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wilderness films
Mikael Södersten has
worked as a screenwriter, editor, sound editor, cinematographer,
and location manager on features and documentaries in Denmark,
Greenland and his native Sweden. His own short films have appeared
on Swedish National Television. PASS, which he produced and directed,
starred Michael Nyqvist, Sweden's leading film actor. FISSURA,
made while he was an undergraduate at Harvard, was also broadcast
and used as a teaching tool in Scandinavian hospitals. In the
early 90s, he headed the National Swedish Independent Film Festival
(Filmens Dag) and taught story structure in opera houses, corporations
and at the Swedish Royal Academy of Fine Arts. In the mid-90s
he ran the production division of a multimedia company, with
a staff of twenty-five. He returned to filmmaking to co-direct,
shoot, edit and sound-edit the offbeat documentary, FIVE FEELINGS
ABOUT FOOD (2005), and to make a short to music, WHITE MAN'S
BLUES (2006), both with his wife and filmmaking partner, Cornelia
Ravenal. He recently consulted on and conducted interviews for
PRIZE OF THE POLE, a Danish-Swedish co-production slated for
international broadcast and distribution. He is currently the
Senior Development Consultant for the Swedish Film Institute.
Cornelia Ravenal makes
films using skills she’s honed over twenty years as a scriptwriter,
photographer, composer-lyricist, production designer and journalist.
Her career began in the ‘80s with the award-winning musical,
OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN (book, music and lyrics), which
was produced at theaters around the country and is slated for
a revival in 2007. She also wrote or contributed script, lyrics
and/or music to many other produced or published shows, including
TWO’S A CROWD and SPIN CYCLE, both produced in New York.
In the mid-90s she traveled frequently to India and worked as
a journalist and photographer, with over sixty published pieces
in India Today, The New York Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer,
Verve, Art Asia Pacific, and other international publications.
Later, she worked as a writer-producer of videos and multimedia
events for Fortune 500 clients, guiding close to forty productions
from inception through editing. In 2002 she went back to school
at the New York Film Academy. Since then, she has collaborated
closely with her husband, Mikael Södersten, as a producer,
scriptwriter, production designer, still photographer and music
supervisor. Her first solo photography show
opens in Sweden in 2007.She has a B.A. in English and American
Literature from Harvard.
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Hamid Shams has
shot numerous short films and several features, recently Among
the Joneses and Chuck Norris' Bells of Innocence. He has also
shot television commercials, music videos and promotional, travel
and industrial/technical films for such clients as ABC, American
Express Company, Arista Records, Atlantis Hotel & Casino,
AT&T, Boeing, CBS, Indonesian Tourism Bureau (NY Film Festival
Award), Jordanian Tourism Bureau (NY Film Festival and CINE Awards),
Maidenform, MGM Grand Casino, NBC, Phillip Morris, PSE&G,
Royal Jordanian Airlines, Showtime and Sony. His documentary
feature film experience includes Tie Died and Painting the Town,
which received highly favorable reviews for cinematography in
major U.S. newspapers. He has worked in Thailand, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, Jordan, Tunisia, Greece Holland, France, England,
Germany, Spain, Austria and Canada.
Nela Wagman has
produced, directed and acted in film and theater
in New York City and throughout the United
States. She wrote and directed
the short film MAGNETISM and co-produced PEEPHOLE
and the feature films URBANIA and DEAD BROKE.
As Artistic Director of the award-winning
Watermark Theater, Wagman directed and produced
the Obie-winning MY LEFT BREAST and original
works by Lucinda Coxon, Neena Beber,
and David Edelstein among others. She also
produced the WordFire Festival of Solo Performance,
presenting the work of David Cale,
Dael Orlandersmith and Josh Kornbluth, among
others. Wagman has directed productions of
new works in New York and throughout
the US, by playwrights such as Susan Miller,
Christopher Shinn and Amy Fox.
David Rapkin has
been a leading producer in audio publishing since its beginning
in the 1980s. As a Grammy award-winning independent producer,
he has generated numerous fiction and non-fiction audio titles
for Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio, Random House Audio, Simon and
Schuster Audio, Putnam Berkley Audio, HighBridge Audio, Audible.com
and other industry leaders. He is known as a specialist in producing
and directing the works of best-selling authors for audio, including
John Grisham, Stephen King, Robert Ludlum, Robin Cook, Anne Rice,
J. K. Rowling, Elmore Leonard, Patricia Cornwell, Robert B. Parker,
Pat Conroy, Paul Reiser, Isaac Asimov, Dominick Dunne, W.E.B.
Griffin, Tom Clancy, John Jakes, Frederick Forsyth, Stephen Hawking,
Ken Follett, Boris Akunin, Louis L’Amour, Tom Wolfe, Jhumpa
Lahiri and Monica Ali.
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