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Ron's earlier projects as a set decorator have included: Legends of the Fall , Michael Collins , Cruel Intentions , and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai .   Ron's TV credits include: Taking Chance , and for the series, The Royal Pains and Person of Interest . Other more recent notable films, Ron worked on included: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Be Kind Rewind ,  The Burning Plain by Gui...

After playing bass in several rock bands in the 1980s and 1990s, and getting a degree from  Copenhagen's Academy of Music , Halfdan E collaborated with Danish poet Dan Turell on a crossover project which produced two CD recordings, which both won Danish Grammy Awards .  Halfdan continued to compose for film and television, working with prominent film directors such as Per Fly and Hans Petter Molan...

Greg has worked in television for several years in television on projects as a set designer and was most known for his set design work on Star Trek: Voyager . As Set Designer in film,  Greg  worked on a variety of projects including the films: Planet of the Apes , Down With Love , Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl , World Trade Center , Lie Free or Die Hard , and Serenity . Gr...

Laurence has worked in television for several years on pilots and series including: Grey's Anatomy , Once And Again , Mr. Sterling , and EZ Streets . Laurence's production design credits include films for Paul Haggis : In The Valley Of Elah , The Next Three Days , and the Academy Award Best Picture , Crash , along with the films Freedom Writers and Traitor . Laurence was the production designer on...

David is an award-winning filmmaker from Texas. After making a deep impression with his short film A Catalog Of Anticipations , his debut feature, St. Nick , premiered at SXSW , and went on to play dozens of other film festivals around the world. St. Nick was released theatrically in the spring of 2011. St. Nick is is the story of a brother and sister on the run. They've left their home for some u...

Conrad's classical training at New England Conservatory and Princeton led to arranging assignments of "source music" for diverse films, and ultimately, to orchestrating and "ghost writing" many major motion pictures, collaborating with many renowned composers including: John Williams , Alexandre Desplat , James Newton Howard , Jerry Goldsmith , Danny Elfman , Hans Zimmer , and Mark Isham . Conrad'...

John has successfully been involved in casting all of Nebraska Director Alexander Payne's films. John tries to match the role to the person - often picking people off the street who match his criteria. He's selected housewives at the market, students in high schools, security guards - even a couple farmers in Loveland, Iowa. Working Alexander Payne gives John the leeway he needs to be a good and c...

David started in film-scoring on David Gordon Green's acclaimed debut feature George Washington and has since worked with David Gordon Green on four of his subsequent features, including All the Real Girls , Snow Angels , and the more recent Fox comedy The Sitter . David has worked with other acclaimed directors such as Jared Hess , Craig Zobel , Todd Rohal , and also scored the documentary Gerrym...

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...

In collaboration with Hans Zimmer , Klaus contributed to the Oscar-nominated scores for  The Thin Red Line and The Prince of Egypt , as well as writing music for directors including: Ridley Scott , Terrence Mallick , John Woo , Kathryn Bigelow , Werner Herzog , Sean Penn , Gore Verbinski , Michael Bay , and Steven Spielberg .   His film projects included: Gladiator , The Pledge , Hannibal , and Pe...

Parke won Summit , Addy , and Telly awards as IBM Tivoli's Manager of New Media, and later in 1999, he launched Pointsphere , a new media consulting firm. Parke was the Post Production Supervisor on the CNBC television series American Made and Associate Producer for the Emmy Award winning PBS documentary series, The State of Tomorrow . In 2007, with partners Allison Turrell and Lyman Hardy, Parke...

Anne has collaborated in the art department for renowned directors such as: Richard Heffron , on La Revolution Francaise , for Serge Gainsbourg , on Stan the Flasher , for Renny Harlin on Cutthroat Island , for Randall Wallace , on The Man in the Iron Mask , and Tony Scott , on Spy Game . In 2002, Anne worked on her first Production Designer role on a feature film for English director, Eric Styles...

Haskell received Oscar nominations for his work on the documentary The Living City ; the short film T Is For Tumbleweed and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest  and won Oscars for his work on Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf and Bound For Glory .  Haskell has worked on several films with John Sayles including Matewan , The Secret of Roan Inish , Limbo , and Silver City . Haskell has dierected and filmed...

We discussed a variety of unique film festivals that play around the US and around the world. This includes traveling short film festivals, traveling niche or novelty film festivals, and animation festivals. While only scratching the surface, we hope to give an insight into the great depth of film programming available locally and globally, and to remind you to keep an eye out in case one of these...

Andre made a name for himself as one of Norway’s most successful directors of commercials with almost two hundred commercials for clients in Norway and abroad to his credit, as well as directing award winning short films.  Andre’s latest work is the feature, TrollHunter , a thrilling documentary style film that is both darkly comedic and suspenseful.  Filmed in the countryside of Norway, TrollHunt...

Ruben directed films on skiing in the late 1990s, some of them now world-famous. After a documentary work in 2000 he made his award-winning feature debut, The Guitar Mongoloid , in 2004.  Ruben's feature film Involuntary was selected for Cannes 2008 and has since been in major festivals worldwide and Sweden´s nominee for Best Foreign Language Oscar that year.   Involuntary   is a series of stories...

Diego has worked as a Director of Photography on numerous projects including Tony Bravo and Mutiny , an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival .  In 2001,  Diego  was hired to direct the Latin American sitcom, Planeta de 6 , for the Venezuelan television network  Televen . The show was nominated for an INTE Award for Best Television Comedy.  Diego  was selected to participate in Fox Sear...

Dickon is a founding member of Tindersticks , the seminal UK band for which he composed music, played violin, guitar and keyboards.  His orchestral arrangements were one of  Tindersticks'  most distinctive features. From 1993 to 2005,  Dickon  was involved in ten of their releases including their self-titled debut which was Melody Maker's album of the year.  Dickon  began scoring films when French...

Jaco made his feature-length debut in 1991 with Toto The Hero , a tale about a man who believes his life was "stolen" from him when he was switched at birth.   Toto The Hero  gained wide critical acclaim, winning both the César Award for best foreign film and the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival . Jaco’s second feature film The Eighth Day is a story of a young man with Down syndrome, played...

Nigel Bluck earned a degree in Cinematography from the prestigious Australian Film Television and Radio School .  Upon graduation, Nigel became one of the top DPs in the commercial world and his feature career soon began as additional photographer on the critically acclaimed and award winning trilogy, The Lord of the Rings .   Other feature credits for Nigel include  Half Moon , for which he won B...

Before his commercial success, Marshall worked as senior producer at Icon Nicholson , a New York multimedia design firm. Marshall is a graduate of Swarthmore College where he majored in Comparative Religion .  Marshall got his start shooting, directing, and editing the documentary Street Fight , which followed Cory Booker's first run for mayor of Newark, NJ . The film went on to be nominated for b...

As an artist, Martin has shown his painting and sculpture internationally. Some of Martin's recent works as a production designer include: Super 8 for J.J. Abrams , Devil , and The Promotion for Steve Conrad . Martin also worked as production designer on Cloverfield for Matt Reeves , Tenacious D The Pick of Destiny , and Smokin' Aces . Martin was also the art director on a number feature films inc...

After receiving an ACS award for an Australian independent film, Dennys was hired as cinematographer on one of the first large budget HD features shot in Bollywood.  Dennys’ passion for photography has taken him from Outback Australia to the world over and has seen publication either in or on the cover of magazines such as Lime , Studio France , Rolling Stone , InStyle , and many national and inte...

Through Kusiak Music , as principal composrer, John has composed music for film, television, advertising and live performance, including several award-winning documentaries.  This includes working in the music department and scoring content for documentary projects for Errol Morris like: Fast, Cheap, Out of Control , intros for the Academy Awards , Mr. Death , the First Person TV Series , and the...

Luke’s documentary work is a continuous study of natural light, human movement and simply doing more with less. Luke's narrative work brings factors of control, beauty and storytelling that inform his approach on a daily basis. In this journey, he has filmed successes as varied as Helvetica , Objectified , Borat , and J ane’s Addiction’s Three Days .   Some of Luke's more recent work includes the...