ATTENDING FILMMAKERS 2009

The following filmmakers will be at their screenings and, often, around Woods Hole during the Festival. Here is a way to spot these celebrities and have a chance to speak with them. You may feed them and, we're sure, they'll feed you intelligent and entertaining films and discussion.

attending the screening of
Ai
Sat, Jul 25, 09:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Raffi Asourian

Raffi Asdourian is an emerging independent filmmaker who uses social media to promote both his films and photography. He studied film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and currently works as an editor in NYC for various TV channels such as Discovery Channel, Travel Channel and Animal Planet.

attending the screening of
Askari
Tues, Jul 28, 05:00PM Old Fire Station
Sat, Aug 1, 09:00 PM Redfield Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

André Phillips

André Phillips spent his childhood in Waltham, an ethnically diverse suburb of Boston. There he visited Indian, Latin American and Ugandan restaurants and quickly developed in interest in foreign cultures and history. André's best friend throughout his teenage years, a native of New York ghettos, exposed André to his own country's forgotten third-world neighborhoods. These trips began to foster a new and powerful interest: politics. André's interest in politics began to manifest itself in several creative outlets such as poetry, photography and filmmaking. After a trip to Chile and Argentina with his girlfriend where he met fugitives of Augusto Pinochet's right-wing coup, André's filmmaking became a tool for him to investigate, expose and discuss a world of violence and discord.

attending the screening of
American Casino 
Tue, Jul 28, 07:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Leslie Cockburn

Leslie Cockburn is a graduate of Yale and the University of London. She began her documentary film career in 1980 at CBS Reports. She won an Emmy and Writers Guild award in 1981 for co-directing and writing The Nuclear Battlefield on tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. She went on to direct a CBS Reports on the tobacco lobby and to direct several films for PBS Frontline, including Inside the Cartels, on the war between the Cali and Medellin cocaine cartels and The War We Left Behind, on the devastating effects of sanctions in Iraq. She directed and produced Peter Jennings Reporting From the Killing Fields, on the return of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, that aired in 1990, and won the Robert F. Kennedy Award, the George Polk Award, the Columbia Dupont Award and the Overseas Press Club Award for the film. In 1997, Ms. Cockburn co-produced The Peacemaker starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman. Ms. Cockburn has written two books and co authored two others on foreign affairs including Looking for Trouble, on her coverage of “six wars and a revolution”. Leslie has three children and lives with her husband Andrew in Washington DC.and Ireland.

attending the screening of
Appropriate Sex  
Sat, Jul 25, 09:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Shandor Garrison

Shandor Garrison is an award-winning filmmaker with Cape Cod roots. APPROPRIATE SEX is his third film to screen at Woods Hole, and first comedy. He is currently living in Brooklyn and pursuing his masters degree in filmmaking at NYU.

attending the screening of
Bar Flies  
Tue, Jul 28, 09:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

David Broyles

David is an award-winning filmmaker who studied at the University of Texas and the University of Barcelona, graduating with a degree in English and Spanish. After September 11, 2001, he signed up as a pararescue specialist in the US military, and served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently attending Columbia University's graduate film program in New York City.

Also attending are actor Timothy Fannon and assistant director Morgan Faust.

attending the screening of
Clam Pie  
Sun, Jul 26, 05:00PM Community Hall
will be its filmmaker:

Dan Boylan
Guy Taylor

An award-winning filmmaker team based on Cape Cod-based, Guy Taylor and Dan Boylan call each other brother, but are technically first cousins because their mothers are actually identical twins. In 2007 and 2008 they completed The DC Trilogy of shorts exploring post-9/11 themes, which the Washington Post called “international in scope.” They founded A.S. Films International LLC in 2007, and before that collectively worked in more than 40 countries as journalists.

Also attending are field producer Anita Taylor, actress Mary Blood and actor Denis Metin.

attending the screening of
Cleats
Thu, Jul 30, 7 PM< Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Maria Carter

Bio

attending the screening of
Contrition 
Sat, Jul 25, 05:00PM Redfield Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

John Stimpson

Contrition is John Stimpson's third film to screen at Woods Hole. His feature, The Legend of Lucy Keyes screened in the 2006 festival and was also runner up in the screenplay competition in 2003. The Winter People, won best fantasy short in 2004. A Boston based filmmaker, John is part of the team at Moody Street Pictures.

Also attending isproducer Andrea Ajemian.

attending the screening of
December Thaw
Wed, Jul 29, 07:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Ken Murphy

Bio

attending the screening of
Fishermen of Plum Island 
Mon, Jul 27, 07:00PM Lillie Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

James Waldron

First-time Director James Waldron is the founder of James Waldron Design, a print and interactive marketing company based in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Waldron has traveled extensively as a still photographer, trekking to over 20 countries, and has exhibited both in the United States and abroad.

attending the screening of
Gay Marriage Ad by 9 in 10.org 
Sat, Jul 25, 07:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Kevin Anderton

Kevin Anderton makes short comedies for the web, mobile phones, and festivals. He’s made over 70. His gay marriage ad recently won the Boston Comedy Festival.

attending the screening of
Green Eco-Machine
Tue, Jul 28, 07:00PM Redfield Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

Kristin Alexander

Kristin's documentary films focus on people, observing lives in a poetic, illustrative portrait. This is her 3rd documentary film accepted in the Woods Hole Film Festival. She lives in Woods Hole with her husband Ken Alexander and daughter Klarissa Chase. When not filming, she works as a Nurse Practitioner.

attending the screening of
Hanging Plant  
Fri, Jul 31, 09:00PM Redfield Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

Rick Mowat

Rick Mowat came to film directing via a circuitous route beginning with a music degree from The Juilliard School, a dozen years as an improvisational writer/performer that culminated in theatrical comedy that won #1 Critics Pick by TimeOut Magazine, and directing numerous stage productions including the award winning Cant Cut My Head Off and the sci-fi rock musical, The Last American. As an actor, Rick is also known for roles in Woody Allens Celebrity, Sweet and Lowdown and The Town I Love. He has written and directed five comedic shorts, including Dead Air and Manhattans Best Friend which both screened at the Woodstock Film Festival and Lake Placid Film Festival. In 2006, he had three shorts featured at the New Filmmakers festival at Anthology Film Archives in NYC. His most recent short the documentary Marty Learns To Drive was a finalist on PBSs Reel Thirteen Film competition. Hes also a contributing writer for FilmMaker Magazine.

Also attending is actor Robert Montano.

attending the screening of
The Housetaurant
Sat, Jul 25, 07:00PM Old Fire Station
will be filmmaker:

Dustin Schell

Dustin Schell (director) is an award winning filmmaker and producer whose work has been exhibited throughout the US, as well as in Central and South America, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. He is also Producer of the festival favorite, “The Back Room”, which is currently airing on the Logo channel. Mr. Schell lives and works in New York City.

Jase Draper

Jase Draper (producer/actor) is an actor and writer currently living in New York City. Jase spent many summers producing theatre with the Courthouse Theatre in Barnstable. His parents currently reside in Falmouth.

attending the screening of
It's Jerrytime!
Wed, Jul 29, 05:00PM Redfield Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

Orrin Zucker
Jerry Zucker

Brothers Orrin and Jerry Zucker are the co-creators of the Emmy-winning animated reality cartoon "It's JerryTime!", based on the "true tales from the life of Jerry". Orrin Zucker is the Animator/Director and also President of Boston-based Ozone Inc, a broadcast design company. A 1983 graduate of RISD, Orrin has produced countless programming packages for the broadcast industry. Jerry Zucker is writer/composer for "It's JerryTime!" and has years experience writing for cartoons and producting short comedy films. Jerry, a 1982 graduate of the Newhouse School of Communications, also does the monologues for the series.

attending the screening of
Lemon & Lime 
Thu, Jul 30, 07:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Ben Thompson

An exciting mix of Welsh and American, Ben Thompson was born and raised in London. As a young lad Ben dreamed of making films and now that he is older, he still wants to make films and so became a cross-Atlantic freelance filmmaker. Ben has tremendous passion for filmmaking and drama. He began directing in the theater with his first play The Waiting Game at the Rosemary Branch Theater in London in 1998. In 2002 he moved to New York to further his education, experience and American accent. Since then he has directed and produced dozens of short films and documentaries. He was a finalist at Tropfest NY 2008 with his film I’ll Follow the Sun and also short-listed in London for the BAFTA 60 second film competition with his animation The Hat Trick in the same year. When not making films, you can find Ben playing soccer in America and football in the UK.

attending the screening of
Mow Crew  
Sun, Jul 26, 05:00PM Community Hall
will be its filmmaker:

Taylor Toole

Taylor Toole was born and raised on the island Martha's Vineyard. As a teenager he spent many sunny afternoons raising hell on the streets of Woods Hole. He returns today a filmmaker, confident the statute of limitations has expired.

Also attending is actor Aaron Lloyd Barr.

attending the screening of
Once More To The Cabin 
Tue, Jul 28, 05:00PM Redfield Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

Tom Isler

Tom is a filmmaker and journalist based in New York. He is a co-founder of Gloaming Pictures and a contributor to IDA's Documentary magazine.

attending the screening of
Only Love  
Fri, Jul 31, 07:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Lev Polyakov

Lev Polyakov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1988, began animating at the age of 15, while working as intern for Signe Baumane, one of New York's most prominent independent animators. Lev's first short film, “Piper the Goat and the Peace Pipe”, won the first price at the 2005 Ottawa International Animation Festival, pre-college competition. His next 8 min short, ”Morning, Day, Evening, Night ... and Morning Again”, was awarded a student grant and honorary membership by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. “Only Love” is Lev’s 4th short film made during his junior year at School of Visual Arts, New York. It premiered at 2008 Woodstock Film Festival, and won a number of awards at animation and film festivals around the world.

attending the screening of
Red Flag  
Tue, Jul 28, 09:00PM Redfield Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

Sheila Curran Dennin

Sheila Curran Dennin has been writing and directing for film video and multi-media over 20 years. Her work as been recognized by numerous awards, including two Freddies, considered the “Oscar” of health films for programs on HIV and AIDS testing for at-risk women and their partners, which is currently the Department of Health’s official counseling and testing video in over 40 states, and the film Advance Directives aimed at gay couples living with HIV, encouraging them to generate living wills and health care proxies as legal protection for their partnership. Her programs for Big Brothers/Big Sisters motivating mentorship for the children of prisoners received numerous awards, including three 2006 Telly awards.

Maureen Ryan

Maureen Ryan, an award winning producer based in New York, recently enjoyed success as Co-producer of MAN ON WIRE, Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. She also Co-produced James Marsh and Milo Addica’s The King, starring Gael Garcia Bernal and William Hurt, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Other credits include Producer of the feature documentary The Gates, co-directed by Albert Maysles and Antonio Ferrera, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on HBO, Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway which premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival and The Team, a feature documentary following the U.S. homeless soccer team as they compete in the first Annual Homeless Soccer World Cup.

attending the screening of
RiverSing!  
Wed, Jul 29, 05:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Charles K. Mann

After a career in international development with The Rockefeller Foundation and Harvard University, Charles Mann founded the Development Communications Workshop to produce films about development and to mentor students using the video camera as a field notebook. As a volunteer for the Charles River Conservancy, he also has produced four short documentaries for the CRC, the latest being RiverSing!

Also attending is directors Franco Sacchi (Bio Here) and Mary Jirmanus.

attending the screening of
Shooting Beauty  
Sun, Jul 26, 05:00PM Redfield Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

George Kachadorian

George Kachadorian is an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker and television producer who was raised on a hill in Vermont. SHOOTING BEAUTY is his second feature documentary. His previous films include "Divining Mom" and "A Family Erased" a documentary short released in 2008 by PBS' Frontline World.

Courtney Bent

Courtney Bent is an award winning photographer, documentary film producer and educator. In the late 1990's she founded the Picture This Photography Project, the subject of the 2009 MIFF documentary feature SHOOTING BEAUTY.

attending the screening of
Shout It Out 
Thu, Jul 30, 05:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Bess O'Brien

Bess O’Brien co-founded Kingdom County Productions with her husband Jay Craven in 1990. KCP is a non-profit arts organization that produces film and theatre, and arts education programs. O’Brien co-produced the feature films “Where the Rivers Flow North” starring Rip Torn, Tantoo Cardinal and Michael J. Fox, and “A Stranger in the Kingdom” starring Ernie Hudson and Martin Sheen.
         O’Brien is also the director/producer of three other documentary films "Here today", "Where is Stephanie?" , and "Journey into Courage". Her feature "Shout it Out" has played the Palm Beach International Film Festival, the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival and the San Fransico International Children's Film Festival. She is thrilled to be screening "Shout it Out" at Woods Hole.

attending the screening of
Songs From The Tundra 
Sat, Jul 25, 05:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Alexander Berman

Alexander Berman studies filmmaking at Harvard University and is a recipient of the Harvard Artistic Development Fellowship. He is a B.A. candidate in Visual and Environmental Studies, working in both fiction and documentary genres. As the son of Russian immigrants, he has a keen interest in the intersection of cultures across generations. He works in the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab under director Prof. Lucien Taylor. He was born on 01/03/1988. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Also attending is assistant director Benjamin Berman.

attending the screening of
Stalk Much
Sat, Jul 25, 07:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Bill Baykan

Bill is a graduate of UCLA’s Film/TV program, where he won a student Emmy for comedy writing and directing. He has worked for HBO in Los Angeles on projects including “Tales From the Crypt,” “The Larry Sanders Show,” and the Emmy Award winner “From the Earth to the Moon.” Bill graduated from The Second City improv program and honed his dramatic writing skills with Victory Gardens Theater resident playwright Claudia Allen. Bill has produced multiple titles for Big Idea Productions’ “Veggietales” series and directed for Fox’s “America’s Most Wanted.” Bill works for Harpo Studios, is Adjunct Professor at DePaul University’s College of Digital Media, and is currently prepping two new projects, one comedic, one dramatic. He has a master’s degree from the University of Chicago.

attending the screening of
Tales From the Catholic Church of Elvis 
Thu, Jul 30, 09:00PM Old Fire Statio
will be its filmmaker:

Mercy Malick

Mercy Malick (“Scrubs”, “Gilmore Girls”, “Chuck”, “Worst Week”, “Mind of Mencia”, “Trust Me”) embarked on her directing career at the age of 8, when she figured out how to work her uncle’s video camera and started forcing her Mormon cousins to act in her “movies”. Later, while an undergraduate at Stanford University, she directed and produced “Along the Way”, a short documentary that aired regionally on PBS. She also directed and wrote the short mock-umentary “Demonic Possession: Is It for You?” and the pilot pitch “School for Freaks”. “Tales” is her feature film directorial debut, a film adaptation of her stage play of the same name, which she wrote and performed in Los Angeles for a sold-out six month run.

Eric Mofford

Eric Mofford is a writer, director and producer who has been involved on more than 50 film, television, commercial, music videos and on-line productions. He is an award winning producer with production credits that include 24, EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION, KALIFORNIA and DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST.

Also attending is executive producer Frank Michael Weyer.

attending the screening of
Tricks of Love 
Thu, Jul 30, 5 PM, Lillie Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

Elika Portnoy

After stints as both a fashion model (including a spread in Vogue Magazine) and as co-host of the syndicated cable television show International Investor, the Bulgarian born actress recently made the transition to the movie industry, appearing in several independent films. As founder of Mutressa Movies, an independent film production company based in Boston, she is responsible for bringing Tricks of a Woman to the screen as both producer and screenwriter.

Todd Norwood

A writer, director, and producer, Todd most recently directed Blackwater Farm. His feature film, the dramatic comedy The Wayfarers, premiered at the Boston International Film Festival in 2005 and also screened at the Woods Hole Film Festival and the Stratford-Upon-Avon Film Festival in England, as well as many others. His short, Jack Milton: Fairy Tale Detective, won the Best Story Line Award and the Best Achievement in Creativity Award at the Boston International Film Festival. Todd is also currently shooting an Internet sitcom scheduled for release this fall. He is a graduate of Emerson College and lives in New Hampshire.

Also attending are producers Anthony Ambrosino and Ashley Triffletti, and Claire Medina.

attending the screening of
Trucker 
Wed, Jul 29, 09:00PM Redfield Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

James Mottern

James Mottern has written and directed award-winning documentaries for a variety of media outlets including BBC and Discovery Networks. He is the former producer of the annual Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. He is the recipient of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. Mottern has several projects in development with studios including an original screenplay Boomerang financed by Mandate Pictures and produced by Bona Fide Productions.

Michelle Monaghan

Michelle Monaghan is one of the most sought-after actresses in Hollywood. Most recently Michelle starred in the boxoffice hit thriller Eagle Eye for DreamWorks opposite Shia LaBeouf. Prior to that, she starred opposite Patrick Dempsey in the romantic comedy Made of Honor. Michelle burst onto movie screens and received rave reviews for her performance in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, in which she starred opposite Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer for writer/director Shane Black. She then joined Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, and Sissy Spacek in North Country for director Niki Caro. More recently she starred in Gone Baby Gone with Casey Affleck and Morgan Freeman, in The Heartbreak Kid opposite Ben Stiller and in Mission: Impossible III opposite Tom Cruise and Philip Seymour Hoffman for director J.J. Abrams. Other films include Perfume, It Runs in the Family, Winter Solstice, The Bourne Supremacy, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Michelle will next star in and serve as executive producer of Trucker, which had a World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last spring.

attending the screening of
Unmoored 
Sat, Jul 25, 09:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Marie Brown

Originally from Massachusetts, Director Marie Brown received her B.A. from The University of Puget Sound, where she was a double major in Theatre Arts and Music. Since joining the MFA Directing program at The University of Texas at Austin, Marie has served as the assistant director on Maria Irene Fornes’s “Fefu and Her Friends”, director for Diana Son’s “Stop Kiss,” Erica Saleh’s “Split,” co-founder of an interdisciplinary performing ensemble collaborating to create The Psyche Project, and co-director of Unmoored, a short film written by Jenny Connell and Erica Saleh and produced by Trillium Studios. Marie lives in Austin with her husband, Craig, and their daughter, Morgan.

Yari Wolinsky

Yari has long aspired to be more than a c-stand. As a child, his father, a National Geographic photographer, brought him along on trips to remote parts of the world. At first Yari’s blonde hair and blue eyes worked very well to get the attention of the local people. But as his hair grew darker his tasks became more complex, including holding reflector discs to bounce the sun deep into mummy-filled tombs. He escaped these tasks by going to Bard College - where he received a B.A. in Asian Studies, completing for his thesis a documentary about the Heike Monogatari. Yari now works as a freelance editor and filmmaker in the Boston area. Nearly every kind of project has passed through his computer, from feature films like The Aristocrat, to documentaries about capuchin monkeys and their human companions, to animations of dancing Issey Miyake blue jeans.

Also attending are producers Babs Wolinsky and Cary Wolinsky, cinematogrpaher Ryan Nelson, and composer John Kusiak.

attending the screening of
Waiting For Armageddon 
Sun, Jul 26, 07:00PM Redfield Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

Kate Davis

Kate Davis has been making independent and television documentary features for 20 years, grew up in Woods Hole, and partnered with Judy Laster to begin the Woods Hole Film Festival. Waiting for Armageddon is an independent work which will be theatrically released this Fall.

Franco Sacchi

Franco is an independent documentary director/producer and editor based in Boston, MA. He was born in Chingola, Zambia and grew up in Italy.

Also attending is co-director David Heilbronner.

attending the screening of
Werewolf Trouble  
Thu, Jul 30, 09:00PM Lillie Auditorium
will be its filmmaker:

Charlie Anderson

After spending a year in Hollywood as an actor—igniting the far background in productions such as Beverly Hills 90210, Murphy Brown, and Xzibit’s music video, “What U See Is What U Get”—Charlie Anderson enrolled in Boston University’s graduate Film Production program where he is now working on his thesis movie, All Day Yeah.

attending the screening of
Witness To Hiroshima 
Wed, Jul 29, 05:00PM Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Kathy Sloane

Kathy Sloane began her life as a serious photographer in Keystone Korner Jazz Club in 1974, drawn to the music of improvisation, beauty and resistance. While continuing to document the music, she committed herself to photographing the life of the San Francisco Bay Area with an emphasis on the multicultural and multiethnic richness of the area, depicting the myriad ways various communities, often voiceless in mainstream media, give meaning and value to all of our lives.

attending the screening of
Women of Faith 
Mon, Jul 27, 5 PM, Old Fire Station
will be its filmmaker:

Rebecca Alvin

Rebecca M. Alvin has been making films for over 15 years. "Women of Faith"
is her third feature-length documentary. She is also Editor of Provincetown Magazine and teaches film at the New School for Social Research. Though originally from New York City, she now lives year- round on Cape Cod.

attending the screening of
Zombie Girl  
Sun, Jul 26, 7 PM, Community Hall
will be its filmmaker:

Erik Mauck

After graduating from Southern Illinois University in 2000 with a degree in Film and Photography, Erik worked as a camera operator and producer for the local PBS affiliate in Carbondale, Illinois. During that time, he was a co-editor for Our Road to Kosovo, a documentary following a group of college student filmmakers traveling to the embattled region to meet with an Albanian family displaced by ethnic cleansing. In 2003, he moved to Austin, Texas, and began working on his own independent projects. Erik is currently shooting both a short and full-length documentary and is directing an improvised narrative feature film entitled Straight to the Bone. To supplement his income, Erik has been a participant in medical research studies over the past two years.