THE CREW

	Zach Brock: Violinist and composer Zach Brock has given Smithsonian-sponsored lectures on early American jazz violin pioneers, appeared as a guest soloist with William Russo and The Chicago Jazz Ensemble, performed at the Kennedy Center with the Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead residency, produced and recorded four CDs on Secret Fort and Delmark Records, and performed at Carnegie Hall with his group, The Coffee Achievers. Zach has been featured in a Downbeat Magazine "Players Profile" column and has been hailed as a "Rising Star" in the magazine's venerable reader's poll. In September 2006, Zach Brock and The Coffee Achievers performed at the Tudo é Jazz Festival in Brazil and in October 2006, Zach performed with Alice and Ravi Coltrane, Reggie Workman, and Jack DeJohnette as part of Alice Coltrane's "Translinear Light" concert. Zach's film credits include performances for the acclaimed documentary "Black Gold" (Sundance Festival 2006), and the dramatic cultural critique "Arranged" (SXSW Festival 2007). Now residing in Brooklyn, NY, Zach will be performing and recording with bass legend Stanley Clarke in 2008 as well as touring with his own projects and recording a new CD for Secret Fort.
	Erin Harper: Producer/Writer/Director Erin graduated with her degree in Theatre from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Erin was involved as an intern with "A Doula Story: On the front lines of teen pregnancy" produced by The Kindling Group, which aired on PBS in October 2006. Ms. Harper's involvement in documentary films includes work on "Center for Workers Education" as a researcher and camera assistant for Jezebel Productions, camera on "Rat Patrol" directed by Cheryl Lohrman, member of the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon, and directing numerous short films while receiving her MFA in writing/directing documentary film from City College of New York. Erin recently directed the live DVD of Zach Brock and The Coffee Achiever's performance at the Jazz Factory.
	Jeff Hoagland: Assistant Director Jeff Hoagland graduated from the University of Kentucky with degrees in Accounting and Finance and enjoys applying his dogmatic, regimented personality to projects with artistic credibility. An organized self-starter, Jeff enjoys Baudelaire, sestinas, quadratic equations and can play up to seven chords on any standard-issue six string acoustic guitar. A published freelance writer, Jeff co-wrote, co-edited, co-produced, and helped score the documentary "Sally Brown: Force of Nature", which aired on Kentucky Educational Television, before entering The City College of New York to pursue an M.F.A. in Film Production. Jeff currently works freelance for NBC Sports, the CW channel, and Winnercomm television, and thinks Zach Brock is very attractive.
	Janis M. Vogel: Director of Photography Janis M. Vogel was born in Heidelberg, Germany and grew up on Martha's Vineyard. A dancer, writer and photographer, she got her B.A. in Cinema Media Studies and International Relations from Wellesley College. She created her first short film, "World Ever After," during her studies at Wellesley and graduated Cum Laude. She is now working towards her M.F.A. in Film Production as a Cinematographer, Writer and Director at The City College of New York where she is currently directing her sixth short film. "Falling To Heaven," which she edited, was recently screened at The Sundance Film Festival. She is in pre-production as cinematographer on many productions including "Passion" with documentary filmmaker Erin Harper. Janis Vogel has also worked with documentary filmmakers, Danny Schechter ("Weapons of Mass Deception") and Marc Simon ("After Innocence"). She worked as a Story Developer for Julie Richardson ("Collateral") and her fluency in German and Spanish led her to work for the World Wide Department at American Public Television.
	Erin Greenwell: Editor Erin graduated with honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dramatic Writing. Erin went on to become an in-house producer/director of PSAs and community/cultural profiles for the largest public access center in the nation, Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Ms. Greenwell's producing/editing work includes Lead Dog Marketing, Unicef and the award winning PBS magazine format show, "In the Life." Erin recently served as an additional editor on "Cruel and Unusual," an unflinching documentary on the lives of transgender women in men's prisons. Ms. Greenwell is proud to have been senior editor on "Arranged", a feature narrative about a Muslim and Orthodox Jew who become friends as public school teachers. "Arranged" premiered at this year's SXSW film festival in the "Emerging Visions" category and was awarded "Best Narrative Feature" in the Brooklyn International Film Festival and will be theatrically released October 2007.
	Vincent Venturella: AC, 2nd Camera Vincent Venturella received his BA in Cinema from Binghamton University where he studied avant-garde film with experimental filmmakers, Martin Arnold and Vincent Grenier. Vincent continued his studies earning his MFA at City College of New York as a cinematographer and works professionally as a free-lance cinematographer and video artist. He worked as cinematographer for the film "hush" directed by Fernando Cordero which was awarded "Best Cinematography" at the 2007 Cityvisions Festival screening at the Director's Guild of America Theatre in Manhattan, New York. He was Producer and Director of Photography for Darren Methlie's film "Plain Jane" which won "Best Fiction Film," also screened at The 2007 Cityvisions Festival. Contributing his compositional and performance skills in experimental music, Vin has performed as a singer and guitarist for Connecticut's Indie rock trio, Irma Vep and plays bass in Brooklyn's Matter Antimatter. He is one half of the lo-fi pop duo Leopoldine with actress Joan Wolkoff.
	Maria Graziewicz: Production Manager (Poland) Maria graduated from the Polish Film School Silesia University 'Krzysztof Kieslowski', where she studied Film and TV production. She has worked professionally for Polish TV, Polish music television: MTV, 4funTv and as a freelance producer in documentary films, music clips, tv programs, news programs and adverts. Last year she worked as a production executive for her first feature film named "Fur".
	Jacek Plichta: Sound Jacek has been working as a sound man since 1994. For thirteen years he was doing nature films and documentaries. As a freelancer he works with Polish TV stations like TVP, Polskat, and TVN. He does sound in commentary and entertainment programs. Now Jacek works a few production companies, realizing sound in adverts, corporation films, and documentaries.
	Marlena Grzaslewicz: Associate Producer Ms. Grzaslewiz has over 25 years of professional dialogue/sound editing. Her illustrious track record includes "Capturing the Friedman's," "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" and "Carlito's Way". Ms. Grzaslewiz recently worked on Alan Ball's first feature film.
	Aneta Norek: Associate Producer Aneta started playing violin at the age of nine. Upon attending music school, Aneta graduated from the Academy of Economics in Cracow in 2002 and from the Music Academy in Cracow (violin class) in 2006. In order to combine her two passions, in 2002 she started working as the tour and promotions manager in the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Cracow for the symphonic orchestra and mixed choir. Since May, 2007 she has been working in the Warsaw Philharmonic in the PR Department. Jazz is Aneta's main hobby. Since discovering Seifert's music for the first time four years ago, she has collected materials of his legacy. As a master thesis in the Music Academy she wrote the dissertation: "Influence of Karol Szymanowski music on works of Zbigniew Seifert - the most outstanding, Polish, jazz violinist." For analysis she used pieces such as Harnasie or 4. Symphony Concertante by Karol Szymanowski and Concerto for jazz violin, symphonic orchestra and rhythmical section (Jazz-Konzert für Violine, Sinfonieorchester und Rhythmusgruppe).
	Katarzyna Weclawiak: Interpreter Kasia finished graduate course work recently at Warsaw University (Poland) where she studied German philology. While finishing her master's thesis, she is also completing her MA in Dutch philology. Working as a free lance interpreter and translator for more than two years, her work concerns Dutch, English, German and Polish. Kasia has worked among others with German theater director Rene Pollesch, the native New York photographer Roger Ballen now living in Johannesburg, and has translated poems by Dutch poet FranS Bude. She admits to being an avowed jazz fan.