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Jennava Laska
Creator / Director

Student at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. From Nashville, Tennessee, now resides in Los Angeles, California. Alumni of North Carolina School of the Arts, Visual Arts High School, Winston Salem, North Carolina.

Awards: As Director

5 TELLY Awards 2007, 2 Horizon Awards 2007, 3 Aurora Awards 2007, 2 Silver ADDY Awards 2007, 2 Bronze ADDY Awards 2007, 1 Summit Award 2007, 1 AEGIS Award 2006, 6 AEGIS Awards 2007, 3 Communicator Awards 2007, 2 Videographer Awards 2007, 3 Worldfest REMI Awards 2007. Best Commercial and Best PSA - International Student Film Festival. Best PSA - Student Film Festival Hollywood. Over 30 awards from the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition, including the American Visions Award.

Official Selection - San Fernando Valley Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Austin Women's Literacy Film Festival, Non Violence Film Festival, Scene First Film Festival, Southern Fried Flicks Festival, Female Eye Film Festival, Flint Film Festival, Worldfest Huston.

College Women's Club of Pasadena fellowship recipient. Francis D. Lyon Scholarship Phi Delta Theta fellowship recipient.

Clients:

American Red Cross, Documentary Channel, French Embassy, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, United Nations, Pan American Health Organization.

Member:

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Student Filmmakers Guild, University Film and Video Association, The Association for Women in Communications, National Women's Studies Association.

Experience:

Directed over twenty commercials. Directed projects on 35mm, 16mm, Super8 and HD. Produced over twenty commercials, three short films. Produced several Telly Award, Summit Award and AEGIS Award winning commercials. Production Designer on over thirty film projects. Assistant Director on over fifteen projects. In post production on two short films. In pre-production on one feature, one short animation and one short film and three commercials.

Michael Gottlieb
Screen Writing Head

Alumni Hunter College. Youngest photographer ever for Vogue Magazine shoot. Born and raised in New York City.

Continues to ghostwrite feature films. An executive professor at Art Center College of Design.

Awards:

Multiple Clio and Andy award winning commercial director.

Clients:

Xerox, Coca-Cola, McDonalds. Award-winning documentary, America in Portrait, Berlin Film Festival.

Member:

Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, Student Filmmakers Guild

Experience:

Director/Writer of Mannequin, Mr. Nanny, Mannequin: On the Move

Director of A Kid in King Arthur's Court, The Shrimp on the Barbie.

Producer: Midway Arcade Treasures 3, Fire Blade, Mortal Kombat: Special Forces, Mortal Kombat Gold, Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, Mortal Kombat 4, NBA Hang Time, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331998/

Maranda Barskey
Acting Contributor

B.F.A. in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, High School Diploma from the North Carolina School of the Arts, Trainee programs with American Ballet Theater and Joffrey Ballet.

A New York City based actress who has performed in more than a dozen different theaters throughout the city. She has performed leading and supporting roles in multiple film and commercial projects both in New York and Los Angeles. She has recorded vocals for feature films and performed in benefits alongside Jerry Seinfeld and Duncan Sheik.

Member:

Screen Actors Guild, Student Filmmakers Guild.

Lewis Laska
Researcher / Legal Adviser

Lewis Laska J.D., Ph.D., C.P.A.

An attorney, CPA, and professor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been publishing newsletters since 1984 and now publishes five national newsletters and one Tennessee-based newsletter, along with editing an additional Tennessee-based newsletter. He has written extensively in a variety of areas, including a book on the Tennessee constitution published by Greenwood Press, a self-published book on locating expert witnesses in medical malpractice cases, law review articles, and articles for several legal, accounting and historical magazines.

Member:

University Film and Video Association, Student Filmmakers Guild

Credits:

Board member of The Documentary Channel

Carmen Isom
Article Contributor / Adviser

A writer, a filmmaker and director, born in the small town of Baxley, Georgia in 1980.

Attended Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Ga, Carmen wrote her first screenplay. She also worked as a producer at the college news station that broadcast over three counties. She directed her first short films at VSU and also wrote and produced a documentary in London, England called "Bebeto, The First Quartet In Space".

Carmen attended graduate school for three years Chapman University in Orange, Ca. She made 3 short films that were very close to her heart. She received her MFA in Film in 2005 after completing her thesis film, "Remnants of a Chinese Finger Trap". While in school Carmen also worked on a feature film, commercials, produced over 15 short films. She worked on many others in the producing arena. She also worked as an AD, AC, and script supervisor.

Carmen has now finished four screenplays in total, is getting ready to option her first novel and is still producing short films and documentaries, her most recent being the New Horizon School Project, a documentary about disabled children in Seattle, Washington.

Carmen is working as a writer for online magazines, building a production company of her own called Double Down Films and getting ready to produce her first major feature film. She now lives in Santa Monica, Ca.

Tony DiGerolamo
Article Contributor / Adviser

A New Jersey screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer, game designer, improv comic and actor.

He is best known for his work on The Simpsons and Bart Simpson comic books and The Simpsons Books of Wisdom, but his biggest credit is as a joke writer for Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.

He has also written for Space Ghost: Coast-to-Coast on the Game Tap website.

Tony has written the award-winning short film, Ten Cents a Minute, as well as the features The Evil Within and Mafioso: The Father, The Son starring Leo Rossi. His novels, Fix in Overtime and The Undercover Dragon are available through Padwolf Publishing (www.padwolf.com). After publishing his own comic books (Jersey Devil, The Travelers and The Fix) with SJRP (www.thefixsite.com), he eventually got a publishing deal with Kenzer & Company. Kenzer published The Travelers.

Tony also wrote Everknights (another Kenzer comic book), as well as the Hacklopedia of Beasts (Volumes 1 thru 8) and Slaughterhouse Indigo (an adventure for the Hackmaster RPG). Currently, Tony writes Lookin' at Comics the comics review column for Knights of the Dinner Table magazine.

His game project is called Tony DiGerolamo's Complete Mafia for d20, now available in stores. Tony directs the Philadelphia long-form improv group, the Ninjas. Tony is the official biographer for Lambda Sigma Rho and the web strip Super Frat at www.superfrat.com. Super Frat Rush Week Collection.

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