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Miska Draskoczy was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1975 and grew up in rural Pennsylvania. After studying architecture at the University of California, Berkeley he graduated from Tufts University/Museum School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1998. While working as a graphic designer in New York City in early 1999, Miska created the media ruse NATOarts, a conceptual arts organization purporting to be funded by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATOarts presented its first exhibition, "NATOarts: A Retrospective" in September 2000 in New York City and in the Spring of 2001, the federal government of Switzerland brought "NATOarts: A Retrospective" to Forde Espace d' Art Contemporain in Geneva, where it was exhibited for an eight-week run.
Now focusing on film and animation projects, Miska's "Golf Xpress", a short film about a psychotic golf pro, was screened at festivals worldwide and won Best of Festival and Best Experimental at the 2003 Denver Underground Film Festival. His latest short, "Perfect Heat", is a surreal sci-fi film about anxiety. In addition to his artistic activities, Miska founded and runs the production company snow23 where he directs and animates commercial spots and music videos for clients such as IBM, Lifetime, MTV, Tiffany, Canon, and others. He lives and works in New York City.
Murat Ozcan has served as Founder and Artistic Director of Urban Gypsy Productions since 1997. He graduated with an MFA in Theatre from the University of Paris, where he lived for sixteen years, acting in theatrical productions in Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Switzerland. He began directing theater in 1990 and since then has produced and directed over 20 shows in Paris and New York. Murat's work is a synthesis of the Anatolian-European culture and tradition he has lived, observed, and studied. In 2001 he created and produced the French Short Film Festival, currently in its third year at the Two Boots Pioneer Theatre in the East Village. Murat continues to bring independent films to New York communities through weekly film salons, and a new series, French Cinema Classics at Le Deux Gamins. This fall, he will also direct The Diablogues, a dark comedy by French playwright Roland Dubillard.
Pierrot Colonna was born in France in 1970 and grew up in Paris. In 1996 he moved to
New York City to pursue his
dream of capturing moving images and telling stories. A self taught
cinematographer, he worked for 5 years as an assistant
cameraman on feature films, commercials and music videos. For the past 4 years he has worked as a director
of photography on a variety of projects including
documentaries, short films and music videos. His recent credits include assisting and operating on the Britney Spears video (featuring Madonna) "Me Against The Music" and cinematographer for the short film, "Above
and Beneath" which was screened in the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
Sameer Reddy likes to dabble in all kinds of things. He designs clothing and interiors. He is also the fashion director for Bidoun magazine and the co-owner/designer of Oslo, a sushi restaurant and nightclub in downtown Detroit. One day he hopes to make 'it'. You know, 'it'.
Brigitte Alganatay began acting in her hometown of Istanbul. In 1999 she moved to New York to further pursue her career. Her theatrical credits include "Medea (Medea)" , "Dwirling Dervishes" (ensemble, the award winning play in istanbul 1997), and "Andorra " (Barblin). Her film credits include "Salome" (Salome), "The Girl Next Door" (Mona), "The Boots", and "A Man Push Cart."
Basem Moussa is a writer, editor, actor, director and unix geek. He has a degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester and training in filmmaking at the Academy of Art and Film Arts Foundation in San Francisco. His latest project, Lonely Hearts, Inc. is a short comedic film which he wrote and directed.
Mika Vainio
is a world renowned Finnish experimental electronic musician and co-founder of the seminal techno group Pan Sonic. Pan Sonic's brand of quirky, lo-fi minimalism transformed them into one of the most popular exports from the Northern European techno underground. Unlike Pan Sonic's harder, comparatively more dancefloor-oriented music, Mika Vainio's solo work tends more toward the ambient and experimental, wedding sparse machine noises with shifting rhythms, stubbornly unmusical sonic textures, and assorted channel separation weirdness.
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