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  • Marshall Curry - Documentary Filmmaker - Street Fight, Racing Dreams, and If A Tree Falls

    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.

    30 min
  • Martin Whist - Production Designer - Cloverfield, The Promotion, and Super 8

    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.

    30 min
  • Dennys Ilic - Australian Still Photographer and Cinematographer

    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.

    30 min
  • John Kusiak - Film Composer for Errol Morris

    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.

    30 min
  • Luke Geissbuhler - American Cinematographer - Helvetica/Objectified, Borat, Buck, Love, Etc.

    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.

    30 min
  • Andre Ovredal - Norwegian Director and Writer - TrollHunter

    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.

    30 min
  • Peter Zeitlinger - Austrian Cinematographer for Werner Herzog

    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.

    30 min
  • Leanne Pooley - NZ Documentary Filmmaker - The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

    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.

    30 min
  • Pasquale Catalano - Italian Film Composer

    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.

    30 min
  • Karen Aqua - Tribute to An Award Winning Independent Animator

    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.

    30 min

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