Wed, 18 November 2009 
Brett Harvey is President and founder of BKS Crew Productions,
a Vancouver based multimedia production company. Brett has worked as a director of photography on a number of film and television projects including two recent projects for the Canadian national television network CBC – Secrets and Lottery On Ice. He has made the move from DP to director with his new film The Union: The Business Behind Getting High, a documentary film which explores the seven-billion-dollar per year business of marijuana in British Columbia, as well as the general history and current impact of cannabis prohibition. The Union is available on DVD via Amazon.Comments[0] |
Wed, 11 November 2009  Emile Bokaer comes from a family of conscious and creative people in Ithaca, NY. As a child, he worked at his parents’ art house movie theater Fall Creek Pictures. While studying Math and English at Oberlin College, he fell in love with documentary filmmaking. He is pursuing an MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University. Emile has made a wide range of documentary films locally and internationally. These include: a film about a small town skateboard park, the relationships between various institutional lifestyles, collectives of Guatemalan women who work to preserve native species of corn, and a technical theater program at a girl’s school in Cleveland. His recent documentary film short Looking Back is about Albert Lewis who struggles with drug addiction and with memories of war, using photography to help him survive in a supportive community of homeless veterans. Emile has also collaborated with Geoff Pingree on the forthcoming documentary feature, The Return of Elder Pingree and has worked on worked on the Student Academy Award finalist film, In Circles. Comments[0] |
Wed, 4 November 2009  Nicolas Entel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His latest project is the documentary Sins of My Father, which tells the story of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar through the eyes of his only son, as well as the sons of his most prominent victims. Previously, Nicolas directed the multiple-award winning documentary film Orquesta Tipica filmed in Argentina and other locations around the world. He is also a founding partner in Red Creek Productions, one of the largest Latino owned production companies in the US. Red Creek has offices in New York, Buenos Aires and San Jose de Costa Rica. Red Creek has provided production services for the likes of Discovery Channel, BBC, and Turner Networks, produced hundreds of spots for major clients, as well as music videos for such artists as KT Tunstall and Wyclef Jean. Comments[0] |
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] |
Wed, 5 August 2009  Bobby Ciraldo is the co-owner of Special Entertainment is an Mary L. Nohl Fellowship Award winning production partnership between him and Andrew Swant whose mission is to blend art, entertainment, and humor. Their projects include: Hamlet A.D.D, Frankie Latina’s Modus Operandi, a number of creative music videos like the famous What What In The Butt by Samwell, and the documentary William Shatner’s Gonzo Ballet (based on the story of the ballet Common People by Margo Sappington created to paint a picture of music and the spirit of William Shatner's album, Has Been) which has played film festivals worldwide. Comments[0] |
Wed, 29 July 2009  Barbara Muschietti is a an Argentinean executive producer of the Cannes Golden Lion Award Winning production Toma 78 in Barcelona, Spain. Toma 78 provides General Production, casting, location scouting, styling, hair and make up, set design and prop rental, accommodation and logistics in a variety of creative advertising spots and film. Comments[0] |
Wed, 22 July 2009  Patrick Smith has written, produced, animated, and directed a variety of award winning animated films. He also directed the Emmy nominated MTV series Downtown and continued on to direct the popular animated series Daria. Patrick has created many creative commercial spots providing his signature style like Zoloft to the Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days series. Patrick's bizarre, morphing style tells symbolic stories of identity and emotion, and has extended beyond film. His unique paintings and public art installations have earned him accolades outside the world of animation; his fine art has been represented internationally by CVZ Contemporary Gallery in New York. Patrick is a Senior Thesis advisor at the Pratt Institute in New York, a fellow with the New York Foundation of the Arts, and a curator for multiple international film and animation festivals. Comments[0] |
Wed, 15 July 2009  Liliana Greenfield-Sanders is a New York City director of a number of award winning short films including Ghosts of Grey Gardens, Miriam, Anna, Samantha, and Adelaide. She has worked for Anthology Film Archives, Fine Line Features, and Maysles Films. She graduated with honors from the Art-Semiotics department at Brown University. Before attending NYU Graduate film school, her first film Ghosts of Grey Gardens premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, screened at the Museum of Modern Art, and made its television debut on PBS. Anna won first prize in the LMN TV Student Filmmaker Contest and made its television debut on Lifetime Television. Samantha won Best Director, Best Graduate Film, and Best Film at the Fusion Film Festival. As a short film, Adelaide has won a National Board of Review Award, a SAG/Indie Audience Award at DGA Los Angeles and both the Audience Award and Best Short at the Gen Art Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Wed, 8 July 2009  Tze (pronounced "Z") Chun is a filmmaker working out of NYC and LA. He was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston, and received his bachelor's degree in film studies at Columbia University. As a painter and visual artist, Tze has been represented at CVZ Contemporary gallery in Soho, and has commissioned portraits in private residences in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, and New Orleans. Tze also painted the original artwork for the Academy-Award nominated Half Nelson as well as the children's book drawings used in the film. Tze's short film Windowbreaker, made for $600, was selected to play at mant high-profile film festivals including Sundance. A feature length version of the film Children of Invention has also screened at Sundance and has won awards at film festivals worldwide. It is about two young children living outside Boston that are left to fend for themselves when their mother gets embroiled in a pyramid scheme and disappears. Tze has been named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film." He is working on a number of projects including, You're A Big Girl Now, a film about his mother's childhood growing up in a Singaporean brothel, based on two years of research and interviews. Comments[0] |
Wed, 1 July 2009  Christopher Bowen is a composer based in New York City and has written music for theatre and film. His projects include: the Annie nominated feature film $9.99 and the Israel-France co-produced live action feature Jellyfish (the winner of the Cannes Film Festival Camera D’Or). Both films feature the writing of Etgar Keret and a collaboration with writer Shira Geffen on Jellyfish and animator Tatia Rosenthal on $9.99. Additionally, Christopher is the Senior Performing Director of the award-winning theatrical group, The Blue Man Group, known for its three mysterious blue bald characters who take the audience through a multi-sensory experience. Other scoring projects have included: The Pinocchio Experiment, a one-man show written and performed by Randall Jaynes and the short film The Green Hour by Nicole Kassell. Comments[0] |
Wed, 24 June 2009  Lynne Sachs is a teacher and experimental documentary filmmaker originally from Memphis, TN and now lives in Brooklyn, NY that teaches experimental film and video at NYU. Lynne’s films explore the relationship between personal memories and broader, historical experiences. As an experimental filmmaker, she tries to make images that lead to new ways of thinking about the language of film. Some of her films include: Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning, Sermons and Sacred Pictures, States of Unbelonging, Which Way Is East, and Wind in Our Hair. The Last Happy Day is an experimental documentary portrait Lynne created of Sandor Lenard, a distant cousin and a Hungarian medical doctor. Lenard was a writer with a Jewish background who fled the Nazis. Eventually Sandor found himself in remotest Brazil where he embarked on the translation of Winnie the Pooh into Latin, an eccentric task which catapulted him to brief world wide fame. Comments[0] |
Wed, 17 June 2009  Writer/director Rob Connolly discovered a love for creating visual images through studying art and photography while growing up in rural Mount Airy, North Carolina. His passion for visual storytelling developed further while chronicling his travels around the world. His latest work and thesis, Our Neck of the Woods, is about the character Bob Underwood's mundane life manufacturing plastic lawn-ornament deer and his connection to an enchanting Georgian refugee that he attempts to rescue her—whether she needs it or not. It has screened in Sundance and a variety of other large and small film festivals. Comments[0] |
Wed, 10 June 2009  Madeleine Olnek is a filmmaker, director and playwright. Her first short comedy Hold Up, was an official selection of Sundance and the Los Angeles Film Festival. Her plays have been described by playwright Paula Vogel as "incredible contemporary masterpieces" in American Theater Magazine. Madeleine is also one of the authors of A Practical Handbook for the Actor with a foreword by David Mamet. Her latest short film, Countertransference, screened at Sundance as well and won the Adrienne Shelley Award for Best Female Director, the Grand Jury award for Outstanding Dramatic Short at Outfest, and was featured in the Live Action Shorts program in the Newport International Film Festival. Comments[0] |
Wed, 3 June 2009  Tom Hall has worked at the Hamptons International Film Festival and Nantucket Film Festival in Guest/Industry and Programming over the years along with work in New Media at Bravo/IFC. He has directed short films for Bob Mould’s Carnival of Light and Sound Tour and is a member of the indieWIRE blogging community with The Back Row Manifesto. Tom is also the Director of Programming at the Sarasota Film Festival and is currently the Artistic Director of the Newport International Film Festival which happens during the 1st week of June. Comments[0] |
Wed, 27 May 2009  Miriam Cutler has been writing, producing, and performing music for over 20 years and is based out of Los Angeles. She began her musical career as a singer/horn player in several bands, including the popular Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. She also led The New Miss Alice Stone Ladies Society Orchestra and the jazzy Swingstreet, writing most of their music and arrangements, producing several recordings, and touring with them. Her love of jazz also led to a stint co-producing albums for Polygram-Verve including Joe Williams, Nina Simone, Marlena Shaw, and Shirley Horn. Miriam's scores have been featured in a variety of projects including numerous narrative features and award-winning documentaries, as well as television, and even two circuses. She is known for being versatile, her integration of world music styles, and working collaboratively. She has served on documentary juries including the first-ever World Cinema Documentary competition at Sundance, The Independent Spirit Awards, International Documentary Association Awards, and American Film Institute's Film Festival Awards. Miriam also serves on the Board of The Society of Composers and Lyricists and has been an advisor for the Sundance Institute’s Composers Lab. Comments[0] |
Wed, 20 May 2009  John Bergin has worked on a variety of creative projects including album artwork for bands Gravity Kills, Pigface, Voodou, and the Rachel Getting Married soundtrack. He has also created music and music videos for bands including Lolo and Blackmouth (a side project that we he performs on with Jarboe of Swans), and the children’s albums Noah’s Ark and Kaleidosaurus. He has created and contributed to several graphic novels and comics including: Bone Saw, The Crow, Ashes, and Golgothika. He also created short films including: Cloud Warriors and Nesting Grounds. John's most recent project is an animated feature film based on one of his graphic novels, From Inside. It tells the story of Cee, a young pregnant woman who finds herself on a damaged train crossing a post apocalyptic landscape. Comments[0] |
Wed, 13 May 2009  Margaret Brown has worked on a variety of films including cinematography work on the film Ice Fishing, the narrative short 99 Threadwaxing, producing the narrative feature film, Mi Amigo, and producing the narrative short Six Miles of Eight Feet which won a Student Academy Award. She has also directed and produced music videos for Okkervil River and Cat Power. She has more recently focused on documentary work including the acclaimed documentary Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, and The Order of Myths which won her awards including the Truer Than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. The Order of Myths is about the world of secret societies and centuries-old traditions branching from the 1st Mardi Gras in America celebrated in Mobile, Alabama organized along enduring color lines. |
Wed, 6 May 2009  Brendan Toller, graduate of Hampshire College, has created his 1st feature, the eclectic documentary I Need That Record! The Death (Or Possible Survival) Of The Independent Record Store, a documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade. I Need That Record! features interviews with folks including: Ian Mackaye of Dischord Records, activist/author Noam Chomsky, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Mike Watt, guitar composer Glenn Branca, Pat Carney of The Black Keys, Mike Dreese of Newbury Comics, and independent record store owners across the US. Comments[0] |
Wed, 29 April 2009  Petr Cikhart, Director of Photography, was born and raised in Prague. As a 19-year-old Assistant Director, he covered the war in Chechnya for Czech TV, and was arrested and held hostage for two days by Russian soldiers during the assignment. It was his first field shoot, and he was hooked. He immigrated to the United States in 1995 after winning a journalism internship at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. After finishing his internship and working briefly as a lobsterman in Maine, he moved to New York City to resume his career behind the camera. He has lent his talents to several television programs, including CBS’s The Amazing Race, which won him a primetime Emmy, National Geographic’s Be the Creature, A&E’s Dog The Bounty Hunter, WGBH's Science Investigators, Throwdown with Bobby Flay on The Food Network, ABC and the Discovery Channel ’s reality series Detonators, and PBS’s Fiesta Mexicana. He has also traveled to more than 80 countries on all continents for a variety of projects, such as Farmingville, the LA-gang documentary Gangs: Escaping the Life for Showtime, and Blindsight, which was filmed in the Tibetan Himalayas. Petr has also recently worked on the fiction side of film as the DP on projects including the feature-length movie May the Best Man Win starring members of the Upright Citizens Brigade and the experimental feature film, Euphoria. Comments[0] |
Wed, 22 April 2009  Copywriter and filmmaker, David Rakowiecki started in advertising writing award winning TV spots for major brands including Heineken, Amstel Light, Sprite and Converse. He found advertising creatively unfulfilling and turned to writing screenplays. He has attended NY Film Academy, where he wrote and directed the shorts The Bottle and Five Cent Refund. After NYFA, he wrote and directed an Olympics-themed commercial for Heineken that was recognized in the New York Times and took lessons in guerilla improv technique at Upright Citizens' Brigade Theatre in New York. David created the film Spoiler Alert, which is a black comedy about Brad, the operator of a movie scoop website and Harrison, a down on his luck film director who has squandered his artistic abilities in pursuit of easy paydays. Comments[0] |
Wed, 15 April 2009  Simon-Olivier Fecteau is a writer, director, producer, comedian, and actor from Victoriaville, QC. Simon was part of the comic trio The Chick'n Swell during the three years that their weekly program was broadcast on television from Radio-Canada, between 2001 and 2003. In 2006, he made a difficult decision to leave the group to pursue his passion for film. Simon's first short The Remaining Days is about a very old widower, while cleaning out his closet, finds a list of things he wanted to do in his life and decides to carry them out. Simon's 1st feature film, Bluff, is a black comedy about a building inspector that finds a shocking discovery in the basement to a building that is about to be destroyed. He contacts the landlord and, as the pair wait for the police to show up, the story of this discovery comes uncovered. Both films have played the festival circuit and they each have been nominated for a Genie in Canada. Comments[0] |
Wed, 8 April 2009  Ira Sachs was born in Memphis, TN and moved to New York after graduating from Yale University with a BA in Literature and Film Theory. Ira was a recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1999, Sachs has been an Adjunct Professor in the MFA Program at the Columbia University School of Film, a creative advisor at the Sundance Director’s Lab, and a fellow at both the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. His films include the features Married Life, Forty Shades of Blue which won a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and The Delta. They have been screened at the Berlin, Toronto, New York, Rotterdam, and London Film Festivals. Ira is presently working on a new feature, The Goodbye People, co-written with Oren Moverman, and adapted from the fiction of screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert. Comments[0] |
Wed, 25 March 2009  Bettina Devin is a talented actress, voice over artist, singer, and teacher. Bettina Devin was known worldwide for her role as “Maureen’s clueless Mom” in the film version of Rent. She can be seen in principal and lead film roles in the thriller, The Confessional, The Full Picture (Grand Prize Winner in the Rhode Island International Film Festival), and in 2 unique roles in The Village Barbershop. In Film Noir, an animated feature, she voiced 6 characters, including the leading female character, and it premiered at Cannes. Bettina is also an critically acclaimed singer and stage performer, who has been a Guest Artist with the San Francisco Symphony and David Mirisch Productions. She has been a Celebrity Guest Coach for GRAMMY Career Day, has taught voice and acting for over 30 years, and has worked with a wide variety of performers. Comments[0] |
Wed, 18 March 2009  Emily Hubley is a daughter of pioneer animators Faith and John Hubley and she worked on Faith Hubley's films at The Hubley Studio, Inc. from 1977 to 2001. Emily has also been making her own animated shorts for thirty years. Her hand-drawn films explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life. Among Hubley's shorts are: Pigeon Within, Delivery Man, The Tower, Her Grandmother's Gift, Set Set Spike, and Octave. She has created the animated sequences for John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch. She also provided inserts for documentaries Everything's Cool, Blue Vinyl, The Boy in the Bubble, and Original Child Bomb. With Emily’s 1st feature length film, The Toe Tactic, she layers human truths, working with live elements to depict a reality that is at once subjective, honest and bittersweet. The Toe Tactic uses live action and animation together to explore the interaction between the human and supernatural forces and the main character, Mona Peek, finds her way to reconnect with the world. The Toe Tactic features an eclectic score from her sister and collaborator Georgia Hubley's band, Yo La Tengo. Emily is touring and speaking about The Toe Tactic in various cinemas and venues nationwide. Comments[0] |
Wed, 11 March 2009  While hailing from Winnipeg, MB, Stacey Chomiak is currently living in Oakville, Ontario, Canada in her final year of the Bachelor of Animation degree at Sheridan College. Before Stacey moved from the corporate world to animation school, she worked as a graphic/web designer for several years. She has completed the The Celestial Ox, with the MoCap Penguins studio which has screened many films festivals and is currently finishing up her 2nd animated short, Tah-dah. Comments[0] |
Wed, 4 March 2009  Elizabeth Marre was born in Paris and completed law school while studying acting for several years. Elizabeth worked as 1st Assistant Director on feature films, where she traveled from Lebanon to Hong-Kong, working on films such as La Moustache and Caramel. Olivier Pont grew up in the French Riviera. He graduated from the Gobelins, the French National Animation School. He worked as an animator at the Steven Spielberg’s Amblimation Studio in London and then developed his own stories as a comic strip artist. Olivier edited eight cartoon books, including Où le Regard ne porte pas…. Elizabeth and Olivier have together written and directed two short films : That Little Spark (La Petite Flamme) and Manon on the Asphalt (Manon sur le Bitume). Both films have screened and been awarded in several festivals world wide and Manon on the Asphalt was nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Live Action Short. Comments[0] |
Wed, 25 February 2009  Film publicist Nichola Ellis started out working for Columbia Pictures in London where she worked on her first feature Gandhi, Tootsie, and The Big Chill. She then went on to handle the UK campaigns for Highlander, Field of Dreams, and Dances With Wolves. In 1990, Nichola moved to Los Angeles and joined Dennis Davidson Associates. At DDA, she was responsible for such international campaigns as: Malcolm X, City Slickers, and The Usual Suspects. In 1995, she founded The Lighthouse Company, a Los Angeles based independent P.R. and marketing agency servicing the film industry, focusing on the complete journey of a film, both in the US and overseas markets, creating and implementing campaigns. One of The Lighthouse Company's most recent publicity campaigns was for Jochen Alexander Freydank's Spielzeugland (Toyland) which won the 2009 Academy Award for Live Action Short. Comments[0] |
Wed, 18 February 2009  Elliot Cowan is an illustrator, a writer, a storyboard artist from NYC by way of London and Australia. Elliot lived in Tasmania for nearly 10 years to write, direct and edit television commercials. He also lived in London where he mostly worked for Uli Meyer Animation, working as a story artist and gag man on the studio’s feature film Monstermania! and worked on several music videos with McKeown/ Devita Productions. Elliot has completed several of The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead and Roundhead short animated films. They have screened at a variety film festivals all over the world including Annecy and several have been distributed by Shorts International. Comments[0] |
Wed, 11 February 2009  Kai-Duc Luong was born in Cambodia and grew up in France and later made a detour in Chicago, IL. He has made several award winning shorts and music videos for artists including Chat, The Frogs, and Marissa Nadler. Kai's recent film, Someplace Else, is a musical journey with bluesman Vance Kelly and his band from Chicago’s south side, mixed with the effect that the band’s music has on the Kai’s personal outlook in life. Someplace Else has screened at a number of films internationally including the Rhode Island International Film Festival, IFP Chicago, and the Hibernarock Festival in France. Comments[0] |
Wed, 4 February 2009  Nina Paley started out as a comic strip artist, including for Fluff and The Hots, as well as her own alternative weekly Nina's Adventures. In 1998, she began making independent animated festival films, including the controversial yet popular environmental short, The Stork. In 2002, Nina followed her then-husband to Trivandrum, India, where she read her first Ramayana. This inspired her first feature film, Sita Sings the Blues, which she animated and produced single-handedly over the course of 5 years on a home computer, featuring the lost music of jazz vocal legend Annette Hanshaw. Comments[0] |
Wed, 28 January 2009  John Jeffcoat is a writer, director, and editor based out of Seattle, WA. John's debut as a documentary director was the 1999's Bingo! The Documentary distributed by Seventh Art Releasing. His feature-length directorial debut, Outsourced, is a narrative about the outsourcing experience in India, he co-wrote with George Wing and stars Josh Hamilton and Ayesha Dharker. Outsourced is available on DVD. John is also working on a feature-length documentary on the world's largest film industry, in Bombay, India, Bollywood and Me. Comments[0] |
Wed, 21 January 2009  Michael Kang is a Korean American writer and director. His feature film directorial debut The Motel was produced by indie veteran director Miguel Arteta (known for Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, and The Good Girl) and premiered internationally at the Pusan Film Festival and was also awarded the Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker's Award. The Motel is currently available on DVD. Michael's latest film West 32nd, produced by Teddy Zee (known for producing Hitch and The Pursuit of Happyness) revolves around John Kim, an ambitious young lawyer in New York, who takes on a pro-bono case involving a fourteen-year-old Korean boy accused of murder. It debuted at Tribeca. Comments[0] |
Wed, 14 January 2009  Asaf Hanuka is an Israeli illustrator and comic book artist, notable for his collaborations with his identical twin brother Tomer and his work with Etgar Keret in both Hebrew and English. Asaf and Tomer co-created Bipolar, an experimental comic book series which gained them nominations for the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards. Asaf and Tomer were artists on Ari Folman’s haunting animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir, about the connection with the current Israeli Army and the 1982 Lebanon War. Waltz with Bashir has toured film festivals worldwide; garnering many awards, and is in limited theatrical release. It has won 6 Israeli Academy Awards. It was also named Best Film of 2008 by the National Society of Film Critics in the United States and has won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. Comments[0] |
Wed, 7 January 2009  Karen Aqua has created animated films exploring the themes of ritual, journeys, transformation, and the human spirit since 1976 with her 1st animated short, Penetralia. Much of her work reflects an interest in symbols, mythology, and prehistoric and tribal cultures, and includes elements of rhythm, dance, and music. Her award-winning films have been screened nationally and internationally, at film festivals, museums, and universities. Aqua’s animation also appears regularly on Sesame Street. Karen's recent film Sensorium is a hand-drawn experimental animation exploring the relationship between music and image that is inspired by dance gestures and movements found in nature such as water and tide pools, the film is a study of sound/motion synthesis. Comments[0] |
Wed, 31 December 2008  Terrance Zdunich is a writer, illustrator, composer, and performer from Los Angeles, CA. He has worked on a diverse set of projects including: storyboard illustration on Sean Penn's film Into the Wild, stage acting, and the illustrated book God and The Box. Terrance's most recent project is the film Repo! The Genetic Opera, which he co-wrote and co-composed with Darren Smith, which Terrance also stars in as the Grave Robber, directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. Repo! The Genetic Opera is a futuristic sci-fi goth camp horror film about organ transplantation and the problems with bad loans. It is currently touring select venues around the country, with audiences in costumes followed by conversations with both Terrance and Darren Lynn Bousman. Comments[0] |
Wed, 17 December 2008  Michael Langan grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, where he began his artistic career as a professional stage actor. He returned to his New England birthplace in 2003 to attend the animation program at Rhode Island School of Design, completing Doxology as his thesis film. Doxology has since won 12 awards and screened at over 50 film festivals worldwide including the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Crossroads Film Festival, ASIFA-East Animation Festival, and the Animation Block Party.
His latest film titled Dahlia is a fast paced, visually and musically charged live action animation that will debut at Slamdance in early 2009. Comments[0] |
Wed, 10 December 2008  Nate Wragg is an renowned artist, illustrator, and animator. He left home after high school to study character animation at Cal Arts. Nate received an animation internship at James Baxter Animation Studios after his 3rd year of school, followed by an internship at Pixar Animation Studios in the art department on Ratatouille leaving school early. He has designed, developed and art directed the end title sequence for Ratatouille and was the Production Designer on Pixar’s animated short Your Friend the Rat and was a character designer on Toy Story 3. He left Pixar to move to LA to work as an artist for Dreamworks. He illustrated the feature children’s book for Ratatouille called Too Many Cooks along with plans to develop his own books. Nate’s other illustrations include a short story in the collaboration comic Afterworks 2 and for the art book The Ancient Book of Myth and War. He was accepted into the Society of Illustrators 50th Annual Showcase in New York City and was recently part of an charity art auction called the Totoro Forest Project at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. Comments[0] |
Wed, 3 December 2008  Producer and animator Timothy Schultz and John Grigsby joined us for this week's episode. Tim Schultz went to college to study film and journalism at the University of Colorado before starting Bullhead Entertainment, LLC in 2005. Bullhead recently produced The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay and is currently in production on the feature-length documentary Chasing the Shadows, which follows Tim's journey into the world of ghosts and the afterlife. John Grigsby’s recent animations entitled, An Introduction to Lucid Dream Exploration was painstakingly created on etch-a-sketch. He is also a musician and recently toured the world as a bassist with blues musician Otis Taylor. John is the DOP and animator for The Cave: An Adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay. Comments[0] |
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