filmmakers

PETER - Dominic Spillane

Originally from Denver, CO, Dominic Spillane graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC. Dominic is now a member of the Open Fist Theatre Company in Hollywood and just came back from the WIlliamstown Theatre Festival in MA.

He will be performing on stage January and February 2009 in "Light up the Sky" by Moss Hart at the Open Fist Theatre www.openfist.org.

Fun Fact: Dominic's car has been stolen twice in LA. A third theft was attempted a third, but Dominic was able to thwart the villians.

CAST

Peter

Mary

Curtis

Josh

MARY - Samantha Colburn

Samantha Colburn is an award-winning actress/singer/dancer who has been performing since the age of four. From her beginnings in music and dance it was a very small leap to acting in musical theatre in such roles as Maria in The Sound of Music and being a finalist at the National Forensic League's National Speech Tournament in 2000.

Samantha went on to get degrees in acting, music, and journalism from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where she won best actress awards two years in a row.

Throughout her career she has been seen performing on stages in New York City, Chicago, Orlando and Los Angeles just to name a few. In 2007, Samantha moved to Los Angeles to pursue her career in film. She has starred in many short films and features including Cessation with the talented Dennis Haysbert, which was recently screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2008.

Fun Fact: Samantha has never broken a bone in her body. She credits this fact to a high calcium diet.

CURTIS - John Henry Whitaker

John Whitaker recently had the lead role in "Oleanna" at the Spokane Interplayers Theatre in Spokane Wa. Worked under an Equity Guest Contract. He has been leads and supporting characters in over 30 films including "Phoenix" with Ray Liotta; "Macon County Jail" with David Carradine; "Carolina" with Shirley Maclaine and "Sharkskin 6 "with Ray Wise. Television Guest Star and Co-Star roles include: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Sons Of Anarchy; Walker Texas Ranger; Mad TV; CSI, and others.

John has studied under Charles Conrad, Steve Eastin, Bob Gibson, Karen Kalensky, Hugh O"Gorman, Ellen Geer, Joe Reich, covering Meisner, Chekhov, Uta Hagan, Improv and Shakespeare. John lives in Long Beach Ca. with his wife and 1 dog and 2 cats.

Fun Fact: John's first USC film was in 1990 and the cinematographer was Doug Limon.

JOSH - Robert W. Evans

Robert W. Evans grew up on the Gulf Coast in Mobile, Alabama. He attended college at The University of the South: Sewanee, where he studied Theatre Arts at the esteemed Tennessee Williams Center. After graduating (cum laude), Robert scored a bit part in the indy film The Novice with Alan Arkin. Soon afterwards he landed a supporting role as Orville Gilley in the historic drama Heaven's Fall, where he worked opposite Leelee Sobieski.

In 2004 Robert moved to New York, where he continued to study acting at The Stella Adler Studio. He also found himself in a number of Off-Broadway plays and independent short and feature films. After playing the lead role in the indy feature ...Around, Robert moved to Los Angeles, where he continues to work on numerous film, TV and web projects. More at www.robertwevans.com

Fun Fact: In between projects, Robert teaches kids about Exotic Animals and Environmental Conservation,

DIRECTOR, WRITER- Will Lamborn

Raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Will Lamborn is the third of five children. After graduating from the University of Kansas, Will began working towards his MFA in film production at the University of Southern California (USC).

During his time in college, Will has written and directed over 24 shorts. Will worked at a local television station as an intern and camera operator. He has also worked extensively as a producer, cinematographer, editor, and sound designer. His films have been screened at the Sundance, Florida International, Boston, Philadephia, Sonoma Valley, Wild West and Now Film Festivals, among others.

Fun Fact: Will once ate five hotdogs in one sitting -something he regrets to this day.

CREW

Director

Producers

Cinematographer

Production Designer

Assistant Director

Editor

Sound

Grip/Gaffers

AC's

Makeup

CO-PRODUCERS - Brett Falentine, Sean Hackett, Roland Nguyen

Having overcome illiteracy at a young age (sometime between 2 and 5 years old), Brett, Sean and Roland have grown into functioning members of society.

Currently living in Los Angeles, none of the three seem to have any strong career objectives or marketable skills, except for their incredible producing talents.

Fun Fact: Brett, Sean and Roland have never been to Alaska.

CINEMATOGRAPHER - Anthony C. Kuhnz

Anthony C. Kuhnz is a mid-westerner with an eastern sensibility. A deep interest in Buddhist philosophy has influenced his painting, music and cinematography, with the hopes of spreading happiness and peace.

Born in Milwaukee, WI, Anthony was raised in Oshkosh and graduated from Northwestern University in 2005. He received an MFA in cinematography from the University of Southern California in May 2008.

A student of all forms of art, Anthony studied painting and music throughout his childhood.Anthony's musical and visual art background has come to profoundly influence his filmmaking as he works as a cinematographer in Los Angeles. Learn more and view his work at www.ackuhnz.com.

Fun Fact: Anthony's parents raise llamas in Wisconsin (to meet the bizarrely high llama demand there).

PRODUCTION DESIGNER - Juliana Hong

Born and raised in Brazil, Juliana Hong attended marketing school in her home country before moving to the United States in 2004 to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Critical Studies from USC. She currently interns at Universal Studios in their production offices.

Juliana has a number of short movies under her belt, most recently as the Production Designer on the short film, "Solitude." Juliana hopes to continue working in film and to gain her American citizenship so that she will be eligible for unemployment benefits

Fun Fact: Contrary to popular belief Juliana is NOT a convicted felon.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - John Thompson

John credits his acute sense of color and light to being flung from the back of a speeding pick-up truck at the tender age of thirteen. When he regained consciousness, he knew he wanted to be a filmmaker.

He accepted his first film award at the age of eighteen from AFI. He went to film school, worked some crappy jobs, and went back to film school again.
Then John wrote and directed SONGBIRD. The short screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and gained a great deal of attention.

Later that year, John won the Heineken Music Video Competition and was awarded the opportunity to direct a music video for international rock star Rocco Deluca, the leading artist under Kiefer Sutherland’s label Iron Works. Most recently, John was a finalist in the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Competition with his project THE REPORT.

Fun Fact: John prays that he never has to deliver pizzas again.

EDITOR - Jon Bernbaum

Jonathan Bernbaum was born in Berkeley, CA on June 17th, 1982 at 2:52AM, nearly down to the minute the ten-year anniversary of the Watergate burglary. Because of this, he felt he was destined to a life of crime in journalism or politics -before he found his calling in the movies. Jon attended Brandeis University in History and Film Studies, garnering numerous honors.

Since 2002, Jonathan has been editing film and video projects, both narrative, documentary, live performance, and music video. Recently, he interned in the editorial department at Pixar Animation Studios.

Jonathan has edited and directed projects from the post-apocalyptic screwball comedy, obsessive-compulsive horror romance, and relationship-counseling mafia action-comedy. In his last semester of the MFA program at USC, Jonathan is completing two feature screenplays, and preparing to direct a short about human taxidermy.

Fun Fact: Jonathon has a nearly photographic memory -nearly.

PRODUCTION SOUND- David Lankton & Paul Fonarev

Paul and David are both graduates of the USC MFA film production program, and began working professionally on production and post-production sound three years ago. They have worked on numerous commercials and shorts, including two that have won Student Academy Awards. They started their own sound company, MisoSound, and you can learn more about them at www.misosound.com

Fun Fact: David is fluent in Esperanto, and Paul in Klingon.

KEY GRIP - Joel Matarrese, GAFFERS - Phil Matarrese, Will Novy

Responsible for setting all the lights and lighting equipment, as well as the dolly and other production equipment, the work of the gaffer and key grip is never done. Which is great because Phil, Joel and Will have nothing better to do with their time. All three have been working free lance in Los Angeles for several years, and have a number of movies, shorts and commercials under their belts.

Fun Fact: Phil & Joel are twins who love collecting tumbleweeds. Will is not related to either Phil or Joel.

1st ASSISTANT CAMERA - Robert Edgecomb, 2nd ASSISTANT CAMERA - Cliff Thenard

Rob & Cliff were responsible for setting up the camera, making sure everything is in focus, loading the film, marking each shot, checking the film, setting exposure, logging shots, and pretty much working all the time with out any breaks. Students at USC, Rob & Cliff are both talented filmmakers who have shot and AC'ed several student projects.

Fun Fact: Rob's turn-ons are long walks on the beach and candlelit dinners, while Cliff's turn-ons are reading by firelight and Spanish Fly.

MAKEUP ARTIST- Haley O'Neil

Nothing is currently known about Haley O'Neil. Perhaps, one day, mankind will learn more, until then all we have this one photograph.

Fun Fact: Haley is originally from Texas.

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