We have a great crew already in place with a few other spots looking to be filled out. All of these people have been working in film and production over the last 3-5 years and so some even more. They bring a lot of experience and passion to this project and want produce a great product. Here are the players so far.
Christopher Long Writer / Director
Chris is a writer, director, and film lover from Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduate from the University of Tulsa. Studying film and creative writing, Chris was selected the summer of his senior year to attend World Interplay a playwriting festival in Australia. He has worked on two feature films as well as several short films and music videos while writing, directing and editing commercials for Flying Colors Media. He also co-teaches the Intro to Film Class at the TU.
Jeremy Lamberton Producer/Production Manager
Jeremy lives and works as a filmmaker and photographer on his family’s ranch in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is co-founder/co-director of TULSA OVERGROUND, an annual film festival showcasing the world’s most innovative short films and videos. His documentary feature debut, BIKER FOX, premiered at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival.
Charles Elmore Director of Photography
Charles is a filmmaker from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has worked from the ground up on everything from commercials and music videos to feature films. He once worked in the art department on an indie film that featured an as yet undiscovered Anna Faris (she's famous now). Recently, he has worked as a Director of Photography on short films and music videos with directors Matt Leach and Christopher Long as well as vérité documentaries for This Land Press with Sterlin Harjo and Matt Leach. He has also written and directed a feature length film currently in post-production.
Matt Leach First Assistant Camera
Matt is a filmmaker working and living in Oklahoma. His music videos and short films have been featured on MTV2 and in overseas film festivals. His video for Evangelicals 'Midnight Vignette' was voted one of the top 25 indie videos of 2008 by MTV2. In 2010 Another music video “The Gym is All She Has” for Man Branch was selected and shown at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas.
Matt Phipps Second Assistant Camera
Matt is a visual craftsman from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has created a skateboarding tour de force with his Get Your Kicks skateboarding website and long form video as well as worked as a director on several commercials and short films. Matt once weighed over 300 pounds but with his own handcrafted diet of lean pockets, healthy choice soup and sit ups; he lost over 100 pounds and now looks like a beanpole.
Erin Turner Production Designer
Erin Turner is a native Tulsan who has attended schools such as: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, LLOYTA, Barcelona, The University of Tulsa, and La UMSA, Buenos Aires. She has been involved in the set design and art direction for several contemporary dance productions, numerous musical sets, as well as the art direction for a local variety television show, Show and Tell with Peter Bedgood. Her most recent installation was featured at the Bluxome Point Gallery in San Francisco, California. She teaches inter-disciplinary art at a number of organizations and schools around Tulsa
Ryan Haines Post Production Supervisor
Ryan is co-owner of Slackcircus Studios, a post-production studio based in Dallas, Texas. Slackcircus specializes in design, direction, motion graphics, and 2D animation, serving clients across the electronic entertainment industry, a.k.a video games. With over 13 years of post-production experience and the successful development of his own company, there's still nothing Ryan would rather do than grind away on that perfect sky replacement, composite a fake explosion or bring any computer to a halt with an unreal expectation of just how many particles is too many.
Jeremiah Maloney Assistant Director
Jeremiah is a one-man army. From shooting, to editing to producing to everything in between, Jeremiah has done it all. His strength is getting people motivated and organizing a set to its utmost efficiency. He’s worked on films, music videos, live productions, commercials and documentaries gaining valuable experience each time.
Ryan Weaver Sound Department / Sound Mixer
Ryan is the ears of any operation he's involved in. Working with Film and Music Production, his skills are honed in from the smallest recording stages to Sound Design, Foley, Music, Editing, Mixing, and Mastering. He is the guy to go to for the colorful capture of any source as well as for the most complex creative creations that make film and music come to life. His clients and productions include: (Director) Sterlin Harjo / "3 Little Boys", 47 North Production's "Adler & Zenith Comedy Series" / "A Visitor in the Night", (Director) Ian Hubert / "Project London" , and many bands including Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey's "Stay Gold" album.
Daniel Sutliff Music Composer
Daniel has been playing and writing music in a variety of bands/forms for the last 15 years. He has toured the United States several times numerous bands and his own solo project Daniel(s). Daniel is also a visual artist and editor, creating mash-up video's that sync up with his own songs and form an integral part of his solo performances.
Sam Anderson Technical Advisor
Sam has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Tulsa and works as an engineering technician for Carlson Design. An avid tinkerer and mad scientist; he has never owned anything that he has not taken apart, and normally juggles several technical projects at any given time. An accomplished grower of beards, amateur chef, hobbyist machinist, and occasional artist.
