High Treason Pictures is an independent production company founded by Robert Weiser, President/CEO and Patricia Weiser, VP/Director of Development/Producer.

Background

High Treason Pictures teamed up with the producers of Fahrenheit 911 and Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 documentary film written, directed, produced, and narrated by Michael Moore. The film explores what Michael Moore suggests are the causes for the Columbine High School massacre and other acts of violence with guns...

on the critically acclaimed 2008 documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster* – a film about sports and steroids and the American “win at all cost” culture. Out of more than 700 films submitted, Bigger Stronger Faster was one of only twelve documentary films accepted into competition at The Sundance Film Festival in 2008 and was purchased by Magnolia Films. Bigger Stronger Faster enjoyed a theatrical release in the summer of 2008 and is currently available on DVD and On Demand.

High Treason Pictures' second project is the full-length feature comedy written and directed by Joshua Shelov titled The Best and the Brightest

The Best and the Brightest

The Best and the Brightest is an account by journalist David Halberstam of the origins of the Vietnam War published by Random House. The focus of the book is on the foreign policy crafted by the academics and intellectuals who were in John F...

starring Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer, director, and magician.Prominent roles of his career include the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D., Colonel Carl Jenkins in Starship Troopers, the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold...

, Bonnie Somerville

Bonnie Somerville

Bonnie Somerville is an American actress and singer. As an actress, she has had roles in a number of movies and television series, most notably NYPD Blue, Grosse Pointe, Friends, The O.C. and Cashmere Mafia....

, Christopher McDonald

Christopher McDonald

Christopher McDonald is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore, Tappy Tibbons in Requiem for a Dream, and Mel Allen in the HBO film 61*.-Personal life:...

, Kate Mulgrew

Kate Mulgrew

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, John Hodgman

John Hodgman

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, Amy Sedaris

Amy Sedaris

Amy Louise Sedaris is an American actress, author, and comedian. She is known for playing the character Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central television series Strangers with Candy. Sedaris regularly collaborates with her older brother, humorist and author David Sedaris...

, Peter Serafinowicz

Peter Serafinowicz

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 and Jenna Stern

Jenna Stern

Jenna Louise Stern is an American actress.Member of an artist family, Stern is the daughter of actor/producer Tom Stern and Academy award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress Samantha Eggar. Her brother, Nicolas Stern, is a producer for film and television...

. A farce centering around the "bloodsport" of trying to get your child into an elite New York City kindergarten, the film centers on New York neophytes Jeff (Neil Patrick Harris) and Samantha (Bonnie Somerville) as they attempt to navigate the cutthroat and hilarious waters of the city’s private schools. Filmed in Philadelphia during the summer of 2009 and a 2010 Philadelphia Film Festival Official Selection.

Films

• Bigger, Stronger, Faster* - 2008 with co-production with Magnolia Films
• The Best and The Brightest (2010) - Set to be released in Spring of 2011
• D.O.G.S. of Mars- Announced for 2011 production