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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 FestivalNiche 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 FestivalsAnimation 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.