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Born in St Petersburg, Russia and having lived in New York City since the mid 1990s, Alex Budovsky is well known for his distinctive style of animated music videos.    These include Bathtime in Clerkenwell for The Real Tuesday Weld and Return I Will  to Old Brazil from Geoff Muldaur . His videos have won a number of awards including from the KROK International Animated Film Festival in Ukraine in...

Trevor Jimenez is an animator and an alum of the prestigious Sheridan College Animation Program in Oakville, Ontario. Trevor is the creator of a uniquely drawn 2D animated film, Key Lime Pie .   It is a 2D animated spin on the noir genre, and the story basically revolves around this character who is obsessed with key lime pie. Key Lime Pie has been screened in many film festivals including Toronto...

Cecily Gambrell began performing at the age of six, born from a theatrical family, and whose great aunts were Gypsy Rose Lee and June Havoc . Some of Cecily 's other work includes acting on Desperate Housewives , and High Hopes for which she wrote the shooting screenplay and co-stars with Edward Furlong, Lacey Chabert, and David Faustino. She wrote and produced award-winning documentary Champion ,...

Since receiving his B.F.A. in Drawing from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville , Joel Trussell worked as an animation director in Seattle, animating online projects for clients including Disney , Napster , and the band Devo .  Joel has also directed animated television commercials for companies including Esurance and Nicorette . Joel has also directed several music videos for popular artists s...

Kevin Watkins is a freelance art director, editor, and motion graphics designer in advertising and filmmaker from NYC originally from South Africa. Kevin has worked as both a Associate Creative Director and Senior Art Director for a variety of major clients including: American Express, AT&T Wireless, Heineken, Lego, Sprite, and RCA. He has won awards for his artistic work in advertising including...

Mary C. Taylor is a designer, editor, and animator from Kansas City, MO who directed the 2 minute animated short How To Put a Square Peg Into a Round Hole . She has worked in graphic art and video editing for PlattForm Advertising .  She has also worked in television in design for FOX and NBC networks in addition to multimedia design for National Cinema Network , a subsidiary of AMC Theatres .   H...

Julie Stevens works in many aspects of theatre and film as an Actress, Director, Voiceover Artist, Singer, Studio Teacher , and a Private Coach for children. She began her performing career at age ten, appearing on Broadway in the musical Annie .   Over the years, she has appeared in several films and commercials, TV movies, recording projects and stage productions. Julie is also the creator of a...

Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir is both an author and the director of the Jewish music archival documentary, From Shtetl to Swing .  From Shtetl to Swing is a collective journey from synagogue choirs to Harlem hotspots, from Yiddish theater to musical extravaganza, from klezmer to ragtime, from symphonic jazz to swing from the Bowery to Tin Pan Alley to Broadway to Hollywood.                         From S...

Originally from Pune, India, Arjun Rihan studied Computer Science and Economics as an undergraduate at Stanford University and then purused his MFA in 2008 at University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts .  His professional experience includes a Technical Director internship at Pixar Animation Studios .     He is the director, writer, and animator of the acclaimed 3 minute short, A...

French teacher and documentary filmmaker Aurelien Foucault found a job teaching French that would allow him to live abroad, where he has lived in Scotland, Russia, and Siberia, where he met his wife. Having worked enough to get a video camera and a good computer, he met Cédric Quennesson in China and worked on his first documentary short Of Shadows and Men under the production company Wuhan Films...

Filmmaker, Photographer, and Educator, Mitra Sen is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the York University Film Production program.   She began her career in the Canadian film industry as the Assistant Director on the International Emmy Award winning CBC television series Degrassi Junior High . She has worked in various aspects of filmmaking including scriptwriting, producing, production...

Scott Kravitz is a character animator in San Francisco, CA who started out as an actor. He became a featured character animator on a variety of film projects including the animation series The PJs , Hollow Man , Matrix: Revolutions , Superman Returns , Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest , and The Host . His personal film projects include Family Portrait , Magic Trick , and Loom . Loom is a...

Zina Papadopoulou is a Greek animator and graphic and web designer who now lives and has studied in the Netherlands. Zina has done commercial work, music videos, and a variety of eclectic short films.  Highlights of her work include My Dad , Safe Surf , Rendezvous , and Bloody Mary . In Bloody Mary , Mary faces a strange room with mixed feelings of excitement and greed after her obsession with the...

Maria Gigante writes, directs and produces short films in Chicago and in Brooklyn, NY. Her films scripts Petal Fall and Eva Eva won screenwriting awards at Screenwriting Expo in LA and the Columbia College Written Image Screenwriting Competition. Her most recently completed short film, Girls Room , hit the festival circuit in 2007.  Girls Room is about a Catholic schoolgirl who discovers that ther...

Chris Metzler graduated from USC with a degree in business and cinema.   His film directing and producing work has resulted in frequent partnerships with Jeff Springer, where together they've made their way in the Nashville country and Christian music video industries, before finally forsaking their souls to commercial LA rock n’ roll. These misadventures eventually culminated in their winning a B...

Ellen Lake is a documentary filmmaker, sculptor, and installation artist from Oakland. CA. She received her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California in 2002, where she studied sculpture, film and video, and installation. She has worked on an extensive group of experimental documentary short films about collecting, including Trina's Collections and Ann's Hoard . Her films, sculptures, and inst...

Aideen McCarthy is a a writer and director of short films, commercials, and music videos. Aideen McCarthy decided to pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker in 2001 after originally getting her law degree, obtaining her Masters Degree in Film Studies at the UCD School of Film in Dublin. She started out working in the camera department on a mix of large scale feature films and short films, includi...

Spoiler Alert Radio interviewed renowned animator and sex expert, Signe Baumane . 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. Her animation ranges from her 1991 debut The Witch and the Cow to more recent works including The Teat Beat of Sex,  one...

Richard Rosenblatt is the publisher of the Filmfestivalworld.com. FilmFestivalWorld.com is a membership site targeted to networking people who make films and mixed media with those whose professional focus is programming, distributing, financing and writing about films and media. By using the tools and resources that FFW has assembled, any filmmaker can level the playing field in launching and pro...

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...

Judy Laster is the Founder and Executive Director of the Woods Hole Film Festival. The Woods Hole Film Festival is a week long festival held in Woods Hole on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, from the end of July to the beginning of August. The festival includes workshops, panel discussions, staged readings and parties as well as eight days of film screenings. 2008 will mark the 17th year of the festival...

Casey Safron is a film professor, filmmaker, and founder of Animation Block Party. Taking place in late July in Brooklyn, New York, the Animation Block Party (ABP) is a four-night film festival party with the best and most unique animated shorts from around the world with special themed nights and music, attended by over two animation lovers. ABP has also toured with a one-night "best of fest" as...

Anne S. Lewis is a featured writer for the Austin Chronicle and writes a monthly column covering the the Austin Film Society documentary tour. Separate Vacations is an animated short film about a dog owner, boarding her dog before leaving for a vacation, is thrown a curve by one of the kennel's information forms. It is Anne's first animated film. It played the SXSW Film Festival and also debuted i...

Liz Van Verth is a filmmaker from Buffalo, NY, who received her BFA in Illustration at Syracuse and her MFA at Pratt Institute in New York. She worked as a graphic artist for NBC Nightly News and eventually as a 3-D animator for show graphics on Dateline NBC. She has also worked on projects for both CBS Sports and MTV.She also has taught at Pratt Institute and Lehman College, and currently teaches...

Lyn Elliot is a filmmaker who incorporates both narrative and experimental elements into her movies and creates short films that bring to the surface the strange undercurrents of everyday life. Her short films include The Boy in the Air and Mild People in Aggressive T-Shirts, which have screened at film festivals across the United States, along with her latest film, Fish But No Cigar, which was th...