KATHERINE FAIRFAX WRIGHT [DIRECTOR, DP, EDITOR, WRITER]
Katherine Fairfax Wright graduated from Columbia University with a double major in Film Studies and Anthropology. She produced GABI ON THE ROOF IN JULY (2010), associate-produced the award-winning documentary LUMO, and has worked in a producing role on several other films. She is also an award-winning photographer. Katherine is a Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellow, as well as an alumnus of the Film Independent Documentary Lab, the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant at Full Frame, and the Film Independent Producing Lab. In 2012, Filmmaker Magazine named Katherine one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She is currently producing Malik Vitthal’s Watts-set gangster drama IMPERIAL DREAMS.
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MALIKA ZOUHALI-WORRALL [DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, WRITER]
Malika Zouhali-Worrall is an award-winning filmmaker of British/Moroccan origin. Malika is a Chaz & Roger Ebert Directing Fellow and an alumnus of the Film Independent Documentary Lab, the Tribeca All Access program, the Firelight Media Producer’s Lab, and the Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant at Full Frame Documentary Festival. In 2012, Filmmaker Magazine named Malika one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film.. She is a graduate of Cambridge University, and holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), where she studied with a full scholarship from the Entente Cordiale Scheme. Malika’s current film, THANK YOU FOR PLAYING, directed and produced in partnership with David Osit, tells the story of Ryan Green, an indie video game developer who’s building a video game about his terminally ill young son. The film is an ITVS/POV co-production and premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
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JON MANDABACH [COMPOSER]
Jon Mandabach lives in Los Angeles, where he passionately creates music for film, commercials and sound art installations. As well as composing, performing and recording the entire soundtrack for CALL ME KUCHU almost singlehandedly, Jon recently finished a new art piece, “Escapes,” which was exhibited at the Suzanne Geiss Company Gallery in New York earlier this year, and he is currently finishing the score for a web series to be released by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA) in September 2012. In his commercial work, Jon has worked with QDepartment and Apple’s Media Arts Lab, and he is a playlist curator for The Playlist Generation. Jon is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where he concentrated in Philosophy and Sound Installation. He has great dreams for sound and its personal and cultural resonance.
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