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BIOS
JON BRANTINGHAM is a composer living in Thousand Oaks, CA. He comes to scoring film with an extensive background in performance and composition. He began composing at the age of twelve, and has played trumpet for over twenty years. He was selected to be the Reagan Library Bugler for the 10th Anniversary of President Reagan’s Memorial Service. Jon has been married since 2009 to his wife, Cynthia, and has two sons, Miles and Matthew, and a daughter, Violet.
HEDIA ANVAR is a New Yorker transplanted to Los Angeles by way of Tehran. Somewhere in between, she lived in France and Italy, which either expanded her world-view or culturally befuddled her. Her creative dabbling speaks to a storytelling drive, rampant since childhood when she put on plays in the backyard for her aunts and uncles in Iran. Her foray into film began as an actor, and with a do-it-yourself sensibility and subzero-budgets, in the last several years, Hedia wrote and directed over a dozen short films, many of which have won awards. She lives up to the ideal of an artistic cooperative and refuses to believe true independent filmmaking is a myth.
PAUL DIMITROPOULOS is an actor and stand up comedian originally from Rochester, NY. After attending Ithaca College with a degree in film and photography, he left the cold for good and moved to Los Angeles. Paul has been performing stand up for the last eleven years and is a founding member of the Convicts of Comedy, but the real reason he stays in Southern California is the weather.
GAVIN STOKES files a lot of online bug reports. In almost ten years as a software engineer at Apple, he finally saw the first bug he filed fixed: you can now resize Mac OS windows from their edges. That's what you achieve when you grow up on the North Shore of Chicago, where John Hughes made most of his movies. Gavin started shooting and editing Super-8 film in elementary school, and then attended the high school on which Breakfast Club was based. He earned a journalism degree and then, perplexingly, took a series of jobs at Big-6 consulting firms. After a software-engineering stint at Red Camera, Gavin finally works behind cameras most of the time.
NATHAN VAN HALA Having come from an accomplished career in music for many years, Nathan began working in audio post-production and location sound in 2012. He started as a musician and songwriter at an early age and released music with bands such as West Indian Girl, Saviour Machine, and Strychnine Kiss. With his accomplishments in the field of sound design growing by the day, Nathan is enjoying branching out further into the world of film production.
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