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Tom Quinn grew up in Bucks County, PA, where he directed a few shorts and freelanced as a camera assistant. His debut feature, The New Year Parade , was selected for the IFP Narrative Rough Cut Labs , won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative at Slamdance , and was a Gotham Award nominee for “Best Film Not Playing in a Theater Near You.” The New Year Parade follows Jack and Kat over the course o...

Tarik Saleh is the co-founder of Atmo , a Film and TV production company in Stockholm, Sweden. Tarik started his career as a graffiti artist as a member of the internationally acclaimed All In One crew. His murals can still be spotted in suburbs west of Stockholm.  In Sweden, Tarik is also well known as a TV-host, director and debater. In 2001, he co-directed Sacrificio – Who Betrayed Che Guevara?...

Norman Twain created the idea, developed the script, and produced Lean on Me , starring Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark, the Principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey. Norman was the producer of the awarding winning HBO film Boycott , dramatizing the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott, Spinning into Butter , based on Rebecca Gilman’s award winning play, and SCAR , the first 3D action...

Art Holliday is the co-anchor and executive producer of Today in St. Louis morning show and NewsChannel5 at Noon at KSDK-TV at St. Louis, Mo. Over the course of his career of over 30 years, Holliday has been recognized with numerous awards. He is the Director, Producer and Writer of the documentary Before They Fall Off The Cliff: The Ripple Effect of Schizophrenia . Art also videotaped much of the...

Tomm Moore is co-founder and Creative director of Cartoon Saloon .  He is a lifelong comic book and animation enthusiast. Since founding the company with Paul Young , Tomm has worked on most facets of Cartoon Saloon productions. He has directed and designed commercials for clients including Cadbury and the Irish Independent . Additionally, Tomm has worked on illustrating graphic novels and childre...

Jeffrey Goodman is a director who loves learning about the cinema's different movements and transformations and wondering what directions the medium might veer off in next.  Jeffrey ended up raising all the money for his first feature film, The Last Lullaby himself, selling the film in $50,000 units to private investors in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana . He believed it would take this leve...

Stascha Bader is a Swiss writer and documentary director. He was drawn by Reggae when he had first heard it in the 1970s and based his doctoral thesis on it, “Electro-Oral Poetry in Jamaica and England.” It earned him a Ph. D. degree from Zurich University and was also published in Germany.  and was also published in Germany as “Words like Fire: Dance Hall-Reggae and Ragamuffin.” Stascha also stud...

Christian Biegai , from Berlin, Germany, has written film scores for feature films, documentaries, and animated films around the world. These films include: the short film Whistle (directed by Duncan Jones ), films for Marc Meyer , and with Helena Bulaja on the animated fairytale Regoch and her experimental interactive movie inspired by Nikola Tesla which also features Laurie Anderson and Terry Gi...

Aaron Hughes' 3rd animated short film is called Backwards which is about strange love shown in reverse.   Backwards has also won many awards including the Ruby Ram Jury Grand Prize Award in the MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival . In honor of the style of the this film, Aaron's interview was also conducted in reverse. Previously Aaron also wrote and illustrated a weekly-published cartoon....

Born in East Moline, Illinois, Mike Roush found his way to California, earning his BFA in Animation from California State University, Fullerton . Mike Roush has been with Titmouse Shorts, Inc. , contributing storyboards, design, and animation to high profile TV, music video and commercial clients and serves as Supervising Animator on  [adult swim]’s smash hit Metalocalypse . Mike made his director...

Conor Ferguson has worked as a copywriter in advertising in Ireland for several years. Conor has mastered the art of short film with 2 award winning poignant short films, The Wednesdays and Atlantic .  These have been produced as part of the Irish film production company, Park Films . The Wednesdays is about a retired couple who manage to re-ignite the love they’d almost forgotten about through un...

Brett Harvey is President and founder of BKS Crew Productions , a Vancouver based multimedia production company. Brett has worked as a director of photography on a number of film and television projects including two recent projects for the Canadian national television network CBC – Secrets and Lottery On Ice . He has made the move from DP to director with his new film The Union: The Business Behi...

Emile Bokaer comes from a family of conscious and creative people in Ithaca, NY. As a child, he worked at his parents’ art house movie theater Fall Creek Pictures . While studying Math and English at Oberlin College , he fell in love with documentary filmmaking. He is pursuing an MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University . Emile has made a wide range of documentary films locally and internati...

Nicolas Entel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His latest project is the documentary Sins of My Father , which tells the story of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar through the eyes of his only son, as well as the sons of his most prominent victims. Nicolas directed the award winning documentary film Orquesta Tipica filmed in Argentina and locations around the worl...

Jonathan Parker and Catherine Di Napoli wrote and produced Bartleby, The Californians, and (Untitled). Bartleby is a quirky twist on a classic story by Herman Melville starring Crispin Glover. The Californians is loosely based on The Bostonians by Henry James and stars Illeana Douglas. (Untitled) is about a fashionable contemporary art gallerist in NYC, a brooding music composer, and the state of...

Daniel Wirtberg was born in Karlstad, Sweden. He started filmmaking at the age of 12. At 18, he was accepted to the Czech Film Academy . Daniel has freelanced as a writer, director and producer and is a filmmaking teacher. He has created a variety of projects from music videos, promos, and slide shows to short films of different genres including: Julia , Apple , and The Intruder . Daniel’s film Lo...

Julius Onah has worked for filmmakers Marc Levin , Spike Lee , and with acclaimed playwright Robert Alexander on the hip-hop play A Preface to the Alien Garden .  He has also worked on as an NBC Page and was an editor on the documentary feature Lockdown, USA .  His award winning shorts include: She Waits In The Restless Horizon , Linus , and the documentary, Szmolinsky . Julius' short film The Bou...

Gregg Helvey received his M.F.A in film production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts , and his B.A.s in English and French from the University of Virginia . Gregg has traveled the world to film in countries such as El Salvador, China, Kenya and England on projects ranging from independent fictional films to National Geographic and BBC1 documentaries. His award-w...

Michael Ferreira , a native New Yorker of Portuguese immigrant decent, has performed in various theatrical mediums including: theater, television, film, and live cabaret performance, and also as his celebrated alter ego, Carmella Cann . Michael is a strong presence in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered community of New York City, and an advocate for the prevention of child abuse. Michae...

Sean Baker is best known for co-creating the cult television show Greg the Bunny . Take Out , Sean's second feature which he co-directed, won the Regal Cinemas Dreammaker Award and Best Feature award at the Nashville Film Festival . Take Out is about an illegal Chinese immigrant that falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Darren Dean wrote, directed and produced the award winning...

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...

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...

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 i...

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 Mano...

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 Shatn...