Dan Halstead
Considering the scope of projects producer Dan Halsted has been involved with over the past twenty years, it’s easy to see that “the business” is more than just business to him. Halsted began his career working with Scott Rudin and later moved to United Talent Agency, where as an agent he packaged such diverse box office hits as RoboCop, There’s Something About Mary, and the Academy Award-winner The Untouchables. As Vice President of Hollywood Pictures, he stewarded an even broader variety of successful features ranging from Encino Man to Tombstone, Evita to The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
Halsted’s producing career has been equally accomplished, with a track record of films that performed with critics and audiences alike, including Nixon (1995), Any Given Sunday (1999), The Virgin Suicides (1999), and Garden State (2003). He has also produced for TV, including a duo of provocative politically-charged documentaries, The Day Reagan Was Shot and Assassinated: The Last Days of Kennedy and King.
In 2005, Halsted founded Manage-ment, an innovative approach to filmmaking that integrates management, development, production, and financing all within the same company. In addition to Stacy Peralta’s Made In America, Halsted is currently developing and producing a variety of projects for film & television.
Made In America is Halsted’s fifth film at the Sundance Film Festival. His previous Sundance films are Home of Phobia, Freeway, The Virgin Suicides, and Garden State.
