IAN BRICKE

SCOTT DWYER

ROMEN PODZYHUN

WALTER SALLES

DAVID SCHMOELLER

JULIE TAYMOR

IAN BRICKE
Sundance Channel

Ian Bricke is Director, Acquisitions and Programming for Sundance Channel. Before joining the Channel, he worked at Killer Films on projects including Storytelling and Hedwig and the Angry Inch and at the Independent Feature Project on three consecutive Independent Feature Film Markets. He also worked in development for Open City Films and Pipedream Productions. He has appeared on panels at South by Southwest, the Sundance Film Festival, the IFP Market, the Atlanta Film Festival, and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. He has also served on juries at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the New York Exposition of Short Film and Video, the Gen Art Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival, the Florida Film Festival, and New York University?s Wasserman Awards. Ian is a member of the Advisory Committee for IFP/New York?s Project Involve program. A graduate of Swarthmore College, he is a native of Kansas.

SUNDANCE CHANNEL
Under the creative direction of Robert Redford, Sundance Channel is the television destination for independent-minded viewers seeking something different. Bold, uncompromising and irreverent, Sundance Channel offers audiences a diverse and engaging selection of films, documentaries, and original programs, all uncut and commercial free. Launched in 1996, Sundance Channel is a venture between NBC Universal, Robert Redford, and Showtime Networks Inc. Sundance Channel operates independently of the non-profit Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival, but shares the overall Sundance mission of encouraging artistic freedom of expression. Sundance Channel?s website address is www.sundancechannel.com.

SCOTT DWYER
Program Director
Northern California Public Broadcasting

Scott has worked in public broadcasting for the past 26 years. He programs 8 television channels for Northern California Public Broadcasting including KQED San Francisco, KTEH San Jose and KQET Monterey, screening, evaluating, acquiring and scheduling all television programs. He has served on many program-funding panels for the Minority Consortia and ITVS and serves on the Sesame Workshop and P.O.V. advisory panels and has been on numerous panels through the Public Television Programmer Association and at international short film festivals. Scott received his Bachelor of Arts (Communication Arts: Television & Film) in 1981 at the University of Wisconsin.

ROMEN PODZYHUN
MOVIEOLA - The Short Film Channel

Romen Podzyhun - Programming Director and Co-Founder of Movieola, The Short Film Channel in Canada, which is a 24/7 channel dedicated to short films. Prior to Movieola, Romen was a Senior Retail Executive at Eaton'd and Lenscrafter's Canada. Since graduating from York University Department in 1979, Romen has found time to produce 18 short films. Romen is currently expanding Movieola to the US market.

MOVIEOLA ? The Short Film Channel
The first of its kind on the planet - a digital channel devoted entirely to SHORT FILMS. A 24 ? 7 film festival in your very own living room. You?ll see everything from Festival winners to cult faves and never seen before, soon to be classics. They expose all genres, all makes and models, keeping it short ? 30 seconds to 40 minutes per movie. Their programming blocks include drama, comedy, cartoons, documentaries, animation, and for the late night viewer LATE NIGHT VIDIOTS: showcasing content appropriate to the wee small hours. Movieola launched September 2001 across Canada, and is expanding into the US market in 2005.

WALTER SALLES

Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles? 1995 feature Foreign Land, which he co-directed with Daniela Thomas, won the Grand Public?s Prize at the Paris Film Forum, among other honors.

His next film, Central Station, which was based on his original story, won the Sundance-NHK Cinema 100 Award for its screenplay, and then world-premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. Central Station went on to win the awards for Best Film and Best Actress (Fernanda Montenegro) at the Berlin International Film Festival that same year, as well as the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language. The film also received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress as well as more than 50 other international prizes.

Salles? 2001 feature Behind the Sun, which he directed and co-wrote, was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The Motorcycle Diaries, released in 2004, was recognized with seven BAFTA nominations and won for Best Foreign Film and Film Score. The film also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film, two Academy Award nominations, and three nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards. The Motorcycle Diaries has received multiple critical awards including the London Film Critics Award for Foreign Language Film of the Year.

Salles recently co-directed a piece titled 16 arrondisment for the project Paris je t'aime with Daniela Thomas. The work includes five-minute films by twenty different directors, each an expression of one arrondissement in Paris. The feature length collective film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2006 at ?Un Certain Regard.?

He is also prepping a feature film in Brazil entitled Linha de Passe.

In addition to his work as a director and screenwriter, Salles produces work by young Brazilian filmmakers. He co-produced the multiple Academy Award nominee City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and co-directed by Kátia Lund. He also produced Karim Ainouz? acclaimed Madame Satã, winner of the 2002 Chicago International Film Festival. He most recently produced Cidade Baixa, the first film by his former Assistant Director Sergio Machado.

DAVID SCHMOELLER
Associate Professor
UNLV Short Film Archive

David Schmoeller is an Associate Professor in film production at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and is the director of the UNLV Short Film Archive which holds a weekly screening series of short films called AN EVENING OF FESTIVAL SHORTS.

Before academia, Schmoeller was a Hollywood feature film and television writer-director for three decades. On February 26, 2007, the Cinémathèque Française in Paris held a TRIBUTE TO DAVID SCHMOELLER, screening two of his early features (TOURIST TRAP and CRAWLSPACE, as well as his celebrated short documentary PLEASE KILL MR. KINSKI). Schmoeller was present for a Q&A. In March, 2007, Schmoeller was a Visiting International Artist at Objectifs Centre for Photography & Filmmaking in Singapore where he shot the Singapore segment of a short film called WEDDING DAY (set in Las Vegas, Paris and Singapore) about a bride in each city in a white wedding dress on her wedding day as something calamitous has happened (WEDDING DAY will be the film submitted with this application as a sample of creative work).

JULIE TAYMOR