Casting Directors// Barden/Schnee Casting, Inc.

(Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee, Allison Estrin, and Rich Delia)

 Recent and current feature film credits include casting for the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury-Prize winner, Winter’s Bone; the forthcoming The Help, for DreamWorks, based on the bestselling novel, and starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Allison Janney and Bryce Dallas Howard; Peace Love and Misunderstanding, directed by Academy Award® nominee Bruce Beresford and starring Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyle MacLachlan; Higher Ground, the directorial debut of actor Vera Farmiga, starring Farmiga, Bill Irwin, Joshua Leonard, Norbert Leo Butz and Donna Murphy; Conviction with Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell and Minnie Driver and directed by Tony Goldwyn; Son of No One, directed by Dito Montiel and starring Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Tracy Morgan, Ray Liotta and Katie Holmes; Flypaper, starring Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd and Tim Blake Nelson; Every Day with Helen Hunt, Liev Schreiber and Brian Dennehy. Other forthcoming films include the reboot of Conan, The Big Bang starring Antonio Banderas; New York Casting for Paul Haggis's The Next Three Days, starring Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, and Olivia Wilde, and the directorial debut of Academy Award® winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's What's Wrong with Virginia, starring Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Toby Jones.  For television, Kerry Barden received an Emmy Nomination in 2000 for his casting of Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon in HBO’s pilot of Sex and the City and both Barden and Schnee received an Emmy Nomination in 2007 for ESPN’s miniseries The Bronx is Burning. In 2008/09 the casting team cast Cupid starring Sarah Paulson and Bobby Cannavale for ABC Studios/ABC and the first season of Comedy Central’s Important Things with Demetri Martin.