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UK Film and Television Editor Billy Sneddon’s credits over the years include work in editing comedy television, video and film for projects including the television series Green Wing, The Thick of It, The Inbetweeners, and No Heroics, and more recently Veep.

Billy has edited for Billy Connolly’s Two Night Stand for the London segment and Live in New York.

Film projects Billy has worked on include the comedic short film Bistro, the award winning political satire feature film In the Loop, and the black comedic feature Four Lions.

Billy recently worked on Nick Hamm’s film Killing Bono, about two brothers who attempt to become global rock stars but can only look on as old school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.

Editor and director Jeff Malmberg’s editing credits include: the critically acclaimed BET documentary series American Gangster, A&E's Biography, ESPN's SportsCentury, and numerous shows for the History Channel. He has cut over 100 spots for such directors as George Lucas, Errol Morris, TRAKTOR, and Harald Zwart.

Jeff produced and edited Red White Black & Blue with Tom Putnam, telling the story of the Battle of Attu, in Alaska.

Jeff Malmberg's directorial debut, the feature-length documentary Marwencol, wining many awards, including the Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award.

Marwencol is a documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp, where after being victimized in a brutal attack, Mark built a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard.

Bjarne Hansen has been working by freelancing in illustration for magazines, commercials and books since graduating from the Art and Craft School in Kolding in 1991. He has also worked in pre-production on the TV shows Troll Tales, Benjamin Blümchen, among other TV specials.Bjarne has been a background painter for A-Film on the features Quest For Camelot and JungleJack 1+2. He also worked on a small primary color-script for the cgi-feature Jungo Goes Bananas (Junglejack #3). He worked as head of backgrounds on A-Film's feature Asterix and the Vikings. Bjarne has also written and drawn graphic novels, illustrated a story by Morten Remar, and has worked coloring DC Comics including House of Secrets, The Light Brigade, A God Somewhere, and Superman for All Seasons. Bjarne recently has worked as art director on Sylvain Chomet’s film The Illusionist, focusing on color-script and background-painting. The Illusionist is a bittersweet tale about a French magician in late 1950s Scotland who struggles to survive as the world becomes less and less interested in his craft. The Illusionist was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

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 then worked on numerous children's TV series for the Canadian studio CINAR Animation. As Environment Design Supervisor for CINAR, he developed the series Animal Crackers and Mona the Vampire. He then also worked as a background painter for the Cactus Animation series Fennec Le Détective. 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.

Originally trained as a painter, Jason Carpenter has an expressive, organic style with a focus on light and shadow.

Jason received an MFA from Calarts in Experimental Animation, where he further developed his story and filmmaking skills.

When he's not working on his own animated projects, Jason collaborates with his brother Michael as half of Carpenter Bros. Animation.

Together they direct art and animation for commercials, tv shows, theme parks, and museum exhibits.

One of Jason's personal animated projects, is the Annie nominated short film, The Renter. The Renter is based on a true story and follows the journey of a young boy who is cared for by an elderly woman during the day.

Eric Howell has worn multiple hats on a plethora of both independent and studio films: from camera operator, effects technician, stuntman, and locations scout, to dolly grip, director and producer.

Eric joined the Screen Actors Guild to begin performing as a stuntman and bit-part actor. This experience in turn propelled Eric into stunt coordination and 2nd unit directing. Credits include: A Simple Plan, Untamed Heart, The Mighty Ducks, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Factorum, Older Than America, and A Serious Man.

Eric’s producing and directing experience began with the international award winning short The Interview, the first motion picture to be shot on film and debuted on the internet and has writen several highly praised feature length screenplays.

Eric dove back into directing and emerged with his internationally acclaimed Ana's Playground, and was shortlisted for an Academy Award, about the moment when a child, Ana, who is forced to choose between ideology and humanity while living and playing in a dangerous war environment.

On this episode of Spoiler Alert Radio, we discussed the 2011 Academy Award live action short film nominees, honorable mentions, and shortlisted films.

I was joined by Spoiler Alert Radio, co-producer, and editor Paul Elsnau to give our take on this year’s nominated and shortlisted animated short films.

On this episode of Spoiler Alert Radio, we discussed the 2011 Academy Award animated short film nominees, honorable mentions, and shortlisted films.

I was joined by Spoiler Alert Radio, co-producer, and editor Paul Elsnau to give our take on this year’s nominated and shortlisted animated short films.

Gabriel Rhodes has worked on several documentaries and short films including the short film, Anna is Being Stalked, which premiered at Sundance. Gabriel was completed editing work for The Sundance Channel, Showtime, and A&E, and a wide array films and earlier works, Control Room, and My Kid Could Paint That.He also directed and edited August in the Empire State following Cheri Honkala, liberal activist, Paul Rodriguez, Republican candidate for Congress; and Michelle Goldberg, an independent journalist during the 2004 Republican National Convention.Gabriel’s documentary, Behind the Glass, tells the story of motion picture projectionists preparing to make their last stand against the encroaching forces of technology as digital projection technology replaces century-old projectors in theatres across the country.Gabriel also worked as an editor on the award winning documentaries, Quest For Honor, about a former teacher and tireless activist that works to investigate and eradicate honor killings in the tribal regions of Kurdistan, and The Tillman Story, about football player Pat Tillman’s death in the line of duty that the military manipulated into a propaganda tool.

Jennifer Dehghan began her career as an Art Director for BBDO in NYC where her work won such awards as New York Addy Gold awards, Creativity Magazine's Awards of Distinction and AdWeek’s Spots of the Week.

Jennifer shot the launch spot for an AOL Brand with Jake Scott of RSA Productions where for the first time she was involved in the behind-the-scenes aspects of production and production design.Jennifer’s first notable project was art directing Academy Award Nominated The Squid and the Whale, after her art direction work on The Lost Cause by Oscar Winning Writer Jim Taylor.She went on to design Thanksgiving and Kettle of Fish, both of which premiered at Tribeca. Other highlights include her design for On the Road With Judas, The Merry Gentleman for Michael Keaton, and Dare which debuted and received critical acclaim at the Sundance. More recently Jennifer has worked as poduction designer on Choose for Oscar winning Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato as well as a period drama, The Music Never Stopped, for James Kohlberg.