Attending Filmmakers - 2004 |
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 FILM: 120
Showing: Sunday,
August 1, 4 PM
Location:
Redfield Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Chris Bentley
Chris
Bentley is a Boston-based filmmaker and photographer. His
short films have played in festivals in Boston, New York,
and Philadelphia. His photographs have appeared in group
shows throughout the Boston area and are represented in
a number of private collections. He's currently editing
his first feature-length film.
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 FILM:
The Adventures of Space Baby and Mental Man
Showing: Saturday,
August 31, 7 PM
Location: Redfield Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Rex Dean & Jamie Leutz
One
of nine kids raised on a farm in Colorado, Rex Dean moved
to New England to attend Harvard College. After a career
in software development and marketing, Dean decided to follow
his dream and wrote, produced and directed his first feature
film. "Space Baby" was shot at his house in Waltham
and stars his three children (who will also be attending
the screening). When he's not directing
commercials and films for business,
he's writing, singing opera, and hanging out with his kids.
A native of Lexington, Mass., Jamie Leutz attended Oberlin
Conservatory, where he studied voice and visual arts. Now
an accomplished visual effects artist and editor, he brings
his musical sensibilities to all of his work. For "Space
Baby," Jamie created over 200 visual effects shots.
When he's not editing television commercials, music videos
and "Willie" (a documentary about a former boxer
from the slums of Chicago), Jamie is singing with The Boston
Secession, reading sci-fi, watching films, playing online
games, and helping other filmmakers realize their dreams.
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 FILM:
Aesop's Council of Mice
Showing:
Thursday, August
5, 7 PM
Location:
The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Matthew Rasmussen
Matthew
Rasmussen is a 2003 Graduate with Distinction of the Massachusetts
College of Art film program. A self-taught computer
animator, his first film, "Marboxian," showed and won the
short animation category at the 2003 WHFF. He was deep at
work on his next masterpiece when he came down for the festival
and this year we are please to present it: "Æsop’s
Council of Mice," a short mixing computer animation with
live backgrounds. He seeks to explore the idea that
life is not an alienated, unending, darkened cesspool.
Rasmussen is a native of coastal Maine, now based in Boston.
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 FILM:
Autumn
Showing:
Thursday, August 5, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Mike Pecci
Mike
Pecci is known for his dark visuals and twisted sense of
humor. Trained as a silent filmmaker at New York Film Academy
in New York City he has been a part of the Boston independent
film scene for over five years. He has directed award winning
short films, numerous commercials, and music videos. He
has also photographed television shows, music videos, and
over 15 short films.
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 FILM:
Battle of La Oroya
Showing:
Sunday, August 1, 9 PM
Location:
Redfield Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Steve Atlas
Steve
Atlas is a veteran producer of public affairs programming
for public and commercial broadcasting. Long associated
with WGBH/Boston, he now works independently with global
non-profits seeking to use digital video to reach targeted
constituencies in new and innovative ways. Atlas is both
award-winning and award-losing, but prefers to dwell on
the former.
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 FILM:
Bludren
Showing:
Thursday,
August 5, 7 PM
Location:
The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Jill Johnston-Price
Jill
Johnston-Price was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
and lived in various cities in southern Ontario before moving
to the United States for graduate work in cinematography.
She now lives near Baltimore, Maryland. Jill brings to her
animation work a background in photography and painting;
her work evolves around a conceptual approach exploring
the relationships of ecological systems of self-sustainment
and the often bizarre interactions found in nature and proposed
in literature and theory; carnivorous plants, folklore,
and vampires. She is a recipient of numerous awards and
exhibitions including the 2002 Maryland Area Media Artists
Fellowship.
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  FILM: Boardwalk
Showing: Monday,
August 2, 9 PM
Location:
The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Steve Brown & Noah Brookoff
Steve
Brown is a writer/director.
Noah Brookoff is a videographer/editor, visual storyteller,
high energy, and great to work with.
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 FILM:
California Sea Lions
Showing: Tuesday,
August 3, 7 PM
Location: Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Alan
De Herrera
Mr. De Herrera is a Latino American who has written, produced,
directed, and shot three independent feature films over
the last 9 years including Revenge Quest, February Morning,
and The Black Hand. He has worked as a cinematographer for
The IFC, industrials, and music videos for Roma Films. In
2000, Mr. De Herrera realized his true purpose; to use his
film and story skills to protect the environment. He formed
Rio Films to create positive, enriching motion picture experiences
with a successful blend of education and entertainment.
Since his youth, Mr. De Herrera has been interested in the
"expressive power of film as an art form." Mr.
De Herrera attended Fullerton College where he pursued an
AA in photography. Also attending the screening will be:
Brian Gluhak, Asst. Cameraman/Safety Diver & Roland
Gonzalez, Production Asst.
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FILM: Changing Room
Showing: Sunday,
August 1, 4 PM
Location: RedfieldAuditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Edward Ruggiero
Edward
Ruggiero has worked as a irector/editor/cameraman on numerous
shorts, music videos, and commercials. He edited the feature
film “Murder on Mott Street,” directed by and
starring Burt Young, and was assistant editor on the 1997
Sundance Selection “Mr. Vincent.”
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FILM: Chris's Cadence
Showing: Thursday,
August 5, 7 PM
Location:
The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Mike Gibisser & Susan Turman
Mike
Gibisser recently graduated with a degree in film from Emerson
College in Boston. He is currently living and working in
Cambridge, Massachusetts developing future film projects.
Susan
Turman lives in Somerville, Massachusetts working on both
photography and film projects. “chris’ cadence,”
marks Susan’s first endeavor in the medium of film.
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 FILM:
Conversations with Windemere
Showing: Monday,
August 2, 9 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Jeremy Mayhew & Thomas Bena
Jeremy
Mayhew is an independent filmmaker, animator, graphics artist
and sculptor. Past film works include "Striker's Passing,"
a personal, poetic documentary on the New England swordfisherman.
He has worked on an assortment of other productions as cinematographer,
editor, location scout, and motion graphics artist. He lives
on Martha's Vineyard.
 Thomas
Bena is an independent producer/director who lives on Martha’s
Vineyard. He is the founder of the Martha’s Vineyard
Independent Film Festival, now in it’s 5th year. This
summer he is producing a weekly film series. He strongly
believes in the power of storytelling to affect positive
change. "Conversations With Windemere" is a short
film that he co-produced and co-directed.
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 FILM: Desert Rose
Showing: Friday,
August 6, 7 PM
Location:
The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Adam J. Alleca
Adam
J. Alleca is currently attending Emerson College in Boston.
His most recent short film, a fantasy-adventure named Headhunter,
took the "Best Special Effects" award at the 2003
Rhode Island International Film Festival and received strong
support from legendary filmmaker George A. Romero, who offered
this quote: "It boasts a great idea with an interesting
character at its core - you simply must see this film."
Alleca is currently pumping out genre script after genre
script and has just wrapped principal photography on his
first feature film (an independent horror-thriller). He
is entering post-production and searching for a distributor
and can be contacted at felinicus@aol.com.
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FILM: Dog Eat Dog
Showing: Sunday,
August 1, 2 PM
Location:
Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Alice Stone
Alice
Stone wrote and directed the short comedy, EXPIRED, about
meter maid rage. As with DOG EAT DOG, EXPIRED was shot entirely
on location in Stone's South End neighborhood. People from
all walks of life learning to live together and learn from
each other has been a recurring theme in Stone's work from
her feature documentary SHE LIVES TO RIDE, to her forthcoming
reality TV series DING DONG FENG SHUI.
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 FILM: A Dog's Life:
A Dogamentary
Showing: Sunday,
August 1, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Gayle Kirschenbaum
Gayle
Kirschenbaum started her career as a freelance graphic designer
in New York. She became a producer/director of multimedia
shows and formed her company, Kirschenbaum Productions,
producing national tv commercials and documentaries including
"Hestia House," "Doumeni House," "Octavia
Butler," and "The Fifth Line," shot over
several years in the the U.S. and former USSR. She has written,
directed and produced documentaries for the A&E series
"Ancient Mysteries" and, "Mysteries of the
Bible." Recently, Gayle has been a writer/director/producer
on "I Witness Video" (NBC), "Real Stories
of the Highway Patrol" (CBS), "Storm Warning!,"
"Hollywood Chronicles" (Discovery), and "Take
Five" (PBS).
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 Presentation: Eadweard
Muybridge, Naked Victorians and the Origins of the Technology
of Film
Showing: Sunday,
August 1, 8 PM Woods Hole
Location: CO2
- Coffee Obsession Woods Hole,
Attending
Filmmakers: David Gordon
David
Gordon is an animator (his film 'Director Bugs' was shown
at WHFF in 2002) and digital artist who teaches in the Boston
area. With the support of the Boston Filmmaker's Collaborative,
Mr. Gordon is currently developing 'Victorian Dream', a
narrative film of Muybridge's work.
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 FILM: El
Cochero (The Carriage Driver)
Showing: Saturday,
August 7, 8 PM
Location: Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Miles Merritt
Miles
Merritt received his BA degree from the City University
of New York, and joined TV Guide Magazine as a writer in
Los Angeles. In 1991, he helped produce corporate videos.
Miles subsequently worked with the firm New Century Images,
a video production studio based in Los Angeles specializing
in the development of videos for private industry and various
city departments. In 1997, Miles began working with a Cable
TV Station in White Plains, New York. As writer and producer,
he helped create a quarterly show for the Mayor, as well
as several short documentaries for the city of White Plains.
This is Miles’ first directorial effort in a fictional
film.
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DAVID GALLO
BIOGRAPHY
David Gallo was born and raised in
the Finger Lakes region of Central New York State. As a child
he reamt of becoming an astronomer, and spent numerous evenings
observing the night skies with his telescope. David struggled
as a student however, and was told repeatedly that he did
not have the grades or the aptitude to pursue his scientific
passions as a career. Shortly after high-school, and after
a brief stint as a tennis and ski-bum, David began a 7 year
long career selling shoes in Albany New York.
David’s life changed in 1976
when he read an article in National Geographic Magazine by
Dr. Robert Ballard about exploring the great abyss. He had
no idea that the oceans were unexplored and that technology
was opening the last great frontier on this planet.
His imagination and curiosity unleashed
once again, David began taking courses at a local community
college and eventually at the State University of New York
at Albany. In 1979 he received a Bachelors of Science degree
in Geology from SUNY, participated in his first oceanographic
expedition, made his first dive in the submarine Alvin, and
presented a research paper at an international meeting of
scientists. He subsequently received a Master of Science degree
in Geology from SUNY Albany, and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from
the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography.
In 1987 he was invited by Dr. Robert
Ballard to join his team at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
and to become Assistant Director of the Center of Marine Exploration.
Today, David is Director of Special
Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He has
participated in numerous expeditions to the Atlantic, Pacific,
and Indian Oceans as well as to the Mediterranean Sea. He
has used a wide range of technologies including submarines,
robots, and towed sonar systems to explore and map the deepest
parts of the world’s oceans. Most recently he was co-
expedition leader on submarine explorations of the RMS Titanic
and German battleship Bismarck.
Throughout his scientific career, David
has been dedicated to sharing his passion for exploration.
He has been invited to speak both nationally and internationally
to audiences ranging from kids through CEO’s. He is
proud to have had repeat requests from the National Science
Teachers Association, the Young Presidents Organization, the
TED Conferences, and the Bohemian Grove. In 1998 he had the
honor of co-producing the centerpiece video “Discover
Planet Ocean” for the U.S. Pavilion at the World Exposition
in Lisbon, Portugal. He has participated in the production
of numerous documentaries for the Discovery Channel, National
Geographic, and the History Channel and has been an invited
panelist at the World Congress of Science Producers and the
National Association of Television Program Executives.
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 FILM:
Four Dead Batteries
Showing: Tuesday,
August 3, 9 PM
Location: Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Hiram Martinez & Todd Zelin
Hiram
Martinez became a citizen of the United States, records
show, in January of 1998. Though you can't tell from this
picture. "Four Dead Batteries" is the first feature
film he's written and directed. He is a founding member
of Up Past Midnight Productions, and is currently at work
on the comedy "A Perfectly Normal Woman."
Todd Zelin has been editing professionally for 8 years.
To pay the bills he serves the man... cutting mainly long-form
television documentaries for major cable and broadcast networks.
On
the side he cuts indie films and music videos from his home
editing suite… hoping to one day make films fulltime.
In addition to editing “Four Dead Batteries,”
he is also one of the executive producers. He has three
cats and is slightly agoraphobic while still managing to
be outgoing.
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 FILM:
Growing
Up on Tour: A Family Portrait
Showing: Saturday,
August 7, 6 PM
Location: Redfield Hall
& Sunday, August 8, various times
Location: The Reel Blues Fest
Attending
Filmmakers: Anna Gabriel
Daughter
of Peter Gabriel, Anna moved to New York from England in
1992 to study dance and photography at Sarah Lawrence College.
Since completing her studies, her photography has been featured
in the book "Song and Soul", including portraits
of Iggy Pop, Moby, Run DMC and PM Dawn. This is Anna's first
documentary.
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 FILM: Ice
Showing: Thursday,
August 5, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods
Hole Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Arthur Bell
Art
Bell is based in Burlington, VT. His focus is on documentary,
political, and commercial production specializing in using
micro digital technologies to emulate the feel of film while
maintaining portability and flexibility. Formerly, he was
CTO for Oxygen Media, the convergence television and internet
company founded by Geraldine Laybourne and Oprah Winfrey.
In 1996 Bell formed American Happyware with Scott Fenton
and Orson Bradford, a start-up focused on making insanely
easy, cool software. AH was acquired by Oxygen in 1998.
In 1985 Bell was a co-founder of Alias Research, a pioneer
in 3D computer graphics software best known for Maya.
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 FILM:
Jockey
Showing: Friday,
August 6, 9 PM
Location:
Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Kate Davis
Davis’
theatrical films include “Girltalk,” a feature-length
film about three abused, runaway girls, “A World Alive,”
“Requiem for the Planet,” “Total Baby,”
“Vacant Lot” and "Southern Comfort."
Her works have been screened at theaters across the country,
and broadcast worldwide (including Channel 4 in England
and La Sept in France). Kate Davis also produced the critically
acclaimed “Transgender Revolution” for A&E
Television Networks, a documentary on the gender community’s
fight for civil rights. Additional producing credits include
“Anti-Gay Hate Crimes,” “Untying the Straightjacket”
and “Hooked on a Dream.”
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FILM:
A Journey That Never Ends
Showing: Monday,
August 2, 9 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Janice Riley
Janice
Riley
is an independent documentary filmmaker and writer who lives
on Cape Cod. The documentary was three years in the making
It is her third independent documentary under her production
company, Riley Films, the others being, "The Lakota:
100 Years on Pine Ridge," on life on the South Dakota
Indian reservation, and "A Place To Start Again,"
on adults returning to Cape Cod Community College, which
screened at the Beijing Women's Conference in '95. She has
worked in the documentary field for over 20 years, as an
editor with WGBH and The Christian Science Monitor in Boston
and independently. She has a degree in Anthropology from
Wellesley College. She is currently at work on a new writing
project. documentary under her production company.
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FILM: Junebug and Hurricane
Showing: Sunday,
August 1, 4 PM
Location: Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: James Ponsoldt
James
Ponsoldt is a graduate of Yale University with a B.A. in
English. He then went to the M.F.A. film program at Columbia
University as a writer/director. His script, "Coming
Down the Mountain" (dealing with OxyContin addiction
in eastern Kentucky), was a finalist at the Sundance Feature
Film Program in 2002. The 25 minute version of that film
has been in competition at over 20 festivals internationally.
Additionally, James was one of ten national finalists in
2003 for the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Competition
(his film—"Rush Tickets"—was seen
at ShoWest).
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FILM:
Kumbh Mela: Short Cut to Nirvana
Showing: Wednesday,
August 2, 8 PM
Location: CO2 - Coffee Obsession
Woods Hole
Attending
Filmmakers: Maurizio
Benazzo & Nick Day
Italian-born
Maurizio Benazzo and UK native Nick Day have worked in film
and television in a variety of roles for over 20 years.
Both have had their work broadcast in many countries across
the globe, including Germany, Brazil, the UK, Italy, and
the U.S. Maurizio is also an actor, and Nick is a screenwriter.
This is their first documentary collaboration.
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FILM: Latent Image Awards
Showing: Friday,
August 6, 7 PM
Location:
The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Attending
Speaker: Tyler Ruggeri
Tyler
Ruggeri is currently entering his junior year at Emerson
College in Boston, MA. He is the president of Latent Image,
a student journal of film criticism, also which produces
the Latent Image Film Festival, an annual event showcasing
student works from Emerson. He is also a staff writer for
The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson's student newspaper, and co-host
of the Emerson Channel television show 'Critics Corner,'
a weekly series that provides reviews of current films and
covers film-related events in Boston. He has also volunteered
for Film Fest New Haven in New Haven, CT, and worked on
several short and feature film productions in Connecticut
and Massachusetts.
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 FILM: Mr. James & The
Plug of Mystery
Showing: Saturday,
August 7, 8 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station:
& Friday, August 6, 7 PM
Location:
The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Michael Humphrey
Michael
was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and lived there until
his family moved to Westfield, Massachusetts, when he was
5. He's lived there ever since and currently is a junior
film major at Emerson College in Boston Massachusetts. Mike
is a world-class ping-pong player. His favorite restaurants
are Steak N' Shake and Wendy's.
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 FILM: Nativity
Showing: Sunday,
August 1, 4 PM
Location:
Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Sandra
Luzzi
Sandra
Luzzi is a media artist who lives with her husband, Fred,
and their two daughters, Grace and Lily, in Providence,
Rhode Island. She recently received her Masters Degree in
Visual & Media Arts from Emerson College. NATIVITY is
her first short film as writer/director/producer/editor.
Sandy has worked on other film projects as producer, editor,
and post-production supervisor, including THE DEAD ZOO and
A LIFE IN THE DAY OF RINGO VINGS. She has created interactive
media for CD-ROMs and Enhanced CDs including Roomful of
Blues' Grammy-nominated recording, TURN IT ON, TURN IT UP.
Besides her own creative projects, Sandy designs websites,
provides computer consulting and training, and teaches at
the Community College of Rhode Island, Providence College,
and the Rhode Island School of Design.
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 FILM:
Noise
Showing: Saturday,
July 31, 9 PM
Location: Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Lance Doty
Lance
Doty is a New York based writer / producer and co-owner
of Homestead Editorial, a post-production boutique, and
aWounded Knee, an independent film production company. Prior
to that, Lance was a Partner and Senior Producer with Ogilvy
& Mather, New York, where he produced commercials for
Duracell, IBM, NFL, Hershey's, American Express and Kodak.
While collaborating with Barry Sonnenfeld on the Duracell
"Puttermans" campaign, Lance took a year off to
work as his assistant on the film, Get Shorty.
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 FILM:
Nothing Like Dreaming
Showing: Friday,
August 6, 7 PM
Location:
Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Nora Jacobson
NOTHING
LIKE DREAMING is the second dramatic feature film written,
directed and edited by Nora Jacobson. Her first was MY MOTHER'S
EARLY LOVERS, also shot in her native Vermont. A feature-length
documentary, DELIVERED VACANT, the product of her eight-year
study of gentrification in Hoboken, New Jersey, premiered
at the New York Film Festival and played both the Sundance
and the San Francisco Film Festival (Golden Gate Award).
Jacobson
studied film with Stan Brakhage at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. She has taught filmmaking at colleges
and universities, and has worked as videographer, cinematographer
and editor on various other projects.
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 FILM: The Observer
Showing: Sunday,
August 1, 4 PM
Location:
Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Jodi Lawaich
A
graduate of SUNY Albany and NYU Film School, Ms. Lawaich
decided to pursue film production full-time after graduating
at the top of her film class and completing the screenplay
of her first feature-length story Laura & Sal. She completed
her first short film The Observer this past March and is
working on her second screenplay, tentatively titled “Two
Sisters.” Ms. Lawaich is also the very proud mother
of Avery Jane, born January 9, 2003.
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 FILM: Odious
Showing: Thursday,
August 5, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods
Hole Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Richard
Gervin, Nicolas Gervin
The
Gervin brothers (Nicholas & Richard) are Boston based
filmmakers / co-owners of M-81 Productions founded in 2001.
We have worked on a number of projects such as World War
II documentaries, short films, fashion shows, live events
and are currently working on finishing 2 short screenplays
(THE KNICKER FIT & GOATS ISLAND) and one feature length
script (DEADLINE). Just recently we were awarded Most Promising
New England Filmmakers at the 2004 Boston Underground Film
Festival and are looking forward to being a part of Woods
Hole.
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 FILM:
Overserved
Showing: Wednesday,
August 4, 9 PM
Location:
Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Joe Gatto
Joseph Gatto is an award winning filmmaker from Boston.
He got his start fifteen years ago acting on stage and has
gone on to write and direct multiple short films and music
videos. His short films have been honored from Boston to
California.
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 FILM:
Parallel Lines
Showing:
Thursday, August 5, 9 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Nina Davenport
"Parallel
Lines" is Nina Davenport's third film. Her first film,
:Hello Photo," completed in 1995 and funded by Harvard
University's Film Study Center, depicts her travels throughout
India. While editing the film, she worked as a teaching
assistant in the filmmaking program at Harvard, where she
had studied as undergraduate. Davenport's second film, a
personal documentary shot on 16mm, ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID has
aired in numerous other countries. Davenport is the recipient
of many grants, including from the NEA. She works as a producer
and camera person on many television shows, including NBC's
Crime & Punishment, Bravo's The 'IT' Factor and PBS'
Art Close Up. She shoots and edits all of her films, and
is currently finishing her fourth film, LOS PERICOS, about
a mariachi duo in Mexico. Davenport grew up in Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan and lives in New York City.
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 FILM:
Plastic Migration
Showing: Sunday,
August 1, 2 PM
Location:
Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Rob Meyer
Rob
Meyer is currently getting his MFA in Film and Television
Production at New York University's Tisch School of the
Arts. Prior to NYU, Rob worked at PBS's NOVA and National
Geographic as an Associate Producer. He worked extensively
in the field on documentaries in Nepal, Antarctica, Alaska,
Egypt, and Chile. A graduate of Yale University with degrees
in Humanities and Studies in the Environment, Rob also plays
the violin. His previous shorts, LEGS and NOTES, have done
very well at film festivals around the world.
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 FILM:
Proteus
Showing:
Saturday, July 31,
7 PM
Location: Lillie Auditorium,
MBL
Attending
Filmmakers: David Lebrun
David
Lebrun was born in L.A. in 1944. He attended Reed College
in Portland, Oregon and the UCLA Film School. He came to
film from a background in philosophy and anthropology, and
most of his films have been attempts to get inside the way
of seeing and thinking of specific cultures. He has served
as producer, director, writer or editor of more than sixty
films, among them films on the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca,
the Hopi and Navajo of the American Southwest, Mexican folk
artists, a 1960s traveling commune, Tibetan mythology and
a year in the life of a Maya village in Yucatan. Proteus
has been in the making for more than twenty years. Lebrun
is currently producing a film on the history of the decipherment
of the ancient Maya hieroglyphic writing system, Breaking
the Maya Code, under a major grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
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 FILM:
Public Health Movies Go To War
Showing: Thursday,
August 5, 5 PM
Location:
Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Speaker: Michael Sappol
Michael
Sappol is curator-historian at the National Library of Medicine
and the author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomical America,
1750-1890 (Princeton University Press, 2002). He is currently
working on an exhibition on the history of forensic medicine
and several projects relating to historical medical films.
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 FILM: Running Madness
Showing: Thursday,
August 5, 7 PM
Location:
Redfield
Auditorium
Attending
Filmmakers: Susan Cohn Schulz
Documentary
filmmaker, writer and Mom, Susan Cohn Schulz has dedicated
herself to causes that stir her passions and to projects
that give voice to many others. Susan directed and produced
the uplifting and moving documentary, Running Madness, a
chronicle of an ultra-marathon called the Western States
100. The next couple of months will find Susan and her Jalapeno
Productions company busy again. She will be co-producing
and directing GIRLS SCHOOL, about four New York City families
and the steps they take to try and secure a spot for their
daughters in a prestigious all girls private school, to
be shot in New York City fall 2004. She is also planning
another documentary on young heroes - adolescents whose
positive and passionate actions changes peoples' lives for
the better.
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FILM: So Glad I Made It
Showing: Tuesday,
August 3, 9 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Chris Sautter
Chris
Sautter, president of Sautter Communications/Sautter Films,
is an award-winning political media consultant, attorney,
and filmmaker who has won notoriety for his skill in crafting
creative campaign spots, his expertise in election recounts
and his ability to direct compelling documentary films.
For over 15 years, Sautter produced media for dozens of
Democratic candidates from coast-to-coast, for The First
American Education Project, a coalition of West Coast Native
American tribes, and for EMILY’s List, an organization
dedicating to electing pro-choice women. Sautter won Pollie
Awards for radio spots he produced for EMILY’s List
and a 2002 Illinois state Senate race. Sautter’s 2001
full-length documentary The King of Steeltown is an off-beat
look at Chicago-style machine politics in East Chicago,
Indiana struggling with the decline of the steel industry.
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 FILM:
Space Theatre
Showing: August
7, 8 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Sherman Kew
Sherman
attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and gained
his BFA in the film department. Sophomore year he joined
the RISD hockey team, "THE NADS". He also sang
and danced in RISD’s Cabaret. His junior year we was
awarded the Tiffany Rosen Scholarship for his dedication
toward the narrative film making process for his work on
his films "Writing my Biography" and "Nonstop
Transcontinental Journey Across the United States."
This scholarship was used toward the filming of his 21minute
senior degree film "Space Theatre." Sherman is
currently living in Cape Porpoise Maine writing scripts
and doing video work and animation for a web design company
in Boston.
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 FILM:
Spit It Out
Showing: Sunday,
August 1, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Jonathan Skurnik
Jonathan
Skurnik is a Martha's Vineyard based documentary filmmaker
and co-founder, with Kathy Leichter, of Mint Leaf Productions,
which makes social issue documentaries for national broadcast
and grassroots outreach. Jonathan is currently directing
AMERICAN SHAMAN about the growing phenomenon of mainstream
Americans using shamanic practices to heal themselves, their
communities and the planet. His last film was called A DAY'S
WORK, A DAY'S PAY, about three New York City welfare recipients
fighting for economic justice that was broadcast nationwide
on PBS and in Europe, and received the Harry Chapin Media
award for films about hunger and poverty.
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 FILM:
Strikingly Single
Showing: August
7, 8 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Lisa P. Hagerty
"STRIKINGLY
SINGLE" is Lisa P. Hagerty's debut as a writer/director
and producer. This short film began with a feature script
she had been working on - a comedic story about a young
single woman and the joys and woes of single life. After
being introduced to short films by a fellow filmmaker, she
gleaned a shorter story from the already 30 page script.
Lisa's
experience as a production assistant proved invaluable as
she undertook the arduous, but wonderful adventure of making
her own film; an adventure that she hopes will turn into
a life long journey. "STRIKINGLY SINGLE" is now
off the page and on the screen - where Lisa hopes it will
entertain every viewer and open career doors for her and
her "STRIKINGLY SINGLE" ensemble.
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 FILM:
Stuff That Bear
Showing: Saturday,
August 7, 8 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Bruno Coppola
Bruno
has worked in film, theatre, radio and music in the US,
England, and throughout Europe. Early credits include Ass't
Director to David Fincher (music videos), music producer
in Italy (“Godfather III”), and for three years
chief radio drama writer at the BBC World Service in London
(“Crisis” and “Mazen”). His
previous film, “Rules of Love”, was shot in
Los Angeles, came top ten in Turner Classic Shorts last
year, has played in five major festivals world-wide, and
was picked up for distribution by Britshorts. His first
film “Unknown Things” was selected by Mike Newell
for his Berlin Masterclass, and his feature script “Madhouse
Nudes” was selected by IFFCON as one of the top 40
most promising independent feature projects in the world.
Bruno
is now casting “Madhouse Nudes” and is developing
other features including Laureen Vonnegut’s new Romanian
thriller “Tortured Soul,” and his own script,
“Pale Cast of Thought.”
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 FILM: Trouble in Paradise
Showing: Wednesday,
August 4, 9 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Laurel Greenberg
Laurel
Greenberg is an independent filmmaker who has produced and
directed her own work for 20 years. Greenberg's previous
film is the award-winning documentary "94 Years and
1 Nursing Home Later" (1999), an intimate view into
the difficulties of elder hood. Greenberg also served as
the principal cinematographer for "My Father the Genius"
(2002), winner of Best Documentary at Slamdance and Newport
Film Festivals. Greenberg
grew up in Philadelphia, graduated from Brown University
(1980) with a BA in Semiotics and began her professional
career at WNYW-TV in New York as a camera person and audio
engineer. She currently lives in Boston where she freelances
as a videographer and editor.
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 FILM: Troubled Water
Showing: Tuesday,
August 3, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Kevin King
Kevin
King is a producer at FCTV in Falmouth, Massachusetts
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 FILM: Tupperware
Showing: Monday,
August 2, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
Laurie
Kahn-Leavitt is currently a fellow at Harvard University’s
Warren Center for Studies in American History, where she
is working out the structure of a new series of films exploring
the history of women in America. This series will focus
on the lives of extraordinary, ordinary women in the past.
It will include women from different time periods, regions,
and cultural backgrounds. Previously, Laurie wrote, and
produced the film "A Midwife’s Tale," based
on Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's Pulitzer Prize winning book
(A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based
on Her Diary, 1785-1812). During the 1980s and early 1990s,
she worked on The American Experience (Senior Associate
Producer), Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights
Years 1954-1965 (Senior Researcher), and Frontline Special
Report: Crisis in Central America (Assistant Producer).
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 FILM:
Vineyard Voices: Dean K. Denniston Sr.
Showing: Tuesday,
August 3, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Linsey Lee
Linsey
Lee is the Curator of the Oral History Center at the Martha's
Vineyard Historical Society. She has been collecting oral
histories on Martha's Vineyard for over 20 years. She is
the author of Vineyard Voices -- Words Faces and Voices
of Island People (1998) and Edible Wild Plants
of Martha's Vineyard (1976, 1999). Ms Lee has worked
with Merchant Ivory Productions, PBS, and commercial television.
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 FILM:
Water Polo: Beneath the Surface
Showing: Wednesday,
August 4, 7 PM
Location: The Old Woods Hole
Fire Station
Attending
Filmmakers: Dawn Young
Dawn
Young is the Founder and President of Young & Running
Productions, a company whose mandate is to create projects
that are inspirational, empowering and uplifting to the
human spirit. Dawn has been involved with film and television
as an actor and voiceover artist in NYC for many years.
In 1996 she moved to the other side of the lens, as well,
and began shooting and creating her own projects. “Water
Polo: Beneath the Surface” is her debut documentary
feature. She is currently the cinematographer on a project
entitled "The Leadership Principal" and working
on her next directorial project “Faces of Family.”
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FILM:
WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception
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