| L A U R A R I C H A R D, director Laura was born in New Jersey as the second daughter of a Filipina immigrant and an American engineer. At the age of six she moved to San Diego, California, where she was raised. At age 17 she knew she wanted to become a director. She majored in Visual Arts with an emphasis in film and video and minored in Psychology at the University of California at San Diego. She graduated with high honors in 2000. While at UCSD she made several narrative and experimental films and video pieces. She went to New York University for her MFA and received a Tisch Graduate Fellowship. While working on her thesis film “Breached,” Laura also produced and edited several of her classmates films. She is currently writing her first feature to direct. |
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M A G E L A C R O S I G N A N I, cinematographer Magela was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from the prestigious American Film Institute where she earned her degree in cinematography. She has shot several short films and received a Kodak Cinematography award at the 2005 Palm Springs Film Festival and the Maurice Kanbar Achievement in Cinematography Award at the 2004 and 2005 Fusion Film Festivals for her work on Breached. Her B camera operator and second unit cinematography work includes "Everything is Illuminated" and Olivier Dahan's "My Own Love Song." "The Imperialists are Still Alive" is Magela's first feature film as Cinematographer. |
| C A Y E T A N A V I D A L, producer Cayetana is from Buenos Aires, Argentina and started her career as a writer/producer in the advertising business. She worked for the two major media groups in Argentina, América and Grupo Clarín, on the image development of their principal networks. In 1998 she was hired by Turner in Atlanta, Georgia, as Creative Director for TNT Latin America. During that period, she won several awards at important festivals including The New York Film Festival and Promax International. In 2000, she moved to New York City to attend the Graduate Film program at New York University. She worked on several film productions in Mexico City the past summer. She recently has finished her thesis short film. |
| Z E I N A D U R R A, producer Zeina Durra is a writer/director based between New York City and London. Durra received her BA Hons in Middle East Studies from Pembroke College, Oxford and an MFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Film Programme. She graduated with the award winning thesis film, The Seventh Dog, which Laura produced, went to over 20 festivals around the world. Durra recently made her directorial debut with THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE!, starring the French actress Elodie Bouchez. Her script for IMPERIALISTS was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus Script Clinic in 2006. She is currently working on her next film which will be shot in Jordan in 2010 and on other art projects. |
| A L E J A N D R O L A R A, mexico producer Born in Mexico City Lara attended Law School in Mexico at ITAM. He continued the pursuit of law in a Masters at Fordam University, in New York. He recently produced Zeina Durra's thesis film, The 7th Dog, shot at the end of last year. Currently, he works in project development for Gruppo Salinas, in Mexico City. |
| A D A M W A L S H, new mexico producer Raised in New Mexico and a Regents' Scholar at the University of California, Adam is a recipient of the Martin Scorsese scholarship at the Graduate Film Department of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has received production credits on half a dozen short films and has held key crew or post-production positions on more than twenty others (including the Gold Medal winner at the 2002 Student Academy Awards). In addition, his theatrical production of American Buffalo at The Santa Fe Actors' Theater was named one of the 10 best plays of the year by the New Mexican and his subsequent production of Macbeth was the theater's largest commercial success. He has written and directed six narrative shorts and a documentary. |
| T R O Y P A F F, new mexico producer Troy Paff is the principal of Cuyahoga Productions, a multimedia outfit specializing in technology-based expression from digital video documentaries and industrials to photography and design for the web. He is an alumi of Cal State Long Beach, where he wrote, directed, and produced many shorts before graduation and the subsequent development and production of independent feature films like PAVEMENT ENDS (AMPAS screenwriting semifinalist), NANA CARMEN (Sundance Institute semifinalist), and LOOKING FOR OSCAR TIBS. Troy's documentary SLIDE RANCH: WHERE THE BAY AREA GETS DOWN TO EARTH premiered in March 2004 at the Sisqiyou Environmental Film Festival in Oregon. Cuyahoga Productions corporate clients have included the American Heart Association, the 2000 Democratic National Convention, the 2004 Dennis Kucinich for President National Campaign, Monsanto, Oracle, Cadence, Pfizer, and Pharmacia. Troy has been a staff member of the Telluride Film Festival since 1994. He resides in Taos, New Mexico, where he recently produced the hi-def feature film BIG THINGS. |
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