Joel Garber – Writer / Director
Joel is a Master of Fine Arts candidate at San Francisco State University and the founder of Greengold Film. He is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a graduate from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Prior to moving to the west coast, Joel worked as an Associate Producer and Post-Production Supervisor for New York based Atlas Media Corp. His credits include programs for Food Network and The History Channel. He is also the director of several short films, most recently Personal Curator, a short 16mm narrative shot entirely on location at the Berkeley Art Museum. The Strange Rebirth of Andre Weil is Joel's MFA Thesis project.
Summre Gaston – Producer
Summre is a graduate of the Master of Arts – Cinema program at San Francisco State University. She recently completed her written thesis titled, Robotic Femmes: Gender, Technology and the State of Feminism. She was the principal organizer for the international film conference “Spaces of Conflict,” and in addition to extensive teaching experience she has also recently produced the short documentary, I Beat Cancer. Summre is currently working as the filmmaker coordinator for TurnHere, Inc., an internet video provider.
Milenko Skoknic – Producer
Born in Santiago, Chile, Miljenko is an M.F.A Candidate of San Francisco State University's Cinema program. After earning a B.A. in Fine Arts at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, he worked as a Post-Production Assistant for the science TV show Enlaces, winner of the Grand Prix Jules Verne, awarded by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France. As Art Designer, he worked on the Tapsin-Lalo Parra TV Ad, winning Best Comercial of The Year by the Chilean Association of Advertising, ACHAP. Miljenko is currently employed as a film critic for the web based film journal La Fuga, and as a community moderator for Jaman, an online distributor of independent and international cinema.
Sinisa Kukic - Director of Photography
Sinisa graduated from Southern Illinois University in 2005 with a BA in Cinema and Photography. His film, Breathe (2003), aired on FOX television, and his undergraduate thesis, Conduit Of Displacement (2004), won the Loren D. Cocking Animation Award. Kukic is currently enrolled in San Francisco State University's MFA Cinema program, where he continues to make experimental and documentary films. Other interests include cinematography, hand processing, and new forms of camera subjectivity. Pump (2006), his most recent film, explores the hybridization of the bicycle and the cyclist. Pump has screened at over a dozen international film festivals, including Ann Arbor Film and Video Festival, and has aired on PBS. His preoccupation with the particulars of camera carriage and movement are rooted in his involvement in the local biking community and his work as a racecar mechanic.