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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...

Austrian Cinematographer, Peter Zeitlinger , worked as Director of Photography on Werner Herzog’s documentary, Death For Five Voices in 1995, continuing this collaboration up to Cave Of Forgotten Dreams and beyond.   Cave of Forgotten Dreams was shot in 3D inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their natural setting. Peter shot t...

New Zealand based documentary filmmaker, Leanne Pooley , established the independent production company Spacific Films based in New Zealand.  Her earlier documentaries include: Relative Guilt , Kiwi Buddha , and Haunting Douglass about modern dancer and choreographer Douglas Wright . Leanne  has made the award winning documentary films: The Promise , Try Revolution , and Being Billy Apple . Leanne...

Pasquale  has collaborated as conductor, orchestrator, arranger and composer for films for directors Pappi Corsicato and Dario D’Ambrosi , on the films, One Man Up and The Consequences of Love , by Paolo Sorrentino , and Mario's War  by Antonio Capuano .  Pasquale  later composed the music for Signorina Effe , The Sicilian Girl , and The Double Hour .  Pasquale  more recently collaborated on the f...

This was a rebroadcast of an interview with Boston-based animator, Karen Aqua .  Karen died May 30, 2011 at the age of 57. Since 1976,  Karen  created animated films exploring the themes of ritual, journeys, transformation, and the human spirit. Much of her work reflects an interest in symbols, mythology, and prehistoric and tribal cultures, and includes elements of rhythm, dance, and music. Karen...

Dutch Editor, Job Ter Burg started out as an editor for mostly television documentaries, but after his continued collaboration with film school class mate Martin Koolhoven on Dark Light and the highly awarded Suzy Q , he focused on editing feature films.  After two nominations for Best Film Editing for his work on Godforsaken  for Pieter Kuijpers   and Schnitzel Paradise for Martin Koolhoven , Job...

Frankie Demarco is best known for his collaborative work as Director of Photography with John Cameron Mitchell on the films: Hedwig and the Angry Inch , Shortbus , and Academy Award nominated Rabbit Hole . Frankie’s work over the years has also included: Jessica Yu’s comedy, Ping Pong Playa , comedies Beerfest and The Winning Season , the love story Peter and Vandy , and the documentaries, Theremi...

Dutch Production Designer, Floris Vos studied as a furniture maker and worked as a set-builder for Dutch television.  Floris then began working with productions designers on film work in different capacities on films for Peter Greenaway ,  Robert Altman , and Sally Potter . By 1997,  Floris  began working exclusively as a production designer, developing a steady working relationship with a select ...

Lee Chatametikool , a Thai film editor who studied filmmaking in the United States, is the founder of the post-production company, Houdini Studio . Lee is a frequent collaborator with  Apichatpong Weerasethakul  (known as Joe)  and other Thai independent film directors, but has also worked on commercial films, including the hit Thai horror film, Shutter . Lee has worked with Joe  on four films: Bl...

Levi Abrino was raised with on a dairy farm in Western Pennsylvania. Leaving the farm for Penn State University , he earned degrees in Geography and Filmmaking. Levi is a graduate of New York University's MFA film program . His short films have screened and won awards at numerous festivals including Slamdance , Clermont-Ferrand , and Milan , and at the IFC Center in New York. Levi's thesis film Li...

Johan Soderqvist has written numerous scores for film and television, including several scores for films directed by the acclaimed Danish director, Susanne Bier . Among those titles are the award-winning score for Brothers , After the Wedding , Things We Lost in the Fire , and more recently for In A Better World , which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film . Johan was nominated as Best Com...

Mark Becker co-edited the award winning Lost Boys of Sudan, which won an  Independent Spirit Award . Mark has also worked as an editor for Lucasfilm , PBS , and on various independent productions. Working as a cinematographer, he has filmed documentaries for  PBS , the BBC , MTV , and the  Discovery Channel . Mark  produced and directed Romantico , about a troubadour returns home to scratch out a...

Nina Paley  started out as a comic strip artist, including for  Fluff  and  The Hots , as well as her own alternative weekly  Nina's Adventures . In 1998, she began making independent animated festival  films , including the controversial yet popular environmental short,  The Stork . In 2002,  Nina  followed her then-husband to  Trivandrum, India , where she read her first  Ramayana . This inspire...

Danish film editor, Morten Højbjerg graduated at the National Danish Film School in 2003. Morten’s credits over the years includes editing award winning documentary and narrative feature films.   He has worked on Jorgen Leth’s and Lar Von Trier’s The 5 Obstructions , Susanne Bier’s After The Wedding , the documentaries  Roskilde and Defamation , and the films Love and Rage and The Woman That Dream...

Tony Gardner is an American Makeup and Special Effects Designer that has been involved in films including: 127 Hours ,  Zombieland , Hairspray , A Dirty Shame , Three Kings , Jack Ass: The Movie , Shallow Hal , There’s Something About Mary , and  Darkman .  Tony also contributed to the Daft Punk music videos for Technologic , The Prime Time of Your Life and their feature-length film Daft Punk's El...

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...

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 t...

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...

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 Pig...

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...

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...

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 , l...

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....