “Forever Lulu.”

Friends for over 30 years, Cohen and CC Goldwater have devoted the last four years to MR. CONSERVATIVE. They formed Sweet Pea Films in 2005 to produce the film. Cohen is a native of Coronado, California and currently resides in Los Angeles.