DANA JACKSON
Producer
Dana Jackson graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in Film/Theatre and a minor
in Business. There she produced the feature KATRINA, directed by Denver Beattie. She then worked for Edward R. Pressman
Film Corp and Clein White Public Relations. Relocating to L.A., she worked at the William Morris Agency before a 5-year
stint at Castle Rock Ent. where she rose to Director of Development. There she worked on dozens of major releases and was
instrumental in securing distribution rights to THE SPITFIRE GRILL and PALMETTO. In 1997, she was named Senior V.P. of Hunt/Tavel
Prods., the Sony-based company of actor-producer Helen Hunt and producer Connie Tavel. There she set up projects at Disney,
Fox, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros and secured financing for TIMEPIECE. In 2002, Jackson was chosen for the IFP Producing
Lab with the projects DIVORCE MOMMY SANDWICH and PARK, both written by Kurt Voelker. She later headed development for Freestyle
Pictures where she set up THE ACCIDENTAL VIRGIN (Heather Graham to star). Currently, Jackson has partnered with Reyna Morenoff
to form R.E.D. Ent., a bicoastal management and production company.
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SRIDHAR RANGAYAN
Director
Sridhar Rangayan is an internationally acclaimed director whose queer films 'The Pink Mirror' and 'Yours Emotionally!' ,
still remain banned in India, but have become huge festival hits and are a big draw on Amazon. His latest feature ' 68 Pages' has recently won the Silver Remi at Worldfest Houston. Rangayan
has managed to plough a new path in producing and self-distributing Indian queer films.
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JACK LAMPORT
Actor / UK Film Critic
Jack Lamport was a
supporting actor in Sridhar Rangayan's film, Yours Emotionally!, and is currently a film critic for The Telegraph, Calcutta. He studied English at Cambridge
University and wrote an MA thesis on queer South Asian film at the New School
for Social Research, New York. He is currently based in London.
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COURT PASSANT
Producer
Court Passant is Executive
Producer of CBS News on LOGO, an MTV Network, that targets the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in a 24-hour digital
cable channel format.
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RICHARD HORVITZ
Actor
Horvitz is best known
as the manic, little alien “Zim” in the animated series Invader
Zim. His role as “Alan Eakian” in PARAMOUNT’S Summer
School, directed by Carl Reiner,
established Horvitz in comedy. Horvitz began an association with comedian Fred
Willard and his wife Mary, who founded the MOHO sketch comedy group in Sherman
Oaks, California, and appears with the MOHOs all over the country. As part of
the FRED WILLARD PLAYERS, Horvitz performed at SKETCHFEST 2003.
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MARTIN S. GOELLER
Director
/
Cinematographer / Editor
Goeller began
directing while in high school and at 18, directed Luciano Pavarotti in Carmina
Burana. He graduated from The New
School University and worked on films including Games People Play, where he met producer Leah Hennessy, formed SIXTUS
PICTURES, and was awarded Best Director at the Ed Wood Film Festival for the
short film, Death in the Family.
He teaches film and screenwriting at The Arts Center of the Capital Region, and
for New Visions, and is a cinematographer.
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CONNIE PACHL
Singer
Pachl, from our Queen
City - Springfield, became "The Duplex Sweetheart" (in New York City’s
ORIGINAL Duplex) and worked with Michael Brill under Erv Raible in several
rooms including DON’T TELL MAMA and PALSSONS. She received BackStage’s
first Bistro Award for outstanding female vocalist. Theatre credits include “Mama
Rose” in Gypsy, “Sally,”
in Follies, Anything Goes, “Princess Winnifred” in Once Upon A Mattress, SRO and
Coming Through at EIGHTY EIGHTS
in Greenwich Village. Pachl’s CD “Coming Through” includes popular music and
songs by Michael Brill.
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MARC SEDAKA
Director
/
Screenwriter
Sedaka graduated from
Cornell University and the NYU Masters Film Program. He is a writer for
both the big and small screen. Credits include NEW LINE’S Overnight
Delivery
starring Reese Witherspoon and Paul
Rudd, NBC’s Inside Schwartz
and
CBS’s King Of Queens, short
films, including Emmy Award winning The World Against Jase, and Warner Bros. Britney 2032.
Marc is co-writing a feature for MAVERICK
PICTURES, and creating a sitcom pilot for SONY PICTURES TELEVISION.
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STEVEN SPRUNG
Writer
/
Director / Editor
Sprung is a writer,
director and film editor. His television editing credits include the TV shows Clueless,
The Tick, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, and The Loop. In 2005, he was nominated for an Emmy for editing Arrested
Development and is working on Life
on Mars, with Jesse Eisenberg and
directed by Paul Todisco. He has written the screenplays for two independent
feature films that he will direct.
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WAYNE BARKER
Composer
/
Musician
Barker and Dame Edna
Everage have performed across the USA and Canada. He has written “Fifty On The
Stage,” (for Her Majesty the Queen), "We’ve Made The Most Of Melbourne,”
(2006 Commonwealth Games), and chamber piece “A Kiss Without Touching”
(Moscow). Barker has appeared with CHICAGO CITY LIMITS, Check In
With the
Jet Set (Jamie MacKenzie), and HBO’s
A Little Curious(Pat Irwin). He
has arranged for Indianapolis (Jack
Everly, Ty Johnson), Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, St. Louis,
Pittsburgh Symphonies and made
several recordings.
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KIRK GEIGER
Actor
Geiger has had TV
roles on JAG, Ned & Stacy, Get A Life, Sons and Daughters,
and recurring roles as “Chad Webster” on Days of
Our Lives, and “Kevin Buchanan” on One
Life to Live. Film roles include “Ty
Williamson” in Sordid Lives,
“Steve”
in B.W.M.P. and “Greg Martin”
in
the Monsters.
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JOEL EDWARDS
Actor
Edwards has played
numerous roles in movies and television, including the upcoming Park, Woman's
Solitude, Voodoo, "Flying
Blind," Smiles of a Summer
Night," Married... with Children," and "What Goes Around Came
Around".
