River Road Entertainment is a Los Angeles and Minneapolis based independent production company, which was founded in 1987 by Bill Pohlad, who is also the company's president. River Road’s body of film includes Academy Award®-winning Best Picture 12 Years A Slave directed by Steve McQueen,Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival and Spike Lee’s screen adaptation of Broadway’s David Byrne’s American Utopia. Other titles include Sean Penn’s Oscar®-nominated Into The Wild, Jean Marc Vallée’s Oscar®-nominated Wild, Doug Liman’s Fair Game, Bill Pohlad’s Golden Globe-nominated Love & Mercy, Ang Lee’s Academy Award®-winning Brokeback Mountain, Robert Altman’s A Prairie Home Companion, J.A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls as well as featur