FILMMAKER BIOS 2007
* - denotes that filmmaker will be present at the festival
Anton Delfino
Cogswell Polytechnical College
Cereal Monogamy
Anton Delfino is an aspiring writer/director who
hails from San Jose, CA. Since 2004, he has collaborated with Revival Arts
Productions and Bindlestiff Studio, for whom he has written and directed several
short plays. His recent production, Cereal Monogamy, is a digital short he
wrote, produced, and directed to complete his undergraduate degree in Digital
Motion Picture at Cogswell Polytechnical College in Sunnyvale, CA. Anton
recently finished The Love Edition 2: Turned On, where he directed a short play
called Overdue (Mike Ricca, writer). He is currently writing several short
screenplays and dabbling with the idea of taking on a feature-length screenplay.
*Nayeem Mahbub
Oberlin College
Beneath the Surface
Nayeem Mahbub is from Bangladesh. He's a senior at Oberlin
College majoring in History and Cinema Studies. He made "Beneath the Surface" on
an incredibly low budget during a study-away semester at NYU's Tisch School of
Arts in 2006. He's currently working on his senior Honors film, and like many
college seniors, is not exactly sure what's going on after he graduates. But he
eventually hopes to be making films...
*Kent Sanderson
New York University
Captain Valedor
Born in New York City and raised nearby on a steady diet of
serials, comic books, and old Warner Bros. cartoons, Kent eventually attended
New York University, graduating in 2006. He now lives and works in New York
City, residing on the Upper East Side. He'd like to thank his tireless producers
Kevin Hoyer, David Richardson, and Chris Golio, without whom "Valedor" would
have never come to life, as well as his parents, who originally supplied him the
archaic influences listed above.
*Elena Ni Megalos
Columbia University
Canvas
Elena Megalos has been fiddling with her father's video camera
for some years now. A Columbia College junior, she studies English and Creative
Writing and hails from Venice, California. She would like to thank Dad and David
on this one if 'thank you's' are permitted.
Tom DesLongchamp
Rhode Island School of Design
Lunar Loons
Earl Boone is Alive
Tom DesLongchamp is a 22 year old animation major
from Seattle, Washington. He is currently a senior at the Rhode Island School of
Design. He is married to Jessica Phoenix and has a cat named Renton. Tom enjoys
collecting musical instruments, looking out windows, playing classic video
games, and being on roofs--the higher, the better. His website is
tomthinks.com.
*Peter Alex Duncan
School of Visual Arts
NON
Peter Alexander Duncan (21) is an undergraduate thesis student at
the School of Visual Arts. Mr. Duncan hopes for the best with this being his
first film festival. He sees each opportunity to show his work as a chance to
connect with others without ever saying a word himself, and he believes there is
a little magic in that. His undergraduate films range from short narratives, to
mockumentries, to video art. He likes nice happy things like dandilions,
puppies, and albuterol inhalors. He hopes everyone enjoys the film.
*Kyle Eaton
Montana State University
Case & Crowbar
Kyle Eaton currently lives in Bozeman, Montana and in the spring
of 2007, he will complete his BA in film (media/theatre/arts) at Montana State
University. He works as a writer/director/cinematographe
*Kimberly Parker
John's Hopkins University
The Kiss
Kimberly Parker is currently a senior at Johns Hopkins
University, where she double majors in Writing Seminars and Film and Media
Studies. Next year, she will be attending NYU film school. "The Kiss" was her
first solo film, shot on 16mm. She would like to thankProfessor John Mann,
Helena Franceschi, Ashley Jones, and Maxwell Sindell.
*Colin Fowler
Keene State University
Footsteps: The Buddy Chancellor Story
Colin Fowler is a 22 year old senior majoring in
Film Production at Keene State College in New Hampshire. His video short
“Footsteps: The Buddy Chancellor story” was co-written by its star Rob Sheldon
and made with no budget to speak of. Although unsure of the future Colin knows
it will be a flourishing one.
*D. Christian Hagerman
Cooper Union
Tulip Delusion
Born in Virginia, D. Christian Hagerman is graduating from the Cooper Union.
Coming from a background in painting and sculpture, his video installation work
has transformed into 16mm narratives, such as Tulip Delusion.
*Gil Levanon
School of Visual Arts
Real Magic
Born and raised in Israel, Ms. Levanon moved to NYC five years
ago to explore her obsession with filmmaking. She discovered an amazing group
of people who fed her creative palette and together shared the same desire and
obsession to share their life experiences through visual storytelling. "Real
Magic" is her sixth short and the most personal journey she has taken so far.
Ben Weeks
Northwestern University
The Detention Teacher
Ben graduated from Northwestern University in 2006 with a degree
in Radio/Television/Film and as a part of the school's Creative Writing for the
Media Program. While in school, he directed the short comedy film FLY,
which won three awards and screened at fifteen festivals, including the
Philadelphia International Film Festival. Ben wrote and directed The
Detention Teacher during his senior year, and he is grateful for the new
friendships that the film gave him late in his college life.
FILMMAKER BIOS 2006
Tadakuni Yasuda
New York University
Say That You Love Me
WINNER: Best
Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Acting
Tadakuni Yasuda is originally from Japan. He has had classical
piano training since the age of 6, and his musical ability has allowed him to
have a good discipline, artistic mind and excellent timing to touch human
emotions. He transfered to NYU, Tisch School of Arts in 2002. Tada's films have
been selected to school film festivals every single semester, enchanting and
entertaning audience with his wacky sense of humor. Check out more about Tada
at
ohmytada.com
John Klein and Mike Molenda
University
of Notre Dame
Case History
WINNER: Best Directed &
Frontiers Award for Most Original Film
John Klein and Mike Molenda, both graduates of the class of 2006
in the film department at the University of Notre Dame, have collectively filmed
and edited over twenty short films on digital video and on film during their
four-year career at Notre Dame. Case History is their first collaboration.
They have experience in prior festivals as well, with John's first horror film
"Duplicity" having been well-received at three other festivals and Mike's
black-and-white fantasy film "Sketchbook" also winning praise.
Mike's short documentary, "Welcome to Snyderville," which he co-directed with
two other ND students, has received immense publicity as of late in northern
Indiana for its small-town politics subject matter. It is currently being
prepped for a run through the festival circuit, as is John's second short horror
film, entitled "Curse," on which he served as director of photography. Both
endeavor to become full-time cinematographers. Mike will be residing in
South Bend, IN as a freelance PA for the next year, while John will be moving to
Chicago in the fall to pursue similar employment in the big city.
Brad Wilson
Nun Hunt
Brad Wilson is a senior at Cornell University. His film "Penny: A Musical Comedy" recieved the Founder's Award at the Ivy Film Festival at Brown University in 2005, and his film "Nun Hunt" was awarded Best Undergraduate Comedy at the festival in 2006. His work has also been shown at the New York International Independent Film Festival, the Columbia National Undergratuate Film Festival, and the North by Northeast festival in Toronto.
Dalibor Stare
University of Buffalo
Srebrenica
Dalibor Stare comes from former Yugoslavia. As the war started in 1992, Dalibor left and moved to Germany where, while working on his architectural design degree, he lived up until 1998. Since, he has resided and worked as arch. designer in Buffalo NY, while attending film production & theatre program at UB. He hopes to combine the architectural background with his film experience, and write, develop and direct narrative feature films.
Steve Desmond
University of Southern California
Life or Breath
A Chicago native, Steve recently
graduated from USC Film School with a degree in Cinema-Television Production.
Other notable alumni include George Lucas and Robert Zemeckis. They have
buildings named after them. Steve does not.
However, Steve was chosen as one of only four students to direct a senior thesis
project (480). His short films have screened at festivals around the country and
have garnered Steve an impressive collection of badges, programs, and business
cards. He also won a Student Emmy Award.
Steve currently resides in picturesque Burbank, CA and makes a short daily
commute to Beverly Hills where he works at the Pitt Group, a
management/production company. He continues to live his dream of writing and
directing movies for a wide range of audiences.
FILMMAKER BIOS 2005
John H. Kim
The Art Institute of Chicago
Or
FINALIST
John H. Kim was born in Virginia, USA in 1980 and then moved to the Republic of Korea. In 1999-2000, he attended a course of design at Seoul National University. Back in USA, from 2002, on to the present day he has been studying at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Or has been or will be shown at following festivals: Milan International Film Festival, Milano, Italy, 2005 ; Just Another International Film Festival, Farmington, U.S., 2005 ; Filmstock International Film Festival, Luton, United Kingdom, 2005 ; Sopot International Film Festival, Sopot, Poland, 2005 ; Asian American International Film Festival, New York, U.S., 2005.
Dara Silverman
Dolores Van Peaches
WINNER: Best
Picture, Best Screenplay
After growing up in Lexington, Massachusetts, Dara Silverman continued her education at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied film production. After graduating in May of 2005, Dara has worked on several small projects and looks forward to spending her summer interning for artist, Charles Ross in New Mexico.
She plans to return to New York in the fall, where she will edit her senior film, The Destination Party, shot in April of 2005. Dara loves art and film very deeply, and consequently, her work is probably influenced by many of her favorite artists, including filmmakers Vera Chytilova, Jan Svankmajer and Guy Maddin, visual artists Dorothea Tanning and Joseph Cornell, and musicians Kate Bush and Jeff Mangum.
Corey Baggett
Screen Verde
WINNER:
Soundtrack Award for Best Use of Music & Sound
Corey will be a junior at the University of Notre Dame. He is double majoring in Computer Science and Engineering and Film. He has made several films at home and school and hopes to be a director. Anthony is about to enter his senior year of high school in Colorado Springs and is currently spending the summer trying to put together some films and playing some calvin-ball on the side.
Kinetic
Joe Wu, New York University
Fish
in a Barrel
Jason Toledo, New York University
Friends…to
the End
Noble Robinette & Dan Bulger, University of Notre
Dame
Cause
of Death
Lizzie Barcay, Harvard-Westlake High School
You
Are Enframed By The Energy That Is Moving You
Eugene Kotlyarenko, Columbia University
Screen
Verde
Corey Baggett & Anthony Baggett, University of Notre Dame
This
Year’s Love
Michael Krepack, Harvard-Westlake High School
A
Song for Our Lady
Andrew Wesman, University High School (San Francisco)