ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

MATT AARON KRINSKY (Director, Producer, Co-Screenwriter) grew up in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts where he began putting on shows for any receptive audience from a young age. While attending Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, he produced and directed his first two stage shows for a local community organization. Matt entered Brandeis University as a pre-med student, but a family vacation to Los Angeles, and specifically a tour of the Universal Studios backlot, quickly changed his career path.

While at Brandeis, Matt received a filmmaking grant and directed his first documentary. In addition to graduating from Brandeis with a degree in psychology, film studies and art history, he has studied directing, cinema history and screenwriting at numerous schools around the globe, namely, New York University’s acclaimed Tisch School of the Arts, the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England and the University of California Los Angeles. One of Matt’s comedic short films gained cult status at Brandeis and received special recognition from the Sigma Alpha Mu Foundation.

Matt moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to pursue his career as a director, producer, actor and writer. He had the privilege to work as an assistant to Lawrence Bender at his and Quentin Tarantino’s production company, A Band Apart. Matt trained as an actor/director at the Joanne Baron/D.W. Brown Studio in Santa Monica, California and since then has directed and appeared in numerous short films and stage plays.

Always actively involved with the local community, Matt serves on alumni boards for his alma mater and helps AIDS Project Los Angeles fund HIV/AIDS research and prevention programs by participating in both AIDS Walk Los Angeles and the AIDS Marathon.

Matt formed Mogul Productions in 2003 and is currently writing a feature interracial romantic comedy script and developing numerous other film, television and documentary projects.

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CARLO CACCAVALE (Producer) - born in Rome, Italy – grew up on films and dreams, a combination that turned him into a huge movie buff.

After receiving his Master’s Degree in Communication at the University of Rome, Carlo moved to New York where he graduated from The Center for the Media Arts with a concentration in Television Production. Upon his return to Rome, Carlo worked in development for noted director Dario Argento. Two years later he moved to Milan to work in TV development and production at Mediaset as a writer and associate producer for several prime-time shows.

In Los Angeles, Carlo has written feature-length scripts, completed a series of short films for the Internet, including Angelyne: the Hollywood Tour, and directed 2 short films from his original screenplays, Chatroom and Best Actress.
JOHN MILITELLO (Co-Screenwriter) wrote and starred in the award winning short film Rock Bottom and created The Dairy Fairies, a comedy set in an ice cream parlor in New York's West Village, which premiered on stage in Los Angeles last year. He also wrote and starred in the one-man off-Broadway show Life is a Bowl of Pork in New York. John's work as an actor can be seen in such films as Teaneck, Barstow 2008 and the 2003 Sundance Film Festival selection Struggle. Stage work includes roles in The Lower Depths, Maddogs and Other Rabble, and the title role in Marty. He is currently finishing his first book The Dickie Stories.
ADAM SAMPSON (Director of Photography) first became interested in cinematography at the age of 5 when he visited a television studio. He received a B.A. from Montana State University. Adam worked at PBS in Denver, Colorado for five years on the series Spirit of Colorado. In those five years he won seven Emmy’s for his camerawork. He earned his Master’s of Fine Arts in Cinematography from the American Film Institute in Hollywood. For the past five years, Adam has been working as a Director of Photography in the Los Angeles area focusing mainly on HD and film feature projects.
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WILLIAM Z. WAXMAN (Executive Producer) was born and raised in Chelsea, Massachusetts, where he continues to reside and operate a successful insurance and real estate business. Mr. Waxman is well known and respected in his community, where he has been very active in civic, religious and recreational programs. Mr. Waxman has also been very involved in the political atmosphere in his native city, maintaining an impeccable reputation in the process. Mr. Waxman, a true entrepreneur, has been successful in a variety of business venues. Executive producing this film marks Mr. Waxman’s first venture in the film industry.
MATT BARBER (Film Editor) is a man. A man with a penchant for spiky hair; a man who denies the continual loss of said hair. And like most men, he has a dream. A dream to make movies. Never being one to give up (but never stopping to ask for directions) he has stumbled upon such shows as Law & Order: Crime and Punishment and The O.C. where he was put to work as an assistant editor -- and loved every moment of it! Occasionally, he finds a willing participant in his peculiar experiments in filmmaking. These experiments have led to such films as The Rule and Proverbial They (which he wrote and directed, thank you very much!). In his spare time he likes to take on the roll of an editor. Most recently, he cut the short Cracker Ingenuity which debuted at the 2003 AFI Filmfest. www.barbershoppro.com

MALICE (Composer) (Mary Alice Corton, professionally known as "Malice") is a composer for all media. Malice scores music for film, television and corporate projects in between her touring dates for her singer-songwriter career. She is currently working on a musical based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and touring solo on the East coast. www.malice-music.com