DAVID LEWIS (Writer, Director) is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and book editor. His film career began in 2002 when he wrote and edited Under One Roof. Since then, he has written and directed three features: Rock Haven, Redwoods (winner of the prestigious Iris Prize in Wales), and his latest, Longhorns. He also wrote and produced the short film Can’t Buy Me Love, which won audience awards at multiple film festivals. His films have been distributed through TLA Releasing and have played at film festivals all over the world.
Mr. Lewis, a writer since he was a kid, shared a Pulitzer Prize as an editor at the San Jose Mercury News. His editing work has won numerous awards at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he also reviews films. These days, in addition to his film and newspaper work, he is a writing coach for novelists. He currently has two feature films — one a comedy, the other a drama — in various stages of pre-production.
H.P. MENDOZA (Producer, Editor, Original Music) is an award-winning writer-director, and singer-songwriter based in San Francisco. His screenplay and music for 2006′s Colma: The Musical won him and director Richard Wong the Special Jury Prizes at both Los Angeles and San Francisco’s Asian American Film Festivals. He was also listed in 2006′s Top 15 Creative Talents according to UCLA Asia Pacific Arts. In 2007, he teamed up with Wong again to create the experimental film Option 3 for which he received a Technical Achievement Award from the L.A. Asian Film Festival.
For 2009, Mendoza donned the director’s cap and created Fruit Fly, a film which won the Audience Award at SFIAAFF as well as the Best Picture award at the Fort Worth LGBT Film Festival. Fruit Fly also earned him the 2009 Rising Star Award from the Philadelphia LGBT Film Festival as well as the 2010 Spirit Award from the Asian American Film Festival of Oregon.
Mendoza has also written music for the films Abuela and A Lower Power, directed by Paul Kolsanoff and Robert O’Geen, respectively. He wrote the lyrics and music for the Precarious Theatre stage musical “I’m Yours! (Or Deranged by Love),” directed by Matthew Graham Smith. He often collaborates with stage illusionist Christian Cagigal and political theatre troupe The Nonsense Company and is a resident artist at San Francisco’s EXIT Theatre, the company responsible for the San Francisco Fringe Festival. In 2011, he and Christian Cagigal will be premiering their musical magic show, “Haunt” and Mendoza plans to direct three feature films, back-to-back, one of them being a horror movie called I Am Ghost.
LEWIS TICE (Producer) For three years, Lewis Tice lived out of a suitcase, handling publicity on the film festival circuit, which had him flying off to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Sundance. His travels eventually brought him to Philadelphia-based TLA Releasing, handling publicity and marketing for over 100 theatrical/DVD titles including Latter Days, Bear Cub (Cachorro), Another Gay Movie and Mysterious Skin.
Six years later, New York was the next destination and Tice had an opportunity to produce his first feature, BearCity, a Gotham-themed romantic comedy which has played multiple film festivals around the world and had a DVD release in 2010 through TLA Releasing. He is currently in development of a queer, slasher flick and getting into some creative trouble with David Lewis’ untitled comedy project.
Lewis Tice is also an avid writer of all things ‘pop’ and his writings have been featured on America Online, PlanetOut.com and A Bear’s Life magazine. He is currently a contributor to Queerious.com
FRAZER BRADSHAW (Director of Photography) opened his career with formal training in painting, sculpture, and photography. Working as a Director of Photography since 1995, Bradshaw has photographed features, shorts, commercials, documentaries, music videos and more in 35mm, 16mm, HD and Digital Cinema formats. Films Bradshaw has photographed have been exhibited internationally, including the Cannes Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the Toranto Film Festival, and the New York Film Festival. Bradshaw’s cinematography resume includes over 250 projects. Bradshaw’s independent spirit is complimented by his extensive knowledge of film making processes and fierce dedication to artistic quality.
While reading a feature script she was planning to produce, Corey Weinstein realized she wanted to design the production instead. She could see the characters clearly in her mind—their home, their clothes, the particulars of their lives—and how the details help reveal so much in the film. It was a light-bulb moment—and she hasn’t looked back since.
COREY WEINSTEIN (Art Director) Corey’s first Art Direction project was Frazer Bradshaw’s Everything Strange and New, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and has gone on to be nominated for and win awards and play at prestigious film festivals worldwide. Since then, Corey has worked on several features, shorts, and commercial productions, as Art Director and Production Designer. In Longhorns, Corey was responsible for the Wardrobe as well as the Art Direction. This was a new and exciting challenge, and one which brought her back to her own giddy 80’s experiences and fantasies. Corey recently wrapped Gary and Edmund Entin’s My Eleventh. Corey has a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and has studied painting, sculpture, filmmaking and interior design. When she’s not on film sets, Corey can be found performing with her arty/kitschy band Toychestra.
AMBER ROGERS (Make-up) is a Bay Area-based make-up and hair artist who has worked with clients ranging from corporate to creative; ranging from television to film. Clients have included Christian Dio, CNN, Terry Hines & Associates, 24-Hour Fitness, NBC, MAC, A&E, Cisco Systems, NASCAR, Fox Sports, KTVU Fox 2, Lucky Hat Entertainment, Montel Williams, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard and New York Fashion Week.
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