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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 NY,
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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