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Crew Bios
Melissa Painter (Writer/Director)
Melissa Painter was born in 1968 in Northern California and
raised in Mill Valley. She moved to New York to attend college.
After graduating summa cum laude from Columbia University with
a major in Ancient Greek, she enrolled in New York University's
Graduate Film program where she received a teaching assistantship
in Writing, Directing Actors and Advanced Editing. Her second
year film, “Private Residences”, was awarded
a Warner Brother Fellowship.
She was the associate producer and production manager of Lodge
Kerrigan’s first feature “Clean, Shaven”,
which premiered in Telluride 1993 and went on to attend Sundance
and Cannes, and was released by Strand, and she was the second
unit photographer and associate producer on Maria's Maggenti’s
first feature, “The Incredibly True Adventure of Two
Girls in Love” which was released by Fine Line.
While attending New York University, she worked as 2nd Camera,
Gaffer and Key Grip on assorted documentary productions including
"Violence in America” and "Hate
on Trial “, with Bill Moyers, produced by Catherine
Tatge, as well as numerous other PBS productions. Melissa’s
35mm short, “Jump”, which was shot on location
on the coast of Northern California, premiered at the New York
Film Festival 1996, and went on to Sundance, Bilbao, Edinburgh
and many other festivals. It was purchased for broadcast by
Bravo and American Playhouse (PBS) in the US and by Film Four
in Britain.
“Wildflowers”, a film about children of
children of the 60’s, which was developed at the Sundance
Writers and Filmmakers Lab with Daryl Hannah and Clea DuVall,
was her first feature. Winner South by Southwest Best Narrative
Feature 2000, Special Presentation of Women Make Movies Woodstock
Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh, Philadelphia Festival of
World Cinema, Opening night Stony Brook Film Festival, Closing
night Waterfront Film Festival, it also traveled to many other
festivals. It enjoyed a limited theatrical release Los Angeles,
New York, and San Francisco and was released on video by Monarch
Video, and purchased for cable by the Rainbow Network. “Admissions”,
with Lauren Ambrose, Amy Madigan and Christopher Lloyd is her
second feature film.
Paul Ryan (Cinematographer)
A Newton, MA native, Ryan studied aeronautical engineering at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Inspired
by the revolutionary changes occurring in film during the late
'60s, Ryan went on to enroll in the graduate film school program
at San Francisco State University. There, he shot Ski Racer,
which went on to become a classic of the ski documentary genre,
and led to further documentary work -- with subjects ranging
from the Hell's Angels in San Francisco to artist Salvador Dali
at his home in Spain.
After shooting the production stills on George Lucas's classic
American Graffiti in 1973, Ryan began a long relationship
with director Terence Malick when he shot second unit on Days
of Heaven, which eventually won the Academy Award for Best
Cinematography. Since then, Ryan has balanced his career between
second-unit work on big-budget features such as Robert Redford's
1992 film A River Runs Through It (which also won an
Academy Award for Best Cinematography), The Horse Whisperer,
and Lasse Hallstrom's Something to Talk About with
Director of Photography assignments on smaller independent films
such as Admissions, Big Bad Love, Where the Rivers Flow
North, Alan and Naomi, Other Voices, Other Rooms (from
the Truman Capote short story) and Easy (a 2004 Sundance
Festival competition selection).
Lee Caplin (Producer)
Lee Caplin Executive Produced the Academy Award-nominated $115M
Columbia Pictures release Ali, starring Will Smith.
He founded Picture Entertainment, which produces films, television
and theatre, including To Die For, the Emmy Award winning
The Old Man, and the Obie Award winning Horton Foote's
Roads to Home. The Executive Producer for the Literary
Estate of Nobel Prize winning author William Faulkner, Lee Caplin
also co-founded the film and television program at California
State University's Monterey Bay Campus.
Carl Colpaert (Producer)
Carl Colpaert was born in Belgium, and graduated from the American
Film Institute. He has worked as a writer/ director on films
like Façade, Delusion, In The Aftermath, and
this year’s The Affair. As a producer, he has
been involved in groundbreaking films such as Swimming With
Sharks, Gas Food Lodging, Café Society and Hurlyburly.
Most recently, he has Executive produced Within Without,
Surviving Eden, and Steal Me. Carl Colpaert is
owner of Cineville, Inc. |
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