Team
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Mike Hedge Producer
After graduating from LA Film School as a producing and cinematography major, he became an aspiring producer and a RED camera expert. In 2006, he produced the narrative feature, Wake Up You’re Sleeping, which is premiered at the 2009 Sacramento Film Festival and Ashland Film Festival. As The Dust Settles will be his first feature documentary. He is also a prolific adventure travel photographer. Prior to his film career, Mike was an avid marathon runner and all-star soccer player. Mike is an Eagle Scout, class of 1997.
Arin Crumley
The Wall Street Journal lists Arin among the top 20 new media moguls, and applauds his co-creation of the popular independent film and online video series, Four Eyed Monsters. In 2002, Arin met his future collaborator, Susan Buice, beginning a relationship that evolved into the creation of the cult phenomenon. The film was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards and became the first feature film to be posted in its entirety on YouTube. Arin is also co-founder of the research and development project From Here to Awesome which has been uniting filmmakers to collaborate on future models of funding and distribution.
Isis Masoud
Isis has worked in all realms of the business. From choreographer to producer, including film, television, commercial and theater. Recently, Isis worked with film company Rakontur on the critically acclaimed web-series CLUBLAND, and has also reached internet fame with her own web-series THE POLE-ITE GIRLS! She has worked alongside industry heavy hitters, John Caird, David Parsons, Savion Glover, Dan Knechtges, David Schweizer, & Mia Michaels. Her work was featured on the TV show Dance Fever, as well as the Off-Broadway shows At The Diner, Trash Warfare, & La Femme, winner of Best Ensemble at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2008.
Roger Ingraham
At age 19, Roger directed his first feature film, Moonshine, which was an official selection at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, making him the youngest feature filmmaker. Turning down offers in Hollywood, he instead traveled with a non-profit organization to the poorest towns and provinces of Argentina and Nigeria, documenting the efforts to bring clean water and education to the people. He returned back to his small town in Connecticut and started an Arts Collective, in an effort to heal the generational drug and alcohol patterns in the local youth. Currently, he’s working on two projects that continue to inspire others.
Karl Jacob
Karl Jacob is an actor/writer in the new acclaimed Independent Film Channel series “Young American Bodies“. His recent film “The Roost” is currently running on Showtime. In addition to his acting pursuits he produced the short film “Happy New Year,” a movie that “Children of Men” producer Iain Smith calls “A Stunning Debut”. Currently working onstage in New York, Karl is in the new T. Arthur Cottam film, “Objects”, shooting this spring.
Susan Buice
Susan got her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from University of Massachusetts Amherst. After moving to New York City, she met Arin Crumley, and together they created their first feature film Four Eyed Monsters which has made festival rounds, received critical acclaim, and self distributed to over 30 cities. Buice and Crumley are recognized as digital pioneers for the ways they develop content, cultivate audiences, create interactive experiences and distribute their work. They’ve been featured in Fast Company Magazine, the New York Times, Apple’s Hot News and AOL’s start up page.
Jeremy Lubman
Jeremy is a visionary writer, producer, and documentary filmmaker whose socially-conscious projects have brought him throughout the US, South America, and Asia. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and New York University. His play, Phantom Limbs, was produced in New York City in 2007. He is a freelance producer for Radical Media in Manhattan.
Katheryn McGaffigan
Katheryn holds a degree from Harvard in Creative Writing and Literature. She then pursued acting in a MA program through Antioch College, where she studied under Mike Nichols at his New Actors Workshop Conservatory. She has also studied under the performing arts field’s’ authors and Master Teachers Scott Zigler, Elizabeth Bergmann, Stephen Wangh, Arthur Giron, Marcus Stern, and George Morrison. Katheryn has performed all over the world onstage as part of the notorious ‘gypsy punk’ band Gogol Bordello. In New York, she is a signed model. She is building her acting career off her modeling career’s successes and hopes to eventually be the writer, actor, and producer of her own film.
Tarynn Wiehahn
Tarynn has always been an enthusiastic child with a great imagination. Upon her first visit to New York City, as a 10 year old, she confessed she wanted to be an actress when she grew up. She studied acting throughout school in South Africa and London and finally returned to NYC in 2005 to study a two year acting intensive program at HB Studio. She went on to be in independent films, music videos and read lots of plays. In the summer of 2007, Tarynn hitch-hiked from NYC to Seattle in 111 rides with fellow South African friend and made a documentary out of the experience. Check out: www.111themovie.com She continues her creative projects as an actress, director, helmet designer, day-dreamer, aspiring french speaker, and bass player, Tarynn keeps herself involved in the wonderful world of film.
Josh Steinbauer
Josh Steinbauer’s art and video have been exhibited internationally and his latest drawings will be included in the next GRAFUCK illustration book. His short film Smothered was featured in the International Pancake Film Festival, and he teamed up with Josh “Hollywood” Reynolds for the highly anticipated follow up Flap Jack the Ripper. Josh’s punkrock-bluegrass ho down band Woodpecker recently released the album “F-Hole” to critical acclaim the likes of “fun” and “witty”. Previous music projects include Josh S & the Protesters, Josh S & the Emotioneers, Josh S & the Selfawarelessness, and Loin Groove. Josh is a graduate of the Maryland Institute, College of Art. He lives in new york city.
Jamie Dee
A self taught photographer and artist. She has worked
with people such as Professional Media Prankster
Alan Abel and Spiritual Teacher Michael Brown.
Recently her photographs were displayed in a gallery at
the University of Connecticut for “U-Live: A UConn Photo
Documentary Project;” where she attended school last year
and took photos for the Daily Campus, the university
newspaper.
Stephen Lucas
Stephen attended the University of Alabama and graduated with a BA, majoring in Telecommunications and Film and minoring in Creative Writing. While there he served as Director of Photography for a multitude of student projects. In the summer of his junior year, Stephen spent two months in Los Angeles interning at Nu Image/Millennium Films. In 2008 he was the Director of Photography on the independent feature, A Genesis Found. He currently resides in Manhattan Beach and works consistently in the film and television industry as a RED ONE DIT, 1st AC/focus puller, PA, camera operator, and cinematographer. Cinematography remains his paramount passion and discipline.
Andrew A Peterson
Andrew A. Peterson is an artist, composer and futurist based in Sebastopol, California. Although he is most well known as the composer for the film Four Eyed Monsters, he was also one of the brains behind the project’s highly successful grassroots marketing campaign, one of the first to take advantage of podcasting, social networking services, and the use of viral video widgets, long before services like YouTube appeared on the scene to standardize the practice. Andrew is continually building his body of experimental instrumental music called The Golden Pastime while staying passionately immersed in emerging Web technologies and serving as an advisor to other artists.
Matt Scott
Matt Scott is a Post Production Supervisor specializing in reality, variety and episodic television as well as feature length documentaries. He is a specialist in merging the roles of people and technology in the world of post-production. From 2007 through 2009 he oversaw post-production on the series Kamen Rider Dragon Knight airing Saturday mornings on the CW network. Prior to becoming a Post Production Supervisor, he worked as an Assistant Editor on a multitude of series. As a Senior Assistant Editor, he honed his workflow skills managing large volumes of media on multiple series with orders from 20-60 episodes each. Outside of his work as a Post Production Supervisor, Scott is supporter and former programmer for the Slamdance Film Festival.
Clay Haskell
Kati Bicknell
Nathan Garofalos
Gary Hedge
Owen Bryne
Eva Mah
Joe Griffin
March 14th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
[...] Skype chats, getting people committed, and preparing for the huge collaborative documentary, a great team of 25 people was created. I booked many airline tickets, got the RED cameras ready, got some great [...]
April 16th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
[...] Jamie, Arin and I were there with many laptops editing our segments. It was great working as a team, and a lot of needed editing work got done for the documentary. We also celebrated Jamie’s and [...]
April 29th, 2009 at 12:07 am
what a fantastic gang you guys are and what a great job
your doing hehehehe i like it alot =0)
i whant too be like you guys when i grow upp hhehehehe =0)
May 16th, 2009 at 2:56 am
[...] and met up with Lauren Randolph!!!!! (jumpshot photographer extraordinaire, and member of the ATDS team) We got to hang out with her for the day and shot some jumpshots. Yes this photo hit Flickr [...]
July 4th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
[...] Team [...]
November 26th, 2009 at 1:36 am
[...] did manage to find some of the people who worked with me on the documentary we did last year. It was nice seeing [...]
November 28th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
[...] Ingraham was nice enough to let the As The Dust Settles team set up shop at Highland Terrace.Team ATDS edited all month. Check out the photos, and the [...]
January 21st, 2010 at 11:23 am
[...] year ago, the core team of ATDS was gathered in Connecticut, for a few weeks of editing. We worked together, we shared [...]