A Pittsburgh native, Kevin Kerwin holds an MFA from Columbia University
School of Film and is the winner of several awards, including the Milos
Forman Award for Screenwriting, Nickelodeon Screenwriting Award and the
Best Comedy Screenplay at the 2001 Austin Film Festival. He is represented
by Cathy Tarr at Creative Artists Agency. This is his directorial debut.
Producer Kate O’Neil
www.authenticfilms.net
Filmic Achievement is Kate O’Neil’s first feature production.
She comes to the project with a background in fundraising and management
for nonprofit organizations. She received her master’s degree in
Nonprofit Management from Case Western Reserve University. She also brings
knowledge in business development, research and marketing for traditional
businesses after her work experience with a commercial real estate enterprise.
Director of Photography Rick Lopez
www.lopezfilm.com
Once a cinematography student, and now a cinematography instructor at
Columbia University, Rick López has filmed more than 50 features,
shorts, commercials, and documentaries. His work has screened at festivals
around the world including the Berlin Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival,
Slamdance Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, the Hamptons Film Festival,
CamerImage: the International Festival for the Art of Cinematography,
and others.
Editor Aaron Lubarsky
Aaron Lubarsky co-directed and edited the critically acclaimed HBO documentary
"Journeys with George". The film was theatrically released and
nominated for six Emmy awards. He won the 2003 Emmy for Outstanding Non-Fiction
Picture Editing. Lubarsky received his master's degree from Stanford University's
Documentary Film Program where his thesis film "Wayne Freedman's
Notebook" won a Student Academy Award and a Student Emmy Award. After
graduation he worked as a documentarian at Lucasfilm on "The Making
Of Star Wars: Episode One". In 2002, he founded PostDox, specializing
in non-fiction-style post-production editing.
Original Score Dennis Lewin
www.dennislewinmusic.com
Dennis Lewin began classical piano at the age of five with his grandfather,
concert pianist Joseph Lewin. He studied at the Cleveland Music School
settlement and at Cleveland State University with Dr. Andrius Kuprevicious
and Dr. Heywood Alexander. After college, Lewin signed recording contracts
with CBS/Scotti Bros. Records and later with Amherst Records for the rock
group Beau-Coup, for whom he wrote music and lyrics. Beau-Coup videos
were early MTV hits and several singles entered the Billboard Hot 100.
Lewin’s latest solo piano CD is titled “Crossing Chagrin.”
Production
Sound Jeremy Scott Frindel
Assistant Director Cecily Kaston
1st Assistant Director Dan Nemet-Nejat
Production Design Greg Bunch
Additional Photography Jae Song
Additional Sound Alex Portugal
Assistant Editor Brandon Park
Casting Neil Hopkins, Saba Homayoon, Rude Mechanicals
Theater Company
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