**FREE** THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS 20th Anniversary

Sponsored by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Meet Tibby, Bridget, Lena and Carmen. As the summer before their 16th birthdays approaches, these four best friends with diverse family backgrounds and personalities hatch a plan to stay connected despite being separated for the entire season. The girls pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that, magically, look wonderful on all of them despite their different sizes, with each teen keeping the pants for two weeks. Over the summer, the pants come to represent the girls' mutual support of one another. But the jeans also lead each teenager into bruising yet ultimately healing confrontations with love and courage, death and forgiveness, in the days of The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants. Starring Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrara, Blake Lively, and Alexis Bledel. Directed by Ken Kwapis.

Ken Kwapis has been a motion picture and television director for four decades. He directed eleven feature films, among them A Walk In The Woods, Big Miracle, He’s Just Not That Into You, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Kwapis helped launch nine television series, including The Larry Sanders Show, The Bernie Mac Show, and The Office. He earned an Emmy nomination for directing the “Gay Witch Hunt” episode of The Office. He also earned an Emmy nomination for his work as a producer-director of Malcolm In the Middle. Kwapis contributed episodes to such shows Freaks and Geeks, Parks and Recreation, Santa Clarita Diet, and One Mississippi. Most recently, he directed the entire second season of Space Force. He is currently prepping the feature Thelma, based on the real-life story of the mother of John Kennedy Toole, author of A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole died before his novel was published, and his mother Thelma spent over a decade trying to find a home for her son’s masterpiece. Kwapis is also directing the four-episode return of the beloved family comedy Malcolm In The Middle, starring the original cast members, including Bryan Cranston, Jane Kaczmarek, and Frankie Muniz. In addition to his film and television work, Kwapis is the author of the memoir But What I Really Want To Do is Direct, published by St. Martin’s Press. Kwapis studied filmmaking at Northwestern University and the University of Southern California. He won the Student Academy Award in Dramatic Achievement for his USC film For Heaven’s Sake!, a contemporary adaptation of Mozart's one-act opera "Der Schauspieldirektor" ("The Impresario").

Gae Buckley became a Production Designer in 2002 for Director, Kevin Costner on his Western drama Open Range where she had the privilege to build a frontier town in the wilds of Alberta. Since Open Range she has enjoyed working as Production Designer on many varied films such as The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and its sequel, The Book of Eil,  He’s Just Not That Into You,  Stargirl, Fast Color, License to Wed, A Walk in the Woods, Burn Your Maps, When We First Met, Breakthrough, An Actor Prepares, I’m Your Woman and Hollywood Stargirl.

Prior to Open Range Gae worked as an Art Director for 12 years on such films as Indecent Proposal, What Women Want, Tin Cup, Coyote Ugly, The Craft, Three Wishes, Angie, My Fellow Americans and the Emmy winning mini-series Separate But Equal.

She received her Bachelor’s of Architecture degree from Cornell University and began her career as an Architect in New York City. She then segued into filmed entertainment with work on music videos and commercials, while continuing to study drawing at The Brooklyn Academy of Art, and scenic painting at The Lester Polikoff School of Scenic Painting in New York City. She spent her childhood painting in oils and watercolors with her mother, New Jersey artist and teacher, Jean Buckley.



In 1983 while working at the Architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox in NYC she was offered a job on a music video during the 2nd year of MTV. She instantly fell in love with the concept of creating composition through the lens of a camera, and using color, textures to promote story telling.  She quit the world of Architecture to pursue her career in film and never looked back.

Kathryn Himoff is an editor/producer of features films, television, and documentaries. She grew up in New York and has a BA Theater from Boston University. She studied acting with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler before working for ABC News 20/20 Program as Assistant to the Director and moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in filmmaking. Once in Los Angeles she discovered the alchemy of editing which drew together all her interests, experiences, and talents and she was hooked for life!

A small selection of editorial credits includes Pollock, Appaloosa, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, House of a Thousand Corpses, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Cry of the Snow Lion, Enchanted Matter. She is a regular collaborator with Ed Harris. TV Pilots include The Man in the High Castle, The Office, and Ugly Betty. She is currently Producer/ Editor of the Indie feature film Auto Fiction and Editor of Champagne Problems, directed by Mark Steven Johnson for Netflix.