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Jay Burke
Jay is an up-and-coming filmmaker from Dartmouth, MA. He earned a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University in New York City. He is the recipient of a $10,000 screenwriting award in 2005 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, for one of his feature scripts, "Whaling City". Jay recently served as Director of Photography on the basketball training series "Building a Champion," shot in Los Angeles and starring Lakers coach Phil Jackson. Most recently, he was hired as a contract content developer for Major League Baseball.
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 Betsy
Greg Swartz
Director Greg Swartz splits his time between the gilded hills of Hollywood and the coal-rich hills of his native Pennsylvania. He has been making films for more than eight years. A lifelong lover of movies, Swartz spent two weeks as a production assistant on a commercial in 1996. He was hooked. Already a professional writer, he soon found himself writing for a Comedy Central pilot that never left the gate. Swartz, however, did leave the gate and headed west to LA in 1997 with a few thousand dollars in gambling winnings and a van full of crap. In the ensuing years, Swartz has studied screenwriting at UCLA, participated in the IFP Producers Series and Writers' Program, and studied directing with renowned teacher Judith Weston. He has directed and produced a feature film, a documentary, numerous music videos, three short films and too many commercials to count.
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 The Busker
Stephen Croke
Stephen Croke was the stage manager for the Los Angeles premiere of renowned playwright Leonard Melfi's Club Hellfire. He has worked on short and feature films, among them the multiple award-winning documentary, Taking on the Kennedy's. He has worked as a story editor on the development of feature films and television for a Los Angeles management and production company. Stephen received his Master’s in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California and holds a Bachelor's degree from Fitchburg State.
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 Chapoquoit Island: A Perfect Little Piece of Cape Cod
Brendan McQuaid
Jessica Grogins
Brendan McQuaid has recently returned to his hometown of Manchester, NH after completing the digital filmmaking program at CDIA @ Boston University. After too much schooling, Brendan is finally making a career in production.
 Jessica Grogins: After spending several years in advertising and marketing, Jessica Marcus Grogins decided to take on a career in film. She is a recent graduate of the CDIA @ Boston University's digital filmmaking program. Jessica lives in Brookline with her husband Jon, they are expecting triplets this fall.
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 The Crib
Justin Dittrich
Justin Dittrich just graduated from the Peter Stark Graduate Producing Program at the University of California School of Cinema-Television. At Stark I made The Crib, as well as a few other short films. I work at a film finance company in Beverly Hills called Magus Entertainment, and I also plan to continue to write and direct short films.
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 Divine of the Maddening
Arthur C. Smith III
Art C. Smith has spent the past two and a half years living remotely with his partner as a two-person filmmaking team on the North Slope of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (A.N.W.R.). Smith has formed an online educational initiative, the Aurora Education Project, using digital cameras, mobile editing and satellite conferencing gear to upload images, video, audio and commentary to bring awareness to the climatic changes taking place inside A.N.W.R. Smith will screen segments of his upcoming documentary feature, DIVINE OF THE MADDENING, and share how he has been able to adapt to and become accepted as part of the surroundings by wildlife in order to bring the message of A.N.W.R. to the public.
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 Funny Things
Theseus Roche
Born into a family of actors and performers in New York City, Theseus holds a BFA from the conservatory of Theater Arts/Film at SUNY Purchase, where he began his collaborations with cinematographer Paul Echeverria, art director Christine Darch, and costars Alan McCullough and Kovar McClure. Theseus has written several feature screenplays, short plays and a television pilot. He is the founder and director of the Manhattan Youth Players, a teenage theater troupe, for whom he has directed an original musical, two full-length plays by Shakespeare and one by Shaw. He also started a teen filmmaking program in Lower Manhattan, and convinced the Tribeca Film Festival to create a Downtown Youth Behind the Camera screening series, in which his students’ films have been prominently shown for the past two years. Presently, Theseus is working on a feature script entitled Shadows, a comedy about living and loving in New York City after the World Trade Center.
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 A Host of Daffodils
Jane Clark
Jane Clark began her career in New York City, building a solid stage resume before coming to Los Angeles and landing a recurring role on "Chicago Hope". During that stint, she also starred in independent features such as the comedy/drama, Naked with Loons (2000) written and directed by Nicholl Fellowship Finalist, Bryan Snyder. In 2002, she turned her pursuits to directing and producing, and attended Sundance Producer's Conference. She directed her first short film, "Dog Gone," in the fall of that year, in which she also starred. "Dog Gone," a 30-minute feature about a couple's search for their stolen pet dog was one of the "program director's pics" at the 2003 Wood's Hole Film Festival in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and played to enthusiastic crowds at several festivals throughout the year. Jane has now just completed her second short, " A Host of Daffodils" which she wrote, produced and directed. The film is based on her experience last September 2003 when her father suffered a stroke. Clark is now partnered with Bob Tourtellotte in FilmMcQueen. She has several feature film projects in development including "Angels Tread" a romantic and supernatural drama in which love transcends time, which she wrote and "Cynara," a script written by Nicole Conn and brought to Clark to direct by producer Victoria Alonso. It tells of a young woman in the 1930s discovering her sexuality.
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 Hot Lunch
Rory Kindersley
Rory Kindersley started out working as a runner for Warner Brothers before attending the New York Film Academy and graduating from their advanced directors programme in 2001. He has worked on a number of commercials and directed five short films. 'Hot Lunch' is his first feature. He has also just finished writing a feature length horror script set in New England called 'Butcher's Hill'. The film is now in pre-production. Rory lives and works in London.
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 I Rob Banks for the Money
Michael Humphrey
Michael Humphrey is currently finishing up an undergraduate film degree from Emerson College (Boston, MA) by participating in the school's Los Angeles program this fall. After he graduates in December, Mike hopes to pursue a career in film and post-production in the Los Angeles area. His Sophomore Film I project, "Mr. James and the Plug of Mystery", was shown at the 2004 Woods Hole Film Festival, and was the first public screening of any of his films.
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 Iris
Adrian S. Muys
The son of Austrian born artist Nina Muys and a Dutch born father Aat Muys, Adrian grew up in the Washington D.C. suburb Silver Spring, MD. After graduating from Fordham University on a baseball scholarship in 1998, Adrian began a banking career with JP Morgan Chase Inc. in New York City. While living and working as an ex-patriot in London, England Adrian’s interest in film grew and could no longer be ignored, so he decided to leave the banking industry and returned to the United States. Settling in the Eastern Shore crabbing town Taylors Island, Md, Adrian wrote, directed and produced a series of short films based on the Chesapeake Bay way of life that surrounded him titled Bloodsworth, which he subsequently financed by liquidating his 401K plan from JP Morgan Chase Inc. His short film Iris is a selection from the Bloodsworth series.
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 Life After Leukemia
Ben Oliver
Benjamin Oliver studied filmmaking at
the Vancouver Film School. "I like to make films about everyday people doing everday things. The challenge with that is making it interesting there is meaning in most things we do, it's just finding that, that is the difficult part." Ben works as a film editor in Boston, editing the various short films and documentaries that come his way.
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 A Life in the Day
Paul Marashlian
Paul Marashlian studied filmmaking at Cornell University and UCLA. His directorial debut MERRY CHRISTMAS which is based on a John Cheever story, won 2001 SKYY Vodka short film award, was featured in American Cinematographer magazine, and aired on Sundance Channel. Paul's follow-up effort A LIFE IN THE DAY is now screening on the international festival circuit while he writes/develops feature projects at home and abroad.
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 Live at Five
Averie Storck
Averie Storck is a director and screenwriter currently completing her M.F.A. in film at Columbia University. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English Literature, she worked in the magazine industry in New York, as a reporter for People magazine and as a research editor for Premiere and Vogue. She went on to write questions for the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Since 1998, she has studied long-form comedy improvisation, which she performs in New York. Her comedy screenplay Eggs was chosen as a 2004 Faculty Selects Screenplay of the Columbia University Film Festival Screenplay Competition. Her short film Live at Five was awarded the prestigious New Line Cinema Development Award in 2004, and was awarded Honors by the Columbia Film Division Faculty in 2005. She is represented by LA-based manager Jeffrey Graup of Graup Entertainment.
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 Living with Slim: Kids Talk About HIV/AIDS
Sam Kauffmann
Sam Kauffmann is a professor of film at Boston University. He recently returned from Uganda where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is the author of one of the most popular editing guidebooks, Avid Editing: A Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Users, from Focal Press. His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and aired on network television, PBS, and local stations throughout America.
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 Matzo and Mistletoe
Kate Feiffer
Kate Feiffer has lived on Martha’s Vineyard since 1998. A former Boston-based television producer, she began working on Matzo & Mistletoe five years ago. She has written for numerous regional magazines and her commentaries have aired on WCAI and NPR. Her first children’s book DOUBLE PINK will be is bookstores this fall. Cape Cod Life magazine recently named Kate one of the 400 people who brighten our lives.
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 Misery Takes a Holiday
Erin Anguish
Erin Anguish is the producer of "The Lady Red Trio," of which "Misery Takes A Holiday" is the third of three parts. Ms. Anguish is also co-producer at David Sutherland Productions in Boston, where she is working on the upcoming PBS documentary "Country Boys." Ms. Anguish is a graduate of Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. In addition to her role as producer of "The Lady Red Trio", Ms. Anguish also serves as art director, sound recordist, and plays the title character.
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 Missing in America
Gabrielle Savage Dockterman
Nancy Babin
An award-winning producer, director, writer, and editor, Gabrielle Savage Dockterman is the founder and president of Angel Devil Productions, Inc., where she creates moving, gripping films that enlighten. Prior to developing feature films, Gabrielle produced and directed many award-winning educational interactive media projects. Her specialty is creating engaging stories that provide a context for learning. Her critically acclaimed CD-ROMs and videodiscs are used in thousands of classrooms and dozens of museums around the world. Her work has been funded by major grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and numerous museums, corporations, and publishers.
 Nancy Babine graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in Social Work. After working as a counselor for the South Shore Community Health Center and for Planned Parenthood she decided to pursue a career in sales and marketing, and joined Sterling Drug Company. During her tenure she received the Territory Manager of the Year award for three consecutive years. In her fourth year she was awarded the Northeast Region Salesperson of the Year commendation. In 1996, after having spent several years at home with her children, Nancy began her writing career. Nancy is a co-writer of the feature film Missing In America.
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 Motel
JOE CREAMER
JASON ALBERTS
Jay Alberts and Joe Creamer began their adventure as two musicians in the well known New York band, Eight. During a short hiatus from the band the two have entered into field of music production and songwriting. While working on their latest music project the two began living at a small motel on the south shore of Long Island. It was there they were inspired to make the raw and unconventional short film that is, ”Motel.”
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 Mutual Appreciation
Andrew Bujalski
Bujalski, who grew up in the Boston area, graduated in film from Harvard in 1998. There he had studied with the documentarian Robb Moss, Belgian director Chantal Akerman and Yugoslavian filmmaker Dusan Makavejev. Bujalski’s combination of documentary and offbeat styles appeared in his early student work "Philosophy of the World," in which the filmmaker mixed into an off-handed romance a severed head and a discussion of Schroedinger’s cat. After college, Bujalski moved away from Boston to Austin, Texas, to write "Funny Ha Ha," which was inspired by people he knew. The main character, Marnie, was written for the actress who played her, Kate Dollenmayer, a close college friend who had also moved to Austin from Cambridge after graduation. Overall Bujalski steered clear of actual actors, casting instead friends and acquaintances he knew well enough personally, and he shaped the characters to fit the actors who played them.
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 #2 Pencil
Joseph Gatto
Joseph Gatto was born and raised in Arlington, MA. After winning awards on the West Coast film fest circuit with shorts such as Anti-Christ Kitten, he returned to Boston to make his feature debut, Overserved. An in-your-face comedy shot on high definition video, Overserved quickly found an enthusiastic audience. The gritty and hilarious portrayal of the battle between down and dirty barkeeps and corporate stiffs played to 1,000 people during its two-night premiere and won awards at Houston’s Laugh is Hope Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, and the Long Beach Comedy and Film Festival. In between accepting awards, Gatto directed his next project, a music video for the Average White Boyz and their uproarious song, Keg Party, which played at the Midnight Chimes End of Summer Shorts Fest in August 2004. Gatto signed a distribution contract for Overserved in Fall 2004 and went on to write and direct #2 Pencil. He and writing partner, Todd Gorrell, have just finished a new feature comedy, Mini-Balls, and Gatto is working on a feature thriller, Conundrum.
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 Ocean Front Property
Joe Scott
Joe Scott is an accomplished screenwriter with 15 screenplays to his name. He has had several short film screenplays produced and one indie feature. He has written and directed commercials, music videos, and the short films One Cigarette; My Roommate, The Psycho - which received foreign distribution - and Nine Minutes. His shorts have appeared in numerous film festivals as well as online. An experienced editor, Joe has edited all of his own projects, as well as dozens of commercials and music videos. Recently, he has edited a series of documentaries on horse ranches that airs nationally on a satellite network. Joe also brings to this project his experience in theater and in front of the camera. Joe has two follow-up projects in the works, A Night at the Baker, a documentary about a haunted hotel, already in production, and I Think I Do, a comedy that is now in development.
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 Other People's Pictures
Cabot Philbrick
Lorca Shepperd
Cabot Philbrick has produced and edited several documentary shorts for non-profit organizations, including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. His recent work as a freelance editor includes an independent feature film, New Guy, directed by Bilge Ebiri and documentary television projects for venues such as The Learning Channel and Discovery Health. Cabot directed and produced the documentary Harry Devlin: An Artist's Odyssey, which won the First Place Gold Camera Award at the 1995 US International Film and Video Festival and is in distribution with the Cinema Guild. He holds a Master¹s of Fine Arts in Film from Syracuse University.
Lorca Shepperd works in the New York City area as a freelance documentary producer and cameraperson. She has produced and shot documentary television programs for broadcast venues including The Learning Channel, Discovery Health, A&E, BET and MSNBC. She has also shot and produced several documentary shorts for non-profit organizations such as the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and has worked with UNICEF as a producer and scriptwriter on videos highlighting international children¹s health issues. She holds a Master¹s in Cinema Studies from New York University.
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 Packrat
Kris Britt Montag
Kris Britt Montag has been working as a freelancer in the film and internet industries in Boston since 1998. She received a Master of Arts degree with a concentration in independent documentary video from Emerson College in 2003. "Packrat" is Kris' directorial debut.
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 Pearl Diver
Sydney King
Sidney King graduated in 2000 from Goshen College (Goshen, Ind.), where he studied German and music performance. In 2001 he wrote, produced, and directed "A Shroud for a Journey," an award-winning historical documentary about the disappearance of a student from Goshen College. He pursued graduate studies in folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before writing, directing, and producing "Pearl Diver." In April "Pearl Diver" won Best Feature and Grand Jury prizes at the East Lansing Film Festival and Indianapolis International Film Festival, respectively, and recently won Best Narrative Feature at the Winnipeg International Film Festival. "Pearl Diver" is his first feature film.
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 Perfumed Nightmare
& Turumba
Kidlat Tahimik
Kidlat Tahimik, whose real name is Eric de Guia (Kidlat Tahimik means "quiet lightning" in Tagalog and is also the name of his first son), grew up "eating French fries and burgers" in Baguio, The Philippines. (Baguio is a summer resort, influenced by American culture from longstanding U.S. bases.) A restless and ambitious person with an idiosyncratic and sometimes mystical vision, he began this, his first film, more or less by accident. He had come to Europe to sell Filipino-made trinkets, but a typhoon delayed the shipment. (Some of this history was later reworked in a later film, Turumba.) Stranded, he made some contacts with filmmakers, including Werner Herzog. On $10,000, using outdated film stock, found and stock footage, and donated in-kind resources through Herzog's network, he spent years simultaneously making this film and learning how to make film. The film was released in the U.S. through Francis Coppola's now-defunct studio Zoetrope (again, through Herzog's connections, with Coppola's producer Tom Luddy). Tahimik returned to the Philippines, but lives an international life. His later films are in some ways simpler than his earlier ones, which depend for their effect on elaborate pastiche. He has been working on a film called Memories of Overdevelopment (a takeoff on Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment) since 1983. It is to be the story of the first man to voyage around the world--not Magellan, but one of his slaves, bought in the Philippines.
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 Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Chris Metzler
Jeff Springer
Chris Metzler: After graduating from USC with a degree in business and cinema, Chris' film career has taken him from the depths of agency work, to coordinating post-production for awful American movies seen late at night in Belgium. His film directing and producing work has resulted in frequent partnerships with Jeff Springer, where together they've criss-crossed the country with the aid of caffeinated beverages and made their way in the Nashville country and Christian music video industries, before finally forsaking their souls to commercial LA rock n' roll. These misadventures eventually culminated in them winning a Billboard Magazine Music Video Award. Chris now finds himself pursuing docs featuring gay truck drivers and Australian opal miners.
Jeff Springer was born in a virtually abandoned town in the California desert, raised in Hawaii, and educated at USC Film School. After living for a winter in Russia, he returned to Los Angeles to begin directing music videos, shorts, and editing for UPN, Fox, Geffen Records, and Lucasfilm. Burned out and hung over, he eventually fled to San Francisco to start work on PLAGUES & PLEASURES, while still driving to Los Angeles to edit WWF and Moesha promos to pay the bills. He now lives somewhere between San Francisco and Berlin. "Plagues & Pleasures" is their first feature documentary for which they have won the Robert Altman Award and the BAVC Videomaker Award.
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 Profiles in Aspiration
Andrew Silver
Andrew is a Producer and Director with long experience nurturing performance and creativity in teams of film and television professionals. He has developed extensive contacts and experience in international ventures and co-productions working around the world. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Board member of the Coolidge Corner Theater, one of America's most sucessful independent theater complexes. Author of "A Film Director's Approach To Managing Creativity" for Harvard Business Review and HBS Press book, Breakthrough Thinking Member of the Advisory Board of the MIT Museum Member of the Council for the Arts at MIT DBA from Harvard Business School Masters of Science, Sloan School of Management at MIT
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 The Reader
Duncan M. Rogers
Duncan M. Rogers founded Freshwater Films, LLC in the summer of 2002. His first effort, a super 16mm short film called "The Ables House is Green" opened the Vermont International Film Festival in the fall of 2003. The second film from the company was another short film," The Reader," this time shot on 35mm and starring Tony Award winning actress Elizabeth Franz and newcomer Morgan Hallett. "Bust" marks the third short narrative film that Mr. Rogers has directed and it stars Dan Lauria (best know as Fred Savage’s father on The Wonder Years), Dana Benningfield (author and producer of the piece) and Philip Lynch. It also marks the third time that director Rogers and cinematographer Chris Freilich have worked together, an artistic relationship of mutual admiration and success. Mr. Rogers and Mr. Freilich are working towards shooting a feature film called "Ball of Roses" written by Adrian Bewley. With the help of Alec Baldwin and Dan Lauria the script is finding its way into some very friendly hands. Also in the works are a series of micro shorts utilizing the new HD technology.
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 Refuge
John Halpern
Born John Di Leva in Brooklyn, New York, USA, in 1954, John Halpern directed and produced the well known documentary Joseph Beuys/Transformer. A strikingly personal and rare portrait of the German sculptor and an unusual use of pre-digital effects as television sculpture, Transformer is in the collections of most major museums around the world and it has been broadcast internationally. Halpern's work as an international filmmaker and media sculptor spans 20 years and is documented with many award winning news reports of his public art events. In addition to several memorable installations in New York, many of these events occurred throughout Europe between 1980 and 1999. Halpern uses media as an empowering devise for individual and social creativity. Refuge, his most recent media project, portrays a contemporary history of Buddhism and a cross-cultural picture of mind from an East/West Buddhist point of view. Bridging was Halpern's first large scale media sculpture. Executed on the tops of New York City's 7 largest bridges in collaboration with about 100 artists in 1977, the project?s goal was to prevent terrorism from dominating media for one day. Bridging won the Best News Of The Year Award for WABC's Eyewitness News, that year. In 1988, with Smoke Sculpture, Halpern engaged 1000 Europeans in sending cigarette smoke to cigarette factories. In 1989 for Breathscuplture, he lived in a sealed glass container in Holland for 10 days breathing once per minute with 10,000 green plants. This event dominated the media for over two weeks. With Fresh Air, Halpern?s mobile glass houses, more than 50,000 people breathed interactively with plants in Europe and the USA . Fresh Air was seen in national news all over the world and was the symbol for a huge and successful environmental PR campaign for the Clean Air Act in 1990. Halpern is presently creating a new film about anger from a world-wide perspective. Halpern lives and works in New York after having resided for 15 years in Europe.
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 Rules of Love
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 for his cousin Francis (“Godfather III”), and for three years chief radio drama writer at the BBC World Service in London (“Crisis” and “Mazen”). His short “Rules of Love” was shot in Los Angeles, came top ten in the Turner Classic Shorts Section of the London Film Festival, won Best Short at the Alaska Panhandle Film Festival, the Silver Open Award at the Cotswold Film Festival, Best of the Fest at the Manchester Short Film Festival, and Film of the Day at the Int’l Festival do Algarve in Portugal. It is distributed by Britshorts (in the UK) and Amaze Films (in the USA). His short “Stuff That Bear!” was shot in Bucharest, Romania. As Winner of the Kodak European Showcase for New Talent, it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2003. Since then, the film has played at more than 65 festivals in 12 countries, winning 15 awards including Best Director (twice), Best Cinematography (twice, including Woods Hole in 2004), Best Actress, and Best Short Film six times. His 82-minute film “Unknown Things” stars Saskia Reeves, Paul Rhys and David Hayman. It was shot by Ken Westbury (“Pennies From Heaven” and “The Singing Detective”) and edited by Tariq Anwar (“The Madness of George III”and “American Beauty”). It was selected by Mike Newell for his Berlin Masterclass, and his feature script “Madhouse Nudes” was chosen by IFFCON as one of the top 40 most promising independent feature projects in the world. Bruno lives in London.
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 Smell the Light
Adam Linn
Jim Phinney
Adam Linn (left): After graduating from Harvard, Adam moved to California where as an actor he appeared in both plays and television. In 2001, he moved to New York to pursue his goal of becoming a filmmaker. While studying screenwriting and film at NYU, Adam appeared in MY BLIND BROTHER, a finalist at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, and the HBO hit series SEX AND THE CITY. He also worked as an actor and technical consultant on STAY starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor and directed by Academy-Award nominee Marc Forster (FINDING NEVERLAND). On the set, Adam worked with Forster to help develop a blind character played by Bob Hoskins.
Jim Phinney (right): As a member of Duke University’s prestigious drama department, Jim starred in numerous productions including ASSASSINS, OUR TOWN and NOISES OFF! After graduation, he taught acting, directed plays and continued his own training with the Chautauqua Conservatory Theatre Company. In 1997, Jim moved to New York where he pursued a graduate degree in drama and psychology. While studying at NYU, Jim turned his attention to film and created a series of experimental and narrative shorts. In 2004, Adam and Jim met through an event at HBO Films and shortly thereafter they founded Good Look Productions. The short film, SMELL THE LIGHT, was completed in 2005. They are currently working on their feature project, ANONYMOUS SEX.
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 Spaghetti and Matzo Balls
Dave Lewis
Jean-Paul Ouellette
Dave Lewis graduated from Tufts University in 1981 and in 1983 founded a real estate development company, Maven Management. A lifetime cinefile, Mr Lewis founded Maven Productions LLC in 2001. Since that time, he has produced 3 features and 2 shorts. The features "Everyone's Got One" (which he acted in as well as produced) was awarded "The Boston Society of Film Critics Best Comedy for 2003" and distributed by Film Threat and "Overserved," shot in HD, has won awards including "Best Feature Film" at the Boston Comedy Festival in 2003. The short "The Messenger," for the 48 Hour Film Festival was awarded "Best Cinematography." Fulfilling a growing desire to be involved in the creative end of filmmaking Mr Lewis wrote and directed his first 35mm project, "Spaghetti and Matzo Balls." Mr Lewis also cast all of the over 100 roles for this elaborate production that shot for 10 days in August of 2004.
 Boston-born JP Ouellette began making films at age fourteen and pursued it professionally, apprenticing to Russ Meyer and Orson Welles. Mr. Ouellette directed the second unit action sequences for James Cameron's "The Terminator" and produced and directed two cult horror films: "The Unnamable" and "The Unnamable Returns," horror movies adapted from stories by H. P. Lovecraft. He has produced European television in the U.S. and directed industrials projects for corporations like GE Aircraft Engines and Gorton's of Gloucester. He is currently working with director Bruno Copolla developing the third "Unnamable" film. "Spaghetti and Matzo Balls" is his third collaboration with Dave Lewis and together they look forward to a long and creative relationship.
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 Speed for Thespians
Jamie Harris
Jamie Harris has inhabited a wide range of characters in an acting career that has taken him from the stage to television and motion pictures. Mr. Harris has recently completed work on the upcoming Terrence Malick film, "The New World" opposite Colin Farrell, Christian Bale and Christopher Plumber. "Lemony Snickets: A Series of Unfortunate Events" with Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep and Curtiss Clayton's "Rick". His film credits also include a leading role in the feature film "Fast Food, Fast Women", "Made"" opposite Vince Vaughn and directed by Jon Favreau: "Dinner Rush", starring opposite Sandra Bernhard and Danny Aiello; "Nancy and Frank" starring Robert Wagner; "Bridget", "The Next Big Thing"; and two A&E telefilms, "The Lost Battalion" starring Rick Schroeder, and "The Heist" starring Donald Sutherland and John Heard. Jamie also completed a lead role in an internet short film directed by Oscar winner Ang Lee and starred in "Speed for Thespians", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2002. Among Mr. Harris' other films are "Princess Caraboo", "The Rachel Papers", "House Arrest", and "In The Name Of The Father". His extensive theater credits include "Dealer's choice" at the Manhattan Theater Club, which received the Drama Critic's Award, "Bare Necessities, Breaking The Code". Also "Some Voices and Comedians" for Scott Elliot's New Group Theatre Company. He has appeared on television in starring roles in "La Femme Nikita" and "Highlander". Harris comes from one of Britain's most prolific artistic families. He is the son of renowned British actor Richard Harris, and the brother of actor Jared Harris and director Damian Harris.
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 Stay Until Tomorrow
Laura Colella
Laura Colella was one of the Sundance Institute's eight Directing Fellows for 2000. She spent five weeks at their Directing and Screenwriting Labs, workshopping her screenplay for "Stay Until Tomorrow". For the film's production, the Sundance Institute arranged for donations of a 35MM camera, film stock, lab services, titles package, and editing software. Laura's first feature, "Tax Day" (1998, 16MM) appeared in numerous festivals and venues, winning awards such as the Breakthrough Award, Best Narrative, and Best First Feature. Her short film Statuary (1995, 16MM) has been screened at over fifty venues internationally. For Statuary, Laura received ten festival awards, such as Most Promising Filmmaker and the Eastman Kodak Best Experimental Film Award. Laura is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, and two films she made as an undergraduate also played at over a dozen festivals, winning a handful of awards. Laura has received grants and fellowships from The New England Foundation for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, Harvard University, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She is based in Providence, RI, and teaches Film Production part time at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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 Swing
Chip Moore
Chip Moore is a fimmaker and computer programmer. A current tech-bust casualty, he is experimenting with ways of combining dance and animation. He is a member of the screening committee for the Woods Hole Film Festival and a projectionist at the festival. He now lives in Arlington, MA, but resided on Quissett Ave. and High St. in Woods Hole for 25 years. In the early 1980's he danced with Falmouth's Summer Dance Theater.
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 Thug
Geva Patz
Geva Patz is a Boston-based filmmaker. His previous short film, "Cog" won the New England Emerging Filmmaker Award at the 2003 Woods Hole Film Festival.
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 Top of the World
Bill Kern
Bill Kern (Producer, Director, Photographer, and Editor) recently completed TOP OF THE WORLD, a feature length chronicle of his adventures while trekking in Nepal. His other films include: THE SECOND TYPE, narrated by Bill Cosby, about a young woman with cerebral palsy who struggles to maintain her independence, and THE RUNNING NUN, (Script Development) based on the true story of a 54-year-old Dominican Nun, who qualifies for the Woman's Olympic Marathon Team. His still photography portfolio includes landscapes, horticulture studies, and animal portraiture. -I spend a great deal of time outdoors. My camera connects me with the people I meet along the way and allows me to simply stop and consider nature-. He resides in New York City and aboard his vintage sloop- Auershak, on Buzzards Bay.
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 Touching the Game: The Story of the Cape Cod Baseball League
Jim Carroll
Eric Scharmer
Jim Carroll began his career in television at New England Sports Network in Boston. He worked at NESN for 12 years first on Red Sox and Bruins telecasts and later as feature producer for the award-winning magazine show Front Row. Jim produced several sports documentaries including Fenway: A Day in the Life and Ringmasters: Pro Wrestling in New England. In 2001 Jim left NESN and started his own production company Fields of Vision along with former Red Sox producer Peter Frechette, Over the past four years, he has continued his string of producing, writing and editing sports documentaries such as 75 years of Providence College Basketball and Celebrating 100 years of Harvard Stadium. In 2003 Jim ventured away from the sports arena and produced The Nobska, a feature length documentary on the famous New England steamboat.That same summer he also began his most ambitious project by spending a season documenting the Cape Cod Baseball League.
 In 1988, Eric Scharmer spent the first of many summers on Cape Cod working as a diver on the exploration of the pirate ship Whydah, off the coast of Wellfleet. It opened the door to his career as an outdoor/adventure photographer. He worked as an AC on underwater-related projects for the Discovery Channel, many were part of the legendary Shark Week Series. The next decade Scharmer lived in Vail, Colorado, skiing on the Pro Mogul Tour during the winter and diving and filming during the summer. He made a number of ski-related films including two pioneering trips above the Arctic Circle. In the late 1990’s Eric settled back in Boston, becoming a staple at NESN, producing and shooting outdoor and adventure shows in addition to the hometown pro teams, garnering awards and accolades in the process. In 2001, Scharmer and long time Vail friend Anthony Keel founded Eye Candy Cinema, a Boston-based production company which specializes in outdoor film and television as well as institutional projects. 2003 and 2004, however, were definitely “baseball years,” with principal photography contributions to Still We Believe, The Boston Red Sox Movie, and complete immersion into the world of the Cape Cod Baseball League with Touching the Game.
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 Unspoken
Temah Nelson
Temah Nelson is a freelance animator and illustrator whose work in the industry dates back to the early 1990s. Her films include Bug Juice, Cat's Cradle, and Inkline. She has created content for video, the web, and CD-ROMs, animating interactive children's books. She received her bachelor's degree from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and her masters in experimental animation from California Institute of the Arts.
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 Visioning Tibet
Isaac Solotaroff
Isaac Solotaroff is an award-winning producer, director and editor. He was co-producer, co-director and editor of his first film, Jews and Buddhism: Belief Amended, Faith Revealed. Narrated by Sharon Stone, the film was chosen “one of the outstanding documentaries of 1999” by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The film was shown at over 30 international film festivals and screened on PBS in 2000. Solotaroff was co-producer and editor of Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar, which was nominated for a “best biography” Emmy in 2001 and broadcast nationally on PBS. He has also edited several award-winning documentaries including, Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (HBO Best Documentary Awards, Urban World Film Festival) and Smokestack Lightening (Best Documentary, Memphis Film Festival)
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 Waiting for Ronald
Ellen Gerstein
Ellen wrote, produced and directed a short film (22 minutes) 35 mm, titled WAITING FOR RONALD. A 34 year old mentally challenged man leaves the institution where he has spent most of his years, and becomes an every day hero, as he takes his suitcase, fears , anxiety and humor to meet the new life that awaits him. Ellen was risk taking in her casting, she cast mentally challenged actors and well as non-challenged and had a most incredible blend. The very talented Bruno Kirby plays their counselor. Ellen co-wrote and co-produced and starred in a short film, SILENT LAUGHTER, out of the AFI Women’s Directing Workshop. MY PSYCHOHTERAPY COMEBACK TOUR was written, produced and directed by Ellen. Ellen starred in her one woman show which won semi-finalist in the Samuel French short play festival. She performed the show in LA as well as at the Harold Clurman theater in New York. The award wining interactive play CLUB DISCO was co-written, co-produced, co-directed and acted in by Ellen. This stage play ran eight months to rave reviews and will be having a grand opening in Las Vegas soon. Ellen has been an actress for many years, her acting work ranges from the part of Jane Deacy, James dean’s agent I the TNT movie, JAMES DEAN. Cuba Gooding’s landlord in the film MURDER OF CROWS, as well as Sofie, the homeless woman in ANNIE (the MOW, with Kathy Bates. She has played Aunt Lisa in FRIENDS. Ellen has acted in produced and directed theater in LA. Ellen studied Acting with Lee Strasberg, and Script analysis with Stella Adler, she is a member of the Actors Studio. At present Ellen is writing her feature script, CUSTODY OF CONNIE, that her short film WAITING FOR RONALD represents. Also, Ellen is presently shooting her mockumentary, I WONDER WHERE JEANNEE SEBEL IS, based on her one woman show, MY PSYCHOHTERAPY COMEBACK TOUR.
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 The Wayfarers
Todd Norwood
Todd Norwood has been filming since he was a kid. Murder mysteries, Monty Python stories, and of course, Weird 'Al music videos. He studied film at Emerson College then graduated from the Advance Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA. He's also read scripts for Ricochet Entertainment, located on the Sony Pictures lot. His short film, "Jack Milton: Fairy Tale Detective" won Best Story Line Award and Best Achievement in Creativity at the Boston International Film Festival. The film was also accepted to The San Francisco International Film Festival, the Annapolis Film Festival, and the SNOB film festival.
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