CAST
 
Sara Hatfield (Elizabeth Wright) recently starred in the short film "Coney Island, 1945," which premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. She was also the lead in "Necrolog" which won Best Feature at the 2004 Big Mini DV Festival in New York City. NYC stage credits include Gertrude in the first ever Hamlet-a-thon, Tamora Queen of the Goths in "Titus Andronicus" and the title role in Tom Stoppard's "Hapgood." Sara will perform her solo show "Botox/Age Gracefully, or, What Would Lady Macbeth Do?" in October 2005 at the Manhattan Theatre's Source Estrogenius Festival. You can learn more about Sara at www.sarahatfield.com.
 
James Kautz (Daniel Wright) has starred in the independent features "Reflections" and "Chasing the Light." He also appeared in Combat Jump, The History Channel's first original movie by Emmy Award winning director Lou Reda. Jame's theatre credits include "Game Show," "The Diviners" and the lead in "Debt" at The Maverick Theatre.
 
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER / PRODUCER / WRITER
 
Native New Yorker Rocky Martucci is a man of many talents. This seasoned union actor has held principal roles in a dozen indie shorts and features and starred in two dozen Off-Off Broadway and Off-Broadway plays including on-the-road tours across the nation. Rocky has also appeared in segments on "Regis & Kathie Lee" and "The Geraldo Rivera Show," as well as episodes of Fox-TV's "Van-Pires" and GBH-TV's "English as a Second Language."
 
A playwright, screenwriter, songwriter and poet, Rocky has served as a contributing writer on several of the indie projects he has starred in. He has also written and produced two Off-Off Broadway plays and three short films through his company Steady as a Rock Productions. His short comedy "Feeeed Meeee!!!" garnered honorable mentions from both Dances With Films and the AFI Film Fest in Los Angeles.
 
DIRECTOR/ ASSOCIATE PRODUCER / WRITER
 
Anna-Mária Vág has served as a producer, director and cinematographer on a multitude of features, shorts and other award winning film, video and television projects for over a decade. With over seventy five production credits, her film work has screened at over fifty films festivals and screening series globally and online. Her cinematography is in distribution in Canada, Europe and the US and has been broadcast on Dovetail and New Screen Television.
 
Vág's producer and director work has been an official selection at several film festivals including The Palm Beach International Film Festival, The New York Television Festival and The Rhode Island International Film Festival. Additional recent screening venues of her director work include: SuperfilmNYC in Tribeca, The Hickory Museum of Art in North Carolina, MakeReady Press Gallery in Montclair, New Jersey alongside oscar nominated shorts, and IFC's Media Lab.
 
Her director work on the tv pilot "Second Wind" was an Audience Choice Award Finalist at The Mobile Media Fest at NAPTE 2006 and garnered the most votes during a TV Guide on-line vote for which drama should become a TV series during the inaugural New York Television Festival. Vág’s producer work with LME partners Debra Higgins and Sandra Longo on Legacy Mountain Films feature documentary “Snake Hill” won both Best Feature Documentary and The Jersey Fresh Award for best film make by a NJ filmmaker at the 2007 Red Bank International Film Festival.
 
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
 
Raised just outside of Atlantic City, George Lyon grew up in a surreal and spirited world full of card con players, paycheck- grandmothers, surfers, suburbanites, gangsters and more. While training to be a graphic designer/illustrator from an early age, he switched gears in his mid teens when he discovered the overwhelming power and grandeur of cinema. He has been a convert ever since. His work has been seen on everything from large music channels to karaoke bars and small film festivals in the U.S. to large screens in India. George is in constant search of images which are compelling, insightful, multi-dimensional, and indelible to the body and the soul. He has just come back from shooting back-to-back features, and is in pre-production for another.
 
EDITOR
 
Ray Chung has been a Producer, Director, and Editor of independent film and television in the NY area for over a decade. His recent work has received awards from the New York Independent Film & Video Festival Younity Guild. A graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Film program, Ray served as the Producer, Editor and Screenwriter for "Return of the Sun Devil" which won a 1995 Student Academy Award Winner in Animation. He is currently in development for his feature Directorial debut.
 
MUSIC
 
Robert Weinstein is a composer and guitarist with a background in Jazz, Classical, and World Music. He has studied at The Manhattan School of Music and The Eastman School of Music. Robert has performed as a soloist, and ensemble member, throughout the United States, Canada and India and has played and contributed compositions to numerous recordings and film scores. He has collaborated in performances and recordings with Grammy nominated Cellist David Darling who has produced scores for Jean Luc Goddard and Wim Wenders. Robert’s recent collaborations in film include "To Remember Him" a film about Indian Spiritual master Meher Baba for which he created a unique piece composed for tabla and orchestra. You can learn more about Robert’s music at www.robertweinsteinmusic.com.
 
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
 
Photographer, graphic designer and stained glass artist Kim Sakevich makes her production designer debut with "Thanks, Mom." A graduate of Georgian Court University, Kim holds a degree in Graphic Design and has been involved with theater and the arts since childhood. An eager and fast learner, Kim is always pursuing new experiences. She is currently working as a portrait photographer and to expand her own business in web design and graphics, AddStudios.
 
SOUND
 
Sam Crow began making films in high school. He continued his work at Reed College where he completed several short film and received his B.A in English. Training himself on a variety of equipment through making his own movies, Sam has held a wide variety of production roles. He honed his documentary shooting skills while working as co-producer and videographer on the reality-based Studionext series "Dealing With Michael Bell," currently repped by William Morris. Sam also composed and performed the soundtrack music for this series as well as his own films. He is the founding partner/director at Voodoo People Productions in New York City.
 
HAIR / MAKEUP
 
Ron Anderson approaches styling with inspiration, imagination, and innovation. He worked on the visuals for both the 2005 Daytime Emmy Awards and the 2005 TONY Awards as well as segments for Entertainment Tonight, VH1, and Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Ron also does styling for Spa Finder, Cosmo, and Glamor magazines.
 
 
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