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Filmmaker and commercial editor Daniel Mitchell is originally from London and has been working in Melbourne and Sydney since 2001, editing high end television commercials. Several years after film school, Daniel has focused his writing and directing work on children's films including Triple Concerto in D Minor. In the short film Triple Concerto in D Minor, Rebecca, an ambitious young girl, had always wanted to play the triangle with an orchestra. When the National Youth Orchestra are in town, Rebecca has the chance to make her dream come true.
Scott Wurth is based in Killara, Australia and has used his background in both advertising and photography to focus on documentary storytelling. Scott has filmed a trilogy of documentary films in the Philippines, including: Tira Bikal (Striking Metal), Cutud, and Panata.
Tira Bikal is about the Matias Santos family in the Philippines whose members became sick and began dying. Matias pledged to God to save his family by imitating the sufferings of Jesus Christ. Through a grueling event called Tira Bakal, the Santos family tradition is kept alive as the family honors their late grandfather as they continue the ceremony for the family, their community, and generations of people behind it.
Tira Bikal has been touring the film festival circuit and has won awards in festivals including the Action on Film International Film Festival,the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, the Nigeria Entertainment International Film Festival, and the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Sue Gilbert has made two documentary features on old money wealth, values, past and future generations, Greenaway (in 1982) and Beyond Greenaway: The Legacy (twenty seven years later). Beyond Greenaway: The Legacy, Sue Gilbert’s second feature, was created after devoting many years to family life. Beyond Greenaway explores explores a range of diverse topics such as marriage and divorce, belief in God, drug therapy, and politics, seeing those with affluence as ordinary people sharing their struggles, regardless of their advantages.In addition to touring a variety of film festivals, Sue conducts workshops based on issues addressed in Beyond Greenaway for businesses, schools and focus groups to help people examine their attitudes about both affluence and the role of their own backgrounds in shaping their values.
Victor Barcena won the first prize as a director at the Complutense University of Madrid with the play Woyzeck, from Georg Büchner. In 2004, he began his Film Direction studies at the Film and Audiovisual Industry School of Madrid. Victor then began his experience moving from theatre as a documentary director, screenwriter, and filmmaker in Madrid.
His dramatic narrative short called Las Manos De Abel has won a number of awards including at the Nashville Film Festival and the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Jaime Dezcallar has also been a member of a number of theatre companies and went into television work after law school.
After 3 years working on the hit Spanish sitcom, Camera Café, and after completing a number of shorts films, he left Madrid to study directing in NYC where he currently resides. Jaime's dramatic short, The Last Moments of Leopoldo Berenguer, has toured a number of prestigious film festivals worldwide.
Bobby Ciraldo is the co-owner of Special Entertainment is an Mary L. Nohl Fellowship Award winning production partnership between him and Andrew Swant whose mission is to blend art, entertainment, and humor. Their projects include: Hamlet A.D.D, Frankie Latina’s Modus Operandi, a number of creative music videos like the famous What What In The Butt by Samwell, and the documentary William Shatner’s Gonzo Ballet (based on the story of the ballet Common People by Margo Sappington created to paint a picture of music and the spirit of William Shatner's album, Has Been) which has played film festivals worldwide.
Barbara Muschietti is a an Argentinean executive producer of the Cannes Golden Lion Award Winning production Toma 78 in Barcelona, Spain.
Toma 78 provides General Production, casting, location scouting, styling, hair and make up, set design and prop rental, accommodation and logistics in a variety of creative advertising spots and film. Their clients include: Coca Cola and BAFICI (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Films).Barbara and brother writer and director Andy Muschietti have created a horror short called Mamá that has been raved about in a number of film festivals in Europe.
Mama is about two girls, Victoria and Lily, who are on the run from a ghostly woman who appears to be their mother in a Gothic home. A feature version of the film has attracted interest by Guillermo Del Toro.
Patrick Smith has written, produced, animated, and directed a variety of award winning animated films. He also directed the Emmy nominated MTV series Downtown and continued on to direct the popular animated series Daria. Patrick has created many creative commercial spots providing his signature style like Zoloft to the Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days series.Patrick's bizarre, morphing style tells symbolic stories of identity and emotion, and has extended beyond film. His unique paintings and public art installations have earned him accolades outside the world of animation; his fine art has been represented internationally by CVZ Contemporary Gallery in New York. Patrick is a Senior Thesis advisor at the Pratt Institute in New York, a fellow with the New York Foundation of the Arts, and a curator for multiple international film and animation festivals.
Liliana Greenfield-Sanders is a New York City director of a number of award winning short films including Ghosts of Grey Gardens, Miriam, Anna, Samantha, and Adelaide.She has worked for Anthology Film Archives, Fine Line Features, and Maysles Films. She graduated with honors from the Art-Semiotics department at Brown University. Before attending NYU Graduate film school, her first film Ghosts of Grey Gardens premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, screened at the Museum of Modern Art, and made its television debut on PBS. Anna won first prize in the LMN TV Student Filmmaker Contest and made its television debut on Lifetime Television. Samantha won Best Director, Best Graduate Film, and Best Film at the Fusion Film Festival. As a short film, Adelaide has won a National Board of Review Award, a SAG/Indie Audience Award at DGA Los Angeles and both the Audience Award and Best Short at the Gen Art Film Festival.
Tze (pronounced "Z") Chun is a filmmaker working out of NYC and LA. He was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston, and received his bachelor's degree in film studies at Columbia University.As a painter and visual artist, Tze has been represented at CVZ Contemporary gallery in Soho, and has commissioned portraits in private residences in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston, and New Orleans. Tze also painted the original artwork for the Academy-Award nominated Half Nelson as well as the children's book drawings used in the film.Tze's short film Windowbreaker, made for $600, was selected to play at mant high-profile film festivals including Sundance. A feature length version of the film Children of Invention has also screened at Sundance and has won awards at film festivals worldwide. It is about two young children living outside Boston that are left to fend for themselves when their mother gets embroiled in a pyramid scheme and disappears.Tze has been named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film." He is working on a number of projects including, You're A Big Girl Now, a film about his mother's childhood growing up in a Singaporean brothel, based on two years of research and interviews.
Christopher Bowen is a composer based in New York City and has written music for theatre and film. His projects include: the Annie nominated feature film $9.99 and the Israel-France co-produced live action feature Jellyfish (the winner of the Cannes Film Festival Camera D’Or). Both films feature the writing of Etgar Keret and a collaboration with writer Shira Geffen on Jellyfish and animator Tatia Rosenthal on $9.99. Additionally, Christopher is the Senior Performing Director of the award-winning theatrical group, The Blue Man Group, known for its three mysterious blue bald characters who take the audience through a multi-sensory experience. Other scoring projects have included: The Pinocchio Experiment, a one-man show written and performed by Randall Jaynes and the short film The Green Hour by Nicole Kassell.
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