AMY SEIMETZ
Amy Seimetz recently completed a starring role in 9 Full Moons, directed by Tomer Almagor, which is set to hit the festival circuit in early 2012. Amy wrapped a supporting role amongst an all-star cast in Chadd Harbold's Revenge For Jolly, where she reunites with Kristin Wiig and Garrett Dillahunt, her co-stars from the 2009 film One Night Only. On the directing side, her first feature, Sun Don't Shine, won the 2012 South By Southwest Chicken and Egg Emergnet Narrative Woman Director Award. LA Times called her the MVP of the Sundance film festival for her acclaimed performance in Megan Griffith's The Off Hours. Seimetz also has received a great deal of attention for her preformance in A Horrible Way to Die and has a supporting role in Adam Wingard's You're Next, which is premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. Other notable credits include Myth of the American Sleepover (Cannes), the Noah Baumbach-produced Alexander The Last (SXSW) and Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture (SXSW). She has been a producer on several notable projects, including the indie fave Medicine for Melacholy (directed by Barry Jenkins), The Dish & The Spoon (directed by Allison Bagnall) and Silver Bullets (directed by Joe Swanberg). Seimetz also performs in the avant garde multimedia comedy duo, MachuPicchu, appearing at Comedy Deathray, UCB, Comedy Store, and the HBO comedy fest in Las Vegas.
MARGERY FAIRCHILD
Margery Fairchild is an actor, choreographer, playwright and director based in San Francisco. She is the Artistic Director and Founder of Dark Porch Theatre, a Company in Residence at the Exit Theater in San Francisco and has written and staged such original works as The Whipping Hand (2002), Les Petites Rats (2003), Hen! (2005), Under the Bed…A Fairytale Set In Purgatory (2007), The In Betweens (2009), and Cockroach (written by Martin Schwartz and directed/choreographed by Fairchild), which won three "Best of" Awards including "Best New Play" at the 2009 SF Fringe Festival. She produced and choreographed Martin Schwartz's Comedy Ballet (2010) and has recently staged Eleanor, which she wrote and directed for the 2011 Divafest. Margery has also danced, acted, directed and choreographed for many other troupes and companies including No Nude Men, The Thrillpeddlers (Hypnodrome), Last Planet Theatre, Fou Fou Ha!, Borts Minorts, Karin Offerein's Union Square Musical, SF Boylesque, Elastic Future, Robillard Theatre Works and The Extra Action Marching Band. She has also starred in the independent film City on a Hill written and directed by Amy Seimetz. Margery is honored to have appeared in All That She Surveys and will next be working on Amy Seimetz's new film The Sun Don't Shine.
GEORGE P. SCOTT
George P. Scott is proud to be part of All That She Surveys. His Theatrical credits include: Hairspray, Cinderella (Royal Tailor), La Cage Aux Folles (Jacob), Singin' in the Rain, Some Men (West Coast Premier), S.F. FOLLIES, How to Survive the Apocalypse: Burning Man Opera, The Nutcracker (Rat King) w/ Ballet Califia, Our Lady of 121ST Street (Flip), Aida (Mereb), A Chorus Line (Gregory Gardner), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey II), Beauty and the Beast (Lefou), 8 Reindeer Monologues (Cupid), Aladdin (Giraffe Puppetter) Missoula Children's Theatre. Additional credits include Fossettes & S.F.boylesque. George has won the West Coast Regional Costume Design Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for Electricidad and he's currently working on owning his own Juke Joint. He wants to thank God for all the FABULOUS people that have put up with his "redonkulousness".
RYAN BEEBE
Ryan Beebe plays banjo, guitar and sings with The Gomorran Social Aid & Pleasure Club.
NATHAN TUCKER
Nathan Tucker has been performing regularly in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2006. His recent credits include the ethically challenged political operative Tom Duffy in Farragut North, Vanek in Vaclav Havel's Audience, and Dionysus in The Frogs by Aristophanes. In 2009 he was awarded Best Actor at the San Francisco Fringe Festival for his portrayal of the tormented homeless schizophrenic leading role in Dark Porch Theater's Cockroach. All That She Surveys is Mr. Tucker's first foray into the thrilling world of screen acting. He has since made appearances in Pool Pirates and Chekhovian Run. A recent reading of chicken entrails by a nameless street Gypsy suggests that there will be more in his future.
JOHN RUSSELL
John Russell moved to New York last year from San Francisco, where he worked with the Berkeley Repertory Theater, Cutting Ball Theater, the Eugene O'Neill Foundation, the Pear Avenue Theater, Dark Porch Theater and the Exit Theater. He recently appeared in Redemption off-Broadway and will appear in the films Excuse Me for Living with Jerry Stiller and Lucille Hansen's Awake in 2011.
GARY MAIRS - director, producer, co-editor
Gary Mairs has been teaching in the School of Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts since 1997. In 2005 he became Co-Head of the newly revamped Film Directing Program.
All That She Surveys is the third in a series of interrelated shorts that, when screened together, tell a feature length story. Say It was written by Theron Patterson (Dark Cloud, Toronto International Film Festival 2010) and stars Amy Seimetz (The Off Hours, Sundance 2011) and David Nordstrom (Sawdust City, Los Angeles International Film Festival 2011). The Hemingway Night (2009) was written by Tom Block and stars Nordstrom and Jan Johnson. All That She Surveys (2011) stars Seimetz, was written by James Benning (Small Roads, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012). Production begins on the fourth film in June 2012. The Hemingway Night premiered at the 2009 Palm Springs International Shortsfest. All That She Surveys premiered at the 2012 International Film Festival Rotterdam.
JAMES BENNING - writer
James Benning has been making films since 1971. Before that he did political organizing.
JAY KEITEL - Director of photography
Jay Keitel was born in Northern California, and raised in the Pacific Northwest where he learned to appreciate the seasons, the rain and hard work. He attended the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon and holds a BFA in Film/Video from CalArts. He has travelled extensively throughout the US and abroad and lives in Los Angeles, CA where he works as a cinematographer and assistant cameraman. Jay is currently shooting the feature Sun Don't Shine on super 16mm for Amy Seimetz.
LEE ANNE SCHMITT - Co-editor
Lee Anne Schmitt is a writer and director of essay films and performances, work that exists in the juncture between fiction and documentary.
A versatile multidisciplinary artist whose practice extends from film and performance to photography and writing, she creates evocative, deeply felt works that consider everyday elements of American life as cultural ritual, including a series of cinematic investigations of the intersections of landscape with personal memory (Las Vegas, 2000), with the history of the American Left (Awake and Sing, 2003), and with urban development (The Wash, 2005). Her features California Company Town and The Last Buffalo Hunt (made in collaboration with filmmaker Lee Lynch) have screened worldwide, including venues such as the Rotterdam Film Festival, Marseilles International Documentary Festival, The Documentary Fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Full Frame Documentary Festival, Buenos Aires Festival International Festival of Independent Cinema, and the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.
Jeremy Protz is a freelance sound recordist based in the Bay Area.
LUKE SHOCK - Location sound
Luke Shock is a Colorado native, but has been living and working in San Francisco for the past three years. He is a graduate of The Academy of Art University and currently works as a freelance editor in the bay area. You can follow him and contact him though Twitter: @Slackershock.
JERRY SUMMERS - Post-production sound
Jerry Summers has been doing production and post-production sound and composing music for film and video since the mid 1970s.
NATHAN JONGEWAARD - Grip
Nathan Jongewaard is a freelance video producer living in Alameda, CA. He is the creator of TV.com's Teletrivia and has a master's degree in film directing from CalArts.
HEATHER HERNANDEZ - Assistant director, catering
Heather loves the sea and everything in it, spends her days organizing and caring for books about it, and when it's too cloudy to observe Saturn or Mare Crisium stays indoors with needlework.
PAUL HERNANDEZ - Grip, catering, Aide de camp
Paul spends his weekdays working at a small library in Berkeley and weekends making photographs.
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MODERNISM, INC - San Francisco, CA
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