Tie a Yellow Ribbon, filmhold
Manuskript/Instruktør/Producer: Joy Dietrich
Koreansk-fødte amerikanske filminstruktør Joy Dietrich startede med at
offentliggøre, der arbejder som redaktør og journalist for forskellige
magasiner og nyhedstjenester i USA og i udlandet. , Mens de bor i Paris
i slutningen af 1990'erne kom hun til at føle, at filmen var kunstnerisk
medium, der ville give hende mulighed for at udtrykke sig mest fuldt ud.
I typiske all-out mode hun flyttede til New York og fordybe sig i at lære
det håndværk, om hendes egen og uden film skole. Denne proces kulminerede
i produktionen af Joy's selvbiografisk inspireret første film, OVERSKUD,
det kritikerroste 16mm kort beskæftiger sig med de ødelæggende virkninger
af fattigdom på børn af en koreansk familie.
Overskud er blevet vist på 40 + filmfestivaler og events, herunder San Francisco International Asian-American Film Festival og Londons Raindance Film Festival. San Francisco-baserede NAATA (nu Center for Asian American Media) tog Overskud op til distribution i 2001.
Glæden blev tildelt en New York State Rådet om Arts tilskud i 2004, et bopælskrav fra Lower Manhattan Kulturelle Råd i 2006. Hun har modtaget støtte fra Independent Television Service's Open Ring til at skrive og skyde sin første spillefilm TIE A YELLOW RIBBON. Joy nu deler sin tid arbejdede for The New York Times og om hendes filmskabende aktiviteter.
Producer: Thomas Yong
Thomas Yong blev født i Seoul, men opvokset i Danmark. Efter han fik sin
kandidat grad i International Business, flyttede Thomas til New York
City, hvor han grundlagde Shouting Cow Productions, LLC, en uafhængig
film-og tv-produktionsselskab. Med Shouting Cow, produceret Thomas kortfilm
BASIC følelser - en ambitiøs produktion med tre hold af forfattere og
instruktører skyde tre separate historier. GRUNDLÆGGENDE følelser premiere
på Los Angeles International Short Film Festival 2004. I 2003 Thomas
associere produceret Jae Song's kortfilm hinke baseret på en roman af
Julio Cortázar, som havde premiere ved Hamptons International Film Festival
i 2004. I 2003 producerede Thomas COLOR af tvivl: AN URBAN Fable instrueret
af Pornsak Pichetshote og Jason Garrett Lewis, og knytte produceret
Georgiens Lees seneste kortfilm: diagnose.
Co-Producer: Malaika Langa
Malaika Langa er producenten af hans og hendes samt Production Manager
for spillefilmen SERIENR. Hendes erfaring omfatter udvikling producer
og manager for den prisbelønnede indie filmselskab Mondo Paradiso Films
samt Facility Manager og Audio Post koordinator Planet 10 Post, hendes
kreditter omfatter vognbaneskift, Monsoon Wedding og sekretær. Desuden
blev Malaika Forsker for Cable Ace prisbelønnede dokumentarfilm Don
Quixote er produceret af The Cronkite Ward Company og en producent,
forfatter og intervieweren for WESU 88,1 om radioaktive Wire.
Co-Producer: Jason Garrett Lewis
Jason Garrett Lewis en afgangselev fra Tufts University, er en offentliggjort
fotograf og prisbelønnede filminstruktør, der først har rettet sit kamera
på gaden i New York i femte klasse, han har været skyde stillbilleder
og film lige siden. Hans stadig har været trykt i forskellige tidsskrifter,
aviser, film og cd'er, samt i hele verden for virksomheder som MTV Networks,
Puma USA, Rainstone Entertainment, og andre. Han har også arbejdet i
filmen i en række forskellige nøglepositioner både on-sæt og off. I
øjeblikket fokuserer på instruere og producere, Jason første instruktør
og producerer indsats indbragte ham udmærkelser i en række festivaler,
hans anden film, COLOR af tvivl: en bymæssig fabel, er i øjeblikket
screening inden for filmfestival kredsløb. Jason har deltaget i udarbejdelsen
mange andre film, også de eksperimentelle filmproduktion af amerikanere,
som havde sit premier i sommeren 2004 på New York's PS1./MOMA museum
og for nylig blev fremvist på Cannes Film Festival 2005.
Associate Producer: Joselin Linder
Joselin Linder begyndte at producere arbejder med Misery Loves Company
(nu Mi Loco), et internationalt teater selskab baseret i Tjekkiet i 1998.
Mest bemærkelsesværdigt, Joselin produceret HAMLET med en international
cast, som havde premiere i Prag berømte Globe Theatre i 2000 for et publikum
på over fem hundrede. Hun flyttede til New York fra San Francisco, hvor
hun hjalp med at lancere op og kommende mode design firma, Evege Studio.
Arbejder nu i film Joselin, har Production Koordinerede på
flere projekter, herunder et tv-episode af Happy Unge Productions og et
pilotprojekt for Comedy Central. Hun har arbejdet som en casting assistent
og senere i Talent Management til Anonym indhold. Hun arbejder i dag under
udvikling til Gigantisk Pictures.
Consulting Producer: Jason Orans
Jason Orans produced several features in the past year including Sundance
Film Festival Feature Competition Selection FLANNEL PAJAMAS, written
and directed by October Films founder Jeff Lipsky; SATELLITE, a 2005
Tribeca Film Festival premiere; and YEAR OF THE FISH, which was developed
at the Sundance Institute, currently in post-production. Jason recently
produced several narrative projects for PBS, including COSMOPOLITAN,
written by Sabrina Dhawan (MONSOON WEDDING) and directed by Nisha Ganatra
(CHUTNEY POPCORN), which represented the U.S. at the 2005 INPUT World
Television Conference and premiered on Independent Lens. Also for PBS:
an adaptation of Julia Alvarez's THE SUITOR which premiered nationally
in October 2005; an adaptation of Bernard Malamud's THE FIRST SEVEN
YEARS; and an adaptation of Eudora Welty's short story THE KEY, shot
in New Orleans entirely in American Sign Language with actors from the
National Theater of the Deaf. Also a busy producer for hire, Jason has
line produced the New York units of feature films L'AUTRE, ALEXANDRIA...NEW
YORK and HELLO AMERICA, as well as many documentaries, shorts and music
videos.
Director of Photography: Lars Bonde
Lars Bonde graduated from The Danish National Film School in 2003 after
photographing the award winning short film “Nightfall.” He has since
lensed a long list of fictional short narratives, documentaries and
commercials, including the Danish Academy Award Winner “Little Lise”
and Close Up Winner “2 Minutes”, which was also nominated in Semaine
de la Critique at Cannes. His first feature-length films The Superman
and With Closed Eyes are currently in the editing room, Tie a Yellow
Ribbon will be his third.
Editor: Rasmus Høgdall
Rasmus Høgdall has worked in the Danish film business since 2001. His
work as an editor includes the documentary segments for the Lars von
Trier’s E-trilogy, which won the MIP-Com awards in Cannes 2005 for best
non-English DVD and the short film “Little Lise” which won the Danish
Academy Award for best short. This film is now being submitted for the
Oscar. His first feature film is called Bølle Bob which became a Danish
box-office success. Tie a Yellow Ribbon is his second feature film.
He is currently working on his third feature in Denmark.
Editor: Stephen T. Maing
Stephen Maing is a filmmaker and musician. His short film LITTLE HEARTS
was awarded Best of Festival at the New England Film and Video Festival
as well as the Best Short Film Audience Award at the Slamdance Film
Festival. His cinematography credits include music videos for seminal
hip-hop group PUBLIC ENEMY and various narrative, documentary and commercial
projects. As an editor he has cut programs for PBS, History Channel,
Bravo, Discovery Channel, MTV, & Nickelodeon. His recent editing
credits include Comedy Central’s CHAPPELLE SHOW: THE LOST EPISODES and
currently the documentary feature TEAM LIONESS about women in the military.
He has participated in various inner-city media groups as a visiting
artist and teacher for programs like the Young Producer's Program, a
media workshop for Boston inner-city teens and the Cambridge Community
Art Center.
Composer: John Schmersal
Composer John Schmersal, is mostly known for his musical work in the art-pop
bands Enon and Brainiac. His other credits include song writing and
sound design for MTV2, Sundance Channel, Disney, and Columbia Pictures
as well as several production and engineering credits on other groups
albums.
Production Designer: Tamar Gadish
Tamar Gadish works in both film and theatre. Her most recent credits in
films include The Cry directed by Bernadine Sanitevan, Guiana 1838 directed
By Rohit Jagessar, Mind the Gap directed by Eric Shaeffer and The Barbecue
People, which she was nominated for An Israeli Oscar for best Production
Design, directed by David Ofek & Yosi Madmoni. She holds an MFA
in Set Design for Stage and Film from New York University, Tisch School
of the Arts.
Casting Director: Stephanie Holbrook
Stephanie Holbrook’s Casting credits include high-profile projects from three major markets. Beginning her career in her hometown of San Francisco, she provided local casting for such films as Jade, Murder in the First, A Walk In The Clouds and Mrs. Doubtfire for 20th. In L.A., Stephanie joined the casting team for the show “The Practice,” then “Roseanne” and “Arliss. Early New York credits include TV and Film: “Chappelle’s Show” (season 1) for the Comedy Central, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village and Lady in the Water, Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic and Mike Newell’s Mona Lisa Smile.
In the last few years, Stephanie cast the film Room 314 for Michael Knowles, worked with Bart Freundlich on Trust the Man, Tom Dey on the Paramount film Failure To Launch, among others. Stephanie had the privilege of working with playwright/ filmmaker, Kenneth Lonergan, on his latest film Margaret. Stephanie also completed casting work on Oscar-nominated Noah Baumbach’s latest film Margot at the Wedding, having worked with him on his prior film, The Squid and the Whale. Her 2006 associate casting director credits include James Gray’s We Own the Night. Also in 2006, Stephanie cast a handful of independent projects: The Babysitters, Love Comes Lately, and Goodbye Baby, finishing with MTV’s sketch comedy show “Human Giant”.
Beginning 2007, Stephanie is casting Eric Mendelsohn’s Interior Brownstone, the film Red Robin for director Michael Wechsler, and has begun casting the Douglas Tirola’s film Victor in December for the producer of Girl With A Pearl Earring. Stephanie is also currently casting M. Night Shyamalan’s latest studio project, The Happening.
Line Producer & UPM : Tevin Adelman
Tevin Adelman started his career in Los Angeles after graduating from
Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications. In L.A.
he worked as the Assistant to the Director of Development at El Dorado
Pictures on the Sony lot before becoming an executive assistant at First
Television. Later, he moved to New York to pursue more feature film
work and became an assistant director on projects like THE CONFESSION,
JULIEN-DONKEY BOY, HOME SWEET HOBOKEN, KING OF THE JUNGLE and SOCIAL
GRACE. Adelman went on to work as a Production Manager and Post Production
Supervisor at Tribe Pictures before becoming the Director of Development
and Production at Kismet Films. During his tenure at Kismet he developed
and produced a variety of projects both for theatrical distribution
and for television such as THE NEW AMERICANS, OUTLANDS and THE STORY
OF CALVIN STOLLER. Subsequently, he has returned to his feature roots
and continues to Production Manage, Line Produce, and Produce independent
features of all sizes and Budgets. His recent producing credits include,
FLANNEL PAJAMAS - an official Sundance selection - AFTERMATH, YEAR OF
THE FISH and THE CHILD WITHIN.