Artists
Ciro Altabás
Ciro Altabás was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1977, although he had to pack his suitcase and move to Madrid to study Media Studies in the Universidad Europea de Madrid.
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Shahreyar Ataie
Shahreyar Ataie, who lives in Vashon, WA, has exhibited his work extensively, including at previous Festivals of the Moving Image; the Subtropics Festival, Miami; A Decade of Art, MDCC Gallery, Miami; and the Wilton Arts and Film Festival, Vermont.
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Kim Anderson
Kim Anderson currently resides in Calgary and is working on a couple of films, painting and mixed media projects.
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Steve Anderson
Steve Anderson made his feature film writing and directing debut with "The Big Empty", which starred Jon Favreau, Kelsey Grammer, and Daryl Hannah. It was one of the ten films selected for the American Directions portion of the 2003 American Film Institute Film Festival, where it had its world premiere.
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Jennifer Baichwal
Jennifer Baichwal was born in Montreal and grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. Her first film "Looking You In the Back of the Head" asked thirteen women to try to describe themselves and was first broadcast, to critical acclaim, on TVOntario's "From the Heart."
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Gary Beeber
Gary Beeber is an American photographer/video artist who has been exhibiting since the early nineties and continues to promote his work in film festivals and galleries across both the United States and Europe.
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Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky is known as one of Canada's most respected photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of 15 major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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Xavier Christiaens
Xavier Christiaens, born in 1963, is a Belgian, a self-made filmmaker, and former assistant to Bruno Dumont and Benedicte Lienard. His first and foremost poetry film, "The Taste of Koumiz" (2003), has been selected in more than twenty international festivals and won two prizes.
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Norman Cohn
Winner of a 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous Canada Council Awards, Cohn was co-winner with Zacharias Kunuk (co-producer of "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen") of the 1994 Bell Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Video Art.
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Marita Contreras
"I was born in Lima, Perú, a country ravaged by terrorism and civil unrest. Despite its chaos, Perú is also a land of great natural and artistic beauty. My country's conflict between violence and aesthetics has served as the greatest influence on my work."
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Rick Dresser
Rick Dresser's plays are widely produced in New York, regionally, and in Europe. His off-Broadway plays include "Gun-Shy", "Rounding Third", and "Below the Belt", which he adapted as the screenplay for "Human Error".
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Charles Farrell
Charles Farrell is a pianist and composer living in Tampa, Florida. He is a 2007 recipient of an Arts Council of Hillsborough County grant. His most recent recording collaborations have been with Evan Parker and Ornette Coleman.
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David Finkelstein
David Finkelstein's video work has been featured in the Athens Film Festival, Dahlonega Film Festival, Exground, Valleyfest, Big MiniDV Festival, Park City Film Music Festival, the Puget Sound Cinema Society, the Downstream Film Festival, the Silver Lake Festival, EXP2, New Filmmakers, Bearded Child Festival, X-Fest, SinCiné, and the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema.
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Pete Guzzo and Paul Guzzo
Pete and Paul Guzzo, filmmakers from New Jersey transplanted to Tampa, tackle 1940s mob warfare in "The End of Blossoming", the first in a series of Ybor City films called "The Ghosts of Ybor".
Gerald Habarth
Gerald Habarth's work is characterized by a synthesis of painting, drawing, electronic media and the moving image, trying to find a meaningful tension between the computerized and the handmade, the virtual and the real, the narrative and the abstract.
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Mark Hager
In 2002, Mark Hager started his own independent film company Little Hawk Films in Santa Rosa, California. His first film "The Field", which he also wrote and co-produced, premiered at the Ashland Film Festival and subsequently has shown in 10 festivals around the country.
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Phil Hastings
Phil Hastings is an award winning film and video artist. His work has screened across the U.S. and Canada including the Black Maria Film Festival, Humboldt International Short Film Festival, Winnipeg International Film Festival and the Athens International Film and Video Festival.
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Anne Haydock
Anne Haydock is interested in housecoats, hybrids, steganography, and dead and dying media. A recent transplant from Philadelphia, she now lives and works in Iowa City with her large cat, Chairman Meow.
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Will Hindle
Will Hindle was a passionate proponent of the "personal" film. The term "personal" meant that the artist was fully responsible for the making of the film: responsible for the subject matter, for the direction and for the choice of images, for the camerawork and for the editing.
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Youngwoong Jang
Trained and employed as an industrial designer, Youngwoong Jang switched to 3D animation in 2000. He has produced animations used in television and PS2/X-Box games. Currently at the School for Visual Arts, Jang has created an moving and texture-rich animated film, Mirage, about a water collector robot who literally shares his life blood with a living animal.
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Victoria Jorgensen
Victoria Jorgensen is a Tampa based filmmaker, writer, film festival organizer and business owner. She has attended the Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals annually since 1999 returning to Tampa with programming suggestions for local area film festivals.
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Zacharias Kunuk
Zacharias Kunuk's first feature, "Atanarjuat The Fast Runner", won the Camera d'or at Cannes 2001 and Best Picture at Canada's 2002 Genie Awards. He is president and co-founder in 1990 of Igloolik Isuma Productions, Canada's first Inuit-owned independent production company.
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Diran Lyons
Diran Lyons currently lives and works in Tampa, Florida, exhibiting different bodies of artwork nationally and internationally.
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Angelica Macklin
"Masizakhe: Let Us Build Together" is Angelica's first feature-length documentary. She owns and operates Open Hand Reel, an independent film company, and produces videos for political campaigns, events, awards, fundraisers, and volunteer programs.
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Scott Macklin
Scott Macklin uses film as a powerful medium for learning and building meaningful relationships that create opportunities to engage in acts of social justice.
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Gustavo Matamoros
Born in Caracas,Venezuela, Gustavo Matamoros currently lives in the U.S. where he has been the artistic director of the Subtropics Festival, an experimental music and sound arts event held in Miami since 1989 and has been the director of the Sound Arts Workshop since 1996.
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Ferdie Pacheco
Ferdie Pacheco is a pharmacist, doctor, boxing analyst, novelist, screenwriter, and artist.
He has worked as a cornerman for 12 boxing champions. In 1977 after a 15-year stint as Muhammad Ali's doctor, he left Ali to begin his work as a boxing analyst for CBS.
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Jason Payne
Syrup Pirates was founded by Jason "Neko" Payne. He is the one responsible for the creation of such lovable characters as Katie Kat, Jelli-bunni, and Evil, the little armless girl.
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Wayne Porter
Wayne Porter was born in Texas but grew up in California, Maryland, Florida, and many states in between.
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Frank Ragano
Frank Ragano began his artistic career as a dancer in Gainesville Florida in the early 1970s. Moving to NYC in 1980 he joined Lee Nagrin's SkyFish Company, an experimental dance theater troupe. In 1986 the company won the Village Voice Obie for Best New American Play.
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Paul Reller
Paul Reller is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of South Florida where he is on the composition staff.
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Tracy Midulla Reller
Tracy Midulla Reller studied at the Atlanta College of Art from 1995 to 1997, where she received her BFA, focusing mostly on sculpture and printmaking. She went on to receive her Master or Fine Arts degree from Florida State University, where she continued her printmaking and began exploring mixed media.
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Emily Rosdeitcher
Emily Rosdeitcher is a filmmaker based in New York. Her film, "Ten Souls Rising", has screened at over a dozen film festivals in the U.S. and abroad.
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Isidore Rosmarin
Isidore Rosmarin is a documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist. He has received and been nominated for numerous awards as a documentary and news magazine producer, director and writer for many of America's most respected broadcasts, including CBS's "60 minutes," NBC's "Dateline", Discovery, A&E and Court TV.
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Fred Smith
A product of the Florida Public School system, Fred is a film lover who can also play the drums. He works in Tampa's Seminole Heights for Grown Man Films and lives in Southeast Seminole Heights with his wife Marie and dog Charlie.
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Eva Weber
Eva Weber is currently working as an independent filmmaker in the UK. "The Intimacy of Strangers" is her graduation film from the Project Development Lab, an advanced, one-year program, at the National Film and Television School (UK).
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Alan Woodruff
Alan Woodruff graduated from Melbourne's (Australia) Swinburne Film School in 1994 and began working in post production. Since then he's worked as an assistant editor, editor and post production supervisor on many projects, including feature films, documentaries and television programs, including a stint in New Zealand working on the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy and 'King Kong'.
Robert M. Young
Robert M. Young is perhaps the dean of American Independent Filmmakers. His film, with Michael Roemer, "Nothing But A Man" (1964) was the first feature film to portray the contemporary plight of Black Americans and is now part of the National Historic Register.
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