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  • Adam Taub - La Quinceaera and The Duke of Bachata

    Adam Taub is a documentary film director from Colorado whose films include, Don Angelo, La Quinceañera, and El Duque de la Bachata (The Duke of Bachata). Don Angelo, is The story of Angelo Chavez, a retired U.S. naval officer who spends his retirement years driving to Tijuana, Mexico to help those in need. La Quinceañera, explores the issues of family, faith, and coming of age, and is a portrait of a Mexican family's love and devotion to each other. El Duque de la Bachata is Adam’s more recent documentary following Dominican bachata and merengue musician Joan Soriano as he works to accomplish his dream of a hit song and fame as an artist. Adam is also working a documentary on the people, music and geography of the Island of Cape Breton, called The Cape Breton Fiddler.

    29 min
  • Clark Hunter - Production Designer - Sling Blade, All the Pretty Horses, The Smell of Success, Carriers

    For over 25 years, Clark Hunter has worked as a production designer on a wide range of films including the Billy Bob Thornton-directed films: Sling Blade, All the Pretty Horses, and Daddy and Them.

    Clark has also worked with The Polish Brothers and M. David Mullen, ASC on The Astronaut Farmer, Stay Cool, and The Smell of Success. Clark also has designed films like Carriers, an interesting twist on an apocaltypic thriller.

    Clark’s range of film credits also include: Clay Pigeons, Suicide Kings, Niagara, Niagara, The Badge, Beerfest, Old School, Road Trip, and Piranha 3D. Clark's recent projects include: Seven Days in Utopia starring Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, and Melissa Leo, based on an inspirational book about life lessons from golf learned on a real golf course in a remote area of Utopia, TX, and Salvation Boulevard from director George Ratliff, Set in the world of mega-churches.

    29 min
  • Amy Weber - Radish Creative and Annabelle & Bear

    Amy Weber, advertising director and filmmaker has also developed numerous award winning television and film projects with her company Radish Creative Group and her first feature film directorial debut, Annabelle & Bear. Annabelle & Bear is the product of a 100% Michigan cast, crew and soundtrack. Amy showcased the local film community, featuring the talent in Michigan during tough economic times for the state. Annabelle & Bear is the dramatic, tender story of a man who finds himself thrust into the struggles of unexpected fatherhood taking him on a journey leading to life-altering love found in the heart of his young daughter.

    29 min
  • Mark White - Production Designer on Please Give and Winter's Bone - Now on DVD

    Mark White, an American production designer, began his career as a Toy Designer before moving into Theatre Design. He shifted gears into film as Set Designer on Twenty-Nine Palms and then as Art Director on Boiler Room.

    As Production Designer, Mark’s credits include: Wet Hot American Summer, The Baxter, The Ten, Tully and the Comedy Central series, Stella.

    He also was production designer for Morgan J. Freeman’s film, Homecoming, and the film Transamerica, featuring the Oscar-nominated actress, Felicity Huffman.

    Mark was recently the production designer on two major independent films, Please Give and Winter's Bone.

    Please Give is directed and written by Nicole Holofcener, a perceptive and darkly comedic take on modern life’s contradictions, good intentions, and shaky moral bearings, starring Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt.

    Winter’s Bone is written and directed by Debra Granik is about 17 year old Ree Dolly who sets out to track down her missing father, who has put their house up for his bail bond, which will lead to the family’s eviction if he can’t be found. Winter’s Bone won the Best Picture Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

    29 min
  • Alex Heffes - UK Composer/Conductor for Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland, and State of Play

    UK film composer, Alex Heffes, has created film scores that include many of award-winning films for director Kevin Macdonald such as One Day in September, Touching the Void, and The Last King of Scotland.Alex has proved successful in a variety of genres including the comedy The Parole Officer, the action film Out of Reach and Kevin Macdonald's political espionage thriller State of Play.Alex’s scores have been nominated for BAFTA, Ivor Novello, European Film Academy, and ASCAP awards. Alex always conducts his own orchestral scores.Some of Alex’s more recent film scoring projects include the documentary Inside Job directed by Charles Ferguson, and Justin Chadwick’s debut feature The First Grader.

    29 min
  • Sam Green - The Weather Underground, The Rainbow Man/John 3:16, Utopia in Four Movements

    Sam Green is a San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker whose feature film, The Weather Underground, was nominated for an Academy Award and broadcast nationally on PBS.

    Sam’s other award-winning documentaries include Lot 3, Grave C, Pie Fight ’69, N-Judah 5:30, and The Rainbow Man/John 3:16.

    Sam also teaches at the University of San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Institute.

    Recently, Sam has co-created Utopia in Four Movements, which uses the collective experience of cinema to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the twenty-first century, in a singular, poetic essay that stretches the very norms of the nonfiction genre and musical performance.

    29 min
  • Nico Mensinga - Screenwriter of Watching and Titus

    Nico Mensinga is the screenwriter for the short film, Watching, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about the ability to spot where truth lies, and lies begin with 2 main characters, Josh and Carrick, portrayed by Ian Hart and Charlie Cattrall. Watching took home a number of awards around the world and won best screenplay and the Silver Medal audience award and in the prestigious Manhattan Short Film Festival.Nico previously worked as a production intern at Number 9 Films on films like When Did You Last See Your Father?, based on an auto-biographical novel by author and poet Blake Morrison, starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent.Nico has developed other feature length screenplay work including the upcoming film, Titus, the story of an African American jazz legend lost in London, find a way back to the music that has kept him alive this long.

    29 min
  • Mairi Cameron - Milk and Push Bike - Manhattan Short Film Fest Finalist

    Australian filmmaker, Mairi Cameron’s graduate film, Milk, screened at Cannes and garnered many awards. Milk is about an old man that lives on his own, and doesn't go out except to buy milk that has a daily ritual visit and request for milk from the downstairs Woman.Over the years, Mairi has had commercial work including music videos for the Aussie band Washington and the mockumentary series (s)Truth. Mairi is also film instructor at the JMC Academy in Brisbane.She directed many other shorts over the years including the more recent short film, Seersucker, about a nine-year-old girl who has to wear a seersucker dress made from a tablecloth in 1962.Mairi has screened around the world as a finalist in the global film festival, the Manhattan Short Film Fest, with her film Push Bike, about a woman, Michelle, whose clothes are stolen from the pool changing room one night that must brave a nude ride home on her old bike.

    29 min
  • Greig Fraser - Cinematographer - Out of the Blue, The Boys Are Back, Bright Star, Let Me In

    Greig Fraser is an award winning cinematographer originally from Melbourne, Australia now based in Los Angeles.In 2002 Greig shot Glendyn Ivin’s acclaimed short film Crackerbag. In 2005, he won an Australian Film Industry Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film Jewboy. In 2006 he shot the feature film Out of the Blue, based on the Aramoana Massacre in New Zealand. Greig has worked a number of features including on Scott Hicks’ film The Boys Are Back, Bright Star directed by Jane Campion, and Glendyn Ivin’s film Last Ride. He has continued working on shorts as well including Nash Edgerton’s short films Spider and Lucky and Netherland Dwarf and Crossbow for David Michod.

    Most recently, Greig was the Director of Photography on Let Me In, Matt Reeves’ American adaption of the Swedish thriller, Let The Right One In, about a bullied young boy that befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.

    29 min
  • Danielle Fillios - French Film Editor based in Chile

    Danielle Fillios has edited more than 40 films, a wide mix of narrative and documentary features and some short films, some of them nominated and awarded for highest honors.

    Mi Mejor Enemigo, a heartfelt film about the war between Chile and Argentina in the 1970s, and Johnny One Hundred Pesos were both nominated for the Goya. Also, B-Happy which picked up 2 awards at Berlinale. Danielle won the Golden Kikito at Gramado for Captain Pantoja and the Special Services for her editing work. She worked on films from France, Spain, Chile, Venezuela and Perú.Recently Danielle worked on The Maid by Sebastian Silva, a drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years, which won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Language Film. Danielle also edited the recent short film, Blokes, one of 9 short films selected for the Cannes Film Festival.

    29 min

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