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MAMET’S WORK CAN BE SEEN IN SONY PICTURES CLASSICS REDBELT

LOS ANGELES — David Mamet will receive the ShoWest Award of Excellence in Filmmaking,
it was announced today by Mitch Neuhauser, co-managing director of the event that will be held
March 10-13, 2008 in Las Vegas. Mamet will be presented with his award at the Opening Day
Luncheon to be held on Tuesday, March 11th at Bally’s Paris Las Vegas. The focus of this year’
s luncheon is going to be on the importance of Specialty and Independent films and distribution
companies in today’s marketplace.

“The work that David Mamet has produced is representative of the caliber of film ShoWest
strives to showcase at An Evening of Independent Film,” said Neuhauser. “His films, such as
State and Main, House of Games, The Winslow Boy and The Spanish Prisoner, represent a high
standard of artistic dignity deserving of such a recognition as the ShoWest Award of Excellence
in Filmmaking and we are honored to be presenting this award to him this year.”

Mamet’s work can be seen in Sony Pictures Classics Red Belt, later this year. Set in the west-
side Los Angeles fight world, a world inhabited by bouncers, cage-fighters, cops and Special-
Forces-types, Redbelt is the story of Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a Jiu-Jitsu teacher who has
avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing instead to pursue an honorable life by operating a self-
defense studio with a samurai’s code. Terry and his wife, Sondra (Alicia Braga), struggle to
keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night at the
Academy between an off duty officer (Max Martini) and a distraught lawyer (Emily Moritimer)
puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry’s life dramatically introducing him to a
world of promoters (Rick Jay, Joe Mantegna) and movie star Chet Frank (Tim Allen). Faced
with this, in order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the
first time of his life.

Mamet is a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and two-time Oscar nominee, director, essayist,
novelist and poet who has been a force in American theater since 1976 when his first staged
plays immediately won Obie and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards. Currently the co-
creator and executive producer of the hit CBS television series “The Unit,” for which he also
writes and directs, Mamet got his start as a playwright, first winning recognition and awards for
his plays, “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” and “American Buffalo.” He taught acting at his alma
mater, Goddard College, as well as at the University of Chicago, Yale School of Drama and New
York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where, with William H. Macy, he established a
repertory company in 1988 known as he Atlantic Theater Company. Other plays that he wrote
include “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “Edmond” and “The Cryptogram.” In related work, Mamet
has adapted a number of plays, written children’s plays and books, seven volumes of essays and
three novels, numerous magazine artices, collaborated on many songs with his wife, songwriter
and actress Rebecca Pidgeon and even had a taste of acting in television and film. As a
screenwriter, Mamet has won acclaim for such films as The Verdict, Wag the Dog, The Postman
Always Rings Twice, The Untouchables, We’re No Angels, Hoffa and The Edge. More recently,
Mamet has explored writing and directing with such writer-director credits as House of Games,
Things Change, Homicide, State and Main and The Spanish Prisoner. Redbelt marks Memet’s
tenth film as a writer-director.