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Alex Halpern (Director / Producer)
Trained as a juggler in Italy, Alex Halpern attended the Instituto De Science
Cinematografice in Florence, Italy and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts,
where his short film Zelda, Catwoman of Queens won awards at
the NYU Film Festival, as well as a Student Academy Award for Best Experimental
Film. His writing and directing credits for television include MTV’s
You Wrote It, You Watch It, as well as commercials and music
videos, including Tripping Daisy’s Blown Away, the first stop-motion
animated music video. Alex lives in New York where he owns Pickled Punk Pictures
and Post Factory, a downtown editorial
facility specializing in both commercials and feature films, and is a founding
partner (with Alex Winter) of Hyena Films,
a commercial production company. Nine Good Teeth, a portrait of an
extraordinary 104-year-old Brooklyn-born Italian-American matriarch (who happens
to be his grandmother) is his first documentary feature.
Angelo
Corrao, A.C.E. (Editor)
Angelo Corrao was born in Sicily and immigrated to New York with his family
as a boy. He served as apprentice editor on Elaine May's A New Leaf (1971),
followed by a long association with Carl Lerner including Klute (1971)
and editor Dede Allen, collaborating on almost all of her films for over fifteen
years, including Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975) and
Reds (1981). She in turn introduced Angelo to photographer-filmmaker
Bruce Weber to edit his Oscar-nominated profile of Chet Baker, Let's Get
Lost (1989). Bruce and Angelo have continued to collaborate, on the series
of Eternity commercials, and most recently the film Chop Suey, (nominated
for an A.C.E. award for excellence in documentary editing). Another long-term
collaborator is director Mike Nichols; Angelo worked as an editor on both
Silkwood (1981) and Primary Colors (1998). Award-winning TV
films include Kevin Spacey's Darrow (1991) and another Oscar-nominated
documentary, The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996).
Teese Gohl (Composer)
Born and raised in Switzerland, Teese (Matthias) Gohl has produced film scores
for Elliot Goldenthal (including Titus, Butcher Boy, Interview
with a Vampire, Heat, Alien 3) Carly Simon (Postcards
From The Edge, This Is My Life), Dave Stewart (The Ref,
Beautiful Girls) and the Oscar-winning score for The Red Violin
by John Corigliano. Orignal soundtrack work includes documentary films by
Ken Burns (The West, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Jazz series),
Roger Sherman's Alexander Calder and Richard Rodgers. Most recently,
he produced (for Elliot Goldenthal) film scores for Neil Jordan's The Good
Thief and the 2003 Oscar-winning score for Julie Taymor's Frida.
Madeleine Leskin (Associate Producer)
Madeleine Leskin is a producer, director and researcher for independent documentary
and feature films, music videos and commercials. Her short films and music
videos, made exclusively from found footage and homegrown super-8 and 16mm,
have been exhibited at museums, broadcast channels and film festivals around
the world. "El Magazo" was saluted at the 2002 Oberhausen Short
Film Festival as one of the best international music videos and was showcased
on the Sundance Channel’s
Sonic Cinema. Her most recent film,
"Ibid, desmarches Ibid"
(from a track by DJ Spooky the subliminal kid) premiered in the international
competition section at the 2003 Dresden Festival for Documentary and Animated
Films.
Starring "Nana" Mary Mirabito Livornese Cavaliere
Produced and Directed by Alex Halpern
Edited by Angelo Corrao, A.C.E.
Executive Producer
Caryn Maria Horowitz
Associate Producer
Madeleine Leskin
Commissioning Editor for
BBC Storyville
Nick Fraser
Original Music
Teese Gohl
Associate Editor
Laura H. Congleton
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Featuring Assistant Editors Post Production Facility Pre-print Processing
Sound Designer Music Editor |
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Main Title Design and Visual Effects Photographs Music Recorded by Violin Solo |