Mon, 14 May 2012
Seher Latif, C.S.A. is a member of the Casting Society of America. Seher’s feature films casting director projects both in India and abroad include the films and series: Outsourced, the TV Series Bollywood Hero, and Eat Pray Love, which include background and featured actors. More recently, she was the Indian Casting director for John Madden’s film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, casting for the all of the Indian roles in the film opposite a British all-star cast. Upcoming projects for Seher include casting for: Save Your Legs, Gandhi of the Month, Monsoon Shootout, and Indian casting for Kathryn Bigelow’s upcoming, Zero Dark Thirty. |
Mon, 7 May 2012
Living comfortably at the margins of documentary and narrative cinema, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky of Pigeon Projects forgo conventional storytelling methods in order to accommodate stark imagery, elusive characters and a deadpan realism. Their recent documentary, The Patron Saints, is a disquieting and hyperrealistic glimpse into life at a nursing home. Their first narrative feature, Francine, stars Academy Award winner Melissa Leo playing a woman struggling to find her place in a downtrodden lakeside town after leaving behind a life in prison. Brian and Melanie have shown their work at the Sundance, Rotterdam, Toronto, and Edinburgh film festivals and won awards at the European Media Art Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, and the Athens International Film Festival. Filmmaker Magazine has named Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky as one of "25 New Faces of Independent Film". |
Mon, 30 April 2012
Growing up as one of four children, Bradley spent his school days immersed in athletics and art. Photography presented itself as the perfect medium through which to express Bradley's creative energy. Graduating from Brooks Institute of Photography, Bradley's hands-on approach to camera and lighting laid the groundwork for his generous work ethic, admitting, he never wanted to have to ask someone to do something he couldn’t do himself. As director of photography, Bradley has been fortunate enough to have films that he has worked on to premiere at various festivals around the world. Some of the notable ones include: The Vicious Kind at Sundance, Almost Kings at LAFF, Spork at Tribeca, and God Bless America at Toronto. He also shot the acclaimed winning short, Sexting for renowned writer and director, Neil Labute starring actress, Julia Stiles. |
Mon, 23 April 2012
Gorman is the author of the novels: The Second Greatest Story Ever Told, Unwound, Ninth Square, Good Neighbors, and Balls. Gorman directed/wrote the indie feature You Are Alone, as well as The Kiss, and the horror comedy Psychos In Love. Gorman also directed the award-winning short films Objects In The Mirror Are Further Than They Appear and The Pretty Girl. Gorman made the feature comedy Friends (With Benefits) and more recently his first documentary, Color Me Obsessed, the potentially true story of the band The Replacements, told purely from fan’s stories rather than using actual music or archival footage. |
Mon, 16 April 2012
Alain has edited commercials for national and international clients Canon, Virgin Airlines, and Naturino and on television Series like Matrioshki and Code 37. Alain has worked many music videos for diverse musical groups such as: Hooverphonic, Soul Wax, Baloji with Konono No. 1. Alain has edited many award winning short films including the Oscar nominated: Gridlock, Tanghi Argentini, and Na Wewe as supervising editor. Alain’s feature film editing includes: Moscow, Belgium, Oxygen, and the more recent Oscar nominated feature, Bullhead. Bullhead is part crime drama and part personal tragedy as the assassination of a policeman draws a rancher into a series of events forcing him to confront dark secrets from his past. |
Mon, 9 April 2012
Judy is a UK set decorator with over 25 years in the film and television industry with experience working in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, CZ. Republic, Romania, Ireland, Borneo, Morocco, Iceland, Finland, and Sweden. Judy has also worked as a set decorator on the award winning film Ondine, the story of an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman in his fishing net who he believes to be a Selke, for Neil Jordan. Judy was recently the set decorator as part of the Academy Award nominated Art Direction team for The King’s Speech for Tom Hooper, about the King George VI of Britain's ascension to the throne and his speech therapist who helped him become worthy of it. Judy has more recently worked on My Week With Marilyn for Simon Curtis about Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, about the tense interaction between Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl. She was also the set decorator for the Golden Globe nominated TV Series, Downton Abbey. |
Mon, 2 April 2012
Kara's credits as Production Designer include: Everything Must Go, Dear John for Lasse Hallström, Polish Wedding, Guy (written by documentarian Kirby Dick), and Cold Around The Heart. As set decorator, Kara contributed to the diverse looks of such films as French Kiss, Strange Days, When a Man Loves a Woman, In the Line of Fire, The Mambo Kings, and more recently Race to Witch Mountain. Kara also wrote the screenplays for Killing Me Softly and A Time for Dancing, for which she earned an Emmy nomination. Her novel, Sparkle Life, was published in 2006. |
Mon, 26 March 2012
A graduate of film and history from the University of Michigan, Annie went on to study at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, where she got her start designing classmates' projects. Annie’s collaboration with director Jonathan Levine, The Wackness, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Annie designed her first studio film, Cyrus, directed by the Duplass brothers and starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, and Marisa Tomei for Fox Searchlight. Annie more recently worked with Jonathan Levine on his film, 50/50, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease, inspired by a true story. |
Sun, 18 March 2012
Rob was an interviewer and videographer for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation while earning an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research. Rob’s short film Preacher With An Unknown God won a Sundance Jury Award. Rob directed the Morgan Spurlock produced theatrical feature What Would Jesus Buy, about saving Christmas from the Shopocalypse. Rob has since been a director, producer, cinematographer, sound recordist and editor on a variety of documentary and broadcast productions on films including: Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock, Freakonomics, and more recently, Carol Channing: Larger Than Life. Rob is currently working on his feature documentary Training for the Apocalypse, winner of a Pacific Pioneer Grant, which is about the journeys of survivalists, truth-seekers and prophets united in their preparations for global cataclysm and the near-extinction of humanity as they struggle to make sense of the world they live in now. |
Sun, 11 March 2012
Bob’s set decoration work has ranged from many horror/thriller, science fiction, and action films like: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Robocop and Total Recall, the Die Hard series, Angels & Demons, and The Expendables. Bob is also known for his work on period pieces like: Days of Heaven, Melvin and Howard, Newsies, Rambling Rose, Master and Commander, and more recently The Artist. Bob received Oscar nominations for his set decoration work on the both Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and more recently Oscar winning film, The Artist, which won for Best Picture. |
