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Peter's television series work includes: Total Recall 2070, Damien, People of Earth, SurrealEstate, and Small Achievable Goals. Peter's feature film work includes: Nothing, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, Collaborator, The Lesser Blessed, Women Talking, 40 Acres, and Tuner.
Lowell's feature film credits include the feature films: Thunder Road, Greener Grass, Topside, Knock at the Cabin, Caddo Lake, The A.I. Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, and Tuner. Lowell's television work includes the projects: Still Life and Servant.
Anousha's film work includes the acclaimed films: Hounds Of Love, Jasper Jones, Sweet Country, The Stranger, Shayda, The New Boy, The Correspondent, Kangaroo, Wolfram, and The Run. Her television productions include: Redfern Now, Rake, Cleverman, Black Comedy, Total Control, Thou Shalt Not Steal, and the Australian adaptation of The Office. Anousha is on the Executive Committee of the Casting Guild of Australia and she is an active member of its Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Greg's feature film work includes: Blink, The Lie, Echo Park, The Report, Silk Road, and Tuner. Greg's television editing work includes: The Girlfriend Experience, The Act, Brand New Cherry Flavor, and Cape Fear.
Robrecht's feature film credits include the films: The Ardennes, Revenge, The Bouncer, Bad Boys for Life, Rebel, Wil, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Meanwhile on Earth, Steve, and The Resurrection of the Christ. Robrecht's television work includes the projects: Snowfall and The Kollective.
Daniel's work as Art Director work includes: Mr. Turner, Jekyll and Hyde, Swallows and Amazons, The Zookeeper's Wife, On Chesil Beach, and Peterloo. Daniel's Production Designer work included: Cass, Britannia, True Detective, Dream Horse, Tetris, Argylle, and Pressure.
Brian is known for his work in cinema genres, with his films showcased at major festivals like: Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, and Toronto. Brian's film work includes: Bad Day for the Cut, The Devil's Doorway, Boys from County Hell, Let the Wrong One In, Oddity, The Occupant, Hokum, and The Incomer. Brian's television editing work includes: Dalgliesh and The Wreck.
Steve is a BAFTA, BIFA, and EMMY-nominated Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor, and Re-Recording Mixer for Film and Television.
Steve's film credits include: Frank, Room, Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Radioactive, Swan Song, The Quiet Girl, How to Have Sex, Anemone, and Hokum. Steve's television work includes: Normal People and The Listeners.
Catalin's casting work includes the films: Train Of Life, A Farewell To Fools, That Trip We Took With Dad, Love 1 Dog, Heidi, Unidentified, Miracle, and Cloistered Sister. Catalin's collaborations with acclaimed director Cristian Mungiu, include: Occident, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Beyond The Hills, Graduation, and R.M.N.
John's assistant editor credits include: Bottle Back, Philly D.A., 32 Sounds, Bravo, Burkina!, and The Oldest Person in the World. John's feature documentary editing credits include Patrice: The Movie, directed by Ted Passon, and more recently the Netflix documentary, The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother Hillel.
We at MergingArts spoke with Award winners from our Womanimation! 2026 Film Festival, which took place in Boston (USA). Jadwiga Ligeza, a Polish Animator based in London, won the Jury Grand Prize at the Womanimation! 2026 Film Festival for her film, Rock Song. We also spoke with duo, Emma Carre and Mathilde Parquet, French Animators who co-wrote and directed the stop-motion musical animated film, Signal. Signal won the Audience Award at the 2026 Womanimation! Film Festival and was the runner-up for the Jury Grand Prize.
Sandro's film work includes: The Best Offer, A Bigger Splash, Everest, Call Me By Your Name, Rome In Love, and Napoleon, and Pablo Larrain's acclaimed film, Maria.
Sandro's more recent projects include: Cold Storage, and Alejandro Inarritu's upcoming film Digger.
Linda's feature film credits include: Together, Melancholia, Simon and the Oaks, Pioneer, You Disappear, The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea, The Emigrants, and The Swedish Connection. Linda's television work includes: The Spanish Princess, The Playlist, and To Cook a Bear.
Jeff's documentary work includes the short film American Juggalo and the television series Heaven's Gate and Muscles and Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators, and the recent feature documentary, The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel. Jeff's fiction work includes the series NOS4A2: Ghost and the feature films, Reverse the Curse, Little Lorraine, and Sylvania.
Frederic is a French Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor, and Re-Recording Mixer whose work spans auteur cinema, international productions, and commercial features.
Frederic's film credits include: A Matador's Mistress, Burnt by the Sun 2, Dias de Gracia, Day of the Falcon, Pioneer, The Amazing Catfish, Escobar: Paradise Lost, Blind Sun, City Hunter, The Informer, Last Night of Amore, Under Paris, and Marsupilami.
Taylor's work as Lead Film Editor includes the films: Night Comes On, Yellow Rose, Drunk Bus, Prisoners of the Ghostland, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, and Bodies Bodies Bodies. More recently, Taylor has edited the award-winning A Different Man, as well as Faces of Death and the upcoming The Last Day.
Eugenio's narrative feature film work includes: Hello Destroyer, Boundaries, When The Storm Fades, Longlegs, Heretic, This Is Tomas, The Monkey, and Eternity. His documentary work includes: Wizard Mode, Illusions Of Control, The Last Tourist, Physician Heal Thyself, and Resident Orca. Eugenio's television series work includes: The Wrestlers, Psi Cops, and The Edge Of Sleep.
Born in Buenos Aires, Julian attended film school before starting his career in television.
Switching to film, Julian started in the camera department, with roles as cinematographer for feature films, documentaries, television series, and music videos. Julian's feature film credits include: Bolivia, Chronicle of an Escape, Carancho, Ardor, The Cat Vanishes, The Clan, The Angel, Murder Me, Monster, The Crimes That Bind, and Upon Open Sky. More recently, Julian worked on the films: 27 Nights and Crazy Old Lady.
Based in Johannesburg, Willie began his career after graduating at the top of his class at the South-African Film and Drama Academy. He started out shooting hundreds of music videos and commercials before moving into longer form storytelling. Willie's film credits include: Sleeper's Wake, Meerkat Moonship, Knuckle City, Children of the Storm, Settlers, Rise: The Siya Kolisi Story, and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. Willie's television work includes: Hopeville, The Looming Tower, and Blood Psalms.
Gabriel's film work includes: Klaus, Automata, Veronica, Greta, While At War, La Abuela, My Loneliness Has Wings, Sister Death, My Penguin Friend, and The Wailing. Gabriel's television work includes: Criminal, La Unidad, The Girl In The Mirror, Santo, and Senna.
Leonie's feature film work includes: Dreams of a Life, What Richard Did, Jimi: All Is By My Side, Glassland, Pilgrimage, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Gretel and Hansel, Nocebo, and In the Land of Saints and Sinners. Leonie's television work includes: Moone Boy, Ripper Street, Miss Scarlet, Modern Love, and The Tourist.
Evgenia has worked as Director, Screenwriter, Director of Photography, Camera Assistant, and Camera Operator. Born in Russia, she first studied Management at Saint Petersburg State University before pursuing a Master's Degree at ESSEC in Paris. She later turned to cinema and joined La Femis in the Cinematography department. Evgenia's feature film work includes: Mi Iubita Mon Amour, the documentary Machtat, Heartless, The Balconettes, Childfree, and more recently the Oscar-nominated film, The Secret Agent.
Tijn graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy and abides by the maxim: "you don't have to hear what you see and you don't have to see what you hear." Tijn's narrative feature films include: Nocturne, Home, Moloch, Holly, Hardcore Never Dies, Torch Song, and the acclaimed, The Secret Agent. Tijn's documentary work includes: Anbessa, A Man and A Camera, A Parked Life, Rules of War, and The Mountain Won't Move.
Jeremy began his career working in music videos for a wide range of artists, as well as award-winning commercials globally. Jeremy's feature film work includes the films: Hard Candy, Factory Girl, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, My Dinner with Herve, Monster, Jungleland, Gretel and Hansel, Night Teeth, Last Looks, Breathe, Dust Bunny, and They Will Kill You.
Some of her early roles include: Production Designer for Stephen Cone's film The Wise Kids and Art Director for Greg Araki's White Bird In A Blizzard.
Caity's Production Design work for television includes: Comedy Bang Bang, Documentary Now, Joe Pera Talks With You, and Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian.
Her feature film work includes: Becoming Bond, Stay Awake, The Adults, and Omni Loop.
More recently, Caity designed the feature film Sorry, Baby, written and directed by and starring Eva Victor.
Some of Caity's upcoming projects include: The Dink, Via Negativa, and Never Change.
Ian's earlier Art Director work includes the films: Rest Stop, Twilight, and A Single Man. Ian's Production Design work in film includes: Celeste and Jesse Forever, 13 Minutes, and A Very Jonas Christmas Movie. His television Production Design work includes: Parks and Recreation, Love, The Good Place, and A Man on the Inside.
John's feature film work as Production Designer includes: Your Sister's Sister, Touchy Feely, Lucky Them, Laggies, Sword of Trust, and Outside In. His television design work includes: Three Busy Debras, The Viking Returns, and Penelope. John's more recent Art Director work includes: Train Dreams and The Rivals of Amziah King.
Ben's feature film work includes: 127 Hours, Gravity, Ex Machina, First They Killed My Father, Bird Box, Nimona, Wonka, Speak No Evil, Civil War, Night Always Comes, and Warfare. Ben's television work includes the projects: Five Days at Memorial and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
In 1991, Nelson founded Sound Dogs, a studio that has since grown into Canada's premier sound editing, recording, and design company with hundreds of film and television titles to their credit. Nelson has worked with renowned directors such as Darren Aronofsky on Requiem for a Dream and Guillermo del Toro on The Shape of Water, which earned Nelson both Oscar and BAFTA nominations. Nelson's other film work includes: The Breadwinner, Dual, Priscilla, Nutcrackers, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, and Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
As a child, Adam was fond of the intermittent static found in between radio stations, eventually leading him to study Sound Art at the University of Brighton. Adam started out working as a sound designer on award-winning animations and projects for studios like Parabella, before transitioning to composing. Adam's feature film score work includes: Saint Maud, Here Before, Out of Darkness, Femme, The Marsh King's Daughter, The Wasp, and Night Always Comes. Adam's television score work includes: Black Mirror, Truelove, and Fear.
Tracey's passion is period work, with a great collection of hair stock, and producing her own prosthetics. Tracey's features include: Quantum Of Solace, Batman Begins, The Raven, Urban Hymn, Extinction, I'll Find You, Gran Turismo, White Bird, Tuesday, and Christmas Karma.
Tamara has devoted her talents as a Production Designer and Art Director to a wide range of projects spanning multiple genres, periods, and visual styles.
As Art Director, Tamara worked on Crash and eXistenZ for David Cronenberg, Guillermo del Toro's Mimic, and X-Men with Oscar–winning designer John Myhre.
Tamara's feature film work as Production Designer includes: Still Mine, Priscilla, Nightmare Alley, and Frankenstein.
Tamara's television credits include: Suits, The Strain, Incorporated, Star Trek: Discovery, and Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities.
For over twenty years, Alex has worked as stunt performer and stunt coordinator on a variety of film and television projects both local to the Pacific Northwest and globally.
Alex's film work includes: Band Of Brothers, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Dallas Buyers Club, Wild, Alone, Train Dreams, and Night Always Comes. Alex's television series work includes: Z Nation, Three Busy Debras, and Penelope.
Giovanna is originally from Italy and earned a degree in animation from the National School of Cinema in Rome. She then worked on feature films across Europe, including spending ten years in France. Giovanna then moved to Ireland, where she is currently based, working for Cartoon Saloon. Giovanna's work on features includes the films: Song Of The Sea, The Breadwinner, Wolfwalkers, and My Father's Dragon, and more recently, she made her directorial debut with the acclaimed short film, Eiru.
Asta's film credits include: 101 Reykjavik, Undercurrent, Summerland, Kon-Tiki, The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle, The 12th Man, The Quake, The Good Heart, The Wave, Everybody Hates Johan, and Touch. Asta's television credits include: Lazy Town, Dag, Norsemen, Beforeigners, Welcome To Utmark, and King and Conqueror.
Anna's feature film work includes: Better Watch Out, The Pretend One, Christmas Ransom, Talk To Me, and Bring Her Back. Anna's television work includes: A Place To Call Home, Random and Whacky, Drop Dead Weird, and Street Smart.
Manuel's film work includes the feature films: Reconstruction, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac, The Untamed, The House That Jack Built, Hope, A Taste Of Hunger, The Pact, When In Rome, and Belladone. Manuel's television work includes: Face To Face and The Kingdom: Exodus.
Amongst Diana's many film projects over the years are: District 9, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, The Salvation, Young Ones, The Giver, Chappie, and Shepherds and Butchers. Diana's work in television includes: Emmy-nominated efforts for Roots and The Girl, along with Knightfall, FDR, Abraham Lincoln, Troy: Fall Of A City, and the acclaimed live-action One Piece series on Netflix.
With over thirty years' experience in the film industry, Matt has collaborated on some of the finest Australian and International film productions. Matt's feature film work includes: Daybreakers, The Great Gatsby, Predestination, The Water Diviner, Elvis, Eden, Sleeping Dogs, and Christy.
Sarah Beth's precise yet intuitive editing style, blending raw vulnerability with rhythmic storytelling, has made her a sought-after collaborator for visionary directors tackling bold, human-centered tales.
Sarah Beth's feature film work includes: Faults, The View from Tall, Flower, The Art of Self-Defense, I Blame Society, Pink Skies Ahead, Dual, and I Wish You All The Best.
Stephen's feature film work includes: Requiem For A Dream, The Fountain, Resident Evil, Dual, Priscilla, My Old Ass, Arthur The King, Nutcrackers, and more recently A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Stephen's documentary work includes: Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, The Go-Go's, and Cyndi Lauper: Let The Canary Sing.
Claudius' feature film work includes: Look Who's Back, Alone In Berlin, Goodbye Berlin, Frantz, In The Fade, Tar, and more recently In The Lost Lands and The Light. Claudius' television work includes: Babylon Berlin and Chernobyl, for which he won an Emmy.
Thomas' film work includes: When Animals Dream, Men and Chicken, Border, A Perfectly Normal Family, Everybody Hates Johan, The Damned, Touch, Alien: Romulus, and The Ugly Stepsister. Some of Thomas' more recent television projects include: Chosen, Archie, and Ronja the Robber's Daughter.
Karin's film work includes: The Substitute, The Shamer's Daughter, In Love and War, Queen Of Hearts, The Shadow In My Eye, Loving Adults, Maybe Baby, Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever, and The Girl With The Needle.
Karin's television casting work includes: 1864, Elves, and The Shift.
Nick's feature film work has included: The Dark Horse, The Day That Changed My Life, Guns Akimbo, Savage, Shadow in the Cloud, The American, We Were Dangerous, Heart Eyes, and Pike River. Nick's television work includes: Mataku, The Cul de Sac, Dark Tourist, Creamerie, and Madam.
Svend's feature film work includes several Cartoon Saloon productions such as: Song Of The Sea, Wolfwalkers, The Breadwinner, My Father's Dragon,
His other features include: Long Way North and the Oscar nominated, Robot Dreams. Svend's work in television includes the projects: Pandaerne, Big Hero 6: The Series, and Angry Bird Toons. Svend more recently worked on the feature film, Light Of The World, for Epipheo Studios.
Jeannine's film work includes: Tender Mercies, Maria's Lovers, The Bridges Of Madison County, L.A. Confidential, Pleasantville, Snow Falling On Cedars, Seabiscuit, and The Good Shepherd.
Jeannine has been nominated for four Oscars and five Art Directors Guild Awards and has won two ADG Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Jeannine is an active member of the Production Designers Collective (PDC).
Brandon's film work includes: The Bad Batch, The Big Sick, Brigsby Bear, Mona Lisa and The Blood Moon, The Exorcist: Believer, and I Saw The TV Glow. Brandon's television work includes: the acclaimed series Reservation Dogs and more recently The Lowdown. Brandon is also an active member of the Production Designers Collective (PDC).
Estefania's film work includes: No, The Club, Neruda, Ema, Nobody Knows I'm Here, A Fantastic Woman, In The Summers, Blanquita, Chile 76, and The Wave. Estefania's television series work includes: Midnight Family and No One Saw Us Leave. Estefania is an active member of the Production Designers Collective (PDC).
Jose has over twenty years' experience in publishing comics and illustrating for magazines, as well as publishing an award-winning graphic novel, Cosecha Rosa. He also Art Directed the television series Viking Skool at Cartoon Saloon.
Jose's work as Animation Art Director includes the films: Bunuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles, the Oscar nominated Robot Dreams, and the more recent feature Decorado, by Alberto Vazquez.
Sabine's feature film work includes: When Animals Dream, Shelley, The Charmer, The Day Will Come, Wild Witch, Charter, Another Round, The Penultimate, The Shadow In My Eye, Speak No Evil, The Quiet Ones, and The Ugly Stepsister. Her television work includes: Families Like Ours and Generations.
Beto's feature film work includes: Amor Extremo, Two Times You, Mirreyes Contra Godinez, MexZombies, Surviving My Quinceanera, Contraataque, and Our Times. Beto's television projects include: the acclaimed series, Hernan, and El Gallo De Oro.
Julieta's work as Art Director includes: the television series Narcos and John Woo's feature, Silent Night. Some of Julieta's Production Design work includes the feature films: Torn From Her Arms, Surviving My Quinceanera, Our Times, and the upcoming Ocote for Gerardo Naranjo.
After Liam transitioned into post production, he has worked on dozens of feature films, television projects, and documentaries. He has received dozens of awards and nominations, including an AFI and an ASSG award for the acclaimed drama Samson and Delilah.
Liam's feature film work includes: Beneath Hill 60, Ruben Guthrie, The Daughter, Cargo, Jasper Jones, Jirga, Danger Close, Rams, The Legend Of Molly Johnson, The New Boy, The Deb, The Correspondent, and the upcoming Not Without Hope.
Tess' feature film productions include: Gettin' Square, Charlotte's Web, Predestination, Winchester, Danger Close, Mad Max Fury Road and Furiosa, Elvis, The Gorge, and Spit. Tess has worked in television projects including: Wentworth, Bloom, Underbelly, Rush, Rain Shadow, Cybergirl, and Round The Twist.
Inbal's Production Design work includes the films: Frozen River, Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond The Pines, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, St. Vincent, Beasts Of No Nation, Suspiria, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, The Lost Daughter, God's Creatures, and The Room Next Door. Inbal is the co-founder of the Production Designers Collective, a global community of Production Designers, and the Director of International Production Design Week, an international series of conferences and exhibitions formed in 2023, continued in 2025.
Inbal's Production Design work includes the films: Frozen River, Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond The Pines, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, St. Vincent, Beasts Of No Nation, Suspiria, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, The Lost Daughter, God's Creatures, and The Room Next Door. Inbal is the co-founder of the Production Designers Collective, a global community of Production Designers, and the Director of International Production Design Week, an international series of conferences and exhibitions formed in 2023, continuing in 2025.
Anousha's feature film work includes the multi-award winning films: Hounds Of Love, Jasper Jones, Sweet Country, The Stranger, Shayda, The New Boy, and The Correspondent. Some of her television productions include: Redfern Now, Rake, Cleverman, Black Comedy, Total Control, and the Australian adaptation of The Office. Anousha is the Vice President of the Casting Guild of Australia. She is an active member of its Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Pessi's film scores include: The Midwife, Armi Alive, Unexpected Journey, Swingers, Land Of Hope, and Psychosia, Superposition, The Innocents and Let The River Flow. Pessi's television score work includes series: Piece Of My Heart and Republic Of Children.
Rocio is originally from Mar del Plata, Argentina and is currently based in New York City. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents, the Venice Biennale, F.I.T., and the London Film School. Roco's Art Director work includes the films: Madeline's Madeline and Uncut Gems, along with the television series: The Last O.G., Modern Love, and Wu-Tang: An American Saga. Roco's Production Design projects include: The Sounding, Nighthawks, I Was A Simple Man, Iris, The Young Wife, Friendship, and the upcoming The Only Living Pickpocket In New York.
Her television design work includes: The Other Two and a pilot for The Chair Company.
Daniel's work as Art Director work includes: Mr. Turner, Jekyll and Hyde, Swallows and Amazons, The Zookeeper's Wife, On Chesil Beach, and Peterloo. Daniel's Production Design work includes: Cass, Britannia, Dream Horse, Tetris, True Detective, Argylle, and the upcoming Pressure.
Some of Jon's film credits include additional music for: Paddington, Love The Coopers, The Wheel Of Time, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Technicians, and 17 Blocks. Jon's more recent film projects include: Border Hopper, Technicians, and The Accidental Getaway Driver.
Tom's work as Production Designer has included the feature films: Green Street Hooligans, First They Killed My Father, and Bloodshot, and the television series, Whitechapel and Luther. Tom's work as Supervising Art Director includes the films: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, A Good Day To Die Hard, Spy, By The Sea, Tomb Raider, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Wonka, Dune, and Maria.
Will co-founded the company String and Tins in 2013. Will's work includes: Part Of The Weekend Never Dies, Rising Phoenix, Spaghetti Junction, and the acclaimed Kensuke's Kingdom.
Casey's work includes: A Good Person, Bad Times At The El Royale, Concrete Cowboy, Zack Snyder's Justice League, John Wick Chapter 4, The Nowhere Inn, The Accidental Getaway Driver, Mussolini: Son Of The Century, and From The World Of John Wick: Ballerina.
Nick's feature film work includes: The Arbor, The Selfish Giant, The Double, Life, On Chesil Beach, Dark River, A Private War, American Animals, True History Of The Kelly Gang, Nitram, The Order, and the upcoming Wizards. Nick's documentary features include: Taking Liberties, On A Knife Edge, and All Tomorrow's Parties.
Sandro's film work includes the films: The White Space, The Best Offer, A Bigger Splash, Everest, Call Me By Your Name, Rome In Love, and Napoleon, and the series Masters Of The Air. Sandro was Set Decorator on Pablo Larrain's more recent acclaimed film Maria, starring Angelina Jolie as legendary opera singer Maria Callas, near the end of her life.
Grant's film credits include: The Sound Of Silence, Hillbilly Elegy, To Leslie, Knock At The Cabin, Noelle, and Nyad. His television work includes: The Walking Dead: Dead City and Full Swing. Grant's more recent films include: Mother Couch and Mermaid, and his upcoming work includes Outcome and Eleanor The Great.
Rihards' scores include: The Pagan King, 1906, Dawn Of War, Fear No One, and Mutiny. Rihards recently scored the Oscar-winning animated film Flow, directed by Gints Zilbalodis. The film won best score at both the Latvian National Film Festival and Annecy.
Kaya's documentary work includes: Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open, Above and Below, African Notebook, and Stand Up My Beauty. Kaya's narrative feature editing work includes: In The Aisles, Zone Rouge, My Wonderful Wanda, Borga, Dark Satellites, and Haunted Under The Ferris Wheel.
Carmen's Production Design work includes: The Assassin's Code, Them That Follow, I See You, Drunk Bus, Dear Zoe, Manodrome, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, and the upcoming Kids Go Free To Fun Fun Time. Carmen's television work includes: Swedish Dicks, Web Of Make Believe, Lifted, and Mo.
Stacey's film work includes: Electrick Children, The Drowning, The Miseducation Of Cameron Post, The Sunlit Night, Brittany Runs A Marathon, and Villains. Stacey has designed for director Aaron Schimberg on three films, including: Go Down Death and Chained For Life, and more recently the award-winning A Different Man, starring Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson.
Stephonik's Production Design work includes: Prince of Broadway, Snowbird, The Florida Project, Red Rocket, Bleeding Love, and Gonzo Girl. Stephonik has made musical contributions for the films: Prince of Broadway, Tangerine, Snowbird, and Bleeding Love.
Taylor's work as Lead Film Editor includes the feature films: Night Comes On, Yellow Rose, Drunk Bus, Prisoners of the Ghostland, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, and Bodies Bodies Bodies. More recently, Taylor has edited the award-winning A Different Man, as well as the upcoming The Last Day and Faces of Death.
Maribeth's casting work includes the feature films: First Match, Skin, A Quiet Place, Late Night, Brittany Runs A Marathon, Sharper, Bottoms, and A Different Man. Maribeth's television work includes: Mildred Pierce, Olive Kitteridge, and Bridge and Tunnel.
Tod's animation work includes the projects: The Pumpkin Of Nyefar, El Tigre, The Secret Of Kells, Howl, Escape Of The Gingerbread Man, The Book Of Life, The Prodigal, and more recently The 21, which honored the 21 Coptic men martyred by ISIS in Libya in 2015. Tod also wrote the book The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen Of Animation Design, a look at the life and animation philosophy of the Background Artist and Layout Designer legend.
Eugenio's narrative feature film work includes: Hello Destroyer, Boundaries, When The Storm Fades, This Is Tomas, Longlegs, Heretic, and The Monkey. His documentary work includes: Wizard Mode, Illusions Of Control, The Last Tourist, Physician Heal Thyself, and Resident Orca. Eugenio's television series work includes: The Wrestlers, Psi Cops, and The Edge Of Sleep.
Iain is an Animator known as Director of the films: Akbar's Cheetah, The Tannery, and A Bear Named Wojtek, and has worked as an animator on several short and feature films over his career. Iain has headed his own company Animation Garden, whose projects include: Badger Beats and A Bear Named Wojtek.
Mark's work for director Paul Thomas Anderson includes: Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, and Phantom Thread, for which he won an Academy Award. Mark had also won an Oscar for his work on the The Artist.
Mark's more recent work includes: Joker, The Fabelmans, Maestro, and the upcoming The Lost Bus for Paul Greengrass.
Neil has worked on a variety of animated feature films including: Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam, Ethel and Ernest, and Sherlock Gnomes. Neil's animated short work includes the films: The Snowman and the Snowdog, We're Going On A Bear Hunt, and The Last Belle, which he wrote and directed. Neil's most recent project is the acclaimed feature film, Kensuke's Kingdom, with co-director Kirk Hendry.
Stuart's documentary feature scores include: One Night In Turin, Hiroshima: 75 Years Later, and Disorder. Stuart's television scoring work has included: London's Burning, Atlantis, and Crazyhead. Stuart's scores for animation include: the series The Lampies, the short film We're Going On A Bear Hunt, and the acclaimed feature film Kensuke's Kingdom.
Christopher's feature film work includes: Bleeding Love, Water Rises, Skincare, and the upcoming feature film, Little Death. Christopher's short films include: Where You Are, The Voice In Your Head, and The Flute.
Tomas earned a Master's Degree with Honors from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and his portfolio includes: television shows, theater, and advertising, along with over twenty feature films. Besides work in film, Tomas has composed extensively for concert performance, with his compositions premiering in countries around the world, including: France, Poland, Japan, and the US. Tomas' film scoring work includes: Gueros, Museo, The Good Girls, Things We Dare Not Do, Tell Me When, Killing Cabos 2, Northern Skies Over Empty Space, Jezabel, The (Almost) Legends, and more recently, the acclaimed La Cocina.
Maureen's casting work includes the films: Once, This Must Be The Place, Extra Ordinary, Apocalypse Clown, The Miracle Club, The Martini Shot, That They May Face The Rising Sun, and more recently Small Things Like These and the upcoming, Frewaka. Maureen's television work includes the projects: Raw, Love/Hate, Rebellion, Taken Down, and Louise Lives Large.
Ben's film work includes: Lady Macbeth, Limbo, Disobedience, The Wonder, Scrapper, Conclave, and The Teacher, as well as the documentaries: 9/11: Phone Calls From The Towers and The Reason I Jump.
Ben's television work includes: Prime Suspect, Merlin, The Lazarus Project, and War Of The Worlds.
Kendall's Set Decorator work includes the films: Love Is Strange, Chuck, You Were Never Really Here, Uncut Gems, Things Heard and Seen, Confess, Fletch, Problemista, and The Room Next Door. Her television work includes the series: Odd Mom Out, The Punisher, and The Changeling. Kendall's debut as Production Designer, the acclaimed His Three Daughters, received glowing reviews and is streaming on Netflix.
Tracey's feature film projects include: Batman Begins, Quantum Of Solace, The Raven, Urban Hymn, Extinction, I'll Find You, Gran Turismo, White Bird, and Tuesday. Tracey's television work includes: Dracula, Mars, and Berlin Station.
Zoe's Set Decorator work includes the films: Death Note, A Dog's Way Home, Light Of My Life, The Art Of Racing In The Rain, Flora and Ulysses, and Love Hard, and was Assistant Decorator on films including: Into The Forest and War For The Planet Of The Apes. More recently, Zoe was Set Decorator on David Lowery's Peter Pan and Wendy, and Anna Kendrick's acclaimed directorial debut Woman Of The Hour for Netflix.
Nuria's film work in the Art Director role includes the films: Evolution, Sergio and Sergei, and One Year, One Night. Nuria's Set Decorator work includes films such as: Live Is Life, Love Gets A Room, and Bird Box: Barcelona, along with television series: The Crown, Top Boy, and Who Is Erin Carter. Recent Production Design work for Nuria includes the films: My Loneliness Has Wings and A House On Fire, and the upcoming series, A Muerte.
Zach's feature film work includes: The Eyes Of My Mother, Jonathan, The Climb, The Vigil, Paper Spiders, Barbarian, Woman Of The Hour, and Don't Move. Zach's short film projects include: No Longer Suitable For Use, Power Signal, and Young Mom.
Angello was born in Bogota, Colombia and studied filmmaking at ESCAC in Barcelona. He balances narrative, documentary and commercial work.
Angello's short film work includes: The Last Two, Lina, and Dulce.
Angello's feature film work includes: Lapu, Milestone, Where The Light Shines, and The (Almost) Legends.
Angello's recent and upcoming features include: The Anatomy Of Horses, Carro Pasajero, and Where The Silence Passes.
Gabriel's feature film work include: Automata, Veronica, Greta, While At War, Klaus, La Abuela, Sister Death, My Loneliness Has Wings, and My Penguin Friend. Gabriel's television work includes: Criminal, La Unidad, The Girl In The Mirror, and Santo.
Fatima's feature film scores include: Atlantics, La Abuela, Seeking Mavis Beacon, and Skincare. Fatima's musical releases include: Desert Strike, Brute, Shaneera, and more recently Medieval Femme and Gumar.
Claire's feature film projects include: Dangerous Parking, Malice In Wonderland, VS., The Pope's Exorcist, and The Creator. Claire's television work includes: Vanity Fair, Chernobyl, Little Birds, The Power and The Day Of The Jackal.
Kenji's feature film scores include the films: Somos Mari Pepa, Nap Time, The Blue Years, Entitled To Sail, Eight Out Of Ten, Storks, Los Lobos, and Ska'yaa. Kenji's more recent projects include the films: Loulou and La Falla.
Some of Rene's projects include: The Red Chapel, Life In The Emergency Lane, Asphalt NYC, The Wolfpack, and Homeless On Instagram. Rene's upcoming documentary subjects include, the pop singer Christopher and RED, the homeless rapper. Rene was nominated for Best Documentary at the Danish Academy Awards for his documentary film 7 Years Of Lukas Graham, following the pop group and lead singer over a seven year period.
Jens' film scoring credits include: Lars Von Trier's Melancholia, Ai Weiwei's documentary Vivos, the WWII themed film Out Of The Darkness, and the documentary Markie In Milwaukee. Jens was nominated for a Danish Film Academy award for his score to the documentary 7 Years Of Lukas Graham.
More recently Jens scored the acclaimed Netflix documentary, Tell Them You Love Me.
Uli has collaborated with director Tom Tykwer on several films, including: Winter Sleepers, Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer, A Hologram For The King, and Cloud Atlas, co-directed by The Wachowskis. Uli's film work includes: Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer, The International, Cloud Atlas, In Secret, A Hologram For The King, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes. Uli's television work includes work on the acclaimed: Sense8, The Queen's Gambit, and Babylon Berlin.
Asta's film credits include: 101 Reykjavik, The Good Heart, The Wave, Undercurrent, Summerland, Kon-Tiki, The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle, The 12th Man, The Quake, Everybody Hates Johan, Touch, and the upcoming, King and Conqueror. Asta's television credits include: Lazy Town, Dag, Norsemen (Vikingane), Beforeigners, and Welcome To Utmark.
Feature film work from Claudius includes: Look Who's Back, Alone In Berlin, Goodbye Berlin, Frantz, In The Fade, Tar, and more recently, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Television works from Claudius include: Babylon Berlin and Chernobyl, for which he won an Emmy. Upcoming films from Claudius include: The Light and In The Lost Lands.
Kjartan's feature film work includes: As In Heaven, A Little Trip To Heaven, White Night Wedding, Reykjavik-Rotterdam, The Good Heart, Undercurrent, Summerland, The Deep, Virgin Mountain, End Of Sentence, Against The Ice, Band, and Touch. Kjartan's television work includes the series: Lazy Town, Trapped, and Arctic Circle.
Coll's feature film work includes: Trees Lounge, The Fog Of War, Restrepo, James White, Christine, Mother, The Whale, Barbie, and Mountain Queen: The Summits Of Lhakpa Sherpa. Coll's television work includes the series: Chasing the Moon, The Jinx: The Life And Deaths Of Robert Durst, and Dr. Death.
Frederic's still photography work includes work for the films: Beloved Sisters, Resistance, A Hologram For The King, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Munich: The Edge Of War, and Spencer.
Frederic's television projects include: Tatort, Berlin Station, Helgoland 513, and Babylon Berlin.
His upcoming films include: From Hilde With Love and The Light.
Benoit's short films as Director have included: Bzz, Dji Vou Veu Volti, and The Lion And The Monkey. Benoit's feature film animation work includes: The Triplets Of Belleville as an Animator, Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale as Character Designer, The Secret Of Kells as Animation Supervisor, and the Oscar-nominated Robot Dreams as Animation Director.
Erin's work includes the features film projects: Good Time, Italian Studies, Funny Pages, and Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme. Erin also edited the short films: Rejoice In The Lamb, Power Signal, and Dance, starring Pura Fe.
Svend's feature film work includes: Song Of The Sea, Wolfwalkers, The Breadwinner, My Father's Dragon, and more recently the Oscar nominated, Robot Dreams. Svend's television work includes: Pandaerne, Big Hero 6: The Series, and Angry Bird Toons. Svend's most recent project is the feature film, Light Of The World, for Epipheo Studios.
Jose has over twenty years' experience in publishing comics and illustrating for magazines, as well as publishing an award-winning graphic novel, Cosecha Rosa. Jose's work as animation art director includes the films: Bunuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles, the Oscar nominated Robot Dreams, and the upcoming feature Decorado, by Alberto Vazquez.
Jose was also an Art Director on the television series, Vikingskool, for Cartoon Saloon.
Angela's feature film work has included: Rumor Has It, Cake, The Family Fang, Venom, The Fablemans, and Unfrosted.
Her television work includes the series: Big Little Lies and The Morning Show.
Angela's beauty clients include: Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Williams, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Reese Witherspoon.
Kajsa's short film credits include: Mother Said, Deconstruction Workers, Leonid Shower, It's Up To You, and It Was Mine.
More recently, Kajsa debuted her feature film, Titina, based on the true story of the 1926 North Pole expedition of Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen, told through the eyes of Umberto's dog, Titina.
Jennifer's feature film work has included: Miss Meadows, Criminal Activities, I Am Not A Serial Killer, Madtown, My Friend Dahmer, Looks That Kill, Queenpins, and Turtles All The Way Down. Earlier in Jennifer's career, she was also Art Director for the films: Take Shelter and The Kings Of Summer.
Hansjorg's feature film work has included: Requiem, Trade, Two Lives, Dreamland, Colonia, 3 Days In Quiberon, 7500, I'm Your Man, She Said, Adios Buenos Aires, and We Were Dangerous.
Hansjorg's upcoming projects include: Disappearance and Rose.
Emma's film work includes the animated features: The Illusionist, The Red Turtle, and The Bears' Famous Invasion Of Sicily. She had previously directed her own acclaimed Stop-Motion short film, Settling. More recently, Emma was the Art Director and Production Designer for the acclaimed animated feature film, Titina, directed by Kajsa Ness, based on the true story of the 1926 North Pole expedition of Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen, told through the eyes of Umberto's dog, Titina.
Benedict's feature film work includes the films: The Counterfeiters, A Woman In Berlin, Mahler On The Couch, Homevideo, Cold Hell, Styx, Narcissus and Goldmund, Hinterland, I'm Your Man, In A Land That No Longer Exists, and Stella: A Life.
Guido's feature film work includes the films: The Swamp, The Headless Woman, Zama, Killing Jesus, The Chambermaid, The Intruder, Noise, and Totem. Guido's television work includes the series: My Lucky Day, The Kingdom, and It Was Always Me.
Fred's film work includes: Sparrow, Sound Of Noise, The Lifeguard, Pearl, I Am Not An Easy Man, The Big Hit, and Mars Express. Fred's television projects include: Lastman, The Hookup Plan, Mixte, and Brazen.
Tom's work as Production Designer has included the feature films: Green Street Hooligans, First They Killed My Father, and Bloodshot, as well as the television series, Whitechapel and Luther. Tom's work as Supervising Art Director includes the films: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, A Good Day To Die Hard, Spy, By The Sea, Tomb Raider, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Wonka, and Dune Part 1 & 2.
Jaime returned to Mexico City from Vancouver and continued freelancing before moving into Foley after being referred to a Foley mixing job by a friend. Jaime's film work includes: Nomadland, Roma, Amores Perros, The Sky Is Everywhere, Emily The Criminal, and Bardo. Jaime's television work includes the series: Club de Cuervos, Run Coyote Run, Dark Desire, and High Heat.
Anja's casting work includes the films: The Countess, Clouds Of Sils Maria, Styx, 3 Days In Quiberon, In The Aisles, A Hidden Life, I'm Your Man, Munich: At The Edge Of War, Dark Satellites, and Seneca.
Anja's television work includes: Carlos, You Are Wanted, Bad Banks, Transatlantic, The Therapy, Baltic Crimes, and Tatort.
Jenny's film work has included: Innocence, Combat Girls, Wetlands, Look Who's Back, Goodbye Berlin, In The Aisles, Ever After, Dark Satellites, Haunted Under The Ferris Wheel, and 2:1. Jenny's work in television includes: the series Police Call 110 and Hausen, as well as the television films, Exit and Death On The Island.
Rael’s musical background, rooted in classical training, began at the age of 6. He graduated from the Tonmeister Course with First Class Honors, winning both available prizes for composition.
Rael has worked on a variety of roles in film, including: Composer, Music Producer, Orchestrator, Music Editor, Music Programmer and Session Musician.
Rael’s film work includes: Les Miserables, Alan Partridge, Suite Française, My Cousin Rachel, Oasis: Supersonic,, Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, The Sound Of 007, Role Play, and Seize Them. Rael's television work includes: Sherlock, Ill Behavior, Harlots, The Salisbury Poisonings, The Kings, and Ten Percent.
Kaya's documentary work includes: Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open, Above and Below, African Notebook, and Stand Up My Beauty. Kaya's narrative feature editing work includes: In The Aisles, Zone Rouge, My Wonderful Wanda, Borga, Dark Satellites, and Haunted Under The Ferris Wheel.
Milena's recent television work includes: Oh Hell, The Empress, The Swarm, and One Trillion Dollars. Milena's film work includes: In The Aisles, Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything, I'm Your Man, All Quiet On The Western Front, and Club Zero, and Wim Wenders' Pina, Anselm, and Perfect Days.
Catalin's casting work includes the films: Train Of Life, A Farewell To Fools, That Trip We Took With Dad, Love 1. Dog, Heidi, Unidentified, and Miracle. Catalin's collaborations with acclaimed director Cristian Mungiu, include: Occident, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Beyond The Hills, Graduation, and R.M.N.
Pedro is originally from Uruguay and now based in LA. His film work includes: Don't Breathe, The Girl In The Spider's Web, Look Away, Extinction, Don't Breathe 2, Body Cam, and Antebellum. More recently Pedro shot the Oscar-nominated Society Of The Snow and was second unit director on the upcoming Alien: Romulus.
Liz's film projects include: Digging For Fire, The Vigil, The Queens, Emily The Criminal, and Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, and Give Me Pity
Liz's upcoming work includes: Skincare and The Amazing Danny. Liz has recently been touring Magic For Animals, her one-woman magic show illuminating how humans treat animals, and therefore one another.
Chris' film work includes: The Martha Mitchell Effect, Minding The Gap, One Child Nation, Tribal Justice, and The Image Maker. Chris' more recent project is the documentary Resynator, a look at the revolutionary synthesizer developed by Don Tavel, directed by his daughter Alison, with a SXSW premiere.
Nathan's television credits include the series: Palizzi, Ma Meuf, Woke, and Vestiaires. Nathan's film work includes, the documentaries, La Classe Americaine and The Madness Between Us, as well as the narrative features: Tijuana Bible, Kitchen Brigade, and more recently the acclaimed Mami Wata.
Samy's animated film work has included: The Dog, The General, and The Birds, Igor, A Monster In Paris, Emilie Jolie, Charlotte, and Persepolis, which earned him Cesar and Golden Reel nominations. Samy's documentary work includes: Babies, a Golden Reel nominee, 16 Sunrises, The Shadow Of Gold, Heart Of Oak, There Is A Forest, Antarctica: Ice and Sky, and March Of The Penguins 2. Samy's more recent work includes the narrative feature films: the horror film Vermin and the acclaimed Mami Wata.
Jesse's documentary work includes: Shangri-La, Max Richter's Sleep, Tina, The Pez Outlaw, Mickey: The Story Of A Mouse, and the Emmy-winning, documentary feature, Wildcat. Jesse's more recent projects include: the documentary, The Mission, and the narrative feature, The Post.
Eve's feature film work includes: I'm Dead But I Have Friends, A Bigger World, Working Girls, The Advent Calendar, San Soleil, and On The Edge.
Eve's television series work includes: Unit 42 and Endless Night. Eve designed the Oscar-nominated film Close, for which she won a Belgian Academy Award for Production Design. Eve's recent projects include: Omen (Augure) and The Beast In The Jungle.
Juliana's earlier art department work includes, the series Severance as well as the features: Jungle, Elizabeth Harvest, and Triple Frontier.
As Production Designer, Juliana's feature film credits include: A Stormy Night, A Love Song, A Perfect Day For Caribou, All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt, and Earth Mama.
Tomas' short film work includes: Flight, Soy Buenos Aires, Jose, and Museum Of Fleeting Wonders. Tomas' debut feature film Chronicles Of A Wandering Saint had its premiere at SXSW, winning the AYH Award, and was nominated for three Film Independent Spirit Awards.
Mark's work for director Paul Thomas Anderson includes: Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, The Master, and Phantom Thread, for which he won an Academy Award. Mark had also won an Oscar for his work on the The Artist. Mark's more recent work includes: Joker, The Fabelmans, and Maestro.
Benjamin was born and raised in the city of Aarhus in Denmark and graduated from the MFA Cinematography program at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
Here Benjamin received the Ethel Poirier Award for excellence in cinema. His thesis film Slut, which he shot for Chloe Okuno, was awarded at numerous film festivals and earned him an award for Best Cinematography at the HollyShorts Film Festival.
Benjamin's DP work includes the acclaimed feature film Watcher, reuniting with director Chloe Okuno, a thriller about an American woman in Bucharest who believes she is being stalked by a serial killer.
More recently, Benjamin shot Pet Sematary: Bloodlines produced by Paramount Pictures and directed by Lindsey Beer, as well as the comedy Maybe Baby, and the documentary, Being Human.
Matteo's work includes the narrative features: Prevenge, Wildfire, Scrapper, and Home Education, as well as the documentaries: The Confession, Pele, Return To Podor, and Pistorius. Matteo's television work includes: Top Boy, Riches, and Glue.
Paulina's feature film work includes: The Man With The Magic Box, Nina, Prime Time, The Getaway King, Other People, the Oscar-nominated feature film, EO, Mother's Day, and more recently, The Green Border, for Agnieszka Holland. Paulina's television work over the years includes: 1983, Cracow Monsters, Queen, Dead End, and Sexify.
Ben's film work includes narrative features: Lady Macbeth, Limbo, Disobedience, The Wonder, and the more recent feature, Scrapper, and Conclave, as well as the documentaries: 9/11: Phone Calls From The Towers and The Reason I Jump.
Ben's television work includes: Prime Suspect, Merlin, The Lazarus Project, and War Of The Worlds.
Melissa has done voiceover work for commercials, television series, and films, including: Jorel's Brother, Oswaldo, and Wake Up Carlo. Melissa's voice casting work includes the acclaimed animated feature films: The Boy And The World, Tito And The Birds, and more recently Perlimps.
Jan's film work includes: Aftermath, Oscuro Animal, Too Late To Die Young, Another Round, Beautiful Beings, the stop-motion animation Oink, and the documentary Occupied City. Jan won three Dutch national film awards for the Urszula Antoniak films: Nothing Personal, Code Blue, and Beyond Words.
Angello was born in Bogota, Colombia and studied filmmaking at ESCAC in Barcelona. He balances narrative, documentary and commercial work. Angello's short film work includes: The Last Two, Lina, and Dulce.
Angello's feature film work includes: Lapu, Milestone, Where The Light Shines, and The (Almost) Legends. Angello's upcoming work includes: Carro Pasajero, Where The Silence Passes, and The Anatomy Of Horses.
As a Photographer, Claudine has won several prizes in Quebec for her personal work. She also published a critically acclaimed book of images called Barbershops, and has exhibited her work in Montreal, Toronto, New York and Paris.
Claudine's work includes music videos, commercials, and documentaries, along with many short films over the years, including the Oscar-nominated Henry. She has won or been nominated for over a dozen awards for her cinematography work. Claudine's feature film work includes: The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, The Wild Hunt, Stealing Alice, Happy Face, Best Sellers, and more recently, Testament for Denys Arcand. Claudine's television work includes the series: 19-2, The Disappearance, The Monster, and The Wall.
Margret's feature film work over the years includes: Either Way, Life In A Fishbowl, Rams, The Last King, Arctic, Swoon, and Valhalla - The Legend Of Thor, and the acclaimed Lamb. Her television projects include: Every Colour Of The Sea Is Cold, Welcome To Utmark, Max Anger - With One Eye Open, and more recently Blackport. Margret's more recent Costume Design work includes the films: and Against The Ice, the Swedish drama Diorama, and the upcoming Northern Comfort.
After his family relocated to France, Fred started to realize his lifelong dream when he obtained his commercial license in 1985.
Fred's earlier work he served as Camera Helicopter Pilot for rally car races, Paris-Dakar and Paris-Moscow-Beijing, and Coordinator for Raid Gauloises.
Fred transitioned into the film industry, eventually moving to Los Angeles, where over the past three decades he has racked up over 200 film credits.
Fred has worked with directors such as: Roland Emmerich, Michael Bay, Tony Scott, Peter Berg, Damian Chazelle, Doug Liman, and Joel Schumacher. Some of Fred's more recent work includes: Kandahar, Extraction 2, and Gran Turismo.
Along with his wife and collaborator Peggy North, Fred has more recently written a memoir of his long journey to realize his lifelong dream, called Flying Sideways, from Dexterity Books.
Pablo started out as a musician before studying at the Ecole Normale de Paris.
His animated feature film scores include: Adama, Marona's Fantastic Tale, and more recently, the upcoming Sirocco. Pablo's television scores include: A Man Is Dead and The Treehouse Stories series, and the acclaimed short film, Mum Is Pouring Rain. Pablo's other film scores include: the documentaries Chabrol The Maverick and The Real Thing, along with the narrative feature film, Jeunesse Sauvage.
Carl-Johan's feature film scores include: Red Dot, Hellhole, and Locals (Stammisar). Carl-Johan often collaborates with Swedish Film Composer Jon Ekstrand. Their series work includes: ALEX and Top Dog. Their feature film collaborations include: Borg vs. McEnroe, Horizon Line, and more recently, the acclaimed Opponent.
Thomas' film projects over the years include: Underdog, Grand Hotel, Listen Up!, and Opponent. Thomas' work in television includes: Okkupert, Home Ground, Kieler Street, Magnus, Welcome To Utmark, and Countrymen.
Amongst Diana's many film projects are: District 9, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, The Salvation, Young Ones, The Giver, Chappie, and Shepherds and Butchers. Diana's work in television includes: Emmy-nominated efforts for Roots and The Girl, along with Troy: Fall Of A City, Knightfall, FDR, Abraham Lincoln, and most recently, the acclaimed One Piece.
Michael's film work as DP includes: Let Me Go, Carmilla, and A Christmas Carol, along with the documentaries: McCullin, Pavarotti, and The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years. Michael's 2nd unit DP work includes: Rush, In the Heart Of The Sea, Ali And Nino, My Cousin Rachel, and Radioactive. Michael's television work includes: Riviera, Strike Back, We Hunt Together, Citadel, and One Piece.
Carla's film work includes: Innocent Voices, Apocalypto, Sin Nombre, No One Gets Out Alive, Black Panther, Stars At Noon, Sound Of Freedom, A Million Miles Away, and Coco, for which she won an Artios Award from The Cast Society of America (CSA). Carla's casting for television includes the series: Eastbound And Down, Narcos, Narcos: Mexico, Los Espookys, and Gentefied.
Justin is the Writer, Director, and Producer of numerous commercial and narrative projects, through his company, Alchemy Set, including the award-winning short films: Restitution, The Roach, and Peggy.
Justin's work in Set Design and Art Direction includes: The Walking Dead, Prisoners, Baby Driver, American Made, First Man, Tenet, Gran Turismo, and Oppenheimer.
Tomas earned a Master's Degree with Honors from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and his portfolio includes: television shows, theater, and advertising, along with over twenty feature films. Besides work in film, Tomas has composed extensively for concert performance, with his compositions premiering in countries around the world, including: France, Poland, Japan, and the US. Tomas' film scoring work includes: Gueros, Museo, The Good Girls, Things We Dare Not Do, Tell Me When, Killing Cabos 2, Northern Skies Over Empty Space, Jezabel, Poor Rich Family, and The (Almost) Legends.
Colby has worked with director Peter Berg on a number of films including: Friday Night Lights, Hancock, Battleship, Deepwater Horizon, and Patriots Day. Some of Colby's other editing work includes: Ant-Man, which garnered him an ACE award nomination, and more recently Neill Blomkamp's Gran Turismo.
Tom's film work includes: the Saw series, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Columbus Circle, Risen, Sun Records, Percy vs Goliath, Death Of A Ladies' Man, Hunter Hunter, Wedding Season, Crimes Of The Future, and The Cello. Tom's television projects include: Joan Of Arc, Everest, Orphan Black, Hatfields & McCoys, Texas Rising, Dark Matter, and Killjoys.
Yngvild has nearly twenty-year career working NRK, the Norwegian National Broadcasting Corporation. Yngvild's film directing work includes: the award-winning features Women in Oversized Men's Shirts, and Ninjababy, along with the short film, Apple. Yngvild's television series work includes: Home Ground and more recently, Power Play.
Kajsa's short film credits include: Mother Said, Leonid Shower, Deconstruction Workers, It's Up To You, and It Was Mine.
Kajsa's feature film debut is Titina, based on the true story of the 1926 North Pole expedition of Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen, told through the eyes of Umberto's dog, Titina.
Based in Oslo, Jens has his own edit suite and enjoys both storytelling for television, and finding each film's unique cinematic expression, ultimately creating an extraordinary experience in the audience.
Jens has worked as a Freelance Film Editor in the UK and Norway, across all genres and formats.
Jens has garnered much acclaim for his editing work, including winning Amanda Awards for his work on: Blind, Beware Of Children, and The Innocents.
Jens' film work over the years includes: A Somewhat Gentle Man, In Order of Disappearance, Beware Of Children, The Innocents, the acclaimed animated feature, Titina, and the upcoming trilogy, Sex/Dreams/Love.
Henrik's production design work for short films includes: Cleanse, The Musical Spider, and more recently Massacre Of The Innocents.
Henrik's feature film work includes the acclaimed Midsommar for director Ari Aster, and more recently Kristoffer Borgli's acclaimed black comedy, Sick Of Myself.
Richard began stunt work following a career in US Army Special Operations and Defense Department, as well as a teaching martial arts. His first project was choreographing action fight scenes for the NFL Cleveland Browns fantasy video Masters Of The Gridiron.
Richard is currently Director of Stunt Predators USA & SFX based out of Ohio, and he has worked on dozens of films, including: A Better Way To Die, Take Shelter, The Kings Of Summer, Dog Eat Dog, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Between Worlds, Dark Waters, I See You, Don't Tell A Soul, Holler and White Noise.
In addition to his film work, Richard is a sought-after motivational speaker. With blackbelts in Karate, Judo and Jujitsu, he also teaches at his dojo, The Madison Combined Martial Arts Association, in Madison, Ohio.
Along with partner Joe Rodriguez, Javier runs Indice, providing music supervision and other services in Mexico and the US.
Javier's work in film includes: the acclaimed, I'm No Longer Here, You've Got This, Dance Of The 41, Anonymously Yours, Queens On The Run, Cassandro, and Have A Nice Day.
His television work includes: Los Espookys, Luis Miguel, Diablero, Acapulco, The Head Of Joaquin Murrieta, and VGLY.
Paulina's feature film work includes: The Man With The Magic Box, Nina, Prime Time, The Getaway King, Other People, and more recently the Oscar-nominated feature film, EO, Mother's Day, and the upcoming, Green Border, for Agnieszka Holland.
Paulina's television work over the years includes: 1983, Cracow Monsters, Queen, Dead End, and Sexify.
Jeremy's lighting credits include: Captain Fantastic, Green Room, Night Moves, The One I Love, Lucky Them, Eden, Safety Not Guaranteed, Your Sister's Sister, and The Off Hours.
More recently, Jeremy has worked on the Netflix series Special as well as the HBO Series, The Lady And The Dale.
His feature film work as Director of Photography includes: Almost Friends, Language Lessons, 7 Days, and I'll Show You Mine.
Clair is a Los Angeles and New York City based Cinematographer working mainly in the commercial and documentary film fields.
He traces his passion for cinematography to his early endeavors with still images.
Clair's feature film documentary work includes: Jim: The James Foley Story, Free Solo, King In The Wilderness, The Boy From Medellin, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, and Wild Life.
Nick's feature film work includes: The Arbor, The Selfish Giant, The Double, Life, On Chesil Beach, Dark River, A Private War, American Animals, True History Of The Kelly Gang, and Nitram.
Nick's documentary features include: Taking Liberties, On A Knife Edge, and All Tomorrow's Parties.
Nick's musical collaborations include Sigur Ros, on their films Heima and Inni, and the film Bjork: Biophilia Live which he co-directed with Peter Strickland.
Stephane has been the French location Art Director on films such as: Hugo, Dunkirk, and The 15:17 To Paris.
His Production Design work includes: the film At Eternity's Gate and the mini-series The Chalet.
Stephane's Art Director work includes past and recent films: Sylvain Chomet's Attila Marcel, The Last Duel, Stillwater, and The French Dispatch and Asteroid City for Wes Anderson.
Colin's short film work includes: The Long Slow Flight Of The Ashbot, We Were Not Made For This World, Pink Plastic Flamingos, and Here And Beyond. Colin's feature film work as director and writer includes: the thriller, Double Walker, and more recently for the acclaimed Linoleum, starring Jim Gaffigan, as the host of a failing children's science show who tries to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage.
Lukasz has created stills for such notable films as: Baby Bump, The Erlprince, Pardon, Leave No Traces, Werewolf, Icarus, the award-winning Cold War, and more recently, The Silent Twins and EO. Lukasz's work for television includes the series: Krol (The King Of Warsaw), Glitter, The Office PL, and Legacy.
Joseba's feature film work includes the animated features: Elcano and Magellan: The First Voyage Around The World, and Elf On The Run, and more recently Unicorn Wars, for which he received a Goya nomination for Best Score.
Joseba's scoring for short films includes the films: La Noche, Ospel, and Loop.
Some of James' feature film credits include: The Flowers Of War, The Grandmaster, Tanna, Lion, Mary Magdalene, Nitram, Mortal Kombat, and Three Thousand Years Of Longing. James' television projects include: Season One of La Brea as well as the upcoming Amazon series The Lost Flowers Of Alice Hart.
Kate worked on documentary projects like these over the years: His And Hers, Blood Sisters, It's Not Yet Dark, The Farthest, I Dolours, and Songs For While I'm Away. Kate's narrative feature film work includes: Snap, Monster, and the Oscar-nominated The Quiet Girl. Kate's work in television includes: Can't Cope, Won't Cope, Blood, and Normal People.
Valentin's feature film scores include: April And The Extraordinary World, A Bigger World, Rialto, How To Make Out, Under The Stars Of Paris, and the documentary, Ladies Of The Wood. Valentin has collaborated with director Lukas Dhont on both short films and feature films, including his debut film Girl, and more recently the Oscar-nominated Close.
Originally from Brooklyn, JoAnne studied in upstate New York and London, exploring theater design, puppetry, and paleontology before getting into Set Decoration for film and television. JoAnne's film work includes: Norman, The Book Of Henry, Freeheld, Kogonada's After Yang, and Past Lives. JoAnne's work in television includes: the series Orange Is The New Black, Maniac, Fosse/Verdon, and Invasion.
Some of Eve's feature film work includes: I'm Dead But I Have Friends, A Bigger World, Working Girls, The Advent Calendar, San Soleil, On The Edge, and the upcoming, The Beast In The Jungle. Eve's television series work includes: Unit 42 and Endless Night, both available on Netflix in the US. One of Eve's most recent films is the Oscar-nominated Close, for which she won a Magritte Award (Belgian Academy Award) for Best Production Design.
Sebastian's earlier narrative feature film work includes, Blood And Rain, as well as The Squad, both of which earned him Colombian Academy Awards (Premios Macondo Awards). Sebastian's documentary work includes: Foreign Wars, The Boy From Medellin, and Diamond Hands. Television series he has edited include: Wild District, Green Frontier, and Ruido Capital.
Sebastian's more recent feature work includes the acclaimed films: Pickpockets, and Laura Mora's multiple award-winning, The Kings Of The World.
Claire's feature film Set Decoration work includes: Taken, Grown Ups, Just Go With It, Bliss, and Greta Gerwig's Little Women. Her television work includes the series: Castle, American Horror Story, 9-1-1, and Dirty John.
Claire's most recent feature films include: Hustle, White Noise, and Christopher Nolan's upcoming film, Oppenheimer.
Some of Matis' credits working on larger teams include: Jawbone, American Animals, The Little Drummer Girl, and more recently, on Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet Of Curiosities, and Tar. Matis' projects in a more supervising sound role have included: Truth And Justice, Captain Volkonogov Escaped, Calm With Horses (Shadow Of Violence), and more recently, Last Sentinel, and the Oscar-shortlisted animation, Sierra.
Bent's feature film projects include: Nord, Out Of Nature, Homesick, A Serious Game, Little Bird's Big Adventure, Becoming Astrid, Sonja: The White Swan, Held For Ransom, Rose, The Kiss, and Narvik: Hitler's First Defeat. His work for television includes the series: Occupied, Atlantic Crossing, and Beforeigners. Bent has worked with director Ruben Ostlund on his award-winning films, The Square, and more recently Triangle Of Sadness.
Erin's editing work includes the feature films: Good Time, Italian Studies, and Funny Pages, as well as the short films, Rejoice In The Lamb, and the acclaimed, Power Signal. Power Signal is one of Erin's several collaborations with Producer/Director Oscar Boyson, including short video projects on artist Joe Brainard and singer Jack Antonoff, along with video mashups and commercial work. The two are also planning an upcoming feature-length version of Power Signal.
Feliksas' film work includes: Transsiberian, The Collectress, Vanishing Waves, Redirected, Eastern Business, Sasha Was Here, The Flood Won't Come, The Generation Of Evil, Cinephilia, Long Flat Balls 3, and the acclaimed, Vesper.
Feliksas' television work includes the series: Occupied, The Oil Fund, and Troll Farm.
Joshua's feature film work includes: Grandma, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Beatriz At Dinner, Sun Dogs, Burden, and Kajillionaire. Joshua's television work includes the acclaimed series: Barry, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Euphoria. More recently, Joshua was Property Master for the acclaimed films: Don't Worry Darling, Blonde, and for Everything Everywhere All At Once, directed by the Daniels, starring Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, which garnered 11 Academy Award nominations.
Corinne is from the Philippines and lives and works in Manila.
Corinne is an award-winning film Multidisciplinary Artist and Sound Designer and her work deals predominantly in the photographic realm.
Corinne's film work includes: Norte, The End Of History, On The Job, Violator, Apocalypse Child, The Woman Who Left, Respeto, Season Of The Devil, Midnight In A Perfect World, and most recently the acclaimed, Leonor Will Never Die.
Billur's feature film credits include: The Cemil Show, Together We Shall Die, and Anatolian Leopard, which earned her a Production Design Award at the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. More recently, Billur designed the acclaimed feature, Aftersun, which won a BIFA for Best British film, and for which Billur was nominated for a Production Design BIFA.
Uli worked in several European art departments for Enki Bilal or Peter Greenaway, and Uli designed German feature films with directors including: Leander Haussmann, Oliver Hirschbiegel or Sonke Wortmann. Uli has collaborated with director Tom Tykwer on several films, including: Winter Sleepers, Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer, A Hologram For The King, and Cloud Atlas, co-directed by The Wachowskis. Uli's film work includes: Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer, The International, Cloud Atlas, In Secret, and A Hologram For The King. Uli's television work includes work on the acclaimed: Sense8, The Queen's Gambit, and Babylon Berlin.
Guy's design work includes the films: The Brothers Grimm, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, Blackhat, and Steve Jobs. Guy has won several awards for Production Design, including for the films: Agora, Passengers, and Inception. Guy's more recent work includes the mini-series, Lisey's Story, and the acclaimed feature film, Spencer, by Pablo Larrain, starring Kristin Stewart.
Owner of Unbridled Sound in Los Angeles, Brent's feature film projects include: Swiss Army Man, Honey Boy, Aviva, Together Together, No Man Of God, and Everything Everywhere All At Once, which was short-listed for an Academy Award for sound.
Brent's work in television includes: Wild Wild Country, They Fight, Untold, and Murderville.
Over his career, Frank has worked in both production sound and post-production, more recently focusing on the latter as Sound Supervisor and Sound Designer.
Frank’s acclaimed film work includes: Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer, Cloud Atlas, Rush, Citizenfour, A Most Wanted Man, In The Heart Of The Sea, A Hologram For The King, Outlaw King, Suspiria, His House, and The Colony.
Frank has won two German Academy Awards, for his work on Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer and A Hologram For The King.
More recently, Frank was Sound Designer on the acclaimed All Quiet On The Western Front as well as the series Babylon Berlin.
Stephane's film work includes: My Brother The Devil, God's Own Country, Bypass, and more recently Ali And Ava. His television work includes: Trigonometry and Red Rose. Stephane has collaborated frequently with director Joanna Hogg, including on the films: Exhibition, Archipelago, The Souvenir, The Souvenir: Part II, and most recently The Eternal Daughter.
Catherine has worked for the post-production studio Boom Limited in London for the past 15 years, starting as a runner, moving into foley recording, editing, mixing, and performance. Catherine has worked on several major productions in film and television, including: The Crown, Black Mirror, Peaky Blinders, Call The Midwife, The Kings Speech, and The Aeronauts, and more recently worked on Ali And Ava and Pretty Red Dress. Catherine is a member of MPSE, or Motion Picture Sound Editors, the premiere organization for sound editing professionals, and she has been nominated for 7 MPSE Golden Reel Awards, and won two, for her work on A Christmas Carol and Oasis.
Jens received an MA in Film and Literature from the Universities of Bergen and Copenhagen before attending the National Film and Television School in London and received an MA in Editing.
Jens has worked as a Freelance Film Editor in the UK and Norway, across all genres and formats. Some of Jens' film works includes: A Somewhat Gentle Man, In Order of Disappearance, and Out Stealing Horses, for Director Hans Petter Moland.
Jens has worked with Dag Johan Haugerud on: I Belong, Beware Of Children, The Light From The Chocolate Factory, and the upcoming trilogy, Sex/Dreams/Love. One of Jens most notable recent works is The Innocents, for director Eskil Vogt, whose debut feature Blind, Jens also edited. Jens has garnered much acclaim for his editing work, including winning Amanda Awards for his work on: Blind, Beware Of Children, and The Innocents.
Pessi's film scores include: The Midwife, Armi Alive!, Unexpected Journey, Swingers, Land Of Hope, and Psychosia. His television score work includes: Republic Of Children and Piece Of My Heart. One of Pessi's most recent scores was for the award-winning film The Innocents for director Eskil Vogt, for which Pessi was nominated for a Norwegian Amanda Award for best score.
Maria is originally from Sweden, and studied in Germany and Denmark, where she currently lives and works. Maria's first narrative feature film was Parents for director Christian Tafdrup.
She has also worked extensively with Hlynur Palmasson, from short films such as A Painter and Seven Boats to the feature films, Winter Brothers and A White, White Day, and most recently the acclaimed film Godland.
Maria's work as DP has garnered much acclaim, including a Bodil Award for Parents, a Bodil and Danish Film Award for Winter Brothers, and an Edda for A White, White Day.
Maria more recently won an award for Best Cinematography for Godland at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Amanda's costume design work includes the feature films: Bread And Butter, Excess Flesh, Emma's Chance, The Price, and Extracurricular Activities, as well as the video game, Telling Lies. Amanda's more recent film credits include the acclaimed films: Pleasure and Emily The Criminal starring Aubrey Plaza.
Alexander established his Balanescu Quartet in 1987, and over the years has collaborated with such diverse artists as: Kraftwerk, Pet Shop Boys, Jack De Johnette, Ornette Coleman, and Goldfrapp.
Alexander's film scores include: Angels and Insects, the Italian war film, Johnny The Partisan, The Way I Spent The End Of The World, and documentary The Magic Mountain.
More recently, Alexander worked on Anca Damian's acclaimed, animated musical comedy, The Island.
Simon spent twelve years in France early in his career as an Assistant Editor before returning to Australia.
Some of Simon's feature film editing work includes: Spear, Bad Girl, The Babadook, The Nightingale, Sweet River, and most recently, The Stranger.
His documentary editing includes: River, a collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and Selina Miles' Martha: A Picture Story, as well as her latest, Harley & Katya.
Mark's film work includes large projects such as Face/Off, Broken Arrow, Live Free or Die Hard, The Thin Red Line and Super 8.
Mark's more recent Stunt Coordinator work includes The Black Phone, the acclaimed Emily The Criminal and Vengeance, and the upcoming Karaganda and The Exorcist for David Gordon Green.
Mark's film work includes large projects such as Face/Off, Broken Arrow, Live Free or Die Hard, The Thin Red Line and Super 8.
Mark's more recent Stunt Coordinator work includes The Black Phone, the acclaimed Emily The Criminal and Vengeance, and the upcoming Karaganda and The Exorcist for David Gordon Green.
Paul has a background in electronic music recording and composition and graduated from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK.
Paul's films include: The Proposition, The Queen, Hunger, '71, We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Imposter, American Animals, You Were Never Really Here, Saint Maud, Mogul Mowgli, and Encounter, starring Riz Ahmed.
Paul's more recent film work includes Andrew Cumming's feature-length directorial debut, The Origin.
Paul has a background in electronic music recording and composition and graduated from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK.
Paul's films include: The Proposition, The Queen, Hunger, '71, We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Imposter, American Animals, You Were Never Really Here, Saint Maud, Mogul Mowgli, and Encounter, starring Riz Ahmed.
Paul's more recent film work includes Andrew Cumming's feature-length directorial debut, The Origin.
Phoenix is from Delaware and attended The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
Her Costume Design work is featured in the films: Beneath, Sex Ed, Burn County, and Sylvie's Love, earning her two Best Costume Design award nominations, and more recently, Moon Manor.
Phoenix's television Costume Design work includes: the series Detroiters, A.P. Bio, and Chosen.
Other costume design work of hers can be seen in: the film Black Panther and the series Mad Men, The Man In The High Castle, Stranger Things, and Hollywood.
Lyn has been passionate about photography and the moving image from an early age.
That passion led to him attending the American Film Institute in Cinematography and since then, he's compiled an eclectic body of work in narrative feature films.
Lyn's Cinematography work includes the feature films: The Wall Of Mexico, The Wind, Vengeance, and They/Them, as well as the Hulu anthology series, Into The Dark.
Jaime returned to Mexico City from Vancouver and continued freelancing before moving into Foley after being referred to a Foley mixing job by a friend.
Jaime's film work includes: Roma, Nomadland, Amores Perros, Sanctorum, The Sky Is Everywhere, Emily The Criminal, and Bardo.
Jaime's television work includes the series: Club de Cuervos, Run Coyote Run, Dark Desire, and High Heat.
Owl's work as Set Dresser includes: Failure To Launch, Deja Vu, Broken City, and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
His Set Decoration credits include the films: Demonic, Kidnapping Mr. Heineken, and Keanu, as well as the series, Queen Sugar and Cloak & Dagger.
Owl's recent Production Design work includes projects for Blumhouse like: Black Box, Bingo Hell, Madres, and Torn Hearts.
Glenn's feature film editing credits include: King Of California, The Devil's Rejects, Halloween, 31, The Turning, and Black Box.
Glenn's television work includes: The Vampire Diaries, Preacher, Stan Against Evil, and Altered Carbon.
Glenn has produced several film and television projects including: 31, LX 2048, The Man Who Was Thursday, and Paradise City.
Steven's directing work includes the features: I Go Pogo, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, and more recently Alien Xmas for Netflix.
Other animation credits from Steven include: Critters, Elf, Team America: World Police, and most recently the acclaimed feature Marcel The Shell With Shoes On.
Liz's film work includes: Digging For Fire, The Vigil, Give Me Pity, Queens, Emily The Criminal, and Marcel The Shell With Shoes On.
Liz has more than forty projects to her credit, in film, television, and commercial work, and is a performance artist and magician.
Upcoming pilots Liz has designed include: Written By The Stars for the E! Network and The Amazing Danny for Comedy Central.
Daniel's feature film work includes Ron Howard films like: A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Frost/Nixon, The Da Vinci Code, and Inferno, and Ghost Dog and Coffee And Cigarettes for Jim Jarmusch.
Genres he has worked in include: action films like Watchmen and Captain America: The First Avenger, horror such as Amityville: The Awakening, Black Box, and Black As Night, and dramas such as Soul Surfer and Marshall.
Some of Daniel's more recent work includes: the documentary feature Lucy And Desi, 13: The Musical, and the television series Barkskins, Genius, and Raising Dion.
Rael’s musical background, rooted in classical training, began at the age of 6. He graduated from the Tonmeister Course with First Class Honors, winning both available prizes for composition.
Rael has worked on a variety of roles in film, including: Composer, Music Producer, Orchestrator, Music Editor, Music Programmer and Session Musician.
Rael’s film work includes: Les Miserables, Alan Partridge, Suite Française, My Cousin Rachel, Oasis: Supersonic, and most recently, the acclaimed, Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris.
Rael's television work includes: Sherlock, Ill Behavior, Harlots, The Salisbury Poisonings, The Kings, and Ten Percent.
Rael’s musical background, rooted in classical training, began at the age of 6. He graduated from the Tonmeister Course with First Class Honors, winning both available prizes for composition.
Rael has worked on a variety of roles in film, including: Composer, Music Producer, Orchestrator, Music Editor, Music Programmer and Session Musician.
Rael’s film work includes: Les Miserables, Alan Partridge, Suite Française, My Cousin Rachel, Oasis: Supersonic, and most recently, the acclaimed, Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris.
Rael's television work includes: Sherlock, Ill Behavior, Harlots, The Salisbury Poisonings, The Kings, and Ten Percent.
Ainara's first feature was feature film See You Tomorrow, God Willing about a group of Franciscan nuns which she wrote, shot, directed and edited.
She has collaborated with Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky as First Assistant Director on several of his acclaimed films like: Varicella, Aquarela, and more recently Gunda.
Ainara's most recent directorial project is her acclaimed documentary feature, Polaris.
Bianca's narrative feature work includes: Pride And Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy and Winter Thaw. Bianca's documentary work includes: Belly Of The Beast and Murder Among The Mormons.
Bianca's unique life experiences as transwoman, a mother of three, and a Mormon, give her an equally unique view through the lens, and translates this experience to create an empathetic approach, creating visuals speaking across cultural and linguistic boundaries.
Bianca's most recent project is the acclaimed stop-motion animated feature, Marcel The Shell With Shoes On.
Tom's film work includes: the Saw series, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Columbus Circle, Risen, Sun Records, Percy vs Goliath, Death Of A Ladies' Man, Hunter Hunter, Crimes Of The Future, and Cello.
Tom's television projects include: Joan Of Arc, Everest, Orphan Black, Hatfields & McCoys, Texas Rising, Dark Matter, and Killjoys.
Claire's feature film set decoration work includes: Taken, Grown Ups, Just Go With It, Bliss, and Greta Gerwig's Little Women.
Her television work includes the series: Castle, American Horror Story, 9-1-1, and Dirty John.
Claire's most recent feature films include: Hustle, with Adam Sandler, and the Noah Baumbach's upcoming, White Noise.
Benjamin's thesis film Slut, which he shot for Chloe Okuno, was awarded at numerous film festivals and earned him an award for Best Cinematography at the HollyShorts Film Festival.
Benjamin's recent DP work includes the acclaimed feature film Watcher, reuniting with its director Chloe Okuno, a thriller about an American woman in Bucharest who believes she is being stalked by a serial killer.
Benjamin shot the upcoming Prequel to Pet Sematary from Paramount Pictures and directed by Lindsey Beer.
Born in Kyoto and currently based in New York City, Keiko is an award-winning editor of over 50 feature narrative films and documentary films. Being versed in both fiction and documentary, she brings her sense of narrative structure to documentary films and her creative use of footage to narrative films.
Keiko was nominated for an Film Independent Spirit Award for her editing work on We The Animals, and co-edited Ainu Mosir.
Other narratives Keiko edited include: Steven Shainberg's Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus, Dina Amer's You Resemble Me, and more recently, Jeremiah Zagar's Hustle starring Adam Sandler.
Keiko's documentary credits include: award-winning films such as Jeremiah Zagar's In A Dream, Matt Wolf's Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, Ross Kaufman's Tigerland, and JR's Paper and Glue.
Murren's projects have include the narrative feature film Palace Of Fun and the documentary Oasis Knebworth 1996.
Other projects include the shorts, Down From London and Calving, as well as the television series of Down From London.
Murren's latest feature is the acclaimed Brian And Charles, about a lonely man living in rural Wales who builds a robot companion.
Martin has worked in several facets of the art department, from Props to Set Dressing to Art Direction to Production Design and he is founder of the UK Based production company, Do Not Bend Productions.
Martin's television work includes the series: The Secret Agent, Class Dismissed, and Brassic.
Martin's feature film work includes: In Another Life, Eaten By Lions, Brian And Charles, and Blank.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Academy, BAFTA, and Art Directors Guild award winning, Set Decorator Jan Pascale has worked over the years in set decoration on over fifty projects in film and television.
Jan's film work includes: Training Day, The United States of Leland, Anchorman, Good Night And Good Luck, Argo, Sicario, Vice, Velvet Buzzsaw, Mank, and the recent Top Gun: Maverick.
Jan is serving as a Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Designers Branch. She helped found the Set Decorators Society of America (SDSA), and helped develop the magazine SetDecor, which gives insight into the craft of decorating for film and television.
Reg is a three-time Genie Award nominee for editing for the films: Bruce MacDonald's Hard Core Logo, and Don McKellar's films Last Night and Childstar.
Reg's other editing credits include the films: Guy Maddin's Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs and Goon, as well as more recently the television series: Bitten, Sensitive Skin, Orphan Black, and Condor.
Reg's work as Feature Film Director includes: Monkey Warfare and Manson, My Name Is Evil.
Reg co-wrote and directed the documentary, Super Duper Alice Cooper, and recently directed the documentary, The Kids In The Hall: Comedy Punks.
Adam's earlier work in roles such as compositor or VFX artist included films such as: 28 Weeks Later, Skyfall, Edge Of Tomorrow, Pride, and Trash.
Adam's work as VFX Supervisor has included: Captain Phillips, Legend, A Private War, An American Pickle, and more recently, The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent.
Aska's scoring work includes the films: Skate Kitchen, Selah And The Spades, and 37 Seconds, as well as the HBO television series Betty, with longtime collaborator Crystal Moselle.
Aska scored the Amazon feature film, I'm Your Woman, and the more recently, After Yang, with Ryuichi Sakamoto for Kogonada.
Joshua's feature film work includes: Grandma, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Beatriz At Dinner, Sun Dogs, Burden, and Kajillionaire.
Joshua's television work includes the acclaimed series: Barry, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Euphoria.
More recently, Joshua was Property Master for the acclaimed film Everything Everywhere All At Once, directed by the Daniels and starring Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan.
Originally from Brooklyn, JoAnne studied in upstate New York and London, exploring theater design, puppetry, and paleontology before getting into Set Decoration for film and television.
JoAnne's film work includes: Norman, The Book Of Henry, The Seagull, Freeheld, and Kogonada's acclaimed After Yang.
JoAnne's work in television includes: the series Orange Is The New Black, Maniac, Fosse/Verdon, and Invasion.
Owner of Unbridled Sound in Los Angeles, Brent's feature film projects include: Swiss Army Man, Honey Boy, Aviva, Together Together, No Man Of God, and Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Brent's work in television includes: Wild Wild Country, They Fight, Untold, and Murderville.
Gil is an Emmy-nominated film composer, sonic activist and recording artist with a passion for socially conscious films.
Gil's scoring credits include the films: Entre Nos, Food Chains, The Lost Arcade, Chavela, and Backyard Wilderness.
More recently, Gil has scored for: Man On Fire, The Great Hack, White Noise, Jacinta, Cicada, Captains Of Za'atari, iGilbert, and the Oscar-nominated short documentary film Lead Me Home.
Melanie's feature film credits include: I Met A Girl, Waiting For The Miracle To Come, and the documentary, Despite The Gods.
Melanie's television credits include: High Life, Cancelled and Re-Cancelled, and Iggy and Ace.
More recently, Melanie edited the Oscar-nominated documentary short film, Three Songs For Benazir.
Don's editing credits include: Eames: The Architect and The Painter, Audrie and Daisy, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, Charm City, The Genius Of Marian, and Always In Season.
Don's more recent projects include: Athlete A, After Antarctica, the series Lincoln's Dilemma, and the upcoming series Murf The Surf. Don also edited the Oscar-nominated short film, Lead Me Home.
Roger's feature film projects include: Reprise, Thelma, and The Worst Person In The World for director Joachim Trier.
Roger was the Production Designer on The Nile Hilton Incident and The Contractor, both for director Tarik Saleh.
His recent television work includes: the mini-series 22nd Of July, and the series The Investigation for director Tobias Lindholm.
Roger was awarded a Norwegian Amanda Award and two Swedish Guldbagge Awards for his Production Design achievements.
Some of Pierre's short film work includes: Lazy Susan, If I Die On Mars, The Outside, Mthunzi, Our Albertinia, and The Company's Garden. His first feature was The Tree for director, Louw Venter.
Pierre's more recent work includes: the award-winning feature film, This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection, shot in Lesotho, and the television series Mami Wata, which he shot in Gabon.
Some of Stine's feature film work includes: Princess, Long Way North, and Checkered Ninja, and the series Ustyrligt.
More recently, Stine worked on the Oscar-nominated animated documentary, Flee.
Stine has been working as Animation Director on an upcoming CG animated feature film and is based in Copenhagen.
Will's documentary feature films include: Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, Strokes Of Genius, Quincy, Freak Power, The Black Godfather, and Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell.
Will's work on the documentary Jane garnered him an Emmy Nomination and an ACE Eddie Award. He also worked on the acclaimed television series, Five Came Back.
More recently, Will has edited Neymar: The Perfect Chaos and the upcoming, They Call Me Magic.
Richard began stunt work following a career in US Army Special Operations and Defense Department, as well as a teaching martial arts. His first project was choreographing action fight scenes for the NFL Cleveland Browns fantasy video Masters Of The Gridiron.
Richard is currently Director of Stunt Predators USA & SFX based out of Ohio, and he has worked on dozens of films, including: A Better Way To Die, Take Shelter, The Kings Of Summer, Dog Eat Dog, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Between Worlds, Dark Waters, I See You, Don't Tell A Soul, and Holler.
In addition to his film work, Richard is a sought-after motivational speaker. With blackbelts in Karate, Judo and Jujitsu, he also teaches at his dojo, The Madison Combined Martial Arts Association, in Madison, Ohio.
With a background in literature, music, architecture, and travel, Katie has worked all over the US and Canada, as well as Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, and Africa.
Her film/television work includes: Like Crazy, The Beauty Inside, Documentary Now, Equals, Color Out Of Space, and Booksmart.
More recently Katie worked on the acclaimed Zola for director Janicza Bravo, as well as C'mon C'mon for director Mike Mills.
Uno has collaborated with composer Johan Soderqvist on several projects including: the television series The Bridge and the Department Q film series.
Uno's feature film scoring credits include: The Lion Woman, Hacker, and On The President's Orders.
His documentary scores include: Magnus, The Painter And The Thief, and more recently the acclaimed animated documentary Flee, for which Uno won best score in the Annecy Film Festival.
Benjamin's film work includes several acclaimed short and music videos. His feature work includes the films: El Pescador, Hello Destroyer, and Mandy.
Benjamin's recent work on Pieces Of A Woman, has received wide acclaim, and the film has been nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Actress.
Benjamin's most recent projects include After Yang, directed by Kogonada, and Jesse Eisenberg's directorial debut, When You Finish Saving The World.
Paul has a background in electronic music recording and composition and graduated from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK.
Paul's films include: The Proposition, The Queen, Hunger, '71, We Need To Talk About Kevin, The Imposter, American Animals, You Were Never Really Here, and Saint Maud.
Paul's more recent film work includes Mogul Mowgli, and Encounter, directed by Michael Pearce and starring Riz Ahmed.
Nanw is the owner of Nanw Rowlands Casting, and her casting work includes films such as: Escape From Pretoria, Kaleidoscope, A Dark Place, The Man In The Hat, Outside The Wire, and Censor.
Nanw carried out UK casting for US film and television on: Creed II, Voyagers, and the upcoming Distant and The Fabelmans. Other recent casting projects include: Earwig and The Colour Room.
Kari studied at Aalto University and worked abroad in New Zealand and the UK before returning to Finland. Over the last decade, Kari has made over a dozen feature films as well as several television series, short films, and commercials.
Some of Kari's feature films include: Hella W, for which he won a Jussi Award, as well as Lovemilla, The Midwife, Aurora, The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki, Any Day Now, and more recently, Compartment Number 6, winning Grand Prize at Cannes.
J-P's cinematography work includes several films for director Juho Kuosmanen such as: The Painting Sellers, The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki, and more recently, the acclaimed Compartment Number 6, which won Grand Prize at Cannes.
J-P's documentary work includes his two award-winning documentaries, The Punk Syndrome and its follow-up The Punk Voyage, along with co-director Jukka Karkkainen.
Jussi has been nominated for The Jussi (Finnish national film award) for his work on the films, Korso and Juice, and has won for his work on The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki, and Aalto.
Jussi has edited acclaimed documentaries including: Bad Cop, Entrepreneur, and The Dinosaur.
Other narrative films Jussi has edited include: Open Up To Me, The Chronicles Of Melanie, Laugh Or Die, and more recently the award-winning Compartment Number 6, and Supercool.
Ole's film work includes The Arbor, Listen to Me Marlon, The Little Stranger, and American Animals. His television work includes: Utopia, National Treasure, and The Crown.
Ole's recently worked the Oscar-winning Judy, as well as Minyan and the acclaimed feature, Ali And Ava. Ole has also worked on the Amazon series, Tales from the Loop.
Maya grew up in Italy and moved to the UK, attending the National Film and Television School, working with classmate Michael Pearce on his short films, Rite and Keeping Up with the Joneses, as well as his BAFTA-winning debut feature film Beast, and Michael Pearce's next film Encounter, starring Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer.
Maya's other feature film projects include the art film project DAU, the documentary Kingdom Of Us, the BAFTA-winning coming of age film Rocks, and Clio Barnard's latest feature, Ali & Ava.
Janus' editing career spans several decades and has collaborated with notable Danish directors such as Bille August on films including: Pelle The Conqueror, The House Of The Spirits, The Best Intentions, and A Fortunate Man, as well as Thomas Vinterberg on The Hunt, The Commune, and Another Round.
Janus' other films over the years include: Heartstone, Backstabbing For Beginners, Journal 64, and The Good Traitor.
Documentary work for Janus includes: Burma VJ, Putin's Kiss, The Act of Killing, and Strong Island, and the acclaimed animated Flee.
Bjorn's narrative feature films include: The Deep, Heartstone, Under The Tree, A White, White Day, Rams, Little Butterfly, and Valdimar Johannsson's dark mythological drama/thriller, Lamb.
Bjorn's documentary film work includes: Electronica Reykjavik, Dreamland, Dive: Rituals In Water, and The Last Autumn.
Bjorn has worked on several television series over the years including: Lazy Town, Trapped, and Katla.
Ruckus and Lane Skye's co-writing feature film credits include: the thrillers Rattle The Cage and more recently Becky, starring Kevin James and Lulu Wilson.
Their short film work includes the acclaimed films: Prayers From Pelham, Hungry For Love, Ms. Dottie's Ghosts, and The 7 Sevens.
The Skye's feature writing/directing debut is The Devil To Pay, a thriller set in an isolated Appalachian community starring Danielle Deadwyler as a struggling farmer fighting to save her son after the disappearance of her husband.
Claudine's work includes music videos, commercials, and documentaries, along with more than 40 short films, including the Oscar-nominated Henry. She has won or been nominated for over a dozen awards for her cinematography work.
As a photographer, Claudine has won several prizes in Quebec for her personal work. She also published a critically acclaimed book of images called Barbershops, and has exhibited her work in Montreal, Toronto, New York and Paris.
Claudine's feature film work includes: The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, The Wild Hunt, Stealing Alice, Happy Face, and more recently Best Sellers, starring Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza.
Claudine's television work includes the series: 19-2, The Disappearance, The Monster, and The Wall.
Margret's feature film work over the years includes the projects: Either Way, Life In A Fishbowl, Rams, The Last King, Arctic, Swoon, and Valhalla - The Legend Of Thor.
Her television projects include: Every Colour Of The Sea Is Cold and Welcome To Utmark.
Margret's more recent Costume Design work includes the films: Lamb and Against The Ice, and the television series, Blackport.
Paul studied Fine Arts for two years at the School of Arts in Amsterdam before studying Cinematography at the Netherlands Film School and later the UK's National Film and Television School.
Paul's film work includes: the short film Magnesium, as well as the feature films: Prince, The Wound, Embattled, and more recently John And The Hole.
Stephane has been the French location Art Director on films such as: Hugo, Dunkirk, and The 15:17 To Paris.
His Production Design work includes: the film At Eternity's Gate and the mini-series The Chalet.
Stephane's Art Director work includes past and recent films: Sylvain Chomet's Attila Marcel, The Last Duel, Stillwater, Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch and Wes Anderson's upcoming Asteroid City.
Karina worked on a variety of commercials, shorts, and features, including in the camera department on such projects: Patriots Day, Deepwater Horizon, The Mandalorian, and The High Note.
Karina's work as Director of Photography includes: the documentary short Doble 9, the feature film Beauty Mark, and more recently, the acclaimed No Man Of God.
Eli started his career as a military photojournalist and he is a Cinematography graduate of the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles.
Eli has worked in several roles in the camera department on films such as: She Is Coming Home, Endtime, Redleaves, and Blush. His earlier cinematography work includes: the feature film Hospitality and the television series: Alesia: Ground Zero, and Disengaged.
More recently, Eli shot the supernatural drama Lamb, about a childless Icelandic couple who discover a mysterious newborn on their farm. He has also shot the 3rd season of the Netflix series Trapped, about two police detectives in a remote Icelandic town.
Arthur has worked on a diverse mix of feature films, television series, commercials and documentaries for more than twenty years, and he has edited over 150 movie trailers as well.
His feature film work includes: The Trotsky, Deadfall, Whitewash, Fathers And Guns 2, and The Hummingbird Project.
Arthur's recent projects include: The Decline for Netflix and the acclaimed Best Sellers starring Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza.
Kenji has worked in a variety of musical genres, as well as different disciplines including music performance, theater, shorts, feature films, and documentaries.
Kenji is a member of the group Ensamble Supercluster, who compose and perform contemporary chamber music.
Kenji was selected to attend the Berlinale Talents Campus.
Some of Kenji's feature film scores include: Somos Mari Pepa, Nap Time, The Blue Years, Entitled To Sail, Eight Out Of Ten, Storks, and more recently, Los Lobos, Ska'yaa, and the upcoming, Loulou.
Kenji was nominated for the Ariel, the Mexican Oscar, for his work on We Are Mari Pepa, and won an Ariel for his score on Los Lobos.
Jeremy's lighting credits include: Captain Fantastic, Green Room, Night Moves, The One I Love, Lucky Them, Eden, Safety Not Guaranteed, Your Sister's Sister, and The Off Hours.
More recently, Jeremy has worked on the Netflix series Special as well as the HBO Series, The Lady And The Dale. His feature film work as director of photography includes: Almost Friends, Language Lessons, 7 Days, and the upcoming I'll Show You Mine.
Having graduated from Juilliard, Clarice has released two full-length albums: For This From That Will Be Filled and more recently The Experience Of Repetition As Death.
She regularly performs with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, and has played cello on scores like Max Richter's Sleep.
Clarice has composed scores for the acclaimed feature films: Ainu Mosir, No Man Of God, and Identifying Features.
Michael's feature film work has included: Life Of A King, The Last Five Years, All We Had, A Happening Of Monumental Proportions, The Tiger Hunter, and Flora And Ulysses.
More recently, Michael designed the acclaimed film, No Man Of God, starring Luke Kirby as Ted Bundy and Elijah Wood as FBI analyst, Bill Hagmaier.
Michael has also completed work on two upcoming films, the Kyra Sedgwick feature Space Oddity and Actress and Director, Katie Holmes' second feature, Alone Together.
Some of Kaet's feature film work includes: Blue Ruin, The Lennon Report, The Super, and The Wolf Hour. She designed the acclaimed film Crown Heights, which won the Audience Award at Sundance, and the psychological horror thriller, Daniel Isn't Real.
Kaet's most recent production design work includes: the acclaimed short film Generation Lockdown and the upcoming feature film Hide And Seek for Joel David Moore.
With their agency Aufiero/Horn Casting, their casting in films include: Sound Of My Voice, Breaking The Girls, Cheap Thrills, Brahmin Bulls, The Greasy Strangler, Bitch, Daniel Isn't Real, Color Out Of Space, Shoplifters Of The World, and No Man Of God.
Their television casting work includes: On My Block, The 100, The Baby-Sitters Club, Awkward, 13 Reasons Why, as well as the award-winning The Healing Powers Of Dude and Andi Mack.
Philip's orchestration work includes: Joker, News Of The World, and The Mandalorian. He also worked on the Aerosmith's Deuces Are Wild residency tour.
Philip's more recent score work includes: The Last Full Measure, the Chinese animated Wish Dragon, and the acclaimed Pig.
Some of Brett's feature film work includes: Max Rose, Camino, Dirty 30, Bitch, Lowlife, The Party's Just Beginning, Mandy, Daniel Isn't Real, and Color Out Of Space.
Brett's most recent film editing project is the acclaimed Pig, starring Nicolas Cage as a truffle hunter living in the Oregon wilderness who attempts to retrieve his stolen pig.
Phoenix is from Delaware and attended The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles.
Her Costume Design work is featured in the films: Beneath, Sex Ed, Burn County, Moon Manor, and Sylvie's Love, which earned her two Best Costume Design award nominations.
Phoenix's television Costume Design work includes: the series Detroiters, A.P. Bio, and Chosen.
Other costume design work of hers can be seen in: the film Black Panther and the series Mad Men, The Man In The High Castle, Stranger Things, and Hollywood.
Mark's television credits include the series: Peep Show, The Mighty Boosh, and Pete Versus Life.
His feature film credits include several comedies such as: Bunny And The Bull, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, and Mindhorn, as well as the acclaimed animated films Paddington and Paddington 2.
Mark's recent projects include: Dora And The Lost City Of Gold and Everybody's Talking About Jamie.
Brett grew up on Long Island before attending Boston University, where he met the Safdie Brothers, whose films The Pleasure of Being Robbed and Daddy Longlegs, Brett shot and co-edited, followed by the historic drama, Men Go To Battle.
Brett's recent films over the years include: Wanderland, Them That Follow, Ready or Not, and the upcoming Italian Studies and Scream.
Maxime worked as an associate for agencies in both Toronto and Montreal before opening his own casting agency in 2009. He has casted for feature films, television, web series and commercials.
Maxime's casting includes: the feature films Bon Cop Bad Cop, Saint Narcisse, Slaxx, as well as films Boost and Beans, both which earned best casting award nominations, and the upcoming Maria.
Prano's short film work over the years includes: Man vs Sand, The Trip, Shortcut, and Nasty.
Her debut feature film, Censor, is a psychological horror stars Niamh Algar as a film censor who sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance after viewing a strangely familiar horror video.
Mario's scoring work include the features: Taking The Plunge, Noemie: Le Secret, and the Lance Et Compte film and television series, all with director Frederik D'Amours.
His other feature film soundtracks include: the musical On The Beat, the documentary Driving To The Edge, the drama Good Sam, and more recently the acclaimed coming-of age tale Beans.
Mario's television work includes: the series Tripping The Rift, The Art Of More, and Mohawk Girls.
Originally from Stockholm, Sweden, Annika studied in the UK and is currently based in London.
Annika's feature film credits include the films: Postcards From London, VS., and more recently Mogul Mowgli, and Censor.
Annika's television projects include: Breeders, Clique S2, One Night, and most recently the working title YOU for Sky TV.
Jay is a Brooklyn-based Film Composer and Music Producer and he is the two-time winner of the Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Jay's film and television work includes: Driveways, Indignation, The Innocence Files, Adam, The OA, Tales of the City, Lucia Before & After, Raised in the System, and Long Shot.
Jay's most recent scoring projects include: I'm Thinking of Ending Things for Charlie Kaufman and Heidi Ewing's I Carry You with Me.
Maya grew up in Italy and moved to the UK, attending the National Film and Television School, working with classmate Michael Pearce on his short films Rite and Keeping Up with the Joneses as well as his BAFTA-winning debut feature film Beast.
Maya's other feature film projects include the art film project DAU, the documentary Kingdom Of Us, the BAFTA-winning coming of age film Rocks, and Clio Barnard's upcoming, Ali & Ava.
Tricia's film projects include: Tomorrow Comes Today, Custody, Bushwick, Roxanne Roxanne, Tesla, and The Artist's Wife.
Tricia's recent projects include: the feature film The Stand In, starring Drew Barrymore, and the pilot for the television series, How To Make Love To A Black Woman.
Adam was born in London and collaborated with musicians from Echo And The Bunnymen to Neulander to Lloyd Cole and Fischerspooner before eventually moving to LA to work in film.
Adam has worked for director Oliver Stone on several projects including Savages, Snowden, South of the Border and Mi Amigo Hugo as well as the series The Untold History of the United States.
Recent scores by Adam include: Icarus, Sand Castle, The Yellow Birds, The Dissident, Francesco, and Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell.
David's film include: The Town, The Nice Guys, Papillon, Angel Has Fallen, Greenland, Unhinged, Nobody, and Trees Of Peace.
David's television work includes: The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Mercy Street, Evil, and Stay Close.
David's upcoming projects include: the wildlife documentary In The Womb/Growing Up Animal and the narrative feature Kandahar again for director and writer Ric Roman Waugh.
As Casting Director, Richard has worked on Ken Loach's Bread and Roses, Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration and A Mighty Wind, Gravity, Zero Dark Thirty, On The Road, Hell or High Water, Reed Morano's Meadowland, and an upcoming live action version of Lady and the Tramp.
He was an Emmy winner for HBO's Game Change as well as a three-time Emmy nominee for Recount, Temple Grandin and the series Curb Your Enthusiasm. Other work for television includes Married, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, and Scream Queens.
Richard has worked on a variety of independent projects over the years like Permanent Midnight, Charlie Bartlett, Citizen Gangster, Stockholm, Pennsylvania, Weightless, Alex Strangelove, O.G., The Mustang and The Devil Has A Name.
More recently, Richard casted The Stand In, starring Drew Barrymore for Jamie Babbit and, Together Together, for Nikole Beckwith, starring Patti Harrison and Ed Helms.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Academy Award winning Set Decorator Jan Pascale has worked over the years in set decoration on over fifty projects in film and television.
Jan's film work includes: Training Day, The United States of Leland, Anchorman, Good Night And Good Luck, Argo, Sicario, Vice, Velvet Buzzsaw, Mank, and the upcoming Top Gun: Maverick.
Jan is serving as a Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Designers Branch. She helped found the Set Decorators Society of America (SDSA), and helped develop the magazine SetDecor, which gives insight into the craft of decorating for film and television.
Among Jacqueline's television projects is the series Wallander, for which she both won and was nominated again for a BAFTA for Production Design.
Her film Production Design work includes: How I Live Now, The Lobster, Lady Macbeth, The Vanishing, His House, and the upcoming John And The Hole.
Jacqueline recently won a British Independent Film Award for her Production Design on the acclaimed BAFTA winning horror/thriller film, His House, for director Remi Weekes.
Maria is originally from Sweden, and studied in Germany and Denmark, where she currently lives and works.
Maria's first narrative feature film was Parents for director Christian Tafdrup. She has also worked extensively with Hlynur Palmasson, from short films such as A Painter and Seven Boats to the feature films Winter Brothers and A White, White Day.
Originally from France and based in London, Emilie has released several albums as a solo performer as well as composing commissioned work for The London Contemporary Orchestra among others.
Emilie's scoring work includes several short films as well as multi-media collaborations with visual artists.
Emilie's feature film scoring work includes: Only You, The Forgotten Battle, the BAFTA winning, Rocks, and the upcoming horror film, Censor.
Lars is from Norway and studied music and sound design in Denmark, where he met Icelandic director Hlynur Palmasson.
Their feature film Winter Brothers earned Lars a Danish Academy Award, and they again worked together on A White, White Day.
Other films Lars has worked on include: Cutterhead, The Cave, The Good Traitor, and most recently The Penultimate.
Lars' upcoming projects include: Kamikaze, Venuseffecten and Copenhagen Does Not Exist.
Pascual was Born in Mexico City and is the front man of the Mexican Rock band San Pascualito Rey.
Pascual's film scores include: Rehje, Colosio, Volando Bajo, Ixcanul, Epitafio, and La Llorona.
His scores for television include: the series Hasta Que Te Conoci, El Cesar, and Crime Diaries: The Candidate.
Sylvain's feature film credits include The Lodge, Small Crimes, Jeune Juliette, and the award-winning Turbo Kid.
Sylvain's most recent film is the acclaimed Pieces Of A Woman, starring Oscar and BAFTA nominated Vanessa Kirby, as a woman undergoing a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones after a home birth ends in tragedy.
Benjamin's film work includes several acclaimed short and music videos. His feature work includes the films: El Pescador, Hello Destroyer, and Mandy.
Benjamin's recent work on Pieces Of A Woman, has received wide acclaim, and the film has been nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Actress.
Benjamin most recently shot Jesse Eisenberg's upcoming directorial debut When You Finish Saving The World, as well as the upcoming After Yang directed by Kogonada.
Chaitanya is based in Mumbai, and his debut feature film Court premiered at the Venice Film Festival, before eventually winning more than thirty film festival awards.
After being mentored by Alfonso Cuaron as part of the Rolex Mentor-Protege Arts Initiative, Chaitanya wrote and directed The Disciple, examining a lifetime journey devoted to the art of Indian classical music.
Chaitanya's acclaimed feature, The Disciple, won awards at Venice and Toronto and has continued to garner acclaim worldwide, including being awarded the Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship presented by Netflix and winning Best Screenplay and the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize.
Originally from France, Olivier studied composition in London and is currently based in Montreal.
Olivier's film credits include narrative feature films and documentaries: Up The Yangtze, China Heavyweight, Corbo, Ville-Marie, The Great Darkened Days, A Brother's Love, First Match, Softie, Night Of The Kings, and the upcoming Mali Twist.
Pauchi has been playing violin since the age of five, and has studied traditions including western classical, north Indian classical, Andean traditions, and Klezmer music.
Pauchi's film scores include: the narrative features NN Sin Identidad, Perro Guardian, Climas, and La Ultima Noticia, as well as the documentaries: Design Is One, Pacificum, and El viaje de Javier Heraud.
Pauchi's more recent film scores include for the acclaimed Song Without A Name, and Contactado.
Originally from the Bay Area, Erin started at the Art Department of Pixar before moving into live action television projects, which have included: Mad Men, Insecure, and The Romanoffs.
Erin's Production Design for film includes: Kicks, Tramps, Love After Love, Flock of Four, Hearts Beat Loud, Brittany Runs A Marathon, The Quarry, Swallow, and Moxie.
Alexander established his Balanescu Quartet in 1987, and over the years has collaborated with such diverse artists as: Kraftwerk, Pet Shop Boys, Jack De Johnette, Ornette Coleman, and Goldfrapp.
His film scores include: Angels and Insects, The Way I Spent The End Of The World, and documentary The Magic Mountain.
Other recent projects include: the Italian war film Johnny The Partisan and Anca Damian's animated musical comedy The Island.
Pablo started out as a musician before studying at the Ecole Normale de Paris. His animated feature film scores include: Adama, Marona's Fantastic Tale, and the upcoming Sirocco.
Pablo's television scores include: A Man Is Dead and The Treehouse Stories series.
Pablo's more recent film scores include: the documentaries Chabrol The Maverick and The Real Thing, along with the narrative feature Jeunesse Sauvage.
Nicolas has worked in sound for over 200 films, with credits including: Wuthering Heights, American Honey, Arrival, Sunshine, 127 Hours, Cosmopolis, Ex Machina, Enter The Void, The Command, Suspiria, Slam, and John And The Hole. Nicolas has won Golden Reel Awards for his work on Micmacs and Gravity.
His film scoring work includes the films: Foreign Body, Treat Me Like Fire, and A Prayer Before Dawn, Memory House, and Carnation.
Nicolas has recently won acclaim for his work in both composing and sound design for the film, Sound Of Metal, about a recovered addict metal musician who completely loses his hearing.
Beso is from Tbilisi, Georgia and studied at Vancouver Film School before returning to Georgia and starting his company, Postred.
Beso has worked on such critically acclaimed projects as: And Then We Danced by Levan Akin and Sundance Film Festival documentary winner The Trader by director, Tamta Gabrichidze.
Further recent feature film projects include: Shindisi, the upcoming documentary, Salt From Bonneville and Molto Bella.
Chloe's earlier animation work includes the films: Fear(s) of the Dark, The Rabbi's Cat, Long Way North, Zarafa, and Klaus, along with the animated documentary Chris the Swiss in Croatia.
Chloe recently worked as supervising animator on Marona's Fantastic Tale by Anca Damian, a dog's recollection of her several different owners. She again worked with Anca Damian on her upcoming animated musical, The Island.
Aska's scoring work includes the films: Skate Kitchen, Selah And The Spades, and 37 Seconds, as well as the HBO television series Betty, with longtime collaborator Crystal Moselle.
Additionally, Aska scored the Amazon feature film, I'm Your Woman and the upcoming, After Yang, with Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Originally from Kansas City, Megan studied at Loyola Marymount in LA and is currently based in Brooklyn.
Some of Megan's recent work includes the feature films Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil & Vile, Uncle Frank, and Sound Of Metal, All Creatures Here Below, and the television series A Teacher.
Mott is based in New York City and has worked in feature film, documentary, advertising, and fine art film.
His earlier films The American Astronaut and The Savages were both previously nominated for Independent Spirit Awards in Cinematography.
Mott's other feature film work includes: Jack Goes Boating, All Is Bright, and The Cobbler.
Mott's recent projects are: the documentary Eating Animals and The Last Shift, starring Richard Jenkins and Shane Paul McGhie.
Andrew's feature film work includes: Beautiful Kate, The Rocket, Girl Asleep, The Daughter, The Rehearsal, and Angel Of Mine.
His work in television includes: The Slap, Love, and more recently Brave New World.
Andrew's recent films include: Babyteeth, High Ground, Nude Tuesday, and the upcoming Blueback.
Brett grew up on Long Island before attending Boston University, where he met the Safdie Brothers, whose films The Pleasure of Being Robbed and Daddy Longlegs, Brett shot and co-edited.
Brett's recent film work includes: Men Go To Battle, Wanderland, Them That Follow, and Ready or Not.
Brett's upcoming/most recent projects include the projects: Boogie and Scream.
Eshom and Ian's feature films include: Lost On Purpose, Waffle Street, and Small Town Crime.
The Nelm Brothers most recent film is Fatman, starring Mel Gibson and Walton Goggins, about a bratty wealthy adolescent who hires a hitman to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.
They also executive-produced the television series Everyone is Doing Great, directed by James Lafferty.
Pierre studied law at the University of Montreal before beginning his career in the film industry.
After working a variety of roles, his first production was the acclaimed film C.R.A.Z.Y. by Jean-Marc Valle.
In 2009, Pierre founded the film production company Item 7, reconnecting with Jean-Marc Valle for Cafe de Flore. Other works included: War Witch, Bon Cop Bad Cop 2, and Brooklyn.
More recent film projects include Eye On Juliet, The Hummingbird Project, Skin, and Maria Chapdelaine.
Alice's work as Associate includes Invictus, J. Edgar, Frank, An Education, and Brooklyn. As Casting Director she has also worked on The Light Between Oceans, Mary and Martha.
More recently, Alice has casted, the Academy Award winning Judy for Rupert Gold, the television series Brassic, Last Christmas for Paul Feig, and the dramatic thriller, Kindred.
Arthur has worked on a diverse mix of feature films, television series, commercials and documentaries for more than twenty years, and he has edited over 150 movie trailers as well.
His feature film work includes: The Trotsky, Deadfall, The Fall Of The American Empire, Whitewash, Birthmarked, and The Hummingbird Project.
Arthur's most recent editing projects include The Decline for Netflix and the upcoming Best Sellers starring Michael Caine.
Janus' editing career spans several decades and has collaborated with notable Danish directors such as Bille August on films including: Pelle The Conqueror, The House Of The Spirits, The Best Intentions, and A Fortunate Man, as well as Thomas Vinterberg on The Hunt, The Commune, and Another Round.
Janus' other films over the years include: Heartstone, Backstabbing For Beginners, Journal 64, and The Good Traitor.
Documentary work for Janus includes: Burma VJ, Putin's Kiss, The Act of Killing, and Strong Island.
Mateus was born in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, and since 2013 has been working with soundtracks for films from that area.
Mateus has worked on several documentary films including: Brasil S/A, Behind The Shield Line, and Prison Flowers, as well as writing and directing his own short film Bubble.
Mateus' narrative feature film work includes: Black Amber, Aquarius, and most recently the acclaimed Bacurau.
A Berkeley-born daughter of Chinese-Malaysian and Vietnamese heritage. She is a graduate of the MFA Directing program at the American Film Institute.
Jennifer's award-winning debut feature film Half-Life premiered in 2008 at Sundance and Tokyo International, screened at SXSW, and was distributed by the Sundance Channel.
Some of Jennifer's other projects include directing and editing the music video Glass Butterfly, and editing and producing the Sundance Short Crazy Beats Strong Every Time.
Jennifer won the inaugural San Francisco Film Society Women’s Filmmaker Fellowship, and served as a filmmaking mentor for President Obama’s Call to Arts Pledge.
Jennifer's recent feature Advantageous won a Jury Prize in Sundance and it was based on her acclaimed 2012 short.
Jennifer has guest-directed on episodic series television, including: The Expanse, Cloak & Dagger, and the upcoming Resident Alien.
Originally from Los Angeles, Andrew received an MFA in Film Directing from CalArts before working on shorts such as Andy and Dol (First Birthday).
He has also directed for television including the series, This Close and more recently Gentefied.
Andrew's feature film work includes Spa Night, which he wrote and directed, and Driveways, co-starring the late Brian Dennehy.
Fergus has worked for director Ken Loach over the past thirty years on over a dozen films, most recently on I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You, as Production Designer.
Fergus has also worked in several other art department roles on projects like: Quantum of Solace, Ang Lee's The Life of Pi, and the whimsical The Grand Budapest Hotel for Wes Anderson.
Having developed an early interest in film with a Super 8 camera as a youth, Christoph worked in several small film roles before settling into sound editing in the 1990s.
Since then, Christoph has worked on sound editing and design for more than 100 feature films and television productions.
Christoph's projects include: the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others, the acclaimed documentary Touch the Sound, the Oscar nominated Never Look Away, and more recently, the acclaimed drama, I Was, I Am, I Will Be.
Sabrina is a graduate of the University of British Columbia's Film Production Program and worked as an Assistant Film Editor for several years before editing her first feature film, Sisters & Brothers, directed by Carl Bessai, for which she won a Leo Award for Best Editing.
Some earlier film editing work of Sabrina's includes: Sisters & Brothers, Bad City, Rehearsal, and Last Night In Suburbia.
Sabrina has branched into visual effects and graphics as well as voice acting for animation.
Sabrina's most recent work includes the acclaimed science-fiction drama film Freaks and Kim Possible.
Sturla was born in Trondheim, Norway, and attended the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway and then The National Film School of Denmark in Copenhagen, where he lives and works.
Sturla’s most notable past projects include the single-take thriller Victoria, for which he received the Silver Bear at Berlinale. He then won the Silver Frog at Camerimage for Rams, a film stylistically opposite to Victoria and worked on the acclaimed Before The Frost, for Michael Noer.
Sturla recently worked with Benh Zeitlin on Wendy, Josephine Decker for Shirley, Jóhann Jóhannsson on Last And First Menand Another Round directed by Thomas Vinterberg.
Molly's Art Direction work includes: six Harry Potter films, War Horse, and The Bourne Legacy.
Her Production Design credits include: Two Night Stand, Louder Than Bombs, The Fault in Our Stars, The New Mutants, and The One and Only Ivan.
Molly's most recent film work includes: I'm Thinking Of Ending Things and the upcoming Hillbilly Elegy.
Jay is a Brooklyn-based Film Composer and Music Producer and he is the two-time winner of the Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Jay's film and television work includes: Adam, Driveways, Indignation, The Innocence Files, The OA, Tales of the City, Lucia Before & After, Raised in the System, and Long Shot.
Jay's most recent scoring projects include: Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things, and Heidi Ewing's I Carry You with Me.
For over 20 years, Andrew Baseman has worked as a designer and set decorator on diverse film and television projects including: Kinsey, The Nanny Diaries, The Americans, The Normal Heart, Gotham, and Mindhunter.
More recent projects from Andrew include: Crazy Rich Asians, for which he won an Art Directors Guild Award, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and the upcoming movie musical In the Heights.
Nelson's work includes such films as Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, Antwone Fisher, On the Basis Of Sex, and Flight, for which he received an Art Directors Guild (ADG) Nomination for Best Contemporary Feature Design.
More recently, Nelson won the ADG Excellence in Production Design Award for his work on Jon M. Chu's Crazy Rich Asians.
Nelson's latest projects include the series Home Before Dark, the series The Morning Show, and the acclaimed musical adaptation In the Heights. He currently serves as President of the ADG.
After graduating the UCLA Interior Design Program, Ellen has worked for thirty years in feature film and television and has earned eight Emmy nominations.
Ellen has been the Set Decorator for four seasons of American Horror Story including: Murder House, Asylum, Coven and Hotel and the Nip/Tuck series.
More recently, Ellen was Set Decorator for the acclaimed films The House With A Clock In Its Walls and Bombshell. She is on the board of the Set Decorators Society Of America.
Leslie started his career in theater and prop management, working in NYC and owning his own prop shop. Early on in his career, he won a CableACE Award on In Search Of Dr. Seuss.
Since 1983, Leslie has worked as a Set Decorator for feature film. His many notable film projects include Get Shorty, The Thomas Crown Affair, Analyze This, A Beautiful Mind, The Departed, The Good Shepherd, as an Oscar nominee, and American Gangster.
His more recent projects include the television mini-series, The Night Of, as well as the feature films Ava and Free Guy.
Susan has been decorating and designing film, television, and interiors for 30 years and has been nominated for an Emmy award and received a service award from the Set Decorators of America.
Some of Susan's television work includes the Emmy-nominated The Stand, Roswell, The Guardian, and Why Women Kill.
Her film projects include: Frost/Nixon, The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks, The Founder, The Highwaymen, and on The Little Things.
Based in Brooklyn, Damian is a founding member of HARBOR's sound division, and is a working partner of ((Audience)), a non-profit group dedicated to presenting music and sound art in new contexts, including the use of movie theaters as concert halls.
Damian's feature film work films includes: Happiness, Winter's Bone, It Comes At Night, Little Men, Mudbound, Leave No Trace, The Lighthouse, and A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood.
Cinematography runs in Piotr's blood. He is the son of the late great Piotr Sobocinski and the grandson of Witold Sobocinski.
Piotr studied film at Lodz Film School before starting his career.
Piotr's work has garnered him several awards and nominations, including Polish Film Awards for his work on the films: Wolyn, Bogowie/Gods, and Silent Night.
One of Piotr's more recent projects is the Oscar-nominated feature Corpus Christi, and he also shot the theater play for television Oscar For Emily.
Born in the Netherlands and living in Antwerp, Belgium, Frank works in film, television, and commercials, with a continued presence at festivals like Cannes, Venice, Toronto, and Berlin.
Frank's film work includes Someone Else's Happiness, It's All So Quiet, Het Vonnis, Zurich, Full Contact, The Invader, Home, Waldstille, Past Imperfect, and Cobain.
Frank's more recent projects include: Girl, which won four awards at Cannes, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film, and was Belgium's submission for the Foreign Language Oscar, the acclaimed drama, Patrick, for Tim Mielants, and the upcoming Præy for Nabil Ben Yadir.
Michal creates electro-acoustic music combining electronically prepared sounds with acoustic instruments and is a member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music.
His narrative feature film scores include Suicide Room, Memories Of Summer, and the acclaimed November, for which he won best score at the Minsk International Film Festival.
Michal has also scored several documentaries, including Walking Under Water, The Bad Kids, The Whale from Lorino, and He Dreams of Giants, about director Terry Gilliam.
Michal's more recent work includes his album, Music For Film, with selections from his film work over the years, and the sequel to Suicide Room by Jan Komasa called The Hater.
Alfonso was born in Barcelona studied music writing at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
He created the music for several films over the years by Isabel Coixet including Things I Have Never Told You, My Life Without Me, and Yesterday Never Ends.
Alfonso's other film scores include Hours of Light, Princesas, Transsiberian, Blancanieves, and Abracadabra.
Alfonso more recently scored for Isabel Coixet, the dramatic film The Bookshop, starring Emily Mortimer as a woman struggling to run a business against polite but ruthless small-town opposition. He also composed for an acclaimed documentary about palindromes, ¡Viva el palíndromo!
Zhanna was born in Uzbekistan and moved to Moscow with her parents when she was 6 years old. In 2009, she graduated from Vgik (University of Cinematography). Her major was Concept design for animation film. She lived and studied in Los Angeles from 2010 to 2013. Since 2013, she lives and works in Moscow, on commercial and creative projects.
She created the acclaimed 3D animated short Tweet-tweet in 2018 which was a double debut. It was the first project created by Zhanna for CGF first animated film produced by CGF Studio.
Zhanna was commissioned by MergingArts Productions to make our art object awards for the Womanimation! 11 Audience Award, after winning after winning it for Tweet-Tweet in our 10th edition.
Indra's animations include instructional films like Joka pec Alfabets, teaching children the Latvian alphabet, and Awesome Beetles Colors, teaching the English Alphabet.
Other projects with her company, Infinity Box, include: Seven Wonders, Strength of a Woman, and My Garden of Roses.
Indra created the award-winning stop-motion animated short, Intro to Epilogue, a colorful, allegorical film about the fear of death. This won the Visual Vanguard Award of 11th edition of the Womanimation! Film Festival, showcasing animated stories by women around the world.
Indra has been working on an animated film, Where is the Key and will be creating a custom art object for the Visual Vanguard award winner for a future Womanimation! edition.
Garrett used the Oscar-winning Steadicam which he invented to shoot nearly 100 movies beginning with Bound for Glory. Other films he has shot with the Steadicam include Rocky, The Shining, Return of the Jedi, Philadelphia, Casino, Bulworth, La Traviata, and The Forgotten.
Garrett holds 60 patents for camera devices, including Skycam, Mobycam, and Divecam, which pursue athletes worldwide in the air, in the water, and in between. Garrett joined the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2009 and is a 2013 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
A legend in Hollywood for over 40 years, Garrett still lives and works in Philadelphia, venturing out worldwide to teach Steadicam operating and deliver his popular lecture on The Moving Camera in addition to more future inventions.
Larkin has worked in feature films, including such projects as the Daniels Swiss Army Man, Bleed For This, I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore, and Kin, along with award winning music videos like such as This Is America.
Larkin's most recent film was the acclaimed feature Luce, which premiered at Sundance. He again worked with the Daniels on their upcoming feature Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.
Sturla was born in Trondheim, Norway, and attended the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway and then The National Film School of Denmark in Copenhagen, where he lives and works.
Sturla’s most notable past projects include the single-take thriller Victoria, for which he received the Silver Bear at Berlinale along with winning the Silver Frog at Camerimage for Rams, a film stylistically opposite to Victoria.
Sturla’s recently worked with Benh Zeitlin for Wendy, Josephine Decker for Shirley and Michael Noer for Before The Frost. He also worked on Last And First Men for the late Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Upcoming films for Sturla include Another Round directed by Thomas Vinterberg and The Innocents directed by Eskil Vogt.
Meredith's Production Design credits include the feature films Patti Cake$, Bull, and Dreamland.
More recently, Meredith worked on Bad Education and Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always. Meredith's upcoming projects include: The Rental and Mariama Diallo's feature, Master.
A graduate of UConn with degrees in Costume Design and Puppetry, Mitchell's costuming work often explores specific groups of people not previously portrayed in film.
His work as costume designer includes The Strange Ones, Eighth Grade, Late Night, and Hustlers, which earned him a Costume Designers Guild Award nomination.
Mitchell's more recent projects include Home Before Dark, the upcoming musical, In The Heights, and The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
Originally from Vermont, Merissa currently splits her time between New York and North Carolina when not on location. Her past projects included: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Out Of The Furnace, The Fault in our Stars, Southpaw, and Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven.
Some of Merissa's recent Set Decoration credits include Ron Howard's Hillbilly Elegy, Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri, and Marielle Heller's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.
Ole's film work includes The Arbor, Listen to Me Marlon, The Little Stranger, and American Animals. His television work includes: Utopia, National Treasure, and The Crown.
Ole's recently worked the Oscar-winning Judy, the acclaimed Amazon series Tales from the Loop, and upcoming film, Minyan.
Alice's work as Associate includes Invictus, J. Edgar, Frank, An Education, and Brooklyn. As Casting Director she has also worked on The Light Between Oceans, and Mary and Martha.
Alice's most recent projects include: the film Last Christmas, the Oscar-winning Judy, and the television series Brassic.
Marc's narrative feature editing includes the films Putty Hill, Museum Hours, Little Boxes, Sollers Point, The Kindergarten Teacher, and Blow the Man Down.
Marc's documentary feature work includes The Painter Sam Francis, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, and Walk Away Renee. Recently, Marc has edited episodes of the documentary series Dirty Money and The Innocence Files.
Robert worked on several films on roles including Sound Editor, ADR Editor, and Sound Effects Editor before moving primarily into Sound Design since 2012, including the acclaimed feature, Belle.
His sound design projects include Mike Leigh's , Mr. Turner and Peterloo, with Dominic Cookes on On Chesil Beach and Ironbark, and on Chiwetel Ejiofor's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
Other recent films Robert sound designed include the Oscar-winning Judy starring Renee Zellweger, Mira Nair's series, A Suitable Boy, and David Kepp's upcoming You Should Have Left.
Some of Tom's film credits include American Beauty, Spy Kids, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and 300: Rise of an Empire.
Tom has worked for several notable directors, including Denis Villeneuve on Prisoners and Sicario, and Clint Eastwood on American Sniper, Sully, and Richard Jewell.
Tom's recent projects include: Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Dolemite is My Name, A Star Is Born, Joker, and The High Note.
Born and raised in Germany, Nicki relocated to New York and started in the thriving independent movie scene of the 1990s.
Nicki's television work includes Sex and the City, Steven Soderbergh's The Knick, and Martin Scorsese's VINYL. She won an Emmy for the pilot of Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire.
Some of Nicki's past feature film projects include: The Devil Wears Prada, which earned her a BAFTA nomination, Enchanted, Side Effects, and Inside Llewyn Davis.
Nicki's most work includes: The Greatest Showman, The Irishman, and Joker, which earned her both an Oscar and BAFTA nomination, and the upcoming, The Many Saints of Newark.
Ainara's early work includes her short documentary, Sertres and Demonstration, working with 32 students under the direction of Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky.
Ainara's first feature was film See You Tomorrow, God Willing about a group of Franciscan nuns which she wrote, shot, directed and edited.
Her relationship with Victor Kossakovsky continued by working as First Assistant Director on his films Sports Kids: Varicella, and Aquarela, for which she also worked on Second Unit Camera and and as Editor, and the upcoming, Gunda.
Ainara is also developing her second feature film called Polaris.
Marie has served as the film curator presenting weekly film series, has hosted many notable directors and artists as well, and has programmed experimental films for many years.
Marie has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, musicians and composers such as George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad, Peaches, and Genesis P-Orridge, exploring the life and work of these artists.
Marie's more recent and first feature film is a portrait of the late pioneering musician-artist Genesis P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and partner Lady Jaye, called The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye along with projects, Peaches Goes Bananas, and Cannes nominee, Cassandro, The Exotico.
A member of the BVK (German Society of Cinematographers), Matthias was born in Austria and worked as a camera assistant in Austria and Germany before attending AFI in Los Angeles.
Matthias' film projects include Andrew Bujalski's debut feature Funny Ha Ha, and the acclaimed Computer Chess, as well as Nights and Weekends, for Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg.
More recently, he shot the feature Support the Girls, again for Andrew Bujalski, Saints Rest, and the television historical drama Defiance. Three Women and the Vote.
Eric worked with noted director Francois Ozon early in both of their careers on the films See The Sea and Sitcom. He also worked with director Patrice Chéreau, on Those Who Love Me Will Take the Train, Intimacy, and Persecution.
Some of Eric's other film scores include the animated film Zombillennium, and The Attack and The Insult for Ziad Doueiri.
His television work includes the long-running French series, A French Village, as well as the Tom Fontana series Borgia.
Some of Eric's more recent projects include: The Breitner Commando, SamSam, and the upcoming, Des Son Vivant.
Michal creates electroacoustic music combining electronically prepared sounds with acoustic instruments and is a member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music.
His narrative feature film scores include Suicide Room, Memories Of Summer, and more recently November, for which he won best score at the Minsk International Film Festival.
Michal has also scored several documentaries, including Walking Under Water, The Bad Kids, The Whale from Lorino, and He Dreams of Giants, about director Terry Gilliam.
Michal's upcoming work includes his album, Music For Film, with selections from his film work over the years, and a sequel to Suicide Room called Suicide Room: Hater (AKA The Hater).
Born in South Africa, and moving to LA in 1994, Mark is most known for his ethnic flavored scores like the Oscar winning Tsotsi, Rendition, Pitch Perfect, Eye In The Sky, and Traitor.
His television work includes HBO's 41, ABC's Killer Women, and Fox's Kitchen Confidential.
Mark's most recent scores include the acclaimed Official Secrets and the documentary Dolores, which won a Peabody Award.
Born in Texas and raised between Texas and Dubai, Omar's global exposure is heard throughout his music.
Omar's work includes the documentaries Just Like Us and In Search of Oil and Sand, as well as the narratives, The Taqwacores, and The United.
Omar's more recent film credits include the award-winning narrative feature, Yomeddine, and the documentaries The Judge and The Advocates.
Originally from East Texas, Colin earned a BFA in Costume Design from Cal Arts, designing performance art, theater, opera, puppetry, and music videos, before moving into film in 2009.
Some of Colin's notable projects include the films Computer Chess, Results and Support The Girls, for director Andrew Bujalski, as well as more recently Little Woods and Palm Springs.
Jo's work spans both film and television and has worked with several notable directors such as Shane Meadows on his award-winning film, This is England, as well as his acclaimed film, Somers Town.
Her other projects include the feature films For Those in Peril and Beast, A Street Cat Named Bob, and working on the television series Fleabag for creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
More recently, Jo designed Peter Strickland's darkly comic horror film In Fabric, as well as the television series MotherFatherSon and Little Birds.
Amey has cast for directors including: Lynn Shelton, Matt Ross, Megan Griffiths, The Duplass Brothers, and Jeremy Garelick.
Some of Amey's recent work includes the films: Sadie, Paddleton, and Greener Grass along with the Netflix series Everything Sucks and Best Worst Weekend Ever.
Upcoming releases Amey has cast include The Werewolf, Big Time Adolescence, and Golden Arm.
Benjamin started in animation, his great passion, by editing television series and short films. Benjamin then moved into feature films, and has worked different talents in French animation, including on features, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales and Pachamama.
His film credits include Long Way North by Remi Chaye, and Jeremy Clapin's acclaimed Academy Award nominated and Annie winning, I Lost my Body, for which Benjamin was nominated for an American Cinema Editors award.
Benjamin's other upcoming projects include editing Little Vampire for director Joann Sfar, Calamity, for Remi Chaye, and his first feature film as a director, Saba, with Alexis Ducord.
Born in Russia and living in Milwaukee, Kirill is an alumnus of NYU's Graduate Film Program and the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab and founded Give Me Liberty Productions with Alice Austen in 2015.
His film work includes Fish Dreams, the Russian mini-series Dubrovsky, and as co-writing Gabriel and the Mountain.
Kirill's most recent feature film is Give Me Liberty, which he co-wrote, directed, edited, and co-produced, with creative partner, Alice Austen. Give Me Liberty premiered at Sundance and had its world premiere at the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. Give Me Liberty was nominated for several Film Independent Spirit Awards.
One of Natalie's earliest film projects was A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night for Ana Lily Amirpour.
Natalie's other costuming projects have included The Little Hours and Ingrid Goes West, both starring Aubrey Plaza.
Natalie again designed for Ana Lily Amirpour on the dystopian film The Bad Batch, which played the Venice and Toronto film festivals.
One of Natalie's most recent film projects is Lizzie, depicting the story behind the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family.
Some of Natalie's more recent film projects are: Lying and Stealing, the acclaimed Honey Boy for Alma Har'el and Shia LaBeouf, and Stargirl and I'm Your Woman for Julia Hart.
Fiona graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney before starting her career working as a set and Costume Designer in theater and eventually moving into film and television.
Fiona's production design credits include The Snowtown Murders, Dead Europe, Macbeth, Top of the Lake, Son of a Gun, and Una.
More recently, Fiona worked on the feature films Mary Magdalene starring Rooney Mara, the Academy Award nominated The Favourite for Yorgos Lanthimos, and The King for David Michod.
Margaux had opened and co-owned a combination vintage store and art gallery in Portland, Oregon, where she began using the vintage inventory as an impromptu prop-shop while designing music videos. This led to a move to California in 2013 to pursue Production Design and filmmaking.
Margaux built her skills as a department head while working on commercials, as well in the music video and film worlds.
Margaux's narrative work includes Kristen Stewart's 2017 short film Come Swim, Pete Lee's Don't Be A Hero in 2018, and Alex Pettyfer's 2018 feature film, Back Roads.
Her most recent feature, Chinonye Chukwu's Independent Spirit Award nominated, Clemency, which won the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Hagen was born in Berlin, and he has had long relationship with German directors and reached international attention with The Lives of Others and along The Young Victoria, and Papillon, for Michael Noer, starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek.
Hagen has worked on other acclaimed films over the years including Hilde and The Beaver for Jodie Foster, and Hotel Lux.
More recently, Hagen has been working as both Director and DP, on several projects including the television series Berlin Station and the film, Prima Ballerina.
Sebastian is an award-winning Mexican filmmaker and co-founder, with producer Julio Chavezmontes, of production company PIANO. He had directed and co-wrote the acclaimed dramatic horror feature film, Halley.
Piano's upcoming co-productions include Annette by Leos Carax, Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bergman Island by Mia Hansen Love, and Knife + Heart for Yann Gonzalez.
Sebastian's latest feature film Time Share won the jury prize for best screenwriting at Sundance.
Time Share had a successful cinema run in Mexico and Europe before being released worldwide by Netflix.
Born in the Netherlands and to Surinamese parents and raised in the two countries before moving to New York, Osei is a multi-platform artist, performing and writing for screen and stage.
As a musician, Osei performs with Brooklyn-based bands The Woes and Big Hands Rhythm and Blues Band.
Osei's recent film composition credits include the Emmy-winning documentary films Finders Keepers, Jim: The James Foley Story, and Tower, the Oscar-winning documentary short, Period. End of Sentence., and the acclaimed, Always in Season, winner of a Sundance Special Jury Award.
Susan Sarandon picked Kalaadevi to be her make-up artist for over 30 films over 20 years including Light Sleeper, Little Women, Dead Man Walking, Robot & Frank, and Arbitrage.
Kalaadevi also has collaborated with director Steve McQueen on several projects including Shame, 12 Years A Slave, and Widows, starring Viola Davis.
Kalaadevi is known for other projects over the years as Makeup Department Head like Pollock, The East, and Marielle Heller's Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy and A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers.
Dylan performed at venues including The Museum of the Moving Image, Lincoln Center, and MoMA PS1, and he has written music for several theater and opera projects. Dylan performs with video artist Alex Nathanson as the ensemble Fan Letters.
Dylan's work for films and television includes: Demolition, Everybody Knows Elizabeth Murray, Jane Fonda in Five Acts, Mozart in the Jungle, I, Tonya, The Farewell, and 18 To Party.
Michael's work as Director of Photography includes acclaimed independent features such as Beautiful Boy, Au Revoir Taipei, Before I Fall, and Fast Color.
His work in the horror genre includes Oculus, The Lazarus Effect, the series The Haunting of Hill House, and The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep.
Recently, Michael shot To All the Boys I've Loved Before, and is directing the second and third films in the trilogy, P.S. I Still Love You, and Always and Forever Lara Jean.
Chris is the co-founder and Senior VFX Supervisor of Crafty Apes, a visual effects and production services company with offices in New York, LA, and Atlanta.
His film and television projects include Hidden Figures, La La Land, Stranger Things, and Fast Color.
He has also worked on musical projects for such artists as U2, Chris Cornell, and Dolly Parton.
Some of Chris' more recent film projects include Dolemite is My Name and Destin Daniel Cretton's upcoming Just Mercy.
Having developed an early interest in film with a Super 8 camera as a youth, Christoph worked in several small film roles before settling into sound editing in the 1990s.
Since then, Christoph has worked on sound editing and design for more than 100 feature films and television productions.
Christoph's projects include the acclaimed documentary Touch the Sound, the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others, the Oscar nominated Never Look Away, and I Was, I Am, I Will Be.
Jasper's notable feature film work includes Life in One Day, Code Blue, Atlantic, Brothers, and Open Seas. His work on Code Blue and more recently Open Seas won him best cinematography awards at the Dutch Film Awards.
His most recently-released film is the critically acclaimed, Monos, directed by Alejandro Landes, winner of the Special Jury Prize at Sundance and garnering rave reviews in the US and worldwide.
Jasper's next release, Instinct, a winner at the Locarno Film Festival, has played Toronto, London, and Chicago Film Festivals.
David's documentary work and video installations include the projects: The Lukhang, Heavy Water: A film for Chernobyl, and Making War Horse.
David's work for the Exhibition on Screen series includes Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Michelangelo: Love and Death, and most recently Van Gogh & Japan.
Gene studied and worked as a musician before transitioning to sound design and running the studio Toneburst Audio.
Gene's recent film credits include Elvis & Nixon, A Vigilante, Thoroughbreds, The Mountain, Midsommar, and The Farewell.
His upcoming film projects include Goldie and Bad Education.
Garrett used the Oscar-winning Steadicam which he invented to shoot nearly 100 movies beginning with Bound for Glory. Other films he has shot with the Steadicam include Rocky, The Shining, Return of the Jedi, Philadelphia, Casino, Bulworth, La Traviata, and The Forgotten.
Garrett holds 60 patents for camera devices, including Skycam, Mobycam, and Divecam, which pursue athletes worldwide in the air, in the water, and in between. Garrett joined the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2009 and is a 2013 inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
A legend in Hollywood for over 40 years, Garrett still lives and works in Philadelphia, venturing out worldwide to teach Steadicam operating and deliver his popular lecture on The Moving Camera.
Alex is a prolific composer whose film scores have premiered at festivals around the world including Sundance, Berlinale, Venice, and Slamdance.
Alex recently scored Lulu Wang's acclaimed The Farewell, the suspenseful drama, The Last Supper for David Wexler, and H. for Daniel Garcia and Rania Attieh.
Alex's music has also been featured on projects including Jane Fonda in Five Acts for HBO, and the documentary Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies for PBS.
Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Yong worked in the fashion industry and eventually received an MFA in Production Design from the American Film Institute.
Yong's work in Korea include box office top ten hits such as Seven Days starring Yunjin Kim. Her US credits include Pandemic, We Go On, Indiana, They, Dismissed, Grace, and Dead Women Walking.
One of Yong's most recent projects, the acclaimed The Farewell, starring Awkwafina, screened at Sundance and was a nominated for the Grand Jury Prize there.
Katie's first feature documentary was the snowboarding movie, We Ride before she went on to co-edit the Oscar nominated Virunga, directed by Orlando von Einsiedel, her long-time collaborator.
Other work of Katie's included the award-winning romantic-comedy SuperBob, Moon Shot, a series of short documentaries, and Bruce Lee and the Outlaw.
Katie contributed to the film Evelyn and recently edited the acclaimed feature documentary Maiden, by Alex Holmes, about the first ever all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.
Katie recently worked with Orlando on the documentary short Lost and Found for National Geographic.
Antoinette earned her cosmetology license in New Jersey back in 1985, which led to 15 years "behind the chair," while honing her makeup and hair skills.
She earned a degree in Media Arts and Photography. With her education, Antoinette is a hair and makeup artist who understands light, color, composition and the film and photographic process.
Antoinette's work in the hair department includes the romantic comedy Unleashed, the period drama MDMA, and the surreal satire Sorry to Bother You.
Antoinette's work as makeup artist includes the coming-of-age drama, I Believe in Unicorns, the drama The Boat Builder, and the comedy, Chee and T. Most recently, she was Makeup Department Head on the acclaimed film The Last Black Man in San Francisco, about a man struggling to reclaim a family home against the forces of gentrification in the city.
Currently based in L.A., Amanda was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and has worked in various costume departments for over ten years.
Amanda's work in various roles in the costume department has included feature films such as Fruitvale Station, Big Eyes, and Steve Jobs and series such as Looking, 13 Reasons Why, and Vida.
Amanda's work as Costume Designer includes several short films as well as the feature film Discreet and the acclaimed The Last Black Man in San Francisco, about the friendship of two men, one of whom is struggling to reclaim an old family property against the forces of gentrification in the city.
Emma studied of film and photography at Ithaca College and is currently based in New York City.
Emma's film work includes Christine, Love After Love, Queen of Earth, and most recently, Her Smell starring Elisabeth Moss.
Television work of Emma's includes the latest seasons of Marvel's Jessica Jones and Daredevil.
Adam's work as director of photography includes the feature films First Winter and Creative Control for Benjamin Dickinson as well as All the Wilderness and Burn Country.
More recently, Adam worked on the feature Barry and the acclaimed The Last Black Man in San Francisco, about a young man searching for home in a changing city that seems to have left him behind. Additionally, Adam shot the final two episodes of the HBO series, Euphoria.
Indra's animations include instructional films like Joka pec Alfabets, teaching children the Latvian alphabet, and Awesome Beetles Colors, teaching the English Alphabet.
Other projects with her company, Infinity Box, include: Seven Wonders, Strength of a Woman, and My Garden of Roses.
Indra created the award-winning stop-motion animated short, Intro to Epilogue, a colorful, allegorical film about the fear of death. This won the Visual Vanguard Award of 11th edition of the Womanimation! Film Festival, showcasing animated stories by women around the world.
Indra is currently working on an upcoming animated film, Where is the Key and will be creating a custom art object for the Visual Vanguard Award for the 12th edition of Womanimation! in 2020.
Lisa's work as Production Designer includes the films: Putzel, The Land, Abundant Acreage Available, Jonathan, Galveston, Ode to Joy, and Someone Great.
Lisa has worked as an Art Director as well, on such film projects like Higher Ground, Robot and Frank, and Very Good Girls.
Most recently, Lisa worked on the acclaimed Luce, starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, and Tim Roth.
Lisa's upcoming projects include Can You Keep a Secret, The Stand-In, and Lost Girls.
Zhanna was born in Uzbekistan and moved to Moscow with her parents when she was 6 years old. In 2009, she graduated from Vgik (University of Cinematography). Her major was Concept design for animation film. She lived and studied in Los Angeles from 2010 to 2013. Since 2013, she lives and works in Moscow, on commercial and creative projects.
She created the acclaimed 3D animated short Tweet-tweet in 2018 which was a double debut. It was the first project created by Zhanna for CGF first animated film produced by CGF Studio.
Zhanna was commissioned by MergingArts Productions to make our art object awards for the Womanimation! 2019 Audience Award, after winning after winning it for Tweet-Tweet in 2018.
Keegan's earlier film score work includes Dance Party USA, Quiet City, the documentary The Good Life, and This Is Martin Bonner.
Keegan also composed scores for Inocente, Land Ho!, Listen Up Philip, I'll See You in My Dreams, Queen of Earth, The Hero, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, and Gemini.
Recently, Keegan composed the songs and score in Hearts Beat Loud, the HBO series, Divorce, the acclaimed documentary Bisbee 17, Mary Harron's Charlie Says, and Alex Ross Perry's Her Smell.
Born in California, and raised in Costa Rica, Elizabeth started in the non-profit world before making a detour into film. She began her career working on Rick Alverson's feature film Entertainment, the television series Highston, and Lovesong for director So Yong Kim.
Elizabeth continued to work on a diverse array of independent films including Miss Stevens, Another Evil, Women Who Kill, Dito Montiel's The Clapper, and Sollers Point.
Most recently, Elizabeth has costume designed the feature films Charlie Says for Mary Harron, Fast Color again for Julia Hart, and The Mountain, again for Rick Alverson.
Peter, Emmy and MPSE Award winning, Lead Foley Artist at Pinewood Studios, has worked on over 150 projects in his career, including The Kings Speech, Gosford Park Slumdog Millionaire, Band of Brothers, Atonement, Children of Men, Quantum of Solace, and Captain Phillips. He has worked on all but one of the Harry Potter Series, including the Fantastic Beasts series.
Peter's more recent film work includes: Ex Machina, Baby Driver, Bohemian Rhapsody, Mary Queen of Scots, and Rocketman.
Born in the Netherlands and living in Antwerp, Belgium, Frank works in film, television, and commercials, with a continued presence at festivals like Cannes, Venice, Toronto, and Berlin.
Frank's film work includes Someone Else's Happiness, It's All So Quiet, Het Vonnis, Zurich, Full Contact, The Invader, Home, Waldstille, and Past Imperfect.
Frank's more recent projects include the acclaimed Cobain, and Girl, which won four awards at Cannes, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film, and was Belgium's submission for the Foreign Language Oscar.
Olafur writes for both theatre and screen and has received several nominations and awards for his work in both fields. Olafur is also an actor and director in the Icelandic theatre scene living in Reykjavik.
Among his screen credits are award winning television series Trapped and Edda Award winning features including: White Night Wedding, Undercurrent, Summerland, The Oath, and the acclaimed Cannes Film Festival winning, Woman at War.
Nina Paley started out as a comic strip artist, including for Fluff and The Hots, as the weekly Nina's Adventures and then shifted to make independent animated 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.
More recently, Nina worked on the segment On Children, a segment in Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, and the short This Land Is Mine depicting the Middle East conflicts over history.
Her latest acclaimed feature film, Seder-Masochism, is an animated musical comedy-drama reinterpreting events from the Book of Exodus, especially stories associated with the Passover Seder.
Marcus has over twenty years of experience in production design for film, television, and commercials.
Marcus has worked with director Edgar Wright on several films over the years, including Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The World's End, and the acclaimed Baby Driver.
Marcus has also worked with director Joe Cornish on Attack the Block and The Kid Who Would Be King.
Most recently, Marcus has production designed the fantasy biopic Rocketman for director Dexter Fletcher, a look at the early career of legendary performer Elton John.
Originally from Croatia and based in New York City, Vanja has photographed over twenty feature films and series and won or was nominated for several festival awards including two Emmy awards.
Some of Vanja's feature film projects include I'll Take You There, The Photographer, The Mudge Boy, Wristcutters: A Love Story, City Island, Mother of Asphalt, and Violet and Daisy.
Vanja's recent work includes HBO series The Deuce, the Netflix series Marco Polo, and the feature films The Perfection, and the Golden Globe nominated, Crazy Rich Asians.
Dany has an extensive list of credits and awards for both local and international projects that include Australian Screen Editors Awards, an Australian Academy Award, as well as an Emmy nomination.
Her film work includes Angel Baby, Candy, Oranges and Sunshine, The Sapphires, Holding the Man, Breath, and Measure of a Man.
Dany’s television work includes Battlestar Galactica, Redfern Now, and Deadline Gallipoli.
Her more recent film projects are Judy and Punch and I Am Woman.
Andy is a Brooklyn based Production Designer and Art Director for Film, Television and Commercials.
He has degrees in Studio Art and Fine Art from St. Olaf College and Maryland Institute College of Art.
Andy's projects as Art Director have included Michael Almereyda's Experimenter, the series, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst for HBO, and Michael Showalter's The Big Sick.
More recently, Andy worked on Robert Siegel's Cruise, Private Life for Tamara Jenkins, Peter Hedges' Ben Is Back, The Code for CBS, and as Production Designer on Netflix's High Flying Bird for Steven Soderbergh.
Bergsteinn is an Icelandic Director of Photography with over thirty years of experience. He is based in Iceland and most of his projects have been shot there.
An expert in shooting Icelandic nature, he is known for his variety of shooting styles in his feature films and TV Series.
Some of Bergsteinn’s television projects include Nightshift, Dayshift, World’s End, and Trapped.
Bergsteinn's feature film work includes Jar City, The Deep, Julia, Vultures, and Of Horses and Men.
Most recently he has worked on Woman at War, about an environmental activist balancing her need to protest with wanting to start a family with an adopted daughter from Ukraine.
Bergsteinn has won several Edda Awards, from the Icelandic Film and Television Academy, including for his work on The Deep, Of Horses and Men, and Woman at War.
Nick is a Film and Television Editor from Los Angeles with a varied artistic background. He received a BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has also worked as a graphic designer, theatrical set designer and book designer.
Nick's film work includes editing the comedy Keanu, and the acclaimed horror/thriller film Us for Jordan Peele. Nick also wrote and directed and wrote a feature film Oh My Soul.
Nick's television work includes shows such as HBO's Witness, Jean-Claude Van Johnson, Drunk History, Key & Peele, Brockmire, Cobra Kai, The Last O.G., Whiskey Cavalier, and The Twilight Zone. Nick was nominated for an Emmy for Key & Peele.
Tim has served as the Production Designer, Art Director or Set Designer for more than forty feature films or television shows. His Art Direction projects include The Silence of the Lambs, A League of Their Own, Philadelphia, Quiz Show, Sleepers, and Beloved.
Tim's production design includes The Spanish Prisoner, One Last Dance, A Gentleman's Game, Borderland, and The Mighty Macs.
Tim has also worked extensively in television, including on Hack, Trooper, Kidnapped, Parenthood, Prime Suspect, The Following, Divorce for HBO, and more recently Bloodline for Netflix.
Tim's more recent feature film projects include Lee Daniels' epic family drama The Butler and the Oscar-winning best picture Green Book, a tale of an unlikely friendship, directed by Peter Farrelly.
Originally from Australia, Nick currently splits his time between Spain and New York City.
Nick's feature film work as DP includes 2:37, Modern Love, Broken Hill, as well as writing and directing the feature film, One Eyed Girl.
More recently, Nick shot the acclaimed thriller Hotel Mumbai about the 2008 Taj Hotel terrorist attack.
Nicks other recent and upcoming projects include SAS: Red Notice and the 1963 period drama The Man in the Woods.
As Casting Director, Richard has worked on Ken Loach's Bread and Roses, Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration and A Mighty Wind, Gravity, Zero Dark Thirty, On The Road, Hell or High Water, Reed Morano's Meadowland, and an upcoming live action version of Lady and the Tramp.
He was an Emmy winner for HBO's Game Change as well as a three-time Emmy nominee for Recount, Temple Grandin and the series Curb Your Enthusiasm. Other work for television includes Married, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, and Scream Queens.
Richard has worked on a variety of independent projects over the years like Permanent Midnight, Charlie Bartlett, Citizen Gangster, Stockholm, Pennsylvania, Weightless, Alex Strangelove, O.G., and The Mustang.
Perry worked on a large variety of sizes and genres of productions including Black Hawk Down, The Bourne Identity, Lars and the Real Girl, Rambo, Jeff Who Lives at Home, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Danny Collins, Trumbo, Room 104, and Wonder.
Perry worked over the years with Jason Reitman, on Juno, Thank You For Smoking, Tully, The Front Runner, and Emilio Estevez's The Public.
Ola has worked on several films for director Andrzej Jakimowski, including Squint Your Eyes, Tricks, Imagine, and Once Upon a Time in November.
Ola has worked with Oscar-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski on his films Ida and more recently Cold War and was nominated on both films for a Polish Film Award.
Ola's most recent project is Mr. Jones for director Agnieszka Holland, the story of a Welsh journalist who exposed the Holodomor in Stalin's Soviet Union.
Born and raised in NYC, Debbie has worked as Production Designer around the world for over two decades.
Debbie's film projects include Love the Hard Way, Skins, Maria Full of Grace, Uncertainty, A Dog Year, and Mean Girls 2.
More recently, Debbie has designed the critically acclaimed film The Tale, directed by Jennifer Fox. Upcoming projects include the award award winning Diane, directed by Kent Jones and upcoming The Evening Hour, directed by Braden King.
After working in theater, as well as various art department roles including Art Director on several films, Steve began work in feature film production design with Lee Daniel's directorial debut Shadowboxer, and Thank You for Smoking for Jason Reitman, for whom Steve has also designed Juno, Up in the Air, and Labor Day.
Steve's other film work includes Drag Me to Hell, The Muppets, 22 Jump Street, and How to Be Single. His television work includes the series Empire, Star, and the upcoming Grand Hotel.
Steve again worked for Jason Reitman, on The Front Runner, about Gary Hart's 1988 presidential run doomed by sex scandals.
Johnny is a 30-year veteran Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Designer, and Re-Recording Mixer based in Dallas, Texas. He is the owner and creative head of Marshall Sound Design, specializing in sound design and re-recording for independent films.
Johnny’s work includes Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color, which won a Special Jury Award for Sound Design at Sundance and Daylight's End for William Kaufman.
Johnny’s other recent films include David Lowery’s A Ghost Story and The Old Man & The Gun, Light From Light for Paul Harrill, and The Vast of Night for Andrew Patterson.
Luis has worked with the biggest talent agencies in Mexico, and is known for new talent discovery, including non-professional actors whose passion on storytelling embraced him to develop workshops in several cities and rural communities throughout Mexico.
Luis' casting work includes the films The Chosen Ones, Tales of an Immoral Couple, Wind Traces, The Darkest Days of Us, the series Luis Miguel and House of Flowers. More recently he casted for Chicuarotes and the Academy Award winning film Roma.
Several actors in Luis' films have been nominated for or won Ariel Awards, the Mexican Academy of Film awards, and most recently actresses Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira have been nominated for Oscars for their work in Roma.
Born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Christopher attended Saint Joseph University in Beirut and the University of Television and Film in Munich, Germany.
Christopher's feature film projects include the documentary Kalveli: Shadows of the Desert and the acclaimed narrative feature Ismaii, for Philippe Aractingi.
Most recently, Christopher shot Nadine Labaki's Oscar and Golden Globe nominated Capernaum, which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes and on Anne Zohra Berrached's latest film, Loved.
Margaux had opened and co-owned a combination vintage store and art gallery in Portland, Oregon, where she began using the vintage inventory as an impromptu prop-shop while designing music videos. This led to a move to California in 2013 to pursue Production Design and filmmaking.
Margaux built her skills as a department head while working on commercials, as well in the music video and film worlds.
Margaux's narrative work includes Kristen Stewart's 2017 short film Come Swim, Pete Lee's Don't Be A Hero in 2018, and Alex Pettyfer's 2018 feature film, Back Roads.
Her most recent feature, Chinonye Chukwu's Clemency, won the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Over the last couple decades, Sergio worked in several aspects of sound, from Supervising Dialog and ADR Editor to Supervising Sound Editor to Re-recording Mixer to Sound Designer.
He has won or been nominated for several awards including winning the Golden Reel Award from the MPSE for his sound work on Pan's Labyrinth. Sergio has collaborated with renowned directors on films such as Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy II, 21 Grams and Babel, Into the Wild, and Apocalypto.
Sergio has worked on other acclaimed films including: Battle in Heaven, Silent Light, Rudo y Cursi, The Prize, The Delay, Light After Darkness, Heli, The Thin Yellow Line, Desierto, The Untamed, and While the Wolf's Away.
One of Sergio's most recent projects is as Sound Designer and Supervising Sound Editor for the Academy Award winning film Roma for Alfonso Cuaron, for which he has been nominated an Academy Award for Sound Editing.
Khaled's work is rooted in various genres, where Classical, Folk, Contemporary, and Electronic music and flirts with Argentinean Tango and Eastern melodies. Early on, he worked on the acclaimed short film, After Shave.
Khaled's feature film score work includes Caramel and Where Do We Go Now? for Nadine Labaki and contributed to Melodrama Habibi and Rio, I Love You.
Khaled again worked Nadine Labaki in producing and scoring her Oscar nominated feature Capernaum.
Danny and Saunder are a team of contemporary film composers based in New York who have been playing music together for over twenty years, including for the instrumental rock band Priestbird.
Their film score work Martha Marcy May Marlene, Enemy, The Gift, and the documentary The Wolfpack.
Danny and Saunder's television work includes Ozark, The OA, and Fear The Walking Dead.
More recently, Danny and Saunder worked on Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased and Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour.
Fiona graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney before starting her career working as a set and Costume Designer in theater and eventually moving into film and television.
Fiona's production design credits include The Snowtown Murders, Dead Europe, Macbeth, Top of the Lake, Son of a Gun, and Una.
More recently, Fiona has worked on the feature films Mary Magdalene starring Rooney Mara, the Academy Award nominated The Favourite for Yorgos Lanthimos, and the upcoming The King for David Michod.
Elizabeth's work includes: Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress, Rob Meyer's A Birders Guide To Everything, and Bart Freundlich's Wolves starring Michael Shannon.
More recently, Elizabeth worked on Craig William Macneill's Lizzie starring Kristen Stewart and Chloe Sevigny, Anne Fletcher's Dumplin' starring Danielle MacDonald and Jennifer Aniston for Netflix, and Late Night starring Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling.
Much of Alexandra’s film career has focused on creating costumes for historical period dramas. These films include Hamlet, Elizabeth, Finding Neverland, and Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Alexandra’s costume design work has earned her four Academy Award nominations, and a win for Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Since 2011, Alexandra has also designed the costumes for many films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Thor, The Avengers, and Doctor Strange.
More recently, Alexandra worked on the acclaimed Mary Queen of Scots for Josie Rourke starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie.
A graduate of the National Film School of Denmark, Nadim has worked on a wide range of features, documentaries, commercials and promos.
Nadim's documentary work includes Pine Ridge, Shoot for the Moon, What He Did, and The Child Soldier's New Job. His narrative feature work includes Shelley, Strawberry Days, and Holiday.
More recently, Nadim shot two films which were their nation's submissions to the Foreign Language Film Category for the 2019 Oscars, Border for Sweden and What Will People Say for Norway, followed by Psychosis in Stockholm.
Noah is known for his many collaborations with director Craig William Macneill including the feature films Lizzie and The Boy, the short film Henley, and the Syfy series Channel Zero.
Over the years, Noah also filmed the features Camino, Cruise, Most Beautiful Island, and Tu Me Manques.
Born in California, and raised in Costa Rica, Elizabeth started in the non-profit world before making a detour into film. She began her career working on Rick Alverson's feature film Entertainment, the television series Highston, and Lovesong for director So Yong Kim.
Elizabeth continued to work on a diverse array of independent films including Miss Stevens, Another Evil, Women Who Kill, Dito Montiel's The Clapper, and Sollers Point.
Most recently, Elizabeth has costume designed the feature films Fast Color for Julia Hart, The Mountain, again for Rick Alverson, and the upcoming Charlie Says for Mary Harron.
Dan shaped his work over the years in film and television with diverse work from Flight of the Concords, Tracy Ullman's State of the Union, Break Point, and Arrested Development.
More recently, Dan worked on the feature films Pee-wee's Big Holiday and Dito Montiel's The Clapper, and the Netflix series Lady Dynamite.
Susan Sarandon picked Kalaadevi to be her make-up artist for over 30 films over 20 years including Light Sleeper, Little Women, Dead Man Walking, Robot & Frank, and Arbitrage.
Kalaadevi also has collaborated with director Steve McQueen on several projects including Shame, 12 Years A Slave, and more recently Widows, starring Viola Davis.
Kalaadevi is known for other projects over the years as Makeup Department Head like Pollock, The East, the recent acclaimed Can You Ever Forgive Me? starring Melissa McCarthy and the upcoming Mr. Rogers Project, starring Tom Hanks about Fred Rogers.
Nina Paley started out as a comic strip artist, including for Fluff and The Hots, as the weekly Nina's Adventures and then shifted to make independent animated 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.
More recently, Nina worked on the segment On Children, a segment in Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, and the short This Land Is Mine depicting the Middle East conflicts over history.
Her latest feature film, Seder-Masochism, is an animated musical comedy-drama reinterpreting events from the Book of Exodus, especially stories associated with the Passover Seder.
Mirren was born and raised in London, and graduated with a BFA in Fashion and Photography from New York's Parsons School of Design before moving to Los Angeles to begin her career as a Costume Designer.
Mirren has worked with director Destin Daniel Cretton on his films Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle, and with Reed Morano on Meadowland and I Think We're Alone Now.
Mirren worked on the acclaimed I'll See You in My Dreams, Growing Up Smith, Lowriders, and the recent I Think We're Alone Now.
Mirren's upcoming projects include: Unicorn Store and Teen Spirit.
Johannes received an MFA in Industrial Design from the National College of Arts and Crafts and is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator. His work is known to be visually oriented and conceptual, with sparse dialogue and a special focus on sound design and music.
Johannes has worked as an independent filmmaker since the mid 1990s and has reached a wide international audience with short films, short documentaries and the feature film Sound of Noise.
Johannes often collaborates with his childhood friend Ola Simonsson, who is a filmmaker and musician. Their Palme d'Or nominated short Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers has screened regularly around the world and online. He is the creator and member of the group Six Drummers featured in that film and the Cannes nominated feature, Sound of Noise.
Johannes' more recent work includes the award-winning shorts Rain and The Bear about a businesswoman fed up with being a human being, who buys a bear suit and moves to the wilderness.
Based in Toronto and Los Angeles, Matthew has been editing film and television for over the past dozen years and has worked on feature films such as Trigger, I'm Yours, and Antiviral.
Matthew edited the acclaimed film Enemy for Denis Villeneuve, for which he won several awards, as well as James White, Swiss Army Man, and on the critically acclaimed, It Comes At Night.
Matthew's most recent project is Paul Dano's upcoming directorial debut, Wildlife, Jake Gyllenhaal and Carrie Mulligan, the drama/musical, Vox Lux, and The Nest for Sean Durkin.
Danny and Saunder are a team of contemporary film composers based in New York who have been playing music together for over twenty years, including for the instrumental rock band Priestbird.
Their film score work Martha Marcy May Marlene, Enemy, The Gift, and the documentary The Wolfpack.
Danny and Saunder's television work includes Ozark, The OA, and Fear The Walking Dead.
Upcoming films for Danny and Saunder include Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased and Alistair Banks Griffin's The Wolf Hour.
One of Natalie's earliest film projects was A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night for Ana Lily Amirpour.
Natalie's other costuming projects have included The Little Hours and Ingrid Goes West, both starring Aubrey Plaza.
Natalie again designed for Ana Lily Amirpour on the dystopian film The Bad Batch, which played the Venice and Toronto film festivals.
One of Natalie's most recent film projects is Lizzie, depicting the story behind the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family.
Some of Natalie's upcoming film projects include Welcome Home, Lying and Stealing, and Honey Boy.
After performing with the Grammy-nominated rock band Tonic for several years, Jeff has scored varied and compelling music for television, film and video games.
Some of Jeff's television projects include Necessary Roughness, The Returned for A&E, Power for Starz Network, and Star Trek: Discovery for CBS, Waco for Paramount and Fargo, for which he won an Emmy for composition.
Jeff's film work has included Lesson Plan, Hondros, Three Christs, Submission, and Mile 22.
His most recent film scoring projects include Lizzie, a reimagining of the Lizzie Borden story for director Craig MacNeill, and the drama Pale Blue Dot for director Noah Hawley.
Jeff was born in an abandoned town in the California desert, raised in Hawaii, and educated at USC Film School. After working at a dilapidated film studio in Russia, he began to edit for the likes of NBC, Paramount, Warner Bros, Capitol Records, and Lucasfilm's Skywalker Ranch.
Craving the unexpected, Jeff directed the offbeat feature documentary Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea, which was narrated by John Waters. The film screened at 200 film festivals worldwide, winning 37 awards for Best Documentary.
After living in London and Berlin, Jeff has gone on to shoot several feature documentaries, including Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, which was narrated by actor Laurence Fishburne.
Jeff lived in Afghanistan to edit the documentary In-Justice, about women imprisoned for supposed moral crimes. He also directed and photographed several short docs and an Emmy-nominated special for the show Artbound for KCET in Los Angeles.
Jeff most recently directed and photographed the acclaimed documentary, Rodents of Unusual Size, about giant invasive swamp rats called nutria, who are threatening coastal Louisiana.
Mat began his career as a production assistant on the film Gangs of New York, where he was mentored by legendary DP, Michael Ballhaus. After starting out as an editor primarily for commercials, a chance encounter with Director Nicolas Winding Refn led him to his first film project, Bronson, starring Tom Hardy. Mat continued to work with Nicolas on his films Valhalla Rising, Drive, Only God Forgives, and The Neon Demon. Mat’s most recent film is Sicario: Day of the Soldado for Stefano Sollima. Additionally, he is working with Nicolas on the crime series, Too Old to Die Young for Amazon Studios.
Alfonso was born in Barcelona studied music writing at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
He created the music for several films over the years by Isabel Coixet including Things I Have Never Told You, My Life Without Me, and Yesterday Never Ends.
Alfonso's other film scores include Hours of Light, Princesas, Transsiberian, Blancanieves, Abracadabra, and upcoming documentary about palindromes, ¡Viva el palíndromo!.
Alfonso's most recent score for Isabel Coixet is the dramatic film The Bookshop, starring Emily Mortimer as a woman struggling to run a business against polite but ruthless small-town opposition.
Federico is best known for scoring the Oscar-winning film The Secret in Their Eyes, which Federico composed with Emilio Kauderer. He won several international awards for the score, including the award for Best Music from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina.
Federico's other work includes the Spanish historical fiction series Isabel, as well as Carlos, Rey Emperador, Neruda, and Salvador del Solar's political thriller Magallanes.
In addition to scoring film and television, Federico has lent his skills as a multi-instrumentalist to the soundtracks of Misconduct, Kidnap, Black Butterfly, The Hunter's Prayer, and Capitan Koblic.
Federico's recent film work includes scoring Spanish dramas such as Loving Pablo, starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, as well as La noche de 12 anos and Crime Wave.
Federico most recently completed the score for Dan Fogelman's drama, Life Itself shot both in New York City and in Spain and the upcoming Watership Down series.
Grace earned her BFA at Parsons School of Design, and started her career in the Art Department on films such as Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress and Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me.
From there, she moved on to serve as Production Designer on several feature length films, including Paul Schrader's Dog Eat Dog, Eliza Hittman's Beach Rats, Paul Schrader's First Reformed and Ari Aster's Hereditary.
In addition to her feature film work, Grace has worked on several commercial projects for clients such as Comcast, Samsung, Google Android, Fisher Price, and Subway.
Grace's most recent work was designing Bart Freundlich's retelling of Susanne Bier's After the Wedding starring Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, and Billy Crudup.
Alexandra is a classically trained composer, a graduate of the Royal College of Music, The Juilliard School, and the National Film and Television School, and she is a member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers.
Recent projects for Alexandra include the scores for award winning animated short, Neck and Neck, directed by Shaun Clark, and Growing Up Wild, a feature documentary for Disney and Netflix USA.
One of Alexandra's most recent projects is Mike Newell's acclaimed feature The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, starring Lily James, about a Channel Island haunted by World War II German occupation, based on the best-selling book and distributed by Netflix and StudioCanal.
Ryan began his film career as an on-set dresser working alongside high profile directors such as Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant. His first film as Production Designer was Kelly Reichardt's acclaimed film Wendy and Lucy, starring Michelle Williams.
Ryan's work as Production Designer on feature films includes the Polsky Brother's The Motel Life, For Ellen, directed by So Yong Kim, Jeremy Saulnier's acclaimed horror film Green Room, and Andrew Haigh's coming of age adventure/drama Lean on Pete.
Ryan recently worked again with Jeremy Saulnier on the thriller Hold the Dark, set in Alaska, and Ryan has also been working on Season 3 of the HBO series True Detective.
Eduardo has a Master's Degree in Editing from the National Film School in England.
His first feature film, Eles Voltam known as They Will Return for Marcelo Lordello premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
For Gabriel Mascaro, Eduardo edited Housemaids and August Winds, and the more recently Neon Bull with Fernando Epstein.
He also worked at the documentaries The Perfect Belgian and Elephant's Dream for Kristof Bilsen.
Eduardo followed this up with the acclaimed Aquarius for Kleber Mendona Filho, that premiered in Cannes and the acclaimed Portuguese docu-drama Djon Africa with debuted at International Film Festival Rotterdam about a young man's journey to Cape Verde to track down the father he has never met.
Paul's work includes Jim O'Hanlon's 100 Streets, Bill Clark's heartbreaking true story, Starfish, Justin Edgar's noir thriller, The Marker, and John Shackleton's psychological gothic horror, The Sleeping Room.
More recently, Paul scored the award-winning documentary Three Identical Strangers, the thriller Winter Ridge, and collaborated with musicians Guy Garvey and Peter Jobson on an adaptation of The More You Ignore Me and the comedy/drama Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back.
Yves' vocation was inspired by an initial visit to the US before studying photography in Brussels and winning the Prix Dumeunier in 1982 and attending INSAS film school in Brussels.
Yves' work on award-winning films over the years includes: Ma Vie en Rose, Humanite, Yellowknife, The Buffalo Boy, Flanders, Persecution, Hadewijch, White Material, Violette, and The Nun.
More recently, Yves shot the films: Wild Life, Chronic, The Midwife, April's Daughter, and the upcoming The Prayer.
Graham's television work includes The Black List, Cocaine: A History Between the Lines and Can't Get a Date. He shot the Oscar-winning documentary, 20 Feet from Stardom for Morgan Neville.
Graham's has a passions for working with musicians, including Nina Persson of The Cardigans, FisherSpooner, Nicole Atkins and cellist Yo Yo Ma on The Music of Strangers.
Graham's further collaborations with Morgan Neville include the documentary films: Keith Richards: Under the Influence, Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal, and the acclaimed Won't You Be My Neighbor? about Fred Rogers.
Anne has written countless scores for films and TV, starting with the BAFTA-winning thrilling documentary, The Imposter.
Other highlights of Anne's work include Dark Horse, Sanctuary (Freistatt), and This Beautiful Fantastic, a modern-day fairytale.
Most recently, Anne scored the acclaimed heist film American Animals, the dark thriller Calibre, and the upcoming documentary The Serengeti Rules.
Originally from Germany, Denis moved to London in 2000 and has been working in the film industry ever since, on projects both small and large, in countries all over Europe, as Supervising Art Director.
Denis has worked around the world including Italy, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Norway, France, Hungary, South Africa and Namibia.
His film work includes 28 Days Later, The Constant Gardener, Sunshine, The Fifth Estate, and The Program.
In addition to film work, Denis has worked in commercials, interior design, and unique live events such as the London Olympics for Danny Boyle.
Some of Denis' more recent film projects include Ex Machina, Phantom Thread, and The Girl in the Spider's Web.
After earning an MFA in Costume Design from the NYU Tisch School of The Arts, Olga began her career as an Assistant Costume Designer on several television series including Boardwalk Empire and The Get Down.
Olga has worked with director Paul Schrader on his films Dog Eat Dog and First Reformed.
She also costumed Eliza Hittman's Beach Rats, and Ari Aster's acclaimed film Hereditary.
Olga completed work on Adam directed by Rhys Ernst and is currently designing the series Strangers.
Veronique has worked as a Production Designer on films like Ma Vie en Rose and I Am A Soldier along with further focus as a Set Decorator on many acclaimed films over the years.
Veronique's projects as Set Decorator encompass varied themes, time periods, and locations, including the films A Very Long Engagement, Marie Antoinette, Cheri, and Bicycling with Moliere.
More recently, she worked on the Oscar nominated Jackie for Pablo Larraín, and the Oscar winning Phantom Thread for Paul Thomas Anderson and the upcoming, The Pope, starring Anthony Hopkins.
We interviewed with two past audience award winners in the Womanimation! film festival, an international film festival highlighting animated film stories, created by women.
Our first guest was Britt Raes, from Belgium, whose film is Catherine, was the winner of the audience award for Womanimation! 2017. She is creating the Womanimation! 2018 Audience Award. Catherine has won jury awards, audience awards, and press awards around the world.
Britt loves drawing and telling stories, working in animation and collaborating in graphic design. She has been working on an animated series about pets and writing a children’s book.
We also spoke with Lori Malepart-Traversy, from Montreal, Canada, director of Le Clitoris, winner of the audience award for Womanimation! 2016 and was commissioned make the Womanimation! 2017 Audience Award for Britt Raes for Catherine, a standing clitoris art object inspired by Le Clitoris.
Lori’s animated short film work includes Extra champignons, Sparky Ketchup and most recently, Le Clitoris has toured festivals around the world including Annecy and has been featured in online venues such as Short of the Week and CB Fest.
Perry worked on a large variety of sizes and genres of productions including Black Hawk Down, The Bourne Identity, Lars and the Real Girl, Rambo, Jeff Who Lives at Home, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Danny Collins, The Hollars, and Trumbo.
Perry has worked over the years with Jason Reitman, on Juno, Thank You For Smoking, Up in the Air, Labor Day, and more recently Tully and the upcoming, The Front Runner, along with Room 104, Wonder, and The Public.
Jonathan's feature film work includes Wristcutters: A Love Story, The High Cost Of Living, Breathe In, and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Like Crazy.
Jonathan has collaborated with director Andrew Haigh on the HBO series Looking, the film 45 Years starring Charlotte Rampling, and most recently the gritty coming of age tale Lean on Pete.
Jonathan has recently been working on Wash Westmoreland's upcoming Earthquake Bird, starring Alicia Vikander.
Born in New Zealand and having grown up in Western Australia, Denson is an award winning cinematographer of international feature films, music videos, documentaries & commercials, who has worked around the world including Europe, the US, India, Australia and New Zealand.
Denson was accredited by the Australian Cinematographers Society in 2005 and in 2015 he was accredited by the New Zealand Cinematographers Society.
Denson's feature film work includes acclaimed films such as The Black Balloon, Oranges and Sunshine, The Waiting City, and The Dark Horse starring Cliff Curtis.
Denson's more recent feature films include the coming of age tale Measure of a Man for Jim Loach and the Shakespeare-inspired Ophelia for Claire McCarthy.
Paul has worked for nearly three decades as a Designer, Art Director and director of both animated and live action projects, with a special emphasis on stop-motion animation.
His television working includes The PJs, Gary and Mike, and Slacker Cats, as well as several commercial spots.
Paul's most recent project has been as co-Production Designer on the acclaimed Wes Anderson stop-motion feature Isle of Dogs, which included around 250 sets on over 40 stages, taking two years to complete.
Keith has worked on several projects for Terrence Malick over the years, including The Tree of Life, To the Wonder, Knight of Cups, Voyage of Time, and Song to Song.
More recent editing projects for Keith include the Grateful Dead documentary Long Strange Trip, and the narrative feature film Chappaquiddick, about Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claimed the life of Mary Jo Kopechne.
Josefin's projects include as Art Director on Lilya 4-Ever and Art Director and as Production Designer for The King of Ping Pong, Mammoth, The Quiet Roar, and Up In The Blue.
In 2013, Josefin was nominated for the Guldbagge Award for Best Art Direction on Monica Z. She worked with Ruben Ostlund on Force Majeure, designing sets based on alpine settings.
They again collaborated more recently on his Palme d'Or-winning film, The Square, for which Josefin won the Vulcan Award at Cannes, and the European Film Award for Best Production Designer.
Arad has worked around the world, including the US, Germany, Croatia, Bulgaria, Morocco, Japan, Singapore, India, and China. His production design work includes the films Footnote and Norman for writer/director Joseph Cedar.
Arad's other recent films include A Tale of Love and Darkness for Natalie Portman, Beirut for Brad Anderson and Foxtrot for Samuel Maoz, and the series Absentia.
Arad's upcoming projects include I Am Not a Bird and the HBO series Summer of 2014.
April grew up in small rural town in Hunterdon country, NJ before pursuing a BFA in Interior Design.
Her short film work has been featured in Sundance for Hold On as well as the Tribeca for Lemon. Other shorts include Strays, Fill Your Heart with French Fries, and Toru.
April's feature film work as Set Dresser includes Lullaby, The Family Fang, and Indignation. More recently she was Set Dresser for the musical The Greatest Showman.
April's production design work includes the thriller Unsane for director Steven Soderbergh, as well as the upcoming features Taipei and Depraved.
Tommaso started his career in Italy working in fashion photography, before moving to Belgium to study and work in cinematography on feature film and television.
His television work includes the television film Sanctuaire and the series Spiral, Reporters, Paris, and most recently Baron Noir.
Tommaso’s film work includes Cages, Illegal, The Attack and most recently the Oscar-nominated film The Insult.
Tristan has been a cinematographer for over 20 years in film, television, commercials, and music videos and is best-known for his work in shooting stop-motion animation.
Tristan has worked with director Nick Park on the Oscar-winning short films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, and the Oscar-winning feature film Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
His cinematography credits also include the feature films Chicken Run, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and ParaNorman.
Tristan shot the live action underpinnings of the film Loving Vincent, the first fully painted animated movie where live footage is painstakingly over-painted in the style of Van Gogh.
More recently, Tristan was the DP on the upcoming Wes Anderson acclaimed stop-motion feature film, Isle of Dogs.
Nathan is an Emmy-nominated composer and has been named one of Indiewire's Composers to Watch.
Some of his notable film scores over the years include the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner film, Rich Hill, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present, and All the Presidents Men Revisited.
More recent scores from Nathan include the documentary, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, the features, The Rider and One Percent More Humid, and the documentary Minding The Gap.
Originally from the UK and currently living in Los Angeles, Gary has been working for close to 30 years in dental prosthetics for film.
Some Gary's film credits include: Mrs. Doubtfire, Interview with the Vampire, the Austin Powers trilogy, Blade, and X-Men.
More recent films Gary has worked on include Free State of Jones, I Tonya, Ready Player One, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, and My Dinner with Herve, based on the life of the Fantasy Island co-star.
Consuelo has worked primarily for Italian productions and European co-productions, with several directors including Giuliano Montaldo, Michele Placido, Ivano De Matteo, and Paolo Genovese.
She's an European Film Academy member and her film projects include: The Demons of St. Petersburg, The Entrepreneur, The Lookout, A Perfect Family, and The Dinner.
Consuelo has won or been nominated for several awards for her work on the films Angel of Evil, Perfect Strangers, 7 Minutes, and The Place.
Born in Kyoto, Japan, Kazuhiro is a contemporary hyperrealist sculptor living and working in Los Angeles, with 25 years experience as a special effects makeup artist in Hollywood.
Some of Kazu's film projects include Akira Kurosawa's film, Rhapsody in August, Men in Black, Planet of the Apes, Hellboy, Click, Norbit, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
More recent film work includes Looper, Place Beyond the Pines, and most recently Darkest Hour, where Kazu won an Oscar for his work in transforming Gary Oldman into Winston Churchill.
In the realm of sculpture, Kazu has collaborated with contemporary artist Paul McCarthy on several projects and is currently focused on producing large scale hyperrealist portrait sculpture.
Originally from Paris, and a violinist by training, Olivier has collaborated with more than 50 French groups in styles from classical to rock to hip-hop to electronic and world music.
His film work includes Love Like Poison and Miss Impossible, and Olivier has performed live musical accompaniment to films such as Steven Spielberg's Duel and F.W. Murnau's Sunrise.
Other multimedia projects he has been involved in include The Electric Island and How We Tried.
More recently, Olivier composed the score for the animated feature film The Girl Without Hands, based on a Grimms' fairy tale of a girl sold to the devil by her greedy father.
Olivier's recent musical projects include his solo music project MellaNoisEscape and No Land with Brendan Perry and Bagad Cesson.
In a career spanning 25 years, Julian has created and designed sound for movies for top directors such as Edgar Wright, Tim Burton, Joel Edgerton, and George Miller.
Julian's film credits include Hillary and Jackie, Shaun of the Dead, In Bruges, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Attack the Block, and The Gift.
More recent projects Julian has worked on include Mad Max: Fury Road, for which he won a Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel award.
One of his most recent projects is the acclaimed action film Baby Driver, for which he was nominated for Oscars in Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Julian's upcoming work includes the film The Public, directed by Emilio Estevez.
Wiebke was born and raised in Germany, eventually moving to Toronto, and starting out as an Assistant Editor for Ron Sanders on David Cronenberg's M. Butterfly.
Wiebke made her directorial debut with Marion Bridge, starring Molly Parker, Rebecca Jenkins, and Ellen Page, with by Daniel MacIvor, which won Best First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Other films Wiebke wrote as well as directed include the documentary Walk with Us, the Canadian/Irish co-production Stay, and more recently The Saver, starring Imajyn Cardinal and Brandon Oakes.
Wiebke's credits as Film Editor include: Shoemaker, The Five Senses, Eisenstein, The Bay of Love and Sorrows, Fugitive Pieces, and Wrecked.
Originally from Alabama, Adruitha started out as a hairdresser and salon owner before moving to Nashville to work in the music industry on videos and live performances.
Eventually moving to Los Angeles and working in film, Adruitha has contributed to such diverse projects as Walk the Line, Evan Almighty, The Artist, and Spring Breakers.
In 2014, she won an Academy Award for her work on the film Dallas Buyers Club.
Some of Adruitha's more recent work includes 12 Years a Slave, The Big Short, Elvis & Nixon, and First They Killed My Father.
Adruitha's recent work on the film I, Tonya has garnered Adruitha award nominations from BAFTA and the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild.
Over his career, Dan has worked on numerous films and television projects both in Denmark and internationally. His work has garnered much critical acclaim, including nominations and wins for the Robert Awards, the Danish Academy Awards.
Dan has collaborated with several notable directors, including Ole Bornedal and Guillermo del Toro.
Some of Dan's work for director Ole Bornedal includes the films Nightwatch, I Am Dina, and Small Town Killers, as well as the mini-series 1864. For Guillermo del Toro, Dan had shot Mimic and Crimson Peak.
Other films Dan has shot include: Brotherhood of the Wolf, Zaytoun, Simon and the Oaks, and John Wick: Chapter 2.
Dan's most recent collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water, has earned him much acclaim, including an Oscar nomination, a BAFTA nomination, and an ASC award nomination.
Born in Germany, and having moved to Australia in 1979, Burkhard has worked as a composer for feature films, television and commercials since 1984.
Some of Burkard's film work includes The Caterpillar Wish, The Way Back, and the documentary Red Obsession. His score for the Peter Weir's film, The Truman Show, won him several awards including a Golden Globe for Best Original Score.
Burkard's television work includes both the series and movies for the award winning Underbelly franchise, as well as the series False Witness and and The Secret River.
One of Burkard's most recent projects is the series Wolf Creek, about a serial killer stalking the Outback.
Paul studied Architecture at Carleton University in Ottawa before working for two years as an architect designing small commercial and residential projects finally segueing into design for film.
As Art Director, Paul's credits include Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, Harriet the Spy, The Real Blonde, and X-Men.
Paul won a Canadian Screen Award for achievement for his work designing Pompeii and for television, he was awarded a Canadian Gemini for his work designing the musical special Inspired by Bach.
His Production Design credits include: Take The Lead, 30 Days of Night, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Pompeii, The Liberator, and Len and Company.
Paul was the Production Designer on Guillermo del Toro's acclaimed Oscar nominated feature film, The Shape of Water, starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, and Octavia Spencer.
The Shape of Water won the Golden Lion at Venice, and Paul has won several critics awards for production design in the film, in addition to an Oscar nomination for his work on the film.
Sam studied filmmaking at Brown University, and The University of Paris-Michelet, before apprenticing with acclaimed Cinematographer Harris Savides.
Sam has worked on commercials and music videos for such directors as Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek, and Stacy Wall.
His film projects include, Wendy and Lucy for director Kelly Reichardt, Maggie's Plan for Rebecca Miller, Green Porno for Isabella Rossellini, and Frances Ha for director Noah Baumbach.
Sam's most recent feature film is the acclaimed semi-autobiographical Oscar nominated coming of age tale Lady Bird, written and directed by Greta Gerwig.
A dialogue and ADR specialist, David was a founding partner at Tattersall Sound & Picture in Toronto, now part of SIM International.
David's film work includes Take This Waltz and Away From Her for director Sarah Polley, as well as screen adaptations of Jose Saramagos' Blindness and Salman Rushdies' Midnights Children.
His most recent screen credits include the acclaimed television dramas The Handmaids Tale, Vikings, and Alias Grace, along with the Canadian crime drama Cardinal.
David's recent sound work for the big screen includes The Man Who Invented Christmas, about Charles Dickens and the creation of A Christmas Carol and the Golden Globe nominated, Molly's Game.
Tristan has been a cinematographer for over 20 years in film, television, commercials, and music videos and is best-known for his work in shooting stop-motion animation.
Tristan has worked with director Nick Park on the Oscar-winning short films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave, and the Oscar-winning feature film Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
His cinematography credits also include the feature films Chicken Run, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and ParaNorman.
More recently, Tristan shot the live action underpinnings of the film Loving Vincent, the first fully painted animated movie where live footage is painstakingly over-painted in the style of Van Gogh.
Tristan also was the DP on the upcoming Wes Anderson animated feature film, Isle of Dogs.
Chris' earlier work included Production Design on the Academy Award winning short film, The Accountant for Ray McKinnon and as an Assistant Art Director and Set Designer on Silver City for Director and Writer John Sayles.
Chris has worked on major commercials over the years including clients like Microsoft, Levi's, and Acura.
Chris continued to work with Ray McKinnon on Chrystal and Randy and the Mob, along with Henry's Crime.
More recently, Chris worked on 20th Century Women for Mike Mills and Golden Globe nominated Lady Bird for Greta Gerwig.
Ann Marie is an award-winning Canadian independent filmmaker, writer and artist, born in Okinawa, of Chinese and Australian parentage.
Ann Marie has created dozens of animated short films over the years, several involving the character of Stickgirl which sort of serves as her avatar.
Her graphic novel, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, was adapted from her documentary film of the same name and is on the American Library Association's list of "10 Best Graphic Novels for Teens."
Ann Marie has tried her hand at live action narrative features, including the dark comedy The French Guy about a brain surgery patient who brings home a stray young man to nurse him back to health.
Ann Marie's most recent work is the award winning animated feature film Window Horses, a father-daughter story that involves poetry and immigrants and takes place in Shiraz, Iran.
Ben has worked in still photography, commercials, and music videos, in addition to television and film.
Ben's projects for television include the series Vincent, The Trip, The Dresser, and Cranford, for which he won a cinematography Emmy.
His feature film work includes such acclaimed films as The Damned United, My Week with Marilyn, and Belle.
Ben's most recent work includes the author biopics Goodbye Christopher Robin about A. A. Milne and The Man Who Invented Christmas about Charles Dickens.
Originally from Montreal, Jade began her film career as a production executive before moving into the art department.
Jade's work as Production Designer includes: The House of The Devil and In a Valley of Violence for director Ti West, David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pete's Dragon, and A Ghost Story, and James White for Josh Mond.
Jade's most recent projects include the thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer for director Yorgos Lanthimos, and I, Tonya, about infamous figure skater Tonya Harding.
Nick has worked on earlier projects in sound including on narrative and documentary films like: Half Nelson, Grace Is Gone, Chop Shop, and Song of Lahore.
Nick has done recording engineering work for Vice for HBO and sound editing on the documentary feature, The Departure, and the acclaimed narrative features, The Hero and Lady Bird.
During her career as an exhibiting artist, Paula was the director of Canada's foremost media center, Charles Street Video. Her art work resides in several collections worldwide, including the National Gallery of Canada.
Paula started out her sound work with Sound Dogs in Toronto, relocating to Los Angeles in 1998.
She has garnered fifteen MPSE nominations, with four wins for her work on Game of Thrones and Lost, eight Emmy nominations and one win, and a Canadian Screen Award.
Paula has recently focused on projects like the series Game of Thrones and Darren Aronofsky's feature, Mother!.
Paula is debuting a new immersive audio work called, Ocean of Tears, in 2018.
Ron has worked with directors including: Mark Lester, Robert Longo, Daniel Petrie Jr., Sturla Gunnarson, Norman Jewison, and Henry Sellick.
Ron has collaborated with director David Cronenberg on a total of 16 films, including The Fly, Spider, eXistenZ, Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, A Dangerous Method, and Maps to the Stars.
Ron's recent projects include Mean Dreams directed by Nathan Morlando, and Miranda de Pencier's feature film directing debut The Grizzlies.
Michael landed the job of assistant editor on Woody Allen's film Manhattan as well as Stardust Memories and Raging Bull and he became a sound editor on Joel and Ethan Coen's film, Blood Simple, and going onto collaborate as film editor of Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing.
Michael's many other cutting credits include I'm Gonna Git U Sucka, Boys on the Side, Swing Kids, Ghost World, Stigmata, and Slipstream.
More recently, he edited Josh Radnor's Happythankyoumoreplease, Liberal Arts, and the feature, The Runner.
Michael edited Maya Forbes' Infinitely Polar Bear, manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters.
Michael has taught film editing at University of North Carolina School of the Arts. More recently, Michael has worked on the features Punching Henry and Abundant Acreage Available.
Kris grew up around Manitoba, Canada. He currently works out of New York and Los Angeles.
Kris has worked in sound on around two hundred projects in film, television, video games, and more.
Kris has worked as sound designer for films including: The Hunger Games, Pawn Sacrifice, Nocturnal Animals, and Snowden.
Some film projects Kris has done sound effects editing for include: The Revenant, Deepwater Horizon, It Comes at Night, It, and Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House.
Marco has been an animator for over 18 years, working on a variety of different productions including television, video games, and feature films.
Marco's film credits include: Rango, Pan, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and the acclaimed, A Monster Calls.
More recently, Marco was head of the animation department at MPC for films such as Ghost in the Shell, Alien: Covenant, War for the Planet of the Apes, and Blade Runner 2049.
Marco currently works at Eidos in Montreal, working on the upcoming Tomb Raider video game.
Jason's earlier work includes assistant editing on films such as Babe and Babe: Pig In The City, Moulin Rouge, and Australia.
His earlier work as lead editor includes Wolf Creek, Caterpillar Wish, The Great Gatsby for Baz Luhrmann, and Wish You Were Here.
Jason's most recent work includes the horror film It, based on Stephen King's book about a demonic clown who hunts children, and the post-apocalyptic thriller How It Ends starring Forest Whitaker.
Brett's films include four films with director Destin Daniel Cretton, including Short Term 12, I Am Not A Hipster, and The Glass Castle.
Some of Brett's other work included: The Meddler, Kat Candlers' film Hellion, Katie Holmes' directorial debut, All We Had, and the TV mini-series H+.
Brett worked again with Brie Larson on her acclaimed directorial debut, Unicorn Store.
Steve has long been creating striking images with his cinematography in such films as Flower & Garnet, Seven Times Lucky, and The Dark Hours.
Steve worked on iconic Canadian Director Bruce McDonald's film, The Tracey Fragments, pushing the boundaries of cinema, as well as and the award winning debut from Charles Officer, Nurse.Fighter.Boy.
Steve's work on the Canadian TV series, Durham County, earned him one of several Gemini nominations in his career.
Some of Steve's other credits include the UK-Canada co-production, Snow Cake, re-teaming with Bruce McDonald for the documentary Music from the Big House, and the film Citizen Gangster.
Additionally, Steve shot the drama Sitting on the Edge of Marlene, Preggoland and the television series Cardinal.
More recently, Steve worked on Born to Be Blue, a re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late '60s and Mean Dreams, a coming-of-age fable/thriller which had debuted at the Cannes.
Claude's film work as Art Director includes Shadow of the Wolf and The Aviator, which won an Oscar for art direction.
Claude's work as Production Designer includes films such as Night at the Museum, Barney's Version, and Rise of The Planet of The Apes.
Claude has most recently worked on The Age of Adaline, the adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel IT, and the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
Alexis Marsh and Samuel Jones, together are known as Alexis & Sam, as musicians and as film and television composer team.
Alexis & Sam began collaborating in 2010 after attending USC's Scoring for Motion Pictures & Television program.
Sharing a background in jazz, pop and avant-garde music, they specialize in producing scores that feature live performance, improvisation, and contemporary sounds in genres including jazz, world music, orchestral, electronica, folk, and rock.
Alexis & Sam have had their work featured at major film festivals around the world and gallery exhibitions worldwide.
Their film work includes Farah Goes Bang, Lila and Eve, Equity, the documentaries You See Me and Looking at the Stars, and most recently the TNT television series Animal Kingdom.
Mirren was born and raised in London, and graduated with a BFA in Fashion and Photography from New York's Parsons School of Design before moving to LA to begin her career as a costume designer.
Mirren has worked with director Destin Daniel Cretton on his films Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle, and with Reed Morano on Meadowland and I Think We're Alone Now.
Additionally, she worked on the acclaimed films, I'll See You in My Dreams, Growing Up Smith, and Lowriders.
Mirren's upcoming projects include: Drunk Parents, Unicorn Store, I Think We're Alone Now, and Teen Spirit.
Womanimation! 2017 is an international film festival featuring animated short film stories directed by women and participants Katy Wang and Elisa Talentino were interviewed.
Based in London, and with a background in Film Photography, Illustration, and Animation, Katy is a recent graduate of Kingston University with a first class degree in Illustration Animation.
Katy’s work includes the mini graphic novel Melon Boy, the book trailer Life and Fate, and the animation piece, Mind the Gap.
Katy’s most recent project is the short film Contact, a story of an astronaut stranded on a remote planet searching for a human connection. Contact is currently touring festivals around the world.
Elisa works with graphic arts, screen printing, illustration and animation. Her illustrations appear in books and magazines, for clients as The New York Times, Goethe Institut, and Mondadori.
Elisa has produced award-winning art books as well as screen printings exhibited in several galleries in Italy and abroad.
Elisa's animation work includes the recent acclaimed short film, Dandelion, merging traditional dance the bourrée with local legends about the flower. Legend says that lovers wish upon the dandelion and then blow the seeds to make their wishes come true.
Stephen has edited a wide variety of projects, from documentaries to television series to miniseries to feature films.
Stephen has collaborated with several directors on multiple projects, including Andy de Emmony on such projects as Framed and West Is West, Ciaran Donnelly on Camelot and Titanic Blood and Steel, and Aisling Walsh on Damage and more recently Maudie.
Maudie, an Irish and Canadian co-production starring Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, is based on the life of Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis, who overcame crippling arthritis and harsh circumstances to become a beloved Canadian artist.
Stephens most recent projects include the mini-series Howard's End written by Kenneth Lonergan and the upcoming feature film The Man Who Invented Christmas about Charles Dickens.
Originally from the Soviet Union, Slava made several films there before emigrating to Israel and continuing his film work.
Slava eventually moved to New York City in the 1970s and co-wrote, produced and directed the film Liquid Sky, an enduring and influential low-budget science fiction visual feast.
Some further films Slava directed include Poor Liza, the documentary Stalin's Wife, and Perestroika.
There are plans to tour Liquid Sky in select venues with a new digital print of the film.
We interviewed with two audience award winners in the Womanimation! film festival, an international film festival highlighting animated film stories, created by women.
Our first guest was Britt Raes, from Belgium, whose latest film is Catherine, winner of the audience award for Womanimation! 2017.
Britt loves drawing and telling stories, working in animation and collaborating in graphic design. She is currently developing an animated series about pets and writing a children’s book.
Catherine has won jury awards, audience awards, and press awards around the world, and played in Belgium for the month of August in theaters with the Turkish documentary feature film Kedi.
We also spoke with Lori Malepart-Traversy, from Montreal, Canada, director of Le Clitoris, winner of the audience award for Womanimation! 2016.
A native of Montreal, Canada, Lori holds both a BFA in Film Animation and a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University. Her expertise lies in animated documentary filmmaking, a tool she uses to tell stories, give meaning, and provoke reactions. Lori’s animated short film work includes Extra champignons, Sparky Ketchup and most recently, Le Clitoris.
Le Clitoris has toured festivals around the world including Annecy and has been featured in online venues such as Short of the Week and CB Fest, a new series of short film premieres from Cartoon Brew.
Additionally, Lori was commissioned make the Womanimation! 2017 Audience Award for Britt Raes for Catherine, a standing clitoris art object inspired by Le Clitoris.
We interviewed participants in Womanimation!, an international film festival highlighting animated film stories, created by women.
With a background in theater, Dotty Kultys graduated from the University of the West of England with an MA in Animation. She’s worked on short films, commercial videos, and theater projections.
Dotty's most recent project is the short film The Hunchback and the Swan, using paper cut-outs, collagraphy, pixilation and 2D digital animation, and she composed the film as well.
The Hunchback and the Swan was created in collaboration with Taffy Thomas, the UK’s First Storytelling Laureate, mentored by Peter Lord, co-founder and Creative Director of Aardman Animations.
Aliona Baranova, originally from Belarus and now in the Czech Republic, studied graphic design in Minsk, Belarus before moving to the Czech Republic to study animation at Tomas Bata University.
Aliona's most recent film, Domov, or Home, is the story of a traveler who recounts some of his journeys around the world, and his mixture of home-sickness and wanderlust, using a variety of textures and looks within its short running time.
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Guy is originally from the maritime province of Nova Scotia, Canada, is an alum of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and is a member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers. He currently splits his time between New York City and Toronto.
Guy has worked on several short films, including The Warren, The Underground, Frost, and The Archivist, which won a CSC Award for Best Cinematography.
Guy's feature film work includes the coming of age tale Wet Bum for director Lindsay Mackay, for which he was nominated for a CSC Best Cinematography Award. Other films include David Bezmozgis' feature Natasha and Jordan Canning's feature Suck It Up, which premiered at Slamdance.
One of Guy's recent features is the biopic Maudie, directed by Aisling Walsh and starring Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins.
A story close to home for Guy, Maudie follows the life of Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis. Maudie garnered Guy a CSC Award for Cinematography.
Guy recently shot the upcoming film The Parting Glass, directed by Stephen Moyer, written by and starring Denis O'Hare.
Ottawa International Animation Festival is the largest and oldest animation festival in North America and celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2016.
In addition to his role at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Chris regularly contributes to Animation World Network.
Chris has written several books including: Estonian Animation: Between Genius and Utter Illiteracy, Unsung Heroes of Animation, Great Left Wingers of Hockey's Golden Era, Ballad of a Thin Man: In Search of Ryan Larkin, Japanese Animation: Time out of Mind, and The Animation Pimp.
Chris is currently working on a magic realist memoir called My Balls are Killing Me along with a book about the classic Canadian hockey animation short film, The Sweater.
Sean has been chosen as one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Cinema and listed in Variety's 10 Cinematographers to Watch.
Sean's film credits include Eden, Kumiko The Treasure Hunter, and It Felt Like Love, which garnered Sean an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Cinematography.
More recent film projects Sean has shot include the thriller Green Room for Jeremy Saulnier, Mike Mill's 20th Century Women, and Lucia Aniello's dark comedy Rough Night, starring Scarlet Johansson.
Sally's film projects include Five Nights in Maine, Heaven's Floor, and The Boy Downstairs.
In addition to her film work, Sally has worked commercials and music videos as well as several art installations.
One of Sally's most recent projects as set decorator is the film It Comes At Night starring Joel Edgerton as a man living with his family in a remote cabin after an apparent plague has decimated the population.
Sally's other upcoming film releases include Patti Cake$, Spinning Man, and The Brits Are Coming.
Nicolas' work over the years has included the films: Eve and the Fire Horse, The Banquet, Next Floor, City of Shadows, Before My Heart Falls, and War Witch.
Nicolas' more recent projects include: Enemy, Louis Cyr, Aloft, and Two Lovers and a Bear for director, Kim Nguyen.
Nicolas has also worked on Chuck (The Bleeder) for Oscar nominated director, Philippe Falardeau.
Some of Evgueni and his brother Sacha's scores include Lan by Wenli Jiang, The Past by Asghar Farhadi, the drama La Famille Belier by Eric Lartigau, the French TV Series Baron Noir, and the courtroom thriller The Whole Truth.
More recently, the brothers have scored the HBO drama about Bernie Maddoff called The Wizard of Lies and the upcoming drama Loveless by acclaimed Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev.
Based in Toronto and Los Angeles, Matthew has been editing film and television for over the past dozen years and has worked on feature films such as Trigger, I'm Yours, and Antiviral.
Matthew edited the acclaimed film Enemy for Denis Villeneuve, for which he won several awards, as well as James White, Swiss Army Man, and more recently on the critically acclaimed, It Comes At Night.
Matthew's most recent project is Paul Dano's upcoming directorial debut, Wildlife.
Eric earned his MFA in Cinematography from NYU's Graduate Film program, and his feature film work includes The Exploding Girl, Rudderless, and I Smile Back.
Eric's recent feature film projects include Meera Menon's Equity, My Blind Brother, and Aardvark, starring Zachary Quinto.
Currently based in Brooklyn, Vanessa studied piano at the New England Conservatory, and art history, architecture and physics at Columbia University.
Her first documentary film was the Peabody-award winning Between the Folds. Between the Folds has been translated into over ten languages and broadcast in dozens of countries as well as screening at international film festivals.
Vanessa was a featured presenter at the EG 2010 conference, and serves on the jury for the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, as well as on several festival juries.
Vanessa produced and shot for Showtime's Years of Living Dangerously, a documentary series about climate change executive produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Vanessa's most recent documentary feature film is Obit, about The New York Times obituaries and their writer-reporters.
Obit world-premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and has been in limited release around the United States.
Diane's Set Decorator work over the years has included: I Shot Andy Warhol, The Funeral, Summer of Sam, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Limitless, and Lee Daniels' The Butler.
Her Television credits include Production Design work on the television series The Naked Brothers Band, The Americans, and Set Decoration work on the television movie, Phil Spector.
More recently, Diane worked on the acclaimed feature Equity as Production Designer and the television series 13 Reasons Why.
Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tanja began her career as a casting director in 1998, and currently runs Another Casting Company along with Stine Bruel and Saskia Fahlsten.
Some of Tanja's film projects include: A Royal Affair, The Hunt, Sorrow and Joy, A War, and April 9th.
Tanja's television projects include the series: Anna Pihl, Mikkel og guldkortet, and Those Who Kill.
More recently, Tanja has cast the television series Dicte - Crime Reporter for Thomas Vinterberg's film The Commune.
Born and raised in the Netherlands, Michael attended the Geneva School of Fine Arts in Switzerland before graduating from the West Surrey College of Art in England with his first film in 1978.
Michael is presently based in London where he directs and animates award-winning commercials for television and cinema.
Michael's earlier animated shorts include Tom Sweep and The Monk and the Fish, which was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Cesar Award, and the Cartoon d'Or.
Michael's most well-known short film Father and Daughter won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and the Grand Prix at Annecy. He later worked on The Aroma of Tea, an experimental film painted entirely with tea.
Michael's most recent film is the award-winning animated feature, The Red Turtle, a wordless fable of a man shipwrecked on a desert island who encounters a mysterious sea creature. The Red Turtle was the first non-Japanese film to be produced by Studio Ghibli.
As a musician, David has been a member of Little River Band and the John Farnham Band.
David has composed film scores for Strictly Ballroom, Shine, Elizabeth, The Interview, Better Than Sex, Shake Hands with the Devil, and The Children of Huang Shi.
David after these has scored: Australia, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, The Railway Man, Healing, and The Water Diviner.
More recently, David worked on the acclaimed features, The Dressmaker and A Street Cat Named Bob.
Lachlan has worked on many short films over the years and early on worked on the documentary, The Away Game.
Lachlan has also worked on the horror film Uninhabited, the comedy Not Suitable for Children, and the short films Woody and Twisted.
More recently, Lachlan has worked on the critically acclaimed Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and the comedy Down Under.
Anthony began working in the art department in films like Gummo as Property Master and as and Art Director on projects like the Upright Citizens Brigade series and the feature How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
Anthony has worked on commercials and features films as Production Designer.
For feature film projects, he first worked on features Safe Men and Two Ninas.
His films over the years have included: Double Parked, Tadpole, The Best Thief in the World, and James Ponsoldt's first feature, Off the Black.
More recently, he was the Production Designer for the critically acclaimed, Certain Women, for Kelly Reichardt.
Nicklas has written the score for a number of feature films, documentaries, video games and TV series, earning international awards, nominations and several world premieres at film festivals such as Berlinale.
Nicklas has worked as arranger and orchestrator on the award-winning score for The Theory of Everything written by Johann Johannsson.
Nicklas' award winning scores have included the films: The Great Bear, Beyond Beyond, the short film Zombiehagen, A Conspiracy of Faith, Ronal the Barbarian, The Arctic Giant and Klown Forever.
Love is best known for his work on Let the Right One In, Skyfall, and the Oscar nominated The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, and the more recent Oscar nominated A Man Called Ove, nominated along with partner, Eva von Bahr.
Love’s other projects over the years include Mammoth, Leo, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series, Monica Z, Ode to My Father, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, and The Shamer's Daughter.
Love’s more recent and upcoming projects include: The Giant, The 101-Year Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared, the Midnight Sun television series, Euphoria, and The Snowman for Tomas Alfredson.
Gary's evocative sound holds audiences rapt and has bolstered the success of award-winning films and television series.
Early on, Gary worked on animated children's series like: Tom & Jerry Kids Show, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, and Dexter's Laboratory to moving onto documentary scores like Oswald's Ghost.
Gary has worked on unforgettable compositions for director Rory Kennedy's Academy Award nominated film Last Days in Vietnam and HBO's documentaries, Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush, and Kareem: Minority of One, and HBO's dramatic series Luck.
A three-time Emmy-winner, Gary has most recently, he has earned critical acclaim for his epic score for the Academy Award winning film, O.J.: Made in America, directed by Ezra Edelman.
Gary's intensely dramatic melodies and textures set the perfect tone for this haunting saga, depicting the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson from football legend to murder suspect.
Matthieu's cinematography work includes the documentary Xiao Jia Going Home for director Damien Ounouri and has worked as both cinematographer and editor on a number of films including the film K and the documentary Fidai, again for director Damien Ounouri.
Matthieu's projects as editor include the films Mr. Tree, The First Aggregate, and Longing for the Rain.
For director Jia Zhang-ke, Matthieu edited A Touch of Sin, for which he won a Golden Horse Best Film Editing Award, and more recently the film Mountains May Depart.
Matthieu's other recent editing work includes the films Life After Life and The Road to Mandalay.
Originally from Germany, Torsten worked in high-fashion in Paris, Spain, and New York, before ending up in Los Angeles.
Torsten works on projects including celebrity personal appearances and press tours, music videos, film, and editorials, where he can create a vision and look with each client.
Torsten's clients include Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Zooey Deschanel, Rooney Mara, and many more.
In addition, Torsten has worked on numerous music videos, magazine layouts, and commercials.
Torsten's work has been featured in the films Little Miss Sunshine, Spin, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Ruby Sparks, and most recently the Oscar winning musical La La Land and Battle of the Sexes.
Antony's projects over the years include: Praise, Soft Fruit, Garage Days, Walking on Water, The Home Song Stories, Unfinished Sky, Animal Kingdom, and 33 Postcards.
Antony's more recent projects include: the documentary Plot for Peace, The Rover, and Ramin Bahrani's acclaimed 99 Homes.
Antony recently scored for the documentary feature Sherpa and the Oscar nominated film, Tanna.
Gaute began his career as a rock and jazz bassist before attending Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Over the years, Gaute has been involved in arranging for recording artists, writing for video games, commercials, short films, and theater productions.
Some of Gaute's notable feature film projects have included Elias and The Treasure of the Sea, The Last Sentence, Victoria, and the documentary Nina's Children.
Recently, Gaute composed the score for the Oscar-nominated film A Man Called Ove, which is the third top-grossing film in Swedish history. Other recent work from Gaute includes the Norwegian historical epic The Last King and the stop-motion animation In The Forest of HuckyBucky.
Stephanie founded her Montreal based production company daDA with which she has taken on the roles of producer, director and cinematographer for a dozen of short films and music.
Stephanie's award-winning cinematography for Xavier Dolan's feature films, I Killed My Mother and Heartbeats, which has put her at the forefront of Canadian and world cinema.
More recently, Stephanie has shot Blackbird, Standstill, The Forbidden Room for Guy Maddin, the acclaimed drama, The Saver, and Hunting Pignut.
Lesley is an active member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers and a 2016 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences initiate.
Lesley's earlier film projects include When Night Is Falling, the Oscar winning You Can Count On Me and Mira Nair's Golden Globe winning Hysterical Blindness.
Some of Lesley's other film credits include Los Locos, Yo-Yo Ma: Six Gestures, Mansfield Park, A Price Above Rubies, Marion Bridge, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, The Moth Diaries, and the documentary, How To Change The World.
Lesley's most recent projects include the Oscar winning Manchester by the Sea, The Apology, A Better Man, and Beaches.
Wynn is the first African American Production Designer in the history of films. As assistant art director, he worked with Production Designer Richard Sylbert on The Cotton Club. He also art directed or assisted like Beat Street, The Money Pit, and Brighton Beach Memoirs.
Wynn has a long-term relationship with Spike Lee and has designed over ten films for him including She's Gotta Have It, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, Crooklyn, and Inside Man.
Wynn is the first African-American Production Designer to become a member of the Art Directors Guild and the first African American nominated for the Art Directors Guild Award for his design work on Tim Burton's film, Mars Attacks!.
Some of Wynn's production design work over the years includes A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man for Ron Howard, A Bronx Tale for Robert DeNiro, Wag The Dog, Keeping The Faith, All Good Things, and Breach.
More recently, Wynn worked on Almost Christmas, the Oscar nominated Hidden Figures, and War on Everyone.
Dave has been nominated for a BAFTA and CAS award and has won a Golden Reel from the MPSE for the films District 9 and The Adventures of Tin Tin.
Dave has worked on several international projects over the years including: The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Out of the Blue, The World's Fastest Indian, Eagle vs Shark, The Water Horse, District 9, The Lovely Bones, and The Hobbit.
Some of Dave's more recent film projects include Elysium, Snowpiercer, Chappie, and the Oscar nominated, Arrival.
Kayla's earlier work began on a variety of short films and part of an editing team on independent features like Lovely, Still for Nicholas Fackler and Casey Affleck's I'm Still Here.
Kayla has worked on a mix of film genres as an editor including Gone, May In the Summer, and The Immigrant.
More recently, Kayla has edited on Miles Ahead, The Meddler, and the upcoming comedy, What's The Point? for Lake Bell.
Hughes has edited more than twenty films over the years, including Crash, for which he won an Oscar for film editing. Hughes is an elected member of the American Cinema Editors.
Hughes has over the years edited Sling Blade, A Slipping-Down Life, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Great Debaters, Seven Pounds, Teen Patti, The Help, and Pixels.
More recently, Hughes edited the acclaimed Oscar nominated Fences, working again with actor/director Denzel Washington, and the upcoming All I See Is You for Marc Forster.
Joan learned feature storytelling as first assistant editor with writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson and editor Dylan Tichenor on Boogie Nights and as first assistant editor with writer/director Quentin Tarantino and editor Sally Menke on both Kill Bill movies.
Joan edited Being Flynn, starring Robert DeNiro and Paul Dano, for Paul Weitz. She also edited Tom Ford’s multi-award-winning A Single Man, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, and the Academy Award winning short film The Accountant, directed by Ray McKinnon and Suburban Girl for Mark Klein.
More recently, Joan again collaborated with Tom Ford on the acclaimed Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated Nocturnal Animals, starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, about an art gallery owner, haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.
Trevor's earlier work in the sound department included working as Sound Effects Editor on Chernobyl Diaries, as Sound Editor and Foley Mixer on The Man with the Iron Fists, and as Sound Effects Editor on The Sessions.
Trevor has continued working on projects like Evil Dead, As I Lay Dying, The Liberator, and That Awkward Moment.
More recently, Trevor has worked in Sound Designer and Supervising Sound Editor roles on Ouija: Origin of Evil, Southside with You, The Meddler, Hell or High Water, and Don't Breathe.
Craig earlier on was the location manager and assistant producer on the acclaimed feature, Frozen River.
Craig continued in production roles over the years on feature films like Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Dark Horse, Shanghai Calling, and Stand Clear of the Closing Doors.
More recently, Craig was a production supervisor on David Gordon Green's film, Joe, a producer on Creative Control, and both producer and screenwriter on Christine, the story of Christine Chubbuck, a 1970s TV reporter struggling with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career, starring Rebecca Hall.
Early on Merideth worked as Set Decorator on the television series, Eerie, Indiana, He Said, She Said, and The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag.
Merideth continued to work on acclaimed projects over the years including: Natural Born Killers, Apollo 13, Nixon, That Thing You Do!, and U Turn.
As Set Decorator, Merideth has worked in varied genres from family films like Mighty Joe Young and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, to comedy/dramas like Edtv and Bandits.
As Production Designer, Merideth has worked with Tommy Lee Jones on the acclaimed films, Three Burials and The Homesman, on the crime/drama, In the Electric Mist, and most recently on the Hank Williams bio-pic I Saw the Light.
As a long time alum of the Sundance Film Festival, Joe's first short appeared there at age 16.
Joe has since collaborated on over 14 films premiering at Sundance, including three best director winners.
Joe's work over the years has included the feature films: Simon Killer, Fishtail, and Don't Think Twice.
His latest project is Antonio Campos' acclaimed feature film, Christine, about Christine Chubbuck, a young woman television reporter who in 1974 committed suicide live on the air.
Joseph has cut several shorts and music videos and his work on the music video for Kid Cudi on Pursuit of Happiness helped the video get nominated for a VMA award.
Joseph recently cut two fast and funny pop culture documentaries Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead about National Lampoon Magazine, and Supermensch directed by Mike Myers.
Joseph also cut indie comedy The Mend starring Josh Lucas for Josh Magary.
More recently, Joseph worked on Captain Fantastic starring Viggo Mortensen and directed by Matt Ross as well as Wolves starring Michael Shannon and directed by Bart Freundlich and Rebel In The Rye, the directorial debut of award winning writer Danny Strong, about the life of J.D. Salinger.
Since working within the Australian film community in 1994, Robert has completed feature films soundtracks for some of the worlds most influential directors, such as John Woo on Red Cliff, Stephen Chow on Kung Fu Hustle and CJ7, Yimou Zhang on The Road Home, Hero, Curse of the Golden Flower, and The Flowers of War, and Wong Kar Wai on Ashes of Time, The Grandmaster, and the upcoming See You Tomorrow.
Robert's other feature film credits over the years, include: Sleeping Beauty, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, The Loved Ones, and Animal Kingdom and The Rover for David Michod.
Most recently, Robert has worked on the acclaimed features Hacksaw Ridge and Lion, as well as the upcoming feature Berlin Syndrome.
Eduardo has a Master's Degree in Editing from the National Film School in England.
His first feature film, Eles Voltam known as They Will Return for Marcelo Lordello premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
For Gabriel Mascaro, Eduardo edited Housemaids and August Winds, and the more recently Neon Bull with Fernando Epstein.
He also worked at the documentaries The Perfect Belgian and Elephant's Dream for Kristof Bilsen.
Eduardo followed this up with the acclaimed Aquarius for Kleber Mendona Filho, that premiered in Cannes.
Nicholas was involved as a producer for both the short and feature film version of the acclaimed film Whiplash, for which he also wrote and produced pieces for the soundtrack.
In addition to his film work, Nicholas is a Founding Member of L.A. Dance Project and is a Board member of the New York-based ensemble Decoda, and the multimedia production company and artists collective The Amoveo Company.
Nicholas has scored for several feature films including Gimme The Loot, 12 Years A Slave, The Big Short, A Tale Of Love And Darkness, and The Seventh Fire.
More recently, Nicholas scored the critically acclaimed, award winning, Moonlight, for Barry Jenkins, about human connection and self discovery.
Jacob's work in sound started in the early 1990s with a Foley Supervisor role on the documentary, Brother's Keeper.
His earlier work includes the role of Foley Editor on The Cider House Rules, Sound Editor on Startup.com, Foley Editor on Gangs of New York, Sound Editor on Kissing Jessica Stein, and Supervising Sound Editor on The Hours.
Jacob's further projects and roles in sound include: Sound Designer on The Darjeeling Limited, Music Editor on the Emmy winning, The War, as well as The Wrestler, and Margaret, and Supervising Sound Editor on Revolutionary Road, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and the documentary Buck.
Jacob has more recently worked on the documentaries, Leviathan and Where To Invade Next, and the acclaimed features, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, The Light Between Oceans, and Manchester By The Sea.
Internationally recognized for her work, Marion has many film, mini-series and television credits to her name.
These include: Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Salem's Lot, Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, and The Hollowmen.
More recently, Marion has worked on Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and the Australian feature film, The Dressmaker.
Alexandra is originally from London and currently living in New York. She specializes in the creation of immersive worlds for films, commercials and events.
Alexandra has worked on short film projects and in the commercial space on projects including Facebook, Squarespace, Dell, and Hitachi, and visual merchandising for Roberto Cavalli.
Alexandra's feature film projects in varied genres include La Vida Inesperada and The Heart Machine.
Alexandra's more recent projects include: Hole in the Wall, Custody, Maggie's Plan, Little Men, and the Netflix series, The Get Down.
Pedro was the screenwriter for several television animated series and for the feature film Goomer which one the Goya Award for the Best Spanish Animated Feature Film.
Pedro was producer, director and screenwriter of La Crisis Carnvora in 2007, the first Spanish feature film in Flash animation for theaters.
He is author of theatrical plays and comic books and had more recently been collaborating with writer and animator, Alberto Vazquez, on darkly visual shorts like Birdboy and Unicorn Blood.
Together, they have created the post-apocalyptic animated feature film, Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children, based on Alberto's graphic novel.
As a film director, Barry co-directed the Oscar nominated documentary film The War at Home in 1979.
Some of Barry's other film directing credits include The Who's Tommy, the Amazing Journey, the feature film Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control, and the documentary Sidewalk.
Barry's projects for Spike Lee over the years include: She's Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, He Got Game, 25th Hour, and Inside Man.
Barry's more further projects as editor include: Passing Strange, Bill Cunningham New York, Detachment, and The Giver.
As a film editor, Barry has worked with director over the years with Mira Nair on films like Salaam Bombay and the more recent, Queen of Katwe.
Jason has worked on music videos for bands like Placebo, Passion Pit, The Arcade Fire, and DJ Snake and Lil Jon. He was worked on many commercials and including those featuring icons like Mr. T (for Fairfield Inn) and Weird Al Yankovic (for Radio Shack).
For feature films, he has worked in the art department including as a Model Maker on The Chronicles of Riddick and in Props on Escape From Tomorrow.
For production design in film over the years, Jason has worked on the comedy Pickin & Grinnin and the comedy/musical film, Eternity: The Movie.
More recently, Jason worked on the upcoming comedy/horror film, The Greasy Strangler, and the critically acclaimed, Swiss Army Man.
Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tanja began her career as a casting director in 1998, and currently runs Another Casting Company along with Stine Bruel and Saskia Fahlsten.
Some of Tanja's film projects include: A Royal Affair, The Hunt, Sorrow and Joy, A War, and April 9th.
Tanja's television projects include the series: Anna Pihl, Mikkel og guldkortet, and Those Who Kill.
More recently, Tanja has cast for the Thomas Vinterberg film The Commune as well as the television series Dicte - Crime Reporter.
Louize has worked as a costume designer in a broad range of genres, from science fiction/fantasy to medieval and contemporary, from big to low budget. Having both Danish and US citizenship, she is able to work on locations internationally.
Louize is also the co-owner of a large costume house in Copenhagen holding a sizeable collection of period and contemporary costumes.
Louize has been nominated for several Robert awards, the Danish Oscar, and won a Robert for her work on the film, The Bench.
Some of her film work includes Just Like Home, Worlds Apart, and Kon-Tiki.
Recently Louize has costumed for three films in the Antboy franchise and the war-themed films A War and Walk With Me.
Nicholas has scored for several feature films including Gimme The Loot, 12 Years A Slave, The Big Short, A Tale Of Love And Darkness, and The Seventh Fire.
Nicholas was involved as a producer for both the short and feature film version of the acclaimed film Whiplash, for which he also wrote and produced pieces for the soundtrack.
In addition to his film work, Nicholas is a Founding Member of L.A. Dance Project and is a Board member of the New York-based ensemble Decoda, and the multimedia production company and artists collective The Amoveo Company.
Richard moved to filmmaking, first as Production Designer, later Key Grip, Camera Assistant, and finally as a Cinematographer.
Richard has shot over 25 feature films, usually European co-productions, both arthouse and more mainstream productions. His breakthrough came with the multi award-winning feature, Rosie.
Richard's film work over the years included: Guernsey, Wolfsbergen, Nowhere Man, Little Black Spiders, Farewell To Fools, and Love & Friendship.
Richard is president of the NSC and a member of the SBC and the EFA. Additionally, he is the initiator and co-editor of a book on contemporary cinematography called, Shooting Time.
Yorgos' projects over the years have included: A Touch of Spice, Dogtooth, Alps, The Enemy Within, and Modris.
Yorgos' more recent projects have included: Sivas, The Sentimentalists, Chevalier, The Lobster, and the upcoming Ana Yurdu.
Anna has worked as an Art Director and Production Designer in feature film, TV drama, and commercials.
Anna's television drama work includes A Dangerous Fortune for ZDF, Foyle's War for ITV and George Gently for the BBC.
Anna's work as art director has included projects like Neil Jordan's award winning film The Butcher Boy and more recently on King Arthur for director Antoine Fuqua.
Anna's work as production designer has included films like Ondine and Stella Days, both of which won her Irish Film & Television Awards, and most recently Whit Stillman's film, Love & Friendship.
Lucien has been developing computer graphics and effects techniques over the past 25 years and is as comfortable leading production in the studio with a team of computer artists as he is on the set of feature films.
Over the past 20 years, Lucien via Mechanism Digital have produced thousands of 3D animations and visual effects for premiere network programming, television commercials and feature films.
Some of Lucien's projects include Spike Lee's film, Bamboozled, Last Stand of the 300, American Ultra, and Life, Animated.
Mechanism Digital has also recently teamed up with the New York Times to add graphics and maps to their virtual reality stories.
Walter's projects over the years have included: Mother of Tears, I Am Love, Unlikely Revolutionaries, and A Magnificent Haunting.
Walter's more recent projects have included: A Five Star Life, the documentary Bertolucci on Bertolucci (which he also co-directed), Antonia, Bota, Io e Lei, and A Bigger Splash.
Walter continues his work with director Luca Guadagnino on the upcoming film Call Me by Your Name.
Over the years, Stephani has worked as an assistant customer designer work on Cold Souls, Carriers, Blue Valentine, and Place Behind the Pines and as costume designer work on Beasts of the Southern Wild, See Girl Run, The History of Future Folk, and The Harvest.
More recently Stephani worked as costume designer on: Ping Pong Summer, The David Dance, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Sinister 2, and the acclaimed and surreal, Swiss Army Man, starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe.
Art has been the executive director of the Capitol Theatre since 2004 and the 1728 seat theatre began back in 1928.
Capitol Theatre regularly screens archival 35mm prints of classic films with carbon arc projection and silent films with live theatre organ accompaniment with their original installation organ from 1928. They have full pit orchestra used for SummerStage musical theater productions. In addition, they have a 52-seat Cinema Capitol, known for a wide mix of independent and international film favorites.
Capitol Theatre is home to the Capitolfest, Central New York's premier summer cinephile film festival held in August. It is a place to see rarely-shown and newly-discovered films of the silent and early talkie era, starting on late Friday morning and ending early on Sunday evening.
The philosophy of Capitolfest is that there should be time to savor the films, thus their slogan, “A vacation, not a marathon.”
Avy, based in NYC, has cast dozens of films since starting in the industry in the late 1980s.
She has worked with many acclaimed directors including: Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, Lars von Trier, Ira Sachs, and James Ponsoldt.
Avy's casting credits over the years include: The Sixth Sense, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Dogville, Smashed, The Skeleton Twins, Europa Report, and Shame.
Some of her more recent projects include: A Bigger Splash, Money Monster, and The End of The Tour, as well as The Circle and Little Men.
With a background in graphic design, marketing, web development and IT, Dylan has worked as a television editor and post-production supervisor.
Dylan currently works as Head of Post-Production on the New Zealand serial drama Shortland Street, producing 250 half-hour episodes of scripted drama in 49 weeks each year.
Dylan has recently partnered with David Farrier to co-direct the feature documentary film, Tickled.
Tickled is a disturbing tale of what seems at first glance to be a silly subculture, but reveals something far more sinister underneath.
Tickled has been nominated for awards at several film festivals and is currently screening around the US and worldwide.
Jakob's projects over the years have included: Reprise, A Family, Nokas, and Oslo, August 31st including working with Joachim Trier over the years.
Some of Jakob's more current projects include: Lola Versus, The End of the Tour, Quitters, and the recently released, Louder Than Bombs.
Louise has a Degree in Law from University College Cork. She then trained at The Gaiety School of Acting. She was an Actor for a short period before setting up Louise Kiely Casting in 2005.
Louise Kiely Casting provides an efficient and innovative service combining our creative and administrative talents.
Louise has worked on the following projects over the years include: 32A, Death of a Superhero, Parked, and Redwater for the BBC.
Her more recent projects include: What Richard Did, Sing Street, Irish casting for The Lobster, and the upcoming Handsome Devil.
Jim got his start shooting distinctive independent features and has gone on to photograph in a wide range of film and television genres.
One of Jim's earlier projects was the film Nadja, which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography in 1996.
Some of Jim's other earlier work includes the films Clockwatchers, Boys Don't Cry, and The Believer.
Jim's television work over the years includes the HBO series, Six Feet Under and Carnivale, for which he received an Emmy nomination, and more recently the series Silicon Valley and Wayward Pines.
Jim's recent film work includes the theatrical features Trumbo and Pitch Perfect 2, as well as the television movies Game Change and All The Way, both political dramas.
Steve has long been creating striking images with his cinematography in such films as Flower & Garnet, Seven Times Lucky, and The Dark Hours.
Steve worked on iconic Canadian Director Bruce McDonald's film, The Tracey Fragments, pushing the boundaries of cinema, as well as and the award winning debut from Charles Officer, Nurse.Fighter.Boy.
Steve's work on the Canadian TV series, Durham County, earned him one of several Gemini nominations in his career.
Some of Steve's other credits include the UK-Canada co-production, Snow Cake, re-teaming with Bruce McDonald for the documentary Music from the Big House, and the film Citizen Gangster.
Steve recently shot the drama Sitting on the Edge of Marlene, Preggoland, and Born to Be Blue, a re-imagining of jazz legend Chet Baker's musical comeback in the late 1960s.
In addition, he worked on the upcoming, Mean Dreams, which debuted at the Cannes.
John attended the USC School of Cinema-Television Production.
Early on in his career, John was an assistant editor on varied projects including earlier films for Steven Soderbergh like Out of Sight and Erin Brocovich.
John's projects over the years, include: We Own The Night, Two Lovers, Crazy Heart, and The Immigrant.
Some of John's more recent projects include: Rudderless, a music related comedy/drama for William H. Macy, Before We Go for Chris Evans, Krampus, a holiday comedy/fantasy horror, and Miles Ahead for Don Cheadle, a narrative feature about the life and music of Miles Davis.
Earlier on, Shane collaborated with some of NYC's independent premier production companies and relocated from New York City to Los Angeles then working in the art department on films for Alejandro Agresti and Christopher Nolan.
On the West Coast, Shane worked as a production designer on such films as Talmage Cooley's film, Taking Chances, Brin Hill's film, Ball Don't Lie and the television series, House of Lies, starring Don Cheadle.
As production designer, Shane more recently worked and the Oscar winning, Beginners, the HBO movie, The Normal Heart, and on Straight Outta Compton about the revolutionary hip-hop group, N.W.A.
Shane has also worked on Tom Ford's upcoming film, Nocturnal Animals.
Kristian has been a sound designer on more than 90 films including a long list of Lars Von Trier's productions like Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Antichrist, Melancholia, and Nymphomaniac. He has also headed the sound design department at The National Film School of Denmark.
In addition, Kristian has worked on both larger productions with directors such as Susanne Bier, Thomas Vinterberg, and Nicolas Winding Refn.
Kristian's credits as a composer consist of over 40 titles including Antichrist, Submarino, Klown, and Per Olav Sorensen's series, The Half Brother and his latest The Heavy Water War (or The Saboteurs).
Kristian's other projects include: the Academy Award winning Ida, Blood in the Mobile, A Caretakers Tale, The Weight of Elephants, and the acclaimed, The Man Who Saved the World.
Kurt worked on Michael Moore's films, Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11.
Some of Kurt's other film projects include Seamless, Angelina Jolie's directing debut, the documentary, A Place in Time, and the documentary Trumbo.
In addition to editing, Kurt has worked as producer on projects such as the BAFTA-nominated UK documentary Taking Liberties, America the Beautiful, and Bigger Stronger Faster.
Kurt has directed several health and diet related documentaries including Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2, and The Kids Menu.
Kurt's other recent projects include the music documentary Manifesto: A Film About Manic Street Preachers and Red Army, about the famous Soviet hockey team.
After getting a degree in English and Film Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury followed by post-grad work in Film Theory and despite serious attempts to work in the film industry, Donald ended up in the early music scene in London.
He claims he was in the right place at the right time and joined Tallis Scholars in 1985 and by 1988 when he was a founding member of The Orlando Consort.
The Orlando Consort rapidly achieved a reputation as one of Europe s most expert and consistently challenging groups performing repertoire from the years 1050 to 1550. The unique imagination and originality of their programming together with their superb vocal skills has marked the Consort out as the outstanding leaders of their field.
More recently, Donald has been able to combine his work with the ensemble by creating a vocal score to accompany the film called Voices Appeared, to accompany Carl Dreyer's film, The Passion of Joan of Arc.
The Orlando Consort has performed live with the Voices Appeared and The Passion of Joan of Arc for early music and film fans worldwide.
Chad's projects have included: Goodbye Solo, the short film, Plastic Bag, Restless City, On the Ice, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Take Shelter.
More recent projects have included: At Any Price, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, and Midnight Special. Midnight Special is about father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers
Chad's upcoming work includes work again with director Jeff Nichols on his acclaimed feature, Loving.
Michael worked as a script supervisor for several years on films including: The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, Happiness, You Can Count on Me, Monster's Ball, American Splendor, Bad Santa, Garden State, and Thumbsucker.
Michael's works as editor over the years include projects like: The Order of Myths, Freakonomics, The Loneliest Planet, Hateship Loveship, Love Is Strange, and I Believe in Unicorns.
More recently, Michael edited the documentary, The Babushkas of Chernobyl, Free in Deed, White Girl, Youth in Oregon, and the acclaimed historical comedy, Elvis & Nixon.
Meg and Sunny started their own casting agency in 2004, and one of their notable early efforts was the film Waitress, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Over the years, Meg and Sunny have casted dozens of feature films, television, and web series, including the films Dear Lemon Lima, Natural Selection, and I Believe in Unicorns.
One of Meg and Sunny's recent projects is the feature film Hello, My Name is Doris (starring Sally Field, Max Greenfield, Stephen Root, Tyne Daly), about a quirky older woman's infatuation with a young co-worker.
Meg and Sunny also serve as the Casting Consultants for the Film Independent's Director's Lab, an intensive eight-week program for directors who are prepping their independent feature films.
Brian most recently completed scores for the film Hello, My Name Is Doris, starring Sally Field and directed by Michael Showalter, the drama Grounded, starring Aaron Paul and Jeff Daniels, and the comedy G.B.F., starring Michael J. Willett and Megan Mullally.
In addition, Brian is scoring the hit Disney animated series Star vs. the Forces of Evil and Brian is known for his work over the years on the acclaimed television series, How I Met Your Mother.
As a multi-instrumentalist and singer, Brian has recorded with artists such as Neil Patrick Harris, Adele, and Boyz II Men. He has performed in more than two dozen countries around the world.
Some of Chris' earlier projects included: The Pillow Book, Shadow of the Vampire, and Max.
Chris' work as editor over the years has also included the films Dead Man's Shoes, This Is England, and Dreams of a Life.
More recently, Chris co-edited Partisan, and edited the The Ones Below, The Falling, and '71.
After living and studying in the UK, Pater returned to Budapest where he started developing his first feature film and made several experimental films and visual projects which attracted attention to him. His first feature film 1 in 2009 made a very successful debut in Hungary and collected awards abroad.
Over the years, Pater worked in several fields of professional film and television crews, as assistant production designer on Being Julia and production designer of Peter Strickland's third feature film The Duke Of Burgundy.
Pater worked as production designer on upcoming Hungarian feature films such as My Night Is Your Day, Well, and Budapest Noir. Pater is developing his second feature film based on Boris Vian's Heartsnatcher.
Matyas has worked as assistant editor over the years on films including: Delta, King of Devil's Island, Berberian Sound Studio, and the upcoming The Coldest City.
As editor, Matyas, has worked on two celebrated stylistics features for Peter Strickland, Katalin Varga, the more recent, The Duke of Burgundy, and the upcoming, Budapest Noir.
Michael landed the job of assistant editor on Woody Allen's film Manhattan as well as Stardust Memories and Raging Bull and he became a sound editor on Joel and Ethan Coen's film, Blood Simple, and going onto collaborate as film editor of Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing.
Michael's many other cutting credits include I'm Gonna Git U Sucka, Boys on the Side, Swing Kids, Ghost World, Stigmata, and Slipstream.
More recently, he edited Josh Radnor's Happythankyoumoreplease, Liberal Arts, and the feature, The Runner.
Michael edited Maya Forbes' Infinitely Polar Bear, manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters.
Michael has taught film editing at University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His upcoming projects include the features, And Punching the Clown and Abundant Acreage Available.
Courtney is a filmmaker and activist originally from South Florida.
Upon graduating UCLA with her BFA, Courtney worked extensively in the camera department under the mentorship of Salvatore Totino.
Courtney's short films have screened internationally and she has participated in programs with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as well as Film Independent.
Courtney currently lives in Los Angeles and her Oscar nominated film, Chau, beyond the lines has screened internationally, bringing awareness and encourage the dioxin cleanup in Vietnam.
Nicolas' work over the years has included the films: Eve and the Fire Horse, The Banquet, Next Floor, City of Shadows, Before My Heart Falls, and War Witch.
Nicolas' more recent projects include: Enemy, Louis Cyr, Aloft, and the upcoming feature, Two Lovers and a Bear.
Yohei's projects over the years include the films: Swallowtail Butterfly, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, the animated feature, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Hula Girls, Air Doll, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, and The Flowers of War.
Some of Yohei's more recent projects include: the Oscar nominated animated feature When Marnie Was There for Studio Ghibli, The Hateful Eight, for Quentin Tarantino, and Monster Hunt for Raman Hui.
Kahleen set up KCC (Kahleen Crawford Casting) in 2006, and moved to London again in 2014.
Kahleen's work over the years in casting includes: Green Street Hooligans, Hallam Foe, Looking for Eric, Donkeys, Oranges and Sunshine, Weekend, and The Angel's Share.
Kahleen's more recent projects in casting include: Under the Skin, Sunshine on Leith, God Help the Girl, Jimmy's Hall, and the Oscar nominated, 45 Years.
Garret began work as an assistant editor on television projects like The Ultimate Fighter and American Hot Rod, as well as the crime-drama series, Guilty or Innocent?.
Garret then moved into animation as an editor on programs like Moral Orel and the Robot Chicken series.
More recent animation projects Garret has worked on include: Mary Shelley's Frankenhole and TripTank.
Garret has also recently worked as an editor on the Golden Globe and Oscar nominated stop-motion animated feature film Anomalisa. His upcoming work includes: The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Movie Sequel.
Laszlo has an artistic portfolio full of striking and unconventionally-built architectural projects along with over 50 film sets as Production Designer or Art Director.
Laszlo was the production designer of Bela Tarr's last two films: Man from London and The Turin Horse. He did the design for the first short film of Laszlo Nemes called With a Little Patience, and later worked on his Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated, Son of Saul.
Laszlo collaborated as Art Director on Ridley Scott's latest movie, The Martian.
Laszlo believes that every architect should design film sets not only for the relatively quick turnaround time but also to learn how to cheat with perspectives and lines. That is the aim of his teaching at the University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest, where he is a professor in Film Architecture.
Matyas' feature work has been screened at festivals around the world like films featured in Cannes, including Delta, Tender Son, and Miss Bala. Matyas has worked in television, known for his recent work on Southcliffe.
Matyas' recent projects include Josh Mond's dramatic film, James White and he has received praise on Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated, Son of Saul.
Son of Saul takes place in the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, where a prisoner is forced to burn the corpses of his own people who finds moral survival in his attempt to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
After studying with Phedon Papamichael and attending AFI, Joe has shot several short and feature films, television shows, web series, and commercials.
Joe's most recent project is the stop-motion animated feature film, Anomalisa. Anomalisa is the story of a man crippled by the ordinariness of his life who then experiences something extraordinary upon meeting a young woman.
Anomalisa premiered at the Telluride and Toronto International Film Festival and has been nominated for several awards including a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for best animated feature.
Stephen has been directing fiction and non-fiction films for close to 20 years.
Stephen's films include the cult documentary Cinemania, the platinum-selling Stones in Exile, about the making of the Stones classic 1972 album Exile On Main Street and the critically acclaimed BAFTA-nominated feature documentary Scott Walker, 30 Century Man, executive produced by David Bowie.
In 2015, the feature documentary Stephen directed for Pulse Films was released about the biggest-selling boy band of all time, called Backstreet Boys: Show Em What You re Made Of. The film broke iTunes pre-sale records and was a massive fan-favorite the world over.
Stephen's upcoming documentary is about the rock band X Japan, the most successful band in Japanese history making a play for American success with a show at Madison Square Garden, called We Are X, debuting at Sundance.
Jesse's television projects included the series: Hack and Do No Harm.
Jesse's film work as Art Director over the years has included: Rocky Balboa, Silver Linings Playbook, and American Hustle.
More recent films with Jesse as Art Director are: Get On Up, Creed, Trumbo, and Oscar nominated film, Carol.
Haskell received Oscar nominations for his work on the documentary The Living City; the short film T Is For Tumbleweed and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and won Oscars for his work on Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf and Bound For Glory.
Haskell has worked on several films with John Sayles including Matewan, The Secret of Roan Inish, Limbo, and Silver City.
Haskell has dierected and filmed a number of important documentary films to his credit, including The Bus, Interviews With Mee Lie Veterans, and Introduction to the Enemy, co-directed with Jane Fonda.
Haskell created the groundbreaking neo-documentary style film, Medium Cool about a TV news camera find himself becoming personally involved in the violence which erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Haskell more recently directed the documentary Who Needs Sleep? about sleep deprivation in the film industry and shot Bringing King to China about a young American teacher in Beijing, whose failed protests against the Iraq war drive her to produce a play in China about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Haskell continued to document more recent political and peace movements like the Occupy Movement in Chicago on Four Days in Chicago.
Barnaby's earlier highlights in foley include: Morvern Callar, I Capture the Castle, and Mirrormask.
Barnaby has worked on documentaries like Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten and Senna and animated films like Free Jimmy and Arthur Christmas.
He has worked on several award winning period pieces like Brick Lane, Downton Abbey, Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and thrillers like We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Under the Skin, and The Double.
Barnaby's more recent projects include: Testament of Youth, Pan, Suffragette, and the upcoming A Hundred Streets and Ali and Nino.
John attended the USC School of Cinema-Television Production.
Early on in his career, John was an assistant editor on varied projects including earlier films for Steven Soderbergh like Out of Sight and Erin Brocovich.
John's projects over the years, include: We Own The Night, Two Lovers, Crazy Heart, and The Immigrant.
Some of John's more recent projects include: Rudderless, a music related comedy/drama for William H. Macy, Before We Go for Chris Evans, Krampus, a holiday comedy/fantasy horror, and the upcoming, Miles Ahead for Don Cheadle, a narrative feature about the life and music of Miles Davis.
Bo currently teaches film classes at the Rhode Island School of Design and has previously taught at Boston College, Teachers as Scholars, Boston University, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
He has directed film programming for Unifilm in San Francisco, Films in the Cities in St. Paul, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Denver Film Society, and currently coordinates film events at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.
Anastasia is a Production Designer who was nominated for both an Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Production Design for the film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Anastasia's other projects over the years include: Nothing, Tideland, the mini-series series, The Company, Mama, Arcade Fire: Reflektor, and Make Your Move.
Anastasia's more recent projects include: Life for Anton Corbijn, XX, and The First.
Colin's earlier work was in the props department on films including the films: Bliss,Flirting, The Last Days of Chez Nous, and Sirens; he was also a Supervising Art Director on Young Einstein.
Colin has worked as an Art Director on the following: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Babe and Babe: Pig in the City, Welcome to Woop Woop, and as Production Designer on the film, Serenades and the television series, Love My Way.
Some of Colin's more recent projects include working as Art Director on Nim's Island, and as Production Designer on Careless Love and the critically acclaimed, Mad Max: Fury Road, continuing his work with George Miller now available worldwide on DVD and digitally.
Ethan attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts and his first short film, Remote, which he wrote, directed and production designed, was selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
Ethan's projects over the years, include: Twist, Sorry, Haters, Choking Man, Kill Theory, The Naked Brothers Band series, and Twelve.
Some of Ethan's more recent projects include: What If, And So It Goes, The D Train, Lenny Abrahamson's critically acclaimed, Room, and the upcoming Wilson directed by Craig Johnson.
Bobby had worked as photographer's assistant in Paris. Soon after, he archived a Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage, led by the Dalai Lama, to all the sacred Buddhist sites along the Ganges River, marking the first time he had a movie camera in his hand.
Bobby's earlier projects over the years include: Anna, Dogfight, Household Saints, Arlington Road, and The Minus Man.
In addition, he has worked with director Oren Moverman over the years on the films: The Messenger, Rampart, and the more recent Time Out of Mind.
Bobby has worked on a variety of genres and including working on the films: Saved!, The Stone Angel, Phoebe in Wonderland, The Ledge, The Iceman, Very Good Girls, Rosewater, Infinitely Polar Bear, and 99 Homes.
Antony's projects over the years include: Praise, Soft Fruit, Garage Days, Walking on Water, The Home Song Stories, Unfinished Sky, Animal Kingdom, and 33 Postcards.
Antony's more recent projects include: the documentary Plot for Peace, The Rover, and Ramin Bahrani's acclaimed 99 Homes.
Some of Simon's earlier animation work includes the short films Blind Spot, a 3d black comedy, and a pair of more experimental films in 2d, Le Presage and La Marche.
Simon's most recent project is the feature film Adama. Adama is the 12-year old hero of the story. When his older brother Samba vanishes from their African village, Adama decides to set off in search of him, eventually crossing Europe in the grip of World War I.
Adama was an official selection to this year's prestigious Annecy animation festival, where it was nominated for best feature and continues to screen worldwide.
Sue has worked on a variety of productions in both film and television, from big budget feature films to independent productions, and she was featured in a documentary short about Foley Artists called The Secret World of Foley.
Sue's work over the years includes the features: A Mighty Heart, Becoming Jane, In Bruges, An Englishman in New York, Cheri, Les Miserables, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, The Angel's Share, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Some of Sue's more recent projects include: Philomena, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, The Imitation Game, and the upcoming Born to Be Blue and the documentary Elephant Days.
Eric's projects over the years include: Born Into Brothels, Year of the Fish, Os Desafinados, and Sunlight Jr.
Eric has more recently worked on the features: Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger, A Most Violent Year, Gasland, The Wolfpack, Meadowland, and Heartworn Highways Revisited.
Manhattan Short screens in late September and early October in cinemas around the world.
Audiences in over 250 locations on six continents all vote on their favorite film of the ten finalists, and the votes are tallied at the New York City headquarters to select an overall winner.
This year, audiences voted on best acting performance as well as favorite film.
I was joined by Spoiler Alert Radio co-producer and Editor Paul Elsnau to give our take on this year's Manhattan Short.
Jakob's projects over the years have included: Reprise, A Family, Nokas, and Oslo, August 31st.
Some of Jakob's more recent projects include: Lola Versus, The End of the Tour, and the upcoming, Louder Than Bombs and Quitters.
Colleen's projects over the years have included earlier assistant editor work on The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia for editor Craig McKay.
In addition, Colleen edited: Manny & Lo, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Committed.
Some of Colleen's more recent projects over the years include: Harvest, Higher Ground, and People Places Things.
Chris has worked on a mix of projects over the years including:
Children of Invention, La Casa del Ritmo: A Film About Los Amigos Invisibles, The Porcelain Horse, and The Volunteer.
Chris' more recent work includes the following features:
Obvious Child, Appropriate Behaviour, The Mend, Bob and the Trees, and People Places Things.
John started recording and performing Foley back in 1985 working for the South Australian Film Corporation. He went freelance as a Foley artist in 1987, starting his own company in 1997, FeetnFrames.
The FeetnFrames studio is set in remote rural South Australia. The remoteness gives them a great advantage as his team can easily record outside when required. With great recording locations nearby, they are able to do location foley when the film requires it and sounds that cannot be created with the same quality in the studio.
John's earlier projects include Foley walker work on Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady and Peter Weir's The Truman Show. Other Foley artist work included: Oscar and Lucinda, Babe: Pig and the City, Lantana, and Danny Deckchair.
John's diverse mix of projects for FeetnFrames have included: King Kong, The World's Fastest Indian, December Boys, Australia, Mary and Max, The Lovely Bones, The Hobbit films, The Sapphires, and 100 Bloody Acres.
More recent Foley projects for John's team include: Chef, The Lego Movie, The Babadook, The Water Diviner, Mad Max: Fury Road, and the upcoming film, Regression.
Richard is an Independent Spirit Award nominated director and cinematographer, whose work includes the films: COLMA: The Musical and Fruit Fly for H.P. Mendoza, and Wayne Wang's films, The Princess of Nebraska and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
He has worked as a DIT (Digital Imaging Technician) on television shows, most notably Arrested Development.
Following these projects, Richard directed the feature film Yes, We're Open in 2012.
Recent projects of his as cinematographer include the feature films Man From Reno, Spare Parts, Advantageous, and the documentary, Soul of a Banquet.
Luke spent his early days in feature film assisting legendary editor Jill Bilcock on Moulin Rouge.
Luke has previously shot and edited previsualisation on Baz Luhrman's Australia and George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode III.
Luke has also directed films, including the short film Miracle Fish, which garnered him an Oscar nomination for best short film. Some other projects include the short Cryo and the upcoming Out of State.
Luke is a member of the Australian production company Blue Tongue Films with Nash and Joel Edgerton among others.
Luke's feature films as editor include The Square and Animal Kingdom, for which he won the AFI best editing award.
Luke recently edited Joel Edgerton's acclaimed film The Gift, about a married couple whose lives are up-ended by an acquaintance from the past forced into their lives.
Eugene has worked on many projects for Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, and Ang Lee over the years. He has also worked on films for Jim Jarmusch, The Coen Brothers, John Sayles, and Lee Daniels.
Eugene was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Sound for the film Gangs of New York and he won an Oscar for Best Sound Editing for his work on Martin Scorsese's Hugo. He also won an Emmy Award for Boardwalk Empire.
Eugene's recent projects include Gone With The Bullets for Chinese director, Wen Jiang, and Love & Mercy for Bill Pohlad.
Born in Sydney, Australia, Ross learned his early craft with his documentary maker father with an early career working on documentary films in Africa, Asia and South America.
Ross' early documentary work progressed to feature film work as first an AC then operator on many high profile projects and working with such esteemed International DPs as William Fraker, Darius Wolski, and Lazlo Kovacs.
Ross moved up to 2nd Unit DP on such notable projects as The Matrix and subsequent trilogy, Superman Returns, and Anna and the King.
Ross' natural progression to DP with films such as The Cave and Underworld Rise of the Lycans are films that require a high level of expertise in difficult blends of action, VFX and performance.
Ross recent projects as Director of Photography include acclaimed films including The Giver for Philip Noyce and Woman in Gold for Simon Curtis.
As a film director, Barry co-directed the Oscar nominated documentary film The War at Home in 1979.
Some of Barry's other film directing credits include The Who's Tommy, the Amazing Journey, the feature film Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control, and the documentary Sidewalk.
As a film editor, Barry has worked with director Mira Nair on films like Salaam Bombay and the upcoming Queen of Katwe.
Barry's projects for Spike Lee over the years include: She's Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, He Got Game, 25th Hour, and Inside Man.
Barry's more recent projects as editor include: Passing Strange, Bill Cunningham New York, Detachment, and The Giver.
Mikael received his MFA in Industrial Design at Konstfack University College of Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm in 1989.
Mikael’s film projects over the years includes production design on Adam & Eva, The Reunion, The Threat, and The Swimsuit Issue.
Mikael was an Art Director on Anton Corbjin's The American and the Supervising Art Director on David Fincher’s remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Mikael’s more recent work includes the critically acclaimed feature, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared and the television series, The Assets.
Jennifer's award-winning debut feature film Half-Life premiered in 2008 at Sundance and Tokyo International, screened at SXSW, and was distributed by the Sundance Channel.
Some of Jennifer's other projects include directing and editing the music video Glass Butterfly, and editing and producing the Sundance Short Crazy Beats Strong Every Time.
Jennifer won the inaugural San Francisco Film Society Women’s Filmmaker Fellowship, and serves as a filmmaking mentor for President Obama’s Call to Arts Pledge.
Jennifer's recent feature Advantageous won a Jury Prize at Sundance 2015 and it was based on her award winning 2012 short of the same name.
Advantageous takes place in a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship where a mother and daughter do all they can to hold on to their joy together, despite the instability surfacing in their world.
Advantageous is available via Video on Demand on iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, and VUDU.
Kim's earlier projects include Vertical Limit and Her Majesty shot in New Zealand.
Overseas, Kim has often worked largely with local crews, working in South Pacific Fiji on Cast Away, Legend of Zorro in Mexico, and Beyond Borders in Thailand. Kim also created the look of a Japanese village for The Last Samurai, actually built in a valley near New Plymouth.
In 2010, Kim was one of three art department heads to win both an Oscar and a BAFTA for their work on Avatar. Kim also worked on Under the Mountain, headed the design team on The Adventures of Tintin.
Kim was one of the supervising art directors on the North American shoot of Man of Steel and was a visual effects art director on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Kim was more recently the production designer of acclaimed New Zealand drama, The Dark Horse, and the Sundance Jury Prize winning action western film, Slow West.
Roland has worked on a variety of award winning narrative and documentary short and feature films over the year.
Some of Roland's past projects include the films: Painting with Light in a Dark World, Green Bush, West, Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn, Accidents Happen, Samson & Delilah, Here I Am, and The Hunter.
Some of Roland's more recent projects include are The Darkside, segments of The Turning and Words With Gods, and the acclaimed feature, Slow West.
Kimberly started her career working as a commercial editor and traveled the world directing and producing travel documentaries.
Kimberly became an early expert in the field of digital filmmaking and post-production.
After transitioning genders, she moved into the world of publishing, as editor-in-chief of DV Magazine.
Kim's first feature-length documentary film, Prodigal Sons, tells the story of three siblings, their rivalries, and their search for identity.
Prodigal Sons has won many honors and have connected to many in film festival audiences worldwide, including its winning of the Audience award at Palm Springs and it is available on DVD, Netflix, and iTunes.
Kimberly has also worked on editing other film projects and she has been a featured storyteller on The Moth.
Melissa's career began in NYC, where she designed for several theater, opera and dance companies and later she moved to Los Angeles.
Melissa has designed costumes for several successful independent feature films including Parker, Love Ranch, Kissing Jessica Stein, Let Me In, and Kill The Irishman.
More recently, Melissa has worked on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Wild, which earned her Costume Designers Guild nomination for excellence in contemporary film.
In 1999, Vladan started his career as a camera operator working with many Italian and foreign filmmakers in cinema and commercials.
Since 2003, Vladan has worked as cinematographer for many important Italian and foreign feature films that have won awards in prestigious International film festivals.
Vladan has received many cinematography awards for his films, and his projects over the years include: Saimir, Red Like The Sky, The Rest of the Night, and Apartment in Athens.
Some of Vladan's more recent projects include: the TV series, In Treatment, the Italian comedy, I Can Quit Whenever I Want, the Italian crime drama, Black Souls, and the acclaimed feature, Sworn Virgin.
In recognition of his work on Black Souls, Vladan won the 2015 award for best cinematography at the David di Donatello Awards, the Italian Oscars.
Steve is a Film Editor, Sound Designer, and Visual Artist, who has more recently trained in the field of Design Research and Thinking at the School of Visual Arts Products of Design MFA program.
Steve has collaborated with filmmakers Hal Hartley and Ang Lee, and a variety of choreographers and visual artists. Steve's work has been shown at film festivals and museums throughout the world.
Bradley and Cooper have worked on a variety of projects including: Action Figures, Flourish, Cosmic Radio, Drive Time, Requiem, and Cement Suitcase.
More recently together they have created the acclaimed unique science fiction/thriller feature, Time Lapse, about three friends that discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Time Lapse has finished its festival run and is available in theaters and on VOD.
Colin's earlier work was in the props department on films including the films: Bliss, Flirting, The Last Days of Chez Nous, and Sirens; he was also a Supervising Art Director on Young Einstein.
Colin has worked as an Art Director on the following: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Babe and Babe: Pig in the City, Welcome to Woop Woop, and as Production Designer on the film, Serenades and the television series, Love My Way.
Some of Colin's more recent projects include working as Art Director on Nim's Island, and as Production Designer on Careless Love and the critically acclaimed, Mad Max: Fury Road, continuing his work with George Miller.
Ben's notable television credits include the BAFTA nominated David Attenborough series The Life of Mammals and Life in the Undergrowth and the BAFTA winning series Life In Cold Blood. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his score for the Wildlife on One film, Operation Dung Beetle.
Ben appears as co-writer, string arranger and musician on the Malachai album Return To The Ugly Side and The Beekeepers album Apiculture. He also co-wrote the album Drokk: Music Inspired By Mega City One with Portishead's Geoff Barrow, and writes and records as one half of the duo Dolman with Scott Hendy.
In 2012, Ben composed the score for the documentary feature film Beyonce: Life Is But A Dream directed by Beyonce Knowles - a behind the scenes look at the singer's life and music.
Together with Geoff Barrow, Ben scored the critically acclaimed feature film Ex Machina, Alex Garland's directorial debut, about a young programmer is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I.
Denis' credits over the years include 45 feature films, as well as TV pilots and films for TV, commercials and music videos.
Denis won an ASC Award for the miniseries Uprising in 2001 and the Bronze Frog for Demonlover in 2002.
Some of Denis' more recent credits include Carlos, The Sleeping Beauty, Eden, and the Oscar winning Still Alice.
As an animal trainer, Teresa Ann's projects over the years include: Cat's Eye, K9, Lethal Weapon 3, A Far Off Place, House of 1000 Corpses, The Invasion, and the Austrian Rex television series.
More recently she worked as an animal trainer on the Cannes Film Festival winning film, White God, featuring 2 lead dogs used, Luke and Body, in conjunction with 200 other shelter dogs acting in the film.
Luke and Body, cast as Hagen, won the Palm Dog at Cannes for their work on the film, with Teresa's help.
Marcell's projects as a Director of Photography over the years include: the short film Here I Am, the film projects 8 and Nekem Budapest, Overdose - Run for a Dream for HBO Hungary, and the TV series, Kodaly Method.
Marcell's more recent films include: Land of Storms, the Cannes Film Festival winning, White God, and the upcoming music documentary, Balaton Method.
Since 1996, Plan 9 has created scores for over 20 feature films.
Plan 9 has made music for 7 international co-pro TV series, numerous documentaries, programs and short films, plus installations and exhibition spaces around the world.
Between them they play double/el bass, guitars, mandolin, banjo, trumpet, euphonium, trombone, marimba, keyboards, Indian harmonium and biscuit tin guitar. They also create their own virtual instruments for Kontakt under the name Modwheel.
Film projects they have worked on over the years include: Forgotten Silver, Kombi Nation, Danny Deckchair, The Lord of The Rings, Love Birds, and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
More recent films the group has worked on include: Edwin: My Life as a Koont, Antarctica: A Year on Ice, and What We Do in the Shadows.
Elliot lived in Tasmania for nearly 10 years to write, direct and edit television commercials.
Elliot 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.
Elliot now lives in New York City. He completed his feature film, The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead, and teaches at The Pratt Institute, Mercy College, The University of the Arts, and Queens College.
He worked on the feature that he did mostly by himself in between teaching, freelance animation work, and dedication to his family.
With a strong background in sculpture and painting, Ra has in the past worked as a Sculpting Supervisor, Scenic Artist, Construction Forman and an Art Director on numerous New Zealand and international films.
With his various skills, Ra involves himself in every aspect of the design process, from creating conceptual art to set design and set decoration.
Nominated for an Oscar in 2013 as set decorator for his work on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,Ra has had his work recently added to the Academy Library and published in the companion book: The Art Of The Hobbit.
Ra recently was the Production Designer on the New Zealand mockumentary comedy horror film, What We Do In The Shadows, starring Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, about a group of vampires who live together in Wellington.
Javier's projects as a Director of Photography in Argentina over the years include: Mala Epoca, Live-In Maid, and Blessed By Fire.
More recent films for Javier include: the documentary, Che: A New Man, Revolucion, The Last Elvis, and the acclaimed Oscar nominated film, Wild Tales, which features six short stories involving distressed people.
Steve has worked on award winning film and television projects over the years in various areas of the sound and music department, most specifically as Sound Effects Editor and Sound Designer.
Steve has worked on animated and live action shorts and features, including:Sweeney Todd, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alice in Wonderland, Jane Eyre, On the Road, and Frankenweenie.
Most recently, Steve was the sound effects editor on both Jonathan Glazer’s feature Under the Skin (now on DVD and streaming) and the BBC series, Call the Midwife.
Writer-Director Terry McMahon’s controversial debut Charlie Casanova won Best First Feature at Galway Film Fleadh and was distributed by Studio Canal.
His follow up feature, Patrick’s Day, won The Directors Guild of America Finders Series Award, The Grand Jury Prize at Woodstock Film Festival, Best Film at Galway Film Fleadh and the Audience Award at Cork Film Festival.
Patrick’s Day is about a young man with mental health issues who become intimate with a suicidal flight attendant and his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.
Michael serves as President of the Chlotrudis Society's Board of Directors, and he is one of the Founders of the Chlotrudis Awards.
Michael is cinematically drawn to our neighbors to the north in Canada, especially the work of filmmakers Atom Egoyan, Don McKellar, Molly Parker, Sarah Polley, and Patricia Rozema to name a few.
Although he is devoted to independent cinema, he has enjoyed reading comics for over four decades, but has finally realized that he's not a fan of comics; he's a fan of reading stories about women with super powers.
When he's finished with all of that, he works at the Boston Public Library as the Director of Library Services.
Pacho's earlier film and theater work have been presented at venues such as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, and on Japanese National Television.
Pacho's last film, Manakamana (co-directed with Stephanie Spray) won a Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. It played around the world, including at the Whitney Biennial and the Toronto International Film Festival.
His upcoming project, The Reagan Years, explores a prolific actor s defining role: Leader of the Free World. Told entirely through a largely-unseen trove of archival footage, the film captures the pageantry, pathos, and charisma that followed the 40th President from Hollywood to the nation's capital.
Tom received his cinema training during his work as a gaffer between 1976 and 1987.
After his shift to filming, Tom was behind the photography on a number of television series and films in the Netherlands.
Amongst the many directors with whom he has worked is Alex Van Warmerdam, with whom he worked in the past on The Northerners, Grimm, Waiter, and The Last Days of Emma Blank.
More recently, Tom worked on Borgman for Alex and the upcoming Schneider vs. Bax.
We reviewed the 2015 Academy Award short film nominees for the live-action and animation categories.
The films are packaged by Shorts International and are screened at cinemas around the world in February and March.
After playing in theaters for several weeks, they are available online in case you missed them.
Tom has worked in the editorial department on a variety of projects in film and television including: Ride with the Devil, Two Lovers, Crazy Heart, and the television series, Deadwood.
Tom has also edited several short and feature films including the feature films, The Space Between and Any Day Now for Travis Fine.
Tom's more recent projects include: the sci-fi thriller Time Lapse, and the Oscar winning, critically acclaimed Whiplash, starring J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller, which included an Oscar for Tom for Best Film Editing.
In 2004, Yoni worked as an animation director for Ari Folman's documentary series, The material that love is made of.
Their collaboration continued with Yoni as an animation director in Ari Folman's Academy Award nominated Waltz with Bashir. Yoni also developed the Adobe Flash Cutout technique for the film.
In 2009, he made several short films for human rights organizations, notably the short film Closed Zone, protesting against the Gaza blockade. Yoni also worked as an animation director in the short film The Gift, and The Story of Cholera.
More recently, Yoni worked as the Animation Director for Ari Folman's feature The Congress, based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem.
Anastasia is a Production Designer who was nominated for both an Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Production Design for the film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Anastasia's other projects over the years include: Nothing, Tideland, the mini-series series, The Company, Mama, Arcade Fire: Reflektor, and Make Your Move.
Anastasia's upcoming and projects include the films: Life for Anton Corbijn, XX, and The First.
While Christopher is first and foremost a Director of Photography, he takes advantage of all opportunities to learn more about the art form.
These have included: collaborations with Director Michel Gondry and D.P. Ellen Kuras on the visually experimental films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Be Kind Rewind as well as working on Martin Scorsese's film Shine A Light about The Rolling Stones and documentaries for Fran Lebowitz.
Some of his projects over the years include: What Doesn't Kill You, Staten Island, Sympathy for Delicious, Sinister, Rob the Mob, and the television series Believe and Gotham.
Sebastian has worked as an Art Director on films including: Gangster No. 1, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Flightplan, and V For Vendetta.
He was also the senior and Supervising Art Director on: Speed Racer, Inglourious Basterds, and Ninja Assassin.
As a Production Designer, Sebastian is for known for his work on Anonymous and the recent film, A Most Wanted Man.
Upcoming projects as Production Designer for Sebastian include: Hitman: Agent 47 and Mechanic: Resurrection.
In 1990 Frans began scoring for film and television, covering all genres from symphonic orchestras to smaller ensembles and electronic scores.
In 2002 Frans recorded his first TV crime series, The Fifth Woman for Swedish Television. Later that year Frans composed all 20 episodes of the Emmy award winning Danish drama Nicholas & Juliet.
Frans scored the 3 time Emmy nominated TV series The Crime. The Killing adapted from the The Crime, and the theme and music for the Netflix acclaimed series, Lillyhammer.
Frans has scored Oscar nominated shorts including Ernst & Lyset and Helmer & Son and feature films including: Superbrother, One Step Behind, and Those Who Kill - Shadow of the Past.
More recent and upcoming projects include: the Danish animated feature, Albert and Men & Chicken for Anders Thomas Jensen, starring Mads Mikkelsen.
Benoit has worked on TV commercials and international feature films over the years and outside of film, he is also a painter.
Benoit's film work over the years include the films: The Scent of Green Papaya,Cyclo, The Proposition, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, Chatroom, and segments of Tree of Life and To The Wonder.
Benoit's more recent film work include: Lawless, A Most Wanted Man, and the critically acclaimed, The Theory of Everything.
Stephen has worked on many award winning feature film projects over the years including many films for Robert Altman, such as Vincent & Theo, The Player, Short Cuts, Kansas City, Cookie's Fortune, and Gosford Park.
Stephen has also worked on a variety of film and television projects from other directors over the years including: What's Love Got to Do with It, Ray, Lovely, Still, and Chronicle.
Stephen's more recent projects include: Draft Day and 2 films for Stunt Coordinator and Director Vic Armstrong, Left Behind and The Sunday Horse.
In 1997, Doug worked as an assistant editor on the film Clockwatchers, with lead editor, Stephen Mirrione.
Eventually, they collaborated as co-editors on the 2006 Oscar nominated and ACE Eddie award winning film, Babel.
Other features Doug collaborated on include: Criminal, Lovely, Still, Trust, Kill the Irishman, Arbitrage.
More recently Doug worked on: Spring Breakers, Decoding Annie Parker, Cesar Chavez, and the critically acclaimed, Birdman.
Tom has worked in the editorial department on a variety of projects in film and television including: Ride with the Devil, Two Lovers, Crazy Heart, and the television series, Deadwood.
Tom has also edited several short and feature films including the feature films, The Space Between and Any Day Now for Travis Fine.
Tom's more recent projects include: the sci-fi thriller Time Lapse, and the critically acclaimed Whiplash, starring J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller.
Bradley and Cooper have worked on a variety of projects including: Action Figures, Flourish, Cosmic Radio, Drive Time, Requiem, and Cement Suitcase.
More recently together they have created the acclaimed unique science fiction/thriller feature, Time Lapse, about three friends that discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Sharone has worked on a variety of projects in film and television including: the television series, The Tick, Philly, Hack, and Medical Investigation, and the feature films: Mean Creek, Coach Carter, Peaceful Warrior, Dark Streets, The Last House on the Left, and The Details.
Sharone's more recent projects include: Crazy Eyes, Up the Wrong Tree, and critically acclaimed film, Whiplash.
Whiplash stars J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller, about a promising young drummer who enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where he is mentored by an instructor whose controversial methods could help him or destroy him.
Philip started out as a set designer and art director on several projects prior to focusing on production design like Mermaids, The Sixth Sense, and Out of Sight.
As a production designer, Philip is for known for his work over the years for director Steven Soderbergh including (Erin Brockovich, Traffic, the Ocean's Trilogy,Solaris, The Good German, and Eros), and other projects including 8 Mile andMachine Gun Preacher.
Philip has worked as the Production Designer on all of The Hunger Games series of films which have set box office records in their worldwide following.
Roshelle has worked on a variety of projects including: La Ciudad (The City), Joshua, Life During Wartime, and Precious.
More recent projects include: Touchback, Hick, Chinese Puzzle, and God's Pocket, and the science fiction television series, Believe.
Ulf has over 30 years’ experience working all over the world on projects for film and television.
Over the past years, Ulf has also worked on television projects like To the Ends of the Earth, Whitechapel and Treasure Island, and films including, Daybreak,Hawaii, Oslo, and Happy End.
Ulf has worked several films with director, Lukas Moodysson, including: Show Me Love, Lilya 4-Ever, Together, and more recently, We Are The Best.
We Are The Best (now on DVD and streaming worldwide) is about 3 girls in 1980s Stockholm who decide to form a punk band - despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
DJ Dolores, has worked professionally as a musician and producer since 1997 with albums such as, Aparelhagem, Contraditorio, and 1 Real.
As a founder of Orchestra Santa Massa, melding grooves with regional rhythms, he has performed internationally in Europe and North America; he also developed a show based on improvisation with guitarist Robby Recife.
DJ Dolores' expansive film composition work includes work on both narrative and documentary features including: The Little Prince's Rap Against the Wicked Souls, The Storytellers, The Machine, Critico, Neighboring Sounds, and Tattoo.
Mark is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on all manner of guitars, keyboards, and percussion.
Mark is the co-founder of Tin Hat, a San Francisco Bay Area based composer/improviser collective with several critically acclaimed albums.
Mark's work in film includes: The Good Girl, Sweet Land, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Everything Is Illuminated, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, Buck, and the Oscar nominated, Nebraska.
Mark's recent projects include: My Old Lady, The Boxtrolls Song, and on the upcoming La Sedia Della Felicita and Felix Austria!.
Mark Alan has worked on a variety of projects including: The Tao of Steve, Rx, and the Easy Money television series.
His more recent projects include: Love Ranch, A Bird of the Air, Goats, Frontera, and Persecuted.
Amy has served as production designer and set decorator for feature and short films, music videos, commercials, TV and print fashion. One of Amy's proudest achievements was running the art department for the Festival of Light in Guyana.
Amy's film credits include: White Irish Drinkers, Holy Rollers, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You, Keep The Lights On, Grand Street, Last Weekend, and Love Is Strange.
Nick has appeared in music videos including for Jessica Simpson, My Chemical Romance, Duran Duran, Melody Gardot, and the All American Rejects.
Some of Nick's television credits include Scrubs, Suburgatory, Wizards of Waverly Place, Dancing with the Stars, How I Met Your Mother, and Glee.
Nick has appeared in Alvin & The Chipmunks, The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, Hop, The Muppets, and on The History Channel, Comedy Central, VH1, The Idea Network, and NBC.
Nick can be seen as model for Men's Fitness Magazine and in Leslie Sansone's fitness and training videos.
Nick is also the co-owner of Flow 40 Dance Workshops, and Another Good Sandwich Productions.
Steve has worked with a wide range of genres and for several directors over the years.
Steve's projects have included: Welcome to Dongmakgol, Forbidden Quest, Wide Awake, Running Turtle, and Troubleshooter.
Steve's more recent film projects have included: You Pet, Athena: Goddess of War, War of the Arrows, and Snowpiercer.
Nathan has been editing feature films and documentaries over the years.
Nathan's film credits include: Sensation, The Door (an Oscar nominee for best short), As If I Am Not There, and more recently What Richard Did and Run & Jump.
Nathan edited Lenny Abrahamson's most recent feature film Frank starring: Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleason, and Maggie Gyllenhal.
Stephen has been the recipient of several Arts Council of Ireland Awards and has had work exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Stephen has worked on films including: Man About Dog, Pride and Joy, and Eden.
Stephen has worked with director Lenny Abrahamson on: Adam & Paul, Garage, and What Richard Did, and more recently, Frank featuring Michael Fassbender.
Tracy produced and directed her first documentary, Be Good, Smile Pretty, a powerful film about the profound and complicated feelings of loss caused by the deaths of American men in Vietnam, some thirty-five years later. The film aired on PBS's Independent Lens and won an Emmy for Best Documentary.
With Rich Hill, Tracy explores American rural poverty through the intimate lens of vulnerable adolescents and their families struggling for a foothold.
Rich Hill has been playing theatres and digitally available worldwide and was a Grand Jury Winner in the Sundance Film Festival.
Tracy is developing both narrative and documentary films through her production company, Dinky Pictures.
Benoit has work on TV commercials and international feature films over the years and outside of film, he is also a painter.
Benoit's film work over the years include the films: The Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo, The Proposition, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, and Chatroom.
Benoit's more recent film work include: segments of Tree of Life and To The Wonder, Lawless, and A Most Wanted Man.
Steven has been working in the business as a Production Designer since the early 1990s when working on the critically acclaimed Romper Stomper starring a young Russell Crowe.
Steven has worked on a variety of genres and for films for an eclectic mix of directors including: Siam Sunset, Buffalo Soldiers, Ned Kelly, The Children of Huang Shi, and The Tree.
Steven's more recent films include: The Hunter, Burning Man, and The Railway Man.
Philip started out as a set designer and art director on several projects prior to focusing on production design like Mermaids, The Sixth Sense, and Out of Sight.
As a production designer, Philip is for known for his work over the years for director Steven Soderbergh including (Erin Brockovich, Traffic, the Ocean's Trilogy, Solaris, The Good German, and Eros), and other projects including 8 Mile and Machine Gun Preacher.
Philip has worked as the Production Designer on all of The Hunger Games series of films.
Guy was born in Jaffa and has directed, edited, and shot films since the age of 16. As a cameraman, Guy shot several films for France 3 Television.
Guy also directed many short documentaries such as In Working Progress,Women Defying Barriers, Keywords presented in film festivals and venues worldwide. Guy's first feature film Interrupted Streams premiered in the Jerusalem International Film Festival.
In light of recent events, we revisit Guy's documentary, the Oscar nominated 5 Broken Cameras, a collaboration with Emad Burnat, a Palestinian villager, who gets his first camera. In his village, Bil'in, a separation barrier is being built and the villagers start to resist.
For more than five years, Emad filmed the struggle, led by two of his best friends, while also filming his growing son Gibreel and the conflict’s effect on him and other family members. One Camera after another is shot or smashed, and each camera tells a part of his story.
Kat's award winning short films, Hellion and Black Metal, have screened at Sundance, SXSW, Los Angeles Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and more.
Kat is also a Film Production Lecturer at the University of Texas.
Kat's feature film, Hellion, starring Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Hellion was a Sundance Creative Producing Lab participant and San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant recipient for Hellion and for her upcoming feature script for Black Metal.
Hellion was released both on VOD and in theaters through IFC and Sundance Selects.
Peter graduated from The Danish Film School in 2001 and has since then worked on over 100 productions and done both feature films and documentaries, and shorts, both domestically and internationally.
Peter collaborated with globally acclaimed musicians such as Antony and the Johnsons, Johann Johannsson and Efterklang. Among his sound design credits are Magic Valley, The Queen of Versailles, Putin's Kiss, and Canned Dreams. Peter was also a sound effects editor on both The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Lars von Trier's film, Antichrist. Peter worked on the Sundance award winning narrative feature, Teddy Bear.
Peter worked as a music supervisor on the festival favorites like Dance For Me and the feature film, You & Me Forever, which earned him a Danish Academy Award Nomination for Best Sound Design. More recent projects as sound designer include: The Immortalists, Flow, and The Arm's Drop.
Stephen has worked on many award winning feature film projects over the years including many films for Robert Altman, such as Vincent & Theo, The Player, Short Cuts, Kansas City, Cookie's Fortune, and Gosford Park.
Stephen has also worked on a variety of film and television projects from other directors over the years including: What's Love Got to Do with It, Ray, Lovely, Still, Chronicle, and Draft Day.
Stephen's upcoming projects include 2 films for Stunt Coordinator and Director Vic Armstrong, Left Behind and The Sunday Horse.
In 2004, Nick along with Joe Pickett quit their day jobs to focus on production of their first feature documentary, Dirty Country.
They started the touring The Found Footage Festival show to fund the production of the documentary.
The Found Footage Festival is a live comedy event and screening featuring unusual and humorous clips from VHS videotapes gathered from thrift stores, garage sales, warehouses, estate sales, and dumpsters throughout the United States.
In 2009, Jack Rebney, featured in the festival favorite Winnebago promotional videos in the show, was featured in a documentary, Winnebago Man, which featured the curators in several interviews and coverage of Jack at the festival.
The Found Footage Festival is currently based out of New York City and presented Found vs. Found in collaboration (and in friendly competition with) Found Magazine. It has also expanded in touring Europe.
Frank produced and directed the documentary N.Y.H.C. about the NY hardcore scene of the mid 1990s.
Frank also was involved in production for film and television projects including: Die, Mommie, Die!, Anton Chekhov's The Duel, and Scrappers.
More recently, Frank directed and produced the documentary feature, Jodorowsky's Dune, which explores the genesis of one of cinema's greatest epics that never was: cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic Dune, whose cast would have included such icons as Salvador Dali, Orson Welles and Mick Jagger.
Elisha has worked in photography and in film in a variety of roles on music videos, video games, short films and features films over the years.
Elisha has worked a cinematographer on the features One Too Many Mornings and Save the Date for director Michael Mohan and more recently for In Your Eyes, directed by Brin Hill and written and executive produced by Joss Whedon.
Upcoming projects for Elisha include the features, Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant and Those Who Wander.
H5 Film Sound was founded by Heikki in 2000. Heikki has worked as a foley artist and foley supervisor on feature films, shorts, TV-drama, documentaries and animation films. As a sound designer, Heikki has been involved in feature length documentaries and animation.
Since 2004, Heikki has been working as a full time foley artist and a supervisor, mainly for fiction films and documentary work as well. More recently, the H5 staff includes the owner Heikki (as a foley supervisor and artist), a sound recordist, and a sound editor.
Projects that Heikki and H5 have worked on over the years include: a variety of documentary projects, and the fiction features: Letters to father Jacob, Rare Exports, Berberian Sound Studio, and the film, FILTH directed by Jon S. Baird.
Steve has worked on award winning film and television projects over the years in various areas of the sound and music department, most specifically as Sound Effects Editor and Sound Designer.
Steve has worked on animated and live action shorts and features, including: Sweeney Todd, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alice in Wonderland, Jane Eyre, On the Road, and Frankenweenie.
Most recently, Steve was the sound effects editor on both Jonathan Glazer’s feature Under the Skin and the BBC series, Call the Midwife.
Igor has worked on a mix of shorts and feature films as well as television and commercial work over the years.
Igor's notable documentary work includes: the Oscar winning Man on Wire, The Tillman Story, and Addiction Incorporated.
Igor's narrative feature film projects include: Fraulein, Sangre de mi sangre, Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980, Silent House, Room 304, and Sunlight Jr.
Igor has recently been working as director of photography on the second season of the hit Netflix series, House of Cards.
Jake has worked on a number of films for director David Mackenzie and has worked on a variety of other film and TV projects for several other directors over the years.
Jake has worked on film projects including: The Last Great Wilderness, Office Tigers, Donkeys, Perfect Sense, Tonight You’re Mine, Citadel, and Starred Up.
John Christian began his professional career in film and television as a sound engineer. He ran his own sound studio from the age of 15, and he worked as an actor as well.
From 1985, John Christian got his first professional experience in the visual media through Norwegian National (NRK). In 1995, he completed his first feature film Fredrikssons Fabrikk.
John Christian is the creator of Drylab R&D that develops on set software to be able to have a creative control over the images trough the digital workflow and played a central role in the developing of Softlights, the first and only both digital Wi-Fi and DMX controlled Tube light system in the world. He also developed a digital controlled remote film camera head with the first pan-bar operated system ever made called Remotion.
John Christian's feature films include: Factotum, The Bothersome Man, O'Horten, Troubled Water, Stella Days, and A Thousand Times Goodnight.
Ulf has over 30 years’ experience working all over the world on projects for film and television.
Over the past years, Ulf has also worked on television projects like To the Ends of the Earth, Whitechapel and Treasure Island, and films including, Daybreak, Hawaii, Oslo, and Happy End.
Ulf has worked several films with director, Lukas Moodysson, including: Show Me Love, Lilya 4-Ever, Together, and more recently, We Are The Best, about 3 girls in 1980s Stockholm who decide to form a punk band - despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
Aron and Gita are a husband and wife award winning filmmaking team that collaboratively share the roles of director, writer, editor, and producer on their film projects.
They are known for their work on the documentary projects: The Way We Get By, The Gambling Man, and Lifecasters.
More recently, they have toured with their narrative feature film, Beneath the Harvest Sky, an intense teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town on the border of Canada.
Beneath The Harvest Sky has been available both in theatres and via video on demand worldwide.
Early in his career, Adriano worked with MTV Brazil, where he directed the inaugural acoustic program Unplugged as well as Sepultura's rendition of Orgasmatron, which took home the International Viewer's Choice Award at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Adriano's musical cinematography includes the live concert films for acclaimed female vocalist Marisa Monte, and Kaya N'Gan Daya for Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil.
He shot four seasons of the hit television series City of Men as well as the movie version by Paulo Morelli.
Adriano's film credits include Sin Nombre, for which he won the Excellence in Cinematography Award at Sundance, Jane Eyre, Conviction, and Robert Redford's film, The Company You Keep.
More recently, Adriano worked on the films Xingu, Closed Circuit, and August: Osage County.
Aaron has worked on a variety of documentary and narrative feature films including:
Sangre de mi Sangre, Tyson, Poliwood, the Golden Globe winning and Emmy winning and nominated, You Don’t Know Jack, The Bay, Seduced and Abandoned, and Europa Report.
Reed’s work includes the feature films: Frozen River, The Magic of Belle Isle,Yelling to the Sky, Little Birds, For Ellen, and Shut Up and Play the Hits.
Reed’s recent projects include: Kill Your Darlings, a 35mm period piece about the Beat poets set in 1943, starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Michael C. Hall, Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, and Jack Huston and The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete, a story about two inner city boys who are left to fend for themselves after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
Upcoming, Reed completed the first season of Looking, an original HBO series,The Skeleton Twins, a drama for Craig Johnson, War Story, a dark drama for Mark Jackson, Autumn Blood shot in the Tyrolean Alps in Austria, and Rob Reiner's And So It Goes.
Kill Your Darlings has also been released on DVD and streaming after its theatrical run.
Patrice has won three awards for his work on C.R.A.Z.Y., including the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design and a Jutra Award for Best Art Direction.
Patrice's other work includes: 1981, City of Shadows, La Banda Picasso, Café de Flore, and The Young Victoria.
Patrice was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Art Direction for his work in the film The Young Victoria.
Patrice's more recent projects include the feature films: 1987 and Denis Villeneuve’s films Prisoners and Enemy.
Yoel teaches production design in leading Israeli film and art academies, exhibits his photographs worldwide, and runs the Domaine Herzberg vineyards with his father.
Yoel is a Production Designer for feature films, as well as television programs and dramas, commercials and music videos, including the feature films: Andante, Miral, Mabul, Volcano Junction, The Human Resources Manager and Zaytoun for Eran Riklis, The Attack, and the Oscar nominated feature, Omar.
Upcoming films Yoel is working on include: Giraffada, Dancing Arabs again for Eran Riklis, and Wounded Land.
Marko has been working as a Foley Artist in NYC since 1983.
Marko has worked on over 400 Films and TV Productions the years.
Marko has collaborated on film projects for directors including:
John Sayles, John Cameron Mitchell, Spike Lee, Lee Daniels, Michel Gondry, Martin Scorsese, Thomas McCarthy, Ang Lee, and The Coen Brothers.
Edgar's body of work includes documentary films, experimental shorts, music videos and public service announcements, which have been screened at numerous film festivals, conferences, broadcast nationally and internationally, as well as distributed educationally.
Edgar has worked on notable documentaries including: Angola Prison Hospice: Opening the Door, A Sentence of Their Own, and more recently the Oscar nominated documentary short for HBO, Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall.
Prison Terminal is a moving cinema verit documentary that breaks through the walls of one of Americas oldest maximum security prisons to tell the story of the final months in the life of a terminally ill prisoner, Jack Hall and the hospice volunteers, they themselves prisoners, who care for him.
Jeffrey honed his skills at UCLA, in the director's program at the American Film Institute.
Jeffrey directs commercials and documentaries for non-profit organizations like New York's philanthropic powerhouse, Robin Hood Foundation.
Jeffrey first saw Ra Paulette's work in 2000 and was determined to bring it to life on film. This led to a spec spot featuring Ra Paulette for Canon Cameras, which eventually became the Oscar nominated documentary short Cavedigger, the story of Ra's singular work and monumental struggles.
We reviewed the 2014 Academy Award short film nominees for the live-action and animation categories.
The films are packaged by Shorts International and are screened at cinemas around the world in February and March.
I was joined by Spoiler Alert Radio co-producer and Editor Paul Elsnau to give our take on this year's Oscar short film nominees for live action and animation.
Over many years in the industry, Eddie has cut over 20 feature films (both independent and major studio releases) in a wide variety of genres as well as TV dramas, documentaries and award-winning shorts.
Eddie has given presentations on Avid Media Composer editing at NAB and IBC. He is a member of American Cinema Editors and BAFTA, and was on the feature film panel for EditFest London.
Eddie's film projects include editing the popular Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2 films, X-Men: First Class, and the upcoming Jadoo, for writer/director, Amit Gupta.
Since 1985, Bettina has worked as an editor with several well-known German directors, on over fifty feature films, documentaries and television films. In her collaborations, she coined narrative rhythm and assembly structure and style of the Berlin School of film.
Bettina's works are characterized by the invisible interface, which draws attention to story and atmosphere, and the assembly is in the background itself. In 2007 she was awarded the Bremen Film Award awarded for longstanding contributions to European cinema.
Bettina's most recent collaboration with Christian Petzold was the feature Barbara following earlier films with him, The State I Am In and Yella, and Barbara was nominated for the German Film Award.
Bettina followed this up with award winning Hannah Arendt for Margarethe von Trotta, about the influential and controversial German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist.
Reed’s work includes the feature films: Frozen River, The Magic of Belle Isle, Yelling to the Sky, Little Birds, For Ellen, and Shut Up and Play the Hits.
Reed’s recent projects include: Kill Your Darlings, a 35mm period piece about the Beat poets set in 1943, starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Michael C. Hall, Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, and Jack Huston and The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete, a story about two inner city boys who are left to fend for themselves after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
Upcoming, Reed completed the first season of Looking, an original HBO series, The Skeleton Twins, a drama for Craig Johnson, War Story, a dark drama for Mark Jackson, Autumn Blood shot in the Tyrolean Alps in Austria, and Rob Reiner's And So It Goes.
Bradford's feature films as director of photography include: White Lies, Black Sheep, Pariah, Restless City, Middle of Nowhere, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and Mother of George.
Bradford had earlier been cited as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film”, reflecting his work onflims like Mississippi Damned and Entre Nos.
Bradford has won Cinematography Awards at the Sundance Film Festival twice. In 2011, he won for his work on Pariah. Two years later, he won for his work on both the unconventional western Ain't Them Bodies Saints and Mother of George.
Mother of George is about, Adenike and Ayodele, a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn, are having trouble conceiving a child, a problem that defies cultural expectations and leads Adenike to make a shocking decision that could either save or destroy her family.
Tobias is a frequent collaborator of film director Thomas Vinterberg, with whom he has written the screenplays for feature films Submarino and the Oscar nonimated film, The Hunt.
Tobias has also made a mark for himself on TV as a regular episode writer on Danish political TV-series Borgen.
Tobias also writes scripts for his own films: including hard-hitting prison film R and hostage drama A Hijacking. The latter premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
The Hunt is about a teacher who is falsely accused of molesting one of his young students and the small community that fights against him.
A Hijacking is about a crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen.
Born in Athens, Greece, and educated in Germany, Phedon moved to New York in 1983, working as a photojournalist, and eventually crossing over into cinematography.
Phedon now counts over 40 feature films to his credit as Director of Photography. Some of his earlier work includes Dance of the Damned, Cool Runnings, and Phenomenon.
His more recent credits include Walk the Line, The Weather Man, The Pursuit of Happyness, 3:10 to Yuma, and Oliver Stone's W.
Phedon has shot several films for Alexander Payne, including Sideways, The Descendants, and most recently Nebraska, about an aging father travelling from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
Nebraska along with The Descendants and Sideways were nominated and won several Oscars and Phedon was nomimated for an Oscar for Nebraska for Best Cinematography.
Most recently, Phedon shot The Monuments Men, directed by and starring George Clooney, about a World War II platoon that rescues art stolen by the Nazis.
Charlotte began working with Thomas Vinterberg with his dramatic feature, Submarino, after working on a number of award winning short films, like Between Us which she also wrote and co-directed,
Charlotte followed this up with the drama My Good Enemy and dramatic musical feature, Hunky Dory.
Charlotte recently teamed again with Thomas Vinterberg on the acclaimed film,The Hunt, for which she won the Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist atCannes.
The Hunt is about a Lucas, a divorced father who teaches at a kindergarten when an accusation made by Klara, the young daughter of his best friend ends up nearly destroying his career and all his relationships.
After a successful theatrical run, The Hunt was nominated for an Oscar and it is available via DVD and video streaming services.
Davy is the creator and editor of FOUND Magazine, author of My Heart Is An Idiot, a book of personal essays, and The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, a collection of stories, and he is a frequent contributor to public radio’s This American Life.
Davy’s work also appears in GQ, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Grantland. Davy’s directed two documentaries about the punk rock band Rise Against and videos for the Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project.
In 2010, the film Easier With Practice, adapted from one of his GQ articles, and starring Brian Geraghty as Davy, won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.
Davy’s most recent documentary is the upcoming film, Medora, is an in-depth, deeply personal look at small-town life, a thrilling, underdog basketball story, and an inspiring tale of a community refusing to give up hope despite the brutal odds stacked against them.
Medora has screened in festivals and threaters around the US and is available on streaming via iTunes worldwide.
Tom Quinn grew up in Bucks County, PA, where he directed a few shorts and freelanced as a camera assistant.
His debut feature, The New Year Parade, was selected for the IFP Narrative Rough Cut Labs, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative at Slamdance, and was a Gotham Award nominee for “Best Film Not Playing in a Theater Near You.”
The New Year Parade follows Jack and Kat over the course of a year as their parents separate, struggle with their decisions, and eventually divorce. The New Year Parade is set against the backdrop of Philadelphia’s Mummery, one of the oldest American folk traditions. The New Year Parade is now available worldwide on DVD.
Tom has been listed one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” byFilmmaker Magazine and “Ten Young Writer-Directors to Watch,” by MovieMaker Magazine and was also a John Cassavetes Award Nominee at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Tom also works as a visual effects coordinator and producer at DIVE in Philadelphia.
Since graduating North Carolina School of the Arts, Chad has pursued all aspects of film.
Chad was actor in the award winning feature Dance Party USA, he co-wrote an animated short nominated for the Student Academy Award, and he as behind-the-scenes videographer for David Arquette’s directorial debut, The Tripper, along with making short films, like Surprise.
Chad wrote and directed his first feature, Luke And Brie Are On A First Datewhich played at festivals across the globe including Hamptons International Film Festival and Mar Del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina.
Chad’s second feature, This Is Martin Bonner, shot on location in Reno, NV, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has also toured extensivelyat other film festivals, is a warm and perceptive meditation on friendship, human connection and getting a second chance at life.
This Is Martin Bonner is now on DVD and Chad has been nonimated for the John Cassavetes Award for the Independent Spirit Awards for his work on the film.
William moved through the ranks in the art department prior to being a Production Designer starting with work as a Set Designer to Art Director work and then Supervising Art Director on projects like Pleasantville and Snow Falling on Cedars.
William's Production Designer credits over the years include: Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, In Good Company, Shopgirl, Last Holiday, American Dreamz, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, and Little Fockers.
William's more recent Production projects include: Crazy, Stupid, Love., American Reunion, and Lovelace, the story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Patrice has won three awards for his work on C.R.A.Z.Y., including the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design and a Jutra Award for Best Art Direction.
Patrice's other work includes: 1981, City of Shadows, La Banda Picasso, Café de Flore, and The Young Victoria.
Patrice was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Art Direction for his work in the film The Young Victoria.
Patrice's recent projects include: Denis Villeneuve’s film Prisoners and the upcoming features Enemy and 1987.
Magnus graduated as Cinematographer from the National Film School of Denmark in 2005.
Magnus has filmed a number of feature and documentary films, including the documentaries, Solange on Love and Tankograd, and the narrative features, AFR, The Experiment, Empire North, and Out of Bounds, and the television series, The Killing, Those Who Kill, and Borgen.
Magnus has worked with on project for Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer on the film, R, long with their recent features, A Hijacking, and Northwest.
Lars graduated as Director of Photography from the National Film School of Denmark in 1997.
Lars has filmed a number of feature and documentary films, including One Hand Clapping, the documentary, The Swenkas, and the Max Pinlig series of films.
Lars has received awards for his cinematography on documentaries, including News & Documentary Emmy Awards and the Bodil Award for Armadillo and he won Best World Cinema Cinematography Award winning in Sundance for Putin's Kiss.
Lars, putting his life on the line while filming the war drama Armadillo in Afghanistan, received the Roos Award for this and also did some work in Indonesia on The Act of Killing.
Rob's first break into film composing was through the independent feature Westender in 2003 along followed by the Canadian award winning Eve and the Fire Horse.
In 2004, Rob teamed up with Mychael Danna and has provided additional music and arrangements on Surf's Up, Fracture, Moneyball and the Oscar-winning Life of Pi.
The two have co-composed the film (500) Days of Summer, and the television series, Dollhouse and Blue Bloods.
Rob's more recent work includes the films: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Girl Most Likely, and the Sundance Film Festival features The Spectacular Now and The Way, Way Back.
Lol's first feature credit was on an American independent film for Lance Hammeron Ballast and also the feature, Better Things, which world-premiered at theCannes Film Festival.
Lol also worked on the acclaimed satire Four Lions, the Armenian road movie romance Here, and the Alaskan thriller On the Ice. He also worked on the acclaimed BBC miniseries The Crimson Petal and the White.
Lol recently was the director of photography on the film Hyde Park on Hudson, a story about the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Lol's most recent work has been in South Africa as the director of photography on the acclaimed biopic, Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom, about Nelson Mandela's life.
Beth gained a BAFTA nomination for her work on An Englishman in New Yorkstarring John Hurt. Beth designed It’s Kind of a Funny Story starring Zach Galifianakis and the box office hit Drive, starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, that premiered in competition at Cannes.
Named as one of the Hollywood Reporter's "Production Designers To Watch," Beth has worked on a number of award-winning films including: Half Nelson, which won the Best Film prize at the Gotham Awards and Cold Souls, starring Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn, and Emily Watson, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Beth’s other projects include: Madness and Genius and Sugar which was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, along with Night Catches Us,The Son of No One, and Arbitrage.
Only God Forgives, her latest collaboration with Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling, is now on DVD.
Beth’s upcoming films include: 2 Guns, Thanks for Sharing, and How To Catch A Monster, a directorial debut by Ryan Gosling.
Marcelo has written for virtually every medium, from film and television to concert stage, dance, and theater.
Marcelo started his classical music studies as a teenager in São Paulo, Brazil, and studied at Berklee College of Music and California Institute of the Arts, where he received his BFA, and Hunter College where received a Master's Degree in Music.
Marcelo’s work includes composing for ballet in Brazil, recording several albums including Music Journal, and even conducting appearances with the Tokyo Symphony Chamber Orchestra.
Marcelo started in film composition with the short film A Soccer Story, which was nominated for an Oscar and for which Marcelo won an award for score at the Brazilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema.
Marcelo’s feature film work includes: Kissing Jessica Stein, The Door in the Floor, The Architect, Hollywoodland, The Good Shepherd, Sin Nombre, Please Give, and The Beaver.
Marcelo has also worked in television, including the series The Big C and Ray Donovan, and has two Emmy nominations for his TV movie work on You Don't Know Jack and Taking Chance.
Marcelo’s more recent film projects include: The Words, The Bay, Won’t Back Down, and Enough Said.
Born in Krakow, Poland, Abel studied classical composition under Krzysztof Penderecki. In 2006, he moved to Los Angeles, where he currently resides.
Abel's scores have received tremendous critical enthusiasm and numerous awards, most notably two Golden Globe nominations, and three World Soundtrack Awards. His lush, stirring, highly original music for Tom Ford's feature A Single Man, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, was greeted with immediate acclaim.
The score caught the attention of Madonna, who invited him to create music for her feature film W.E.. Stylish and bittersweet, W.E.'s score which reflects the glamorous romance between Wallis Simpson and The Duke of Windsor.
Abel has also scored: Big Animal. a monumental 147-minute composition for an 90-piece orchestra, 60 choir and 2 solo voices for Metropolis, An Angel in Cracow, PU-239, and the animated Battle of Terra.
Recent projects include: the surreal and twisted black comedy Escape From Tomorrow, Romeo and Juliet, and Patricia Kaas' tribute to Edith Piaf, Kaas Chante Piaf.
Mike has worked with several notable Canadian independent film directors, including Bruce McDonald on the film Roadkill, Daniel MacIvor on Past Perfect and Wilby Wonderful, and Peter Mettler on Tectonic Plates and Picture of Light.
Mike has also worked on several rock documentaries with Sam Dunn, including Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Iron Maiden: Flight 666, and the award-winning Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage.
Mike’s other diverse editing projects include the film Owning Mahowny with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mad Ship with Gil Bellows, as well as work on several television documentaries and fiction pieces.
Mike’s most recent project was editing actress and director/writer Sarah Polley’s documentary Stories We Tell, in which she strives to uncover some uncomfortable truths about her family history.
Darrin's decade-long relationship with William Friedkin evolved in 2005 when he edited his acclaimed psychological thriller, Bug.
Since then, Darrin has escaped the confines of genre and storytelling styles, bringing his rigorous eye and narrative sense to Azazel Jacobs' offbeat comedies, Momma'S Man and Terri, Paul Solet's dramatic horror film, Grace, and Alison Bagnall's The Dish & The Spoon, starring Greta Gerwig, and the music documentary Re:Generation, directed by Amir Bar-Lev.
Darrin reunited with William Friedkin for Killer Joe, starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, and Juno Temple.
More recently, Darrin edited James Ponsoldt's The Spectacular Now, starring Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley, about hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Tyler adapts and applies 3 years of honorable Army service as a squad leader and weapons specialist to all of his projects.
As the Production Designer of IFC's series Portlandia, Tyler moves fast, thinking on his feet and creates sets and props on the fly. In a television show that at its heart is an improv sketch show, Tyler constantly solves on-the-fly requests as fast as they come in.
Tyler has worked on music videos as art director for bands including: Bloc Party, The Dandy Warhols, The Decemberists, and The Shins, and been the production designer the series, The Guild.
Tyler has woirked on feature films including: The River Why, The FP, and more recently, The Kings of Summer, about three teenage friends, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.
Jeff has been awarded several Emmys and nominations for his television scores. Some of his projects have included the series: Rome, Monk, The Company, and Nightmares and Dreamscapes.
Jeff collaborated with Ed Harris on the Oscar winning biopic Pollock and his western Appaloosa.
Jeff scored several of Jessica Yu's films, including: In the Realms of the Unreal, Protagonist, Ping Pong Playa, and Last Call at the Oasis.
Jeff has recently scored the Netflix hit series, House of Cards, the documentary, The Queen of Versailles, the upcoming documentary, When I Walk, Al Pacino's upcoming film, Wilde Salome, and Blackfish, a documentary about the dangers of using killer whales as entertainment.
Finnish writer and director, Selma Vilhunen (director of Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?), French actress and director, Alexandra Naoum (director and actress in No Comment), and American actress and Producer, and Jen Taher (producer and actress in I Am A Big Ball Of Sadness) are finalists in the 2013 MANHATTAN SHORT.
The MANHATTAN SHORT screens between September 27 and October 6th, in over 300 around the world, with audience members selecting their favorite film with the winner announced in New York City on October 6th.
Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? is a short comedy about a family preparing to attending a wedding and running into some difficulties.
No Comment is a comedic story of a woman’s unexpected encounters with two British tourists in Paris.
I Am A Big Ball Of Sadness is a portrayal of a swanky rooftop party in New York City where three guests try to get past their cocktail smiles.
Prior to joining Film Movement in 2003, Adley practiced law at the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions.
Film Movement is a full-service North American distributor of independent and foreign films.
They have released films from 25 countries, including top prize winners from Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca and many other prestigious film festivals.
As part of its distribution approach, Film Movement partners with theaters, TV networks, wholesalers, retailers, and institutions.
They have also developed a unique subscription service called the Film of The Month Club.
French animator and director, Bastien Dubois (director of Faces From Places) and American director Jacob Sillman (director of The Pale of Settlement) are finalists in the 2013 MANHATTAN SHORT.
The MANHATTAN SHORT screens between September 27 and October 6th, in over 300 around the world, with audience members selecting their favorite film with the winner announced in New York City on October 6th.
Faces From Places is a series of 20 animated 3 minute travelogue films featuring different countries around the world and 3 of these films will be playing in the MANHATTAN SHORT – Quebec, Pakistan, and Moscow.
Based on true events, The Pale of Settlement tells the story of a 10 year old Jewish boy, Moische, who must escape forced conscription into the Russian Army during the Crimean War.
Irish director, Tony Donoghue (director of Irish Folk Furniture) and Australian director Timothy Wilde (director of #30) are finalists in the 2013 MANHATTAN SHORT.
The MANHATTAN SHORT screens between September 27 and October 6th, in over 300 around the world, with audience members selecting their favorite film with the winner announced in New York City on October 6th.
Irish Folk Furniture, a the stop-motion animated documentary, tells the story of the restoration of sixteen pieces of abandoned folk furniture in rural Ireland, shot in an environmentally friendly way using readily available equipment and natural light, and featuring local craftspeople and narrators.
The live action comedy/drama short film, #30, is the story of a performer, Chelsea, and her unconventional approach to auditioning for a role in Hamlet.
H5 Film Sound was founded by Heikki in 2000. Heikki has worked as a foley artist and foley supervisor on feature films, shorts, TV-drama, documentaries and animation films. As a sound designer, Heikki has been involved in feature length documentaries and animation.
Since 2004, Heikki has been working as a full time foley artist and a supervisor, mainly for fiction films and documentary work as well. More recently, the H5 staff includes the owner Heikki (as a foley supervisor and artist), a sound recordist, and a sound editor.
Projects that Heikki and H5 have worked on over the years include: a variety of documentary projects, and the fiction features: Letters to father Jacob, Rare Exports, Berberian Sound Studio, and the upcoming film, FILTH directed by Jon S. Baird.
Charlotte began working with Thomas Vinterberg with his dramatic feature, Submarino, after working on a number of award winning short films, like Between Us which she also wrote and co-directed,
Charlotte followed this up with the drama My Good Enemy and dramatic musical feature, Hunky Dory.
Charlotte recently teamed again with Thomas Vinterberg on the acclaimed film, The Hunt, for which she won the Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist at Cannes.
The Hunt is about a Lucas, a divorced father who teaches at a kindergarten when an accusation made by Klara, the young daughter of his best friend ends up nearly destroying his career and all his relationships.
Adam Clark has worked on a variety of projects, from commercial work for such clients as Kia and Subaru, to television work on the acclaimed series Insiders Guide to Happiness to a number of short and feature films.
Adam's projects have included earlier films of Peter Jackson and the film River Queen for cinematographer Alun Bollinger, but he is best known as the lensman for director Taika Waititi. His debut feature film as cinematographer was forTaika’s feature film Eagle vs Shark.
Adam has also worked on a number of shorts for Taika including the Oscar-nominated film Two Cars One Night and Tama Tu, as well as many shorts for other directors such as The Hole and A New Way Home.
Adam and Taika’s most recent collaboration is the feature film Boy, which was inspired by Two Cars One Night, and is a coming of age tale of a boy growing up in the year 1984, who idolizes Michael Jackson, and the boy’s father, who, after a seven year absence, is not quite the hero the boy had imagined him to be.
Boy is now available on DVD for purchase or rental in the United States and worldwide.
Davy is the creator and editor of FOUND Magazine, author of My Heart Is An Idiot, a book of personal essays, and The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas, a collection of stories, and he is a frequent contributor to public radio’s This American Life.
Davy’s work also appears in GQ, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Grantland. Davy’s directed two documentaries about the punk rock band Rise Against and videos for the Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project.
In 2010, the film Easier With Practice, adapted from one of his GQ articles, and starring Brian Geraghty as Davy, won the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.
Davy’s most recent documentary is the upcoming film, Medora, is an in-depth, deeply personal look at small-town life, a thrilling, underdog basketball story, and an inspiring tale of a community refusing to give up hope despite the brutal odds stacked against them.
Bill has edited nine films for director Brian De Palma, including: The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Carlito's Way, and The Black Dahlia.
Some of Bill’s other film credits over the years include: Parents, The Comfort of Strangers, Drumline, and Mesrine: Public Enemy #1.
Bill has worked in television as well and was supervising editor on the Emmy Award winning HBO miniseries The Corner, for which he received an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award nomination.
Bill’s recent film work includes: Greetings From Tim Buckley, The East for director Zal Batmanglij, and the upcoming film, The Harvest.
Jay relocated to Los Angeles and worked on numerous independent films, commercials and documentaries as a Camera Operator and eventually as a Director of Photography.
Jay worked alongside Joss Whedon as the 2nd Unit Director of Photography of Joss’ television show Dollhouse.
After many years in the trenches, Jay photographed the critically acclaimed film Paper Heart and he worked steadily in television including director work on series like Kitchen Nightmares.
Jay continued his collaboration with Joss Whedon as Director of Photography on his adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing.
Pierre is a Canadian cinematographer who has won and been nominated for multiple awards for his work, including Genie and Jutra Awards.
Pierre has worked on such films as: Eldorado, Lost and Delirious, The Art of War, The Covenant, The Rocket, and Polytechnique.
Pierre has also directed the television series Charlie Jade and the TV movie The Last Casino.
Pierre has more recently worked on the comedy Starbuck, and the science fiction films, Upside Down, and The Colony.
Starbuck and Upside Down are both available on DVD worldwide.
Todd attended filmmaking classes at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and he currently lives in New York.
Todd’s earlier short films include: Single Spaced, Slug 660, Knuckleface Jones, and Hillbilly Robot.
Todd’s three feature films are: The Guatemalan Handshake, The Catechism Cataclysm, and Nature Calls.
In 2004, Nick along with Joe Pickett quit their day jobs to focus on production of their first feature documentary, Dirty Country.
They started the touring The Found Footage Festival show to fund the production of the documentary.
The Found Footage Festival is a live comedy event and screening featuring unusual and humorous clips from VHS videotapes gathered from thrift stores, garage sales, warehouses, estate sales, and dumpsters throughout the United States.
In 2009, Jack Rebney, featured in the festival favorite Winnebago promotional videos in the show, was featured in a documentary, Winnebago Man, which featured the curators in several interviews and coverage of Jack at the festival.
The Found Footage Festival is currently based out of New York City and has expanded in touring Europe and has also presented Found vs. Found in collaboration (and in friendly competition with) Found Magazine.
Since his arrival to Los Angeles in 2008, Haim composed the score for On The Inside and MTV's Teen Mom, and co-produced and orchestrated the score for the film Legion, starring Paul Bettany, and more recently scored the documentary Design & Thinking.
Haim also worked as an orchestrator, music programmer and pianist the projects: 6 Souls, starring Julianne Moore, The Roommate, and the American version of The Office.
Haim has recently scored the biopic thriller The Iceman, starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, and Chris Evans. The Iceman was an official selection of the Toronto and Venice International Film Festivals.
Sam is a member of the New York City filmmaking collaborative, Red Bucket Films.
Sam has acted in films such as Mail Order Wife, The Pleasure of Being Robbed, and Creative Nonfiction.
Sam’s art director credits include: Mail Order Wife, Puberty: The Movie, The Pleasure of Being Robbed, and The Wreck.
Sam’s work as a production designer includes: Go Get Some Rosemary, Gimme the Loot, and the critically acclaimed, Frances Ha.
Megan has worked in the independent film community for over a decade. Megan received her MFA in Film Production from the Ohio University School of Film.
While in school Megan wrote and directed several award-winning student films including Not Waving but Drowning, a 2001 Student Academy Award nominee.
Megan's first feature was First Aid for Choking, and Megan's second feature, The Off Hours, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Megan was a co-producer on Lynn Shelton's film Your Sister's Sister and on the acclaimed Sundance documentary, Zoo.
Megan's third and most recent feature film that she has both written and directed, Eden, premiered at SXSW and has been lauded by critics and at other film festivals worldwide.
Eden is about a young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into prostitution by domestic human traffickers, who joins forces with her captors in a desperate plea to survive.
Megan has also directed the upcoming film, Lucky Them, starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church, and Oliver Platt, about a rock journalist assigned to track down her ex-boyfriend.
Andrea has lived in Cuba, New York, Buenos Aires and Chile editing films and has also taught cinema.
Andrea has worked on a variety of award winning features and shorts over the years.
These films include: Soccer Stories, Loco Fever and Violeta Went to Heaven for director, Andres Wood, and also the documentary, My Life with Carlos.
Andrea has more recently worked as film editor on the Iranian drama, Circumstance, the Chilean drama Young and Wild, and the films: Tony Manero, Post Mortem, and No for director, Pablo Larrain.
No was also nominated for an Oscar for best Foreign Language film.
As bandleader of the jazz-based but far reaching Golden Arm Trio, Graham has repeatedly toured the country and released several critically acclaimed albums.
As Co-Artistic Director of Golden Hornet Project, Graham has produced more than fifty concerts of world-premier alt-classical music by more than sixty composers, as well as five symphonies, two concertos and countless chamber pieces of his own.
Graham's music has been heard throughout the world on TV, on stage, in films, and on radio.
Graham's score work includes: a variety documentary shorts and features like Shepard & Dark, independent narratives like I'll Come Running, and Richard Linklater's features: A Scanner Darkly, Bernie, and Before Midnight.
Since graduating North Carolina School of the Arts, Chad has pursued all aspects of film.
Chad was actor in the award winning feature Dance Party USA, he co-wrote an animated short nominated for the Student Academy Award, and he as behind-the-scenes videographer for David Arquette’s directorial debut, The Tripper, along with making short films, like Surprise.
Chad wrote and directed his first feature, Luke And Brie Are On A First Date which played at festivals across the globe including Hamptons International Film Festival and Mar Del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina.
Chad’s second feature, This Is Martin Bonner, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has also toured extensivelyat other film festivals, is a warm and perceptive meditation on friendship, human connection and getting a second chance at life, shot on location in Reno, NV.
After Graduating from the Louis Lumière Cinematography School, Emmanuel started very quickly to work as a director of photography on shorts, feature films, and advertising.
Emmanuel is currently based in Paris, and shares his time shooting features and commercials. Emmanuel usually works in Japan, Lebanon, Ukraine, France, UAE and Africa.
Emmanuel’s feature film work includes: The Old Dream That Moves, Farewell Homeland, Grande Ecole, and Melodrama Habibi.
Emmanuel has worked films for director Lorraine Levy including: The First Time I Turned Twenty and The Other Son.
Andrew is best known for working as a production designer internationally on the many feature films that he has made for over 25 years.
Andrew has worked on films such as Sid and Nancy for Alex Cox, Stormy Monday for Mike Figgis, The Piano for Jane Campion for which he won an AFI and BAFTA award, and Clockers for Spike Lee.
Andrew's more recent production design work over the years includes: The Reckoning, Dean Spanley, An Education, Made in Dagenham, Love Birds, Quartet, and the upcoming Half A Yellow Sun.
Ron works as an editor, which he has done professionally for over a decade, and has experience as a shooter, editor, producer, sound designer, and colorist.
Ron is New York based and has worked on everything from feature films and documentaries to commercials, television series, and music videos as well as short films and experimental art. Ron's documentaries include: Fade to Black, B.I.K.E., and Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful.
Ron has edited feature films appearing in the Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca and Toronto film festivals, most notably Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond The Pines, directed by Derek Cianfrance.
Leslie gained an Emmy nomination for the TV pilot to the David Lynch’s series' Twin Peaks and also worked on the films Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Lost Highway.
Leslie’s other projects include: Shy People, The End of Violence, Hi-Lo Country, Forces of Nature, Big Bad Love, Stealing Harvard, and Our Very Own.
Leslie has also worked on other TV projects and series including: Everybody Hates Chris, Raines, Hawthorne, and Rizzoli & Isles.
More recently, Leslie has worked as set decorator on the feature films, Killing Them Softly and Stoker.
Beth gained a BAFTA nomination for her work on An Englishman in New York starring John Hurt. Beth designed It’s Kind of a Funny Story starring Zach Galifianakis and the box office hit Drive, starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, that premiered in competition at Cannes.
Named as one of the Hollywood Reporter's "Production Designers To Watch," Beth has worked on a number of award-winning films including: Half Nelson, which won the Best Film prize at the Gotham Awards and Cold Souls, starring Paul Giamatti, David Strathairn, and Emily Watson, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Beth’s other projects include: Madness and Genius and Sugar which was also nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, along with Night Catches Us, The Son of No One, and Arbitrage.
Beth’s upcoming films include: 2 Guns, Thanks for Sharing, Only God Forgives, and How To Catch A Monster.
Pierre is a Canadian cinematographer who has won and been nominated for multiple awards for his work, including Genie and Jutra Awards.
Pierre has worked on such films as: Eldorado, Lost and Delirious, The Art of War, The Covenant, The Rocket, and Polytechnique.
Pierre has also directed the television series Charlie Jade and TV movie The Last Casino.
Pierre has more recently worked on the comedy Starbuck, and the science fiction films, Upside Down, and The Colony.
Lol's first feature credit was on an American independent film for Lance Hammer on Ballast and also the feature, Better Things, which world-premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Lol also worked on the acclaimed satire Four Lions, the Armenian road movie romance Here, and the Alaskan thriller On the Ice. He also worked on the acclaimed BBC miniseries The Crimson Petal and the White.
Lol recently was the director of photography on the film Hyde Park on Hudson, a story about the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Lol has been working in South Africa as cinematographer on Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom, a biopic about Nelson Mandela.
Adam transitioned from director-cameraman to cinematographer after working in the TV commercial genre. In 1993, Adam photographed his first feature film, Ted Demme's first feature film, Who's the Man?.
Adam has worked on an eclectic list of projects including: The Ref, Beautiful Girls, Monument Ave., Jesus' Son, and Chrystal. The artful imagery he created for Bennett Miller's film, Capote, earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Cinematography.
Adam more recently shot the acclaimed films, Lars and the Real Girl, Rudo y Cursi, and Never Let Me Go, which was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography, while continuing his work with award winning directors on commercial projects.
Daniel Kamil and Emily Steffian have owned and operated the the Cable Car Cinema and Café in Providence, Rhode Island since 2008. Previously, they started The Revival House Cinema and Cafe, a fifty-seat digital theater in Westerly Rhode Island that helped reinvigorate an under utilized downtown.
Daniel and Emily spoke with us about the about the current state of the independent cinema business based on their own experiences over the years.
In March 2013, the Cable Car launched a Kickstarter Campaign to assist them in the transition to digital projection, which all independent cinemas are required to do to stay in operation.
Christopher took his first job as a cutter in his own right for Whit Stillman's film Metropolitan in 1990, and also worked on Whit’sfilm Barcelona.
Christopher’s other earlier projects include: Smoke, Blue in the Face, Kids, Flirting With Disaster, Gummo, Analyze This, The People Versus Larry Flynt, and Man on the Moon.
Christopher’s later projects include: The Yellow Handkerchief, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, and he worked with directorBennett Miller on Capote and Moneyball where he was also nominated for an Oscar for editing.
For this special edition of the show, I was joined by Spoiler Alert Radio editor and co-producer Paul Elsnau to discuss the 2013 Academy Award short film nominees for the live-action, documentary, and animation categories.
The films are packaged by Shorts International and are screened at cinemas around the world prior and following the Academy Awards ceremony.
Jon has traveled widely as an investigative journalist, and has made films for NBC, PBS, and HBO. Over the course of his career, he has won 15 Emmy Awards and three DuPont-Columbia Awards.
Jon has reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Cuba, China, and Afghanistan.
In 1972, Jon and his wife founded the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the country's first community media centers. In 1991, while employed by NBC, Jon was the first American journalist to bring back uncensored video footage from the first Persian Gulf War, has interviewed Fidel Castro several times, and was one of the few Western journalists to have conducted a videotaped interview with Saddam Hussein since the Persian Gulf War.
Jon has been nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province.
Jon was nominated again for the 2013 Academy Awards in the same category for Redemption, about the variety New York City's canners - the men and women who survive by redeeming bottles and cans they collect from curbs.
Matt holds degrees from Middlebury College and the directing program at the American Film Institute.
Matt's thesis film, The Honeyfields, was accepted at film festivals all over the world and won numerous prizes.
Matt has been working in film for several years, including making documentaries for television on topics ranging from politics to resident doctors to the youth in Serbia during the Bosnian War.
More recently, Matt completed the award winning feature film, The Dynamiter, a coming of age film, about 14 year Robbie who must face the fact that his dream of a family may only be a dream and he might just lose the only family he's ever had, set in the Summer in Mississippi.
The Dynamiter was also selected for the prestigious Film Movement Series.
Richard has been editing in film and television for over twenty years.
Some of Richard's film credits include: 2 Seconds, Maelstrom, Chaos and Desire, The Marsh, Mambo Italiano, The Five of Us, A Family Secret, Truffe, The Necessities of Life, Polytechnique, and City of Shadows.
One of Richard's most recent films is the Oscar nominated film, War Witch, about Komona, a 14 year old girl in Sub-Saharan Africa who tells the story of her life during a civil war to the unborn child growing inside her.
Benoit is best known for the soundtrack of the Oscar nominated, animated film, The Triplettes of Belleville, for which he won a Cesar Award for Best Music Written for a Film as well as a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music. The song Belleville Rendez-vous, in particular, earned him an Academy Award nomination as well as a Grammy Award nomination.
Benoit composed the score for the National Film Board of Canada animated short Runaway, written and directed by Cordell Barker.
Benoit wrote the music for a variety of other feature films including: Maxed Out, Polytechnique, Route 132, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, and Mars et Avril.
Kasper has cut more than 20 feature films, including Truly Human, Flies on the Wall, and Cecilie.
Kasper also cuts commercials, documentaries and television series. Kasper has edited episodes of the internationally acclaimed series The Killing and Borgen.
Kasper has recently contributed to the editing of Simon And The Oaks and edited the films: Terribly Happy, Fighter and the Golden Globe and Oscar nominated film, the 18th century historical drama, A Royal Affair.
Danny in 2007 received a BAFTA television award nomination for Best Photography and Lighting for his work on Longford, and another in 2008 for Joe's Palace.
Danny also received a shared an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Movie for John Adams, directed by Tom Hooper.
Danny's other film and television credits include: Dead Man's Shoes, Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, Glorious 39, and Pirate Radio.
Danny collaborated with Tom Hooper on the Oscar winning film, The King's Speech, for which he was nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA for Best Cinematography.
Danny recently was the Director of Photography on Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the musical Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated, Les Miserables, set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption.
Jeffrey earned a Bachelor of Arts from the the USC Cinema-Television Production Program and an MFA in Cinematography from the AFI Conservatory.
Jeffrey has photographed commercials, music videos, and interview segments with Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges, Jodie Foster, and William Shatner.
Jeffrey has shot short films, features, and documentaries including: The Honeyfields, Searching for Sonny, along with Visual Effects Director of Photography work on films like The Rum Diary.
Jeffrey's documentary work has brought him around the world, from Haiti to Colombia to Rwanda and his directorial debut, Loy Krathong, for which he also composed the score, has won five international festival awards.
Jeffrey's more recent work includes the critically acclaimed film, The Dynamiter, which played Berlinale and the Los Angeles Film Festival and was nominated for a Best Cinematography Independent Spirit Award.
Jeffrey has also recently completed the documentary Rising From Ashes.
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.
Their clients include: Coca Cola and BAFICI (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Films).
Barbara and brother writer and director Andy Muschietti created a horror short called Mamá that has been raved about in a number of film festivals in Europe, which was translated into a feature film. It was also screened in the Short Short Story Film Festival in the United States in 2009.
Mama is about two girls, Victoria and Lily, who are on the run from a ghostly woman who appears to be their mother in a Gothic home.
The feature version of Mama was executive produced by Guillermo Del Toro after being impressed with the short version of the film.
Rasmus graduated at the National Film School of Denmark as Cinematographer and has worked on commercials, short films, and feature films over the years in Denmark.
Rasmus has worked awarding award winning features like Noi the Albino, King’s Game, and Island of Lost Souls. Rasmus was also the cinematographer on the features, The Good Heart and Truth About Men.
His more recent feature is A Royal Affair, about a young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
A Royal Affair is up for many awards including a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film.
Jeff's previous work has taken him to the Tour de France for a behind-the-scenes documentary, and he has photographed and filmed a number of people including Robin Williams, Jane Goodall, and Nelson Mandela.
Jeff's short film, Geocaching: From the Web to the Woods, won Best Short Doc at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival and Jeff won the Best Editing award for his film The Strange Case at the Action on Film Festival.
Jeff's imagery has exhibited at: The Denver Museum of Nature and Science, The Aspen Institute, The Scripps Institute, The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and before the U.S Congress on Capitol Hill.
In 2007, Jeff got his first taste of the Arctic when as a Stanford student he worked as a videographer with National Geographic photographer James Balog on the initial expedition of The Extreme Ice Survey (or EIS).
That winter, the EIS team scouted and filmed glaciers that now appear in the recent documentary feature film Chasing Ice.
Chasing Ice follows National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.
Tobias has worked on a variety of films over the years and in different locations including: Chaurahen in India, How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, Drama/Mex and I’m Gonna Explode in Mexico, and Amreeka in Ramallah, Manitoba, and Chicago.
Tobias was also the director of photographer on Momma’s Man and Terri for Azazel Jacobs. Tobias has done additional photography on the films: The Future and First Position.
More recently Tobias was Director of Photography on the film, Smashed, about a married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober.
Lena started out as a set designer and has dedicated herself to painting and makes a living as an artist.
Lena has focused on working as an theatre and film production designer and art director.
Lena's film work includes production designer and/or art direction on the feature films: Before the Storm, Almost Elvis, Beloved, and the more recent multi-award winning Simon & the Oaks, about secrets discovered of two boys coming of age in Sweden during World War II.
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.
Seher is a member of the Casting Society of America.
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 new film, Zero Dark Thirty.
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.
Filmmaker Magazine has named Brian and Melanie as part of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film".
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.
Their recent documentary, The Patron Saints, is a disquieting and hyper-realistic 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.
Francine along with The Patron Saints continue to play worldwide in a variety of international film festivals.
Lee has edited several performances that garnered Oscars for actors such as William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune, and Hilary Swank in Boys Don't Cry.
Some of Lee's other film editing projects include: Maria Full Of Grace, The Believer, A Love Song for Bobby Long, The Ice Harvest, and The Center of the World.
Lee won the Emmy award for the HBO production of Taking Chance and that same year won the Eddie award, for editors by editors, for Grey Gardens.
Recently, Lee has been editing for the upcoming features Disconnect and Carrie, and the short film Dreaming American, which he wrote and directed, has been touring festivals and winning several awards.
After graduating from NYU film school, Christopher co-founded Waverly Films in New York City.
Christopher created Webby Award winning web shows, short films, projects for Comedy Central, and a graphic novel series called Stickman Odyssey.
Christopher’s first produced screenplay is Robot & Frank starring Frank Langella, Peter Sarsgaard, and Susan Sarandon.
Robot & Frank is set in the near future, where an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him and the two companions try their luck as a heist team.
Christopher recently completed a screenplay for the horror film Clown, executive produced by Eli Roth.
Rebecca founded Racing Horse Productions in 2005. Rebecca is a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School teaching two classes in human rights and film.
In law school, Rebecca interned as an investigator at the Bronx Defenders and continued to do investigative work at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, after working there, she returned to Sierra Leone to begin production on War Don Don, a film which profiles the trial of a leader of a separate warring faction.
Between trips to Sierra Leone, she has also been adjunct faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and the Human Rights Institute at American University.
More recently, Rebecca has completed the documentary film, Code of the West, about the state of Montana is becoming the first in the US to repeal its medical marijuana law.
Rebecca has received coverage with an article published in the NY Times and Code of the West has launched a popular Kickstarter campaign for the film.
Michael fell into film score composition by chance when The Greyboy Allstars were asked to score Jake Kasdan's first feature Zero Effect and worked on the music for the highly regarded (though short-lived) TV series, Freaks and Geeks.
In 2000, Richard Kelly commissioned Michael to do the soundtrack for the film Donnie Darko. Its original score album went on to sell over 100,000 copies (in part because of Michael's remake of Tears for Fears' song Mad World, featuring Gary Jules).
Michael has since gone on to compose scores for the movies Out Cold, Nothing, Cypher, Orange County, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The TV Set, a segment of Paris, je t'aime, Unaccompanied Minors, and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
More recently, Michael has composed for: Funny People, Bridesmaids, The Five Year Engagement, Cyrus and Jeff Who Lives At Home for The Duplass Brothers, and the upcoming film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist for Mira Nair.
David and Ashley together formed the documentary production company, Carnivalesque Films.
Some of David and Ashley's documentary projects include: Mardi Gras: Made in China and Intimidad, along with more recent projects, Girl Model and Downeast.
Girl Model follows the modeling industry through a complex supply chain between Siberia, Japan, and the U.S., through the eyes of a 13 year old model and a model scout with a mysterious past.
Downeast is set during an era of U.S. post-industrialization in which numerous factories have been exported, focusing on Antonio Bussone's efforts to open a processing factory in rural Maine.
Andrew’s documentary credits include: Soul in the Hole, The Lifestyle, and the MTV show True Life: I'm in Iraq, which won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Network News Documentary.
Along the way, Andrew has collaborated with some of the leading directors in the New York independent film scene, including Whit Stillman (on Damsels in Distress and The Last Days of Disco), Lodge Kerrigan (on Keane) and for Larry Clark (on Ken Park and Bully).
Andrew’s other narrative projects include: Here for Braden King, a metaphysical road movie filmed on location in Armenia, and Don't Let Me Drown for Cruz Angeles, shot primarily in Brooklyn and both premiered at Sundance.
Andrew's upcoming work includes director Naomi Foner's feature Very Good Girls, starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen, for Groundswell Films.
Jen’s film career began at Channel 4 in London and has since spread throughout three continents.
Jen has more than 10 years of client experience including broadcast networks, advertising agencies, museums, corporations and independent producers and directors.
Jen’s editorial work can be seen on many networks including: PBS, MTV, IFC, AMC, Bravo, National Geographic, and the Travel Channel.
Jen’s documentary feature film work includes the documentary films: Confederacy Theory, A Powerful Noise, and Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry.
Ben has worked for Megan Griffiths on her short film Eros and narrative feature, The Off Hours.
Ben has also worked on projects for Guy Maddin including Brand Upon the Brain!, Keyhole, and the upcoming Spiritismes.
Ben’s work with director Lynn Shelton includes: We Go Way Back, My Effortless Brilliance, Humpday, and Your Sister’s Sister.
Some other films Ben shot include: Nights and Weekends, The Catechism Cataclysm, The Lie, and Safety Not Guaranteed.
Mark began his career in film working with director Whit Stillman. Their first collaboration was Metropolitan and its success led to the films Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco.
Mark‘s music attracted the attention documentary filmmakers that he worked with over the years: Jan Oxenburg, Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson, Roger Weisberg, and Josh Aronson on the Oscar nominated, Sound and Fury.
Mark has worked over the years with filmmakers, Shari Springer Berman and Bob Pulcini. Their collaborations include the documentaries Off The Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's and The Young and the Dead along with narrative features, the bio-pic American Splendor and The Nanny Diaries.
Mark also scored Mary Harron's feature bio-pic The Notorious Bettie Page and the acclaimed documentaries Aging Out and Shelter Dogs.
Mark‘s most recent collaboration with Whit Stillman is Damsels in Distress, about a trio of girls set out to change the male-dominated environment of the Seven Oaks college campus.
As a composer, Nick, front man of the internationally acclaimed band DeVotchKa has scored such films as Little Miss Sunshine, the Sundance hit that garnered four Oscar nominations.
Nick's other scores include Fling, I Love You Phillip Morris, The Joneses, Father of Invention. Nick also co-scored the hit romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love (starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Julianne Moore) and scored Dustin Lance Black's haunting directorial debut Virginia (starring Jennifer Connelly and Ed Harris).
Nick's more recent work includes the score for the Stephen Gyllenhaal comedy Grassroots and Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's film, Ruby Sparks.
Ben is a Seatle based production designer that worked on numerous national commercials and Seattle features such as The Details (as Set Dresser) and Late Autumn (as Property Master).
Ben has also worked as Prop Master/Set Dresser in the art department on projects on the feature Dear Lemon Lima.
Ben designed both of Megan Griffiths' short films Moving and Eros.
More recently, Ben has also worked as production designer on Megan's feature The Off Hours and the upcoming Eden and the sci-fi bittersweet comedy, Colin Trevorrow's film, Safety Not Guaranteed.
Safety Not Guaranteed is about a paranoid supermarket clerk, who believes he's solved the riddle of time travel and intends to depart again soon and the 3 cynical Seattle magazine employees to look for the story behind it.
Paul Rachman, filmmaker and co-founder of Slamdance, began his film career making underground hardcore punk films and music videos for bands such as Bad Brains, Gang Green, Negative FX, and Mission of Burma.
Paul quickly rose to become one of the of the industry's top music video directors at Propaganda Films in Los Angeles, where he worked with such artists as: Alice in Chains, The Replacements, Pantera, Temple of the Dog, Sepultura, Roger Waters, Joan Jett, and Kiss.
Paul has directed several award-winning short films, including: Memories with Joe Frank, Drive Baby Drive, Home, and Zoe XO. Paul has also directed the narrative feature Four Dogs Playing Poker.
Paul’s seminal punk documentary American Hardcore world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was picked up and theatrically released by Sony Pictures Classics.
Paul is working on a new documentary with American Hardcore writer Steven Blush, Lost Rockers, about great musiciaans over the years that have been overlooked by pop culture.
Kari is an award winning costume designer with an innovative style for creating believable characters for feature films, dance/theater and television.
Always looking for a creative challenge, Kari prefers a more sustainable approach to costume design, often building wardrobe from community recycled clothing and fabrics.
Kari has worked with some of Austin’s most prolific dance choreographers and many theatrical productions over the years.
In addition to dance and theatre, Kari has designed over 20 feature films, including an ongoing projects for Richard Linklater including: Dazed and Confused, Fast Food Nation, A Scanner Darkly, Bernie, along with Love and a .45, Skateland, and Puncture.
Kari's upcoming projects include the films: When Angels Sing, Jeff Nichols’ film Mud, and The Devil’s Knot for Atom Egoyan.
Ben won Best Animation at Slamdance for the animated short film Seed, which he both co-directed and shot.
Ben was also director of photography on The Hunter & the Swan Discuss Their Meeting, a Sundance short film official selection.
Ben lived for five years in Prague, where he met director Benh Zeitlin, with whom he subsequently worked as cinematographer on the multi-award-winning short Glory At Sea.
They continued their collaboration on Beasts of the Southern Wild, winner of both the Camera d'Or at Cannes and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, where Ben also won the Excellence in Cinematography Award.
Beasts of the Southern Wild is about Hushpuppy, a fearless six-year-old girl, who lives with her father, Wink, in the Bathtub, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world.
Bill and Turner Ross started out making small personal projects that they really never showed anyone, but that changed with the SXSW premier of 45365, which went on to win numerous awards, including the Truer Than Fiction prize in the Independent Spirit Awards.
45365 explores daily life in the quintessential American small town of Sidney, Ohio. It is a portrait of a city and its people - from cops to barbers to football coaches to nursing home residents. Using an impressionistic, verite approach, the film coalesces stories into a mosaic of faces, places, and events.
More recently, their documentary, Tchoupitoulas (chop-ih-TOOL-us) has no interviews, no voiceover; just the evocation of an existence and the feelings it conjures.
In Tchoupitoulas, three young brothers take a secret sunset journey across a river to a pleasure island that's always been forbidden to them in New Orleans: a world of dancers, musicians, hustlers, drag queens, and revelers that parade through the lamp-lit streets between Rampart and the river, seen through their eyes.
Before taking up filmmaking, Kevin spent seven years touring the United States as singer and guitarist with his garage rock band Creature Did.
Kevin’s projects include: Flying Pyramids, Soaring Stones for the History Channel, Flu Time Bomb for the Discovery Channel, Fighting For Our Future for Lifetime, and Breast Cancer Legacy for Discovery Health.
Kevin was the Editor and Co-Director of Photography for the Beyond Belief for the Sundance Channel which played Tribeca and is available on DVD.
Most recently, Kevin completed work on the feature-length documentary The List and traveling back to Afghanistan to complete filming on another feature What Tomorrow Brings.
The List tells the story of Kirk Johnson, a modern-day Oskar Schindler who is fighting to save Iraqis whose lives are in danger because they worked for the U.S. government and military to help rebuild Iraq.
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.
Bullhead is now available on DVD worldwide following its limited theatrical release.
Alain attended Ecole Emile Cohl in Lyon, where he studied animation and design. Alain has written several novels and has worked for Folimage Animation Studio since 1988.
Alain's projects include: The Egotist, followed by the TV series Minuscules Tragedies and films Bitter Sweet, The Corridor, and Wrong Place, Wrong Time.
Alain also worked as animator on Jacques-Remy Girerd's animated film Raining Cats and Frogs. Often his company Folimage's collaborative work is based on Alain's texts, and Alain has also written several dark humored crime novels.
More recently, Alain was writer, co-director, and animator on an animated film noir feature film, the Oscar nominated, A Cat in Paris, where a Parisian cat living a secret life as a cat burglar's aide must come to the rescue of Zoe, the little girl he lives with, after she falls into a gangster's clutches.
After graduating from HFF Potsdam Film School in production design, Erwin’s first feature film as production designer was Absurdistan, which earned him the German Film Award for Best Production Design.
Erwin also worked as an art director on the acclaimed films The Reader and The Last Station.
Erwin worked as production designer on the visually striking 3D short film, Bloodrop, and the feature films, Songs from the Southern Seas, Womb, and A Quiet Life.
Erwin was recently the production designer for the Oscar nominated feature film, In Darkness, a dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov, hidden for 14 months in the sewers of the town.
Erwin’s other recent and upcoming production design credits include Lost in Siberia, Playoff, Syngue Sabour, and Lost Rooms.
Guy was born in Jaffa and has directed, edited, and shot films since the age of 16. As a cameraman, Guy shot several films for France 3 Television.
Guy also directed many short documentaries such as In Working Progress, Women Defying Barriers, Keywords presented in film festivals and venues worldwide. In 2010, Guy's first feature film Interrupted Streams premiered in the Jerusalem International Film Festival.
Guy's most recent documentary is 5 Broken Cameras, a collaboration with Emad Burnat, a Palestinian villager, who gets his first camera. In his village, Bil'in, a separation barrier is being built and the villagers start to resist.
For more than five years, Emad films the struggle, led by two of his best friends, while also filming his growing son Gibreel and the conflict’s effect on him and other family members. One Camera after another is shot or smashed, and each camera tells a part of his story.
5 Broken Cameras won the best world cinema directing award for both Guy and Emad and 5 Broken Cameras was nominated for best documentary at Sundance.
Ofer has shot both feature films and documentaries with some of the best-appreciated directors in Israel, such as Joseph Cedar (Time of Favor, Campfire, and Beaufort), Asi Dayan, and Amos Gitai. Beaufort was nominated for an Oscar and Ofer won the Ophir Award (the Israeli Academy Award) for his work on both Time of Favor and Beaufort.
Ofer has taken part in many foreign productions shot both in Israel and abroad. Ofer’s other recent projects as Director of Photography include the films Haiu Leilot, The Golden Pomegranate, and Shrouds.
Ofer made his directorial debut in addition to cinematography work on the documentary, Fluchkes (Flabby Arms), about five elderly women that create a dance performance, sharing their thoughts and feelings.
Monika edited the film Suzie Washington in 1998, and has since edited featured films for Michael Glawogger, including the narrative features Contact High and documentary Workingman's Death.
Monika is well known for her work on films like The Piano Player, Time of the Wolf, and the English shot-by-shot remake of Funny Games, and more recently on the Oscar nominated, The White Ribbon, all of which were directed by Michael Haneke .
Monika's recent projects include: Whore's Glory for Michael Glawogger and Amour/Love for Michael Haneke.
Nick has spent the best part of the last three decades living everywhere except his Scottish birthplace; from Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Brazil to LA (where he gained an MFA in Cinematography from the AFI).
Nick’s camera work was featured in Academy Award Nominated Lucy Walker’s film Countdown To Zero which premiered at Sundance and played at Cannes and more recently on a film project on Mongolian Archers.
Nick also worked with Academy Award Nominated Morgan Spurlock for his documentary Comicon: Episode Iv A Fan’s Hope and on his A Day In The Life series, and with Academy Award Nominated Stuart Sender on his NBC feature documentary Harmony.
Nick’s most recent work was as both Director of Photography and Associate Producer on the documentary, First Position, that follows six young dancers from around the world as they prepare for the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world.
Nick is currently resident DP and one of the founders of The Department of Expansion, specializing in artful storytelling and targeted social media.
Aleksandar has designed for many award winning plays in theatre over the years in addition to many projects in interior design and architecture, along with gallery exhibition and work on designing events.
Aleksandar's film production design credits include: We Are Not Angels, Byzantium Blue, as Set Decorator on Underground, The Wounds, the documentary Super 8 Stories, Boomerang, Deathwatch, the musical film Guca!, Die rote Zora, and Zone of the Dead.
Aleksandar's more recent projects include: the stylish action comedy film, Cat Run, and the horror/suspense film, Chernobyl Diaries, about six tourists that hire an extreme tour guide who takes them to an abandoned city, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor and soon discover they are not alone.
Marie has served as the film curator presenting weekly film series, has hosted many notable directors and artists as well, and has programmed experimental films for many years.
Marie has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, musicians and composers such as George and Mike Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists.
Marie’s films and videos have screened at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals around the world.
Marie's more recent and first feature film is a portrait of pioneering musician-artist Genesis P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and partner Lady Jaye, called The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye.
Ronald has worked on several TV series and documentaries in Quebec and a variety of feature films based out of Quebec.
Ronald's feature film work as a cinematographer includes: The Far Side of the Moon, Master Key, Funkytown, and the Oscar nominated Monsieur Lazhar.
Monsieur Lazhar is about an Algerian immigrant who is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. While the class goes through a long healing process, nobody in the school is aware of Bachir's painful former life; nor that he is at risk of being deported at any moment.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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 worked on a variety of films over the years including: Shine, The Red Violin, Hannibal Rising, Bright Young Things, the original Death At A Funeral, and Eastern Promises. for David Cronenberg, featuring a about a Russian mob family in London and their family restaurant cover up.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mike started out directing music videos for such bands as Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Blood Brothers, and The Cave Singers.
Mike made his first feature film, Analog Days about young adults in the small town of Newhall, CA, 30 miles north of Los Angeles, and the documentary, Kid Icarus, about a young man, Leigh Harkrider, that lives in a trailer park on the outskirts of Los Angeles, where with an obsession for Steven Spielberg, who sets out to make his cinematic debut with limited knowledge of what it takes to make a great film.
Mike's more recent feature film, Littlerock is a drama that examines culture shock, the universal yearning for connection, and the impact of history on ordinary people in the tale of Atsuko and Rintaro, Japanese siblings who come to California to visit a World War II-era internment camp.
Littlerock is followed up by the feature film, Pearblossom Hwy, co-written and starring Atsuko Okatsuka of Littlerock and also starring Cory Zacharia from Littlerock and Kid Icarus.
Mike currently teaches film directing at the University of Southern California.
Evan moved to California in his early 20s with a group of close friends to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker. Evan worked for Internet start-up STIM TV where he conceptualized and starred in the edgy sitcom Boss Of The Glory.
Evan has directed many music videos and worked as a cinematographer on feature-length horror film Placebo and the shorts Before Breakfast and Savanna.
Bellflower, an intensely personal story incorporating many real life events, was Evan’s feature-length directorial debut. Bellflower became Evan’s true labor of love, causing him to sacrifice almost everything, including selling off all of his personal belongings and living in an abandoned wing of an office building to fund the film.
Bellflower follows two friends as they venture out into the world to begin their adult lives. While waiting for the world to end, their call to excitement comes unexpectedly when one of them meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love.
Quickly integrated into a new group of friends, they set off on a journey of betrayal, love, hate, infidelity, and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies which in Bellflower are filled with cool customized cars, flame throwers and home bult wepons of mass destruction.
Daniel is a Screenwriter, Director, and Actor from Canada. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and was educated in Halifax and Toronto. Daniel started the theatre company da da kamera in Toronto for whom he has written, directed, and acted. Daniel is now one of Canada's best known playwrights.
Daniel has written, co-written, acted, and directed several independent films, which are usually made in his home province of Nova Scotia. They include: Past Perfect, Marion Bridge, Wilby Wonderful, Whole New Thing, and more recently Trigger.
Wilby Wonderful which he wrote, directed, and acted in is about 24 hours in the life of the small town of Wilby, where the municipal festival is in preparation as development comes to the island and threatens to change the world around them. Whole New Thing, co-written with Amnon Buchbinder, is unconventional coming-of-age narrative of a 13 year old boy, Emerson, who lives with his counter-cultural parents and develops a crush on his teacher, Don Grant, played by Daniel.
Trigger was written by Daniel and directed by Bruce MacDonald, starring Tracy Wright and Molly Parker. Trigger is the story of two rock n' roll women who once shared a friendship, a band and a chaotic lifestyle. A dozen years later they meet again, and over the course of one evening rediscover friendship, remember their rock n'roll days, and reignite chaos.
Joined by Paul Elsnau, co-producer and editor of Spoiler Alert Radio, we discussed the 2012 Academy Award short film nominees for live-action and animation.
The Oscar nominated shorts play in theaters around the US and around the world throughout months prior and after the Academy Award ceremony courtesy of Shorts International.
There were many great shorts selected from around the world and some of our favorites included: Time Freaks and The Shore (for Live Action) and A Morning Stroll and The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (for Animated).
Arnau has had several years or experience editing and collaborating on musically based films, commercials, music videos, and documentaries including: the documentary, A.Visualist and the animated Oscar nominated music laden feature film, Chico & Rita, He has working for several years on projects in collaboration with Javier Mariscal.
A.Visualist is a documentary about behind the scenes look at the philosophies and practices of VJ performance art and is noted for its unique style of non-linear editing.
Chico & Rita is about is a young piano player with big dreams, Chico, and Rita, a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
Max's director of photography credits include: Boss'n Up (with Snoop Dogg), and Fist of the Warrior.
Max's more recent work includes: the Chinese update of What Women Want, starring Gong Li and Andy Lau, and the upcoming, The Girl From The Naked Eye, a noirish detective story about Sandy, a call girl at The Naked Eye, who ends up dead and her friend and only ally in the world, Jake, goes on a manhunt to find out who killed her.
Ron's earlier projects as a set decorator have included: Legends of the Fall, Michael Collins, Cruel Intentions, and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.
Ron's TV credits include: Taking Chance, and for the series, The Royal Pains and Person of Interest.
Other more recent notable films, Ron worked on included: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind, The Burning Plain by Guillermo Arriaga, Pride and Glory, and Bride Wars.
Ron has most recently worked on the Kenneth Lonergan's film, Margaret, about a young woman's experiences in the adult world after being involved in a bus accident, and Gavin O'Connor's boxing themed drama, Warrior, starring Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton, and Tom Hardy.
After playing bass in several rock bands in the 1980s and 1990s, and getting a degree from Copenhagen's Academy of Music, Halfdan E collaborated with Danish poet Dan Turell on a crossover project which produced two CD recordings, which both won Danish Grammy Awards.
Halfdan continued to compose for film and television, working with prominent film directors such as Per Fly and Hans Petter Moland and to work as a pop and rock music producer.
Halfdan recently worked on score for the TV-series Borgen and Hans Petter Moland's stylistic black comedy, A Somewhat Gentle Man, about a man let out of prison after serving 12 years for murder, starring, Stellan Skarsgard.
Greg has worked in television for several years in television on projects as a set designer and was most known for his set design work on Star Trek: Voyager.
As Set Designer in film, Greg worked on a variety of projects including the films: Planet of the Apes, Down With Love, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, World Trade Center, Lie Free or Die Hard, and Serenity.
Greg's art direction work include the films for Paul Haggis: In The Valley Of Elah, The Next Three Days, along with the films: North Country, State of Play, Terminator Salvation, and the upcoming Avengers film for Joss Whedon.
Greg was more recently an art director on the black and white silent film The Artist, a French and Belgian co-production is set in 1927-32 Hollywood and has won been nominated for many awards including several Golden Globes.
Laurence has worked in television for several years on pilots and series including: Grey's Anatomy, Once And Again, Mr. Sterling, and EZ Streets.
Laurence's production design credits include films for Paul Haggis: In The Valley Of Elah, The Next Three Days, and the Academy Award Best Picture, Crash, along with the films Freedom Writers and Traitor.
Laurence was the production designer on the black and white silent film The Artist, a French and Belgian co-production that is set in 1927-32 Hollywood and has won and been nominated for many awards including several Golden Globes.
The Artist is about a silent movie star George Valentin who wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion.
David is an award-winning filmmaker from Texas. After making a deep impression with his short film A Catalog Of Anticipations, his debut feature, St. Nick, premiered at SXSW, and went on to play dozens of other film festivals around the world.
St. Nick was released theatrically in the spring of 2011. St. Nick is is the story of a brother and sister on the run. They've left their home for some unknown reason and are living in the woods, hiding in barns and sheds, doing what they can to survive.
David's follow-up directorial effort, Pioneer, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW the following March.
David is an alum of the Talent Campus at the Berlin Film Festival and the IFP Narrative Labs. In 2010, the Independent Film Channel declared him an "independent icon." Filmmaker Magazine has selected Lowery as one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" for 2011.
Conrad's classical training at New England Conservatory and Princeton led to arranging assignments of "source music" for diverse films, and ultimately, to orchestrating and "ghost writing" many major motion pictures, collaborating with many renowned composers including: John Williams, Alexandre Desplat, James Newton Howard, Jerry Goldsmith, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, and Mark Isham.
Conrad's orchestration credits include the more recent installments of Star Wars, the Harry Potter film series, King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and many others.
Conrad has composed the score for several independent films with smaller budgets, and his most score composition is for the film My Week with Marilyn, about Colin Clark's observations of tense interaction between Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.
Conrad has received several awards for his work, including winning the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship and Fulbright Fellowship. Conrad's work has been performed from the United States to Europe to Australia.
John has successfully been involved in casting all of Nebraska Director Alexander Payne's films.
John tries to match the role to the person - often picking people off the street who match his criteria. He's selected housewives at the market, students in high schools, security guards - even a couple farmers in Loveland, Iowa.
Working Alexander Payne gives John the leeway he needs to be a good and cutting edge casting director. John has worked on his films including: Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt, and Sideways.
John has also worked in casting on other great films like: The Host, American Zombie, and The Objective.
John recently was the Casting Director on Alexander Payne's award winning film, The Descendants, taking place in Hawaii starring big actors like George Clooney, newcomers like Nick Krause, and other actors that were native in Hawaii.
David started in film-scoring on David Gordon Green's acclaimed debut feature George Washington and has since worked with David Gordon Green on four of his subsequent features, including All the Real Girls, Snow Angels, and the more recent Fox comedy The Sitter.
David has worked with other acclaimed directors such as Jared Hess, Craig Zobel, Todd Rohal, and also scored the documentary Gerrymandering.
David also contributed to the score as a composer of Jeff Nichols' critically acclaimed film, Take Shelter. Take Shelter is about a man being plagued by apocalyptic visions of a coming storm who needs to determine whether to shelter his family from the storm or from himself.
David has also been active with his band Ola Podrida, putting out full-length albums, and touring the US and Europe.
Evgeni Tomov, is a Production Designer, Conceptual Artist, and Illustrator specializing in feature length and short animated films, and animated TV series. Originally from the former Soviet Union, Evgeni moved to Montreal, where he worked as an Art Director and Illustrator for several advertising agencies.
In 1997, his role as Assistant Art Director on the animated short The Old Lady and the Pigeons was his first collaboration on an Oscar® nominated film for French animation director Sylvain Chomet.
Evgeni again worked with Sylvain Chomet as Art Director and Production Designer on the Oscar® nominated French animated feature The Triplets of Belleville.
Evgeni worked at Chomet’s Studio Django in Scotland on film development, including working as development art director for the Oscar® nominated animated feature The Illusionist, a bittersweet tale of a French magician struggling to survive in a world that no longer seems to need him.
Evgeni has worked as Production Designer on The Tale of Despereaux and the upcoming Arthur Christmas, a co-production between Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures.
Arthur Christmas reveals the answer to every child's question about how Santa delivers all those presents in one night - through Santa's ultra-high-tech hidden beneath operation the North Pole and Arthur's family is in a state of comic dysfunction. Arthur has an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning.
In collaboration with Hans Zimmer, Klaus contributed to the Oscar-nominated scores for The Thin Red Line and The Prince of Egypt, as well as writing music for directors including: Ridley Scott, Terrence Mallick, John Woo, Kathryn Bigelow, Werner Herzog, Sean Penn, Gore Verbinski, Michael Bay, and Steven Spielberg.
His film projects included: Gladiator, The Pledge, Hannibal, and Pearl Harbor, and the notable score for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
In 2004, Klaus branched out of Zimmer's studio and founded Theme Park Studios, in Santa Monica, CA.
From here Klaus has scored: Ned Kelly, Constantine, Poseidon, Rescue Dawn, Heartbreaker, The Extra Man, and Point Blank.
Klaus worked on the soundtrack for Chinese fantasy film, The Promise and wrote the music for the closing ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Klaus was recently commissioned to write an opera about China's First Emperor.
Parke won Summit, Addy, and Telly awards as IBM Tivoli's Manager of New Media, and later in 1999, he launched Pointsphere, a new media consulting firm.
Parke was the Post Production Supervisor on the CNBC television series American Made and Associate Producer for the Emmy Award winning PBS documentary series, The State of Tomorrow.
In 2007, with partners Allison Turrell and Lyman Hardy, Parke formed Stuck On On, an audio and visual post production company, where he is the lead colorist and editor.
Parke had contributed to the films including: Take Shelter, Where Soldiers Come From, Restive, Blacktino, The Eyes of Me, and The Happy Poet.
The film Take Shelter is about a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself, starring Michael Shannon.
Anne has collaborated in the art department for renowned directors such as: Richard Heffron, on La Revolution Francaise , for Serge Gainsbourg, on Stan the Flasher, for Renny Harlin on Cutthroat Island, for Randall Wallace, on The Man in the Iron Mask, and Tony Scott, on Spy Game.
In 2002, Anne worked on her first Production Designer role on a feature film for English director, Eric Styles' film Tempo starring Melanie Griffith.
When working as an art director on Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette in 2004, Anne met the producer Ross Katz who offered her a Production Designer role in 2008, on her first Indian movie called Road, Movie for Dev Benegal.
Over time Anne has collaborated on other big projects as art director, including: Munich, The Devil Wears Prada, The Happening, and Hereafter.
Anne began working with Woody Allen on his recent film Midnight in Paris, about a jilted screenwriter named Gil who strolls the lanes of Paris with his head in the clouds and walks right into his own best fantasy. She has also worked as production designer on Woody Allen's upcoming Nero Fiddled shot in Rome, Italy.
Haskell received Oscar nominations for his work on the documentary The Living City; the short film T Is For Tumbleweed and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and won Oscars for his work on Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf and Bound For Glory.
Haskell has worked on several films with John Sayles including Matewan, The Secret of Roan Inish, Limbo, and Silver City.
Haskell has dierected and filmed a number of important documentary films to his credit, including The Bus, Interviews With Mee Lie Veterans, and Introduction to the Enemy, co-directed with Jane Fonda.
Haskell created the groundbreaking neo-documentary style film, Medium Cool about a TV news camera find himself becoming personally involved in the violence which erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Haskell more recently directed the documentary Who Needs Sleep? about sleep deprivation in the film industry and shot Bringing King to China about a young American teacher in Beijing, whose failed protests against the Iraq war drive her to produce a play in China about Martin Luther King, Jr.
We discussed a variety of unique film festivals that play around the US and around the world.
This includes traveling short film festivals, traveling niche or novelty film festivals, and animation festivals.
While only scratching the surface, we hope to give an insight into the great depth of film programming available locally and globally, and to remind you to keep an eye out in case one of these festivals or films heads to a cinema near you.
The film festivals discussed on the show include:
Traveling Short Film Festivals:
The Manhattan Short Film Festival, The Oscar Shorts, Tres Court (Very Short), Short Short Story Film Festival
Niche and Novetlty Film Festivals:
Bicycle Film Festival, REEL Rock Film Tour, Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Found Footage Festival, Free Range Film Festival, United Film Festivals
Animation Film Festivals traveling:
Spike and Mike Festival(s) of Animation, The Animation Show, Animation Block Party, Ottawa Film Fest, Tricky Women, Womanimation!
Not Touring Animation Festivals:
Annecy, Animafest Zagreb (Trickfilm), Anima Mundi (Brazil), Red Stick
Andre made a name for himself as one of Norway’s most successful directors of commercials with almost two hundred commercials for clients in Norway and abroad to his credit, as well as directing award winning short films.
Andre’s latest work is the feature, TrollHunter, a thrilling documentary style film that is both darkly comedic and suspenseful.
Filmed in the countryside of Norway, TrollHunter tells the story of a veteran hunter and fed-up government employee as he reveals the world of beasts known only to Norwegians in stories from their childhood and the students and the audience eventually believe his unlikely tales.
TrollHunter is great for screening on Halloween and is available on DVD and streaming.
Ruben directed films on skiing in the late 1990s, some of them now world-famous. After a documentary work in 2000 he made his award-winning feature debut, The Guitar Mongoloid, in 2004.
Ruben's feature film Involuntary was selected for Cannes 2008 and has since been in major festivals worldwide and Sweden´s nominee for Best Foreign Language Oscar that year. Involuntary is a series of stories exploring different perspectives on the power of a group over the individual.
Ruben’s short film Incident by a Bank won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. His next feature, Play, premiered in Cannes 2011.
Incident by a Bank is about an attempted bank robbery and follows the thought process of two confused witnesses, the filmographer and the producer.
Play is an astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008, using an elaborate scheme called the "little brother number" or "brother trick", involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.
Diego has worked as a Director of Photography on numerous projects including Tony Bravo and Mutiny, an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival.
In 2001, Diego was hired to direct the Latin American sitcom, Planeta de 6, for the Venezuelan television network Televen. The show was nominated for an INTE Award for Best Television Comedy.
Diego was selected to participate in Fox Searchlab, a program created in order to further the careers of up and coming filmmakers. Day Shift is the result of this collaboration.
Diego co-wrote and directed his first feature film, The Zero Hour, a gritty, fast-paced heist thriller, that was the highest grossing Venezuelan film in history, Set in Caracas during the 24 hours of a controversial medical strike.
Dickon is a founding member of Tindersticks, the seminal UK band for which he composed music, played violin, guitar and keyboards.
His orchestral arrangements were one of Tindersticks' most distinctive features. From 1993 to 2005, Dickon was involved in ten of their releases including their self-titled debut which was Melody Maker's album of the year.
Dickon began scoring films when French director Claire Denis approached Tindersticks to write the score to her films like Trouble Every Day, starring Vincent Gallo, and the film Friday Night.
Dickon has scored several other films including Forty Shades of Blue, directed by Ira Sachs, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2005.
Dickon has composed music for a range of films from Married Life, Last Chance Harvey, Cold Souls, and Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 for James Marsh.
More recently, Dickon scored Debra Granik's multiple award winning feature film Winter's Bone, Passion Play for Mitch Glazer and the award winning documentary, Project Nim, again for James Marsh.
Jaco made his feature-length debut in 1991 with Toto The Hero, a tale about a man who believes his life was "stolen" from him when he was switched at birth.
Toto The Hero gained wide critical acclaim, winning both the César Award for best foreign film and the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Jaco’s second feature film The Eighth Day is a story of a young man with Down syndrome, played by Pascal Duquenne, who lives in a mental institution and the unlikely relationship he forges with a businessman, played by Daniel Auteuil. Both actors won awards at Cannes for their performances, and the film was nominated for a Golden Globe among other awards.
More recently, Jaco wrote and directed Mr. Nobody, starring Jared Leto, a surreal exploration of freewill as Nemo Nobody experiences different lives depending on what choices he made as a boy.
Jaco’s films have some strong common themes between them.
Jaco’s films make distinctive use of naive voiceover and examine the world from an innocent perspective. The films are often slightly surreal and potray death not as a tragedy, but as a happy moving on.
Nigel Bluck earned a degree in Cinematography from the prestigious Australian Film Television and Radio School.
Upon graduation, Nigel became one of the top DPs in the commercial world and his feature career soon began as additional photographer on the critically acclaimed and award winning trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Other feature credits for Nigel include Half Moon, for which he won Best Cinematography at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Nigel also received recognition for his work on The Home Song Stories, winning several awards for best cinematography in a feature film.
Some more recent projects include Handsome Harry and The Tree:
Handsome Harry is about ex-Navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate who tries to break the code of silence around a mysterious, long-buried crime.
The Tree is about 8-year-old Simone, after the sudden death of her father, who shares a secret with her mother Dawn and that her father speaks back to them through the leaves of her favorite tree.
Before his commercial success, Marshall worked as senior producer at Icon Nicholson, a New York multimedia design firm.
Marshall is a graduate of Swarthmore College where he majored in Comparative Religion.
Marshall got his start shooting, directing, and editing the documentary Street Fight, which followed Cory Booker's first run for mayor of Newark, NJ. The film went on to be nominated for both an Academy Award and an Emmy.
After Street Fight, Marshall was the Director and Producer, as well as one of the Cinematographers and Editors of the feature documentary, the award winning film, Racing Dreams.
Racing Dreams follows two boys and a girl who dream of one day racing in NASCAR.
Marshall's newest documentary, If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front, tells the story of a radical environmentalist who faced life in prison for burning two Oregon timber facilities, which won the Sundance Film Festival award for Best Documentary.
As an artist, Martin has shown his painting and sculpture internationally.
Some of Martin's recent works as a production designer include: Super 8 for J.J. Abrams, Devil, and The Promotion for Steve Conrad.
Martin also worked as production designer on Cloverfield for Matt Reeves, Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny, and Smokin' Aces.
Martin was also the art director on a number feature films including: The Island, the Academy Award nominated Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Along Came Polly, Down With Love, and Phone Booth.
After receiving an ACS award for an Australian independent film, Dennys was hired as cinematographer on one of the first large budget HD features shot in Bollywood.
Dennys’ passion for photography has taken him from Outback Australia to the world over and has seen publication either in or on the cover of magazines such as Lime, Studio France, Rolling Stone, InStyle, and many national and international newspapers.
In 2005, Dennys was given the opportunity to do an exclusive shoot with Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe. These images were of showed his coming of age to the world and were taken on the eve of his 16th birthday. Since then Dennys has carried out further shoots of Dan for further Harry Potter film releases, and the Australian film the December Boys.
Dennys continues to work in film, television and music, capturing a range of intimate one-on-one portraits with actors as well as for a wide range of directors and producers on shorts and features.
Dennys filmed Michael Rhymer’s feature film Face to Face, an adaptation from David Williamson's play of the same name which is based on the transcripts from real conflict resolution sessions.
Through Kusiak Music, as principal composrer, John has composed music for film, television, advertising and live performance, including several award-winning documentaries.
This includes working in the music department and scoring content for documentary projects for Errol Morris like: Fast, Cheap, Out of Control, intros for the Academy Awards, Mr. Death, the First Person TV Series, and the Academy Award winning film, The Fog of War.
John has also scored for other award winning films like The Singing Revolution and Luckey for The Sundance Channel.
More recently, John, scored Errol Morris' film Tabloid, a documentary about the former Miss Wyoming, Joyce McKinney, who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.
Luke’s documentary work is a continuous study of natural light, human movement and simply doing more with less. Luke's narrative work brings factors of control, beauty and storytelling that inform his approach on a daily basis. In this journey, he has filmed successes as varied as Helvetica, Objectified, Borat, and Jane’s Addiction’s Three Days.
Some of Luke's more recent work includes the documentaries: Buck, the real-life story of Dan "Buck" Brannaman, a cowboy who has the almost magical ability to calm unruly horses and Love Etc. about diverse couples, each in different stages of their relationships in NYC.
Luke has also shot Urbanized, about city design, the latest in Gary Hustwit's design-oriented documentary feature film series.
Andre made a name for himself as one of Norway’s most successful directors of commercials with almost two hundred commercials for clients in Norway and abroad to his credit, as well as directing award winning short films.
Andre’s latest work is the feature, TrollHunter, a thrilling documentary style film that is both darkly comedic and suspenseful.
Filmed in the countryside of Norway, TrollHunter tells the story of a veteran hunter and fed-up government employee as he reveals the world of beasts known only to Norwegians in stories from their childhood and the students and the audience eventually believe his unlikely tales.
Austrian Cinematographer, Peter Zeitlinger, worked as Director of Photography on Werner Herzog’s documentary, Death For Five Voices in 1995, continuing this collaboration up to Cave Of Forgotten Dreams and beyond.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams was shot in 3D inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their natural setting.
Peter shot the documentary film Encounters at the End of the World showcasing the landscapes of Antarctica which was nominated for the Academy Award.
Additionally, Peter is known for his cinematograhy work on several documentary and narrative films including: Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Rescue Dawn, Invincible, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans, and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done.
New Zealand based documentary filmmaker, Leanne Pooley, established the independent production company Spacific Films based in New Zealand. Her earlier documentaries include: Relative Guilt, Kiwi Buddha, and Haunting Douglass about modern dancer and choreographer Douglas Wright.
Leanne has made the award winning documentary films: The Promise, Try Revolution, and Being Billy Apple.
Leanne more recently created the documentary The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, a film about the lives of lesbian, singing, twin sister comedy duo, the Topp Twins. It has won many international awards including audience awards at Toronto, Melbourne, and Gothenburg, and won Best Feature at the NZ Film & TV Awards and was the most successful NZ documentary of all time.
Leanne is also directing Shackleton's Captain, a documentary about Frank Worsley, captain of Shackleton's Endurance, and is producing the documentary Finding Mercy.
Pasquale has collaborated as conductor, orchestrator, arranger and composer for films for directors Pappi Corsicato and Dario D’Ambrosi, on the films, One Man Up and The Consequences of Love, by Paolo Sorrentino, and Mario's War by Antonio Capuano.
Pasquale later composed the music for Signorina Effe, The Sicilian Girl, and The Double Hour.
Pasquale more recently collaborated on the film Loose Cannons earning a nomination for the David of Donatello and Silver Ribbon Film Award.
Pasquale scored Barney's Version an Italian-Canadian co-production based on the novel by the same name by Mordecai Richler starring Paul Giamatti and directed by Richard J. Lewis.
This was a rebroadcast of an interview with Boston-based animator, Karen Aqua. Karen died May 30, 2011 at the age of 57.
Since 1976, Karen created animated films exploring the themes of ritual, journeys, transformation, and the human spirit. Much of her work reflects an interest in symbols, mythology, and prehistoric and tribal cultures, and includes elements of rhythm, dance, and music.
Karen's award-winning films have been screened nationally and internationally, at film festivals, museums, and universities. Aqua’s animation appears regularly on Sesame Street.
Just before her death, Karen completed her final work Taxonomy which premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
Dutch Editor, Job Ter Burg started out as an editor for mostly television documentaries, but after his continued collaboration with film school class mate Martin Koolhoven on Dark Light and the highly awarded Suzy Q, he focused on editing feature films.
After two nominations for Best Film Editing for his work on Godforsaken for Pieter Kuijpers and Schnitzel Paradise for Martin Koolhoven, Job became the lead film editor on the prestigious Black Book, Paul Verhoeven’s first Dutch film in 20 years.
Black Book by Paul Verhoeven and Winter In Wartime by Martin Koolhoven were both shortlisted for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Job was also awarded with the Golden Calf for Best Film Editing for work on Rudolf van den Berg’s film Tirza.
Job is co-founder and President of the Netherlands Association of Cinema Editors (NCE) and is a regular guest teacher, lecturer and editing coach.
Frankie Demarco is best known for his collaborative work as Director of Photography with John Cameron Mitchell on the films: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus, and Academy Award nominated Rabbit Hole.
Frankie’s work over the years has also included: Jessica Yu’s comedy, Ping Pong Playa, comedies Beerfest and The Winning Season, the love story Peter and Vandy, and the documentaries, Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey, Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart, and How to Draw A Bunny.
Frankie has recently completed work on JC Chandor’s film Margin Call, a thriller that revolves around the key people at a investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
Dutch Production Designer, Floris Vos studied as a furniture maker and worked as a set-builder for Dutch television.
Floris then began working with productions designers on film work in different capacities on films for Peter Greenaway, Robert Altman, and Sally Potter.
By 1997, Floris began working exclusively as a production designer, developing a steady working relationship with a select group of directors and production companies, including for photographer Erwin Olaf, directors Martin Koolhoven and Alejandro Agresti, and for IDTV Films (formerly Motel Films).
Floris has received awards in production design for a number of films that he has worked on, including Valentin, about an 8-year-old boy, raised by his grandmother, surrounded by problems in his family he finds only himself capable of solving set in the 1960s in Argentina, and Winter in Wartime, taking place at the end of World War II, about a 14-year-old boy that becomes involved with the Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded British soldier.
Lee Chatametikool, a Thai film editor who studied filmmaking in the United States, is the founder of the post-production company, Houdini Studio.
Lee is a frequent collaborator with Apichatpong Weerasethakul (known as Joe) and other Thai independent film directors, but has also worked on commercial films, including the hit Thai horror film, Shutter.
Lee has worked with Joe on four films: Blissfully Yours, Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a Century, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, each film having an unconventional use of the narrative film structure to tell a story. At the inaugural Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong, Lee won the Best Editor award for Syndromes and a Century.
Levi Abrino was raised with on a dairy farm in Western Pennsylvania. Leaving the farm for Penn State University, he earned degrees in Geography and Filmmaking.
Levi is a graduate of New York University's MFA film program. His short films have screened and won awards at numerous festivals including Slamdance, Clermont-Ferrand, and Milan, and at the IFC Center in New York.
Levi's thesis film Little Horses, co-written with Luke Matheny, is about a Dave, a divorced small-town postal worker that tries to win his family back by getting his son a pony for his 8th birthday, which has screened in film festivals worldwide.
Levi also edited, Luke Matheny’s Oscar winning short film, God of Love, about a lovestruck, lounge-singing darts champion that finds his prayers are answered when he mysteriously receives a box of love-inducing darts.
Levi also spends his time working as an editor and script supervisor and working on upcoming feature film scripts.
Johan Soderqvist has written numerous scores for film and television, including several scores for films directed by the acclaimed Danish director, Susanne Bier. Among those titles are the award-winning score for Brothers, After the Wedding, Things We Lost in the Fire, and more recently for In A Better World, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
Johan was nominated as Best Composer by the European Film Academy for his Brothers score. Johan's work was also awarded the UCMF Award for Best Film Music in Cannes.
Johan also received numerous awards and acclaim for his score on the film, Let the Right One In, about Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.
Some of Johan’s other works include the tense drama, Troubled Water, Earth Made of Glass about the Rwandan genocide, and the Norwegian dramatic period piece, King of Devil's Island.
Mark Becker co-edited the award winning Lost Boys of Sudan, which won an Independent Spirit Award.
Mark has also worked as an editor for Lucasfilm, PBS, and on various independent productions. Working as a cinematographer, he has filmed documentaries for PBS, the BBC, MTV, and the Discovery Channel.
Mark produced and directed Romantico, about a troubadour returns home to scratch out a living in Mexico after years of trying to get ahead in San Francisco.
Mark was the director, editor, and cinematographer for the documentary film Pressure Cooker about three Frankford High seniors that find an unlikely ally in the form of culinary arts teacher Wilma Stephenson.
More recently, Mark edited and co-wrote sequences for the inspiring documentary, Circo, about a hardscrabble traveling Mexican circus troupe that has lived and performed on the road since the 19th Century, and its chances for survival today.
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.
Danish film editor, Morten Højbjerg graduated at the National Danish Film School in 2003.
Morten’s credits over the years includes editing award winning documentary and narrative feature films.
He has worked on Jorgen Leth’s and Lar Von Trier’s The 5 Obstructions, Susanne Bier’s After The Wedding, the documentaries Roskilde and Defamation, and the films Love and Rage and The Woman That Dreamed About a Man.
Some of Morten’s other editing work includes theatrical trailers, the Oscar-Nominated short film Helmer & Son, and the music video of Flashing Lights for Kanye West.
Morten more recently worked as a co-editor on Lar’s Von Triers’ science fiction feature, Melancholia.
Tony Gardner is an American Makeup and Special Effects Designer that has been involved in films including: 127 Hours, Zombieland, Hairspray, A Dirty Shame, Three Kings, Jack Ass: The Movie, Shallow Hal, There’s Something About Mary, and Darkman.
Tony also contributed to the Daft Punk music videos for Technologic, The Prime Time of Your Life and their feature-length film Daft Punk's Electroma.
Beyond the film-making arena, he also designed and created the popular GEICO Cavemen characters.
UK Film and Television Editor Billy Sneddon’s credits over the years include work in editing comedy television, video and film for projects including the television series Green Wing, The Thick of It, The Inbetweeners, and No Heroics, and more recently Veep.
Billy has edited for Billy Connolly’s Two Night Stand for the London segment and Live in New York.
Film projects Billy has worked on include the comedic short film Bistro, the award winning political satire feature film In the Loop, and the black comedic feature Four Lions.
Billy recently worked on Nick Hamm’s film Killing Bono, about two brothers who attempt to become global rock stars but can only look on as old school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
Editor and director Jeff Malmberg’s editing credits include: the critically acclaimed BET documentary series American Gangster, A&E's Biography, ESPN's SportsCentury, and numerous shows for the History Channel. He has cut over 100 spots for such directors as George Lucas, Errol Morris, TRAKTOR, and Harald Zwart.
Jeff produced and edited Red White Black & Blue with Tom Putnam, telling the story of the Battle of Attu, in Alaska.
Jeff Malmberg's directorial debut, the feature-length documentary Marwencol, wining many awards, including the Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award.
Marwencol is a documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp, where after being victimized in a brutal attack, Mark built a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard.
Bjarne Hansen has been working by freelancing in illustration for magazines, commercials and books since graduating from the Art and Craft School in Kolding in 1991. He has also worked in pre-production on the TV shows Troll Tales, Benjamin Blümchen, among other TV specials.
Bjarne has been a background painter for A-Film on the features Quest For Camelot and JungleJack 1+2. He also worked on a small primary color-script for the cgi-feature Jungo Goes Bananas (Junglejack #3). He worked as head of backgrounds on A-Film's feature Asterix and the Vikings.
Bjarne has also written and drawn graphic novels, illustrated a story by Morten Remar, and has worked coloring DC Comics including House of Secrets, The Light Brigade, A God Somewhere, and Superman for All Seasons.
Bjarne recently has worked as art director on Sylvain Chomet’s film The Illusionist, focusing on color-script and background-painting. The Illusionist is a bittersweet tale about a French magician in late 1950s Scotland who struggles to survive as the world becomes less and less interested in his craft. The Illusionist was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Evgeni Tomov, is a Production Designer, Conceptual Artist, and Illustrator specializing in feature length and short animated films, and animated TV series. Originally from the former Soviet Union, Evgeni moved to Montreal, where he worked
as an Art Director and Illustrator for several advertising agencies.
In 1997, his role as Assistant Art Director on the animated short The Old Lady and the Pigeons was his first collaboration
on an Oscar® nominated film for French animation director Sylvain Chomet.
Evgeni then worked on numerous children's TV series for the Canadian studio CINAR Animation. As Environment Design Supervisor for CINAR, he developed the series Animal Crackers and Mona the Vampire. He then also worked as a background painter for the Cactus Animation series Fennec Le Détective.
Evgeni again worked with Sylvain Chomet as Art Director and Production Designer on the Oscar® nominated French animated feature The Triplets of Belleville.
Evgeni worked at Chomet’s Studio Django in Scotland on film development, including working as development art director for
the Oscar® nominated animated feature The Illusionist, a bittersweet tale of a French magician struggling to survive in a
world that no longer seems to need him.
Evgeni has worked as Production Designer on The Tale of Despereaux and the upcoming Arthur Christmas, a co-
production between Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures.
Originally trained as a painter, Jason Carpenter has an expressive, organic style with a focus on light and shadow.
Jason received an MFA from Calarts in Experimental Animation, where he further developed his story and filmmaking skills.
When he's not working on his own animated projects, Jason collaborates with his brother Michael as half of Carpenter Bros. Animation.
Together they direct art and animation for commercials, tv shows, theme parks, and museum exhibits.
One of Jason's personal animated projects, is the Annie nominated short film, The Renter. The Renter is based on a true story and follows the journey of a young boy who is cared for by an elderly woman during the day.
Eric Howell has worn multiple hats on a plethora of both independent and studio films: from camera operator, effects technician, stuntman, and locations scout, to dolly grip, director and producer.
Eric joined the Screen Actors Guild to begin performing as a stuntman and bit-part actor. This experience in turn propelled Eric into stunt coordination and 2nd unit directing. Credits include: A Simple Plan, Untamed Heart, The Mighty Ducks, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Factorum, Older Than America, and A Serious Man.
Eric’s producing and directing experience began with the international award winning short The Interview, the first motion picture to be shot on film and debuted on the internet and has writen several highly praised feature length screenplays.
Eric dove back into directing and emerged with his internationally acclaimed Ana's Playground, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award, about the moment when a child, Ana, who is forced to choose between ideology and humanity while living and playing in a dangerous war environment.
On this episode of Spoiler Alert Radio, we discussed the 2011 Academy Award live action short film nominees, honorable mentions, and shortlisted films.
I was joined by Spoiler Alert Radio, co-producer, and editor Paul Elsnau to give our take on this year’s nominated and shortlisted animated short films.
On this episode of Spoiler Alert Radio, we discussed the 2011 Academy Award animated short film nominees, honorable mentions, and shortlisted films.
I was joined by Spoiler Alert Radio, co-producer, and editor Paul Elsnau to give our take on this year’s nominated and shortlisted animated short films.
Gabriel Rhodes has worked on several documentaries and short films including the short film, Anna is Being Stalked, which premiered at Sundance.
Gabriel was completed editing work for The Sundance Channel, Showtime, and A&E, and a wide array films and earlier works, Control Room, and My Kid Could Paint That.
He also directed and edited August in the Empire State following Cheri Honkala, liberal activist, Paul Rodriguez, Republican candidate for Congress; and Michelle Goldberg, an independent journalist during the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Gabriel’s documentary, Behind the Glass, tells the story of motion picture projectionists preparing to make their last stand against the encroaching forces of technology as digital projection technology replaces century-old projectors in theatres across the country.
Gabriel also worked as an editor on the award winning documentaries, Quest For Honor, about a former teacher and tireless activist that works to investigate and eradicate honor killings in the tribal regions of Kurdistan, and The Tillman Story, about football player Pat Tillman’s death in the line of duty that the military manipulated into a propaganda tool.
Jennifer Dehghan began her career as an Art Director for BBDO in NYC where her work won such awards as New York Addy Gold awards, Creativity Magazine's Awards of Distinction and AdWeek’s Spots of the Week.
Jennifer shot the launch spot for an AOL Brand with Jake Scott of RSA Productions where for the first time she was involved in the behind-the-scenes aspects of production and production design.
Jennifer’s first notable project was art directing Academy Award Nominated The Squid and the Whale, after her art direction work on The Lost Cause by Oscar Winning Writer Jim Taylor.
She went on to design Thanksgiving and Kettle of Fish, both of which premiered at Tribeca. Other highlights include her design for On the Road With Judas, The Merry Gentleman for Michael Keaton, and Dare which debuted and received critical acclaim at the Sundance.
More recently Jennifer has worked as poduction designer on Choose for Oscar winning Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato as well as a period drama, The Music Never Stopped, for James Kohlberg.
Ole Birkeland has worked as a director of photography with a wide of variety directors over the years on in various genres and on both features and shorts, including the dramatic short film Lullaby, about a mother meeting her lost child.
His work over the years includes the films: the documentary Peace One Day, Everything, a comedy/drama, featuring Ray Winstone, the horror film, The Devil’s Chair, Ruby Blue from director Jan Dunn starring Bob Hoskins, about elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing.
Ole’s more recent work includes: Helen, about 2 lost teen girls with one trying to find herself, a stunning experimental docudrama, The Calling, also from Jan Dunn, featuring Brenda Blethyn about a university student leaving to become a nun, and The Arbor, a portrayal of the late Bradford playwright, Andrea Dunbar.
Nicolas Chaudeurge, a UK based film editor, has been editing drama and documentary for 14 years in both the UK and France. He has edited over twenty award- winning short films, including the Oscar winning Wasp, directed by Andrea Arnold.
Nicolas soon moved on to editing television dramas and feature films, collaborating again with Andrea Arnold on Red Road which won the Cannes Jury Prize. Other recent credits include Kevin McDonald’s feature documentary My Enemy’s Enemy and The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos for Disney.
Nicolas recently worked on Andrea Arnold’s film Fish Tank, the story of 15-year old Mia, whose life is turned on its head when her mother brings home a new boyfriend, in an unsettling coming of age film, which also won a Jury Prize in Cannes and a BAFTA for Best British Film.
Rob Lemkin a UK documentary filmmaker that has produced and directed over 50 documentaries for BBC, ITV, Sky, The History Channel (US), and Arts & Entertainment.
Rob has won numerous awards in Britain and he has made several films about the history and politics of Asia over the years.
Rob's latest film is Enemies of the People, a personal documentary about those involved in the Killing Fields of Cambodia, with investigative journalist Thet Sambath, who spent a decade of life building trust of men and women who perpetrated the massacres.
Enemies of the People has been shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Jude Farr is a UK set decorator with over 25 years in the film and television industry.
Jude is based in the UK with experience working in France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, CZ. Republic, Romania, Ireland, Borneo, Morocco, Iceland, Finland, & Sweden.
Jude has worked on a variety of films over the years including: Shine, The Red Violin, Hannibal Rising, Bright Young Things, the original Death At A Funeral, and Eastern Promises. for David Cronenberg, featuring a about a Russian mob family in London and their family restaurant cover up.
Jude 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.
Jude 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.
Cinematographer Sean Kirby shot the surreal film Police Beat, about an African-born bicycle cop encounters strange and mysterious situations on his police beat in urban Seattle.
In 2007, he re-teamed with writer/director team Robinson Devor and Charles Mudede and realized the controversial documentary Zoo about the life of an Enumclaw, Washington man who died as a result of an unusual encounter with a horse.
Some of his later credits include: Lovely Still, an emotionally moving holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time, Against the Current, about a man, struggling with a tragic past, with an urgent calling who enlists two friends to help him swim the length of the Hudson River, starring Joseph Fiennes, and The Tillman Story, a documentary on the story of Pat Tillman.
Lisa James Larsson has worked as an editor, director, and writer in television and short film projects.
In 2008, Lisa completed her graduation film Pussyfooting, staring Kate Dickie and Terence Beesley.
More recently, Lisa completed her short film Little Children, Big Words about a seven year old boy that tells his class mates what he wants to be when he grows up starting an uncomfortable discussion about the meaning of an unknown but loaded word, revealing the teacher’s story of victim and offender.
Little Children, Big Words premiered at Palm Springs International Shortfest, and garnered a number of international screening and awards.
Little Children, Big Words is also shortlisted for Oscar nomination for the Academy Awards 2011.
An Emmy nominated filmmaker, Thomas Burstyn, has over thirty years experience as a cinematographer. Tom trained at the National Film Board of Canada as a documentary filmmaker, before moving into feature films, which include: The Lost Tribe, When Trumpets Fade, City of Industry, Population 436, and The Boys & Girl From Country Claire.
Tom's film company, Cloud South Films is a film company created by Tom and his wife, journalist Barbara Sumner Burstyn. Cloud South Films is committed to sustainability, both personal and professional in their documentary filmmaking in films including, One Man, One Cow, One Planet and This Way of Life.
One Man, One Cow, One Planet is story of Peter Proctor's trek to India to help restore traditional farming there.
This Way of Life is about Peter Karena, his wife Colleen, their six children and many horses who live almost wild in the stunning beauty of New Zealand's rugged Ruahine Mountains and their struggles with Peter's father and life's challenges in their way of life.
Both films have won screened worldwide and won many awards. This Way of Life has also been shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
In 2004, composer Steve Lynch created, Stellarsound, an award winning music company that specializes in commercials and films.
Steve's notable work includes Let’s Dance (a David Bowie cover) for Ballygowan, which also won a Gold Shark Award for best use of music.
Steve has composed for countless commercials, short films and documentaries that have been shown both nationally and internationally, including a two hour score for Cromwell in Ireland - an HD documentary for the History Channel UK and the Smithsonian Channel in the US, which was recorded in Bratislava with a 40 piece orchestra.
Steve's scores for award winning short films in a variety of genres include: An Teanga Runda, Of Best Intentions, Spota, Mr. Foley, and Crossing Salween.
German animator Moritz Mayerhofer, was accepted into the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany, to study animation.
After three years, Moritz took up an exchange program at Gobelins, Paris. There he started the visual development and design for 'Urs', which was his thesis-project. He has since graduated with that film at the Institute of Animation at the Filmakademie.
Urs, is a touching and atmospheric CGI animated film about a son helping his aging by carrying her up a mountain to find a better life for each of them. Urs has garnered several awards globally and is a finalist in the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film.
Shane Sutton, artist and filmmaker, has worked extensively with a variety of media, including illustration and computer-aided design, and his original passion, painting, producing work that is at once highly appreciative of the medium of oil paint, yet informed by the technicality of his graphic work.
Shane co-directed and edited Fight or Flight, a documentary which follows a Dublin man as he ventures into the world of Thai boxing. Shot over two years in Thailand, the film has been shown in film festivals in Europe, the United States, garnering awards around the world.
Shane was also selected to participate in the Berlin Talent Campus. He has also created the short film, Fail?, about a man, Kevin, a darkly comic short film depicting his life after years of stress and heartache, along as contributing on shooting and editing work on Malgorzata, and The Video Box.
Adam Taub is a documentary film director from Colorado whose films include, Don Angelo, La Quinceañera, and El Duque de la Bachata (The Duke of Bachata).
Don Angelo, is The story of Angelo Chavez, a retired U.S. naval officer who spends his retirement years driving to Tijuana, Mexico to help those in need.
La Quinceañera, explores the issues of family, faith, and coming of age, and is a portrait of a Mexican family's love and devotion to each other.
El Duque de la Bachata is Adam’s more recent documentary following Dominican bachata and merengue musician Joan Soriano as he works to accomplish his dream of a hit song and fame as an artist.
Adam is also working a documentary on the people, music and geography of the Island of Cape Breton, called The Cape Breton Fiddler.
For over 25 years, Clark Hunter has worked as a production designer on a wide range of films including the Billy Bob Thornton-directed films: Sling Blade, All the Pretty Horses, and Daddy and Them.
Clark has also worked with The Polish Brothers and M. David Mullen, ASC on The Astronaut Farmer, Stay Cool, and The Smell of Success. Clark also has designed films like Carriers, an interesting twist on an apocaltypic thriller.
Clark’s range of film credits also include: Clay Pigeons, Suicide Kings, Niagara, Niagara, The Badge, Beerfest, Old School, Road Trip, and Piranha 3D.
Clark's recent projects include: Seven Days in Utopia starring Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, and Melissa Leo, based on an inspirational book about life lessons from golf learned on a real golf course in a remote area of Utopia, TX, and Salvation Boulevard from director George Ratliff, Set in the world of mega-churches.
Amy Weber, advertising director and filmmaker has also developed numerous award winning television and film projects with her company Radish Creative Group and her first feature film directorial debut, Annabelle & Bear.
Annabelle & Bear is the product of a 100% Michigan cast, crew and soundtrack. Amy showcased the local film community, featuring the talent in Michigan during tough economic times for the state.
Annabelle & Bear is the dramatic, tender story of a man who finds himself thrust into the struggles of unexpected fatherhood taking him on a journey leading to life-altering love found in the heart of his young daughter.
Mark White, an American production designer, began his career as a Toy Designer before moving into Theatre Design. He shifted gears into film as Set Designer on Twenty-Nine Palms and then as Art Director on Boiler Room.
As Production Designer, Mark’s credits include: Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, The Ten, Tully and the Comedy Central series, Stella.
He also was production designer for Morgan J. Freeman’s film, Homecoming, and the film Transamerica, featuring the Oscar-nominated actress, Felicity Huffman.
Mark was recently the production designer on two major independent films, Please Give and Winter's Bone.
Please Give is directed and written by Nicole Holofcener, a perceptive and darkly comedic take on modern life’s contradictions, good intentions, and shaky moral bearings, starring Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt.
Winter’s Bone is written and directed by Debra Granik is about 17 year old Ree Dolly who sets out to track down her missing father, who has put their house up for his bail bond, which will lead to the family’s eviction if he can’t be found. Winter’s Bone won the Best Picture Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
UK film composer, Alex Heffes, has created film scores that include many of award-winning films for director Kevin Macdonald such as One Day in September, Touching the Void, and The Last King of Scotland.
Alex has proved successful in a variety of genres including the comedy The Parole Officer, the action film Out of Reach and Kevin Macdonald's political espionage thriller State of Play.
Alex’s scores have been nominated for BAFTA, Ivor Novello, European Film Academy, and ASCAP awards. Alex always conducts his own orchestral scores.
Some of Alex’s more recent film scoring projects include the documentary Inside Job directed by Charles Ferguson, and Justin Chadwick’s debut feature The First Grader.
Sam Green is a San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker whose feature film, The Weather Underground, was nominated for an Academy Award and broadcast nationally on PBS.
Sam’s other award-winning documentaries include Lot 3, Grave C, Pie Fight ’69, N-Judah 5:30, and The Rainbow Man/John 3:16.
Sam also teaches at the University of San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Recently, Sam has co-created Utopia in Four Movements, which uses the collective experience of cinema to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the twenty-first century, in a singular, poetic essay that stretches the very norms of the nonfiction genre and musical performance.
Nico Mensinga is the screenwriter for the short film, Watching, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about the ability to spot where truth lies, and lies begin with 2 main characters, Josh and Carrick, portrayed by Ian Hart and Charlie Cattrall.
Watching took home a number of awards around the world and won best screenplay and the Silver Medal audience award and in the prestigious Manhattan Short Film Festival.
Nico previously worked as a production intern at Number 9 Films on films like When Did You Last See Your Father?, based on an auto-biographical novel by author and poet Blake Morrison, starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent.
Nico has developed other feature length screenplay work including the upcoming film, Titus, the story of an African American jazz legend lost in London, find a way back to the music that has kept him alive this long.
Australian filmmaker, Mairi Cameron’s graduate film, Milk, screened at Cannes and garnered many awards. Milk is about an old man that lives on his own, and doesn't go out except to buy milk that has a daily ritual visit and request for milk from the downstairs Woman.
Over the years, Mairi has had commercial work including music videos for the Aussie band Washington and the mockumentary series (s)Truth. Mairi is also film instructor at the JMC Academy in Brisbane.
She directed many other shorts over the years including the more recent short film, Seersucker, about a nine-year-old girl who has to wear a seersucker dress made from a tablecloth in 1962.
Mairi has screened around the world as a finalist in the global film festival, the Manhattan Short Film Fest, with her film Push Bike, about a woman, Michelle, whose clothes are stolen from the pool changing room one night that must brave a nude ride home on her old bike.
Greig Fraser is an award winning cinematographer originally from Melbourne, Australia now based in Los Angeles.
In 2002 Greig shot Glendyn Ivin’s acclaimed short film Crackerbag. In 2005, he won an Australian Film Industry Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film Jewboy. In 2006 he shot the feature film Out of the Blue, based on the Aramoana Massacre in New Zealand.
Greig has worked a number of features including on Scott Hicks’ film The Boys Are Back, Bright Star directed by Jane Campion, and Glendyn Ivin’s film Last Ride. He has continued working on shorts as well including Nash Edgerton’s short films Spider and Lucky and Netherland Dwarf and Crossbow for David Michod.
Most recently, Greig was the Director of Photography on Let Me In, Matt Reeves’ American adaption of the Swedish thriller, Let The Right One In, about a bullied young boy that befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.
Danielle Fillios has edited more than 40 films, a wide mix of narrative and documentary features and some short films, some of them nominated and awarded for highest honors.
Mi Mejor Enemigo, a heartfelt film about the war between Chile and Argentina in the 1970s, and Johnny One Hundred Pesos were both nominated for the Goya. Also, B-Happy which picked up 2 awards at Berlinale.
Danielle won the Golden Kikito at Gramado for Captain Pantoja and the Special Services for her editing work. She worked on films from France, Spain, Chile, Venezuela and Perú.
Recently Danielle worked on The Maid by Sebastian Silva, a drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years, which won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Danielle also edited the recent short film, Blokes, one of 9 short films selected for the Cannes Film Festival.
In Stockholm, Magnus Von Horn worked on distributing a variety of films for Sonet and as an assistant script reader and as a light and camera assistant.
Magnus then left the Swedish film industry to pursue his film directing dreams at the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School.
He has produced several short films in Poland including the documentary short Radek about 25 years old, ex-convict and former drug dealer and thief who attempts to cope with his aggressions with obstacles.
His narrative short, Echo, is about a police investigator re-constructing a brutal murder, hoping to learn how two young boys could have committed such a crime and what results in the process.
Echo has received numerous awards, including the Best Film Award at Munich International Festival of Film Schools, the Grand Prix at the Open Student Film Festival in St. Petersburg, and is a finalist in the renowned Manhattan Short Film Festival.
Magnus is also working on Without Snow, a 30 minute fictional short, and The Doctors, a 25 minute documentary.
Chris Gill started out as an editor for television, winning Royal Television Society Best Editing awards for the programs Touching Evil and Crime and Punishment. He has admitted to being seduced by the art of editing.
Chris made his debut as a feature film editor with Danny Boyle’s film, 28 Days Later. Chris has since worked on other films for Danny including Millions and Sunshine.
Chris’ editing spans genres from the horror/thriller The Daisy Chain to the classic period drama Brideshead Revisited for Julian Jarrold to the Ricky Gervais’ comedy The Invention of Lying. Chris makes time to edit short films as well.
Chris’ most recent editing work includes the films Centurion, a historical action-adventure directed by Neil Marshall and the psychological thriller, Locked In with Ben Barnes.
Kimberly Reed started her career working as a commercial editor and traveled the world directing and producing travel documentaries.
Kimberly became an early expert in the field of digital filmmaking and post-production. After transitioning genders, she moved into the world of publishing, as editor-in-chief of DV Magazine.
Kim's first feature-length documentary film, Prodigal Sons, tells the story of three siblings, their rivalries, and their search for identity.
Prodigal Sons has won many honors and have connected to many in film festival audiences worldwide, including its winning of the Audience award at Palm Springs and it is available on DVD, Netflix, and iTunes.
Critically and internationally acclaimed Canadian writer and director, Ruba Nadda has written and directed over a dozen shorts, including Aadan, Unsettled, and Do Nothing. Ruba's films have been shown over 500 times in film festivals around the world with over 30 retrospectives of her work.
In 2005, Ruba wrote and directed her first feature film, Sabah, which had Atom Egoyan as an executive producer and starred Arsinee Khanjian.
Ruba's 2nd feature film, Cairo Time was filmed on location in Egypt. Cairo Time is a love letter to a city intertwined with a love story about a woman. It stars Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddig.
Cairo Time had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won Best Canadian Feature Film and has enchanting audiences in cinemas worldwide.
Michael Lavelle, cinematographer, writer, and director from Ireland, has written and directed the awarding winning short films, Out of the Blue and I Hate Musicals! The Musical.
He has worked as cinematographer with director Ken Wardrop on five short films, and on Ken’s debut feature documentary, His & Hers. His & Hers explores women’s relationships with men through the eyes of seventy participants, and Michael won the World Cinematography Award at Sundance for this work on it.
Michael was a finalist for the Berlinale Today Award 2011 with his short screenplay Mother's Little Helper and Michael has begun work on 6 Hours, his debut feature film as writer/director.
David Boyd's film credits include work onthe films: Cast Away, Galaxy Quest, and 12 Rounds.
David was also the director of photography work for the Joss Whedon TV series, Firefly, and he has worked on the HBO series Deadwood and the award-winning Friday Night Lights.
As a cinematographer, David has teamed up with directed Aaron Schneider on two films, the first being the Oscar-winning short film Two Soldiers, about two brothers in Missouri in 1941, and the second being the film Get Low, a heartfelt story about guilt, loss, and forgiveness starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, and Lucas Black.
A former print journalist, Niall McKay’s work has appeared in The Economist, The New York Times and Wired Magazine.
Niall won an Emmy for his documentary Sikhs in America about the challenges of being Sikh in the US, which aired on PBS stations across America as part of Asian Pacific Heritage Month. Niall also co-produced Irvine Welsh’s directorial debut, Nuts.
Niall’s critically acclaimed feature documentary The Bass Player: A Song for Dad was aired on RTE and has screened in the film festival circuit.
The Bass Player: A Song for Dad is a parallel journey into Niall’s admiration for his father, a jazz bass player, and his innermost doubts about love, and their conversations take on a confessional quality as they reveal their darkest moments.
Niall is also the founder and director of the San Francisco Irish Film Festival and the co-founder of the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival.
Chico Colvard is the son of a WWII German-Jewish mother and African-American father raised in the segregated south of Georgia. After pursuing a career in the theatre arts, Chico went on to eventually study and teach "race, law, and media" related courses at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Chico is the producer and director of a deeply personal and uncompromising documentary, called Family Affair.
Family Affair begins where at 10 years old, filmmaker, Chico Colvard, accidentally shot his sister in the leg. This random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities that shattered his family. Thirty years later, Chico bravely visits his relatives and what unfolds is a personal film that’s as uncompromising, raw, and cathartic as any in the history of the medium. Family Affair is a story that yields insights about the legacy of abuse and attempts to understand one’s capacity to accommodate a parent’s past crimes in order to satisfy an eternal longing for family.
Family Affair is a feature length documentary that premiered in competition at Sundance and was the first film acquired by Oprah Winfrey for her new cable channel, OWN. Family Affair has screened at premiere festivals around the world, winning Audience and Best Documentary Feature awards.
Nathan Larson is an award winning musician and film composer.
Nathan’s work as a musician includes being formerly the lead guitarist for the influential 1990s band Shudder to Think and the founder of the band Hot One. He was also the creative force behind Mind Science of the Mind. Nathan also has a band A Camp with his wife Nina Persson, who the lead singer and lyricist for the Swedish rock group The Cardigans.
As a composer, Nathan has worked on the soundtracks for High Art, and Velvet Goldmine and has composed for a variety of independent feature films including: Boys Don’t Cry, Lilya 4 Ever, Tigerland, Dirty Pretty Things, The Woodsman, Bananas!, and The Messenger.
Mark White, an American production designer, began his career as a Toy Designer before moving into Theatre Design. He shifted gears into film as Set Designer on Twenty-Nine Palms and then as Art Director on Boiler Room.
As Production Designer, Mark’s credits include: Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, The Ten, Tully and the Comedy Central series, Stella.
He also was production designer for Morgan J. Freeman’s film, Homecoming, and the film Transamerica, featuring the Oscar-nominated actress, Felicity Huffman.
Mark was recently the production designer on two major independent films, Please Give and Winter's Bone.
Please Give is directed and written by Nicole Holofcener, a perceptive and darkly comedic take on modern life’s contradictions, good intentions, and shaky moral bearings, starring Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt.
Winter’s Bone is written and directed by Debra Granik is about 17 year old Ree Dolly who sets out to track down her missing father, who has put their house up for his bail bond, which will lead to the family’s eviction if he can’t be found. Winter’s Bone won the Best Picture Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
James Embree is a British stuntman that is a member of the British Stunt Register and the Taurus World Academy.
A stuntman is typically a professional athlete or acrobat substituted for an actor when scenes involving danger are filmed.
James has worked as both a stuntman on major productions like The Dark Knight, The A-Team, and Robin Hood, in independent films like Bronson, and as a stunt double for Colin Farrell on In Bruges.
Conor Horgan has worked as a fashion, advertising and editorial photographer.
He has directed over 70 award-winning TV commercials. More recently, he has concentrated on dramatic and documentary work.
His recent film projects include: The Beholder, a documentary film about portraiture, and his first feature film One Hundred Mornings, about 2 warring couples attempting to avoid the worst effects of a societal breakdown.
Conor has also finished Deep End Dance, a short film in which choreographer David Bolger performs an underwater duet with his 76-year-old mother Madge.
Brendt Barbur is the founding Director of the Bicycle Film Festival.
The Bicycle 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 thier own customized festival with a variety film shorts and features, art, and music.
The Bicycle Film Festival has been a major catalyst for the urban bike movement, one of the most powerful and culturally relevant forces of the last decade. The BFF is sure to carry this momentum into the next decade.
Award winning Irish producer Conor Barry, is the co-founder of SPFilms.
SPFilms, run by Conor Barry with director and writer Brendan Muldowney. SPFilms has produced nine short films, including the multi-award winning shorts Innocence and The Ten Steps. SPFilms is developing several features and TV projects, including the feature film, Savage.
Savage is a film about Paul, a press photographer, who is robbed of masculinity after a vicious assault in a Dublin Alley. Unable to readjust, and ridden with fear, he transforms from victim into aggressor.
New Zealand cinematographer Adam Clark has worked on a variety of projects, from commercial work for such clients as Kia and Subaru, to television work on the acclaimed series Insiders Guide to Happiness to a number of short and feature films.
Adam's projects have included earlier films of Peter Jackson and the film River Queen for cinematographer Alun Bollinger, but he is best known as the lensman for director Taika Waititi. His debut feature film as cinematographer was for Taika’s feature film Eagle vs Shark.
Adam has also worked on a number of shorts for Taika including the Oscar-nominated film Two Cars One Night and Tama Tu, as well as many shorts for other directors such as The Hole and A New Way Home.
Adam and Taika’s most recent collaboration is the feature film Boy, which was inspired by Two Cars One Night, and is a coming of age tale of a boy growing up in the year 1984, who idolizes Michael Jackson, and the boy’s father, who, after a seven year absence, is not quite the hero the boy had imagined him to be.
Over the past decade, Ruairi O'Brien has worked as director or cinematographer on several short films, including Monitor, Hum, and his own films Hoor and Teeth. Teeth garnered awards in Galway, Ireland, and Brest, France.
Ruairi has worked as DP on UK television series including Murphy’s Law and Father & Son.
He has also shot a number of music videos for bands such as Placebo and We Are Scientists.
One of Ruairi's more recent works of note as cinematographer is the gripping drama Five Minutes of Heaven, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel of Downfall fame, and starring Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt.
Ruth Peyser has been making animated films since her arrival in New York from Australia in 1978.
Her award-winning films have been screened on public television and at hundreds of festivals in the United States and throughout the world. A half hour segment of the PBS series Animated Women was devoted to her and her work.
While Ruth was bringing up her daughters, she jotted down ideas for films and also wrote many short stories about her life. When her children were teenagers, she started developing a concept for a film from her writings. This evolved into her most recent film, There was a Little Girl.
There was a Little Girl is an autobiographical animated film spanning fifty years, from 1959 to 2009. Ruth tells six stories from her life set ten years apart, each on a backdrop of political and social events of that year. It explores her personal growth and the relationships of three generations of women in her family.
Roque Banos received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture to study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music where he discovered his path as a conductor and composer for many award winning Spanish films.
Roque has been featured in many soundtracks for films, and has been nominated for prestigious Goya Awards and CEC Awards, on historical epics like Alatriste and for best original song on Carlos Saura’s film, Salome.
Rogue has composed several scores for Álex de la Iglesia including on 800 Bullets and The Oxford Murders. He has also won awards for music on The 13 Roses, and on collaborations with director Daniel Monzon on films including The Kovak Box and Cell 211.
Craig Fison has worked in Art Direction, Production Design, Construction, as a Props Model maker, a sculpting and miniatures maker and finisher, in Set Decorating, and as a Scenic painter in Australia and worldwide on projects.
His film projects include: working in the art department on commerical films like Moulin Rouge, Attack of the Clones, The Matrix Revolutions, and more independent productions like Peter Pan and Where the Wild Things Are.
Craig has worked as a sculptor and prop maker on Guillermo del Toro’s and Troy Nixey’s film, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.
Craig has moved into art direction as the Art Director on Adam Elliot’s awarding winning animated feature film, Mary and Max, a tale of friendship between unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man in New York.
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.
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.
Her animation ranges from her 1991 debut The Witch and the Cow to more recent works including The Teat Beat of Sex, and Veterinarian, about the circle of life and death. Her Womanimation! short film Birth is about Amina, a seventeen year old girl who is pregnant and afraid to give birth who goes to older women for consolation and advice, and finds that their stories scare her even more.
Signe is continually screening her many animated shorts in the major film festivals like Sundance and Berlin; she also screens in major animation festivals like Annecy.
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 Fellow in Film of the New York Foundation for the Arts, the recipient of an individual artist grant from The Jerome Foundation, and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences.
Ivan Dias has written and co-produced Carlos Saura’s film Fados, a fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers, which explores Portugal’s popular musical genre of fado and its spirit of saudade.
Fados deploys mirrors, back projections, lighting effects, and lush colors to frame each song which carries the story of the Fado song from it roots to its branches.
Fados expands the songs (which traditionally involve just a singer and a guitarist) with dance and encompasses other nationalities of Portugal’s former colonies, and styles (such as hip hop, flamenco, and Brazilian reggae).
Yana Gorskaya was born in Russia, and emigrated to the United States with her mother at the age of six.
Yana was hired to edit her first feature film, 2002's Spellbound, when director Jeffrey Blitz asked his former USC mentor Kate Amend if she would recommend one of her students to work on his documentary film and she suggested Yana, who was working as a teaching assistant while completing her MFA. She worked part-time on the editing of Spellbound from 2000–2002.
Spellbound was ultimately nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and Yana won the American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Documentary.
Her next three features, also documentaries, were In the Name of Love , produced by Sydney Pollack, about Russian marriage agencies, Sonny Boy, directed by Soleil Moon Frye, focusing on Frye's relationship with her father, Virgil Frye, and Seeds, about the Seeds of Peace Camp in Maine.
Yana's first non-documentary feature was Rocket Science, with which she worked with Jeffrey Blitz for a second time. She then edited the independent comedy film Smart People.
Yana was a consulting editor on Taika Cohen’s film Boy. Yana also edited Blitz's 2nd documentary about lottery winners, called Lucky.
Animation producer and director Darragh O’Connell oversees the visual output of Brown Bag Films. He has directed hundreds of commercials, in television, and on short films.
His production and editing credits include: the Give Up Yer Aul Sins short film series (using 1960s actual recordings of Irish inner city students telling their versions of famous bible stories) along with Crap Rap, and I'm an Animal, and Wobblyland for TV.
Darragh also works closely with the studio's up and coming younger directors. He has been busy directing many episodes of Olivia for Chorion Silver Lining and Nickelodeon.
Darragh also produced Nicky Phelan's animated short film, Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty. Granny O'Grimm is a seemingly sweet old lady who loses the plot as she tells her version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified granddaughter.
Both Give Up Yer Aul Sins and Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty have been nominated for Academy Awards.
Cinematographer Eduard Grau created some award winning short films of his own including Bitter Kas and Scarlet Sunrise. He studied filmmaking at ESCAC in Spain.
Edu won the cinematography award twice at the Palm Springs International Film Festival for Friends Forever and The Natural Route.
He shot his 1st feature, Honor De Cavalier, at only 23, which premiered at Cannes, followed by a film in LA, called Kicks.
Edu was able to pair with director Tom Ford on the visually stunning Academy Award nominated A Single Man, a story that centers on an English professor who, after the sudden death of his partner tries to go about his typical day in Los Angeles.
Edu has also worked on a horror/thriller feature film called Buried from director Rodrigo Cortés and screenwriter Chris Sparling about a US contractor in Iraq who is buried alive in a coffin.
M. David Mullen, ASC, Director of Photography, has filmed more than thirty independent feature films and two television series in his career so far.
David was nominated for the IFP Independent Spirit Award for Twin Falls Idaho and again for Northfork, both films by Michael and Mark Polish.
He has worked on The Polish Brothers' films since 1998 which also inlcude: Jackpot, The Astronaut Farmer, Stay Cool, and Manure.
David's other projects include: Akeelah and the Bee, Lee Daniels’ Shadowboxer, Assassination of a High School President, Big Love for HBO, and Diablo Cody’s TV Series The United States of Tara, and the horror film, Jennifer's Body.
Tariq Tapa enrolled in the Graduate Film Directing Program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he made several short films, including Custody which was a Finalist at the Student Academy Awards.
He received a U.S. Fulbright Scholarship to Kashmir, India where he made his debut feature film Zero Bridge by himself, while staying with relatives. Zero Bridge premiered at the Venice Film Festival and has received rave reviews from critics.
Tariq has been nominated for 2 Independent Spirit Awards for this film. Zero Bridge is a hopeful, human portrait of a teen pickpocket who has a chance encounter with one of his victims in this gritty, moving story about daily life in Kashmir.
Suha Arraf wrote and directed several documentaries and worked as a journalist and researcher for many years.
She is a graduate of the Tel Aviv Screenwriting Academy and she also has degrees from the Jerusalem and Haifa University.
Suha co-wrote and collaborated on both The Syrian Bride and Lemon Tree with Eran Riklis.
In The Syrian Bride, Mona's wedding day is the saddest day of her life because once she crosses the border from Israel to syria to marry, she will never be able to her Druze family in Majdal Shams.
Lemon Tree is the story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
French filmmaker Hervé de Crécy has worked for H5 and RSA production companies on commercials and music videos including those for Volkswagen, Gatorade, Areva, Alex Gopher, and Massive Attack.
Herve has ventured into short films including the award winning animated short Logorama featuring a wild co-existing world past and present of logos which has won the Academy Award for Animated Short.
Swedish filmmaker Patrik Eklund made his directional debut with One Christmas Morning which won several awards including The Tromsö Palm for best Nordic short. Patrick's next short film, Situation Frank, was selected for Critic's Week in Cannes.
Patrik’s film Instead of Abracadabra received several awards at international festivals including Sundance 2009. It is an Academy Award Nominee for Live Action Short.
Instead of Abracadabra is about a man who still lives with his parents and tries to realize his dream of becoming a magician. The film, Instead of Abracadabra, features an array of charming characters and moments of magic and surprise.
Patrik has also completed Seeds of the Fall which has also been featured in Sundance. Seeds of the Fall is about middle-aged couple that lives in a passionless relationship full of sexual frustration where something happens that will change their relationship forever.
Harrod Blank grew up Santa Cruz, CA and began his lifelong love-affair with art cars by decorating his 1965 VW Beetle with plastic fruit, rubber chickens, and a television, among other items. He dubbed the car Oh My God!.
After graduating from UC Santa Cruz and drawing from the influence of his documentarian father Les Blank, Harrod began photographing art cars around the country. This led to his first documentary Wild Wheels, which has been seen by an estimated 55 million people around the world.
Harrod has continued to create art cars, his second being The Camera Van which included several working cameras among the 2500 cameras attached to the van and a third interactive musical art car called Pico De Gallo.
Harrod's most recent feature documentary film Automorphosis looks into the minds and hearts of a delightful collection of eccentrics, visionaries, and just plain folks who have transformed their autos into artworks.
Tom Quinn grew up in Bucks County, PA, where he directed a few shorts and freelanced as a camera assistant.
His debut feature, The New Year Parade, was selected for the IFP Narrative Rough Cut Labs, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative at Slamdance, and was a Gotham Award nominee for “Best Film Not Playing in a Theater Near You.”
The New Year Parade follows Jack and Kat over the course of a year as their parents separate, struggle with their decisions, and eventually divorce.
The New Year Parade is set against the backdrop of Philadelphia’s Mummery, one of the oldest American folk traditions. Over the period of a year in the stages of separation and divorce, Jack and Kat question their own identities while struggling to build meaningful relationships.
Tom has been listed one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine and “Ten Young Writer-Directors to Watch,” by MovieMaker Magazine. He was fortunate to be the first American filmmaker accepted to the Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab. He was also a John Cassavetes Award Nominee at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Tarik Saleh is the co-founder of Atmo, a Film and TV production company in Stockholm, Sweden.
Tarik started his career as a graffiti artist as a member of the internationally acclaimed All In One crew. His murals can still be spotted in suburbs west of Stockholm. In Sweden, Tarik is also well known as a TV-host, director and debater.
In 2001, he co-directed Sacrificio – Who Betrayed Che Guevara?. He has directed several other award-winning creative documentaries including Gitmo – The New Rules of War, about the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base with additional visits to Washington, Stockholm, Bucharest, and Abu Ghraib, along with co-director Erik Gandini.
Tarik’s passion for animation drove him to form Atmo Animation.
The Atmo Animation group has written and produced over 30 short animation films and his 1st animated feature Metropia, about is running out of oil and the undergrounds have been connected into a gigantic subway network beneath Europe. Its voice cast includes: Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård, and Alexander Skarsgård.
Norman Twain created the idea, developed the script, and produced Lean on Me, starring Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark, the Principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey.
Norman was the producer of the awarding winning HBO film Boycott, dramatizing the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott, Spinning into Butter, based on Rebecca Gilman’s award winning play, and SCAR, the first 3D action horror film in 26 years.
Norman’s latest production is My Dog Tulip, the celebrated novel by J.R. Ackerley, that is being made into a full length animated feature. Paul Fierlinger is the film’s director, screen writer and sole animator and his wife Sandra is his background and image painter. This film will be the first animated feature ever to be entirely hand drawn and painted utilizing paperless computer technology.
Art Holliday is the co-anchor and executive producer of Today in St. Louis morning show and NewsChannel5 at Noon at KSDK-TV at St. Louis, Mo. Over the course of his career of over 30 years, Holliday has been recognized with numerous awards.
He is the Director, Producer and Writer of the documentary Before They Fall Off The Cliff: The Ripple Effect of Schizophrenia. Art also videotaped much of the documentary as well as serving as still photographer.
Art is currently working on a second documentary Johnnie Be Good - The Movie on the life of Johnnie Johnson, who helped create the musical stew which became rock and roll, and because he once hired an unknown guitar player named Chuck Berry.
Tomm Moore is co-founder and Creative director of Cartoon Saloon. He is a lifelong comic book and animation enthusiast.
Since founding the company with Paul Young, Tomm has worked on most facets of Cartoon Saloon productions. He has directed and designed commercials for clients including Cadbury and the Irish Independent. Additionally, Tomm has worked on illustrating graphic novels and children’s books and working as animation artist on several TV series and other filmmaker's feature and short film productions.
Tomm has completed his first feature film The Secret of Kells, a beautiful and haunting story of the young hero Brendan and the Book of Kells. He is working on the graphic novels of the film and his animated feature film The Song of the Sea.
Jeffrey Goodman is a director who loves learning about the cinema's different movements and transformations and wondering what directions the medium might veer off in next. Jeffrey ended up raising all the money for his first feature film, The Last Lullaby himself, selling the film in $50,000 units to private investors in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.
He believed it would take this level of freedom to make a movie that he felt was slightly different than most things currently being made.
The Last Lullaby was shot and told in naturalistic style, is co-written from the author of The Road to Perdition, Max Allan Collins, and stars Tom Sizemore and Sasha Alexander. The Last Lullaby is about Price, a former hitman, struggling to cope with retirement who has left the assassination business to live the "easy life." who is brought into a situation in a world beyond his control in a mystery–filled love story.
Stascha Bader is a Swiss writer and documentary director.
He was drawn by Reggae when he had first heard it in the 1970s and based his doctoral thesis on it, “Electro-Oral Poetry in Jamaica and England.” It earned him a Ph.D. degree from Zurich University and was also published in Germany. and was also published in Germany as “Words like Fire: Dance Hall-Reggae and Ragamuffin.”
Stascha also studied music, script writing, and directing in Berlin, New York and Los Angeles and has worked, for several years, as a freelance writer and director of television documentaries. His documentaries have been broadcast on Swiss National Television and 3sat. Stascha specializes in music documentaries and programs.
When he reflected back on his mass collection of Jamaican recordings, Stacha was reminded of his favorites earliest Reggae songs, from the Rocksteady era (1966-1968). The outcome is the previously untold story of Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae, which is Bader’s first feature film.
Christian Biegai, from Berlin, Germany, has written film scores for feature films, documentaries, and animated films around the world.
These films include: the short film Whistle (directed by Duncan Jones), films for Marc Meyer, and with Helena Bulaja on the animated fairytale Regoch and her experimental interactive movie inspired by
Nikola Tesla which also features Laurie Anderson and Terry Gilliam.
Working at Park Road Post as an editor, Christian contributed a string quartet piece for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee, Eagle vs. Shark and contributed to the score for the New Zealand documentary The Big Picture. He also scored Brigitte Bertele's feature film: Nacht Vor Augen (A Hero's Welcome), which premiered at Berlin.
Christian is a classical saxophonist who has played with large orchestras, small quartets, and artist collectives. He has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the clair-obscur saxophone quartet, Antony and the Johnsons, and the artist collective Edison Woods, and on the score for 3:20, written for solo saxophone for him by Gerald Busby.
Aaron Hughes' 3rd animated short film is called Backwards which is about strange love shown in reverse.
Backwards has also won many awards including the Ruby Ram Jury Grand Prize Award in the MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival.
In honor of the style of the this film, Aaron's interview was also conducted in reverse.
Previously Aaron also wrote and illustrated a weekly-published cartoon. He does still enjoy dabbling in other non-animated art-forms as well.
Aaron's animated shorts, Petunia and Fred’s Box, have screened and have been awarded in festivals around the world.
Aaron has been working professionally on a number of animation projects. He currently teaches courses at NYU and Pratt.
Aaron lives in Brooklyn after growing up grew up in Texas after moving to NYC following graduation from the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
Born in East Moline, Illinois, Mike Roush found his way to California, earning his BFA in Animation from California State University, Fullerton.
Mike Roush has been with Titmouse Shorts, Inc., contributing storyboards, design, and animation to high profile TV, music video and commercial clients and serves as Supervising Animator on [adult swim]’s smash hit Metalocalypse.
Mike made his directorial debut with The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl – an innovative blend of live action elements and unconventional Flash animation.
The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl has screened many film festivals worldwide like Annecy, Palm Springs, and the Fantasia Film Festival.
The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl has won many awards including the Headtrip Audience Choice Award in the MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival.
Conor Ferguson has worked as a copywriter in advertising in Ireland for several years. Conor has mastered the art of short film with 2 award winning poignant short films, The Wednesdays and Atlantic. These have been produced as part of the Irish film production company, Park Films. The Wednesdays is about a retired couple who manage to re-ignite the love they’d almost forgotten about through unconventional means.
Atlantic, starring Liam Cunningham from The Wind That Shakes The Barley, is an atmospheric tale of a lonely farmer passing his days, unaware of the letter that’s on its way from the woman he once loved. Both films have screened worldwide to enthusiastic audiences. Atlantic is also an official selection in the MergingArts Short-Short Story Film Festival in the Heartstrings Program.
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 7 billion dollar per year business of marijuana in British Columbia and the history and current impact of cannabis prohibition.
The Union is available on DVD via Amazon.
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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.
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.
Nicolas directed the award winning documentary film Orquesta Tipica filmed in Argentina and 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.
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 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.
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.
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 award winning shorts include: She Waits In The Restless Horizon, Linus, and the documentary, Szmolinsky.
Julius' short film The Boundary starring Alexander Siddig was selected by Amnesty International as one of its Movies That Matter, screened world wide as part of the Manhattan Short Film Festival, and is airing on HBO.
He completed the short film Nie Patrz Wstecz (Don’t Look Back) in Lodz, Poland entirely on a mobile phone. It won the Jury Award for best film in the Nokia Mobile Movie Competition and premiered at the BFI London Film Festival.
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.
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.
Michael is a strong presence in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community of New York City, and an advocate for the prevention of child abuse.
Michael is also contributor to the published book Straight Talk with Gay Guys: What Girlfriends Can't Tell You and Straight Men Won't by Daylle Deanna Schwartz.
He has based his film, It’s Me Matthew!, on a fictionalized account of his life story. Michael decided to act in a lead role and write, produce, and direct the film in order to help others like Matthew, with unresolved losses.
Sean Baker is best known for co-creating the cult television show Greg the Bunny.
Take Out, Sean's second feature which he co-directed, won the Regal Cinemas Dreammaker Award and Best Feature award at the Nashville Film Festival. Take Out is about an illegal Chinese immigrant that falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt.
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.
Prince of Broadway is Sean Baker's 3rd feature film and Darren Dean’s 1st feature as producer and writer. It premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature. The film went on to win awards at a number of other major film festivals.
Prince of Broadway is the story of Lucky and Levon, two men whose lives converge in the underbelly of New York's wholesale fashion district.
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.
Scott Wurth is based in Killara, Australia and has used his background in both advertising and photography to focus on documentary storytelling. Scott has filmed a trilogy of documentary films in the Philippines, including: Tira Bikal (Striking Metal), Cutud, and Panata.
Tira Bikal is about the Matias Santos family in the Philippines whose members became sick and began dying. Matias pledged to God to save his family by imitating the sufferings of Jesus Christ. Through a grueling event called Tira Bakal, the Santos family tradition is kept alive as the family honors their late grandfather as they continue the ceremony for the family, their community, and generations of people behind it.
Tira Bikal has been touring the film festival circuit and has won awards in festivals including the Action on Film International Film Festival,the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, the Nigeria Entertainment International Film Festival, and the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
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.
Victor Barcena won the first prize as a director at the Complutense University of Madrid with the play Woyzeck, from Georg Büchner. In 2004, he began his Film Direction studies at the Film and Audiovisual Industry School of Madrid. Victor then began his experience moving from theatre as a documentary director, screenwriter, and filmmaker in Madrid.
His dramatic narrative short called Las Manos De Abel has won a number of awards including at the Nashville Film Festival and the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Jaime Dezcallar has also been a member of a number of theatre companies and went into television work after law school.
After 3 years working on the hit Spanish sitcom, Camera Café, and after completing a number of shorts films, he left Madrid to study directing in NYC where he currently resides. Jaime's dramatic short, The Last Moments of Leopoldo Berenguer, has toured a number of prestigious film festivals worldwide.
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.
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.
Their clients include: Coca Cola and BAFICI (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Films).
Barbara and brother writer and director Andy Muschietti have created a horror short called Mamá that has been raved about in a number of film festivals in Europe.
Mama is about two girls, Victoria and Lily, who are on the run from a ghostly woman who appears to be their mother in a Gothic home. A feature version of the film has attracted interest by Guillermo Del Toro.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Michael is currently the director of video and animation at Upper Playground in San Francisco, where he has directed over 400 short promotional films and documentaries. He continues to produce experimental animations independently.
His latest film titled Dahlia is a fast paced, visually and musically charged live action animation that debuted at Slamdance.
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.
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.
The Cave has brought Plato's pedagogical story to life by shooting over 4,000 still photographs of John Grigsby's wonderful claymation. It has screened in many film festivals worldwide and has won awards including won 1st Place Animation at the USA Film Festival Short Film and Video Competition of 2008. It has also screened in the 2008 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival.
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.
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.
We were fortunate to catch a glimpse into the world of renowned animator Bill Plympton.
Bill Plympton started out as an illustrator and cartoonist whose work has appeared in such magazines as The Village Voice, Vogue, and Rolling Stone.
His first animated film was a film of Jules Feiffer's song, Boomtown. By 1987, he had garnered an Oscar nomination for his short film Your Face.
His feature length work has included such films as I Married A Strange Person and Hair High.
He has also tried his hand at live-action feature films, including Guns On The Clackamas and J. Lyle.
Over the years, he has made dozens of award winning short films including the more recent Dog series of films.
His most recent project is an animated feature film titled Idiots and Angels, a dark comedy about a man’s battle for his soul.
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.
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.
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 Bengal Bouts impact on the Holy Cross missions in Bangladesh, called Strong Bodies Fight. He has directed of several award wining short films including Ball in the Woods, Finding your Way, and Free to Good Home.
His short films screened in the Feel Good Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, and the MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival.
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 Chicago International Children's Film Festival.
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.
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 including his first short film, Deleted Scenes.
His feature film, The Graduates was 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 Directorial Discovery Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
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
the 1970s series Longstreet.
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.
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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.
This was recorded from the 12th year of RIIFF, which over the years has brought in talented visiting filmmakers from across the globe.
We spoke with creators of the short films: Invulnerable, My Inventions, Behind My Eyes, Hugo, and Eclipse.
This was recorded from the 12th year of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, or RIIFF, bringing in talented visiting filmmakers from across the globe.
We spoke with creators of the short films: Hakim, Under My Garden, Gone Fishing, Hold On, and Ikigai.
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 and screened in Hot Docs.
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 and The Palm Springs International Shorts Fest.
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.
Simon's films include the animated shorts Blind Spot and Le Presage/The Omen.
His films have screened in many film festivals including: Animafest, Cannes, Imagina.
His films have one several festival awards and Blind Spot was selected for Mike Judge’s The Animation Show.
Le Presage/The Omen is about a man leaving his hand-made dwelling that treks out in search of food into the wilderness where things are not what they seem.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
She wrote and produced 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.
Cecily also collaborated with Joe Eckardt on High Hopes which was released on Lion's Gate on DVD.
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.
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 Historic Digital Cinema Festival, The Kids First! Film Festival, and the Nantucket Film Festival.
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!.
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.
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.
From Shtetl to Swing has screened several film festivals around the world including:
Golden Prague Film Festival where it was awarded the Czech Crystal, Jewish Motifs Festival where it was award the Warsaw Phoenix, Toronto International Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco International Jewish Film Festival, and the Melbourne International Film Festival.
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.
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.
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.
Filmmaker, Photographer, and Educator, Mitra Sen is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the York University Film Production program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brendt Barbur is the founding Director of the Bicycle Film Festival.
The Bicycle 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 thier own customized festival with a variety film shorts and features, art, and music.
The Bicycle Film Festival has been a major catalyst for the urban bike movement, one of the most powerful and culturally relevant forces of the last decade. The BFF is sure to carry this momentum into the next decade.
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.
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.
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.
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.She also has taught at Pratt Institute and Lehman College, and currently teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her MFA thesis animation is called
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are joined by Greg Wilcox, director of a short short story documentary called Homage to a Catalonian Christmas, featuring an entertaining look at a featuring the cultural winter holiday traditions of the Tio and the caganer (the crapper) and the need for Catalonia to keep its own culture active.
He has also made an experimental political short called Fortunate Son, a music video that shows the irony of a CCR song used for a Wrangler jeans commerical in 2005.
Homage to a Catalonian Christmas has played a number of festivals including the Rhode Island International Film Festival. It also screened at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival, where it won the Rammie Award for special recognition for overall short short storytelling.
Raiya Corsiglia is an actor, director, editor, and producer. She has worked on commercials, music videos, shorts, and has a fantasy feature planned as well. Her latest work is a short experimental film which she wrote, starred in, edited, and directed called Blue Dreams Downtown. It is a uniquely shot film about a down on his luck drifter and his relationship with a woman in a photograph.
Blue Dreams Downtown has played a number of festivals including the DragonCon Short Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Short Short Film. It screened at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival, where it won the Thousand Words* award for excellence in wordless presentation.
Shane McCabe is from Dublin, Ireland and began his artistic career as an actor before later moving to writing and eventually directing. He wrote and directed the short short story film Lucky Escape, about a man, a woman, a restaurant, and being careful about what you wish for.
In 2002, he acted in Jerry Bruckheimer’s Veronica Guerin. He has written six features and is working on lucky #7. In 2005, The Irish Film Board awarded his short film Never Judge a Book funding; it premiered at the 4th Annual Dublin International Film Festival in 2006.
The film has screened in a variety of festivals worldwide, including the Palms Springs ShortFest where it was picked up for distribution. Lucky Escape also screened at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Soul of Wit award for exellence in clever wordplay.
Doug Lantz is director of the inspiring and uplifting marching band documentary From the 50 Yard Line, which had its World Premiere at the 11th annual Rhode Island International Film Festival, where it won the Viola M. Marshall Audience Choice Award Grand Prize.
Doug Lantz has worked in television broadcasting for the past 15 years and currently works at Blake House Media, a production company based in Los Angeles. He has worked in audio engineering, videography, and producing. He has worked many programs including Good Morning America, Nightline, 20/20, Primetime, and World News Tonight.
As an alumnus of the Centerville Jazz band in 1985, his current passion includes documenting the life-changing effects of this unique high school marching band program in the film From the 50 Yard Line. In conjunction with the film, he has created a music education fundraising website March4Music.
Hailing from St. Petersburg, Russia, Writer/Director/Editor, Lidia Sheinin has made her first film Happily Ever After, unique short short story telling a sad romantic tale in four minutes using split screens.
The film was produced by Gary Cohen, who had brief career as a child actor, later working at KROQ-FM in LA, and eventually for Adobe Systems on their Photoshop and Photoshop Elements products.
Together, Gary and Lidia formed Scared Mouse Productions to produce Happily Ever After and other projects.
Happily Ever After recently screened at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival, where it won the Imagination Award for excellence in artistic vision.
Matt Wittmer is a graduate of the Documentary Institute at the University of Florida and a former intern at the documentary production company, Kartemquin Films.
He has recently directed the short documentary film The Regiment, which tells the unusual story of a group of Dominican youth from Providence, Rhode Island who take part in a civil war re-enactment in Olustee, Florida.
The 14th Rhode Island Reenactors Program helps Providence high school students recreate the history of the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment. By being immersed in the life of the Black soldier of the Civil War, the students learn about the role of African Americans during the war and about the history of the war generally. They are led by Robert Goldman, a veteran Civil War reenactor.
Nitzan Mager, is the writer and director of the celebrated short film I Am God.
She has also appeared as an actress in a number of films and theatre including Nobody Loves Alice and Hag Same’ach!.
I Am God is a powerful short film based on a Israeli poem about a man traveling in Israel who has lost himself. He meets a grieving mother, her orthodox neighbor, a soldier, and a young Palestinian in his travels and discovers that sometimes finding yourself is not enough.
We speak with the creators of the animated short film Voodoo Bayou.
Javier Gutierrez is the film’s writer and director and Susana Jacques is the executive producer of the film. They have used their artist’s eye from the world of advertising at Ciber Films to develop a dark and enchanting tale of a Voodoo doll that comes to life and tries to escape from his nemesis, the witch-doctor.
This short represents the first film of three planned chapters. The captivating original score was composed by Rodrigo Barbera.
Filmmaker Stacy Dymalski and actress Billie Harsh speak with us about the comedic short film The Write Stuff which satirizes the hypocrisy of critics.
A stand-up comic and writer, Stacy is the founder of the independent video production company Saffire Systems. A member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), she’s also written, directed and produced several successful commercials and short films.
Billie started performing at the age of three and has appeared in several musical productions across the country. She currently works with Stacy and three others at Crazy Parkite Productions, where she works managing production in addition to acting.
Chris Burgard is the director of the provocative documentary Border, which gives viewers a front row seat along the United States Border with Mexico.
Chris has quite a varied background which includes having worked as a ballet dancer, stunt double, and actor - both on television roles in Tour of Duty and Growing Pains, and in numerous films including Pirates of the Caribbean and The Last Samurai, featuring his horsemanship. He even wrote and directed a Troma film cult classic, The Ruining.
Chris has toured the United States with his film Border aboard his "Big Blue Bus" in order to educate people on the situation on the southern border. Details on the tour dates can be found by visiting his website.
On this episode, we talk with Marcin Glowacki, director of the short film The Stewardess (Die Flugbegleiterin).
Born in Poland and living in Germany, Marcin is both an actor and director, as well as the founder of Jim Pansen Production, a Berlin-based film and television production company which focuses on the medical field.
The Stewardess is a black comedy short film which investigates over consumption and man’s relationship with nature. It is on the surreal side, both funny and gross, and ironically has a vegetarian edge to it.
Paula Christensen was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina before relocating with her parents to New York and eventually attending Amherst (MA) College studying Theater and Anthropology.
Her first full-length play In Vitro received a workshop reading at the Public Theater in New York in 2004 and has been optioned; she is transferring the story from stage to screen. She has several other projects in the works including a fantasy/adventure TV show and a political documentary.
Currently living in LA, she makes her film directorial debut with A Casa, the first part of Tres, three stories of intense emotional connection captured in a fleeting moment from three directors, inspired by the poetry of her grandfather, poet and filmmaker Carlos Hugo Christensen.
On this episode, we talk with Kristian Söderström, director and writer of the short film Darkness Of Truth.
The film is a surreal psychological thriller about the secrets of a middle-aged actress and former ballet dancer in Berlin and her tenant, a young, attractive female student. They choose to communicate their anger via the former actress’ diary.
Todd Robinson is a surgeon in Memphis, TN, who was inspired to document his mother’s "miracle" with his first forays into filmmaking, the feature-length Hidden Treasure and the short Sounds of A Miracle, both based on his mother’s story.
His mother, Earnestine Rodgers Robinson, received no formal music training, and with her faith and family, she rose from humble southern roots to become composer of sacred classical music that took her all the way to Carnegie Hall and to a world premiere in Prague.
On this episode, we speak with Emmanuel Jespers , writer and director of the short film Personal Spectator.
Emmanuel Jespers is an Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD) graduate and has been directing and films and commercials for over ten years. His films include the short film The Last Dream (2000) which won many awards including Un Certain Regard in the Cannes Film Festival, A Night to Remember (2002), and Nervous Breakdown (2002).
More recent work includes the 2007 films Two Sisters and a feature he wrote, directed, and produced called Artefacts.
His short films have been selected to more than 50 film festivals worldwide, and he has won more than two dozen prizes.
Phil Allocco is the writer and director of the short film Joseph Henry.
Allocco began his career as a musician in the bands Law and Order and Dogma. From there, he joined the company Media Jelly, producing and designing projects including Goosebumps, The Magic School Bus, and Fox’s Dr. Dolittle 2.
Allocco was also the creator of several original animated series including The Vanderfuls and Bratface and Waffle.
In 2005, Allocco joined Red Thread Productions working on many projects including producing and editing The Best of the GLAAD Awards for Logo. Earlier this year (2007), Allocco was one of fifty directors hand-picked by Steven Spielberg for the Fox TV series On The Lot.
More information on Phil Alloco is available at his company Make Things Work.
JD Kelleher is an actor making his directorial debut with the short film One Last Drink Before Morning.
JD studied English at University College Cork and has an extensive acting background in both film and television throughout the UK.
His television and film credits include: Batman Begins, The Art of Flirting (an homage to Buster Keaton), and the BBC productions Little Britain, Murphy’s Law, and Ballykissangel. Most recently, he is starring in the Channel 4 production of City of Vice.
One Last Drink Before Morning deals with three characters who come to terms with the crooked twists and turns that have led them to their desperate positions in life, set in a noir-like smoky dive bar.
Christopher Martini, writer/director/producer of the film The Stone Child, joins us on this episode.
He has worked behind the scenes in production in a variety of films includingediting The Chris Isaac Show and the documentary Gulf War Syndrome: Killing Our Own.
The Stone Child is about an 11-year-old boy, half Lakota Native-American and half caucasian, in rural South Dakota, and his relationship with his father after a painful divorce.
There is feature length version of the film in the works as well.
Ursula Burton is a Yale alumna who studied Theater and English Literature. Having done extensive theater work, she has more recently worked in television and film including The Office, The War at Home, and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya-Sisterhood.
She founded Five Sisters Productions with her four other sisters. Together, they have produced three feature films in which she has also appeared: Just Friends, Temps, and Manna From Heaven.
Her most recent work is a comedy short which she wrote, directed, and acted in called The Happiest Day Of His Life.
Our guest is filmmaker Yoav Segal, director of The Battle Of Cable Street. In 1936, Oswald Mosley and his army of fascist Blackshirts planned to march through the East End. However, Segal’s grandfather, Ubby Cowan, and a host of others, including Jews, Irish, and dockworkers succeeded in stopping the march. This was a seminal event in British history as it loudly declared Britains refusal to accept fascism. Blurring the line between live action and animation, The Battle Of Cable Street retells the event by presenting a young boy, Danny, who is taken inside the magical world of his own sketchbook by his grandfather and shown what it was like to live through the events of 1936. Danny learns, much as his granddad did, ‘Look up, see the world around you. Find a voice, express yourself.’ The film screened recently at the 11th annual Rhode Island International Film Festival.
On this episode, we talk with documentary filmmaker Carol Carimi Acutt of Safari Films.
Carol is a native New Orleanian and has directed three documentaries about Louisiana musicians: Getting It Together featuring bebop pianist Willie Metcalf, Jr., My Story, My Music, My Life about renowned jazz composer and arranger Harold Battiste, Jr., and most recently Been Down That Muddy Road featuring Louisiana Hall of Fame swamp pop legend Joe Barry.
We speak with Jason Connell, president of Connell Creations, a video and film production company in Los Angeles.
Jason Connell has recently directed a documentary film about the lives of Hollywood background actors (often somewhat inaccurately called "extras") called Strictly Background.
He also founded the Tulsa Uncensored Film Festival, which spread to both New York and Los Angeles, underwent a name change, and is now known as the United Film Festival.
Greg Cahill is originally from Boston and graduated from NYU in 2004. His thesis film there was Wolves of Chechnya, a short film about a Russian soldier’s harrowing experiences in the Chechen War. He then moved to LA, where he produces and directs special features for the NBC TV series Medium.
Greg Cahill has recently written, directed, and produced The Golden Voice, a short film about the Cambodian rock singer Ros Sereysothea, one of Cambodia’s biggest stars of the 60’s and early 70’s before the advent of the Khmer Rouge. It is a tragic yet inspiring film featuring some undiscovered gems of rock and roll music.
Boston native Andrew Filippone, Jr. attended Emerson college and worked on an unfinished project which has recently had new life breathed into it.
Called Happy Monday, it is a unique experimental documentary, also referred to as a "documentary film object." It represents the tragedy of unfinished work, the stasis of images captured on negatives but never given life through projection on a film screen.
Andrew now lives and works in New York City, where he heads the production company Telling Story.
On this episode we speak with writer George Harrar. George Harrar’s works have appeared in a number of literary magazines, and his 1999 work The 5:22 was selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 1999, edited by Amy Tan.
We discuss storytelling from the writer’s point of view, and similarities between short film storytelling and its literary equivalent. We also discuss some of George Harrar’s other past and upcoming works.
We speak with Montreal director Luc Beauchamp - writer, director, and producer of the film Arthur’s Paradise.
Arthur’s Paradise is a unique film, a blend of documentary and fiction, with almost no dialog and music from opera to mariachi. At times beautiful, at times disturbing, it explores the solitary life of a farmer and his animals.
Luc Beauchamp received a degree in music composition from the Université de Montréal before working on a number of short films including the award-winning The Lion & the Lamb.
We are joined by Dana Dorian, founder and director at the Glasgow, Scotland–based studio Axis Animation, where he has directed several award-winning commercials and broadcast projects.
Dana recently made his first short film Fetch, winner of the BAFTA Scotland award for best animation.
Our guest this week is Nicholas Mason, the founding director of the Manhattan Short Film Festival.
The Manhattan Short Film Festival is a unique film festival which presents twelve short films from several countries, all screened during one week, in venues across the globe.
Audiences at each venue then vote on their favorites, and the winner is determined at the end of the festival screenings.
Today’s guest is Alex Merkin.
Alex Merkin is the president of Production and Development of
FiveLion Films, a music video, commercial, and film production company in New York City.
He is also the director, creator, and editor of the award-winning short suspense thriller Across The Hall.
Giovanna Chesler is an Assistant Professor in Communication at the University of California San Diego, and works professionally as a cinematographer and film/video curator and juror.
She is the director and producer of internationally exhibited documentary and narrative films including BeauteouS: The Trilogy and hand-some.
Her most recent film is Period: The End of Menstruation, a feature documentary film exploring trends in hormonal birth control which change the way we think of gender, health and the ‘natural’.
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. On this special episode of Spoiler Alert Radio, we talk with Barbara Silvestro.
Barbara Silvestro is a 41 year old mother of three a who lost 65 pounds through diet and exercise, including using Leslie Sansone’s and other fitness DVDs.
She was eventually invited to be a participant in the filming of an edition of the Sansone Walk Slim DVDs. We talk about her experience.
On Spoiler Alert Radio’s hour long Mother’s Day Special, we explore the theme of motherhood with Mary Mazzio of 50 Eggs Productions, who discusses her three documentary films: A Hero For Daisy, Apple Pie, and Lemonade Stories and her unique approach to documentary filmmaking.
A Hero For Daisy is a film about Title IX pioneer and two-time Olympian Chris Ernst who through her protests for gender equity athletic facilities for women has opened the door to daughters everywhere. The film is dedicated to Daisy, Mary’s daughter.
Apple Pie is a film about professional athletes and their mothers from the aspect of their mother’s stories and the connections to their children’s lives.
Lemonade Stories is a film about renown entrepeneurs and their mothers, highlighting each mother’s impact on the entrepeneurial spirit and success of their sons and daughters.
J.L. Aronson has written, directed, and produced Danielson: A Family Movie and discusses this and other documentary work of his.
Danielson: A Family Movie follows Daniel Smith, an eccentric musician and visual artist, as he leads his four siblings and best friend Chris to indie-rock stardom, while mentoring a then-unknown Sufjan Stevens along the way.
The film deals with a number of themes, including the challenges of being a sincere Christian in the po-mo underground, balancing individual needs vs. commitment to family, and maintaining artistic integrity while reaching out to a wider audience.
We speak with actor, writer, and director David Dean Bottrell, who has recently written and directed an award winning comedy short film Available Men, representing his first effort as both writer and director.
David Dean Bottrell has appeared on a number of television series, most recently with a recurring role as the creepy Lincoln Meyer on the hit show Boston Legal, and co-wrote the screenplay for the film Kingdom Come.
We speak with Montreal director Luc Beauchamp - writer, director, and producer of the film Arthur’s Paradise.
Arthur’s Paradise is a unique film, a blend of documentary and fiction, with almost no dialog and music from opera to mariachi. At times beautiful, at times disturbing, it explores the solitary life of a farmer and his animals.
Luc Beauchamp received a degree in music composition from the Université de Montréal before working on a number of short films including the award-winning The Lion & the Lamb.
Craig Shapiro joins us to discuss his documentary film Ice Kings about an unparalleled hockey dynasty.
This is the story of Mount Saint Charles Academy in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, a school that won twenty-six consecutive state championships between 1978 and 2003.
Craig also discusses his work in television sports features and plans for the future.
Director Skye Fitzgerald discusses his documentary Bombhunters and his work with his production company spinfilm.
In 1969, the US launched secret bombing raids into Cambodia in pursuit of the Viet Cong during the Vietnam war. Until suspension as part of peace agreements in 1973, over one billion pounds of ordnance were dropped on Cambodia.
Over thirty years later, much of that deadly ordnance is still scattered unexploded across the Cambodian countryside, where it is "harvested" by enterprising - and desperate - people.
Bombhunters is their story.
Valerie Weiss, filmmaker and BioPhysics PhD, discusses her AFI Women’s Fellowship, the Dudley Film program she created at Harvard, and her film projects Dance by Design, Transgressions, Losing Control, and more.
Transgressions has been described as A Clockwork Orange meets Pleasantville. It takes place in the not-so-distant future, in a society combining the worst elements of the nanny state and reality TV. Domestic strife with a darkly ironic twist.
Part Two of the 2006 Academy Nominated Short Film discussions features the live-action short nominees.
Films include The Saviour, Helmer and Son, One Too Many (Eramos Pocos), Binta and The Great Idea, and West Bank Story.
Part One of the 2006 Academy Nominated Short Film discussions features the Oscar Animated Short nominees as well as the "Short-listed" films which were almost nominated.
Animated nominee films include The Danish Poet, Maestro, The Little Matchgirl, No Time For Nuts, and Lifted.
Writer, Director/Producer, Instructor, and Actor Chris Sparling joins us to discuss differences in marketing two completely distinct films and about the grassroots approach to filmmaking.
He also discusses his experiences in LA as an actor to focusing on writing and producing back in Providence and beyond Providence.
The renowned experimental band Cul de Sac joins us to discuss their work on live film composition.
This includes currently focusing on F.W. Murnau's Faust and starting an annual winter tradition of performing a live original score to Raymond Brigg’s The Snowman.
Casting Director Annie Mulhall of LDI Casting stops by Spoiler Alert Radio.
She enlightens us on the casting process for major films in Southern New England and beyond.