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Attending Filmmakers 2007

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.
 

2000 Man  
Marc Leitzel

Marc Leitzel is an aspiring young filmmaker, animator, and painter who makes his home in Mashpee, Mass.

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41
Christian de Rezendes

Christian de Rezendes has directed, produced, photographed and edited award-winning films since the mid 1990s, including "Alzira's Story," "Getting Out of Rhode Island" and most recently "41" (as Co-Director and Editor). He has also photographed and edited numerous features, shorts and docs in collaboration with other New England and New York-based filmmakers. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY, is recently happily married and is currently developing new projects under his company name Breaking Branches Pictures.

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An American Opera 
Tom McPhee

Tom McPhee is making his feature directorial debut with his documentary “An American Opera”. Tom has been involved in the film, event, multimedia, and television industries for more than 15 years, creating, producing and directing television shows, running Flixtour film festival tour on college campus’s around the country, and producing independent feature films, as well as being the director of the 1998 Detroit and Windsor International Festival of Film. Tom has just launched "World CineFest" - a world class film festival and industry event to take place every November beginning in 2008.

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Authorized Biography of Crazy Horse 
Bill Matson

Bill Matson has spent the last six years of his life working with members of the Crazy Horse family in the telling of their oral history. He has recorded over 100 hours of footage of their oral history, the animals and scenery that surround their oral history, and the sites that were important to Crazy Horse and his family members. Prior to that time he was a producer of independent and documentary films. He is originally from Seattle, spent 15 years living in Portland, Or and now spends half his time in South Dakota and the other at his editing suite in San Jose, Ca.

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Beyond Belief
Beth Murphy

As the founder of Principle Pictures, Beth Murphy has contributed programming to The History Channel, Discovery Channel, Lifetime Television, PBS and numerous international outlets. For her work on BEYOND BELIEF, she was honored with the One Shared World International Outreach Award from American Women in Radio and Television. Murphy is also an author (Fighting For Our Future, McGraw Hill), contributing author (Open My Eyes Open My Soul, McGraw Hill) and adjunct university professor at Suffolk University and American University Paris. Prior to her film work, Murphy worked as a television and radio news reporter and anchor. She earned a B.A. in History from the University of Connecticut, an M.A. in International Relations and International Communications from Boston University, and also studied documentary filmmaking at the George Washington University Documentary Center. Murphy lives in North Falmouth, MA with her husband, Dennis, and serves on the board of the International Institute of Boston, an organization that helps immigrants and refugees.

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Big Movie Trailer
Jeff Stern

Jeff Stern is a filmmaker and screenwriter whose work has screened at the Olympia Film Festival, Ivy Film Festival, F4 Film Festival, and Boston Underground Film Fest, among others. He is the co-producer and host of Open Screen, a monthly forum for independent, underground films held at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA. He is currently at work on The Romantic Possibilities, a feature film for which he received an LEF production grant. He works at Bentley College, where he teaches Video Production. Jeff writes Haiku Movie Reviews for Asthmatic Kitty Records.

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Bleeding Shutter  
Brenna Bates

Brenna has her Associates in Broadcasting and is currently a semester away from finishing up her BA in Digital Media Production at The New England Institute of Art. In between degrees she became a hair coloring specialist and has found color theory to be extremely important when directing an entire shoot, or a single shot. She has been fortunate to hold internships with Fox, NECN, and the WB. Although young her ambition is endless as she is trying to make her way up to become a great producer.

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Blood of the Earthworm 
Britta Gravely

Brittany Gravely focuses primarily on 16mm film, but occasionally works with sound, video, installation, and the second dimension. She received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Her previous film, for which she also was the writer, director, camera, editor and sound designer, Introduction To Living In A Closed System, has been shown at the New York Film Festival, Images Festival in Canada, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the New York Underground, among other venues. She received a grant from the LEF Foundation to make Blood of the Earthworm, completed in the fall of 2006. She lives in Boston and works for Documentary Educational Resources, an educational video and film distributor.

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Bomb 
Paul Schuyler

PAUL SCHUYLER is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts in NY. He spent 15 years in Los Angeles working as a director on numerous shorts and music videos, and the feature film WASTED, which he also wrote and co-produced. After completing production on his two greatest works: sons Quinn and Shaw, he returned to the East Coast with his producing partner and wife, JADE RUTANEN. Together they run the movie-themed Box Office Café in South Chatham, Cape Cod (www.theboxofficecafe.com); and their production company: wytshark_media (www.wytshark.com). BOMB marks their first "official" East Coast production. They plan to shoot a feature in the fall.

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Cause For Alarm 
Stuart Valberg

Stuart Valberg is a recent graduate of the Film Drama program at Syracuse University. His most recent work, which was completed as a senior thesis, is Cause for Alarm... a documentary exploring the news media, and its tendency to favor sensationalism over potentially less interesting issues of fact. Other work of his, also completed for the University, has been accepted and screened at the Beijing Student Film Festival in China and the International Syracuse Film Festival where it was nominated for best Central New York film. In the summer of 2006 he attended a documentary workshop in Prague at FAMU, the Czech Republic's premier film school, and is currently living outside of Boston working for the Showtime network in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Christine.1403 
Erica Berg

Christine. 1403. is director/performer Erica Berg's first short film. Her original works for theatre have been performed and commissioned in NYC, New Mexico and Edinburgh. Her solo piece on Joan of Arc was called "an exquisite work of art" and "stunning" by the NY Times. She went to NYU, and can be seen in "Little Childen", "The Savages", and upcoming "Trainwreck" and Charlie Kaufman's "Syncdoche". Her performance in "Christine. 1403." was awarded Best Actress at the BAC Film Fest at the Brooklyn Museum.

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Combustible Russ  
Alecia Jean Orsini

Alecia Jean Orsini, born and raised in Mass. to very artistic parents, has always known she would work in the film world. She spent much of Middle School and High School working with the local cable station, then decided to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga. She Graduated in 2006 with a BFA in Film and Television. She is currently living in MA with her Fiancé Scott Lebeda (SCAD BFA Film&TV 2005). They have both just finished filming a Feature Length Independent Film on Cape Cod and are making plans to be married in 2008.

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Dhamma Brothers 
Jenny Phillips

Jenny Phillips works in state and county prisons, teaching courses on emotional literacy skills for The Lionheart Foundation, holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology, and is an author and practicing psychotherapist. For ten years, she has worked in the mental health department at a large medical center in Concord, Massachusetts.

Andrew Kukura

Andrew Kukura is a director, producer, writer and editor at Northern Light Productions in Boston. His production credits include directing, producing, and editing two programs for the Missouri Historical Society’s Lewis and Clark National Bicentennial Exhibit, as well as editing a series of programs on Hidden Children for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.

Anne Marie Stein

Anne Marie Stein is Assoc. Dean of Professional and Continuing Education at the Massachusetts College of Art.  From 2001-05, she was Director of Development for Northern Light Productions, a documentary film production company, where she oversaw business development and also worked on a number of projects. She has served on national granting committees and panels, served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the national coalition for media arts organizations, NAMAC, for seven years, was a co-founder of the Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema and co-director for many years of the New England Film & Video Festival. 

Bestor Cram

Bestor Cram has over twenty years of experience as a director, producer and cinematographer. He founded Northern Light Productions in 1982, and has built it into one of the premier documentary production companies in the United States, producing works ranging from broadcast documentaries to historical, dramatic and educational media.  His independent film, Unfinished Symphony, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the Documentary Competition in 2001 and has won top honors at film festivals around the world, including the Woods Hole Film Festival. As a cinematographer, Bestor’s credits include the theatrically released feature documentaries After Innocence, Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner, the Emmy-nominated Discovery Channel special Mysteries of the Sea: Freak Waves, the HBO special Mumia Abu-Jamal:  A Case For Reasonable Doubt?, the PBS/BBC series, China in the Red, the 1995 Documentary Academy Award winner, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, and the PBS American Experience on Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Down On Me 
Allison Lund

Allison spent 10 years in the field of human services, running a variety of programs for youth, the elderly, and the disabled. Combining this background in community work with a foundation in video, Allison now works as a producer and editor focusing on social media. Stonewalk, Allison's first feature documentary chronicling a grassroots effort to raise awareness of civilian deaths in war, played in festivals throughout the United States and won the Alan Fortunoff Humanitarian Award at The Long Island International Film Festival. Stonewalk had its broadcast premiere on public television station WGBH in May 2002 Several of her recent short pieces, including festival selection Down on Me, explore the disastrous effects on the health and productivity of women emerging in a society overly focused on body and beauty.

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Drawn With Lines 
Sam Molleur

Sam Molleur is a recent graduate from Emerson College, receiving a BA in Film Production and a minor in Music. Sam was a semi-finalist in MTVU's nationwide Best Filmmaker on Campus contest. His film "Drawn with Lines" won Best Picture at the Latent Image Film Festival, has been featured on MySpace.com, nominated for two EVVY awards (Emerson's Emmy equivalent), and was selected as Film of the Week on MTVU. He has written and directed numerous short films and music videos which have been screened at film festivals around North America such as Winnipeg International Film Festival, California Independent Film Festival, Latent Image Film Festival, Maine International Film Festival and others. Currently, Sam is developing several more projects while working as an instructor at the New England Film Academy.

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Fate Of The Lhapa 
Sarah C. Sifers

Sarah C. Sifers, Ph.D. served as the producer, director, cinematographer, sound person and writer for this production. She is a licensed psychotherapist and world-renowned scholar who has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with shamans in Siberia, Brazil, Nepal and the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. During the past nine years, she has spent extensive time in Nepal researching and documenting the work of Tibetan and Nepali shamans of that place. Fate of the Lhapa is her first documentary.

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Game Time  
Rob Hampton

While growing up on Cape Cod, Rob Hampton spent his early teens filming Super-8 versions of "Jaws," "King Kong," and "Alien." In 1989, his 30-minute drama "The Lead" became a sponsored broadcast on the Cape's TV station. Now living in L.A., Rob owns the production company Splat Pictures, producing and directing numerous spots and commercials for major TV networks, movie studios and ad agencies.

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Global Focus III 
John Antonelli

John Antonelli's first film "Kerouac" screened at the Sundance Festival and won awards at the Hong Kong Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival, American Film Festival, and the National Educational Film Festival. He is a Coproducer-Director on the environmental documentary series “Global Focus: The New Environmentalists” which has screened at festivals in Italy, Spain, Portugal, New Zealand, Czech Republic and South Korea. It also shows on the Sundance Channel's “The Greeen” series. Antonelli grew up in Massachusetts and still returns here regularly to enjoy the Cape Cod summers.

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...Go I 
Thom Milano

Thom brings over 20 years of experience on stage and television and in motion picture expertise. He spent 15 years acting and directing in regional and repertory theatre across the country. He taught acting for 4 years at Arena Rep. He spent 2 seasons working on 100 Centre Street with Sidney Lumet. He co-produced Circle with Bjornquist Films. (Summer Shorts Fleadh 2002, Mind Ignites series - Australia, Dragon Con Sci-Fi Film Festival Atlanta 2003. It was nominated as best sci-fi short at the Shockerfest film festival in California, top 50 finalist in Project Greenlight 2002). Thom is a producer of the Civil War feature My Brother's War in which he assistant directed and acted in. …go I marks Mr. Milano as first time writer/director.

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Happy Holidays  
James C. Ferguson

James C. Ferguson is a writer/director/producer living in Los Angeles; James has worked on numerous motion picture and stage productions, big and small. In 2003, he produced the low-budget horror/comedy "Lucky." He wrote a book entlted "Context Clues" that some people think is pretty funny (available on Amazon.com). "Happy Holidays" marks his first effort as a director.

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If It Doesn't Rain 
Charles Mann

After a career in international development with The Rockefeller Foundation and Harvard University, Charles Mann founded the Development Communications Workshop to produce films about development and to mentor students in using the video camera as a field notebook.

Michael Palmer

Michael J. Palmer graduated from the Film Program at Harvard University in 2003 and has worked in virtually every aspect of film production. As a cinematographer, editor, writer, and director, he's made films about poverty in Mexico and Africa, failing actors in New York, and slackers in New Hampshire. He recently directed a pilot and completed a feature film screenplay about NBA basketball and is currently seeking funding for a feature-length movie about immigration.

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Julie And The Clown
Stephanie Sellars

Stephanie Sellars is an artist of many disciplines, a woman of many faces, whose talents have spanned film, literature, and theatre. Her first film Twenty Minutes of Immortality, which she wrote, produced, and starred in, aired on Independent Film Channel for three years (2003-2006). When not making bold films, she performs and writes in other arenas. Her provocative column Lust Life appears weekly in New York Press. She recently starred in the sexy sci-fi film The Fold written by Polly Frost, Ray Sawhill, and Matt Lambert who also directed. Ms. Sellars performs often in New York as a singer and in readings like The Potable Dorothy Parker: A Literary Cocktail, a series she co-created. Julie and the Clown is her directorial debut.

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Khoristoria 
Catherine Mattingly

Catherine Mattingly is an independent documentary filmmaker in the Washington, DC area. She is also a licensed attorney and a poet. KHORISTORIA is her first feature-length film.

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Knee Deep
Sheila Canavan

Ms. Canavan produced Knee Deep with Producer/Director Michael Chandler. Ms. Canavan's other film work includes Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey and Yosemite, The Fate of Heaven. She is also a well-known consumer law attorney concentrating in predatory lending fraud and the financial abuse of the elderly. Ms. Canavan and Mr. Chandler are currently producing Greedy Trial Lawyers: Will We Miss Them When They're Gone.

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Little Blue 
Bob Svihovec

When asked, what one does for a living, Bob Svihovec usually responds that he is an artist, a participant in the never ending revelation of truth. A background in traditional cell animation began in New York many waves ago. His time has been spent raising a brood of his own and further developing the stories which touch our hearts. The ability for small groups to tell personal stories has been growing along with the computer industry and the future continues to look inviting. He is living the dream, (with the help of a few close well-springs in the wilderness.) We are never to old to listen to the child inside.

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Little White Flowers 
Chris Messina

Chris Messina was born in Albany, NY. Chris Messina recently received an MFA in Film Production from Boston University. His work has been programmed in festivals and galleries around the world.

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The Madness of Being 
Hal Miles

Hal Miles' career began when he was twelve years old and he watched the original 1949 Mighty Joe Young. Hal's big break and dream's came after graduating from high school when he was hired to work with many of his heroes including Tex Avery and Jim Danforth at Cascade Pictures of California. Over the next two decades he would collaborate directly with the innovators such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and James Cameron. In 2001 he became the special projects director and then the stop motion animation and a visual professor at The Savannah College of Art and Design. When not teaching he works on his animated short subjects, he oversees his museum of stop motion animation and visual effects and travels. rifkin

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Mister Jack  
Paul Sung

A recent college graduate, he's only recently started doing animation. Besides "Mister Jack", he's also made two other animation shorts. German Expressionism and Film Noir are the two styles that's had the most influence on his works.

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Monarchs of Michoan 
Paul Rifkin

Paul Rifkin has been making films since he was ten years old. He is now 65 and is still only famous in his own mind. Oh well.

David MacDonald

When I was a kid I used to hang out with James Wood's younger brother Michael. So far, that has been the highlight of my film career.--David Macdonald

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My War, My Story 
Andy Blood

Andy Blood has worked as a public defender, photographer, and writer before turning to documentaries and television production. He and his wife, Carol Dykas, have completed more than 50 short and feature length films and documentaries. Andy worked as the director, videographer and associate producer of Wyoming Portraits, a television series for PBS. Now that My War, My Story is playing at film festivals, Andy and Carol are completing production on “Desperate: On the Streets of Connecticut” a feature length documentary about homelessness.

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Naked Hitchhiker  
Eleanor Lanahan

Eleanor Lanahan has lived in Burlington, Vermont most of her life. On the basis of a student animation project, she got several local jobs doing animated commercials. After a career doing commercial illustration for the dairy and ski industries, for children's books and a guide book (under the married name Eleanor Hazard), she wrote "Scottie, The Daughter of..." a biography of her mother, which was published by Harper Collins in 1995. That project led to her putting together a book of of grandmother's art, "Zelda, an Illustrated Life," published by Harry Abrams Inc. in 1996. Animation has happily combined her interest in writing and art. Her sons contributed voices to The Naked Hitch-hiker, her daughter, Blake Hazard, contributed an original song as well as the vocals, and her son-in-law, John Dragonetti composed the score.

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NATO Bombed My Family 
Dana Jurcic

Dana Jurcic is a graduate of SFU's Filmmaking Program in Burnaby, British Columbia. While moonlighting as a DV camera operator and VFX coordinator, she has completed work on her documentary "Nato Bombed my Family." In 2001, she camera operated for Redstorm Productions documentary "Say I Do." Dana has shot the Vancouver International Marathon three years in a row for Marathon Video. In August 2003, she shot director Kim Hogan's documentary, "The Open Road" about six members of a women's motorcycle club riding down to the annual motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota. A staunch opponent of nose picking, Dana has written a children's book entitled, By the Itching in my Nose, Something Wicked This Way Goes. One of her favourite pastimes is fronting the Croatian Folk band "Gradec" in which she sings as well as plays the hammered dulcimer. She hopes the next thirty odd years of her life will be as interesting and adventurous as the last thirty.

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No Bigger Than A Minute 
Steve Delano

Following literature and film studies at Providence College and New York University, Massachusetts native Steven Delano made his career at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts. For over twenty-seven years Steven has been working with motion pictures, playing many roles - all of them behind the camera as producer, writer, director, and editor. Now he has stepped in front of the lens in his award-winning and very personal documentary - "No Bigger Than A Minute" - which had its national broadcast on PBS in 2006.

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On Broadway  
Dave McLaughlin

Writer-Director Dave McLaughlin’s body of work primarily consists of stories of the Irish-American diaspora, with narratives that have their roots in the conflict between the spirit of individualism that dominates contemporary American life and the historically communitarian values of the Irish culture. He wrote and directed the independent film “On Broadway” and co-wrote the movie “Southie,” which won the Jury Prize for Best American Independent Film at the 1998 Seattle Film Festival. His produced plays include “God Willing” and “Back To Before,” both of which he wrote and has directed in production. McLaughlin created “Plays Agus Pints,” a series of staged readings of Irish-American playwrights, which he produced at the Boston Center for the Arts in partnership with the Sugan Theatre Company. The youngest of eleven children, McLaughlin was born and raised in Boston and is a 1995 graduate of Boston College (BA, English). In addition to his artistic work, McLaughlin recently joined the board of Tell Stories, a Roxbury-based non-profit that provides filmmaking skills training to young people in Boston’s inner city neighborhoods.

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Phases Of The Moon 
Jack Ofield

Jack Ofield is a former writer-director with the National Film Board of Canada for which he made documentaries in the Northwest Territories, France, and the Pacific Northwest. He has produced many films, programs, and series for PBS, ABC, CBS, CBC and Eurovision, as well as for government, industry, and cultural organizations. He was a resident director at Channel 13 in New York, where he made his network debut with the Emmy Award-winning documentary about the last concert of The Doors.. His political documentaries, such as Different Sons (VVAW), A Leaf from the Town Record (patriotism and urban decay), and Hudson River (pollution and Pete Seeger's cleanup effort) have been re-released on DVD. He currently works in Flash animation. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and a Directing Fellow of the American Film Institute, and serves on a variety of film juries, panels, and arts boards.

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Rare Mileage 
Michael Rozett

RARE MILEAGE is Michael Rozett's first film. Currently Michael is an Associate Producer at Moore Huntley Productions working on the History Channel Series Tougher In Alaska. Previously he was Senior Director of Business Development at Pearson's Family Education Network. He founded and ran the independent classical record label Archetype Records, and was an Associate Producer at WGBH Radio. He received his MBA from the FW Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and has a BA in history from Vassar College. Michael is a member of IFP and the Massachusetts Production Coalition.

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Ratana
Todd Holmes

Todd Holmes' first screenplay, Preeti Girl, was the First Place winner of the prestigious Slamdance Screenplay Competition in 2005.
His varied career in filmmaking includes work as an editor on films that have played at dozens of festivals around the world, including Sundance, IDFA, Tribeca and SXSW. Prior to becoming an editor, Holmes worked for several years in interactive, online and location-based entertainment. Ratana is his first film.

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A Relaxing Day  
William Pace

William Pace wrote and directed the independent feature film CHARMING BILLY, winner of the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival Best Actor award and distributed by Winstar Cinema. He has also co-written several independent feature films and animated TV programs. He teaches film and screenwriting at New York City's The New School and lives in West Harlem with his wife, fashion designer Hillary Bradley. Perhaps most intriguingly, he has a brief profile in author Warren Allen Smith's book CELEBRITIES IN HELL.

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ROAD 
Chris Brokaw

Chris Brokaw won the Jury Prize for Best Original Score for his Road score at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival. Chris began his recording career in 1990 as drummer and guitarist for New York City band Codeine. Since then he has recorded as a member of Come, The New Year, Pullman, Consonant, and The Empty House Cooperative, as well as backing up Evan Dando and Steve Wynn. He has recorded four solo albums, his most recent cd is 'Incredible Love'.

Leslie McCleave

Green-themed Road is Leslie¹s debut feature film. Her previous award-winning short films include Avenue X, Blixa Bargeld Stole My Cowboy Boots (starring Michael Imperioli), and Meeting Marty (produced for Sundance Channel). She¹s currently shooting a documentary, How Sweet the Sound The Blind Boys of Alabama.

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Rocking The Boat 
Jay Curlee

Jay Curlee has been a work-for-hire writer/producer/director for 30 years. He spent most of his career making teleivision commercials and programs in Honolulu. From 1988-1992, He directed, co-wrote and produced the PBS series and college telecourse, "Growing Old in a New Age," which won numerous national awards and is still in syndication and used in major universities and colleges throughout the US. "Growing Old.." was funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project. In 1992 he left the world of the employed, moved to the Puna district of the Big Island of Hawaii, and started JC Communications where he continues to make commercials and documentaries. Rocking the Boat is his first feature.

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Row Hard, No Excuses 
Bill Wolbach

Row Hard No Excuses is Bill’s first film. In the past he has worked as tech support and as a consultant for financial institutions. More recently he turned his hobby and passion for motorcycles into a job as a BMW motorcycle technician. Active in his community, he has served on the board of directors at Boston’s South End Community Health Center for over twenty years. During his college years he rowed crew for Harvard and now gets his exercise in an ocean going single scull. It was through competitive paddling that he met Tom Mailhot and learned of the 2001 Atlantic Rowing Challenge. Though immediately drawn to the event, he decided to make this documentary rather than enter.

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Running Funny  
Anthony Grippa

Running Funny is the 25 year old filmmaker's first feature film. His plays, The Marriage Technique and Graduates Synonymous have had staged readings at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the DeBaun Center for the Performing Arts in Hoboken, New Jersey, and at The Actors Chapel in New York City, among others. Anthony started making short films in high school using borrowed equipment and his friends as actors. He is a graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in History, and currently lives in New York City where he is developing his next feature.

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Shadow Plays Volume Four 
Deborah Davidovits

Deborah Davidovits lives in Beacon, New York. She spends her time working in her studio, teaching and tending to her honeybees.

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Smile Boston Project 
David Tames

David is a filmmaker and media technology consulant. He has worked in key creative roles on a wide range of independent film and new media projects "Remembering John Marshall" and "Smile Boston Project" which will premiere at the festival. David recently served as Project Manager launching MIT TechTV, a video sharing site for the MIT Community. He earned an MS in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Laboratory, has taught film production, and often speaks at film festivals and industry events on a range of topics of interest to filmmakers. He blogs at kino-eye.com.

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The Son of Sam's Daughter 
Mimi Zora

Mimi Zora’s thesis film, Goulash, premiered at The Sundance Film Festival and went on to screen in festivals around the world. As a creative executive for producer Robert Cort (Revenge of the Nerds, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure), she developed a number of film projects, including a feature length script Cort hired her to pen. In the spring of 2006, Mimi co-founded The C4 Film Collective (www.c4film.com) with two fellow NYU alumnae. Mimi currently lives in New York City, where she continues to write and direct both feature film and television projects.

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Strange Case Of Marie France 
Vin Fraioli

Writer and Producer, Vin Fraioli is proof that if a dilettante lives long enough, he can become a Renaissance Man. A musician, as well as a writer of fiction, screenplays and freelance articles, he made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1976 and later attended Columbia University Graduate School for creative writing. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife and two children and is in preproduction for a feature film.

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Stranger 
Chris Zonnas

A San Francisco native, I went to the USC film school in Los Angeles and worked at a variety of jobs in the movie business before deciding to move to New York City to study acting at the Actors Studio. After a few years of wonderful stage experience I have returned to film by writing, directing, and co-producing this short psychological thriller...

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Telephony 
Kevin Anderton

Kevin Anderton, of Midnight Chimes Productions, is an award winning short comedy creator from Boston whose work has been featured at film festivals, on the internet, on broadcast television, and on video phones worldwide. He holds an MFA in communications from Boston University and has worked on projects such as David Breashears’ Kilimanjaro: To The Roof of Africa and The Good Son.

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This is Nollywood 
Franco Sacchi

Director/Co-Producer Franco Sacchi is a freelance director, editor, and producer. Franco 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 MA in Visual Arts from Emerson College.

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Triple A  
Philip Marcoccio

Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, acquired his love of film from his dad, who would share his stories of Hollywood’s Golden Years as they sat in the family living room watching the Sunday Movie Matinee out of Boston. He received his B.A. in Film and his M.A. in Arts Education, both from San Francisco State University. In May 2003, he started the independent film company, Rabiah Productions. The company has produced 3 shorts, Memorial Day: Official Selection San Francisco Short Film Festival 2005, La Vita Nouva: Official Selection San Francisco Short Film Festival 2005, and Triple A: Official Selection Woods Hole Film Festival 2007, Official Selection Twin Rivers Media Festival 2007. Currently in post-production, with the company’s first feature length film, the family comedy, Father Daughter Dance.

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Ultimate Super 8 
Mathieu Peteul

Mathieu Peteul was born in Strasbourg, France and graduated from ESRA. I 2001 he created ADDICT FILMS, an independant production company which develops and produces feature films, documentaries, music videos, and other video productions. Since 2003 he has worked for french Television as director & editor (Canal+, Trace tv, France televison,...). He is preparing a feature horror movie in Norway.

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Unforseen 
Laura Dunn

Laura Dunn started making documentaries in response to her undergraduate experience at Yale University. Through a chronicle of labor strikes on campus, THE SUBTEXT OF A YALE EDUCATION (1999) examines the corporatization of higher education. She then returned to her birthplace to make GREEN (2000), a sobering look at environmental racism along the Mississippi River petrochemical corridor, a.k.a. "Cancer Alley". Other work includes experimental films BABY (1999), a personal take on population issues, and BECOME THE SKY (2002), an ecological map of power in Texas. Her work has screened internationally in film festivals, art galleries, theaters, universities, churches and union halls. Honors include a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, Student Academy Award and Yale's Trumbull College Fine Arts Prize. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and their spirited toddler. THE UNFORESEEN is her first feature film.

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Vanished Acres  
Adam Bolt

Adam Bolt was born in Dallas, TX. in 1981, where he fell in love with creepy crawlies and art. There, he studied visual arts and discovered that filmmaking was the best way to combine all forms of art (and sometimes creepy crawlies). Adam recently graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA., where he received a BFA in film and completed his thesis film, "Vanished Acres". Adam currently resides in Pasadena, dividing his time between paying the bills through visual development for feature films and preparing upcoming projects, all involving his passion for intelligent and artistic horror material.

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What To Get On My Butt 
Hailey Liang Hao

Hailey Liang Hao was born in ChongQing, southwest China, in 1980. After graduating from Sichuan University in 2003, she hosted a bilingual television program in Chengdu until 2004, when she moved to Boston, Massachusetts to pursue graduate work in television production. She now works for the New England Patriots, creating video and podcasts for their Chinese website. She lives in Allston, MA with her husband, Peter Barendse.

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Wisdom Of The Eighties And Beyond 
Woody Bavota

Woody Bavota has been lighting, photographing, producing and directing international productions for more than 30 years. He has worked on location in just about every state of the union as well as more than a dozen foreign countries. His work history includes concert films, narratives, documentaries and live entertainment for television.

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World Naked As a Jaybird 
Tiina Treasure

This film was produced for a BFA degree requirement for the University of Central Florida School of Film and Digital Media. Tiina was born in Canada and now lives in Florida. She is a member of the collective The Art Boat and Pantacine. She intends to work on more not-for-profit art

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Xero 
Palmer Stinson

Palmer was born in 1970 near San Francisco, and as a child he was nothing short of a challenge for his parents. His ability to see between the lines and find creative loopholes in the most strictest of rules, frequently landed him in trouble. As he got older he channeled that creativity into drawing and sculpting with whatever he could get his hands on. In 1993 Palmer attended college at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where a friend introduced him to 3D. Palmer was immediately hooked on 3D. Shortly after Palmer had a chance meeting at a shopping mall with a BioVision Motion Capture executive, which landed him a job working with motion capture for video games and film. It was there he received a "hands-on" education in 3D tools and production pipelines. In 1997 while still attending school, he accepted an offer to work for an ad agency creating 3D content for print, CD-Roms and the Playstation underground magazine. Prior to directing, he has been a Graphic Technical Specialist, Associate Art Director, and Lead 3D Artist and Animator. Now the director of a small independent studio, Palmer and his crew are working on a full length animated feature currently in pre-production.

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