NY CAMERA PERSON Andrew Filippone Jr. is a filmmaker living and working in New York City. His 2008 appropriated-footage short “‘Charlie Rose’ by Samuel Beckett” became a viral video hit and received national media attention in “Rolling Stone” and “New York” magazines, along with screenings at the Chicago and Boston Underground Film Festivals and the New York Public Library. His earlier documentary work is diverse in both form and content: “Happy Monday” (2006), a unique “documentary film object” that is displayed on a free-standing lightbox, was exhibited at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, and the International Experimental Cinema Exposition; “Mina & the Family Treasure” (2004), a feature-length work, was executive produced by Rosie O’Donnell and broadcast nationwide on PBS; and “Commute” (2002), a 53-minute ambient documentary, screened as part of d’art03 at the 50th Sydney Film Festival.

ANIMATION Max Rubin is a film student in the Animation Division of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He began animating as a young teenager. At 15 years old, one of his animations screened at the  2007 14th Annual New York Underground Film Festival. His work has also appeared in numerous student animation festivals, including the 2008 Bay Street Animation Film Festival, where he won first prize in the Over-Two-Minute category for his animation “The Adventures of Awkward Girl, Episode 1.” He is currently working on continuing his animation series, “The Adventures of Awkward Girl.” Max Rubin was also autistic as a child and totally cured with homeopathy. His mother, Amy Lansky, is the author of the book “The Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy for Treating Autism.”

EXECUTIVE/CONSULTING PRODUCER Klara Grunning-Harris. Emmy Award winning Grunning-Harris is an independent executive/consulting producer. Prior she was the Vice President and International Commissioning Editor, Acquisitions, Co-production & Fiction Executive of KUDOS Family, a start up media co-production and distribution company based in Stavanger, Norway, and branch in Berkeley CA. Before that she worked for nine years at ITVS as the Coordinating Producer (Lion in the House, New Americans, Be Like Others, My Country My Country etc.) to bring international and domestic documentaries, series and dramas to US television broadcast and digital platforms. Klara’s background as an independent producer, director and cinematographer for the past 17 years, include these credits among others, Gumby Dharma, Emmy Winning feature documentary, What Do You Believe?, feature documentary and Looking For Buddha, fictional feature as well as commercials, industrials, web-interactives and music videos. Klara has been invited to judge media funds, partake in film festival panels and industry juries.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Eileen Olivieri Torpey is an award winning producer and interdisciplinary artist. Her work has been screened and exhibited both nationally and internationally for over 10 years. Ms. Torpey’s background as an independent producer includes producing/directing credits for “Santa Fe Watershed: Lessons From the Genius of Place,” a collaboration with Emmy Award winning cinematographer, Douglas Crawford; “Lines and Circles,” a collaboration with poet laureate of Santa Fe, Valerie Martinez, “Life Songs,” a project of Little Globe, Inc and the Santa Fe Opera, and “Turismo,” an MTV3 production. She has exhibited her visual art at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Reykjavik, Iceland, Havana, Cuba, among many other places. Ms. Torpey is a two-time recipient of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation grant, a New Visions Film Award for and independent narrative in New Mexico and a U.S. Embassy Award for site-specific sculpture. She received her M.F.A. at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, University.

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT: Dr Ann McCambell, MD trained in internal medicine and practiced women’s health in California.  She currently lives in Santa Fe and works in the field of environmental and public health.  She is an author, educator, and advocate on issues involving the relationship between environment and health.