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Moira L. Shaughnessy

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Moira has worked on projects from Verizon Global commercials to the Willem Dafoe film, 4:44 Last Day on Earth. Her breadth of work ranges from photo shoots and commercials, to TV shows and feature films. Her most recent project is the TV pilot, Hammerhead.

Derek Lockwood

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Derek Lockwood, originally from Ojai, CA, has a BFA in Theater from California Institute of the Arts with a costume emphasis. He now resides in New York, and has a work studio on 39th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues) in the heart of the Garment District. On his free time he is working on his avocado ranch in Ojai.

Derek is currently designing costumes for White Horse Theater’s “Eyes For Consuella.” He also just finished Supervising the Broadway tour of “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” at Madison Square Garden.

One of his highlights was Designing “‘Night Mother” with Joy France. Some of Derek’s other credits include “South Pacific”, “Mary Poppins”, “Titanic”, “Guys and Dolls”, “Kiss Me Kate”, and “White Christmas” directed by Randy Skinner, all at Westchester Broadway Theater. Derek enjoys designing for Film, TV, and Theater.

Susan Gammie

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The brilliant costume designer Susan Gammie’s work has deserved 3 Emmy awards and 9 nominations. Protege of legendary costume designer Ruth Morley, whom she assisted on many projects including “Tootsie” and “The Money Pit”, Susan embarked on her own career with “My Little Girl”, starring James Earl Jones, Geraldine Page, Peter Gallagher and J Lo.

Susan continued on the independent film track, designing a number of projects including Volker Schlondorf’s “A Gathering of Old Men”, starring Holly Hunter and Lou Gossett Jr.; Ed Sherin’s “Georgia O’Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz: A Marriage” starring Jane Alexander and Christopher Plummer; Bob Giraldi’s “Hiding Out” with Jon Cryer; and Lee Grant’s “Hard Promises” starring Sissy Spacek and William Petersen.

Her career jumped tracks when she was offered the job as Costume Designer on the ABC drama, “One Life to Live”. Susan stayed at One Life for 21 years, designing over 5000 episodes. This opportunity taught her an invaluable amount about dramatic story-telling, the art of working with actors, and the intricacy of managing an enormous work load with a fluctuating budget under tremendous time pressures. Her focus on subtle character work made her very popular with actors, writers and directors. Her steady hand with a budget was appreciated by producers and Disney/ABC studio executives.

After the show went off the air in January 2012, music industry heavyweights Jeff Kwatinetz and Rich Frank of Prospect Park licensed both “One Life” and “All My Children” from ABC. Susan was asked to design both of these reboots and designed 40 episodes of each online show.

Paula Loos

 
Paula Loos was born and raised in the small town Nibbixwoud in the Netherlands. She received a bachelor degree in Graphic Design at Graphic Lyceum in Amsterdam, but soon changed her career path, obtaining a degree at the Dutch Film en Television school in Amsterdam. Since then she has worked in the film and television industries throughout the world.

Paula’s enthusiasm for production design derives from a devotion to deliver a creative vision from the script into the reality depicted on the screen. She leads her team with energy and expresses faith in the talent of everyone with whom she works, motivating and challenging her team to think outside of the box.

As an artist in the 21st century, Paula is devoted to utilizing sustainable materials in the creation of films. Striving to make a difference, she is proud to be the first production designer to work with Emagispace (www.emagispace.com), an innovative process of building film sets with reusable building elements, for the Screen Gems/Sony film Cadaver, directed by Diederik van Rooijen and set to be released in 2017.

Paula attended the Dutch Film en Television school in Amsterdam with van Rooijen and Cadaver director of photography Lennert Hillege, with whom she collaborated on the short film Kort!-Klein..

 

Michael McMenomy

Michael McMenomy is a sound designer for feature film, documentary and television. He graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelors Degree in Ethnomusicology in 1999, and received a Masters Degree in Film Sound from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 2003. Based in New York, he has worked extensively as a sound editor and re-recording mixer, and location sound recordist in the USA, Europe and Australia.

Daniel Loewenthal

Daniel Loewenthal is an experienced filmmaker, producer and director. His career began as an assistant editor, starting in documentaries with Maysles Films and then caught the independent feature boom and rose quickly as a long form editor. Dan had a very strong story telling talent that found an easy expression in feature films and documentaries.

In the late 80’s he relocated to Los Angeles where he edited over 40 feature films; many times editing on location in foreign countries. He has worked for major film studios (Paramount, Orion, Turner Productions) and independent producers Dino Dilaurentis and Cannon films. Dan has edited in nearly every genre and format: action, comedy, independent films, music videos, commercials, infomercials, corporate videos, pieces for museum art installations and content for the web. Many of the pictures he edited had major box office and film festival success (Sundance, Palm Springs, Cannes.) His credits include The Cutting Edge, Voices in Wartime, The Music in You, Missing in Action, Stephen King’s Silver Bullet, Friday the 13th Part IV., Cadillac Ranch, Red Scorpion, and many others. On many of these films he directed second unit.

An Independent film, Hard Choices, edited and co-produced by Dan was touted as a “10 best of the year” pick, by Siskel and Ebert in 1986. Critic Stanley Kauffman of the New Republic cited the film’s “fluent editing.” In the mid nineties, Dan formed an award winning, production company, CEG, with 3 partners. From 1994- 2001, he was a managing partner and president, supervising all phases of production and post-production. During this period, CEG had 25 full time employees and did over 200 productions for TV and feature films. The projects ranged from Discovery Channel series, Direct Response ads, documentaries, corporate videos and post-supervision and editing on feature films. Dan produced and directed all the shows and helped develop a successful company. His clients at CEG included Microsoft, Eastman Kodak, Metrx, Black and Decker, Discovery Channel, Rhino Records and Full Moon Entertainment Since leaving CEG, Dan has worked for Mattel Entertainment, Bravo, in addition to many documentaries, long form DR and corporate videos. His work in the last few years has taken him to Egypt, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Europe and the Caribbean.

A. Alvarez

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A. Alvarez is a NYC based editor. Graduated in Communication and Masters in Digital Postproduction, won a Talentia Scholarship to continue studies at New York in 2010.

In NY since then, she works in narrative, documentary and commercial editing.

 

Brian Heller

Brian Heller, one of the North East’s premier aerial Directors of Photography, is a native of New York City and currently a resident of Providence, Rhode Island.

From his early years, photography was a hobby of choice, and in high school and college it became a true passion. After earning his BA from the College of the Holy Cross, Heller went on to an MFA at Brandeis University, concentrating in film. He then began his long career as a freelance DP, working his way up from local films and commercials into the developing aerial industry and branching out into feature films and television commercials.

For the past 15 years or so he has been specializing in aerial cinematography, mostly in New York and New England. His well recognized talents appear in feature films such as Good Will Hunting, The Love Letter, Dumb and Dumber, GI Jane, Anger Management, and Signs to name a few. His television work is extensive and includes aerials used in the title sequences and episode shots for The Late Show with David Letterman, Law and Order, Providence, Crossing Jordan, The Practice and many more. His better known commercials were done for American Airlines, Lee Jeans (the Twin Towers campaign), Nissan Infiniti, American Express, Ocean Spray, NBC Dateline, the Rolling Stones concert tour, and uncounted others.