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 Jon
Hokanson
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Jon Hokanson is a New York based Director of Photography
who has begun to cut his directing teeth on the IFC
web series LIKE SO MANY THINGS… As a Cinematographer
on commercials, promos, music videos and two features,
Hokanson worked closely with many directors. From
this he gained insights and experience that have proved
valuable during his first foray into directing. Hokanson
moved to New York in 1992 as a carpenter, but inexplicably
found himself working as a lighting technician on
such films as KIDS, DEAD MAN and ROGER DODGER before
becoming a Director of Photography.
Some examples of his work can be seen at jonhokanson.com.
 Greg
Keller
ACTOR-WRITER
Greg Keller has performed on and off Broadway in such plays as Wit (with Cynthia Nixon), Ayad Akhtar's The Who and The What (LCT3), Amy Herzog's Belleville (NYTW), The Seagull (with Dianne Wiest and Alan Cumming at CSC), Seminar (with Jeff Goldblum), and 33 Variations (with Jane Fonda). Greg has an MFA in acting from NYU, and was a Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting fellow at The Juilliard School. His plays have been produced at Cherry Lane, Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkshire Theater Festival, and LAByrinth Theater Company, where he is a member.
 Garret
Savage
EDITOR-WRITER
Garret Savage is an editor of features, short films,
trailers, commercials and television, including the
2008 feature documentary PAPER OR PLASTIC? and the
award-winning fiction feature OLYMPIA. Chosen by AIVF
in 2005 as one of their "Top Short Filmmakers," his
short-documentary 4-CYLINDER 400 (co-director/editor)
is in rotation on the IFC Channel.
He was the Program Director of the Nantucket Film
Festival's Teen View Filmmaking Workshop and has been
a mentor for the Reel Works Teen Filmmaking program,
sponsored by HBO.
 Ken
Meyer
SOUND
& DIALOGUE EDITING
Ken Meyer has extensive experience in a wide variety
of audio situations, including television post-production,
games, film, and music. Starting as an assistant engineer
at a premier downtown jingle house, he moved on to
designing sounds for a leading educational videodisk
company, developing overall sound design for one of
the first interactive television tests in the nation,
then into post-production, working in-house at one
of NYC's largest advertising agencies. All the while,
he's kept up with various freelance music and film
projects.
In addition to audio engineering, Ken is also an
active recording and live musician, author of two
Mel Bay-published books, THE SOLID TIME TOOL KIT and
APPROACHING AMBIDEXTERITY, as well as co-founder of
Zuzula.com,
one of the very first music download sites specifically
for independent musicians.
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 Gray
Miller
DIRECTOR-EDITOR-WRITER
Gray Miller graduated from UT
Austin Film School in the early 90's. After college,
he wrote, shot, directed and edited a 16mm short which
was selected for SXSW & NYUFF before winning silver
at CUFF. He then moved to NYC where he designed and
animated film titles for Spike Lee's SUMMER OF SAM,
Jim Jarmusch's GHOST DOG, the Coen Brothers THE BIG
LEBOWSKI and Paul Thomas Anderson's MAGNOLIA. His
indie sci-fi feature film 2K3, starring Anslem Richardson
& Marin Gazzaniga, was selected for IFP's Filmmaker
Labs in 2006. www.2k3film.com/video.html.
Gray's short VISIT premiered at
SXSW 2009 after winning the Narrative section of SXSWClick
in June 2008, and his current short film SEA MONSTER
uses 3-D stereoscopy and innovative film grammar to
explore a split brain patient's POV, and functions
as a proof-of-concept for a current feature script.
His other script in progress, a thriller, reached
second round for the Sundance Sloan development grant
in summer 2008.
 Ben
Insler
DIRECTOR-CAMERA
& SOUND
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
EDITOR
Initially establishing his roots
in visual effects and animation, Ben Insler co-founded
Killer Minnow Studios (www.killerminnow.com),
a visual effects and post production company based
jointly in New York and Connecticut. As an editor
he has contributed to a wide variety of programming
for television networks including SpikeTV, Food Network,
Fine Living and FUSE. With his extensive editing background
and instinct for shaping story, Ben is now focused
on directing narrative film. His most recent short,
a parody entitled SPADEMEADOW, screened as an official
selection at the Anchorage International Film Festival
in addition to qualifying as a semi-finalist in MTV's
Movie Awards spoof competition. Ben is currently pursuing
a number of independent projects while collaborating
with artists in the New York area and California.
 Aimée
Lyde
EDITOR
Aimée Lyde is originally
from Texas. After studying filmmaking and film theory
at Vassar, she moved to New York City and has been
working as an editor ever since. Her first training
was working for high-end commercial post houses, where
she had the opportunity to work on national ad campaigns
with directors such as Spike Lee, Tony Kaye, and Errol
Morris. She has edited many short films and one feature-length
film, THE EGOISTS, which premiered at the 2003 Palm
Beach Film Festival. Her documentary work includes
ANYTIME TOMORROW, a profile of Americana singer/songwriter
Neal Casal, which premiered at the 2001 New Yorker
Film Festival. She has also edited television programming
for MTV, Sundance Channel, Oxygen, Showtime, A&E and
Discovery Channel.
 Larry
Gallagher
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Larry Gallagher has been employing
the preposterous scheme of using freelance writing
to support his song writing habit. So far he has released
two CDs, AN ENDLESS CHAIN OF ACCIDENTS (2003) and
CAN I GO NOW? (2006). Over the years he has written
for a number of magazines, local and national, many
of which still exist. He currently makes his home
in San Francisco. For more about this fascinating
character visit www.larrygallagher.com.
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