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amy browne:
Producer/Co-Director: Amy grew up in Melbourne, Australia where she was heavily involved in the theater and dreamed of becoming an actress and starting her own theater company. After she graduated high school at Lauriston she began a business degree at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), but decided to pursue her love of film and theater and moved to New York City. She studied for three years at the acting conservatory The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and after graduation decided to continue her education at The New School University.
She has now completed five short films. Her first was on the topic of green burials, called Happy is the Grave the Rain Falls On (2009); then Amy directed, shot, and edited a quirky short doc entitled My Friend Schlieman (2010); Awe; Inspired by Life and Death (2010); Fi +/- 1 (2011); and just completed Sansa in Fasan (2012) (to watch click here).
Amy also works with producer Steve Holmgren and his production company Steady Orbits in Brooklyn, NY. One of their films, I Used to be Darker (2012), by critically acclaimed director Matthew Porterfield, just announced "pic-lock" and has been submitted to festivals. Steady Orbits has many other exciting projects in various stages of production including The Night Fisherman, Cory McAbee's latest film Crazy & Thief, and documentary Far From Afghanistan. Amy also works closely with avant-garde filmmaker Marie Losier on her film The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011). She is excited to have the opportunity to work with such talented filmmakers and producers and learn much about the industry and the craft in the process.
Amy's Previous Work
Sansa in Fasan
Happy is the Grave the Rain Falls On (short)
My Friend Schlieman
Awe; Inspired by Life and Death
Interview with Amy Browne by Green Cemeteries
IMDB Resume Page
jeremy kaplan:
Co-Director/Director of Photography/Editor: Jeremy Kaplan is a documentary and fiction film cinematographer, editor and producer who resides in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BA from Boston College in Film and Philosophy with a minor in African Studies. He completed his MA in Documentary Film and Media Studies at the New School in New York City. His documentary work has brought him across the globe as he has worked on films in Costa Rica, Egypt and South Korea. He has produced two award-winning short films, one of which Pisces (2004) won the top prize for best film at the Boston College’s Baldwin Film Festival. Documentaries he has worked on have screened at numerous film festivals including the Woodstock Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festivals and 2009 Africa World Documentary Film Festival in St. Louis. A documentary that he shot entitled Stars in his Eyes (2008) was even shown internationally in Holland at the Blacksoil International Hip Hop Film Festival. Besides working on film, he has also taught film at the New York Film Academy during the summer of 2009. Recently, he worked as a post-production intern on the 2010 Sundance Best documentary film, Restrepo. Currently, he is a freelance videographer working for many non-profit organizations while working on his own independent projects.
Jeremy’s previous work
Work Sample for A Will for the Woods
Greensprings Web Promo
SEIU/HEP DC Health Care Rally
Opening Orthodoxy
tony hale:
Editor: Formerly a drummer, Tony first discovered an interest in digital editing while recording loops of his drum kit. Later, while obtaining a B.A. in Mathematics at Boston College and working at a Harvard University digital media lab, he rediscovered this passion in the field of filmmaking.
Now an independent filmmaker and freelance editor living in Brooklyn, NY, his work includes numerous documentary, narrative, commercial and non-commercial projects. With a special interest in environmentally focused documentary, he has edited and co-directed many films exploring unique solutions to conservation issues, with subjects ranging from reefs, mangroves and jaguar reserves in Belize to watersheds, fisheries and land restoration in Costa Rica to the rainforest of Darién, Panamá.
Other notable documentary work includes: "La Vérité du Ciel", which visits seven families in France 12 years after the loss of their loved ones in a plane crash; the making of OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" Rube Goldberg machine; and "A Saint in My Garden", a personal documentary on the life, paintings and process of Tony's mother, abstract expressionist Adele Travisano. Many of these films have been shown in festivals and classrooms around the world. In addition to documentary, recent narrative editing includes work on "Meena", a short film based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s book Half The Sky and marking Lucy Liu’s directorial debut.
At home in Brooklyn, Tony has volunteered at the human rights advocacy group WITNESS and the teen filmmaker mentoring program Reel Works. When not in front of a computer, he enjoys still photography, brewing beer and carving pumpkins.
Selection of Tony's work:
Someday Is Now (trailer/PSA version)
The Good Woman of Manhattan (trailer)
Nuestras Aguas, Nuestra Vida (clip)
La Vérité Du Ciel (trailer)
Cockscomb: Jaguar Proud (short version)
brian wilson:
Editor: Brian grew up in the deserts and forests of Arizona and Montana, and has lived mostly in the Northeast since he was a teenager. A graduate of Brown University with a degree in Comparative Literature and History, he has made his home in Brooklyn for many years, where he designed, built, and nurtures a small native woodland garden, continually observing through it the wonders of decay and regeneration. Long passionate about the natural world and its protection and restoration, Brian is very excited to be exploring green burial through his work on A Will for the Woods, looking deeply at this often neglected aspect of environmentalism. Having been a longtime caretaker to his mother through her death four years ago, Brian is also keenly interested in the role of green burial as ritual, as a reconciling with death, and in how it permits the flow of new life from old.
Brian's editing and producing work includes biographical specials and news pieces for Canal Plus, Lifetime Television, HBO Family, and Starz Encore; environmentally focused short documentaries; and experimental shorts exhibited in New York City art galleries. He has volunteered at Transportation Alternatives, the NYC Native Plant Propagation Center, and as a mentor. Among his other interests are dance, language, nutrition, strange phenomena, and city planning. He is a card-carrying New York Citizen Pruner.