Wed, 26 November 2008  Scott Bunt has written for newspapers, magazines and standup comics, penned radio and television shows, worked in the music industry as a songwriter, producer and musician. His recent feature film, Sea of Dust, is based on the real life villain Prester John, and his vengeful master plan to sacrifice “the psychologically vulnerable” on the altar of evil. Sea of Dust won Grand Prize for best feature film at the 2008 RI International Horror Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Wed, 19 November 2008  Richard McGuire, musician, artist, and animator, joined us on this episode. Richard is the founder and bass player of the band Liquid Liquid. He is a regularly contributing artist to the The New Yorker magazine. Richard has also created comics, written and illustrated four children's books and has created award winning animation design for television for PBS Kids. He has designed and directed the short film Mico-Loup which was part of the feature film, Loulou and other Wolves. Most recently, Richard has co-written and directed the closing piece in Fear(s) of the Dark, a French animated feature film from a variety of animators who went back to the origins of their terrors and agreed to animate their drawings that inspire them. Fear(s) of the Dark is currently playing in limited release in theatres in worldwide. Comments[0] |
Wed, 12 November 2008  We were fortunate to catch a glimpse into the world of renowned animator Bill Plympton. Comments[0] |
Wed, 29 October 2008  Mason Daring is a talented film composer, musician, and record label head. As a musician with a law degree, Mason was legal counsel to director John Sayles for his first film The Return of the Secaucus Seven. Daring ended up composing the score to that film, as well as John Sayles’ other films up to and including Honeydripper, a story of blues musicians in 1950s Alabama. Mason has done television scoring as well, including the themes to the series Nova and Frontline on PBS. He also releases some of his and his collaborators recordings on his label Daring Records, a sub-label of Rounder Records. Mason currently splits his time between his studio and home in New England and a place in the Hollywood area. Comments[0] |
Wed, 22 October 2008  Geoff Thompson is a BAFTA winning writer, teacher, and martial artist. Geoff Thompson has worked through a plethora of menial jobs, from glass collector to floor sweeper; he even spent a decade working as a nightclub bouncer. Geoff decided to become a martial arts instructor and then followed this by living out his dream of becoming a writer. He is now the author of over thirty books, a stage play, a BAFTA winning short film, Brown Paper Bag, and two feature films. He wrote a screenplay to the award winning short film, Romans 12:20, which won the Grand Prize International Discovery Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. His latest feature film, Clubbed, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman, has screened a variety of film festivals including the Raindance Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Wed, 15 October 2008  William Donaruma has years of production experience having worked for Universal Studios as well as a variety of production companies and major television networks. Returning to Notre Dame to teach production courses, he has won the Kaneb Teaching Award and was granted a fellowship at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He is currently worked on a documentary about the His short films screened in the Feel Good Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, and the MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Wed, 8 October 2008  Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Justine Simei-Barton has worked in film, television, and theater, as director, writer, producer, and instructor. She heads her own film production company, Tala Pasifika Productions. Justine has won a number of awards including the Senior Pacific Artists’ Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, and a QE II Arts Council Travel Grant. Her recent film The Trophy, portrays a young Samoan girl whose science project wins her a trophy, but creates tension within her tradition-oriented family. The Trophy has played in film festivals around the world, including the Berlin International Film Festival, the Fajr Iran International Film Festival, and the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Wed, 1 October 2008  We spoke with members of the Toronto film collective team, Flemish Beauty, behind a number of films including the 1 minute animated short, The Inquisitive Snail. The Inquisitive Snail is the story of Luke, an average, everyday nosy neighbor and his newly acquired pet, an inquisitive snail. When the inquisitive snail is dispatched by Luke to spy on the inhabitants of a small town, the snail soon discovers that all is not what it seems and other people's secrets can be absolutely delicious. The Inquisitive Snail has been selected for a variety of film festivals including Annecy, DC Shorts, The Seattle International Film Festival, and the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, and the MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Wed, 24 September 2008  Ryan Gielen was born and raised in Columbia, MD. Ryan attended Washington and Lee University, where he majored in Journalism. He taught himself editing by sneaking into the editing suites after the Broadcast Journalism students left for the night. Following graduation, Ryan Gielen started his own production company we have creates, training and promotional videos for clients like Johns Hopkins University and MADD. The steady work funded his first documentary, Larry Keel: Beautiful Thing, following a year in the life of an underground bluegrass legend. Since moving to New York, Ryan has focused on screenwriting, producing and directing. His first short, Deleted Scenes, has won awards andplayed in festivals across the country. His recent feature film, The Graduates is inspired by his experiences growing up in Columbia, and attending several Senior Weeks in Ocean City. It has played several film festivals and has won the 2008 Directorial Discovery Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Wed, 17 September 2008  Marlyn Mason has been an acting professional from the age of 9. By the mid 1960s, she was playing a recurring role of Sally Welden on TV's Ben Casey. In 1967, she starred as Carrie Pipperidge in a television version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel and in 1969, she made her big-screen debut opposite Elvis Presley in The Trouble With Girls and as Nikki Bel in After a long absence, Marlyn returned to television in the early 1990s in a variety of roles. Most recently, she has written, produced, and starred in award winning short, Model Rules. Model Rules is film about a 70 year old woman who works as an artists’ model posing nude for a classroom full of men. During the session, she begins to fantasize about one of the artists as he draws her nude form.
Model Rules has screened a variety of festivals including LA Shorts and has received the Grand Prize for Screenplay at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Tue, 9 September 2008  Trey Gunn, based in Seattle by way of Texas, has an impressive list of credits as a musician, most memorably with the seminal progressive rock band King Crimson, as well as with other artists such as David Sylvian, Brian Eno and the band Tool. As a solo artist, he has released seven CDs. He has moved into the world of film and television scoring, and with Joe Mendelson has developed Quodia concerts, which integrate film, music, language, and storytelling. Trey Gunn's latest CD release is a compilation of film score pieces entitled Music For Pictures, for which he is soliciting animators to contribute visual interpretations. Comments[0] |
Sun, 31 August 2008  On this episode of Spoiler Alert Radio, we spoke with people behind the making of the 2008 Rhode Island International Film Festival including: Demetria Carr, Chase Huneke, Jocelyn Donahue, George Marshall, and Adam Short. This was the 12th year for RIIFF, which has become a leading showcase for independent filmmakers from around the world, this year screening almost 300 films in six days, in addition to year round film events and sidebar film festivals. RIIFF is a qualifying festival for the annual Academy Awards in the short film category, a distinction only about one percent of film festivals achieve. The interviews were recorded on location at the Columbus Theatre and the Courthouse Center for the Arts. Comments[0] |
Sun, 24 August 2008 On this episode of Spoiler Alert Radio, we spoke with filmmakers live from the closing night of the 2008 Rhode Island International Film Festival, or RIIFF. This was the 12th year for RIIFF, which over the years has become a leading showcase for independent filmmakers from around the world, screening almost 300 films in six days, bringing in talented visiting filmmakers from across the globe. Rhode Island International Film Festival is a qualifying festival for the annual Academy Awards in the short film category, a distinction only about one percent of film festivals achieve. We spoke with creators of the short films: Invulnerable, My Inventions, Behind My Eyes, Hugo, and Eclipse. The interviews were recorded live from the Columbus Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island. There will be more RIIFF Wrap-up in our next episode along with more in-depth interviews with festival filmmakers on the future episodes of Spoiler Alert Radio. Comments[0] |
Sun, 17 August 2008 On this episode of Spoiler Alert Radio, we spoke with filmmakers live from the closing night of the 2008 Rhode Island International Film Festival, or RIIFF. This was the 12th year for RIIFF, which over the years has become a leading showcase for independent filmmakers from around the world, screening almost 300 films in six days, bringing in talented visiting filmmakers from across the globe. Rhode Island International Film Festival is a qualifying festival for the annual Academy Awards in the short film category, a distinction only about one percent of film festivals achieve. We spoke with creators of the short films: Hakim, Under My Garden, Gone Fishing, Hold On, and Ikigai. The interviews were recorded live from the Columbus Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island at the RIIFF Wrap Party. There will be more RIIFF Wrap-up with visiting international filmmakers in our next episode along with more in-depth interviews with festival filmmakers on future episodes of Spoiler Alert Radio. Comments[0] |
Sun, 10 August 2008  Dominic Musacchio is a producer at Northern Light Productions in Boston, MA and who has co-produced the powerful documentary, Killer Poet. Killer Poet is about Norman Porter, a controversial Massachusetts prisoner with 2 life sentences who spent 25 years in prison, escaped and lived in Chicago for 20 years as a poet/intellectual under a fake name, and then was caught in 2005 by the Mass State Police and is back in max-security prison. It won Best Documentary in the Boston International Film Festival. It also screening in many prestigious film festivals including: Hot Docs, the Woods Hole Film Festival, and the Rhode Island International Film Festival. It will also be featured in the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Sun, 3 August 2008  The Rauch Brothers, Mike and Tim Rauch, are independent animators out of Brooklyn, NY. In 2007, they formed Rauch Brothers Animation, a studio that collaborates with visionaries in literature, music, performance, and other creative arts through character design, animation, and visual storytelling. The Rauch Brothers have recently teamed with David Isay, five time Peabody Award-winning radio documentarian and founder of StoryCorps, to create an animated documentary of the piece from StoryCorps about a World War II veteran Joseph Robertson who recalls shooting a young German soldier at The Battle of the Bulge, his "saddest memory”, called Germans in the Woods. Germans in the Woods has one 2nd place in the ASIFA-East Animation Festival and is screening at film festivals worldwide including the Animation Block Party, The Rhode Island International Film Festival, and The Palm Springs International Shorts Fest. Comments[0] |
Sun, 27 July 2008 
Simon Rouby is a French animator who completed his studies at Gobelins L' Ecole de L'Image in partnership with the California Institute of the Arts. Comments[0] |
Sun, 20 July 2008  Documentary filmmaker Renee Brown tells great visual stories through her work. She has made several short documentary films that have been featured in a variety of film festivals nationally and internationally including: The New Beijing International Movie Festival, The Nashville International Film Festival, The Dingle International Film Festival in Ireland, and the Short Shorts Film Festival Asia. One of her documentary shorts is called Katy Sullivan. This short film shows the inspirational Katy Sullivan as she trains in her carbon fiber running legs. Comments[0] |
Sun, 13 July 2008  Born in St Petersburg, Russia and having lived in New York City since the mid 1990s, Alex Budovsky is well known for his distinctive style of animated music videos. These include Bathtime in Clerkenwell for The Real Tuesday Weld and Return I Will to Old Brazil from Geoff Muldaur. His videos have won a number of awards including from the KROK International Animated Film Festival in Ukraine and the Boston Underground Film Festival in addition to Sundance Online and the Ottawa International Animation Festival. He has also worked on a number of other commercial and educational animation projects for Sesame Street and Greenpeace. Comments[0] |
Sun, 6 July 2008  Trevor Jimenez is an animator and an alum of the prestigious Sheridan College Animation Program in Oakville, Ontario. Trevor is the creator of a uniquely drawn 2D animated film, Key Lime Pie. It is a 2D animated spin on the noir genre, and the story basically revolves around this character who is obsessed with key lime pie. Key Lime Pie has been screened in many film festivals including Toronto After Dark, The Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and The Animation Show. Comments[0] |
Sun, 29 June 2008  Cecily Gambrell began performing at the age of six, born from a theatrical family, and whose great aunts were Gypsy Rose Lee and June Havoc. Some of Cecily's other work includes acting on Desperate Housewives, and High Hopes for which she wrote the shooting screenplay and co-stars with Edward Furlong, Lacey Chabert, and David Faustino. In the Spring of 2004 she began writing and producing the award-winning documentary Champion, profiling the life of actor and ex-convict Danny Trejo with director Joe Eckardt through The Film Emporium. Also featured are Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Steve Buscemi and Robert Rodriguez. It was released nationwide in 2007. Cecily is also scheduled to co-star in the comedy feature A Happy Death, which she also wrote, and which also stars Chevy Chase, Mercedes Ruehl, and Snoop Dogg in 2009. High Hopes will be released through Lion's Gate on DVD in November 2008. Comments[0] |
Sun, 22 June 2008  Since receiving his B.F.A. in Drawing from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Joel Trussell worked as an animation director in Seattle, animating online projects for clients including Disney, Napster, and the band Devo. Joel has also directed animated television commercials for companies including Esurance and Nicorette. Joel has also directed several music videos for popular artists such as M.Ward, Morcheeba, Coldcut, and Jason Forrest, for which he won a number of awards, including the Ottawa International Animation Festival's Best Music Video. His music videos have been featured in dozens of film festivals and have been featured on MTV2, MuchMusic, and MTV Europe. Joel Trussell recently made his television directorial debut with three segments for Nickelodeon's hit kids’ show YO GABBA GABBA! He has created the intro to The Animation Show. Comments[0] |
Sun, 15 June 2008  Kevin Watkins is a freelance art director, editor, and motion graphics designer in advertising and filmmaker from NYC originally from South Africa. Kevin has worked as both a Associate Creative Director and Senior Art Director for a variety of major clients including: American Express, AT&T Wireless, Heineken, Lego, Sprite, and RCA. He has won awards for his artistic work in advertising including the Cannes Silver Lion and Best of Show at the New York Advertising Festival. He has directed several award winning short films including String, You Were Perfectly Fine, and Hose, an animated film about a garden hose. Hose is screening at several film festivals including the Newport International Film Festival, The Kids First! Film Festival, and the Nantucket Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Sun, 8 June 2008  Mary C. Taylor is a designer, editor, and animator from Kansas City, MO who directed the 2 minute animated short How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole. She has worked in graphic art and video editing for PlattForm Advertising. She has also worked in television in design for FOX and NBC networks in addition to multimedia design for National Cinema Network, a subsidiary of AMC Theatres. Her other projects include web design and creating music videos for the Southern Country Rock band, The Gaslights. How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole has screened at the Phoenix Film Festival, the L.A. and San Francisco International Children’s Film Festivals, and was featured on the front page of Yahoo!. Comments[0] |
Sun, 1 June 2008  Julie Stevens works in many aspects of theatre and film as an Actress, Director, Voiceover Artist, Singer, Studio Teacher, and a Private Coach for children. She began her performing career at age ten, appearing on Broadway in the musical Annie. Over the years, she has appeared in several films and commercials, TV movies, recording projects and stage productions. Julie is also the creator of a new product called Acting Outside The Box, coaching cards for actors. Julie co-directed her first feature film, Life After Tomorrow, a documentary about the experience of child actors in Broadway productions of Annie. She and partner, Gil Cates, Jr., won awards for Best Director and Best Documentary at the 2006 Phoenix Film Festival. Life After Tomorrow premiered on Showtime in late 2006 and is now available on DVD through Arts Alliance America. Comments[0] |
Sun, 25 May 2008  Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir is both an author and the director of the Jewish music archival documentary, From Shtetl to Swing. From Shtetl to Swing is a collective journey from synagogue choirs to Harlem hotspots, from Yiddish theater to musical extravaganza, from klezmer to ragtime, from symphonic jazz to swing from the Bowery to Tin Pan Alley to Broadway to Hollywood. It also screened as part of the Great Performance Series on PBS. 7th Art Releasing can be contacted with any requests for theatrical distribution of the film. Comments[0] |
Sun, 18 May 2008  Originally from Pune, India, Arjun Rihan studied Computer Science and Economics as an undergraduate at Stanford University and then purused his MFA in 2008 at University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. His professional experience includes a Technical Director internship at Pixar Animation Studios. He is the director, writer, and animator of the acclaimed 3 minute short, Abridged. Abridged is a romantic comedy set on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA. Abridged has screened several film festivals around the world including: the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival, the Alaska Ocean Film Festival, Anifest in the Czech Republic, Annecy in France, and it received the 2008 USC Phi Kappa Phi Student Recognition Award. Comments[0] |
Sun, 11 May 2008  French teacher and documentary filmmaker Aurelien Foucault found a job teaching French that would allow him to live abroad, where he has lived in Scotland, Russia, and Siberia, where he met his wife. Having worked enough to get a video camera and a good computer, he met Cédric Quennesson in China and worked on his first documentary short Of Shadows and Men under the production company Wuhan Films. Of Shadows and Men is about a theater, a teahouse, and an ancient art that takes place and brings magic back into everyday life in Yunmeng, a rural city in the Hubei Province. It had its world premiere in the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC. Comments[0] |
Sun, 4 May 2008 
Filmmaker, Photographer, and Educator, Mitra Sen is a graduate of the She began her career in the Canadian film industry as the Assistant Director on the International Emmy Award winning CBC television series Degrassi Junior High. She has worked in various aspects of filmmaking including scriptwriting, producing, production managing, directing, editing and casting on a variety of feature films including My Own Country, Sam and Me, and Cocktail. Mitra is also a teacher with the Toronto District School Board where her experiences with children have inspired her to create award winning films including Just a Little Red Dot and The Peace Tree. The Peace Tree portrays the wishes of three girls, two Muslim and one Christian, that cooperate in order to find a way to overcome
their parents' resistance to observe each other's holiday
celebrations. The film has also inspired the creation of Peace Trees in schools around the world. The official Peace Tree Day festival is celebrated on June 1st worldwide. Comments[0] |
Sun, 27 April 2008  Scott Kravitz is a character animator in San Francisco, CA who started out as an actor. He became a featured character animator on a variety of film projects including the animation series The PJs, Hollow Man, Matrix: Revolutions, Superman Returns, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and The Host. His personal film projects include Family Portrait, Magic Trick, and Loom. Loom is about a street musician who risks his life to save a child and meets his fate at the hands of an old woman who is more than she seems. Comments[0] |
Sun, 20 April 2008  Zina Papadopoulou is a Greek animator and graphic and web designer who now lives and has studied in the Netherlands. Zina has done commercial work, music videos, and a variety of eclectic short films. Highlights of her work include My Dad, Safe Surf, Rendezvous, and Bloody Mary. In Bloody Mary, Mary faces a strange room with mixed feelings of excitement and greed after her obsession with the famous drink. Comments[0] |
Sun, 13 April 2008  Maria Gigante writes, directs and produces short films in Chicago and in Brooklyn, NY. Her films scripts Petal Fall and Eva Eva won screenwriting awards at Screenwriting Expo in LA and the Columbia College Written Image Screenwriting Competition. Her most recently completed short film, Girls Room, hit the festival circuit in 2007. Girls Room is about a Catholic schoolgirl who discovers that there is nothing more frightening than having to go to the old, creepy restroom down the hall – all by herself. Girls Room was Maria's thesis film at Columbia College and won Best of the Fest and the Audience Award at Columbia's 2007 Big Screen Film Festival. It continues to play at festivals including the Short Film Corner at The Cannes Film Festival, LA Shorts Fest, Berlin, Montreal World, and was nominated for the mtvU Student Filmmaker Award at Tribeca and won best short in the Chlotrudis Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Sun, 6 April 2008  Chris Metzler graduated from USC with a degree in business and cinema. His film directing and producing work has resulted in frequent partnerships with Jeff Springer, where together they've made their way in the Nashville country and Christian music video industries, before finally forsaking their souls to commercial LA rock n’ roll. These misadventures eventually culminated in their winning a Billboard Magazine Music Video Award. Chris finished traveling the theatrical circuit promoting his John Waters’ narrated documentary, Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea, which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and won both the HBO Producer’s Award and the Robert Altman Award. He is a recipient of the Bay Area Video Coalition’s AEA Award and has previously received funding support from the Pacific Pioneer Fund and the Fleishhacker Fund. Comments[0] |
Sun, 30 March 2008  Ellen Lake is a documentary filmmaker, sculptor, and installation artist from Oakland. CA. She received her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California in 2002, where she studied sculpture, film and video, and installation. She has worked on an extensive group of experimental documentary short films about collecting, including Trina's Collections and Ann's Hoard. Her films, sculptures, and installations have been been screened at in the San Francisco Bay area at New Langton Arts, The Exploratorium, Pacific Film Archives, Other Cinema, and the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, in addition to the Echo Park Film Center and Midnight Special Bookstore in LA, and The Pioneer Theater in NYC. She was the recipient of the 2005 Bay Area Video Coalition Mediamaker award, which is a competitive, in-kind grant of post-production, new media services, and certified training classes, awarded to filmmakers in the San Francisco Bay area each year to help them complete public media projects. Comments[0] |
Sun, 23 March 2008  Aideen McCarthy is a a writer and director of short films, commercials, and music videos. Aideen McCarthy decided to pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker in 2001 after originally getting her law degree, obtaining her Masters Degree in Film Studies at the UCD School of Film in Dublin. She started out working in the camera department on a mix of large scale feature films and short films, including Adam and Paul, Lassie, and Becoming Jane. In 2005, she went onto produce her first dramatic film called The Widow which explores the five stages of grief from a unique view. Her latest work is a five-minute film called The Formorian about a mythological race of Ancient Ireland. Additionally, she came in fourth place in the Jameson Whiskey Film Festival Trailer competition and has directed nine music video promos for the Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Comments[0] |
Sun, 16 March 2008  Spoiler Alert Radio interviewed renowned animator and sex expert, Signe Baumane. Signe Baumane was born and raised in Latvia, graduating from Moscow University in 1989 with a B.A. in Philosophy. She started work at Dauka Animation Studio in Riga as an animator and cel painter. Her animation ranges from her 1991 debut The Witch and the Cow to more recent works including The Teat Beat of Sex, one of few animated films accepted into both Sundance and Berlin, and Veterinarian, about the circle of life and death. Since 1995, she has lived in NYC, having worked on I Married a Strange Person with Bill Plympton and animation inserts for XX/XY among many other projects. In addition to animation, Signe has illustrated books, worked in puppet theater design, taught animation at Pratt Institute, and is periodically publishing parts of a novel about her adventures in New York in Una, a Latvian women’s magazine. She is a 2005 Fellow in Film of the New York Foundation for the Arts, the recipient of an individual artist grant from The Jerome Foundation, a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. Comments[0] |
Sun, 2 March 2008  Richard Rosenblatt is the publisher of the Filmfestivalworld.com. FilmFestivalWorld.com is a membership site targeted to networking people who make films and mixed media with those whose professional focus is programming, distributing, financing and writing about films and media. By using the tools and resources that FFW has assembled, any filmmaker can level the playing field in launching and promoting a film. Unique areas like genre gateways also make it easy to focus on genre-specific film festivals for planning film submissions and festival attendance amd for selecting films. Comments[0] |
Sun, 24 February 2008  Brendt Barbur is the Founding Director of the Bicycle Film Festival. The film festival celebrates the bicycles and bicycle culture through art, film, music and performance and brings together various aspects of bicycling together to advocate its ability to transport people in many ways and to have a good time. The Bicycle Film Festival has traveled from its home base in New York City to San Francisco, Tokyo, Melbourne and many other small and large cities worldwide with each site having their own customized festival with a variety film shorts and features, art, and music. Comments[0] |
Sun, 17 February 2008  Judy Laster is the Founder and Executive Director of the Woods Hole Film Festival. The Woods Hole Film Festival is a week long festival held in Woods Hole on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, from the end of July to the beginning of August. The festival includes workshops, panel discussions, staged readings and parties as well as eight days of film screenings. 2008 will mark the 17th year of the festival, which will have continued great offerings of film and related events for international filmmakers, the Woods Hole community, local filmakers, and fans of the festival from around the world. The Woods Hole Film Festival also presents other film events throughout the year. Comments[0] |
Sun, 10 February 2008  Casey Safron is a film professor, filmmaker, and founder of Animation Block Party. Taking place in late July in Brooklyn, New York, the Animation Block Party (ABP) is a four-night film festival party with the best and most unique animated shorts from around the world with special themed nights and music, attended by over two animation lovers. ABP has also toured with a one-night "best of fest" as a midnight screening at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, where Casey went to college. Comments[0] |
Sun, 3 February 2008  Anne S. Lewis is a featured writer for the Austin Chronicle and writes a monthly column covering the the Austin Film Society documentary tour. Separate Vacations is an animated short film about a dog owner, boarding her dog before leaving for a vacation, is thrown a curve by one of the kennel's information forms. It is Anne's first animated film. It played the SXSW Film Festival and also debuted in New England at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival and was an audience favorite. Anne discussed with us her experiences covering the documentary film tour and the process of her past, present, and future film ideas. Comments[0] |
Sun, 27 January 2008  Liz Van Verth is a filmmaker from Buffalo, NY, who received her BFA in Illustration at Syracuse and her MFA at Pratt Institute in New York. She worked as a graphic artist for NBC Nightly News and eventually as a 3-D animator for show graphics on Dateline NBC. She has also worked on projects for both CBS Sports and MTV. Her MFA thesis animation is called , which won Best Concept for the Department of Digital Arts at the Pratt Show and was screened at the Brooklyn International Film Festival KidsFest and the MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival, where it was nominated for a Heartstrings Award for emotive storytelling. Comments[0] |
Sun, 20 January 2008  Lyn Elliot is a filmmaker who incorporates both narrative and experimental elements into her movies and creates short films that bring to the surface the strange undercurrents of everyday life. Her short films include The Boy in the Air and Mild People in Aggressive T-Shirts, which have screened at film festivals across the United States, along with her latest film, Fish But No Cigar, which was the recipient of the Soul of Wit Award at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival. Fish, But No Cigar is a four-minute animated short about a woman who literally has bigger fish to fry. Lyn Eliot’s films have been compiled onto a DVD available here. Comments[0] |
Sun, 13 January 2008  Sarah Wickliffe was born in New York and raised in New Jersey, the only child of jazz vocalist Roseanna Vitro and record producer/engineer, Paul Wickliffe. She has completed three short animated films; the last of which, Arts Desire, is a 4 minute animation about a character from a Picasso painting in search of a better environment, created with a mix of traditional hand drawn animation, 3d, and After Effects. Arts Desire has won a number of honors including NYU animation’s Richard Protovin Award as well as the Gold Student Academy Award in Animation for 2007, and as a nominee for the Thousand Words Award at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Sun, 6 January 2008  Dony Permedi is a character animator from the Los Angeles area. After receiving a BFA (BGSU, Ohio) and MFA (School Of Visual Arts, NYC), both with a focus on Computer Art, he has worked in animation for a variety of commercial, gaming, and corporate clients. His personal projects include a variety of animated heartfelt animated short films Pony and Kiwi! in addition to an upcoming live action short film Since You’ve Been Ong, created in 72 hours. Kiwi! is a charming animated short about the flying hopes of a little kiwi bird which has received huge amount of response online and made its New England debut at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival and was an audience favorite. Comments[0] |
Sun, 30 December 2007  We spoke with RIIFF Kidseye 2007 participants and Keith Brown of KBro Films, co-Program Director of the KidsEye Film Camp that occurs every summer in Kingston, RI on the URI Campus. Comments[0] |
Sun, 23 December 2007 We spoke with RIIFF Kidseye 2007 participants and Keith Brown of KBro Films, co-Program Director of the KidsEye Film Camp that occurs every summer in Kingston, RI on the URI Campus. Comments[0] |
Sun, 16 December 2007  Jonathan Browning is an actor, director, and writer out of Los Angeles, CA. He is a co-founder of the film production company, Screaming Frog Productions. Jonathan Browning has strong background in traditional and alternative theatre. In Chicago, he was an active member of the great improvisational Annoyance Theatre and a variety of other theatre companies. In Los Angeles he has performed in and directed dozens of staged pieces at such prominent venues. The 3-minute comedic film The Job marks his directorial debut. The Job is a true crowd pleaser and has won audience awards in a number of festivals including in the Lake County film Festival, the DC International Shorts Fest, Chicago Really Short Film Festival, and the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Sun, 9 December 2007  Ben Peters is writer and producer of a 90 second short short story film called Frog Jesus in addition to a variety of other great short short story films from a variety of genres. Frog Jesus has played a number of festivals and debuted in New England at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival. Ben Peters runs a film production company called Kijo in Vancouver, BC as writer/producer along with Toby Gorman, cinematographer/director, that is currently concentrating on short films and will produce features in the future as well. Comments[0] |
Sun, 2 December 2007  Jonpaul Lewis is the "Jack" and master of many trades as an independent filmmaker. He is the writer, editor, director, producer, and lead actor of a three-minute short short story animation/live action character driven horror film called Jack the Ripper featuring a unique mix of 8,000 still photographs and stop motion animation techniques. He has many other plans in the works including an original remake of David Lynch’s The Elephant Man and a full length version of Jack the Ripper as well. Jonpaul is inspired by a variety of newer and older filmmakers including Tim Burton, Ray Harryhausen, and the early films of Thomas Edison. Jack the Ripper has played a number of festivals and debuted in New England at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival. Comments[0] |
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