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  • Ron Von Blomberg - Set Decorator

    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.

    30 min
  • Halfdan E - Danish Film Composer

    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.

    30 min
  • Greg Hooper - Art Director and Set Designer

    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.

    30 min
  • Laurence Bennett - Production Designer - Paul Haggis' Crash to The Artist

    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.

    30 min
  • David Lowery - Independent Film Director and Writer from Texas

    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.

    30 min
  • Conrad Pope - Film Conductor, Arranger, and Composer

    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.

    30 min
  • John Jackson - Casting Director for Alexander Payne

    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.

    30 min
  • David Wingo - American Film Composer for David Gordon Green and Take Shelter

    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.

    30 min
  • Evgeni Tomov - Art Director & Production Designer - Arthur Christmas, The Illusionist, The Tale of Despereaux, Triplets of Belleville

    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.

    30 min
  • Klaus Badelt - German Score Collaborator with Hans Zimmer and Composer

    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.

    30 min

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