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LOCOMOTIVE Film is an American film production company based in New York City. Founded in 2007 by Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Joshua Astrachan, LOCOMOTIVE was founded on the mission to develop and produce daring, character-driven film and television. "We all need stories. They transport us from our daily lives. Make us laugh. Reduce us to tears. Open up new worlds. Capture the zeitgeist. Define the times."

The first film to go out under the LOCOMOTIVE banner was Grey Gardens for HBO Films, starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore, produced alongside Rachael Horovitz (Moneyball) and Michael Sucsy. Released in 2009 to near unanimous critical acclaim, the film won 2 Golden Globes, 6 Emmy Awards, a Critics' Choice and a Producers Guild Award among others.

Grey Gardens is the most recent in what is now a decade of great movies produced by Astrachan and Donnelly. Their credits include Academy-Award nominated Pieces of April, which Donnelly co-produced with John Lyons (Boogie Nights, Austin Powers), Robert Altman´s A Prairie Home Companion, the 2007 Sundace gem The Go-Getter, and the Oscar winning and seven-time Academy-Award nominated Gosford Park.

The company´s most recent production, Jennifer Westfeldt´s Friends with Kids, produced with Jake Kasdan, Points West Pictures and Red Granite Pictures, premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival to enormous critical acclaim and sold to Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions. The film will open nationwide on March 9.

Astrachan and Donnelly have joined forces with Frederick W. Green, a Wall Street veteran, and Alexandra Kerry a producer and creative strategist, to form a new team with a wealth of experience in film, television, communications and finance.

The new Locomotive team will work together to bring a full slate of films into production beginning in 2012.