Una noche

Lucy Mulloy - Director, Screenwriter

Writer/Director Lucy Mulloy spent a year in Cuba before she was awarded the Dean's Fellowship to study her MFA at New York University. Her short films have been shown internationally and she was nominated for the Student Academy Award. 
Lucy returned to Havana for three years to develop the script for Una Noche, for which she was awarded the Spike Lee Production Grant and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Grant.

Additional Projects:
Una Noche is a trilogy and the additional scripts are in development

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Faded Giant

Andrea Janakas - Director, Screenwriter

Andrea Janakas recently completed her MFA in Directing at The American Film Institute. Her script Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves earned her the 2005 Fuji Student Filmmaker Award, screened at The Seattle International Film Festival and at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and won the Jury Prize at the Palm Springs International Shorts Festival. She recently completed the Film Independent Screenwriter's Lab with co-writer Phinneas Kiyomura for their project Beds & Graves.

Additional Projects:
Mars Time
Camp Hero

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Marathon

J S Mayank - Screenwriter

Writer-Director J S Mayank’s directorial debut, a concept music video for Radiohead’s Weird Fishes / Arpeggi (London International Film Festival, Reynolda Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival) was a finalist at Cinegear Expo 2009. His most recent work is a short film entitled, Supernumerary: The Musical. Mayank has worked at the United Nations and World Health Organization writing documentary scripts and is currently completing an MFA in film production at Loyola Marymount University.

Additional Projects:
The Hague
Slate

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Windward

Sonia Castang - Director, Screenwriter

A graduate of the UK's National Film & Television School, Sonia Castang is an award-winning short film Writer/Director whose films have played at national and international film festivals. She has written two plays, one of which titled Caravan, was described by Time Out magazine as "Gritty comedy at its best." She was commissioned on the UK Film Council's/Screeneast New Feature Writer Scheme and was selected to take part in the Berlinale Talent Campus. She is currently in post production with her new short film Ashes and is developing feature projects with producers.

Additional Projects:
Thatcher's Children
The Shallow End

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Plastic Indian

T.J. Morehouse - Producer, Screenwriter

T.J. Morehouse, a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, is a 4th generation native Oklahoman now based in NYC. He has over 15 years of experience in Film, Television, Touring, Live Act, Live Event, Music Video, and Commercial production. He wrote, produced, and directed the critically acclaimed documentary Pavarotti of the Plains, which details the life and history of Texas music legend, Don Walser.

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Summer of Our Lives

Meneka Das - Director, Screenwriter

Meneka trained as an actress at The Lee Strasberg Institute in London. Her first feature, Little Box of Sweets, had a successful two-week run at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art in August 2008, as well at regional cinemas around the UK. Meneka and her sister were the first Indians to be signed to a major record company and awarded a gold disc for the remix of their first single Heaven On Earth.

Additional Projects:
Dancing Elephant

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Gun Hill Road

Rashaad Ernesto Green - Director, Screenwriter

Rashaad Ernesto Green is currently in his thesis year at NYU's Graduate Film Program and a former actor. His film Premature won the Grand Jury Prize in the HBO Short Film Competition at the 2008 American Black Film Festival, and has garnered distinctions from the Directors Guild of America and the National Board of Review. His short Choices premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and his latest short Cuts will soon be featured on HBO.

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Adventures in the 419

Cheryl Dunye - Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Cheryl Dunye’s debut film The Watermelon Woman was awarded the Teddy Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Her second feature, Stranger Inside (HBO) garnered an Independent Spirit award nomination for Best Director, and her third feature, My Baby’s Daddy (Miramax) was a box office success. She recently completed production on her latest feature, The OWLs (Older Wiser Lesbians). Dunye has served on the boards of Outfest, the DGA, and the IFP.

Additional Projects:
The Owls
Lonely Hunter

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Portraits from the Other Side

Julia Kwan - Director, Screenwriter

Julia Kwan is a Vancouver-based filmmaker who made her feature film debut in 2005 with Eve & The Fire Horse, based on her Writer’s Guild of Canada award-winning script.  The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Special Jury Price for World Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival. Most recently, she completed a live action/animated short film for the 2010 Winter Olympics, produced by National Film Board/VANOC.

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