CAST
David Nordstrom
David Nordstrom recently graduated from CalArts with an MFA in Film. His thesis film A Sea of Troubles appears later this year. Nordstrom's other acting credits include Trona (2004) and Alternate Ending (2005), both directed by David Fenster.

Amy Seimetz
Amy Seimetz graduated from Florida State with degrees in English Literature and Art History. She studied film briefly at NYU as well as history and writing at UCLA. Her short film The Unseen Kind-Hearted Beast, an allegorical absurdist film about the state of world politics, screened at festivals around the world, winning "Best of Fest" at Volgograd Video Fest and Achtung Baby! in Russia. She starred in Black Dragon Canyon, directed by Jay Keitel, and recently co-wrote and starred in Jay's second feature, Despedida. Amy is currently in post-production for City on a Hill, a feature she wrote, directed and acted in about a failed present day revolution. This summer she will shoot a short documentary about the mermaids of Weeki Wachee, Florida. She also performs in an avant-garde multimedia comedy duo called Machu Picchu in Los Angeles.


CREW
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 (www.thehighhat.com), 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 (2004) and edited Waking Dreams (2007), an independent feature directed by Deepika Daggabuti.

Theron Patterson - screenwriter
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).

J.R. Hughto - producer, assistant director (www.paintedland.com)
J.R. Hughto began making graphic novels while studying Comparative Literature at Cornell University. After moving to Boston, he started turning his comics into movies. His concurrent documentary work led him to the California Institute of the Arts where he received an MFA in film and video in 2006. While at CalArts, Hughto completed his first narrative feature, The Thin Time, as well as The Mirror Eye, a mid-length documentary on Clement Greenberg. The Mirror Eye, released by ThINC, screened throughout September and October 2006 at New York City's Luben House and premiered at the MoST in May 2005. Hughto's short film Witness is included in the permanent collection of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Since receiving his MFA, Hughto has founded The Independent Movie Supply Company, a production house dedicated to creating low budget films with intense personal vision and integrity. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

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.

Apolonia Panagopoulos - assistant camera, grip
Originally from Massachusetts, Apolonia Panagopoulos now lives in Los Angeles, California where she recently completed a Master of Fine Arts program in film at the California Institute of the Arts. Panagopoulos makes experimental narratives on 16mm film, video, and super 8; often collaborating with filmmaker J.R. Hughto. Her films have screened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; at the Zeitgeist Gallery in Cambridge, MA; and at REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. Her film The Tropic of Faxafloi also showed at the Ojai Film Festival in October 2006. She recently completed a feature entitled Parity.

Devin McNulty - sound, music
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.

Craig Smith - sound mix
Craig Smith worked for several years as a sound editor and production mixer in Hollywood. He specialized in the kind of noisy action-adventure films that are blamed for the downfall of society. He eventually got tired of working on crap, and in 1986 he became the manager of the Cal Arts Film/Video Sound Department. Smith is also co-owner of Dream Garden Productions, which provides sound and visual services to projects that hopefully have some sort of social worth. Smith is a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the Audio Engineering Society.

Kathy Logue - art director
Kathy Logue teaches math, science, sex education, and design to junior high school kids.

Galaxy San Juan - makeup
I'm Galaxy, an L.A. based makeup artist, who works worldwide. I started my worldwide trek in 2000 when I jetted off to Germany for a year to work in print. Then Hollywood called. I came back home and started working the independent film circuit. Along the way doing music videos, commercials, and print. I am a bit of a makeup anarchist. I believe that there are no rules to makeup just as there are no rules in art. The face is my fresh canvas.

Heather Hernandez - script supervisor, caterer
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 - caterer, grip, website design
Paul spends his days working at the transportation library in Berkeley, California and his evenings helping out with editing The High Hat (www.thehighhat.com).