Greg Hooper - Art Director and Set Designer
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As Set Designer in film, Greg worked on a variety of projects including the films: Planet of the Apes, Down With Love, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, World Trade Center, Lie Free or Die Hard, and Serenity.
Greg's art direction work include the films for Paul Haggis: In The Valley Of Elah, The Next Three Days, along with the films: North Country, State of Play, Terminator Salvation, and the upcoming Avengers film for Joss Whedon.
Greg was more recently an art director on the black and white silent film The Artist, a French and Belgian co-production is set in 1927-32 Hollywood and has won been nominated for many awards including several Golden Globes.
Greg has worked in television for several years in television on projects as a set designer and was most known for his set design work on Star Trek: Voyager.
As Set Designer in film, Greg worked on a variety of projects including the films:Planet of the Apes, Down With Love, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, World Trade Center, Lie Free or Die Hard, and Serenity.
Greg's art direction work include the films for Paul Haggis: In The Valley Of Elah,The Next Three Days, along with the films: North Country, State of Play,Terminator Salvation, and the upcoming Avengers film for Joss Whedon.
Greg was more recently an art director on the black and white silent film The Artist, a French and Belgian co-production is set in 1927-32 Hollywood and has won been nominated for many awards including several Golden Globes.
Adam Clark - NZ Cinematographer
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New Zealand cinematographer Adam Clark has worked on a variety of projects, from commercial work for such clients as Kia and Subaru, to television work on the acclaimed series Insiders Guide to Happiness to a number of short and feature films, often as the lensman for New Zealand director Taika Waititi.
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New Zealand cinematographer Adam Clark has worked on a variety of projects, from commercial work for such clients as Kia and Subaru, to television work on the acclaimed series Insiders Guide to Happiness to a number of short and feature films.
Adam's projects have included earlier films of Peter Jackson and the film River Queen for cinematographer Alun Bollinger, but he is best known as the lensman for director Taika Waititi. His debut feature film as cinematographer was for Taika’s feature film Eagle vs Shark.
Adam has also worked on a number of shorts for Taika including the Oscar-nominated film Two Cars One Night and Tama Tu, as well as many shorts for other directors such as The Hole and A New Way Home.
Adam and Taika’s most recent collaboration is the feature film Boy, which was inspired by Two Cars One Night, and is a coming of age tale of a boy growing up in the year 1984, who idolizes Michael Jackson, and the boy’s father, who, after a seven year absence, is not quite the hero the boy had imagined him to be.
Monika Willi - Austrian Film Editor - The Piano Teacher, Workingman's Death, The White Ribbon, Whore's Glory, Love/Amour
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Monika's recent projects include: Whore's Glory for Michael Glawogger andAmour/Love for Michael Haneke.
Monika edited the film Suzie Washington in 1998, and has since edited featured films for Michael Glawogger, including the narrative features Contact High and documentary Workingman's Death.
Monika is well known for her work on films like The Piano Player, Time of the Wolf, and the English shot-by-shot remake of Funny Games, and more recently on the Oscar nominated, The White Ribbon, all of which were directed by Michael Haneke .
Monika's recent projects include: Whore's Glory for Michael Glawogger andAmour/Love for Michael Haneke.
Judy Farr - UK Set Decorator - Ondine, The King's Speech, My Week With Marilyn
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Judy is a UK set decorator with over 25 years in the film and television industry with experience working in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, CZ. Republic, Romania, Ireland, Borneo, Morocco, Iceland, Finland, and Sweden.
Judy is a UK set decorator with over 25 years in the film and television industry with experience working in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary, CZ. Republic, Romania, Ireland, Borneo, Morocco, Iceland, Finland, and Sweden.
Judy has worked on a variety of films over the years including: Shine, The Red Violin, Hannibal Rising, Bright Young Things, the original Death At A Funeral, and Eastern Promises. for David Cronenberg, featuring a about a Russian mob family in London and their family restaurant cover up.
Judy has also worked as a set decorator on the award winning film Ondine, the story of an Irish fisherman who discovers a woman in his fishing net who he believes to be a Selke, for Neil Jordan.
Judy was recently the set decorator as part of the Academy Award nominated Art Direction team for The King’s Speech for Tom Hooper, about the King George VI of Britain's ascension to the throne and his speech therapist who helped him become worthy of it.
Judy has more recently worked on My Week With Marilyn for Simon Curtis about Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, about the tense interaction between Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production ofThe Prince and the Showgirl. She was also the set decorator for the Golden Globe nominated TV Series, Downton Abbey.
Bob Gould - Oscar Nominated Set Decorator - Days of Heaven, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Master and Commander, and The Artist
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Bob received Oscar nominations for his work on the both Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and more recently Oscar winning film, The Artist, which won for Best Picture.
Bob’s set decoration work has ranged from many horror/thriller, science fiction, and action films like: The Postman Always Rings Twice, Robocop and Total Recall, the Die Hard series, Angels & Demons, and The Expendables.
Bob is also known for his work on period pieces like: Days of Heaven, Melvin and Howard, Newsies, Rambling Rose, Master and Commander, and more recentlyThe Artist.
Bob received Oscar nominations for his set decoration work on the both Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and more recently Oscar winning film, The Artist, which won for Best Picture.
John Jackson - Casting Director for Alexander Payne
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John has successfully been involved in casting all of Nebraska Director Alexander Payne's films.
John has successfully been involved in casting all of Nebraska Director Alexander Payne's films.
John tries to match the role to the person - often picking people off the street who match his criteria. He's selected housewives at the market, students in high schools, security guards - even a couple farmers in Loveland, Iowa.
Working Alexander Payne gives John the leeway he needs to be a good and cutting edge casting director. John has worked on his films including: Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt, and Sideways.
John has also worked in casting on other great films like: The Host, American Zombie, and The Objective.
John recently was the Casting Director on Alexander Payne's award winning film, The Descendants, taking place in Hawaii starring big actors like George Clooney, newcomers like Nick Krause, and other actors that were native in Hawaii.
Evgeni Tomov - Art Director & Production Designer - Arthur Christmas, The Illusionist, The Tale of Despereaux, Triplets of Belleville
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Evgeni Tomov - Art Director & Production Designer - Arthur Christmas, The Illusionist, The Tale of Despereaux, Triplets of Belleville
Evgeni Tomov, is a Production Designer, Conceptual Artist, and Illustrator specializing in feature length and short animated films, and animated TV series. Originally from the former Soviet Union, Evgeni moved to Montreal, where he worked as an Art Director and Illustrator for several advertising agencies.
In 1997, his role as Assistant Art Director on the animated short The Old Lady and the Pigeons was his first collaboration on an Oscar® nominated film for French animation director Sylvain Chomet.
Evgeni again worked with Sylvain Chomet as Art Director and Production Designer on the Oscar® nominated French animated feature The Triplets of Belleville.
Evgeni worked at Chomet’s Studio Django in Scotland on film development, including working as development art director for the Oscar® nominated animated feature The Illusionist, a bittersweet tale of a French magician struggling to survive in a world that no longer seems to need him.
Evgeni has worked as Production Designer on The Tale of Despereaux and the upcoming Arthur Christmas, a co-production between Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures.
Arthur Christmas reveals the answer to every child's question about how Santa delivers all those presents in one night - through Santa's ultra-high-tech hidden beneath operation the North Pole and Arthur's family is in a state of comic dysfunction. Arthur has an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning.
Klaus Badelt - German Award Winning Composer
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In collaboration with Hans Zimmer, Klaus contributed to the Oscar-nominated scores for The Thin Red Line and The Prince of Egypt, as well as writing music for directors including: Ridley Scott, Terrence Mallick, John Woo, Kathryn Bigelow, Werner Herzog, Sean Penn, Gore Verbinski, Michael Bay, and Steven Spielberg.
In 2004, Klaus branched out of Zimmer's studio and founded Theme Park Studios, in Santa Monica, CA.
From here Klaus has scored: Ned Kelly, Constantine, Poseidon, Rescue Dawn, Heartbreaker, The Extra Man, and Point Blank.
In collaboration with Hans Zimmer, Klaus contributed to the Oscar-nominatedscores for The Thin Red Line and The Prince of Egypt, as well as writing music for directors including: Ridley Scott, Terrence Mallick, John Woo, Kathryn Bigelow, Werner Herzog, Sean Penn, Gore Verbinski, Michael Bay, and Steven Spielberg.
His film projects included: Gladiator, The Pledge, Hannibal, and Pearl Harbor, and the notable score for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
In 2004, Klaus branched out of Zimmer's studio and founded Theme Park Studios, in Santa Monica, CA.
From here Klaus has scored: Ned Kelly, Constantine, Poseidon, Rescue Dawn,Heartbreaker, The Extra Man, and Point Blank.
Klaus worked on the soundtrack for Chinese fantasy film, The Promise and wrote the music for the closing ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
Klaus was recently commissioned to write an opera about China's First Emperor.
Andre Ovredal - Norwegian Director and Writer - TrollHunter - On DVD and Streaming for Halloween
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Andre’s latest work is the feature, TrollHunter, a thrilling documentary style film that is both darkly comedic and suspenseful.
Filmed in the countryside of Norway, TrollHunter tells the story of a veteran hunter and fed-up government employee as he reveals the world of beasts known only to Norwegians in stories from their childhood and the students and the audience eventually believe his unlikely tales.
Andre made a name for himself as one of Norway’s most successful directors of commercials with almost two hundred commercials for clients in Norway and abroad to his credit, as well as directing award winning short films.
Andre’s latest work is the feature, TrollHunter, a thrilling documentary style film that is both darkly comedic and suspenseful.
Filmed in the countryside of Norway, TrollHunter tells the story of a veteran hunter and fed-up government employee as he reveals the world of beasts known only to Norwegians in stories from their childhood and the students and the audience eventually believe his unlikely tales.
TrollHunter is great for screening on Halloween and is available on DVD and streaming.