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David Boyd's film credits include work onthe films: Cast Away , Galaxy Quest , and 12 Rounds . David was also the director of photography work for the Joss Whedon TV series, Firefly , and he has worked on the HBO series Deadwood and the award-winning Friday Night Lights . As a cinematographer, David has teamed up with directed Aaron Schneider on two films, the first being the Oscar-winning short f...

A former print journalist, Niall McKay’s work has appeared in The Economist , The New York Times and Wired Magazine . Niall won an Emmy for his documentary Sikhs in America about the challenges of being Sikh in the US, which aired on PBS stations across America as part of Asian Pacific Heritage Month .  Niall also co-produced Irvine Welsh’s directorial debut, Nuts . Niall’s critically acclaimed fe...

Chico Colvard is the son of a WWII German-Jewish mother and African-American father raised in the segregated south of Georgia. After pursuing a career in the theatre arts, Chico went on to eventually study and teach "race, law, and media" related courses at the University of Massachusetts, Boston . Chico is the producer and director of a deeply personal and uncompromising documentary, called Famil...

Nathan Larson is an award winning musician and film composer.  Nathan’s work as a musician includes being formerly the lead guitarist for the influential 1990s band Shudder to Think and the founder of the band Hot One .  He was also the creative force behind Mind Science of the Mind .  Nathan also has a band A Camp with his wife Nina Persson , who the lead singer and lyricist for the Swedish rock...

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...

James Embree is a British stuntman that is a member of the British Stunt Register and the Taurus World Academy .  A stuntman is typically a professional athlete or acrobat substituted for an actor when scenes involving danger are filmed. James has worked as both a stuntman on major productions like The Dark Knight , The A-Team , and Robin Hood , in independent films like Bronson , and as a stunt d...

Conor Horgan has worked as a fashion, advertising and editorial photographer. He has directed over 70 award-winning TV commercials. More recently, he has concentrated on dramatic and documentary work. His recent film projects include: The Beholder , a documentary film about portraiture, and his first feature film One Hundred Mornings , about 2 warring couples attempting to avoid the worst effects...

Brendt Barbur is the founding Director of the Bicycle Film Festival . The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycles and bicycle culture through art, film, music and performance and brings together various aspects of bicycling together to advocate its ability to transport people in many ways and to have a good time. The Bicycle Film Festival has traveled from its home base in New York City to S...

Award winning Irish producer Conor Barry , is the co-founder of SPFilms . SPFilms , run by Conor Barry with director and writer Brendan Muldowney . SPFilms has produced nine short films, including the multi-award winning shorts Innocence  and  The Ten Steps . SPFilms is developing several features and TV projects, including the feature film, Savage . Savage is a film about Paul, a press photograph...

New Zealand cinematographer Adam Clark has worked on a variety of projects, from commercial work for such clients as Kia and Subaru , to television work on the acclaimed series Insiders Guide to Happiness to a number of short and feature films. Adam's projects have included earlier films of Peter Jackson and the film River Queen for cinematographer Alun Bollinger , but he is best known as the lens...

Over the past decade, Ruairi O'Brien has worked as director or cinematographer on several short films , including Monitor, Hum, and his own films Hoor and Teeth . Teeth garnered awards in Galway, Ireland, and Brest, France.  Ruairi has worked as DP on UK television series including Murphy’s Law and Father & Son .  He has also shot a number of music videos for bands such as Placebo and We Are Scien...

Ruth Peyser has been making animated films since her arrival in New York from Australia in 1978. Her award-winning films have been screened on public television and at hundreds of festivals in the United States and throughout the world. A half hour segment of the PBS series Animated Women was devoted to her and her work. While Ruth was bringing up her daughters, she jotted down ideas for films and...

Roque Banos received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture to study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music where he discovered his path as a conductor and composer for many award winning Spanish films. Roque has been featured in many soundtracks for films, and has been nominated for prestigious Goya Awards and CEC Awards , on historical epics like Alatriste and for best original song on...

Craig Fison has worked in Art Direction, Production Design, Construction, as a Props Model maker, a sculpting and miniatures maker and finisher, in Set Decorating, and as a Scenic painter in Australia and worldwide on projects. His film projects include: working in the art department on commerical films like Moulin Rouge , Attack of the Clones , The Matrix Revolutions , and more independent produc...

Signe Baumane was born and raised in Latvia, graduating from Moscow University in 1989 with a B.A. in Philosophy. She started work at Dauka Animation Studio in Riga as an animator and cel painter. Since 1995, she has lived in NYC, having worked on I Married a Strange Person with Bill Plympton and animation inserts for XX/XY among many other projects. Her animation ranges from her 1991 debut The Wi...

Ivan Dias has written and co-produced Carlos Saura’s film Fados , a fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers, which explores Portugal’s popular musical genre of fado and its spirit of saudade.  Fados deploys mirrors, back projections, lighting effects, and lush colors to frame each song which carries the story of the Fado song from it roots to its branches. Fados expands the songs (w...

Yana Gorskaya was born in Russia, and emigrated to the United States with her mother at the age of six. Yana was hired to edit her first feature film, 2002's Spellbound , when director Jeffrey Blitz asked his former USC mentor Kate Amend if she would recommend one of her students to work on his documentary film and she suggested Yana , who was working as a teaching assistant while completing her M...

Animation producer and director Darragh O’Connell oversees the visual output of Brown Bag Films . He has directed hundreds of commercials, in television, and on short films. His production and editing credits include: the Give Up Yer Aul Sins short film series (using 1960s actual recordings of Irish inner city students telling their versions of famous bible stories) along with Crap Rap , and I'm a...

Cinematographer Eduard Grau created some award winning short films of his own including Bitter Kas and Scarlet Sunrise .  He studied filmmaking at ESCAC in Spain. Edu won the cinematography award twice at the Palm Springs International Film Festival for Friends Forever and The Natural Route . He shot his 1st feature, Honor De Cavalier , at only 23, which premiered at Cannes , followed by a film in...

M. David Mullen, ASC , Director of Photography, has filmed more than thirty independent feature films and two television series in his career so far. David was nominated for the IFP Independent Spirit Award for Twin Falls Idaho and again for Northfork , both films by Michael and Mark Polish . He has worked on The Polish Brothers' films since 1998 which also inlcude:  Jackpot , The Astronaut Farmer...

Tariq Tapa enrolled in the Graduate Film Directing Program at the California Institute of the Arts , where he made several short films, including Custody which was a Finalist at the Student Academy Awards . He received a U.S. Fulbright Scholarship to Kashmir, India where he made his debut feature film Zero Bridge by himself, while staying with relatives. Zero Bridge premiered at the Venice Film Fe...

Suha Arraf wrote and directed several documentaries and worked as a journalist and researcher for many years. She is a graduate of the Tel Aviv Screenwriting Academy and she also has degrees from the Jerusalem and Haifa University . Suha co-wrote and collaborated on both The Syrian Bride and Lemon Tree with Eran Riklis . In The Syrian Bride , Mona's wedding day is the saddest day of her life becau...

French filmmaker Hervé de Crécy has worked for H5 and RSA production companies on commercials and music videos including those for Volkswagen , Gatorade , Areva , Alex Gopher , and Massive Attack . Herve has ventured into short films including the award winning animated short Logorama featuring a wild co-existing world past and present of logos which has won the Academy Award for Animated Short .

Swedish filmmaker Patrik Eklund made his directional debut with One Christmas Morning which won several awards including The Tromsö Palm for best Nordic short.  Patrick's next short film, Situation Frank , was selected for Critic's Week in Cannes . Patrik’s film Instead of Abracadabra received several awards at international festivals including Sundance 2009 . It is an Academy Award Nominee for Li...

Harrod Blank grew up Santa Cruz, CA and began his lifelong love-affair with art cars by decorating his 1965 VW Beetle with plastic fruit, rubber chickens, and a television, among other items.  He dubbed the car Oh My God! . After graduating from UC Santa Cruz and drawing from the influence of his documentarian father Les Blank , Harrod began photographing art cars around the country.  This led to...