Peter F. Hill
Executive Producer
Peter F. Hill has
been involved in entertainment from an early age, appearing in numerous
plays
and TV commercials.
As a member
of the film-maker’s co-op, FAVA, Peter made his own short
film, THE HAPPY HOUR, and has aided in many capacities on low
budget projects, as well as being a yearly volunteer for the
Local Heroes Film Festival in Edmonton.
Peter financed
and produced, THE ACCUSATION, a 35mm short film which played
1998—2000
on The Comedy Network. In his most recent and ambitious project,
Peter co-produced
and co-financed,
SISTER BLUE, a feature length psychological thriller.
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Matthew Robert
Kelly
Producer
Matthew Kelly at
the age of 30 brings to any film or television production 10 years
of
experience
in Production,
finance and administration.
Kelly’s production company, Stage
18 Pictures Inc., is a well established production entity
with offices in Vancouver, British Columbia. Stage 18’s last completed
productions were the
films, “Arbor Vitae” starring William B. Davis
and Janet Wright, and the feature thriller “The Untold”, starring
Lance Henriksen and Andrea Roth. Pre-production has now commenced on two new
projects, a feature
film entitled, “Quiet Breathing”, starring Alan
Cumming and “Give Losers Dignity” with Molly parker set to star.
As well, Stage 18 has
some great projects in development including “Hard Luck Cowboys”,
written by David Howard (Galaxy Quest).
Kelly's recently completed “The
Invitation”,
again starring Lance Henriksen will be distributed by Lions Gate Films in December
2003 and
among
other credits over the last two
years include the road comedy, “Little Boy Blues” featuring Adam
Beach and the thriller “Sister Blue ” which hits
theaters in 2003.
Kelly’s early ventures into the industry included working behind the
scenes lighting for IATSE
on such shows as Aerosmith’s - Get a Grip tour, the national tour of
Cats and various concerts like Garth Brooks and Sting. Moving
up the ranks he would
venture out as a lighting designer for The Phantom of the Opera Concert
tour,
Miss Saigon and a national tour of West Side Story.
Soon to follow Matthew became VP of Production for 4-Star Entertainment where
he produced a number
of theatrical
regional productions and National tours, such as The Matchmaker, South
Pacific,
and Damn Yankees. Wanting to learn as much as possible on
the film side, he worked in a variety of production positions which included
wardrobe assistant
for
TriStar’s, “Legends of the Fall” and extras casting for MGM’s, “Convict
Cowboy” and NBC’s, “ Children of the Dust”.
While producing
various projects Matthew also worked as an established talent agent for such
companies as Excel Talent Management and Wagner Fox & Associates, where
he enjoyed his time negotiating deals for his clients on such projects as The
X-Files, Millennium and The Sixth
Man for Walt Disney.
Matthew and his team also
offer production services to clients with a wide range of experience on feature
films, TV movies and series. Stage 18 has an ongoing relationship with the
Canadian unions and has been successful at administrating both union and non-union
agreements.
Stage 18 also has extensive community alliances as well as excellent supplier
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Daniel Ross
Composer
Daniel Ross is an
accomplished and versatile singer/songwriter, composer and producer.
He works prolifically on
soundtracks for film
and television, at times producing other singer/songwriters and occasionally
emerging from the studio to perform his own work or in support of
his collaborators. The long hours and unforgiving deadlines of producing
for the film and TV industries have honed Daniel’s arranging,
multi-instrumental, and technical skills. From symphonic score for
film, to experimental ambient, electronica, roots, jazz, folk and
pop, he crafts much of his work in his studio, The Spinning Widget.
Live on stage, while
Daniel has made a reputation with his distinctive guitar style, he
also performs on
bass, keys,
drums
and
percussion
with a variety of different artists. He regularly performs as part
of Juno Award winner John Bottomley’s band,
and is currently collaborating with Bottomley on a new record for
release in Spring
2004. Daniel is also a ‘satellite’ member of acoustic/blues
act The Blue Voodoo, and will produce songs for
the band’s
second CD, also set for release in Spring 2004. Some of Daniel’s
favourite live shows were as lead guitarist with Shannon
Moore’s
band Deep Julia, opening for Peter Frampton, Jewel,
and Radiohead.
Daniel’s credits
are stamped on a wide variety of projects. In addition to his score
for the internationally
acclaimed
award-winning
television series Madison (on which he co-wrote
and produced songs for the series with lyricist/vocalist and Gemini
Award winning actress
Sarah Strange), he co-produced singer/songwriter Allen
Dobb's critically
acclaimed Horses and Hills, joining Dobb to tour
in support of the CD; he was honoured in New Orleans at the international Promax
2000 Awards, where he shared a Gold award
for his sound design and score for Knowledge Network’s Everything
Begins With A Thought; he
received a CTC award for his score and sound design
for Doug
Greenall’s
stage play Dead Serious, and has re-kindled his
collaboration with Greenall on the filmmaker’s feature film Sister
Blue, a psychological
thriller that features Daniel’s ethereal and chilling score.
Daniel’s most
recent project as a singer/songwriter is The Lost Railroad
Journal, a concept country/roots
CD of fifteen
songs,
written from the perspective of an early 20th century drifter--a
composite of some of his more colourful pioneer ancestors. The Lost
Railroad Journal features sixteen performers, many of whom join Daniel
to perform the songs live as part of The Jones Collective.
Two separate new solo projects are currently in the works.
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Pieter Stathis
Director of Photography
Pieter is a professional
cinematographer, camera operator and steadicam operator with
eight years of
experience
shooting
dozens of feature
films, television series and commercials across BC, Alberta,
Yukon and Ontario (and his own steadicam).
Pieter was born in Kyparissia,
Greece in 1966. His family moved to Toronto when he was five years
old.
Formerly
a
photo-journalist,
Pieter
earned an Honours BA in English, Linguistics and Fine Arts from
the University of Waterloo, then moved west to Vancouver in 1992,
where
he started shooting music videos, commercials and short films.
Pieter shot his first feature,
Suckface, in 1997. Since then he has been the cinematographer
on over fifty
projects.
His
directorial debut,
a 24 minute 16mm short called Khamelion, premiered to a costumed
crowd at the Pacifique Cinemateque on Halloween 2000. Peter teaches
cinematography
at UBC and Douglas College.
Although Pieter loves working with
actors, he says his first love will always be, "painting
with light." Pieter
is a member of camera union IATSE 669 and a long-time member
of
Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society. Pieter is currently
working
on Carl Bessai's new feature film Emile featuring Ian McKellan.
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Joseph Fitzpatrick
Editor
In the capacity of picture
and or sound editor Joe has had a long and storied career spanning
18
years. He
learned
his craft at Algonquin
College in Ottawa, Ontario. After completing film studies, Joe was
recruited as an editor with the CBC’s (Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation) distinguished biographical film unit headed by journalist
Patrick Watson. For several years, Fitzpatrick worked on various
documentary series such as THE CANADIAN ESTABLISHMENT, LAWYERS and
THE CHINESE. He then moved on to work with the Academy Award-winning
company Crawley Films, largely in the field of animation. As senior
editor, he specialized in music and sound effects editing on over
100 projects that won many prestigious awards. Among these were gold
medals at the New York and the Houston International film festivals.
Fitzpatrick went on to explore the digital
domain of motion picture editing. His first credits included sound
effects
editing
on Martin
Sheen’s COLD FRONT, post coordinating on Don O’Bannon’s
(writer for Alien & Total Recall) THE RESURRECTED. Later he edited
numerous Canadian features. Some selected credits include, DARK WATER
directed by Ron Chartier and STARLIGHT produced and directed by Jonathan
Kay and SISTER BLUE written and directed by Doug Greenall. Other
recent projects include editing Danny Antonucci’s (LUPO THE
BUTHCER) ED,EDD n EDDY an animated series for the Cartoon Network
in the US and the TV series WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT.
Joe is currently producing and directing
PSYCHEDELIC SNAPSHOT, a documentary on Karl Ferris, a photographer
from the 60s.
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