Mary Stuart Masterson (Partner)
When I was seven, I was cast in The Stepford Wives. No, I wasn't a child actor. I was the child OF an actor who was playing the lead. Ever since an Assistant Director streaked naked across the hayfield we were shooting in, I knew I was in the right business. I always knew I would run away and join the circus.

Filmmaking is--for better and for worse--the most collaborative of all the art media. It requires the precise coordination of an army and for the director and producers, the endurance of a marathon runner. It demands that many people do bizarre and specific (often hard to define) jobs in the abstract pursuit of telling a story. I have acted in lots of movies, plays, musicals, and TV shows, but I recently moved behind the camera because I absolutely love bringing people together around a vision and facilitating their best work. Maybe it's because of a number of experiences I had when things were handled badly--creative people limited by corporate mandates, the work was held hostage by ego battles--that I love independent filmmaking so much. It is far more difficult, far less financially rewarding, but it is so much FUN! Director: "The Cake Eaters"-Prmiered at Tribeca Film Festival, lots of film festivals, some awards, released in March 2009; ""The Other Side", for Showtime in 2001.
Producer: "Tickling Leo", 2007; "The Cake Eaters"; "Lat Man Running" 2003, "Kate Brasher (CBS TV series) 2001.


Steven Weisman (Partner)
is a New York-based producer and writer who began his career as a Production Executive for Francis Coppola's American Zoetrope.


Peter CB Masterson (Partner)
I love to tell stories. Whether it be at the age of 7 with a Bell and Howell black and white video camera, or a 35mm film camera I have enjoyed telling stories with all forms of media. Mary Stuart, Steven, and myself have been working in the film business for years, and although most of our experience has been separate from each other we have been lucky enough to work together more recently. We all share a firm belief in the creative process and providing a safe and comfortable environment for the film maker. It is this shared belief and the culmination of over 70 years of experience collectively in the film business that spawned the idea for Barndoor Pictures.