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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.
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