Little Miss Sunshine is an American family road comedy that shatters the mold.

Brazenly satirical and yet deeply human, the film introduces audiences to one of the most endearingly fractured families in recent cinema history: the Hoovers, whose trip to a pre-pubescent beauty pageant results not only in comic mayhem but in death, transformation and a moving look at the surprising rewards of being losers in a winning-crazed culture. A runaway hit at the Sundance Film Festival,

where it played to standing ovations, the film strikes a nerve with everyone who?s ever been

awestruck by how their muddled families seem to make it after all.

JONATHAN DAYTON and VALERIE FARIS

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris make their feature film directorial debut with LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. However, the married team has already built an impressive body of innovative projects as directors and producers in a variety of mediums, collaborating together on over 75 projects in film, television, commercials and music videos.

Jonathan and Valerie began their careers creating and directing the pioneering MTV show, ?The Cutting Edge.? They continued to work at the leading edge of music television, directing awardwinning videos and documentaries for artists including REM, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane?s Addiction, The Smashing Pumpkins, Macy Gray, Janet Jackson, Oasis, Weezer and The Ramones.

Their music productions ultimately earned them two Grammy Awards, nine MTV Music Video Awards and a Billboard Music ?Director of the Year? Award.

In addition, Jonathan and Valerie have worked extensively in television, including directing episodes of the groundbreaking sketch comedy series ?Mr. Show with Bob and David? for HBO. They also produced two feature films: the documentary THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART II: THE METAL YEARS for New Line Cinema and Jane?s Addiction?s GIFT for Warner Bros. Music.

In 1998, Jonathan and Valerie co-founded Bob Industries, one of the country?s leading commercial production companies, where they have directed high profile television ads for VW, Sony Playstation, Gap, Target, Ikea, Apple and ESPN, among many others. In 2004, Boards Magazine placed Dayton and Faris among the top ten directors working in commercials today.

Leila, a young East-European immigrant in New York City, wants to become a violinist. She is in search of the American Dream.

In this stylish, atmospheric thriller, a hit man who learned his deadly craft in the Balkan wars, his beautiful former lover, and her police officer boyfriend all cross paths in lower Manhattan. The looping, nonlinear narrative structure and crisscrossing fates of its colorful characters may remind many of Pulp Fiction, but instead of recycling the hipster argot and rap rhythm of that influential L.A. story of more than a decade ago, love gives us a wintry, present-day New York City that is very much a cosmopolitan metropolis, a city of immigrant hustlers and their Old World accents-the Yugoslavian hit man, the German doctor, the French coquette, and the Neapolitan crook, and many others. love is all the more stimulating because of the elegant simplicity with which it was made; aside from its thriller plot, the spare visual composition and beautifully lit scenes are alone more than reason enough to see this picture. From its memorable scenes, which include a killing in a park to the Mexican stand-off inside a church to the dimly lighted nightclub, where an emcee in drag promises the jaded patrons 'music you've never heard before,' this stylish crime tale makes the New York scene glow with color-drenched beauty, menace, and mystery.

(2005, Tribeca Film Festival)

Vladan Nikolic is an award winning filmmaker from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, who moved to New York City in 1992. Before coming to New York Mr. Nikolic worked as a director for the first independent TV network in Yugoslavia. Mr. Nikolic has worked as writer, director and editor on shorts, feature films, documentaries, commercials and music videos. His awards include the TV Sarajevo Award and Zeta Film Award for Best Screenplay (1987), Eastman Kodak Award for his short film Serendipity (1992), Telluride Indiefest Best Film Award for his feature Burn (2001), and others. His first narrative feature film Burn prompted Amy Taubin of the Village Voice to write that Vladan Nikolic proves himself a director to watch with this intense, nightmare thriller about Yugoslavian refugees in New York.

His second feature, LOVE (2005) premiered at the Tribeca and Venice film festivals to critical acclaim. It went on to win awards at film festivals in Geneva, Switzerland, Barcelona, Spain, and the Best Director Award at the Tiburon International Film Festival, California (2006). Mr. Nikolic also teaches Film Directing, Production and Digital Filmmaking at The New School University, and at New York University.