BOBBY WEBSTER - WRITER / DIRECTOR
Born in Tehran and raised in London, writer-director Bobby Webster has been based in Brooklyn since 2004. His previous projects include the short film Bluebeard's Wife (selected as 'best of Raindance' at the Raindance Film Festival, Europe's largest independent film festival), and the feature screenplay The Andy Macintosh Equation (one of three finalists for the prestigious Sloan Foundation development grant).

He is also an accomplished cinematographer, having shot fifteen shorts and other projects in the last three years, including a video for the band Blackpool and the upcoming feature Casual Encounters.

Bobby had a varied career before moving into film: he worked for several years for a major UK think-tank, was a professional actor, and as a teenager was a world-champion debater.

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MIKE ROSSETTI - CINEMATOGRAPHER

Mike is a cinematographer living and working in New York City. His photographic experience began with still photography, and quickly progressed to film and video, where he soon earned awards and honors for his work as a cinematographer and director. He earned his bachelor's degree in Film and Electronic Arts at California State University Long Beach and is now a graduate film student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he is focusing on cinematography.

He has photographed more than fifty projects, ranging from short films and documentaries, to webisodes and the upcoming feature Watching TV with the Red Chinese, directed by Shimon Dotan.

More information, visit www.MichaelRossetti.com.

JUDY BOWMAN - CASTING DIRECTOR

Judy has cast the features Body/Antibody, 508 Nelson, Duane Incarnate with Kristen Johnston and Jim Gaffigan, The Eden Myth; and was New York Casting Associate For Mean Girls, Something's Gotta Give and Freaky Friday.

Shorts include Bobby Webster’s Super-Man, Suckerpunch and Penance (both by Ryan Gould), Morris County (3 shorts by Matt Garrett) and Fairy Princess (Stephen Lyman). Web / TV casting includes Big Bang Nation (webseries), Chatting with Chenkov (AOL), animated pilot Proof of Life on Earth (ABC Family), the animated series Nate The Great, and as NY Casting Associate Men Behaving Badly, That 70s Show and Grace Under Fire.

Judy has also worked extensively in theater: in New York, she has cast The Bereaved (Partial Comfort), Killers And Other Family (Rattlestick), Sweet Storm (Labyrinth & Alchemy), Wilder Works (Keen Co) and she co-cast David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood (Broadway). Regional theatre includes numerous productions for The American Repertory Theatre, the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre Of Louisville, the Dorset Theatre Festival, and others. She is Associate Producer on the documentary Urva, and several features. She is the primary casting director for Partial Comfort Productions, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Labyrinth Theatre Company, and Keen Company. She teaches at Harlem School of the Arts, and One On One Productions.

For more information, visit www.judybowmancasting.com.

TIJANA BJELAJAC - PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Tijana is a New York-based set designer and visual artist, originally from Belgrade, Serbia. Since 2006, she has been one of the designers in the George Tsypin Opera Factory team, where she worked on several architectural projects as well as on the major musicals The Little Mermaid and Spiderman (opening in 2010). She has also designed sets for the New Harmony Theater, Indiana.

Theater credits include: Odyssey (45 Bleecker Street Theater), Peter Pan (Olney Theater, MD), Doorman’s Double Duty ( Ohio Theater, NYC), Oedipus at Colonus (14th Street Theater, NYC), La Boheme (Boston University Theatre), Hinges Keep A City (Huntington Theatre, Boston), and The Red Lion (Boston Playwrights' Theatre), and Wolves (Belgrade National Theatre). She has also worked on several TV and film projects in Serbia, including the TV shows Garaza and Tajne Obicnih Stvari. Detour will be her debut film project in the US.

She holds a BFA in Scenography from the University of Belgrade and an MFA from Boston University. She is a 2007 recipient of the prestigious “Kahn Award” for extraordinary talents.

For more information, visit www.teeyana.com.

SASHA GORDON - COMPOSER

Sasha Gordon was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, where she began studying piano at the age of 5 before moving to the US in 1989. While majoring in music and visual arts at Brown University, Sasha was a prolific composer for stage and film, and also won numerous competitions as a concert pianist. She went on to pursue a master’s degree at the Mannes Conservatory of Music, where she studied piano with Edward Aldwell and composition with Robert Cuckson.

She continued her film-scoring work with an award-winning full-length score for the 1927 silent Oscar winner, Wings. The film debuted with Sasha’s new score at New York’s Symphony Space as part of the Avignon-New York Film Festival in 2003 and subsequently at the Avignon Opera House in France.

In the last three years, Sasha has scored over 30 narrative features, documentaries and shorts while continuing her graduate studies at New York University’s Film Directing program. Sasha’s latest compositional work can be heard in last year’s Sundance Grand Jury Winner, Padre Nuestro, as well as in Lawrence and Dear Lemon Lima, which both made their debuts at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

For more information, visit www.sashagordonmusic.com.

SHAN JIANG - PRODUCER
Born in Shantou, China, Shan immigrated to America with his parents at age nine, and spent the rest of his childhood growing up in New York City.

After spending his early career working in the finance industry and consulting industry, Shan's love for movies and creating experiences drove his decision to start Rusty Compass Productions with his childhood friend George Wong. This has given him the chance to apply his background in finance and experience as a management consultant to the independent film world.

SERGEI KRASIKAU - PRODUCER
Sergei Krasikau first developed his skills as a storyteller as a journalist for the biggest independent newspaper in his home country of Belarus. Since moving to New York, he has built a career as an award-winning hands-on producer, with over 5 years experience in the US media industry.

After an apprenticeship with Karola Ritter - regular contributor to Maysles, Pennebaker and Barbara Kopple documentaries - Sergei has produced a broad range of projects, narrative and documentary, short and feature-length, local and international.

With a unique combination of skills and experience, he has built a reputation as a producer who can conceive, develop, execute and bring projects to completion, magic intact.

AMANDA LAWS - PRODUCER
After paying her way through private school while living in a homeless shelter, film-maker Amanda Laws developed her love for cinema as a student at Evergreen State College. While there, she made cult short film A Tale of Two Plushies, and to this day still receives fan mail from Italian punk rockers.

Currently completing her studies at NYU's prestigious graduate film program, her other film projects have included the Wasserman Award-winning short The Red Scare, and the short film The Pit, currently in post-production.

GEORGE WONG - PRODUCER
George (Ying Chiu) Wong is co-founder of Rusty Compass Productions, founded to supper emerging talents in the film industry.

George's educational background gives him a wide array of expertise: he graduated from NYU's prestigious Stern School of Business with a Bachelor of Science and he subsequently obtained a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Upon graduating from law school, George decided to forgo a legal career to pursue a career as a producer and screenwriter, with two feature projects currently in development.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
Matthew Webster
Chow Ping
Fang Li