Leon
Jan L. Johnson
Actor, Film maker (Alderfilms.com) MFA CalArts.
Terry
David Nordstrom
David graduated from CalArts with an MFA in Film. His thesis film A Sea of Troubles debuted in 2007. Nordstrom's other acting credits include Trona (2004) and Alternate Ending (2005), both directed by David Fenster.
Gary Mairs - director, editor
Gary Mairs co-chairs the graduate Program in Film Directing at CalArts, where he teaches editing, film history and seminars on realism and the Western. He contributes criticism to The High Hat, an online cultural journal, and wrote "Charged Symmetry: The Landscape Films of James Benning" for Argos Festival 2005. He served as creative consultant for The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing and edited Waking Dreams, an independent feature directed by Deepika Daggabuti.
Tom Block - screenplay
Tom Block hails from Texas but is a longtime resident of San Francisco. A lifelong film buff, he’s particularly interested in the ways that documentary techniques can enliven narrative fiction films. He’s currently engaged in various writing projects. His blog can be found at www.jumano.com/tomblog.
J.R. Hughto - Producer
J.R. Hughto is a filmmaker, photographer, and film tech expert; and is co-founder and president of the Independent Movie Supply Co., a production company dedicated to creating challenging and unique low-budget films. Hughto has produced several feature films and shorts which have screened at festivals and galleries internationally, including the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Viennale, the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Luben House in New York City.
Jay Keitel - Director of photography
Jay Keitel was born in Northern California, and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He Attended the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon and holds a BFA in Film/Video from CalArts. He made his first super 8 movie in 1988, and since then has continued to explore the world with a camera in hand - following the good light. His western Black Dragon Canyon screened at the 2005 Viennale and his second feature Despedida is currently in post-production.
E.B. Brooks - Art director
E.B. Brooks has been designing costumes professionally for ten years. She got an early start in Chevy Chase, MD by turning her siblings and friends into paper dolls. She would lay them down on the floor, trace them, cut the clothes out, color the outfits, and then tape them on their bodies. She then moved at a tender young age to Los Angeles to receive her masters degree. To this day, she still makes her clothes and costumes exactly the same way she did as a kid. Her favorite materials are silk jersey, tracing paper, and cellophane. She enjoys long walks on the beach in soft focus, diesel cars, toast, puppies that sing, and reading palms to score free drinks. (www.ebbrooks.com)
Brian Sowell - Gaffer
As a film composer, Devin McNulty seeks to blur the conventional line between sound design and music in order to create unified soundscapes that are married not only directly to the image, but to the ultimately desired aesthetic of the piece. McNulty combines a healthy knowledge of sound recording and editing techniques with a steadily growing and specialized knowledge of musical expression, arrangement, and implementation.
Vinny Golia - Music
As a composer Vinny Golia fuses the rich heritage of Jazz, contemporary classical and world music into his own unique compositions. Also a bandleader, Golia has presented his music to concert audiences in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States in ensembles varying dramatically in size and instrumentation. Mr. Golia has won numerous awards as a composer, including grants from The National Endowment of the Arts, The Lila Wallace Commissioning Program, The California Arts Council, Meet the Composer,Clausen Foundation of the Arts, Funds for U.S. Artists and the American Composers Forum. In 1982 he created the on-going 50 piece Vinny Golia Large Ensemble to perform his compositions for chamber orchestra and jazz ensembles.
Music performed by: Vinny Golia (saxophone), Steve Blum (piano), Brandon Schmidt (bass), Tina Raymond (drums)
Theron Patterson - Post-production sound
Theron Patterson has both undergraduate and graduate degrees in film. Since 1993 he has made over two dozen film and video projects, a few of which have been rejected by some of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. For the past eight years he has taught filmmaking in Singapore and in Istanbul, Turkey, where he lives now. His latest film is the short Sahin'in Pride (2007).
Jerry Summers - Sound mix
Jerry Summers has been doing production and post-production sound and composing music for film and video since the mid 1970s.
David Fenster - Color correction
David Fenster began making films at the University of Florida at Gainesville. He lived briefly in Colorado, making nature documentaries for the Discovery Channel, then relocated to New York City to work as a freelance videographer and editor. David spent the following two years at the CalArts where he received a MFA in film and video. His recent film Trona has been sold to ZDF and will appear on television in Europe. David's animated short "Post Apocalypse Now", which screened at the RESFEST Digital Film Festival, is currently distributed by MICROCINEMA INTERNATIONAL.
Heather Hernandez - script supervisor, 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 - catering, grip, website design
Paul spends his days working at a small library in Berkeley and his evenings helping out with editing (The High Hat).