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Ole Birkeland has worked as a director of photography with a wide of variety directors over the years on in various genres and on both features and shorts, including the dramatic short film Lullaby, about a mother meeting her lost child.His work over the years includes the films: the documentary Peace One Day, Everything, a comedy/drama, featuring Ray Winstone, the horror film, The Devil’s Chair, Ruby Blue from director Jan Dunn starring Bob Hoskins, about elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing. Ole’s more recent work includes: Helen, about 2 lost teen girls with one trying to find herself, a stunning experimental docudrama, The Calling, also from Jan Dunn, featuring Brenda Blethyn about a university student leaving to become a nun, and The Arbor, a portrayal of the late Bradford playwright, Andrea Dunbar.
Nicolas Chaudeurge, a UK based film editor, has been editing drama and documentary for 14 years in both the UK and France. He has edited over twenty award- winning short films, including the Oscar winning Wasp, directed by Andrea Arnold.Nicolas soon moved on to editing television dramas and feature films, collaborating again with Andrea Arnold on Red Road which won the Cannes Jury Prize. Other recent credits include Kevin McDonald’s feature documentary My Enemy’s Enemy and The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos for Disney.Nicolas recently worked on Andrea Arnold’s film Fish Tank, the story of 15-year old Mia, whose life is turned on its head when her mother brings home a new boyfriend, in an unsettling coming of age film, which also won a Jury Prize in Cannes and a BAFTA for Best British Film.
Rob Lemkin a UK documentary filmmaker that has produced and directed over 50 documentaries for BBC, ITV, Sky, The History Channel (US), and Arts & Entertainment.Rob has won numerous awards in Britain and he has made several films about the history and politics of Asia over the years.Rob's latest film is Enemies of the People, a personal documentary about those involved in the Killing Fields of Cambodia, with investigative journalist Thet Sambath, who spent a decade of life building trust of men and women who perpetrated the massacres. Enemies of the People has been shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Jude Farr is a UK set decorator with over 25 years in the film and television industry.Jude is based in the UK with experience working in France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, CZ. Republic, Romania, Ireland, Borneo, Morocco, Iceland, Finland, & Sweden.Jude has worked on a variety of films over the years including: Shine, The Red Violin, Hannibal Rising, Bright Young Things, the original Death At A Funeral, and Eastern Promises. for David Cronenberg, featuring a about a Russian mob family in London and their family restaurant cover up.
Jude has also worked as a set decorator on the award winning film Ondine, the story of an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman in his fishing net who he believes to be a Selke, for Neil Jordan.
Jude was recently the set decorator as part of the Academy Award nominated Art Direction team for The King’s Speech for Tom Hooper, about the King George VI of Britain's ascension to the throne and his speech therapist who helped him become worthy of it.
Cinematographer Sean Kirby shot the surreal film Police Beat, about an African-born bicycle cop encounters strange and mysterious situations on his police beat in urban Seattle.In 2007, he re-teamed with writer/director team Robinson Devor and Charles Mudede and realized the controversial documentary Zoo about the life of an Enumclaw, Washington man who died as a result of an unusual encounter with a horse.Some of his later credits include: Lovely Still, an emotionally moving holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time, Against the Current, about a man, struggling with a tragic past, with an urgent calling who enlists two friends to help him swim the length of the Hudson River, starring Joseph Fiennes, and The Tillman Story, a documentary on the story of Pat Tillman.
Lisa James Larsson has worked as an editor, director, and writer in television and short film projects.In 2008, Lisa completed her graduation film Pussyfooting, staring Kate Dickie and Terence Beesley.More recently, Lisa completed her short film Little Children, Big Words about a seven year old boy that tells his class mates what he wants to be when he grows up starting an uncomfortable discussion about the meaning of an unknown but loaded word, revealing the teacher’s story of victim and offender.
Little Children, Big Words premiered at Palm Springs International Shortfest, and garnered a number of international screening and awards.
Little Children, Big Words is also shortlisted for Oscar nomination for the Academy Awards 2011.
An Emmy nominated filmmaker, Thomas Burstyn, has over thirty years experience as a cinematographer. Tom trained at the National Film Board of Canada as a documentary filmmaker, before moving into feature films, which include: The Lost Tribe, When Trumpets Fade, City of Industry, Population 436, and The Boys & Girl From Country Claire.Tom's film company, Cloud South Films is a film company created by Tom and his wife, journalist Barbara Sumner Burstyn. Cloud South Films is committed to sustainability, both personal and professional in their documentary filmmaking in films including, One Man, One Cow, One Planet and This Way of Life.One Man, One Cow, One Planet is story of Peter Proctor's trek to India to help restore traditional farming there. This Way of Life is about Peter Karena, his wife Colleen, their six children and many horses who live almost wild in the stunning beauty of New Zealand's rugged Ruahine Mountains and their struggles with Peter's father and life's challenges in their way of life. Both films have won screened worldwide and won many awards. This Way of Life has also been shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
In 2004, composer Steve Lynch created, Stellarsound, an award winning music company that specializes in commercials and films.Steve's notable work includes Let’s Dance (a David Bowie cover) for Ballygowan, which also won a Gold Shark Award for best use of music. Steve has composed for countless commercials, short films and documentaries that have been shown both nationally and internationally, including a two hour score for Cromwell in Ireland - an HD documentary for the History Channel UK and the Smithsonian Channel in the US, which was recorded in Bratislava with a 40 piece orchestra.
Steve's scores for award winning short films in a variety of genres include: An Teanga Runda, Of Best Intentions, Spota, Mr. Foley, and Crossing Salween.
German animator Moritz Mayerhofer, was accepted into the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany, to study animation. After three years, Moritz took up an exchange program at Gobelins, Paris. There he started the visual development and design for 'Urs', which was his thesis-project. He has since graduated with that film at the Institute of Animation at the Filmakademie. Urs, is a touching and atmospheric CGI animated film about a son helping his aging by carrying her up a mountain to find a better life for each of them. Urs has garnered several awards globally and is a finalist in the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film.
Shane Sutton, artist and filmmaker, has worked extensively with a variety of media, including illustration and computer-aided design, and his original passion, painting, producing work that is at once highly appreciative of the medium of oil paint, yet informed by the technicality of his graphic work.
Shane co-directed and edited Fight or Flight, a documentary which follows a Dublin man as he ventures into the world of Thai boxing. Shot over two years in Thailand, the film has been shown in film festivals in Europe, the United States, garnering awards around the world.
Shane was also selected to participate in the Berlin Talent Campus. He has also created the short film, Fail?, about a man, Kevin, a darkly comic short film depicting his life after years of stress and heartache, along as contributing on shooting and editing work on Malgorzata, and The Video Box.
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