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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 Int...

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 sym...

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 G...

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...

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 Ta...

Lynne Sachs is a teacher and experimental documentary filmmaker originally from Memphis, TN and now lives in Brooklyn, NY that teaches experimental film and video at NYU . Lynne’s films explore the  relationship between personal memories and broader, historical experiences. As an experimental filmmaker, she tries to make images that lead to new ways of thinking about the language of film. Some of...

Writer/director Rob Connolly discovered a love for creating visual images through studying art and photography while growing up in rural Mount Airy, North Carolina. His passion for visual storytelling developed further while chronicling his travels around the world. His latest work and thesis, Our Neck of the Woods , is about the character Bob Underwood's mundane life manufacturing plastic lawn-or...

Madeleine Olnek is a filmmaker, director and playwright. Her first short comedy Hold Up , was an official selection of Sundance   and the Los Angeles Film Festival .  Her plays have been described by playwright Paula Vogel as "incredible contemporary masterpieces" in American Theater Magazine . Madeleine is also one of the authors of A Practical Handbook for the Actor   with a foreword by David Ma...

Tom Hall has worked at the Hamptons International Film Festival and Nantucket Film Festival in Guest/Industry and Programming over the years along with work in New Media at Bravo / IFC . He has directed short films for Bob Mould’s Carnival of Light and Sound Tour and is a member of the indieWIRE blogging community with The Back Row Manifesto . Tom is also the Director of Programming at the Sarasot...

Miriam Cutler has been writing, producing, and performing music for over 20 years and is based out of Los Angeles. She began her musical career as a singer/horn player in several bands, including the popular Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo . She also led The New Miss Alice Stone Ladies Society Orchestra and the jazzy Swingstreet, writing most of their music and arrangements, producing several r...

John Bergin has worked on a variety of creative projects including album artwork for bands Gravity Kills , Pigface , Voodou , and the Rachel Getting Married soundtrack. He has also created music and music videos for bands including Lolo and Blackmouth (a side project that we he performs on with Jarboe of Swans ), and the children’s albums Noah’s Ark and Kaleidosaurus . He has created and contribut...

Margaret Brown has worked on a variety of films including cinematography work on the film Ice Fishing , the narrative short 99 Threadwaxing , producing the narrative feature film, Mi Amigo , and producing the narrative short Six Miles of Eight Feet which won a Student Academy Award .  She has also directed and produced music videos for Okkervil River and Cat Power . She has more recently focused o...

Brendan Toller , graduate of Hampshire College , has created his 1st feature, the eclectic documentary I Need That Record! The Death (Or Possible Survival) Of The Independent Record Store , a documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade. I Need That Record! features interviews with folks including:  Ian Mackaye of Dischord Rec...

Petr Cikhart , Director of Photography, was born and raised in Prague.  As a 19-year-old Assistant Director, he covered the war in Chechnya for Czech TV , and was arrested and held hostage for two days by Russian soldiers during the assignment. It was his first field shoot, and he was hooked. He immigrated to the United States in 1995 after winning a journalism internship at the Pittsburgh Post-Ga...

Copywriter and filmmaker, David Rakowiecki started in advertising writing award winning TV spots for major brands including Heineken , Amstel Light , Sprite and Converse . He found advertising creatively unfulfilling and turned to writing screenplays. He has attended NY Film Academy , where he wrote and directed the shorts The Bottle and Five Cent Refund . After NYFA , he wrote and directed an Oly...

Simon-Olivier Fecteau is a writer, director, producer, comedian, and actor from Victoriaville, QC . Simon was part of the comic trio The Chick'n Swell during the three years that their weekly program was broadcast on television from Radio-Canada , between 2001 and 2003. In 2006, he made a difficult decision to leave the group to pursue his passion for film.  Simon's first short The Remaining Days...

Ira Sachs was born in Memphis, TN and moved to New York after graduating from Yale University with a BA in Literature and Film Theory. Ira was a recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1999, Sachs has been an Adjunct Professor in the MFA Program at the Columbia University School of Film , a creative advisor at the Sundance Director’s Lab , and a fellow at both the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo .  Hi...

Bettina Devin is a talented actress , voice over artist , singer , and teacher . Bettina Devin was known worldwide for her role as “Maureen’s clueless Mom” in the film version of Rent .   She can be seen in principal and lead film roles in the thriller, The Confessional , The Full Picture ( Grand Prize Winner in the Rhode Island International Film Festival ), and in 2 unique roles in The Village B...

Emily Hubley is a daughter of pioneer animators Faith and John Hubley and she worked on Faith Hubley's films at The Hubley Studio, Inc. from 1977 to 2001. Emily has also been making her own animated shorts for thirty years. Her hand-drawn films explore personal memory and the turbulence of emotional life. Among Hubley's shorts are: Pigeon Within , Delivery Man , The Tower , Her Grandmother's Gift...

While hailing from Winnipeg, MB, Stacey Chomiak is currently living in Oakville, Ontario, Canada in her final year of the Bachelor of Animation degree at Sheridan College . Before Stacey moved from the corporate world to animation school, she worked as a graphic/web designer for several years. She has completed the The Celestial Ox ,  with the MoCap Penguins studio which has screened many films fe...

Elizabeth Marre was born in Paris and completed law school while studying acting for several years.  Elizabeth worked as 1st Assistant Director on  feature films, where she traveled from Lebanon to Hong-Kong, working on films such as La Moustache and Caramel . Olivier Pont grew up in the French Riviera. He graduated from the Gobelins , the French National Animation School. He worked as an animator...

Film publicist Nichola Ellis started out working for Columbia Pictures in London where she worked on her first feature Gandhi , Tootsie , and The Big Chill .  She then went on to handle the UK campaigns for Highlander , Field of Dreams , and Dances With Wolves . In 1990, Nichola moved to Los Angeles and joined Dennis Davidson Associates . At DDA , she was responsible for such international campaig...

Elliot Cowan is an illustrator, a writer, a storyboard artist from NYC by way of London and Australia. Elliot lived in Tasmania for nearly 10 years to write, direct and edit television commercials. He also lived in London where he mostly worked for Uli Meyer Animation , working as a story artist and gag man on the studio’s feature film Monstermania! and worked on several music videos with McKeown/...

Kai-Duc Luong was born in Cambodia and grew up in France and later made a detour in Chicago, IL. He has made several award winning shorts and music videos for artists including Chat , The Frogs , and Marissa Nadler . Kai's recent film, Someplace Else , is a musical journey with bluesman Vance Kelly and his band from Chicago’s south side, mixed with the effect that the band’s music has on the Kai’s...

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 inspired her first...