Josh Hamilton, Co-Producer

Josh Hamilton has had an extensive career in theater, film and television.  His roles include Marty in The House of Yes, Grover Carrey in Kicking and Screaming, Matt in Urbania, the lead of Michael Herlihy in the NBC miniseries The 60s, and the lead of John Roth in Jed Weintrob’s film On_Line.  He performed in the Tony Award winning production of Proof on Broadway and  is currently receiving rave reviews for his performance opposite Ethan Hawke, Parker Posey, Bobby Cannavale and Wallace Shawn in The New Group’s revival of playwright David Rabe’s Hurlyburly.

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Eric Chesin, Associate Producer

Eric Chesin graduated with honors from Harvard University with a degree in Government in 2002 and has been living and working in New York ever since.  As an actor, he has worked on several independent films.  For example, he played a lead role in The Poker Game, winner of the audience award at the 2004 Howl! Film Festival. 
He is a current member of the HB Playwrights Foundation Actors’ Ensemble and paid his dues starring in Off-Off Broadway’s longest running play, Israel Horovitz’ Line at the Thirteenth Street Repertory Theater.  He works as a freelance ad writer for Wolfe/Doyle Advertising, is the Director of Development for Ditlev Films in New York, and writes screenplays in his “spare” time.  In the fall of 2005, he will be attending Columbia Law School where he plans to continue his work as an actor and producer.

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Tanya Selvaratnam, Co-Executive Producer

Tanya Selvaratnam was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and grew up in Long Beach, California. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University, where she studied Chinese and the history of law.  Her graduate thesis on the interplay of law and practice with regard to women’s rights in China was published in the Journal of Law & Politics.  While still in graduate school, she began working for the Fourth World Conference on Women in China, serving as the Assistant Youth Coordinator for the NGO Forum on Women, 1995.

On her way back from China to Harvard, she stopped in New York and never left, after she began working with The Wooster Group. Since 1996, she has been an Associate Artist there and is currently in its production of House Lights at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo. She has also been a member of the Institute on Arts & Civic Dialogue under the directorship of Anna Deavere Smith (1998-9) and has appeared in numerous productions and readings at the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and New Dramatists. Recently, Tanya collaborated with The Builders Association (NY) and Moti Roti (UK) on the multimedia production Alladeen, which toured throughout the world. Last summer, at the Lincoln Center Festival, she performed Remind Me, an excerpt from her novel-in-progress, with DJ Rekha providing the music. The event, curated by DJ Spooky, also featured appearances by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vijay Iyer, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Nitin Sawhney and Colson Whitehead. 

In 2001, Tanya began producing movies, including On_Line (directed by Jed Weintrob) which premiered at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, Domino (a short film, directed by Gabri Christa with music by Vernon Reid, for The Black Filmmakers Foundation Lab), and The F Word (also directed by Jed Weintrob). When not engaged in artistic pursuits, she devotes her time to youth and international causes. She has worked with the Ms. Foundation and the World Health Organization and has served on the boards of The Third Wave Foundation and Groundswell Community Mural Project. Immediately after the December 26 tsunami tragedy, Tanya organized an Artists for Tsunami Relief benefit. The event, which raised $70,000 in one night, featured appearances by David Byrne, Sussan Deyhim, Nelson George, Angela McCluskey, Moby, Lou Reed, Vernon Reid, DJ Rekha, DJ Spooky, and Colson Whitehead.

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Nick Goldfarb, Producer / Concept

"The F Word" as the reason he got into this business in the first place. It was a chance to work with friends whose work he respected, make a film free of almost any constraints, and use his skills to say and do something about the world.

With a degree in Politics and American Studies from Princeton, he began his career as a freelancer working his way up from production assistant to producer of numerous short films, commercials and PSAs.  He was then recruited by Jed Weintrob to build the interactive division of Orion Pictures from the ground up and managed the studio's websites and CD-ROM business.  When Orion was acquired by MGM, he took a hiatus to travel and surf throughout Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. 

In 1999 he moved to NYC and spent 4 years at MTV Productions.  Anxious to return to the world of independent filmmaking, he joined partners Jed Weintrob and Christian Bruun, and the three have been busy applying their knowledge of the latest in production and postproduction technology to a series of creatively challenging films and commercials.

A native of Virginia, he lives in Greenwich Village with his wife and daughter.

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Jed Weintrob, Director / Producer / Concept

Through The F Word, his second feature film, native New Yorker Jed Weintrob combines his dynamic vision and passion for storytelling with his background in digital technologies and fascination with capturing real life on the street.

Weintrob is also an accomplished video game creator, feature film producer and theatre director.  As a pioneer in the early years of interactive entertainment, Jed founded and ran the video game division of the newly launched Orion Pictures.  After brokering the successful merger of Orion Interactive with MGM Interactive, he “went on walkabout,” backpacking and bicycling around the world for a year, crossing five continents, and developing the ideas and inspirations for future projects. 

Whether it is a hybrid fiction/documentary political drama, a sexy romantic hexagon of life on the Internet, or a cross-genre psychological horror film, Weintrob’s work always focuses on telling unique, wide-ranging stories combining innovative filmmaking technologies with an intimate approach to story and character.

Jed’s feature directing debut, On_Line, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to play the Berlin Film Festival, Cinequest (winner, Best Narrative Feature), Gen Art, Outfest, and numerous international festivals including Puchon, Melbourne, Stockholm, Zurich, Kiev and Rio.  On_Line was released theatrically throughout the United States and foreign territories in 2003, on DVD in 2004 and on television in 2005.

Weintrob is an honors graduate of Harvard University, where he first met many of his regular collaborators.

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Christian Bruun, Producer / Cinematographer

Christian Ditlev Bruun is a pioneer in the field of digital media and digital film making with over 10 years of professional experience in Denmark and the United States. Mr. Bruun's expertise ranges from producing, directing, 3D/2D computer animation, art direction, web design/programming, and architectural design.

As creative principal and owner of DitlevFilms Mr. Bruun is producing and directing national commercial campaigns as well as creating digital media and visual effects for feature films, advertising, and interactive entertainment.  In 2002, Mr. Bruun produced the film, Kid Bang with FOX Searchlab; Kid Bang is now in pre-production as a feature film with FOX Searchlight with Mr. Bruun attached as visual effects supervisor. In 2004/2005 Mr. Bruun produced the feature film, The F Word, selected to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival 2005.

Currently, Mr. Bruun is making a documentary on the emergent fusion of digital media and architecture funded by the Danish government.  Mr. Bruun was curating the U.S. Pavilion at The Venice Biennale in the fall of 2004. 

Mr. Bruun is the co-founder of the Department of Visual Communication at the School of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark and was the Director of the Digital Media Center at the School of Visual Arts in New York.   As well as lecturing and working around the world Mr. Bruun is regularly a visiting critic at Columbia University and Princeton University on topics of film, media, and design.

Mr. Bruun received his Bachelor and Master of Architecture from the Århus School of Architecture in Denmark.

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Director.................................................JED WEINTROB
Producers..........................................CHRISTIAN D. BRUUN
........................................................NICK GOLDFARB
.........................................................JED WEINTROB
Co-Executive Producers................................LAWRENCE MATTIS
....................................................TANYA SELVARATNAM
Co-Producer.............................................JOSH HAMILTON
Associate Producer........................................ERIC CHESIN

Writing Collaborators:

 

Lawrence Mattis, Co-Executive Producer

Lawrence Mattis gave up his career as a corporate attorney to become the founder of Circle of Confusion Ltd., a New York-based management and production company.  He has been particularly successful at launching new talent.

Among Circle's clients are Larry and Andy Wachowski (creators of "The Matrix Trilogy"), Simon Kinberg ("Mr. & Mrs. Smith," “XXX2,” “Fantastic Four”),  Gregg Chabot & Kevin Peterka ("Reign of Fire"), Joe Tropiano ("Big Night"), and emerging young film makers such as Jed Weintrob ("On_Line") and JT Petty ("Soft For Digging"), both of whom premiered their films at Sundance, and Kiran, whose debut feature "Kid Bang" is being produced by Fox Searchlight.  Circle also represents video game creators and comic book creators, most notably the Eisner Award-winning creator of “Powers,” Brian Michael Bendis (also writer of “Jinx” which Circle of Confusion is producing with Charlize Theron attached to star).

In 2002, Mattis expanded the operations of Circle of Confusion to include a Los Angeles office and a more active production agenda.  Circle has projects set up at Warner Brothers, Disney, Universal, New Regency, New Line Cinema,  and Paramount.  The studio slate includes “House on Awful End” at Warners, to be directed by “Constantine” helmer, Francis Lawrence, and “Magic Kingdom for Sale” with Stephen Sommers of the “Mummy” franchise attached to direct for Universal.   Circle of Confusion is also producing a slate of independent films, including “Driving While Dead” at Lionsgate, and “Reaper” at Media 8 to be directed by Tony Kaye.  Mattis also executive produced "Southside" by Circle writer-director client Bruce Terris, and Tony Jaswinski’s “Killing Time” which premiered in dramatic competition at Sundance 2002.

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Cinematographers.....................................CHRISTIAN D. BRUUN
..........................................................HEATHER GREER
Editor...................................................PHILIP JACKSON
Associate Editor............................................JAY SHAPIRO
Music by....................................................ROGER NEILL
Post-Production Supervisor...............................ROSIE NAKAMURA
Visual Effects & Color Correct.......................CHRISTIAN D. BRUUN
HD Online and Up-res.....................BEYOND OUR REALITY PRODUCTIONS
Title Sequence.......................................CHRISTIAN D. BRUUN
............................................................CARMEN CHAN
Supervising Sound Editor................................LEWIS GOLDSTEIN
Sound Effects Editor......................................RICK CHEFALAS
Re-recording Mixers.........................................PAUL URMSON
........................................................LEWIS GOLDSTEIN
Additional Photography.......................................LIZ MERMIN
...........................................................FLUX ROSTRUM
.........................................................LOUIS SPIEGLER
Additional Music............................................KEITH POWER
Cellist.....................................................MATT COOKER
Assistant Editors............................................ANGELA DEE
.........................................................ROSIE NAKAMURA
.........................................................MICHELLE RUEDA
.............................................................JUDI STROH
.........................................................BUDDY WHITAKER
Production Assistants......................................KATHRIEN AHN
..............................................................BO KHAKEY
........................................................MEREDITH MOSELY

 

 

 

Joe Pace		JOSH HAMILTON
Luis		YUL VAZQUEZ
Manny		ZAK ORTH
Reverend Billy		REVEREND BILLY
Gee		DANIEL RAYMONT
Stephanie		CALLIE THORNE
Ralph Parilla		RALPH PARILLA
Statue of Liberty Protestor		PAT OLESZKO
Construction Worker		MICHAEL TENAGLIA
Republican		J. RICHEY NASH
Billionaires For Bush		BILLIONAIRES FOR BUSH
John Perry Barlow		JOHN PERRY BARLOW
Sara		MIA BARRON
Owen		OWEN WEST
Peter Camejo		PETER CAMEJO
Two Seat Bicycle Dude		ARI GOLD
Peter		PETER SALETT
Jeremy		SAM ROCKWELL
Walt Whitman Quoter		EDOARDO BALLERINI
Ruby		RUBY KARP
Marcelle		MARCELLE KARP
Free Hugger		JAYSON LITTMAN
Reporter		CAROLYN DEMERICE
Andrew		ANDREW OSBORNE
Tanya		TANYA SELVARATNAM
Sikh Republican Fundraiser		WARIS AHLUWALIA
Danzy		DANZY SENNA