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| ATTENDING FILMMAKERS 2006
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.
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 Alone
Gregory
Orr
“Alone” marks Gregory Orr’s
fiction film debut after 12 years making documentaries for
A&E, The History Channel, The Discovery Channel and others.
He is an Emmy Award nominee whose films have investigated
the NewYork State parole system (Parole: Prison Without Bars),
the life of a legendaryHollywood producer (Jack L. Warner:
The Last Mogul), and the manner in which famous people in
history met their end (The Day They Died). He is curently
developing a feature film about the intelligence community
and national security.
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 Beating
Around the Bush
Nicholas
Santos
Nick Santos was born and raised in Falmouth,
MA. He recently just graduated from Falmouth High School and
will be attending Ithaca College next year. Nick has been
making films for many years now, and has been an interest
of his for awhile now. He produced, "Beating Around the
Bush", in the past year with Brendan Sawyer. Nick currently
works for Bon Visage Media Production Group and Mcharthy Video
Productions.
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 Buddy
Cherry
Arnold
Cherry has served as a producer on a number
of feature length documentary and narrative films, including
the Oxygen Network documentary favorite, Sex:Female, directed
by Louis Alvarez and Andy Kolker. Before returning to her
hometown of Providence, RI, Cherry lived in New York City
where she did marketing, business development and project
producing for companies such as LaunchCenter 39, Barnes&Noble.com,
Sony, FAO Schwarz and the Warner Music Group. At the beginning
of the Internet boom, Cherry helped launch and expand the
New York WELL, an offshoot of the venerable San Francisco-based
online community. Previously, Cherry's company, Cherry Arnold
and Associates, produced advertising work for commercial Photographers
and Directors in New York City and Philadelphia, PA.
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 Carrie's
Choice
Jane
Clark
Jane Clark's third short film, "Carrie's
Choice," will begin educational distribution through
Select Media (selectmedia.org). In 2004, Jane wrote, directed
and produced her second short, "A Host of Daffodils,"
a personal meditation on family and loss, which has played
14 fests, been nominated best short three times and won two
awards. Jane began as an actor including a recurring role
on “Chicago Hope.” In 2002, she attended the Sundance
Producer's Conference, and directed her first short, “Dog
Gone.” Jane gained producing experience with a string
of successful showcases followed a production of ““Burn
This,”” in which she also starred.
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 Class
Act
Heather
Winters
Heather Winters most recently co-Executive
Produced the Academy Award® nominated documentary film,
SUPER SIZE ME. Feature film and television credits include
several independent feature films and the animated TV series
THUNDERCATS, SILVERHAWKS, THE COMIC STRIP and MTV’s
REAL WORLD. An accomplished writer and musician, Winters is
a native of Miami Beach and a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.
Her company, STUDIO-ON-HUDSON, specializes in the production
and financing of independent feature films and documentaries.
Awards include 2004 TELLY® Award, 2003 PLATINUM BEST IN
SHOW AURORA Award, 2000 CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
FIRST PLACE Award, 2000 U.S. INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO
FESTIVAL, and multiple awards of creative excellence.
 Joe
Morley
Executive Producer and Co-Writer of CLASS
ACT, Joe is a partner in STUDIO-ON-HUDSON with Producer Heather
Winters. He shares the co-Executive Producer credits on the
STUDIO-ON-HUDSON film THE PARTY HEADS, and the Sundance award
winning and Academy Award® nominated documentary, SUPER
SIZE ME. An accomplished writer/producer in his own right,
Joe has produced more than 100 live events and video projects.
He is a working playwright whose scripts are seen in the off
Broadway theaters.
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 A
Cigar at the Beach
Stephen
Keep Mills
Stephen Keep Mills didn’t start out
as a writer or a director or a producer. He started out as
an actor. Graduating from the Yale School of Drama in 1969,
he began his professional life with The Guthrie Theatre Co.
and performed with many leading regional theatre companies
in the US and Canada, appeared in three Broadway productions,
and worked on new plays at the Public Theatre in NYC in the
time of Joe Papp. Much of his TV and film work can be found
on IMDb by searching for Stephen Keep. Mills began writing,
directing, and producing his own plays in 1985, and in 2003,
turned one of them, Hotel Lobby, into a digital feature. He
is following up that effort by making his debut as a film
director with A Cigar at the Beach. Mills lives in Topanga,
California. He is married with children.
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 Cubes
Jason
Sherry
Jason Sherry is a full time Director of
Drama and Instructor in English and Digital Filmmaking at
Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School. As an actor,
Sherry has appeared in the Emmy-nominated Stories from the
Mines and in the independent film The Suicide Notes. He has
worked with the late Pulitzer prizewinner Jason Miller, appearing
in the playwright’s revival of his play Nobody Hears
a Broken Drum. He is also a founding member of The Community
Film Project, a non-profit organization that facilitates the
production and promotion of independent films. He has directed
and produced several shorts; Cubes is his first feature, produced
while working a full time teaching job, opening a new business,
starting a non-profit organization, and raising an infant.
He might be unique among editors for his ability to use Final
Cut Pro one-handed while giving a baby a bottle with the other.
 Mark
Zdancewicz
Mark Zdancewicz lives with his mother. Carries
his dead father's ashes with him everywhere. Not all of his
ashes. Just part of his left leg. Accomplishments: None. "It's
difficult to do anything when you spend all of your free time
napping. I wish I were dead."
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 Dateline
Afghanistan
Bill
Gentile
Bill Gentile is an independent journalist
teaching at American University in Washington, DC. He began
in 1977 as reporter for the Mexico City News and correspondent
for United Press International based in Mexico City. He covered
the 1979 Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua. He spent two
years as editor on UPI’s Foreign Desk in New York, then
moved to Nicaragua and became Newsweek Magazine’s Contract
Photographer for Latin America and the Caribbean. His book
of photographs, “Nicaragua,” won the Overseas
Press Club Award for Excellence. He covered the U.S.-backed
Contra War in Nicaragua and the Salvadoran Civil War; the
invasion of Panama; the invasion of Haiti and the Persian
Gulf War. He shared the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human
Rights Reporting, Honorable Mention, for a story on rape during
the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. He shared two National Emmy Awards
and was nominated for a third. He is now an Artist in Residence
at American University. His documentary, “Nothing for
Granted: A Marine’s Journey,” which he shot in
Iraq, was broadcast 1 June 2005 by MHz Networks of Falls Church,
Virginia.
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 Dead
Ronnie
Greg
W. Swartz
Greg W. Swartz splits his time between Hollywood
and his native Pennsylvania. He has been making films for
more than eight years. After a two-week stint as a PA in 1996,
Swartz quit his reporting job and headed West with a few thousand
dollars in gambling winnings. Swartz has studied screenwriting
at UCLA, participated in the IFP Producers Series and studied
directing with renowned teacher Judith Weston. He has directed
and produced commercials, a feature film (HOLLYWOOD, PA),
a documentary (OUTLAWS & TRUEBLOODS) and four short films
(including "Betsy" which has screened at numerous
festivals). He is currently in pre-production on the feature
ANOTHER HARVEST MOON.
 Courtney
Lamb
Courtney Lamb is an actor and writer who
moved to LA from Boston, where she founded the Shadow Boxing
Theatre Workshop for developing new works. She has written,
directed, and acted in a number of short films that have appeared
in festivals nationwide, and has also written several screenplays
and an original pilot. She's a graduate of the Second City
Conservatory and of their Writing Program, and she continues
to write and perform sketch comedy. She likes smart, painful
comedy grounded in the many freaky and awful things that happen
in real life.
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 December
Ends
Lee
Krieger
Lee Krieger is a 2005 graduate of USC's School
of Cinema and Television. ‘December Ends’ is his
first feature film. He has also directed a number of short
films and music videos, including a video for the Universal
Music group "From Satellite." Most recently, Lee
directed the pilot episode of the television series ‘The
Wilton.’ He plans on continuing his music video and
television work as he develops his next feature project.
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 Dirt
Nap
D.B.
Sweeney
D.B.’s films include Gardens of Stone,
Memphis Belle, Fire in the Sky, The Cutting Edge, No Man’s
Land, Spawn, The Darwin Awards, Yellow, Roommates and Eight
Men Out (as Shoeless Joe Jackson). He has appeared on Broadway
and in theatres around the country, most recently in the acclaimed
Williamstown Theater Festival’s production of Under
Milkwood. He is a founding board member of the celebrated
Blank Theatre in Los Angeles. On Television he played Dish
Boggett in the landmark Lonesome Dove miniseries. Other credits
include Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Strange Luck, C-16:
FBI, Harsh Realm, Life as We Know It and the Emmy Award winning
Miss Rose White. D.B. makes his debut as screenwriter, director
and producer with Dirt Nap. He was named Best Director at
the 2006 Boston International Film Festival and was cited
for “Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking” for
Dirt Nap at the 2006 MethodFest.
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 Disarm
Brian
Liu
Brian Liu, 34 years, has over a decade of
experience as a creative director, designer and photojournalist
with published work in the Details, Newsweek, New York Times,
Rolling Stone Magazine, The Washington Post, and has done
documentary photography for the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
The Peace Corps, and Icelandair, and more recently in DV documentary
filmmaking for independent productions (“Still Fighting:
Women in Afghanistan,” “Pancake Mountain”)
and major music artists (Thievery Corporation). In addition
to making his directoral debut with Disarm, Brian is the founder
of Toolbox DC, a full service creative agency based in Washington
DC. Toolbox DC has the specific responsibility to establish
the visual identity of this film by providing creative direction
and design (print, online, and film), as well as both still
and motion photography.
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 Diva
Dog
Chris
Cory
Chris Cory is a lover of animals and a lover
of films, so DIVA DOG was a perfect opportunity to combine
the two. Born in the heart of NYC under a Leo moon, Chris
was raised in Montclair NJ. He spent his formative years acting
in numerous stage productions and commercials, training at
the prestigious Stagedoor Manor and attended Professional
Children's School. Never satisfied to sit idle, he is also
a writer, singer, director, producer and UPM. He has produced
9 film projects in the past year. These include "Driving
to Zigzigland," a feature to be distributed through Cinema
Libre Studios, the comedy short "Convincing Benny,"
which was produced at CBS Radford Studios and the award-winning
AFI short "My Backyard Was a Mountain." His first
short "Diamond and Sphinx" was shot on 35mm. Chris
wrote, directed, produced, starred in and composed the soundtrack.
Always up for adventure, Chris recently directed and produced
a documentary in Guangzhou, China, about the city's culture,
business etiquette, ancient history and nightlife. He became
a certified divemaster on the Caribbean island of Utila. He
spent several years traveling all over the country in a 4x4
and is currently developing a travel series in the vein of
the Lonely Planet guidebooks. Chris's goal is to essentially
become his own studio, so he can create projects he believes
in and perform in any capacity he chooses (writer, director,
actor, producer).
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 East
of Euclid
Jeff
Solylo
Jeff Solylo was born in a suburb of Winnipeg
called East Kildonan in 1958. After graduating from the University
of Manitoba’s School of Art, Solylo worked as a graphic
artist and photographer before joining the renowned Winnipeg
Film Group, where he began working as the award-winning Art
Director for Guy Maddin’s feature films Tales from the
Gimli Hospital, Archangel, and Careful. Solylo formed his
production company, E.K. Soul Productions in 1994 and produced
a short film, Latent Greatness that premiered at the 1995
Vancouver International Film Festival. Solylo’s first
feature-length film East of Euclid premiered at the NSI Film
Exchange Film Festival in Winnipeg in 2004 and has been shown
at the New York International Independent Film Festival, the
Boston Underground Film Festival and other festivals in the
U.S. and Canada. East of Euclid will be on Showcase Television
and the Independent Film Channel across Canada in 2006. Solylo
is now writing the script for his second feature-length film,
Trouble in Lockport.
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 Empty
Building Short Stories
Giovanni
Sanseviero
"The Empty Building" is Giovanni
Sanseviero’s directorial debut. Prior to this endeavor,
he pursued acting; first in New York with the Gene Frankel
Theatre, followed by private coaching with Mark Marno in Los
Angeles. “Empty Building” is currently celebrating
its fiftieth festival acceptance while also the recipient
of over two dozen awards and honors. Sanseviero’s current
project, a feature length dark comedy entitled, “Stan
the Man,” is anticipating production in early, 2007.
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 Escape
Velocity
Scott
Ligon
Scott Ligon studied under renowned painter
Grace Hartigan in the MFA program at Maryland Institute College
of Art. Scott’s digital paintings have recently been
shown at: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington,
DC; Pharmaka Gallery in Los Angeles; Art Basel in Miami Beach;
and Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He has
performed in the Source Theater’s New Playwrights Festival.
He was singer / songwriter for Baltimore band “Panic
Lions.” Scott teaches Digital Art at the University
of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg VA, where he lives with
his wife and two sons.
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 Expiration
Date
Rick
Stevenson
Rick Stevenson is a Seattle native known
for his work in film and tv in the U.S., Canada and Great
Britain. Stevenson's production credits include PRIVILEGED
(1983) starring Hugh Grant; RESTLESS NATIVES (1985) starring
Ned Beatty, PROMISED LAND (1987) starring Meg Ryan and Kiefer
Sutherland; SOME GIRLS (1989) starring Patrick Dempsey and
Jennifer Connelly: and CROOKED HEARTS starring Jennifer Jason-Leigh,
Noah Wylie, Juliette Lewis and Peter Coyote. Stevenson made
his feature film directorial debut in 1995 with MAGIC IN THE
WATER, starring Mark Harmon and Joshua Jackson. His
next, widely lauded, feature film was THE DINOSAUR HUNTER
with Christopher Plummer (1999) followed by ANTHRAX (2001)
starring Cameron Daddo, David Keith, Ed Begley Jr. Stevenson
has directed many programs for television including ED for
NBC and his work as a director of television commercials has
garnered a myriad of awards. In 2004, Stevenson founded
thefilmschool with Tom Skerritt and Stewart Stern.
He holds a PhD from Oxford University, a MA from the London
School of Economics and a BA in history from Whitman College
in Washington State. Rick is married with four children.
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 Far
As The Eye Can See
Roy
McDonald
Roy McDonald's first short film, Special
Delivery, was selected as part of Slamdance’s Hieronymus
“Fresh Voices” screening at the Echo Park Film
Center in LA and was a featured selection of the Directors
View Film Festival. He is currently finishing “Black
Box” a big-budget techno-thriller about an NTSB aircraft
accident investigator. His latest feature-length screenplay,
The Grieving, a J-Horror inspired supernatural thriller, is
currently under consideration. His other completed screenplays
include The Bullfighter, Shady Glade, Beowulf and Chain of
Events. He has won awards for his spec teleplays: THE X-FILES:
Ponce Eternal and THE WEST WING: Fighting Weight. Along with
Choice Films McDonald is in development to produce Junction,
a Hi-Def feature written by playwright and stage director
Tony Glazer. The adrenaline charged screenplay about a meth-addict
burglary gone horribly wrong is to be co-produced with Air,
Sea, Land Productions (The Cave) and will mark Glazer’s
directorial debut.
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 The
Father, Unblinking
Ziggy
Attias
Ziggy Attias established Ziggy Films in 1996
and has made two documentary films that have been aired on
PBS. The first was the award winning documentary Traveling
the Distance, about the Shinnecock Indian's 50th Anniversary
Labor Day Pow-Wow which The New York Times calls ".an
important anthropological reference." and Ride on Brother,
about the cathartic cross country bicycle journey of seven
NYC firefighters in the wake of 9/11, for which Attias was
applauded by President Bush, "I commend your work to
document this remarkable bike tour which reflects the true
spirit of our country" Attias is also in post-production
on The Nepal Diaries (a three part personal journey through
the Kingdom of Nepal). Attias is about to embark on the film
festival circuit with the just completed The Father, Unblinking,
a 16mm, 24minute, short film which he produced, edited and
directed and is an adaptation from the feature film screenplay
Prophets and Brothers which he is developing with Brian Evenson.
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 The
Fens
Douglas
Gordon
Douglas Gordon is an emerging, Boston-based
filmmaker whose credits include narrative, documentary and
commerical films, as well as music videos. These projects
have allowed Doug to work throughout the US and overseas -
including South China, where he acted as Director of Photography
for a NASA funded documentary. Doug has also worked for such
companies as Digital Domain in Los Angeles and Handheld Films
in Manhattan. As a Writer/Director, Doug's first short film
"Sully" was an official selection of the Redstone
Film Festival and received the Fleder/Rosenberg award for
Best Short Screenplay. He continues to divide his time between
Rule Broadcast Systems and Boston University, where he is
a film production instructor. Additionally, Doug teaches at
Cambridge Community Television. He earned his B.A. in History
and Communications at UNC-Chapel Hill and his M.F.A. in Film
Production from Boston University.
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 A
Fish Story
Tim
Gallagher
Tim Gallagher is a filmmaker from Boston,
Massachusetts. Tim began his career in filmmaking at WGBH-TV,
Boston. Since then, Mr. Gallagher has contributed to the research
and development of documentaries for PBS, the Discovery Channel,
and the History Channel. Gallagher is a graduate of the University
of Scranton and was a Fulbright scholar to Wellington, New
Zealand.
Courtney
Hayes
Courtney Hayes is a filmmaker from Gloucester,
Massachusetts. Hayes began her career in filmmaking at FRONTLINE,
WGBH-TV, Boston. Since then, Hayes has produced and directed
documentaries for PBS, the Discovery Channel, and the History
Channel. Hayes is a graduate of Macalester College, St Paul,
MN and was a Fulbright scholar in Varanasi, India. As a young
girl growing up in Gloucester, Hayes spent many hours at sea
on her father's tuna fishing boat.
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 Four
Corners of Suburbia
Elizabeth
Puccini
Elizabeth Puccini studied literature and
art history at Vassar College. Her first play, “Four
Corners of Suburbia,” was produced by Double Helix Theatre
Company at The 30th Street Theatre (New York City) back in
the fall of 2000. The play went on to be named the first runner-up
at Stages Repertory Theatre’s 2001 Southwest Festival
of New Plays. Its enthusiastic reception encouraged Elizabeth
to adapt the play for the screen and direct her first feature
film. Her experience in theatre and film include working as
a producer on a radio production of Wallace Shawn’s
play “The Designated Mourner” directed by André
Gregory and as a researcher for director Mike Newell on Revolution
Studio’s “Mona Lisa Smile.” "Four Corners
of Suburbia" premiered at the 2005 AFI Los Angeles International
Film Festival and has since gone on to win awards at other
international festivals.
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 Global
Focus II
John
Antonelli
John Antonelli, in association with The Mill Valley Film Group,
has produced award-winning documentary and educational projects
for theatrical distribution, cable tv, PBS, syndication, and
for an impressive list of corporate clients. His most recent
project is "Global Focus: The New Environentalists"
profiles of activists who put themselves squarely in harms
way tohelp protect the planet. His feature length film "Jack
Kerouac: King of the Beats" played theatrically in every
major city in the U.S. and Canada and is distributed on DVD
by Media Home Entertainment. It was broadcast to critical
acclaim on the Arts & Entertainment Network, PBS, The
Learning Channel and in a number of major European markets.
The film was awarded a Blue Ribbon from the American Film
Festival for Best Feature Length Film, as well as the award
for Best Film from Northern California at the National Educational
Film Festival. He is currently in postproduction on "Crossing
Over: The Sam Cooke Story" for PBS with a grant from
the National Black Programming Consortium. Antonelli is a
native of Massachusetts but lives in California. He makes
an annual pilgrimage to Cape Cod.
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 Green
Umbrella
Jordan
Galland
Jordan Galland is a 26 year old filmmaker,
writer and musician living in New York City since he was five
years old. He graduated from NYU where he studied Film, Animation
and Mythology. Smile for the Camera is Galland’s directorial
debut and his second motion picture project. Seven years ago,
at the age of nineteen, Galland developed and wrote a film
adaptation of the Japanese cult classic, Coin Locker Babies.
That film is scheduled to start production in the fall of
2006, with Don Murphy producing and Sean Lennon, Liv Tyler,
Val Kilmer, Vincent Gallo and Asia Argento in leading roles.
Inspired by his work on the screen adaptation of Ryu Murakami’s
apocalyptic masterpiece, Galland decided to produce a surrealistic
thriller on a theme that has intrigued him for years. He wrote
the screenplay and theme song for Smile for the Camera with
Lennon (a co-writer on Coin Locker Babies), setting the film
in some of his favorite locations on Long Island’s south
fork. Galland directed, photographed, and edited the film
himself, with an unpaid cast of friends, only one of whom
had prior acting experience. A songwriter and musician, Galland
also created an original score for the film with Timo Ellis,
another long-time friend.
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 The
Hole Story
Alex
Karpovsky
Alex Karpovsky began making short films while
studying anthropology and visual ethnography at Oxford University.
He traveled to Eastern Russia where he made several short
documentaries exploring political corruption and abysmal working
conditions in Soviet era mining villages. To keep his sanity,
Alex also wrote one act comedies and monologues and two of
his theatrical pieces premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe festival
before having ephemeral runs in obscure London performance
spaces. Following a anxiety-ridden few months in Boston devoted
to unloading delusional diatribes from the stage of a comedy
club in Harvard Square, Alex moved to New York City. He wrote
and performed monologues (usually with only friends and alcoholics
in attendance) while feverishly pitching numerous television
ideas to irritated low-level cable executives. None of these
ideas ever materialized, though their failures solidified
the foundation for his first feature-length film, The Hole
Story. At the same time Alex also acted in several independent
films, including Cry Funny Happy. When not freelancing as
a corporate and karaoke video editor, Alex enjoys taking long
melodramatic walks by the ocean and brainstorming television
ideas with friends. Alex currently lives in Boston and will
be shooting his next film in Arkansas in the Fall of 2006.
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 How
It Starts
Freddy
Janney
In addition to making films, Freddy Janney
is a songwriter, musician and lacrosse player. A 2006 graduate
of Lexington High School in Lexington, MA, he has elected
to continue his film studies and sports at Philips Exeter
Academy. "How It Starts" recently won a Felix Award
a the 2006 Plymouth Film Festival.
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 Ice
Cream Ants
Jeremy
Carr
Jeremy Carr is an award-winning screenwriter
and published author who has directed over a dozen short films.
His work-in-progress feature film "Lucid" is currently
in development and was an official selection of the 2004 New
York IFP Market. It was while researching dream phenomena
for "Lucid" that Jeremy was inspired to write and
direct the short film "Ice Cream Ants." The universal
connection of people through dreams continues to influence
his work. A graduate of Boston University, Jeremy now lives
in Brooklyn, NY, where many of his films and stories are set.
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 Jonestown
Stanley
Nelson
Stanley Nelson documentaries have won praise,
awards, and opened people's hearts and minds. These have inlcuded
the Emmy winning The Murder of Emmett Till, Marcus
Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind, The Black Press:
Soldiers without Swords, Running: the Campaign for City Council,
on the 2001 local elections in New York City and Two Dollars
and a Dream: The Story of Madame C. J. Walker and A’lelia
Walker. His other award-winning independently-produced
films include Methadone: Curse or Cure; Free
Within Ourselves, a profile of four contemporary African
American artists; and Puerto Rico: Our Right to Decide.
His credits as a television producer include What Can We Do
About Violence?, Bill Moyers, Executive Producer, Listening
To America with Bill Moyers, and Michael Moore’s TV
Nation. Nelson was a Senior Consultant to the award-winning
HBO program, On the Record with Bob Costas. Nelson holds a
B.F.A. in film from the City College of New York. He was a
fellow at the American Film Institute and a Revson Fellow
at Columbia University, served on the Fulbright media fellowship
committee, and was a Regents’ Lecturer at the University
of California. He has taught film at Howard University and
trained broadcast journalists in Rwanda. Nelson is a frequent
speaker on new media and the “digital future”
for minority filmmakers.
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 Last
Thoughts
Kevin
Henry
Kevin Henry grew up in Austin, Texas before
settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. Despite an M.S. in
Computer Science from Stanford University and a job as a software
engineer, he devoted most of his attention to traveling, music,
and the arts. After hearing his grandfather’s tape-recorded
stories, he turned his attention to filmmaking in general,
and LAST THOUGHTS, his first film, in particular.
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 The
Legend of Lucy Keyes
John
Stimpson
John Stimpson is a Massachusetts native who
spends his summers in North Falmouth. His film The Winter
People won Best Fantasy Short in the 2004 Woods Hole Film
Festival, and the screenplay for The Legend of Lucy Keyes
was first runner up in the 2003 Woods Hole screenplay competition.
John also co-wrote and directed, The Gentleman from Boston
in 2000. Stimpson’s interest in film and television
began at Harvard where he was President of the Hasty Pudding
Theatricals. His documentary film Backstage at the Hasty Pudding
earned him a Bronze Apple at the National Educational Film
Festival. He also received a Parent’s Choice award for
his children’s program Tool Power. John has extensive
experience writing, directing and producing episodic television
for Outdoor Life Network, Animal Planet and HGTV
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 Live
Free or Die
Andy
Robin
"Live Free or Die" is the first
feature film written and directed by Gregg Kavet and Andy
Robin. The pair have been writing together since their college
days at Harvard. They later spent six years as writers and
Co-Executive Producers on the TV series "Seinfeld,"
for which they penned such memorable episodes as "The
Junior Mint," "The Jimmy," and "The Fatigues,"
which won the 1998 Writers Guild Award. More recently, they
have been developing projects for film, television, and print,
with Andy co-writing Jerry Seinfeld's first feature film,
"Bee Movie," and Gregg and Andy co-authoring the
2005 paperback "Saving Face," a guide to navigating
awkward social situations. The duo have been nominated for
four Emmy Awards and they have won two People's Choice Awards.
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 Looking
Skyward: A Passion for Hawk Watching
John
Sutherland
Whether it’s a video for a corporate
meeting or an insightful look at hawk watchers on a mountaintop,
John Sutherland is a storyteller at heart. The idea for this
project grew from a group of friends with a love for the outdoors,
and a shared passion for birds of prey. Since his days growing
up in Kansas, John has held a fascination for hawks, and this
project provided ample opportunity to not only explore the
birds, but also mingle with others that share the passion.
“Looking Skyward – A Passion for Hawk Watching”
was over five years in the making, and truly a collaborative
effort between long-time friends. John has two other projects
currently in production: “Drawn to The Flame”,
a short documentary on Sandwich glass artist Michael Magyar,
and “Turn 10 - Sebring”, a story about a group
of friends who gather once a year for four days of sports
car racing in Sebring Florida. John lives year round on Cape
Cod.
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 Loose
Change
Lee
Rubenstein
Lee Rubenstein likes long walks in the park,
the occasional sketching at the Natural History Museum and
Ice Cream Sandwiches. Sorry ladies, this fellow is taken by
his first love, Animation. He is currently a senior Traditional
Animation student, at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His
film Loose Change took six months to create.
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 Louder
Than Words
Glenn
Ripps
Glenn Ripps studied music at The University
of Miami until he took a writing class with Dr. Louise Rodgers.
From that moment on he has been a student of story. He has
taken course work in creative writing, poetry, short story,
theater, and screenwriting at The University of Miami, Hunter
College, The University of Massachusetts, Chapman University,
and UCLA. In 2001, Mr. Ripps graduated with honors from The
Los Angeles Film School Directing Program. In 2004, Mr. Ripps
graduated with honors from The Los Angeles Film School’s
Feature Development Program. Mr. Ripps has written two feature
length scripts: Fairhaven, and The Poison Tree; and has co-written
three screenplays with his writing partner John Cavanaugh:
The Art of Waiting, Save Me Joe Louis, and Verona. Verona
is currently in pre-production with Michael Souther, from
Amaze Film and TV, producing.
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 Manual
Garth
Donovan
Garth Donovan is a Boston based - DIY filmmaker,
with a blue collar work ethic and one hell of a knack for
creating dark, brutal comedy. He does whatever it takes to
get his films made, including writing, directing, editing,
acting and collecting thousands of dollars worth of recyclable
cans to fund them. His first feature "Everyone's Got
One" is available on Film Threat DVD and was named "New
England's Best Comedy of 2003" by the Boston Society
of Film Critics.
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 Mein
Liebchen
Sarah
Macaulay
Sarah Macaulay grew up in the small town
of Brewster on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. As a young girl she
was exposed to classical films with her Grandmother. As a
teenager she began working at the local video store whereher
boss introduced her to the world of Peter Sellers and a wider
array of films including those with a more independent style.
Her love of film grew and brought her to San Francisco where
she took classes at the Academy of Art University. She chose
to focus on acting but the academy taught all aspects of the
filmmaking process. She graduated with high honors and a bachelor
of fine arts in Motion Pictures and Television specifically
acting. With many strong feminine roll models in her life,
Sarah learned to do things for herself and lets nothing stand
in the way of succeeding as an artist. She has acted in various
shorts, and a few features while also producing her own projects.
Sarah now lives in LA where she works as a freelance producer,
coordinator, and actor.
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 Muriel
Kim
Romano
Kim Romano made two short films as an undergraduate
at Harvard (‘Library,’ fantasies students have
while studying; and ‘Pretty Fat,’ how beauty and
weight are related)…and then spent years directing
and raising money for non-profit organizations. Since her
graduation from the CDIA digital filmmaking program in Boston
last year, she has worked at WGBH’s Filmmaker-in-Residence
Program with Gerry Peary and Amy Geller; produced a documentary
by Franco Sacchi about Boston’s Community Boating Program,
edited Lenny Manzo’s ‘Stoneridge-A Montessori
Experience;’ and formed Class Three Films Production
Co. with David Holroyd and Dan Eslinger, also CDIA graduates.
Kim and her filmmaker son Cody Romano moved to Cambridge,
MA from Key West, Florida where MURIEL was filmed.
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 Night
of the Dying Living
Kevin
Anderton
Kevin Anderton is a Boston based writer/filmmaker
who has spent the last four years making forty short comedies,
promoting the local film scene and helping to teach others
how to produce and promote their work. All while raising two
small children. He received an MFA in filmmaking from Boston
University in 2000 and his professional credits include Kilimanjaro:
To The Roof of Africa and The Good Son. His
work has been well received on the internet, broadcast television,
and on video phones in over eleven countries. His short film
Mask of the Ninja recently was awarded 'Best Comedy'
by Comcast/Undergroundfilm.org and was selected as one the
top twenty comedies on YouTube by Panasonic. His comedy Night
of the Dying Living is his first comedy shot in the 24p
format and is the third of his shorts to appear at the WHFF.
Kevin is currently promoting the release of his second DVD,
The Boston Comedy Shorts Collection, finishing up his third
feature script, the Italiochine comedy Some Like It Szechuan,
and exploring comedy writing work with network television
and advertising agencies.
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 The
Norman Rockwell Code
Alfred
Thomas Catalfo
Alfred Thomas Catalfo is a screenwriter,
director, producer and trial attorney. In three years, he
has been a winner or finalist in twenty-one major screenwriting
competitions with three different scripts. These have included
Final Draft twice, scr(i)pt Magazine Open Door three times,
the Austin Film Festival Heart of Film, NHFX New England (Grand
Prize Winner and wrote two of the four finalists), San Diego
Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, Chesterfield sponsored
by Paramount, Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope, Fade
In Magazine Screenwriting Awards, Monterey County Film Commission
Screenplay Competition, PAGE Hollywood International Screenwriting
Awards, Texas Film Institute Screenwriting Competition, American
Accolades, and the Nantucket Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
sponsored by Showtime in which he wrote two of the three winning
scripts. A member of the Screen Actors Guild, he had a featured
role in the recent NBC Television Movie Bet Your Life produced
by Joel Silver. Catalfo previously wrote, produced and directed
the popular short film Wages of Sin.
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 Pirate
Radio, U.S.A.
Mary
Jones
Mary Jones is co-host, camera operator, and
producer for Pirate Radio USA, her first feature documentary.
Collecting records has long been a hobby, and in 1996 she
began sharing her extensive vinyl collection on her pirate
radio show, Morning Sedition and later on StudioX with her
internet radio show, Pirate This! Prior to filmmaking, she
earned her B.S. in Applied Physics from Xavier University
in Ohio. After moving to Seattle, she became active in producing
local cable television programming. As host and producer of
All U Can Stomach (1996-2002), a live-to-tape vegan cooking
show, she polished her on-camera personality while making
it one of the most popular programs on the station. She was
also guest coordinator and camera operator on Deface the Nation
(1995-2002), where she introduced her unique "MaryCam"
skills, a technique often imitated but never quite copied
by various mainstream news sources.
 Jeff
Pearson
Jeff is a stand up comic who has applied
his caustic wit at the Foolproof Comedy Festival and the Seattle
Comedy Competition, as well as on his pirate radio show, Morning
Sedition. He was writer and host of the long- running Seattle
cable cult favorite, Deface the Nation, which in 1998 was
voted 'best cable show' by Seattle Weekly readers. He was
Writer and Director of Photography for the #4 comedy short
on Ifilm.com in 2003, the spoof Straight Eye for the Queer
Guy and worked as Director and Producer of the comedy vegan
cooking show: All U Can Stomach, before finishing his autobiographical
documentary, and first feature, Pirate Radio USA.
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 Rain
in a Dry Land
Anne
Makepeace
Anne Makepeace has been making award-winning
independent films for twenty years. Her previous film, Robert
Capa in Love and War, premiered at Sundance and was broadcast
PBS’ American Masters, the BBC, and many other foreign
stations. The film won a national prime time Emmy and the
Voice for Humanity Award at Telluride MountainFilm. Coming
to Light, Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians,
was short-listed for an Academy Award, premiered at Sundance
2000, and was broadcast on American Masters/PBS in 2001, and
garnered many awards. Her personal documentary, Baby It’s
You, premiered at Sundance 1998, screened at South by
Southwest, was the lead show on POV’s 1998 season, and
was broadcast on Channel 4’s True Stories series. Makepeace
has also written, produced, and/or directed many dramatic
films. She has twice been a writer/director fellow at the
Sundance Institute, and served on the Sundance 2001 Film Festival’s
documentary jury. She recently completed a short film on Eleanor
Roosevelt, entitled Eleanor Roosevelt, Close to Home.
She is currently working on an American Masters documentary
about Jane Fonda; a film about I. M. Pei produced by Pacem
Productions; and is also producing the first 90-minute episode
of a five part series on Native Americans for the American
Experience/WGBH.
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 Remembering
John Marshall
David
Tamés
David is a filmmaker and media technologist
who has worked on numerous independent film projects including
cinematographer and post supervisor for the award-winning
feature, "Never Met Picasso." Currently he is a
producer and editor for the Academic Media Production Services
group at MIT. David earned an M.S. in Media Arts & Sciences
from the MIT Media Laboratory and studied film at City College
of San Francisco. He often speaks at industry events and film
festivals about trends and emerging technology of interest
to filmmakers.
 Alice
Apley
Alice is an anthropologist and filmmaker
who studied anthropological representations of the Kalahari
Bushmen (including the Ju'/hoansi) as part of her graduate
studies. She has worked in educational film and television
as a fundraiser and in a variety of production roles and as
a video production teacher for high school students. Alice
holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from New York University and
currently conducts social science research for RMC Research.
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 Shepherds
Karen
McIntyre
After graduating with honors in English Literature
from SUNY-Binghamton, Karen moved to New York City, where
her prestigious degree secured her a position as a bartender.
She soon learned enough on the job to embark on a successful
career in advertising. Though her days were taken up writing
commercials for coffee, cars, and makeup, Karen spent her
nights and weekends writing screenplays, and dreamed of making
a film someday. It was at Deutsch that Karen met her co-director
and business partner, Florence Buchanan. While on a commercial
shoot in Los Angeles, the two working mothers made a pact
to follow their hearts and stop waiting for the someday they’d
attend film school, win lotto, or get more than two days off
in a row.
Florence
Buchanan
Florence Buchanan grew up in London, and
studied art until she joined Richard Williams’ renowned
cel animation crew, making mushy pea commercials. Dissatisfied
with London and with toiling on other people’s projects,
she grabbed her US passport and moved to New York City, with
an open mind and not much else. Incorporating her graphic
design skills and passion for ideas, Florence pursued an interesting
career in advertising, where she discovered her love for filmmaking.
Happily, she was paired with Karen McIntyre on a cosmetics
account, and they found out they both secretly wanted to make
their own films. Thus Hellotrope Productions was born.
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 The
Shovel
Nick
Childs
Nick has worked on numerous feature, television
and documentary productions, including projects for HBO, ABC,
and Sony Television, and is a longtime director and producer
of corporate work for many of the world’s most respected
companies, Currently, he is adapting Winter of the Wolf Moon,
the second book in Steve Hamilton’s award-winning thriller
series set in Paradise, Michigan. Nick and production partner
Steve Hardwick are also developing several other feature projects,
with a particular interest in adapting short stories and novels.
He holds a MFA in fiction writing from NYU and lives with
his wife and two children in New York. The Shovel is his first
dramatic short.
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 Spaceman
Brett
Rapkin
Spaceman is Brett Rapkin's first feature
documentary. In 2003, he moved from LA to New York to begin
producing sports and music films for Black Canyon Productions,
the company behind HBO Sports documentaries. In 2005 Rapkin
produced and directed BODE ON THE BUS, a weekly lifestyle
segment featuring World Cup champion ski racer Bode Miller
for the Outdoor Life Network. He has also produced and edited
two A&E biographies: Rod Stewart and American Idol's Randy
Jackson, REVERSE OF THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO for HBO Sports,
and FORMULA ONE: THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS for CBS Sports.
 Josh
Dixon
SPACEMAN is also Josh Dixon's first feature
documentary. After reading an article about him in Sports
Illustrated, Dixon contacted Bill "Spaceman" Lee
to film Lee's next barnstorming visit to Cuba. Lee accepted
and Josh met a fellow baseball enthusiast in Brett Rapkin.
Dixon and Rapkin spent the last four years bringing his dream
to fruition. Dixon got his start at CAPPY PRODUCTIONS, working
with Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan and on NBA commercials
for TNT SPORTS. He plans to continue his career in film and
television production. He currently resides in Atlanta where
he is developing his next documentary and television concepts.
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 Starter
Pack
Charles
Mann
Charles Mann is a development economist now
pursuing a long-term interest in producing documentaries.
He is the founder of the Development Communications Workshop
that brings together development specialists and filmmakers
to produce films about important development issues.
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 Sut
Joong
Johnson
Lee
In the prophesized Orwellian year of 1984,
Johnson K. Lee was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Johnson
is an Emerson College graduate, double majoring in film and
writing. While at Emerson, he created a range of productions
from a 3D animation short I Don’t Care About Gravity
(2003), to documentaries We Live By Animation (2003), and
a short foreign language film Sut Joong (2005). He’s
taken other roles as D.P and gaffer, on student films and
for a cinematography class at Emerson. Also at Emerson, Johnson
completed a feature length screenplay, a romantic thriller
loosely based on Oedipus Rex. He now aspires to be a screenwriter.
Currently, he’s writing an apocalyptic tale in the fantasy/science-fiction
genre, while helping co-write other screenplays (from topics
on the Cuban Revolution to Brazilian martial arts). On his
“free time,” it’s mostly filled with reading
graphic novels, working on other film productions, or “cosplaying.”
Johnson is of Malaysian-Chinese descent, and currently lives
in Wellesley, MA.
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 Temporary
Spy
Ilene
Fischer
Ilene Fischer has been working in production
and the arts for over 15 years. A Chicago native, she graduated
from the Players’ Workshop of the Second City while
attending high school. Ilene managed Renegade Duck ––
Boston’s Most Sublime Improv Troupe –– and
served as a principle actor for over six years. When the troupe
moved into production with a pilot for a children’s
show, Ilene had a hand in writing, acting, producing and supervising
post production. While living in Los Angeles, Ilene wrote
several television specs as well as the full length screenplay
Girl Hopping, which was a finalist in the 2003 OUTFEST Screenwriting
Competition. In the 2004 Instant Films Open, her script Passionate
Liaison won the audience vote for best script. She was also
a familiar face in West Hollywood where she regularly performed
stand up comedy. Her production credits include several independent
short films, E! Entertainment Television and FOX Sports Net.
Currently residing in Boston, Ilene has formed Unlicensed
Poultry –– a consortium of writers, actors, musicians
and production professionals who originally produced Temporary
Spy as part of the 48 Hour Film Project. She continues to
perform improv and stand up comedy.
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 This
is Nollywood
Franco
Sacchi
Franco Sacchi is a Freelance Director/Editor/Producer.
Franco co-directed, produced, and edited American Eunuchs,
a feature length documentary aired in 2004 on the Sundance
Channel and on Channel 5 in the UK and shown at several national
and international film festivals, including the prestigious
International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA).
Franco collaborates on an ongoing basis with two news magazines
of RAI International (the international branch of Italian
Public Television) as a broadcast journalist/producer. Franco
also worked for over six years in the Department of Educational
Services at Avid Technology. Clients included ABC 20/20, ESPN,
NBC Dateline, Telemundo, RAI (Italian National Public Television),
and many others. He graduated with a degree in Political Science
from the University of Bologna and earned an M.A. in Visual
Arts from Emerson College.
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 When
The Season Is Good
Cara
Marcous
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Cara Marcous
is a film and theater producer now based in New York. She
worked for several years as the assistant to acclaimed producer
Ben Barenholtz. She has also produced several Off-Off Broadway
plays including the premiere of her own full-length play Lapse.
She is currently in post-production for Andrew Okpeaha MacLean's
short narrative film Sikumi (On the Ice), shot on the sea
ice in Barrow, Alaska this winter. Ms. Marcous is also in
development for a second film on Alaska Native artists; When
the Season is Good being the first of a five part series.
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 Wide
Awake
Alan
Berliner
Alan Berliner has an uncanny ability to combine
experimental cinema, artistic purpose, and popular appeal
in compelling film essays. His documentary films Nobody’s
Business, Intimate Stranger, and The Family Album have been
broadcast all over the world and have been honored at top
international film festivals. His film, The Sweetest Sound,
premiered to sold-out audiences at the 2001 Berlin International
Film Festival. Recipient of three Emmy Awards, Berliner has
had retrospectives of his films staged at both the Museum
of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography
in New York. In addition to his work in film, Berliner has
also produced a large body of audio/video installation work.
A native New Yorker, Berliner is currently a faculty member
at the New School for Social Research.
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 Windowbreaker
Tze
Chun
Tze Chun has directed 10 shorts and written
four feature screenplays since graduating from Columbia in
2002. His screenplay Superpink placed finalist in the Writemovies.com
competition. His other spec Is Columbia Burning? was quarterfinalist
in the 2005 Slamdance screenwriting competition. He is currently
in post-production on a 35mm short called Cold Feet, Wet Dreams,
and the Kitchen Sink, produced by Collective Act Productions
and Sasquatch Films.
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 You
Are Alone
Gorman
Bechard
Gorman Bechard directed/wrote the multiple
award-winning indie feature YOU ARE ALONE (2005), as well
as the award winning shorts OBJECTS IN THE MIRROR ARE FURTHER
THAN THEY APPEAR (2003) and THE PRETTY GIRL (2000). He also
directed the features THE KISS (2003, starring Eliza Dushku,
Terance Stamp) and the horror cult-classic PSYCHOS IN LOVE
(1986). Bechard is the author of the novels NINTH SQUARE (Forge/TOR
2002), GOOD NEIGHBORS (Carroll & Graf 1998), BALLS (NAL
1995), and THE SECOND GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (Citadel Underground
1991). His newest novel, UNWOUND, will be published in January
2007. He is currently developing two feature films, a comedy
titled FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS and an adaptation of his first
novel THE SECOND GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. He lives in New
Haven, CT.
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