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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.
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