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Academy Award nominated producer Michael London (MILK, THE INFORMANT, THE VISITOR, SIDEWAYS, THE FAMILY STONE) is the principal and founder of Groundswell Productions, an independent production and financing company formed in 2006.  The company’s slate mixes films from established directors and emerging talent alongside comedies and genre films with an original sensibility. The pilot for Groundswell’s first television series, the half-hour comedy BETAS, started airing on Amazon in May 2013.  Groundswell’s latest released films are WIN WIN, from writer-director Tom McCarthy and starring Paul Giamatti, Bobby Cannavale and Amy Ryan, and LOLA VERSUS from the filmmaking team Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones. Groundswell completed production earlier this year on VERY GOOD GIRLS, starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.  Prior to founding Groundswell, London produced the Alexander Payne film SIDEWAYS, which won a Golden Globe for Best Picture (comedy or musical), an Independent Spirit Award, and was a Best Picture nominee at the 2005 Academy Awards, where it won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2005, London produced THE FAMILY STONE, written and directed by Thomas Bezucha, and starring Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dermot Mulroney, Luke Wilson, Claire Danes, Rachel McAdams, and Craig T. Nelson.  London also produced Neil Burger’s THE ILLUSIONIST, which was released in August 2006.  The film starred Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, and Jessica Biel.  London also spent five years as a production executive at Fox, which he departed as Executive Vice President of Production.  Films under his supervision included ALIEN 3, DIE HARD 2, SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY, HOFFA,  AIRHEADS and THE SANDLOT.  He started his career as a staff writer covering film and pop music for the Los Angeles Times after receiving his undergraduate degree from Stanford University. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut.