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Nancy Kissam
(The Director) |
Upload Films (The Producers) |
Instinctive Film |
Nancy Kissam is a native of New York where she wrote and directed several plays and received a Master's degree in Theatre from NYU. She has written and directed work in L.A. such as her one-woman show, La La (Seven Women One Mouth) that LA Weekly called "expertly written…a forceful performance." Nancy continues to perform all over L.A. with her improvisation troupe, The Gay Mafia. Her screenwriting career was launched with her first script, Stone, which was invited into Outfest’s Screenwriting Lab. Soon after, her second script, Drool, won the 2006 Slamdance Screenwriting Competition. In the summer of 2008, the year of Hurricane Gustav, Nancy had the pleasure of teaming up with Upload Films to direct Drool, which made its world premiere at Slamdance in January of 2009. |
In 2006, Todd Williams, John Portnoy, and Nick Thurlow founded Upload Films in order to provide a new home for filmmaker-based projects that expand the vocabulary of independent film. Combining production, finishing funds, and post-production services under one roof, Upload both develops its own projects and teams up with other producers to bring engaging films with strong visions to the screen. Upload's films have included the Spirit Award nominated Shotgun Stories, which has been featured on numerous top 10 lists for 2008, as well as Peace Arch's release The Babysitters, starring John Leguizamo. In addition to Drool, Upload is involved with four other 2009 releases, including the thriller Print, starring Gabrielle Carteris and Will Rothhaar, and the courtroom drama The Thacker Case, starring Eliza Dushku and Gabriel Mann. |
Instinctive Film is an independent film finance, development and production company established in March 2007 by producing partners Darryn Welch and Chris Ouwinga. The core focus of the company is to nurture new talent, develop great stories and tell those stories with a unique vision. Recent productions include Ryan Gosling-produced Broken Kingdom, written and directed by Daniel Gillies; Peter Sehr and Marie Noelle's Sundance entry The Anarchist's Wife (in cinemas across Europe in January 2009); Peter Dowling's underground thriller, Stag Night; Michael Oblowitz's Sea of Darkness; Davey Frankel's stunning Abebe Bikila biopic, The Athlete; the multi-award winning documentary The End; German language coming of age comedy 13 Semester, distributed by Fox; and Slamdance entry Drool. |
Kara Stephens
(The Director of Photography) |
Jenn Belleville (The Editor) |
Dana Boulé (The Composer) |
After attending film school at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Kara headed to Los Angeles to make it in the film world. After a year of getting coffee and making copies on the set of the film True Lies, Kara realized that the natural place for her was behind the camera. She started as a loader and then quickly moved her way up the ladder to become a Cinematographer. Along the way she worked with such luminaries as John Frankenheimer, Kathyrn Bigalow, Kevin Spacey and Catherine Hardwicke. Drool is Kara’s fifth feature. You can see her reel at: www.karastephens.com. |
Jenn Belleville was raised in Canada, and made the trek to the U.S. in 2005. Since then she has quickly risen through the ranks, and has recently edited Safety Glass and Print along with Drool. She has also edited numerous documentaries. Danielle Ash Danielle Ash received her BFA in animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in Experimental Animation at CalArts. Before moving to Los Angeles Danielle worked in New York City as a sound designer, while continuing to make short animations for commercials and educational programs for young audiences, sometimes involving puppets or a mouth harp. While at CalArts she collaborated on many projects in animation, theater, puppetry and music. “Pickles for Nickels”, her thesis is a stop-motion short made out of cardboard. Danielle animated Tabby’s notebook in Drool and is currently working in animation and title design. For more information go to: |
Dana Boulé is a classically trained pianist, singer-songwriter and accordionist from Brooklyn, New York whose roots lie in experimental theatre and punk rock. As front-woman for the bands Stupid and The Sobs, she has had a successful career touring and scoring music for various television, film and theatre projects (i.e. MTV Networks productions, Oscar-nominated film Jimmy Neutron, indie films such as award winning Devils Are Dreaming and numerous television commercials). Dana recently relocated to Paris, France to influence an entire country, rock French film and release her much anticipated solo record Going, Gone. For more information go to: www.danaboule.com |