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Stuart Altman
One Night Stand Up
Loyola Marymount University
Stuart Altman recently graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a MFA in Film Production. This is his thesis film and second comedy. Upon graduation from New Mexico Military Institute, he attended Arizona State University and received a degree in Politics.
One Night Stand Up was a challenge, and Stand-Up comedy proved nearly impossible. It has been said, "Dying is easy, but comedy is hard."
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Gennady Babichenko
Skies of the Fallen
CalArts
Gennady Babichenko, born in Kiev, Ukraine and was fortunate enough to escape by the age of four ending up in Encino, California. His teachers didn't take him seriously when he drew in the margins of his notebooks in high school. His parents found his childhood fascination with art disconcerting, as it is a general Russian mentality that art is not a profitable venture in life, though with time it became clear that there was absolutely no making him see this logic. He is currently a senior at the California Institute of the Arts where he focuses his Character Animation major on traditional/ 3D animation and 3D modeling as well as drawing in the margins of his notebooks. After completing two Animated shorts, The Cornfed Kid and Soul Sale, and collaborating on Skies of the Fallen, He feels that he is prepared to dominate a small country.
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Jon Berkowitz
Easy As Pie
USC
Jon was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, but was quickly torn from his roots and dragged to the United States only to then move from city to city while his parents desperately attempted to "find themselves". They lived in Boston, then Denver, Rochester, and finally Baltimore, where he attended high school. Always one to avoid responsibility, Jon spent a year in Sardinia, Italy immediately following high school on American Field Service, an exchange student organization.
Jon wanted to attend film school for college but was dissuaded by his parents who believed that a liberal arts education would serve him better. Jon hates to admit that they were right, but they were. He studied Comparative Literature at Hamilton College, in upstate New York. Immediately following his fruitful years at USC, Jon found work as a producer at Imaginary Forces, a production company and motion-graphic design firm in Hollywood, and helped to produce title sequences for films such as Spider-Man, Stuart Little 2 and Daredevil. He is currently working to make Easy As Pie into a feature film.
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Nick Crew
March 26th
Loyola Marymount University
Omaha, Nebraska native Nick Crew is a current student at Loyola Marmount University where he will complete his Bachelor's degree of Film Production in the Spring of 2005. While at Loyola he has worked on a variety of projects, most recently assuming the role of Director of Photography on four short films, including his own Junior Thesis Film March 26th. Crew is currently in the process of writing his next short film that should begin production in February of 2005.
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Eli Daughdrill
Caregiver
Loyola Marymount University
Eli grew up on an almond ranch in California's Central Valley. He moved to San Francisco in 1998 and did his undergraduate work in cinema in San Francisco State University. He has just completed his second year at Loyola Marymount University's MFA program in Film Production. He completed two short films as SFSU and has now completed two films at LMU. He is currently in pre-production for his Master's Thesis, entitled Jonas, a documentary about Eli's brother and his battles with paranoid schizophrenia.
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Mike Dobler
The Day After The Day After Christmas
Loyola Marymount University
Fascinated by the explosions of Independence Day, and moved by the gooeyness of You've Got Mail,, Dobler pursued filmmaking during his late high school years. Stepping into a postmodern age of filmmaking, Dobler developed a fractalization technique, integrating visions of unreality with formal cliches of contemporary cinema. In addition to filmmaking, Dobler produces music on Earjuice Records, sounds described as hip-hop-influenced, electro-acoustic death jam. Dobler is also skilled in balisong motion study.
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Alan Estridge
At Wit's Vend
UCLA
Alan Estridge was homegrown in Auburn, Alabama. He grew up loving Bugs Bunny and drawing his own cartoons. After high school Alan embarked on a several-year stint in New Orleans, Louisiana, during which he attended Tulane University, received a degree in Art and Biology, and made loud music in a rock band. New Orleans eventually proved a little too relaxing for Alan, so he packed his bags and headed to Los Angeles to hit it big in the movies.
Soon he was storyboarding and illustrating, and making a name for himself in the live-action world. But the desire to animate was growing within him. After a good many years in the "real world," Alan opted for the unreal world, and went back to school to pursue his dreams of animating.
Alan's first film, the award-winning Cone-nundrum, is a traditional 2D piece exploring a young boy's problems distinguishing dreams from reality. At Wit's Vend uses 3D and 2D computer animation to give you a candy bar's view of the world of the vending machine. It is screening in several film festivals around the U.S., winning awards and critical acclaim.
Presently Alan has completed his third year at UCLA in the Animation Workshop, completing an MFA in Animation, and in production on his thesis film, a 3D film currently titled Gridlock.
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Luke Fisher
The Road To Hanoi
Loyola Marymount University
Luke Fisher is a recent graduateof the MFA program at Loyola Marymount University with an emphasis in film production. Prior to graduate school Luke worked as a teacher, bartender, dishwasher, paperboy, fine art photgrapher, digital photographer, writer, framer, courier... among other things. As an undergraduate and graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Luke designed and taught in the English department a class entitled: "The Study of Charles Bukowski and Other Drug/Alcohol influenced Writers." The years that followed drifted between photography, writing and teaching. Luke's first major photo-essay was "The Denny's Waitress Interviews" (1997). After this cross-country pilgrimage, Luke moved to Casablanca, Morocco (1998) to teach 3rd grade. Morocco was followed by an additional year of teaching high school in Barcelona, Spain (1999). Since returning to the States, Luke hosted two solo gallery shoes in San Francisco (Focus Gallery) and has co-written three books (Broken Fables Vol. I, II and III). Now in Los Angeles, photography and cinematography have taken over with work on seventeen short films and underwater cinematography on three. Most recently one cinematography project, Last Chair, won the Director's Guild of America's top honors as best African American student film (2003). Luke's thesis film, The Road to Hanoi was shot entirely in Vietnam over the course of two months and follows the process of how expatriates develop a "developing country." Luke now supports himself as a freelance digital and film photography, photo assistant, videographer and editor.
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Erin Hall
Lenny In Love
Loyola Marymount University
Erin Hall was born and raised in Torrance, California. She has worked on
many productions including student films, independent features and music
videos as a production designer. Lenny in Love is Erin's first production
where she is the writer, director, editor, and production designer. The film
was shot on 35mm at LMU's soundstage and at various locations in Torrance.
She feels that films give us a chance to live in a different world for a
moment in our lives and she enjoys being a part of creating these worlds.
Erin will complete her Bachelor's Degree in Film Production at Loyola
Marymount University in Spring 2005.
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Matthew Hsu
Charlie 2.0
USC
Matthew Hsu grew up in suburban New Jersey thinking that he wanted to become an engineer. He was quickly convinced otherwise after a couple of college semesters full of differential equations and a bunch of other stuff he can barely remember. Instead, he received an AB from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media. He went on to pursue filmmaking in the MFA program at the USC School of Cinema-Television. At USC, Matthew was a finalist in the 2001 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmakers Competition, for which he wrote and directed a short entitled Super Google Pops, which was distributed to movie theaters nationwide. He also produced numerous other films and served as a graduate teaching assistant in advanced cinematography. Charlie 2.0 was made as his MFA thesis project. Matthew currently resides in Los Angeles where he is eagerly seeking an attractive woman to buy him an oceanfront beach house.
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Elizabeth Ito
Welcome to My Life
CalArts
Elizabeth Ito is the renaissance girl of quirky films, cool art, and weird things. She is an adept artist, animator, storyteller, and is an incredibly skilled websurfer. Her professors have likened her work to gothic painter, Hieronymus Bosch (who has been described as "marvelous and terrifying", and Elizabeth thinks, "he's just plain weird"). Eleven-year-old friend Sena says: "Elizabeth is fun to talk about toys with." Elizabeth one day aspires to live in a cartoon world where everything is swaying and singing. She received a BA in English from UCLA, and most recently graduated from the Character Animation program at Cal Arts. Currently she is working at Dreamworks Feature Animation as a storyboard artist. She is also developing a children's book to be published soon, and her Mister Monster toy is selling worldwide (designed from a character featured in her junior year student film).
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Jung-Ho Kim
Venice Beach
CalArts
Jung-Ho Kim was born in Seoul in 1971. At present he is studying Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts.
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Kevin Pai
Skies of the Fallen
CalArts
Kevin Pai was born in Taipei, Taiwan and came to the United States at the age of four. Fascinated with art, videogames and music, he began to pursuit his education in these areas. He dreamed of expressing his ideas visually and aurally to move people and was able to do just that in his latest involvement with the film, Skies of the Fallen. Having worked on the development of the story, air-carrier designs, digital animation, and wrote the original music score for Skies of the Fallen trailer, he is looking forward to the upcoming challenges of finishing the film alongside with teammates in Cube 5 Productions. He is currently a third year student at the California Institute of the Arts and is planning to work within the interactive medium of the videogame industry. Kevin envisions that someday he can design and direct games that will successfully combine elements of good storytelling with creative game play mechanics.
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Mike Schwartz
19 At 11
USC
Mike Schwartz is some guy from Jersey. After co-authoring a feature length musical his senior year at high school, Michael found his way to NYU, where he majored in playwriting and screenwriting, and then to USC. During a summer internship at a local TV station, he got an idea for a movie about the political infighting and backbiting he witnessed in the newsroom. Michael has worked on studio features, mentored under independent film producer Edward R. Pressman, and most recently he's edited for the likes of Nickelodeon, The Discovery Channel/Animal Planet and TV's Blind Date. Most people say he's a pretty good guy. Everyone else is probably just jealous.
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Kyle Shockley
Skies of the Fallen
CalArts
Kyle Shockley began his animation endeavors under the glow of hanging lightbulbs, tangled wires, and other assorted film equipment that had been set up within the confines of a renovated janitors' closet. This "Animation Hellhole" (as it was called) was located in the art wing of Allan Hancock College. Under the tutelage of Ed Harvey, and working elbow to elbow among the countless other like-minded animation enthusiasts, four short animated films (along with originally produced soundtracks) were completed by Mr. Shockley in this rather unlikely setting. One of these short pieces, The Adventures of Eggplant, went on to win first place for "traditionally animated film" in the 2001 Media Arts Program sponsored by EdNet Media/Multimedia/Entertainment Initiative. His self-produced soundtrack entry into the same Media Arts Program won him honorable mention.
During this time, Mr. Shockley was invited on two separate occasions to the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jerusalem, Israel) to work on two animated projects, Fist of the North Wood and Hummous, both being written and directed by Joe Kossuth. Mr. Shockley would say that these projects left about as much of an impression upon him, both physically and mentally, as did his sleeping on the rocks for an evening camping near the Sea of Galilee.
Mr. Shockley was accepted in the character animation program at California Institute of the Arts in 2001. Since then, the lessons that he had learned from collaborating with others assisted him in working on new projects at CalArts, one of which was the collaborative effort produced by Cube 5 Productions, entitled Skies of the Fallen. Mr. Shockley contributed to the storyboarding, character design, and animation aspects of the film, as well as providing a cooked meal for the production crew on more than one occasion.
Whether it is within the janitors' closet located several miles from Mr. Shockley's home, in the lower echelons of an art school located half way around the world, or in the endless maze of cubicles situated deep within the animation department at CalArts, Mr. Shockley would say that he learned the value of foresight, dedication, teamwork, and friendship from the many people that he has met during his artistic and academic career. Without these innumerable colleagues, he feels that he would be significantly less of an artist and an individual.
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Chris Minki Song
Skies of the Fallen
CalArts
Chris Minki Song was born in Seoul, Korea. He studied graphic design and came to LA(1996) with a hope that he could learn more about art. While he was studying transportation design in Art Center (2000), he developed an interest in animation which led him to change his major and school. Currently he is a senior at California Institute of the Arts, majoring in Character Animation. He dreamed of his career in animating films, and he directed an animated film Return of the Challenger (2003). In 2004, he assembled a team to work on an animated film called Skies of the Fallen. As a member of Cube 5 Production, Chris contributed himself as a co-director, an animator, and an editor. Although Cube 5 Production members had various skills and talents, they were able to successfully combine and work together as a single unit to produce an animated film. He dreams of being a character animator and plans to produce his own films in the near future
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Nathan Tape
Hi, Honey...
Loyola Marymount University
Nathan Tape, a New Orleans native, is currently in pursuit of his Master of Fine Arts from Loyola Marymount University. Nathan recieved his Bachelor's degree in Communications from Loyola University New Orleans in 2002, and attended The New York Film Academy in the summer of 2001.
Hi, Honey... is Nathan's first film at LMU, and has worked as Cinematographer on three other student productions. Nathan has made two other short films entitled: Spilled Milkand The Gordon Project.
Nathan is also co-founder of Media Darling Records, and independent hip-hop label based out of New Orleans. He is a music producer, and has created numerous songs including all of the music used in Hi, Honey...
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Ham Tram
The Anniversary
UCLA
Ham Tran was born in Vietnam, where he grew up until his family immigrated to the United States in 1982. The Anniversary completes his MFA Directing degree at the UCLA School of Film and Television. His past films, The Prescription and Pomegranate, have both received numerous accolades, including nominations for the Student Academy Awards ®.
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Tim Wheeler
Veracity
Loyola Marymount University
Tim Wheeler is the writer, director, producer, and editor of Veracity. In 2002 he received his bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University. The twenty-four year old currently resides in his hometown of Manhattan Beach, Ca. and is in his final year of Graduate Film Production studies at Loyola Marymount University.
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