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Miska Draskoczy moved to NYC in the late nineties to co-found and art direct the media ruse NATOarts, a conceptual arts organization purporting to be funded by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In the spring of 2001, the federal government of Switzerland brought "NATOarts: A Retrospective" to Geneva where it was exhibited for an eight-week run.
Turning his efforts to film and animation, Miska directed several shorts including Golf Xpress, a short film about a psychotic golf pro (TromaDance, Best of Denver Underground Fest), and Perfect Heat, a surreal sci-fi film about anxiety (20+ festivals including SF IndieFest, Fantastic Fest, Cinequest, LA Shorts Fest). His latest film is the Rubik's Cube art video The Trick (Fantasia Fest). Miska's work has been profiled in ARTnews, i-D, UK Esquire, Wired, New York Press, and SHIFT among others. His first documentary project, Here's the Thing..., is a web series which profiles people through pictures of objects in their home and has reached over 175,000 views.
In 2002 Miska founded the production company snow23 where he has accumulated extensive experience in design and post production pursuing client projects as a director, FX artist, editor and animator. Some of Miska’s broad roster of clients include MTV, Microsoft, IBM, Porsche, Vogue, the International Center of Photography, Fila, Canon, Condé Nast and many of New York’s top ad agencies such as Grey Worldwide, Deutsch, Razorfish, Ogilvy & Mather and TBWA \ Chiat \ Day.
Miska's first feature film project, the metaphysical family horror film Mister Gimp, is currently in development and a Slamdance 2010 screenplay competition finalist.
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 makes movies. Most recently, he directed You Can Yoga in Amsterdam.
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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