Melissa Leo

Renowned for her distinguished work in film, television and theater, Melissa Leo is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning performance in David O. Russell’s The Fighter that also won her a Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice Movie Award, and SAG Award for ‘Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.’ 

Leo also received Oscar and SAG Award nominations for her role in the Sony Pictures Classics crime drama, Frozen River, for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for ‘Best Female Lead,’ a Spotlight Award from the National Board of Review, and ‘Best Actress’ from the Gotham Awards and many other accolades.

Over the course of her extraordinary and critically-acclaimed career, Leo has collaborated with numerous A-List film directors, including Alejandro González Iñárritu in 21 Grams opposite Benicio Del Toro; Oliver Stone in Snowden; Adam McKay in The Big Short opposite Brad Pitt and Christian Bale; Antoine Fuqua in Olympus Has Fallen and The Equalizer films opposite Denzel Washington; Denis Villeneuve in Prisoners opposite Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis; Tommy Lee Jones in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada opposite Jones and Dwight Yoakam; Robert Zemeckis in Flight opposite Denzel Washignton and Maggie Betts in Novitiate, to name a few. 

 Melissa won an Emmy for her appearance on Louie and was nominated for her work in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce opposite Kate Winslet. Additionally, she was nominated for her work in Jay Roach’s All The Way opposite Bryan Cranston. Leo starred in the Showtime series Im Dying Up Here, executive produced by Jim Carrey, and had a key role in the recent HBO miniseries I Know This Much Is True alongside Mark Ruffalo.

Géza Röhrig

Géza Röhrig is best known for his role in the 2015 film Son of Saul, which won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Röhrig was born in Budapest, Hungary. In the 1980s, he was the frontman of an underground music band called Huckleberry (also known as HuckRebelly). His work includes two collections of poems on the theme of the Holocaust, Hamvasztókönyv ("Book of Incineration") and Fogság ("Captivity"). He graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest with a degree in filmmaking. Röhrig has also appeared in To Dust, Resistance, and in the upcoming films, The Way of the Wind (as Jesus), Desert Warrior, and Fog of War.

Bo Corre

Bo Corre was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a member of the Actors Studio and is known for her work in Mulberry St (2006), Eldorado (1992) and Harrow Island (2010).

Richard Kroehling

Director / Editor

Richard Kroehling’s work includes dramatic features, documentary, crime TV, and intimate portraits of some of the world’s renowned thinkers, as well as film and video art that looks to transcend existing forms. He directed “Albert Einstein: How I See The World” with William Hurt for PBS American Masters and the feature “World Without End” for England’s Film Four. A two-time Emmy award winner, he has directed over fifty hours of crime docudramas for networks in the United States and Europe. He created the controversial TV series “Confessions”, hailed as “visionary and stunning”, which was later installed at the Palazzo della Triennale in Milan. His films and video art installations have been exhibited at film festivals, networks, and art museums around the world, including MOMA, The Jewish Museum in New York City, and the Lars Von Trier’s Gesamt project at the Kunsthalle in Copenhagen. “Dollarland”, a multi-screen installation of an imaginary American city, is a collaboration with his long-time cinematographer Lisa Rinzler. “Dollarland” premiered at the Woodstock Artist Association Museum (WAAM) and showed at Art Basel Miami in 2019. Richard Kroehling will direct his adaptation of Swedish playwright Lars Noren’s “War” in 2024. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the New York Council on the Arts. 

richardkroehling.com

Lisa Rinzler

Cinematographer

Lisa Rinzler is known as a master of lighting, has an international reputation, and lensed many documentaries, feature films, and experimental works. Her credits include Academy Award nominated “Pollock“, “Dead Presidents”, “Menace II Society”, and she worked with Martin Scorsese on “American Masters” and “No Direction Home: Bob Dylan”, as well as “It’s The Soul of a Man” with Wim Wenders. Lisa Rinzler won the Sundance Independent Spirit Award in 1993 and 1999. She was featured in the American Film Institute’s “Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography” featuring nine of the world’s greatest motion picture camera artists. In 2016, Lisa Rinzler shot the documentary “Don’t Blink”, a portrait of Robert Frank. Most recently, she lensed "A Man of His Word", a portrait of Pope Francis directed by Wim Wenders, as well as the Academy Award winning documentary short in 2019 called "How to Skate in a Warzone (If you are a Girl)".

lisarinzler.com

Janet R. Kirchheimer

Producer

Janet R. Kirchheimer is an award-winning, Pushcart Prize nominated poet, and author of How to Spot One of Us which received endorsements from Elie Wiesel, Sir Martin Gilbert, and Rabbi Harold Kushner, as well as poets Mary Stewart Hammond, Yerra Sugarman, and Jeanne Marie Beaumont. Her second book, Seduction: Out of Eden, co-authored with Jaclyn Piudik, was published by Kelsay Books (2022). 

www.janetkworks.com

Eve Pomerance

Casting Director

Eve Pomerance has worked in the film industry since 1989, working for BBC and ICM, among others. She has produced six full-length feature films, was casting director for several national and international films, domestic television shows, and for podcasts and video games. Currently, Eve Pomerance has several films in development and is producing a television series, co-writing and producing a crime trilogy, as well as producing and casting a science fiction film. She is a member of CSA.

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Oliver Mahrdt

Executive Producer

Oliver Mahrdt has worked in the entertainment industry for 30 years. He is the former North American representative of the German movie industry (2001-2017), showcasing German cinema to film festivals and American audiences. He is also the producer of multiple feature films. Oliver Mahrdt brings his skills to film production, film festival organizations, fundraising for the arts, art direction, marketing, PR, broadcasting, consulting, and awards submission.

Helge Bernhardt

Sound Engineer

Helge Bernhardt is known for “Some Kind of Ladies Man” (2013), “Spit Boys” (2013) and “Waterless” (2015).