Artists
Bob Barancik
Bob Barancik, an award-winning experimental video producer, digital printmaker, and painter, is the founder and director of Rock Ledge Studios. Barancik's videos feature his digital prints and photography.
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Gary Beeber
Gary Beeber is an American filmmaker/photographer who has been exhibiting since the early nineties and continues to promote his work in film festivals and galleries across both the United States and Europe. "Bally Master" is his second documentary.
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Linda Booker
A graduate of Florida State University, Booker changed careers from graphic design and art direction to filmmaking after attending Durham's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in 2003. In 2005 Linda formed By the Brook Productions, based in Central North Carolina to produce documentaries and outreach videos for non-profits.
Linda Booker will introduce the film and answer questions afterward.
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Charles Burnett
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on April 13, 1944, Charles Burnett moved with his family to the Watts area of Los Angeles at an early age. He describes the community of having a strong mythical connection with the South as a result of having so many Southern transplants, an atmosphere which has informed much of his work.
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Shawn Cheatham
Shawn Cheatham studied film and media at the University of Florida and received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of South Florida, Tampa.
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Ronnie Cramer
Ronnie Cramer has been active in the arts community for over thirty years. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries and other venues across the country (including over forty shows in 2005-06 alone), his music has achieved airplay on over 100 radio stations nationwide and his critically-acclaimed films have been screened at festivals around the world.
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Rob Cunningham
Rob Cunningham directed and co-wrote the 2000 short film "The Devices of Gustav Braustache, Bachelor of Science", which won top prize in The Stranger newsweekly's first annual film and video competition in Seattle.
His latest short film, "Gustav Braustache and the Auto-Debilitator", is the result of several years of work, many blown fuses, and a forfeited damage deposit.
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Andrea Dojmi
Andrea Dojmi, visual artist, videoartist, filmaker, performer, photographer, was born in Rome in 1973.
After a degree in multimedia, international communication and visual arts, Andrea collaborated for years as a freelance creative art director in the international contemporary communication and advertising.
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David Eckenrode
David, the son of an ex-monk and cowgirl, was raised in Durango, Colorado. He received a B.S. at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, with a focus on field biology. Later he returned to the same school and studied documentary film.
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Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney, writer, director, producer, marrator, received his first Academy Award nomination for "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," which he wrote, produced and directed. He is the director of Taxi to the Dark Side.
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Pete Guzzo and Paul Guzzo
Pete is the creative director and media consultant for 1 Day Films. He worked as a free lance videographer, editor, and producer at the City of Tampa Television and Hillsborough County Television for four years and worked for numerous out of state production companies who came to Tampa Bay to film their productions.
Pete and Paul Guzzo will introduce the film and answer questions afterward.
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Leslie Hope
Leslie Hope, producer and director, has worked in the film industry for over 25 years. She wrote and directed her first short film "The Luncheon" in 1985 and then began her foray into producing with the play "Taking Off" at The Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles. She will direct her first television movie, "Daughter of the Bride", this year.
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Jelmar Hufen
For two years, Jelmar Hufen saved all his money for his own film project. In 2005, with $15,000 in savings and with the help of some generous movie companies, he began shooting "For A Few Marbles More".
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Victoria Jorgensen
Victoria Jorgensen is a Tampa-based filmmaker, writer, film festival organizer and business owner. She has attended the Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals annually since 1999 returning to Tampa with programming suggestions for local area film festivals.
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Ivan Kavanagh
Ivan Kavanagh has written, produced, edited and directed ten short films and four features.
Ivan's third feature Tin Can Man, won "Boundary Breaking Best Feature" at the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2007.
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Song E. Kim
Song E. Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, and came to the United States as a teenager to study drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture and computer graphics at the prestigious Idyllwild Arts Academy. She received her BFA in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts, where she is currently pursuing her MFA in Experimental Animation.
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Jeremy Kruse
Jeremy Kruse is a writer, actor, producer and director. He has written, produced, directed, edited and acted in over 20 short films. He has been involved in numerous plays, sketch comedy shows, independent films, commercials and televisions spots in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
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Jian Lee
Jian Lee majored in Visual Communication Design at Ewha Woman's University in Korea. Her first animated film, "Somewhere I belong" won second prize at the MECA Festival. She is currently an MFA student in the experimental animation department at California Institute of the Arts.
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Tatchapon Lertwirojkul
Trained and employed as an architect, Tatchapon Lertwirojkul became entranced by the 3-D modeling software his firm used to show "walk-through" digital renderings to clients. He returned to school to earn a masters' degree in animation and is now employed by Psyop Company in New York City, making 3-D animations.
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Ángel Loza
When he was eighteen and in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the "Movida madrileña" (important social movement in Madrid among young people that took place in the decade of 1980-1990) Ángel Loza started to experiment with Super 8mm, photography and video.
Self-taught, his works give us a critical reference of society. His opinion is sharp and this sharpness is always latent.
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Manny Mendoza and Mark Birnbaum
Mendoza has been a newspaperman since 1979 when he became one of the last copy boys in America. More recently, he spent 14 years as a television, theater and pop-music critic at the Dallas Morning News.
Mark Birnbaum's films have chronicled the Second Vatican Council, women trash recyclers in Ecuador, American high school kids in China, medical science, sailboat racing, and salsa dancing.
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Eduardo Menz
Eduardo Menz was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada not so long ago, and now makes Montreal, Quebec, his home where he is a member of the Double Negative Experimental Film Collective. He has recently completed a BFA in photography/film production at Concordia University.
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Tony Mullen
Tony Mullen is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and animator. He co-wrote the award-winning film "The Devices of Gustav Braustache, Bachelor of Science".
He has worked as a professional cartoonist for several newspapers in the US and the Czech Rebublic. He is also working on a series computer animated short stories
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Bari Pearlman
Bari Pearlman is a Manhattan-based independent producer, director, and writer, specializing in quality documentaries for theatrical and television markets.
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Jessica Sison
Jessica Sison's documentary work has screened in film festivals all over the world, and her broadcast work has shown on PBS, the Oxygen Channel, the WB, ImaginAsian, and The Filipino Channel.
"Kuna Ni Nanang" is her documentary directorial debut. Jessica is passionate about documentaries and continues to edit for other producers and directors. Her next documentary is about her family's unusual participation in the Bataan Death March during WWII.
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Patrick Smith
Smith made his directorial debut for the Emmy-nominated MTV series "Down-Town", continuing on to direct the popular animated series "Daria". His bizarre, morphing style tells symbolic stories of identity and emotion, and have extended beyond film.
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John Sheedy
John grew up in rural Eastern Oregon in a double wide on 40 acres. He moved to Colorado when he was fifteen. He developed a passion for photography while traveling to Europe and South America in his early twenties.
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Paul Zinder
Paul Zinder is an award-winning independent film and video maker whose work has screened internationally. He teaches film at The American University of Rome, Italy.
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