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PAH-FEST:Hollywood 2009
October 25 - November 1 in hollywood, California
Panel Speakers
Christopher Coppola
Christopher Coppola is a seasoned film and television director who is also founder and chairman of Project Accessible Hollywood (PAH), a non-profit organization that helps educate people on using simple digital media while encouraging them to express themselves artistically. As a digital film festival, PAH-FEST celebrates the creative process by empowering everyday people to tell their stories using digital technology.
Lazar Crawford
Lazar's experience in the field of web design and software engineering date back to 1999. Running his own website design firm, Dotstar Media, LLC, he specializes in building custom multi-media websites using Flash, PHP, and Javascript.
Bruce Gilbert
Bruce started training clients over 15 years ago when he realized the profound effect his exercise programs could have on a person’s health and well-being. One of the things he always strived for is to empower the client by teaching them safe and effective ways to train, thereby allowing them to take over their own program at any time.
Nick Johnson
Nick Johnson is an english teacher and writer living in Santa Monica, California. His interest in writing developed from his time studying filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he met and worked with Christopher Coppola, and where he obtained a B.F.A. in Filmmaking. Following the publication of his first short story, he was invited to study creative writing with Pulitzer-prize winner Robert Olen Butler in the MFA program at McNeese State University. He returned to Santa Monica is 1997, where he worked as a writer and editor on a variety on independent films. He has published several stories and is currently completing his second novel.
Yoni Koenig, Chief Scientist, StudioGPU
Yoni Koenig has overseen production and developed unique production pipelines in the game and animation industries for the past 15 years. He is a key force behind the development of StudioGPU's technology.
Yoni started working in the game industry at Eidolon - a New York based independent game developer producing game entertainment for Electronic Arts - as the company's lead-artist. Yoni's groundbreaking work led to him being featured on a Business Week cover story focusing on the interactive entertainment revolution.
Yoni Koenig has a BA in painting from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and an MFA in mixed media at Hunter College in New York
StudioGPU develops software and technology that frees digital artists from the creative shackles of time, money and resources. Founded by a group of 3D computer artists and engineers interested in improving the 3D production pipeline, the company's flagship product, MachStudio Pro, harnesses the power of professional graphics processing units (GPUs) for real-time rendering and workflow. A standalone application, MachStudio Pro empowers artists and designers working in film, broadcast, game development, computer-assisted design (CAD), and pre- and post-production to create and manipulate fully rendered film-quality 3D design and animation in real-time. StudioGPU is headquartered in Hollywood, Calif. For more information, visit www.StudioGPU.com.
Jennifer Lindsay
Jennifer Neeley Lindsay is a two-time Emmy nominee. She worked at ABC-TV’s San Francisco affiliate for three years where she was senior producer and online journalist, leading to her graduate studies at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned her masters degree.
Prior to being recruited by ABC, she was a pioneer in new media (or emerging media), translating television newscasts into an interactive format for the short-lived start up ReacTV, later called Zatso. For more information, visit my website.
Angus Scrimm
In a career of some fifty feature films, including Christopher Coppola's "Deadfall" and "Bel Air," Angus Scrimm is perhaps best known as the "Phantasm" series' diabolical Tall Man, named by the Los Angeles Times in 2003 "one of the great iconic horror villains," and by Entertainment Weekly in 2009 "one of the top ten horror villains." On ABC-TV, he played the recurring role of Security Agent Calvin McCullaugh in J.J. Abrams' "Alias" series starring Jennifer Garner. His upcoming films include Glass Eye Pix' "I Sell the Dead" and "Satan Hates You." In a parallel career as journalist, Scrimm has written and edited for Cinema magazine, TV Guide, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. He has written thousands of record album liner notes for artists ranging from Frank Sinatra and the Beatles to Miles Davis and Itzhak Perlman, and is a Grammy winner and six-times nominee for Best Album Notes.
Tierney Sutton
"A serious jazz artist who takes the whole enterprise to another level" -The New York Times
A two-time Grammy nominee for “Best Jazz Vocal Album”, Tierney Sutton has fronted the Tierney Sutton Band for over 15 years. The band’s 8 CDs have consistently topped the US jazz radio charts, leading to Tierney’s selection as Jazzweek’s vocalist of the year as well as to several Jazz Journalist award nominations. The Tierney Sutton Band is a true creative cooperative, incorporated partners who make all business as well as creative decisions in consultation.
Tierney has headlined in recent years at Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center and Jazz At Lincoln Center. She tours extensively throughout the world and can also be heard on film and television soundtracks (“The Cooler”, “Samantha Who”) as well as television commercials (BMW, Green Giant, Yoplait Yogurt, Coke)
An active educator, Tierney taught for over a decade at USC’s Thornton School of music and recently accepted the position of Vocal Department Head at The Los Angeles Music Academy, where she has created a new curriculum for vocalists.
Earlier this year, the band’s latest CD, “Desire” was released to rave reviews. Called “a conceptual masterpiece” by The Chicago Sun Times, “Desire”looks at materialism and once again expands the scope of the Tierney Sutton Band.
www.tierneysutton.com