Dimitris Athos, 3D Stereoscopic Producer, UVPHACTORY

Dimitris Athos is the 3D Stereoscopic Producer at UVPHACTORY, an award-winning motion design, visual effects and production company known for its creative work for film, television, music videos and art installations, and its recently launched division UVPH 3D. UVPH designed and directed “Drown in the Now,” a 3D stereoscopic music video for The Crystal Method, as well as the post-production for “Wanderlust,” a 3D music video for Björk. In spring 2010, UVPH 3D produced the first 3D runway fashion show in the U.S. for New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology.  Dimitris has worked as a producer and co-writer on more than 30 short and independent feature films. He is a member of the National Stereoscopic Association and the New York Stereoscopic Society and also serves as program director for Be FILM, the Underground Film Festival. Be FILM debuts and showcases award-winning short films from around the globe with several films garnering Academy Award nominations® and/or Academy Awards®. It is also the first established film festival to feature a Stereo 3D category.

Geoff Boyle

Geoff Boyle is a noted cinematographer, founder and owner of the worldwide mailing list for directors of photography, the Cinematographer’s Mailing List (www.cinematography.net).  A native of England, he has a long list of credits shot worldwide, including About a Girl,  Mutant Chronicles,  Street Fighter and Dark Country. He is currently in pre-production with Woodland Cross and Welcome to Purgatory, slated for a 2011 release.

Alex Buono, DP

For the past nine seasons, Alex Buono has been the director of photography for Saturday Night Live, for which he recently used one of Canon’s EOS HDSLR cameras to shoot the opening montage. In 2003, Alex received an Oscar nomination for his work on the short film “Johnny Flynton”, which he produced and photographed. In the past, he has also worked on the camera crews for films such as Twister, Conspiracy Theory and Armageddon. Buono is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America, International Cinematographer’s Guild and International Documentary Association.

Nick Dager, Editor & Publisher, Digital Cinema Report

Nick Dager is Editor & Publisher of Digital Cinema Report the world’s largest, most influential publication devoted to digital cinema. For almost a decade the website has been visited each month by an average of 30,000 unique visitors from 193 countries.  He is the author of the book Reinventing Cinema: The First Decade of Digital Cinema, which is available as an ebook on Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com.

Dager has worked as a journalist virtually his entire adult life. Born and raised in Ohio, he attended college in Illinois and then worked for several years as a newspaper writer/photographer in suburban Chicago. He moved to New York City to attend NYU’s Graduate School of Film & Television and then returned to journalism fulltime.

Dager has reported on film and television production for more than thirty years. He was Senior Editor at Millimeter magazine, Founding Editor of Post magazine and Editor-in-Chief of AV Video. He started the technology column for Weekly Variety and was a contributing columnist for Boxoffice magazine. He has given speeches and moderated panel discussions at numerous industry events around the world and has been interviewed by publications around the world including The New York Times, Business Week, The Boston Globe, MovieMaker Magazine and the Chartered Financial Analyst of India.

He has also published poetry and written two Hardy Boys Mysteries for Simon & Schuster.

Mitch Gross, Abel Cine Tech

Mitch Gross has been the Applications Specialist at Abel Cine Tech since May 2006 and is a respected voice on industry blogs and discussion boards.

A Director of Photography by trade, Mitch has been working in the New York film industry for more than fifteen years. He recently completed principal photography of his twenty-first feature film, Get Faamous.

His credits also include dozens of short subjects, documentaries, commercials and music videos, as well as two television series. His work has been screened and has won awards at festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Edinburgh and New York.

Jendra Jarnagin, DP
Freelance Director of Photography Jendra Jarnagin was the “Resident DP” at the RED Digital Cinema booth at NAB the year the camera was announced.  She has since shot numerous projects on the RED, including the Webby Award winning series "Puppy Love", from the producers and writers of "Sex & the City", for which Jendra was featured in American Cinematographer magazine.  She will be presenting clips from the recently wrapped web series "In Between Men", her first project on the new RED Mysterium X sensor.

Jendra has been shooting for over 18 years, and primarily works in features and episodic series.  Though she is often associated with shooting RED, Jendra believes in the philosophy of “the right tool for the job” based on the project’s needs, and switches easily between many different digital and film formats.  Recent projects include a 3D music video for The Jim Jones Review, and several commercials and music videos shot on the Canon 5D and 7D.  "The Pond", starring Alicia Witt and David Morse, shot on the Sony F23, is currently making waves on the festival circuit.  The multi-award winning feature film, "Split Ends", starring Vincent Pastore, was among the first features shot on the Sony EX1.  It has recently finished its festival run and was just released on DVD.  Jendra has also shot a prime time drama series for FOX Turkey, and the comedy pilot "StartUP!" for the Halogen network.

You can learn more about Jendra and see her work on her website: www.floatingcamera.com

Keith McCabe, CG Supervisor, Charlex

Charlex CG Supervisor, Keith McCabe, is a renowned creative leader in the film and commercial industry. Upon graduation from Full Sail Center in Orlando Keith was immediately recruited by VIFX in Los Angeles.  At VIFX, Keith created particle based dynamics and Visual Effects animation for the feature films, The X-Files, Titanic, Blade, Volcano, Face/Off, T-Rex IMAX 3D and Storm of the Century.  From 1999 through 2002 Keith continued his work as Technical Director for successful Visual Effects houses such as Sony Pictures, Imageworks, Asylum Visual Effects and Rhythm and Hues. During that time he worked on the films The Hollow Man, Pearl Harbor, Moulin Rouge, Dr. Doolittle 2, Pushing Tin and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

In 2002 Keith attained the position of Technical Director at George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic, designing the lighting and compositing of computer generated elements used in live action feature films such as The Hulk and Men in Black 2. In 2004 Keith returned to the East Coast and began working at Blue Sky Studios, a division of 20th Century Fox.  At Blue Sky, Keith continued his lighting work for their full-length feature film Robots.  That same year Keith was offered the prestigious position of CG Supervisor & Department Manager at Charlex, the leading commercial house in New York City. While at Charlex, Keith managed up to 40 CG artists, programmers and designers.  He oversaw all on-set Visual Effects Supervision and client relations.  In 2006 his work at Charlex for M&M’s “Kaleidoscope” won him the honorable Excellence in Animation Award from the AICP, and is now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.   Keith left Charlex for a brief time to fill the roll of VFX Director at Suspect, where he supervised live action shoots and led the creative team on well known accounts such as L’Oreal, Crayola and Nickelodeon.  He returned to Charlex in 2010 where he continues his position as CG Supervisor & Department manager.

Mark L. Pederson,  CTO/Co-Founder, OFFHOLLYWOOD

Independent film producer and digital cinema evangelist, Mark is the CTO and co-founder of technology-driven camera rental, production & post-production boutique OFFHOLLYWOOD in New York. An early adopter and innovator, OFFHOLLYWOOD is steeped in emerging technologies, R&D, and cutting-edge production and postproduction techniques. Actively partnering with leading hardware and software vendors, OFFHOLLYWOOD is tapped both by major studios, television networks and independent producers to tackle complex and challenging projects. A leader in 4K digital cinema services, Offhollywood has been providing RED One 4K cameras, technical support, workflow, and post-production and mastering services since the first RED cameras were released.

Dan Schrecker, Visual Effects Supervisor, LOOK Effects, Inc.

Spearheading LOOK’s East Coast operations in New York, Dan is a classic example of the “go-to” digital guy. Dan was first introduced to LOOK’s vfx capabilities when, as an independent visual effects supervisor, he contracted LOOK to create visual effects for Frida.  The success of that collaboration led to a string of shared credits including The Bounty Hunter, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, The Fountain, The Producers, The Wrestler, Requiem and the ABC series, “Life on Mars” which he supervised on location in New York City. He is currently overseeing the effects on Black Swan.

Dan’s multi-faceted career started with degrees from Harvard and NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.  Since then he’s supervised and created visual effects, designed titles and motion graphics, adding to his expertise in multimedia and interactive formats, traditional cel animation and claymation. Dan’s work has earned Visual Effects Society Nominations for “Frida” (Best Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture, 2002) and “The Fountain” (Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture, 2006.

Jerome Thelia, Colorist, Visual Effects Artist, Stereographer
Jerome Thelia draws on 20 years of post-production and production experience working on a variety of projects that include commercials, TV series, feature films, documentaries, and the distance learning projects that brought David McLain and Jerome on location all over the world in what would eventually become Merge. Jerome's focus has consistently been at the intersection of art and technology, allowing him to combine his interests in science, music, and photography into a finely-tuned visual effects artist, colorist, and director.

In January of 2001, Jerome moved to New York City to pursue a long term collaboration with David McLain in Merge, freelance film work, and a teaching career at the School of Visual Arts.  Recently he has worked on a range of projects that include colorist and restoration artist on "2 or 3 Things I Know About Her", a Criterion Collection release of Godard's 1967 landmark film; as stereographer on a number of 3D projects, including a Black Eyed Peas concert video, as colorist on "Meskada", a feature film directed by Josh Sternfeld to be released in 2010; as colorist and underwater cinematographer on a series of films produced by acclaimed artist/photographer Richard Mosse; and as project director of Merge's groundbreaking 5 channel site-specific video installation for Nau's Soho store, among many other strange and interesting projects.

Jerome is married to producer Anne Carkeet.  They live in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn with their two cats.  He has been a member of the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan since 2001.