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Frank Hall Green WRITER PRODUCER DIRECTOR
Frank Hall Green is a film producer, writer and director. His directorial debut feature WILDLIKE is produced by Christine Vachon/Killer Films, Tandem Pictures and Joseph Stephans. It was filmed on 35mm in Alaska and stars Ella Purnell, Bruce Greenwood, Brian Geraghty, Nolan Gerard Funk and Ann Dowd. He is currently producing the adaptation of BOY21 by Matthew Quick (SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK) to be directed by Lasse Hallstrom (WHATS EATING GILBERT GRAPE, CIDER HOUSE RULES) and REMITTANCE, the sophomoric feature of writing/directing team Joel Fendelman and Patrick Daly (DAVID). Recently, he produced GHETTO KLOWN on HBO, the award-winning one-man show of John Leguizamo. He was a producer on ALLEGIANCE starring Aiden Quinn, Bow Wow, Seth Gabel and Pablo Schreiber, and 1-900-TONIGHT starring John Turturro based on the film by Theo Van Gogh, among others. Frank cut his teeth producing far too many short films and has an MBA from NYU’s Tisch School of Film & Television. Before NYU’s graduate film program, Frank worked in Venture Capital and emerging technology. He is also an alumnus of NYU’s Gallatin School, an avid backpacker and a member of MENSA.
Julie Christeas PRODUCER
Julie Christeas is an accomplished independent film producer who began her career as a production manager and line producer for a myriad of commercials and films. She then accepted a position at Renart Films, a leading NYC production company, as EVP of production and development. There, she executive produced Monogamy, a feature film directed by Academy Award nominee Dana Adam Shapiro, starring Chris Messina and Rashida Jones. In 2010, Julie co-founded Tandem Pictures with producing partner Schuyler Weiss and has since produced three feature films. The Sleepwalker premiered in competition at Sundance Film Festival in 2014 and is scheduled for theatrical release in late 2014. Julie also produced Seeds of Hope: A Journey with Hugh Jackman, which documents the actor’s efforts to promote sustainable poverty solutions for coffee farmers in Ethiopia, and Tandem Pictures’ upcoming film WildLike, a dramatic feature shot on 35mm in Alaska, which will premiere in October, 2014. Julie was also privileged to work with director Baz Luhrmann on twelve short films for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2012 exhibition Impossible Conversations: Schiaparelli and Prada. Julie is currently producing Tandem’s newest independent feature, The Blood Stripe, shooting in northern Minnesota.
Schuyler Weiss PRODUCER
Schuyler is an accomplished independent film producer who began his career in Sydney, Australia working for writer/director/producer Baz Luhrmann on all aspects of development, production, post-production and marketing of his films, even co-writing a song with Luhrmann and Elton John. Since co-founding the production company Tandem Pictures with producing partner Julie Christeas in New York in 2010, Schuyler has produced three feature films. Recent Tandem Pictures production, The Sleepwalker, premiered in competition at Sundance in 2014 and is scheduled for theatrical release in late 2014. Schuyler has continued to work with Luhrmann, producing a series of twelve films directed by Luhrmann for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2012 exhibition Impossible Conversations: Schiaparelli and Prada. Other notable works include Seeds of Hope: A Journey with Hugh Jackman, which documents the actor’s efforts to promote sustainable poverty solutions for coffee farmers in Ethiopia, and Tandem Pictures’ upcoming film WildLike, a dramatic feature shot on 35mm in Alaska, which will premiere in October, 2014. Schuyler is currently producing Tandem’s newest independent feature, The Blood Stripe, shooting in northern Minnesota.
Joseph Stephans PRODUCER
Joseph’s love for film began in the movie theaters of the Twin Cities with his father. 2001: A Space Odyssey, the original In-Laws, and a supremely bizarre film starring Tony Curtis called, The Manitou, are some memorable and formative examples of his early exposure to cinema. Joseph began his career during New York’s independent film wave of the 90's on the Abel Ferrara low budget, black & white, star-filled vampire film, The Addiction. His next job was Die Hard With A Vengeance. Joseph has worked on over 30 films along with several TV series and commercials in a variety of environments ranging from the Virgin Islands to the White Mountains to Amish country to the inner-city. Whether it is the ultra low budget (Girls Town), the mid-budget (Requiem For A Dream) or the colossal budget (The Good Shepherd), Joe has been helping filmmakers achieve their visions for twenty years. He is currently in development on a film to be produced in 2015. He lives with his wife and two kids in Park Slope, Brooklyn where he occasionally still laces up the skates and plays the guitar, though never at the same time.
Christine Vachon EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Christine Vachon is an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award winner who co-founded indie powerhouse Killer Films with partner Pamela Koffler in 1995. Over the past decade and a half, the two have produced some of the most celebrated American indie features including FAR FROM HEAVEN (nominated for four Academy Awards), BOYS DON'T CRY (Academy Award winner), ONE HOUR PHOTO, KIDS, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, HAPPINESS, VELVET GOLDMINE, SAFE, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL, CAMP, SWOON and I’M NOT THERE (Academy Award nominated). In television, Vachon recently executive-produced the Emmy and Golden Globe winning miniseries MILDRED PIERCE for HBO. Recent work includes: KILL YOUR DARLINGS starring Daniel Radcliffe, directed by John Krokidas, MAGIC MAGIC starring Michael Cera, directed by Sebastian Silva; STILL ALICE directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kirsten Stewart and the upcoming CAROL directed by Todd Haynes starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, and Sarah Paulson.
Hillary Spera DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Hillary Spera is a cinematographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She splits her time between documentary, narrative, and commercial projects. Her previous narrative work includes Katie Aselton and Mark Duplass' thriller Black Rock, which premiered at Sundance 2012; High Road, an improv comedy feature directed by Upright Citizen's Brigade founder Matt Walsh; and Salar, a film shot in Bolivia and shortlisted for a short form 2013 Academy Award. Documentary credits include Darkon, winner of the Audience Award at 2006 SXSW; Alice Neel; American Juggalo; Maidentrip; Oxyana, winner of Best New Director Award for director Sean Dunne at 2013 Tribeca Film Festival; and After Tiller, directed by Martha Shane and Lana Wilson, which recently premiered on PBS' POV series. Currently she is in production for Wilson's second feature, Last Call, a documentary profiling the work of Buddhist priests confronting the suicide epidemic in Japan and Unlocking the Truth, a documentary featuring the rise of a teenage metal band of the same name. Hillary also recently completed photography on Janet Grillo/Sundial Pictures' feature narrative Jack of The Red Hearts.
Mako Kamitsuna EDITOR
Represented by Worldwide Production Agency (WPA) as a below-the-line talent, Mako is a versatile film editor in both fiction and non-fiction genre. In 2010, Mako edited the award-winning, critically acclaimed indie feature, PARIAH which opened 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently released by Focus Features and won Independent Spirit Awards. In 2012 she edited HBO's documentary mini-series WITNESS, executive-produced by Michael Mann. One of Mako's edited episodes, WITNESS: LIBYA, premiered out of competition in Venice Film Festival in 2012 and was nominated for "Best Limited Series" category at 2013 International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards. In 2013 Mako edited two independent feature films: Frank Hall Green's Wildlike, executive produced by Christine Vachon and starring Bruce Greenwood, Brian Geraghty and Ella Purnell; and THE WORLD MADE STRAIGHT, produced by Todd Labarowski and starring Noah Wyle, Jeremy Irvine, Adelaide Clemens and Steve Earle. Earlier in 2014, Mako edited Tim Blake Nelson's dramatic feature ANESTHESIA starring Kristen Stewart, Sam Waterston, Glenn Close, Gretchen Mol, Michael K. Williams and Tim Blake Nelson. Mako has just finished post-production of Katherine Heigl-starring JACKIE & RYAN directed by Ami Canaan Mann (TEXAS KILLING FIELD), which premiered in Horizons competition at Venice Film Festival. Mako is currently editing Michael Mann's upcoming cyber thriller BLACKHAT starring Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis and Wei Tang to be released by Universal Pictures in January 2015.
Daniel Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans MUSIC COMPOSERS
Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans are 2 contemporary film composers working together in New York. Danny is an internationally-raised musician who studied the cello and received a music degree from Northwestern. Saunder is a guitarist and vocalist heralding from the grunge and hard rock music scene in Seattle. For several years, Danny and Saunder played in a unique instrumental rock band called Priestbird, which toured extensively in N. America and Europe. They were invited to open for several reputable bands including Pearl Jam. In 2010, they were approached to score their first feature movie Two Gates Of Sleep by director Alistair Banks Griffin which premiered in Cannes (Director's Fortnight). The film demanded a unique sounding orchestral score that quickly garnered the attention of several other directors. From Johnny Greenwood-esque Avant-Garde Classical music to sweeping epic orchestral scores, the composer duo have since scored an array of award-winning films and documentaries including "Martha Marcy May Marlene" by director Sean Durkin, "Simon Killer" by director Antonio Campos, "The One I Love” by director Charlie McDowell, 'Bluebird" by director Lance Edmands, and "Enemy" by director Denis Villeneuve (starring Jake Gyllenhaal) which recently won the award for best Musical Score at the Canadian Screen Awards. Currently they are working on "Last Days in The Desert" by director Rodrigo Garcia (starring Ewan McGregor) and "Franny" by director Andrew Renzi (starring Richard Gere).