About the Filmmakers
ALEX JABLONSKI
Director/ Adaptation
Born and raised in San Francisco, Alex graduated with a degree in English Literature from Kenyon College and is working towards an MFA in Film Directing at UCLA.
He began his career in New York as a member of the prestigious DGA Training Program. In 2003, he joined 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks as an editor for Spike Lee where he’s been a part of Lee’s last four films, including Inside Man.
While at UCLA, Alex has distinguished himself with both his fiction and documentary work screening at numerous festivals nationwide including at the Florida Film Festival, the Full Frame Documentary Festival, True/False, the Seattle Int’l Film Festival, and the Palm Springs Int’l Shorts Festival. In Spring 2007 Alex was commissioned by the Silver Lake Film Festival to produce an original short film for the program “Letters From the Underground.”
He has also received the Hollywood Foreign Press Award for Film Directing and has twice won the Mary Pickford Award in Documentary Filmmaking.
Kevin Canty
Author of “Blue Boy"
Kevin Canty is the author of A Stranger in This World, Into the Great Wide Open and Winslow in Love. He received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Association Award for Into the Great Wide Open, and his work has been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, Details, and Story. Currently he teaches fiction writing at the University of Montana, in Missoula.
Rob Hauer
Cinematographer
Rob received an MFA from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. He photographed Victoria Para Chino, a silver medalist at the 2005 Student Academy Awards, Honorable Mention at Sundance and Best Short at GenArt, Woodstock and Milan International. The film also earned Hauer recognition from the American Society of Cinematographers.
More recently Hauer photographed the Egyptian feature documentary Zabbaleen (Tribeca 06) as well as Insanitarium, a Sony/Screen Gems release.
Curtiss Clayton
Faculty Advisor
Curtiss has been the editor of some of the most original and striking films of the past twenty years. His credits include My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy, Buffalo 66 and The Assassination of Jesse James. He has also served as an advisor at the Sundance Labs.
David Nordstrom
Producer
A graduate of the MFA Filmmaking program at CalArts, David is a diverse talent who has received acclaim in Variety for his lead role in the film Trona, been a producer selected for Film Independent’s Fast Track program (_Los Angeles FF 2006_) and is currently screening his thesis film A Sea of Troubles at festivals both domestic and foreign.
