Wed, 28 October 2009 ![]() Jonathan Parker and Catherine Di Napoli wrote and produced Bartleby, The Californians, and (Untitled). Bartleby is a quirky twist on a classic story by Herman Melville starring Crispin Glover. The Californians is a modern adaptation loosely based on The Bostonians by Henry James and stars Illeana Douglas. (Untitled) is about a fashionable contemporary art gallerist in NYC, a brooding music composer, and the state of the contemporary art world. In (Untitled), Adam Goldberg plays the composer, whose work calls for paper crumpling, glass breaking and bucket kicking and Marley Shelton plays the chic Chelsea gallerist, whose latest show features an artist who employs taxidermy and household objects. The composer's brother, played by Eion Bailey, successfully sells his art to corporate clients and wants to be taken more seriously by his peers. Comments[0] |
Wed, 14 October 2009 ![]() Daniel Wirtberg was born in Karlstad, Sweden. He started filmmaking at the age of 12. At 18, he was accepted to the Czech Film Academy. Daniel has freelanced as a writer, director and producer and is a filmmaking teacher. He has created a variety of projects from music videos, promos, and slide shows to short films of different genres including: Julia, Apple, and The Intruder. Daniel’s film Love Child was featured in a number of prestigious including one of the 10 selected shorts in the worldwide traveling Manhattan Short Film Festival along with over 50 other festivals around the world. It is about a young girl who enjoys the perfect life of being the only child, when one day a new family member arrives. Comments[0] |
Wed, 7 October 2009 ![]() Julius Onah has worked for filmmakers Marc Levin, Spike Lee, and with acclaimed playwright Robert Alexander on the hip-hop play A Preface to the Alien Garden. He has also worked on as an NBC Page and was an editor on the documentary feature Lockdown, USA. His other award winning short films include: She Waits In The Restless Horizon, Linus, and the German documentary short, Szmolinsky. Comments[0] |
Wed, 23 September 2009 ![]() Gregg Helvey received his M.F.A in film production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, and his B.A.s in English and French from the University of Virginia. Gregg has traveled the world to film in countries such as El Salvador, China, Kenya and England on projects ranging from independent fictional films to National Geographic and BBC1 documentaries. His award-winning work includes the documentary, Overexposed, which examines how pornography affects men. Gregg wrote, directed and produced Kavi, the winning film of the 2009 Student Academy Award® gold medal in the narrative category. Kavi was filmed entirely on location in India and tells the story of a young boy who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Comments[0] |
Wed, 16 September 2009 ![]() Michael Ferreira, a native New Yorker of Portuguese immigrant decent, has performed in various theatrical mediums including: theater, television, film, and live cabaret performance, and also as his celebrated alter ego, Carmella Cann. Comments[0] |
Wed, 9 September 2009 ![]() Sean Baker is best known for co-creating the cult television show Greg the Bunny. Darren Dean wrote, directed and produced the award winning short film Sleep Over for under $250. Born and raised in Northern New Jersey, Darren is a published author, editor and journalist. He was also the front-man for the popular NYC band, SHOT, which contributed music to the behind the scenes featurette for the Sundance award-winning film Acts of Worship. Comments[0] |
Wed, 2 September 2009 ![]() Filmmaker and commercial editor Daniel Mitchell is originally from London and has been working in Melbourne and Sydney since 2001, editing high end television commercials. Several years after film school, Daniel has focused his writing and directing work on children's films including Triple Concerto in D Minor. In the short film Triple Concerto in D Minor, Rebecca, an ambitious young girl, had always wanted to play the triangle with an orchestra. When the National Youth Orchestra are in town, Rebecca has the chance to make her dream come true. Comments[0] |
Wed, 26 August 2009 ![]() Scott Wurth is based in Killara, Australia and has used his background in both advertising and photography to focus on documentary storytelling. Tira Bikal is about the Matias Santos family in the Philippines whose members became sick and began dying. Matias pledged to God Comments[0] |
Wed, 19 August 2009 ![]() Sue Gilbert has made two documentary features on old money wealth, values, past and future generations, Greenaway (in 1982) and Beyond Greenaway: The Legacy (twenty seven years later). Beyond Greenaway: The Legacy, Sue Gilbert’s second feature, was created after devoting many years to family life. Beyond Greenaway explores explores a range of diverse topics such as marriage and divorce, belief in God, drug therapy, and politics, seeing those with affluence as ordinary people sharing their struggles, regardless of their advantages. In addition to touring a variety of film festivals, Sue conducts workshops based on issues addressed in Beyond Greenaway for businesses, schools and focus groups to help people examine their attitudes about both affluence and the role of their own backgrounds in shaping their values. Comments[0] |
Wed, 12 August 2009 ![]() Victor Barcena won the first prize as a director at the Complutense University of Madrid with the play Woyzeck, from Georg Büchner. Comments[0] |











