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Edward Bass is an independent producer, director and writer who have made less than blockbusters films to make him easily recognizable. Films like the Killing Jar, As Good As Dead, Bobby, While She Was Out, Come Early Morning, Slingshot, and the comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World documentary hardly made what Hollywood qualifies as a box office hits but these are hard hitting films that have been noticed by critics as worth watching.

Edward Bass is perhaps best known in the film industry as a maverick that independently produced and financed five films in just two years, something that is unheard of in Hollywood. But to the movie going public, he is probably best known for having produced the 2006 Emilio Estevez film “Bobby” a cinematic enactment of the rise to fame of assassinated senator Robert F. Kennedy. A Golden Globe nominee for producing this movie, he is quoted to have said, “It’s too easy not to be in production” hinting at how difficult it is to be a film producer and not win the award.

Over the last decade, Edward Bass has collaborated with noted actor/directors like Guillermo Del Toro in “While She Was Out,” and Stanley Kramer in “It’s a Mad Mad, Mad World,” apart from Emilio Estevez. For 2011, the maverick director/producer has ambitious plans for his next films like “Belle” a true story about a Norwegian emigrant at the turn of the 20th century who became the most notorious lady serial killer in US history. That’s a new twist in the serial killer line that could turn out to be a hit.