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  • Job Ter Burg - Dutch Film Editor

    Dutch Editor, Job Ter Burg started out as an editor for mostly television documentaries, but after his continued collaboration with film school class mate Martin Koolhoven on Dark Light and the highly awarded Suzy Q, he focused on editing feature films.

    After two nominations for Best Film Editing for his work on Godforsaken for Pieter Kuijpers and Schnitzel Paradise for Martin Koolhoven, Job became the lead film editor on the prestigious Black Book, Paul Verhoeven’s first Dutch film in 20 years.

    Black Book by Paul Verhoeven and Winter In Wartime by Martin Koolhoven were both shortlisted for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

    Job was also awarded with the Golden Calf for Best Film Editing for work on Rudolf van den Berg’s film Tirza.

    Job is co-founder and President of the Netherlands Association of Cinema Editors (NCE) and is a regular guest teacher, lecturer and editing coach.

    30 min
  • Frankie Demarco - American Cinematographer for John Cameron Mitchell

    Frankie Demarco is best known for his collaborative work as Director of Photography with John Cameron Mitchell on the films: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus, and Academy Award nominated Rabbit Hole.

    Frankie’s work over the years has also included: Jessica Yu’s comedy, Ping Pong Playa, comedies Beerfest and The Winning Season, the love story Peter and Vandy, and the documentaries, Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey, Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart, and How to Draw A Bunny.

    Frankie has recently completed work on JC Chandor’s film Margin Call, a thriller that revolves around the key people at a investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.

    30 min
  • Floris Vos - Dutch Production Designer

    Dutch Production Designer, Floris Vos studied as a furniture maker and worked as a set-builder for Dutch television.

    Floris then began working with productions designers on film work in different capacities on films for Peter Greenaway, Robert Altman, and Sally Potter.

    By 1997, Floris began working exclusively as a production designer, developing a steady working relationship with a select group of directors and production companies, including for photographer Erwin Olaf, directors Martin Koolhoven and Alejandro Agresti, and for IDTV Films (formerly Motel Films).

    Floris has received awards in production design for a number of films that he has worked on, including Valentin, about an 8-year-old boy, raised by his grandmother, surrounded by problems in his family he finds only himself capable of solving set in the 1960s in Argentina, and Winter in Wartime, taking place at the end of World War II, about a 14-year-old boy that becomes involved with the Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded British soldier.

    30 min
  • Lee Chatametikool - Thai Film and Sound Editor - Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a Century, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    Lee Chatametikool, a Thai film editor who studied filmmaking in the United States, is the founder of the post-production company, Houdini Studio.

    Lee is a frequent collaborator with Apichatpong Weerasethakul (known as Joe) and other Thai independent film directors, but has also worked on commercial films, including the hit Thai horror film, Shutter.

    Lee has worked with Joe on four films: Blissfully Yours, Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a Century, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, each film having an unconventional use of the narrative film structure to tell a story. At the inaugural Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong, Lee won the Best Editor award for Syndromes and a Century.

    30 min
  • Levi Abrino - Editor, Writer, and Director - Little Horses and God of Love

    Levi Abrino was raised with on a dairy farm in Western Pennsylvania. Leaving the farm for Penn State University, he earned degrees in Geography and Filmmaking.

    Levi is a graduate of New York University's MFA film program. His short films have screened and won awards at numerous festivals including Slamdance, Clermont-Ferrand, and Milan, and at the IFC Center in New York.

    Levi's thesis film Little Horses, co-written with Luke Matheny, is about a Dave, a divorced small-town postal worker that tries to win his family back by getting his son a pony for his 8th birthday, which has screened in film festivals worldwide.

    Levi also edited, Luke Matheny’s Oscar winning short film, God of Love, about a lovestruck, lounge-singing darts champion that finds his prayers are answered when he mysteriously receives a box of love-inducing darts.

    Levi also spends his time working as an editor and script supervisor and working on upcoming feature film scripts.

    30 min
  • Johan Soderqvist - Swedish Film Composer

    Johan Soderqvist has written numerous scores for film and television, including several scores for films directed by the acclaimed Danish director, Susanne Bier. Among those titles are the award-winning score for Brothers, After the Wedding, Things We Lost in the Fire, and more recently for In A Better World, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

    Johan was nominated as Best Composer by the European Film Academy for his Brothers score. Johan's work was also awarded the UCMF Award for Best Film Music in Cannes.

    Johan also received numerous awards and acclaim for his score on the film, Let the Right One In, about Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.

    Some of Johan’s other works include the tense drama, Troubled Water, Earth Made of Glass about the Rwandan genocide, and the Norwegian dramatic period piece, King of Devil's Island.

    30 min
  • Mark Becker - Documentary Filmmaker, Editor, and Cinematographer

    Mark Becker co-edited the award winning Lost Boys of Sudan, which won an Independent Spirit Award.

    Mark has also worked as an editor for Lucasfilm, PBS, and on various independent productions. Working as a cinematographer, he has filmed documentaries for PBS, the BBC, MTV, and the Discovery Channel.

    Mark produced and directed Romantico, about a troubadour returns home to scratch out a living in Mexico after years of trying to get ahead in San Francisco.

    Mark was the director, editor, and cinematographer for the documentary film Pressure Cooker about three Frankford High seniors that find an unlikely ally in the form of culinary arts teacher Wilma Stephenson.

    More recently, Mark edited and co-wrote sequences for the inspiring documentary, Circo, about a hardscrabble traveling Mexican circus troupe that has lived and performed on the road since the 19th Century, and its chances for survival today.

    30 min
  • Nina Paley - Illustrator and Animator - Shorts to Sita Sings the Blues

    Nina Paley started out as a comic strip artist, including for Fluff and The Hots, as well as her own alternative weekly Nina's Adventures.In 1998, she began making independent animated festival 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.

    30 min
  • Morten Hojbjerg - Danish Film Editor

    Danish film editor, Morten Højbjerg graduated at the National Danish Film School in 2003.

    Morten’s credits over the years includes editing award winning documentary and narrative feature films.

    He has worked on Jorgen Leth’s and Lar Von Trier’s The 5 Obstructions, Susanne Bier’s After The Wedding, the documentaries Roskilde and Defamation, and the films Love and Rage and The Woman That Dreamed About a Man.

    Some of Morten’s other editing work includes theatrical trailers, the Oscar-Nominated short film Helmer & Son, and the music video of Flashing Lights for Kanye West.

    Morten more recently worked as a co-editor on Lar’s Von Triers’ science fiction feature, Melancholia.

    30 min
  • Tony Gardner - Makeup & Special Effects Designer

    Tony Gardner is an American Makeup and Special Effects Designer that has been involved in films including: 127 Hours, Zombieland, Hairspray, A Dirty Shame, Three Kings, Jack Ass: The Movie, Shallow Hal, There’s Something About Mary, and Darkman.

    Tony also contributed to the Daft Punk music videos for Technologic, The Prime Time of Your Life and their feature-length film Daft Punk's Electroma.

    Beyond the film-making arena, he also designed and created the popular GEICO Cavemen characters.

    29 min

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