Writer/Director Jonathan Kaplan is a freelance writer whose credits include entertainment related pieces in The New York Times, NewsDay, The Westchester/Rockland News (The Gannett Group), Westchester Magazine, and Spotlight Magazine among others.
For the last six years, he has been Director of the Westchester Film Group (www.westchesterfilm.homestead.com), programming dozens of meets and seminars with guest speakers such as Mary Harron ("I SHOT ANDY WARHOL"), Terry George ('THE BOXER" with Daniel Day Lewis) John Walsh ("Ed's Next Move"), and Film scholar Vincent LoBrutto ("KUBRICK: A Biography"). His efforts have been sited in AIVF's The Independent as well as The New York Times Westchester Section. (see above website for the full article).
He has worked as a story analyst/reader for Double Helix Pictures, Scotti Brothers Entertainment ("Eddie and the Cruisers") and the Leone Agency.
He's also taught screenwriting as an adjunct teacher at Westchester Community College. Additionally, he was a screenwriting judge in the 2003 Westchester County Film Festival.
His own screenplay, the courtroom drama "THE ACHILLES' HEEL" was a 2002 Quarter-finalist in the Nicholls Screenwriting Fellowship, one of only three hundred screenplays chosen from 8,040, putting it in the top 5% nationally. It also won "Best Screenplay" at the 3rd Annual Westchester Film Festival. It has been optioned in Hollywood.
In addition, he was a quarter-finalist twice in the 11th Annual Writer's Network Screenwriting Competition for both "THE ACHILLES' HEEL" & "The Reader."
"The Pitch" a comedic "high concept", the first in a series of projected showcase shorts from his Palomar Productions, is a three minute short about a day in the life of Hollywood screenwriters auditioning aka "pitching" their screenplays.
Those interested in the possibility of doing a voice-over for "The Pitch" should contact Jonathan Kaplan directly at jonkap@optonline.net for further information.
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Cinematographer/Editor Bill Winters. Already an accomplished cameraman and still photographer, Bill Winters landed his first paying gig long before graduating with a BFA in Cinematography with High Honors from NYU's Tisch School of Filmmaking. He's worked with everything from a wind up Bolex to a Panavision Panaflex and variously as a Gaffer, Camera Assistant, Loader, Camera PA, Locations Intern and Director of Photography.
His clients have included: Beth Israel Hospital, The National Gallery of Art, The Learning Center, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, ABC 20/20, MTV's The Real World, The Health Network, Warner Lambert, The Shooting Gallery, Smith Barney, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, radical.media's "The Life"among dozens of others.
He was the DP behind the short films "Cadaverous" which won Best Undergraduate Film at the DGA West 2000, "Soldiers" which won Outstanding Achievement in Producing at the NYU First Run Festival 2000, and "The Surface" which won an unprecedented 9 awards including Faculty Commendation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography at the NYU First Run Festival 2000.
Co-owner of Snozzberry Entertainment, he was DP on the Roger Corman Concorde feature "RAGE" which went to Cannes this year.
All this before age 30.
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Sound Director/SoundEditor Stephen Ward. An undergraduate of Electrical Engineering at Tufts University, Steve Ward graduated from Berkelee College of Music Cum Laude with a BA in Music Production and Engineering. He's the 1999 - 2000 recipient of the J.E. & B. Collins Music Scholarship. He earned his Masters Degree in Music Technology at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education (with a grade point average of 3.898).
He's worked as Technical Supervisor at Damfino Productions, NY. For the last five years he's been a full time Professor of Recording Technology at Mercy College WP, NY.
As a composer he's scored work for films shown at Sundance, PBS and others. Performers he's worked with include Jose Feliciano, Martha Plimpton, Jim Steinman, and Grandmaster Flash.
His professional affiliations include The Audio Engineering Society, The American Federation of Musicians and BMI.
