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Max is a California-based filmmaker and educator with seventeen years of experience in the industry as a feature film director, screenwriter, and commercial video producer. He has worked as a creative director, writer and editor for agencies like WHTWRKS, J Walter Thompson Advertising, and Conde Nast. After receiving his BA from Brown University, Max received his MFA in Film Directing from New York University Tisch School of the Arts where he wrote, directed and produced award-winning short films in collaboration with talents such as Jim Parsons and Dean Wareham. In 2015, he completed his debut feature film, a sci-fi horror, entitled The Shells, starring Britt Lower. Max has over eight years of experience as a filmmaking and digital storytelling educator and has served in leadership positions at DIGICOM Learning, University of California, Riverside Extension and Desert X Art Biennial where he currently serves as Eduction Producer.
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Kim Jackson is recognized for producing dozens of notable independent films. Her early creative expression began with dance and choreography, and that has remained the spark that ignites her creative passions. Majoring in environmental science, she has a natural curiosity for how things work. “Producers begin food chains which feed all life.” Technology is of special of interest to Kim, as it relates to serving and advancing humanity. She is currently active on several boards, including New York Women in Film & Television, ACE Programs for the Homeless and The Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts and Humanities at Simmons University. Kim is a member of the p.g.a. and Producers Union.
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Danny has shot two feature films with Diego Ongaro, Down with the King, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, won the Grand Prize at Deauville Film Festival, and was a New York Times Top Ten film of the year; as well as Bob and the Trees, which premiered at Sundance, won the Grand Prize at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and won the Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography at the Woodstock Film Festival. He has worked with director Sean Mullin on four feature films, including It Ain’t Over, a feature documentary about the life of Yogi Berra, which premiered at Tribeca and was released by Sony Pictures Classics, as well as the Drafthouse Films release Amira & Sam, which won the Best Narrative Film Award at ten film festivals. He recently co-shot the feature documentary Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life, which won the Audience Award at SXSW. Danny shot Happiness For Beginners, a Netflix Original Film that will premiere in the summer of 2023. Other notable projects include Kinyarwanda (Sundance Audience Award), The Locksmith (Sundance Best of Next Award), and Raw Craft, a branded documentary series starring Anthony Bourdain. He graduated with honors from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in film and a focus in cinematography.
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Kay Lee is a Production Designer for feature films, television, music videos and commercials.
Growing up in a small suburb outside Chicago, Kay spent her afternoons after school experimenting with her sewing machine and constantly rearranging the furniture—much to the consternation of her parents. When she finally escaped East to attend Brown University, her passion for designing and reinventing the spaces around her followed. She devoted herself to sculpture and architecture while designing costumes for student theater productions in her spare time. She ultimately graduated with Honors in Visual Arts and Urban Studies and was awarded the Ann Belsky Moranis Prize for artistic excellence.
Kay started her career as a fashion and technical designer for major apparel companies such as Ralph Lauren and The Gap, while also costume designing Off-Broadway theater shows. Her desire to design and build spaces never left, however, so when she was offered the chance to production design her brother’s graduate thesis film, she leapt at the opportunity. This led to work on numerous NYU and Columbia short films and soon she found that she had discovered a new craft—one that incorporated all of her varied interests. She has not looked back since.
One of her first feature films that she designed was Alexandre Moor’s BLUE CAPRICE. The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, two Gotham Awards, and the Sundance Audience Award. Following this success, Kay went on to work with such innovative directors as Spike Lee (DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS), Ben Younger (BLEED FOR THIS) and Karyn Kusama (DESTROYER). DESTROYER is soon to be released by Annapurna Pictures. Her most recent feature project is ALL DAY AND A NIGHT, written and directed by Joe Robert Cole, the award-winning co-writer of BLACK PANTHER. In addition to her feature work, Kay has production designed two Netflix television shows, GIRLBOSS and ON MY BLOCK, as well as the two-time Golden Globe-nominated HBO series INSECURE.
She currently lives in Santa Monica, CA.
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Enis Rotthoff is a Los Angeles-based Film Composer from Berlin, Germany.
He is passionate about feature films and loves writing both orchestral and electronic music. His ability to fuse musical genres has made him a leading voice in Germany and contributes to his growing international reputation. His versatility allows him to experiment with contrasting and cutting-edge ideas. He utilizes custom instrumental palettes and sounds that elevate the film´s vision with a unique signature sound for each project.
Enis has collaborated with visionary directors like Wolfgang Petersen on the heist movie "Four Against the Bank" and David Wnendt on both the satirical "Look who´s Back” and the edgy Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee “Wetlands". He also scored the historical novel adaptation "Measuring the World", recorded with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, which garnered him a Jerry Goldsmith Award nomination.
His collaboration with David Wnendt on "The Sunlit Night" starring Jenny Slate and Zach Galifianakis premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
He loves to work in a wide range of genres from orchestral scores for children’s movies like "Free Willy: Escape from Pirate´s Cove" and "Lassie - A New Adventure" to an electronic score for the Wall Street drama "The Price" (Director: Anthony Onah), a small string ensemble for the British drama "Love Sarah" (Director: Eliza Schroeder) or the hybrid orchestral and electronic score for the psychological thriller "The Good Neighbor" starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (Director: Stephan Rick)
Born in 1979, Enis Rotthoff has pursued his dream of becoming a film composer since childhood. He earned a scholarship for young composers in Berlin before studying and working for years with Academy Award-winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek on such films as "Finding Neverland" or "Unfaithful". Enis graduated both from the Film University Babelsberg in "Film Composition" and from the University of Arts Berlin with a degree in "Audiovisual Communication". In 2007 he was selected as a Sundance Composers Lab Fellow, and in 2018, received the German Music Author´s prize for his acclaimed work as a film composer.
Enis’s musical range includes works for small ensembles and large orchestral pieces that infuse both rare and electronic instruments. He has had the honor to collaborate and record with some of the finest European orchestras and soloists such as trumpet player Till Broenner, cellist Johannes Moser and violinist Kolja Blacher.
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