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Emmy-winning producer/director Sebastian Conley has over ten years experience creating, writing, and directing web and animation content for clients such as Subway, the NHL, and Condé Nast.
With his brother Ben, he directed over 100 webisodes for Condé Nast's blog network in 2008 alone. The Daily Special, a daily comedy/news show for women won an honorable mention at the 2008 Webby Awards.
Sebastian co-directed and animated the online series 'Being Stanley' which depicted the fictional life of the Stanley Cup in Trophy Land and which won him an Emmy in 2007.
Sebastian completed a five year MFA in film writing and directing at Columbia University and studied traditional animation at the Cuckoo's Nest Hanna Barbera Studio in Taiwan.
He graduated cum laude from Harvard where he drew a daily comic strip for the school paper and founded the humor magazine DEMON. His cartoons have also appeared on Good Morning America and in MAD magazine. |
Ben Conley
producer/director of photography/sound designer
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Ben Conley is a director of photography, editor and producer.
Ben has produced videos for a range of clients including Condé Nast and Subway. In 2008 he shot a news story for ABC on location in Indonesia. His production experience also includes work for MTV and VH1.
While in film class at UCLA, Benjamin produced, directed and edited his first short film Taken in 2007. A native Californian, Benjamin is a graduate of UC Berkeley. |
Nitin Madan
producer |
Nitin Madan is known best for his documentary work for television in New Delhi. He moved to New York in 1998 and has since written five feature length screenplays, written and directed two short films and is currently producing a documentary on French architect Le Corbusier's work in Chandigarh, India.
In addition to his extensive Production background in India, Nitin is also a Producer on Asian America, a TV program syndicated by PBS, and has been a Film Critic on WNYE 89.9 FM.
A graduate of the MFA program in Film from Columbia University, Nitin was an adjunct faculty member of the Humanities Department at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Education. |
Daniel Scot Kadin
executive producer
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Daniel Scot Kadin is a Partner and Executive Producer at Got Lucky Pictures, a company producing films in the US and in India with a focus on international productions.
Since completing NYU's Undergraduate film program, he has worked extensively in television, theatre and film, directing plays in the USA and in France. His television work includes 2 seasons working on-set for Sesame Street, the television pilot "Accidental Kindness", an industrial videos focusing on New York City's real estate industry. Daniel was a producer with Film Fanatics Productions, which created documentaries on international film festivals, including Cuba and Berlin and Venice. He is currently co-producing a documentary on Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier's work in India, directed by Nitin Madan.
Favorite theater productions include Pinter's Une Pour la Route in English and French in Paris; Garcia Lorca's The Maiden the Mariner and the Student, at Shakespeare & Company (Paris), and Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog which he directed for the stage at Theater for the New City.
Got Lucky Pictures is currently producing features films and documentaries and funding television pilots in addition to other entertainment ventures, both in America and India.
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Kishori Rajan
associate producer |
Prior to her joining the team for Colin Hearts Kay, Kishori produced the SAG short film "Adán", while working as an Executive Assistant at Entropy Films and in the communications department at Newsweek Magazine.
Kishori has interned extensively within the entertainment industry in various capacities, having worked at companies such as the BBC, New Line Cinema, and Goldcrest Films International. Her previous short films have been screened at various film festivals around the country.
She is a recent graduate of Columbia University, where she studied film and served as president of Columbia's film production organization. |
Noah Starr
lead: Colin Jenson
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Noah Starr co-hosts Ask Aida on the Food Network every Saturday at 12:30pm and frequently hosts their behind-the-scenes show the FN Dish. Before that, Noah completed a whirlwind tour of Europe where he hosted and wrote a series of comedy videos with fellow BU alumni Baron Vaughn.
Noah appears regularly on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Late Show with David Letterman, and has appeared on E!, AMC, CNBC, and MTV. Noah recently starred in Teachers, a pilot that won the People's Choice Award at the New York Television Festival. Noah can also be seen (and heard) in a variety of commercials and PSAs, or performing comedy at venues all over New York City.
Noah has written for Disney, Paramount Pictures, Embassy Row, The Food Network, McSweeney's, numerous award-winning ad campaigns, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
As a teacher, Noah has worked for Wheelock College, Yale University, and public schools around the country. He hails from beautiful Camden, ME.
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Emily Chang
lead: Kay Ho
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Emily C. Chang is an actress/writer/producer who has been performing on stage since the age of 5, from playing piano to touring international choir festivals. She began performing theatrically at the age of 12 and has since studied under Anna Deveare Smith at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Peter Jensen at T. Schreiber Studio.
Emily was the host of the popular nationally broadcast show, TheLounge, on ImaginasianTV, and has since hosted food segments, travelogues, and other cultural entertainment pieces from Korea and Shanghai to Las Vegas and New York City. She is also co-host of the upcoming documentary series, "China on the Frontlines," with NPR/The Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows.
Recent projects: TV/Film: Axe/Comedy Central's "Hair Crisis News Update"; "The Humberville Poetry Slam" (Maharaja); Cablevision's "Optimum Minute"; Shanghai Hotel (young Madame). Theatre: Warrior Sisters (The Kitchen); Sisters in the Smoke (HERE Mainstage); Yellowtechnicolor Tour (national).
Emily co-founded the national performing arts collectives, I Was Born with 2 Tongues, and Mango Tribe, whose theatrical and touring productions she successfully produced and performed in from 1997-2005. Her artistic work has been the recipient of grants from theRockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts (Abrons Arts Settlement), and the Illinois Arts Council.
Emily received her BA in English from University of Chicago and her MA in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch.
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Abraham De Funes
Salvatore |
Abraham De Funes is a Spaniard artist living in New York. Several of Abraham's New York credits include films like The Surprise Party, El Cantante, and Victoriana. He has performed on the stage in theater productions of Closer, Letters to Theo and American Buffalo.
Abraham has trained at Stella Adler and Michael Howard's Studios. He is also an Engineering graduate from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Abraham is a published poet, motorcycle enthusiast and struggling guitarist. |
Mellini Kantayya
Pujya |
Mellini Kantayya is an actor and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to her theater credits, she has had multiple appearances on the daytime serials As The World Turns and One Life to Live.
Her most recent independent film credits include Keane (Independent Spirit Award) and Children of Invention (Sundance).
Mellini was the founder and curator of the Jilted Film Festival. She is currently writing a collection of humor essays entitled "Actor, Writer, Whatever." |
Kyle Walters
Barry |
Kyle Walters is an actor and visual artist living in New York. Raised in laid-back California, he moved to the other side of the country to attend NYU.
In addition to playing the super-successful hipster artist Todd Healy Stone in 48th Floor Productions' The Red Woman, recent indie film credits include: Curt Jenkins in The Penny, by the Filmweavers; Young "Huge Deal" MacIntosh in the award-winning Rising Up: The Story of the Zombie Rights Movement; and the upcoming webseries Moonsie -about a lonely guy and his cat.
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Elia Monte-Brown
Mercedes |
Elia Monte-Brown is a native New Yorker and graduate of University of Southern California.
Selected Credits: Flashback (Ensemble Studio
Theatre), Sonnets for an Old Century (Nuyorican Poets Café), Brainwave, Somehow and Cannon Dialogues ( All co-authored with Exit
Art) . "The West Side" (Best Drama 2008); "Deleted the Game" (People's Voice and Use of Interactive Video 2009).
Training: Anne Ratray, Austin Pendleton and Bill Riley (voice). In addition to acting Elia also works as a Biology Teacher at Automotive High School as well as a teaching artist with HAI. |
Jacqueline Guzda
Mrs. Jenson |
Apart from her day job as a professor of media communication at Manhattan College, Jackie has several film roles and a long history of stage work to her credit.
She has performed in comedy clubs as a member of the Gross National Product and Los Banditos Chocolate, both sketch comedy troupes. She likes living in the Bronx with Beasley the beagle and Petunia the cross dressing cat.
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Richard Flight
Mr. Jenson |
Rich's television credits include: a recurring role on "One Life to Live" a U/5 on "Guiding Light" and a role in the "Psychic Detectives" on Court TV.
This past summer he had roles in two independent feature films "The Sunset Sky" and "Aversion." Other movie credits include “Forgiveness” and "See Saw."
Additionally, Rich had the lead role in the national infomercial "Teach Me To Trade" and was featured in the national commercial for Osteo-Bi-Flex. Other commercials credits include: Connecticare, B2x.com, and Fox Business News Channel. He studies with Caymichael Patten.
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Kimberly Rae Miller
Rebecca |
Kimberly Rae Miller most recently starred in Condé Nast's online episodic Pretty Imperfect and talk show The Daily Special. She has also been seen in front of the camera on the WE Network's Cinematherapy, Judging Amy, and LA Dragnet, among others.
When she's not performing Kimberly writes about gossip and New York living for CBS Radio's 92.3 Now FM and about fitness for SocialWorkout.com. She will be featured as an expert on blogging and webshows in the upcoming Creative Girls Guide to Having it All by Katharine Sise due out in 2010.
She wants to thank the Conley Bros. for including her on such an amazing project.
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Wen-Jay Ying
stylist / music coordinator
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Wen-Jay graduated from Boston University with a degree in psychology. She has worked on styling projects with companies such as Parents Magazine and Frontline.
Her involvement in music began at the age of nine, when her parents convinced her to learn the piano and violin. She has since strayed from her classical training and has become involved in Brooklyn bands The Eskalators, Archipelego, Laura Stevenson and The Cans, ACLU Benefit and The Honey Dos.
Wen-Jay finds inspiration from her friends, Brooklyn, vivid dreams and the kind of imagination that can only be found in childhood. She would like to thank her dog for his constant support.
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John Kim
1st AC, key gaffer, key grip
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John has had extensive experience in almost all facets of film and video production. He worked as a production coordinator for MTV, a cinematographer for the BBC and a DVD author for Saturday Night Live and Sesame Street.
John has freelanced as a producer/shooter/editor for numerous music videos, documentaries and science videos that have been distributed via internet, television and DVD.
John is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the BBC's professional training program in London. During his spare time he writes for the technology blog Geekanerd. |
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