Shadows & Light has been accepted to the 2009 Moondance International Film Festival as a FInalist.  Click for additional information for screening details.
Shadows and Light
has won the
Festival Director' Choice Awards
at the 1st Annual Lady Filmmakers Film Festival.
 
 



Colin Stuart

Actor (Nick)

 
Colin has appeared in the feature film Under a Shipwrecked Moon, the award-winning shorts Andante Cantabile and Child Psychology, and several others, including Small Little Thing,The Big Break, and Dumping Gretchen. He is also active on the stage, appearing as the lead in the premiere of Terrence McNally’s Crucifixion, as well as Proof, Amadeus, My Fair Lady, and many others.  
 

 
 



Jen Wilson
Actress (Marie)

 
Jenn hails from metro Detroit where she toured with the Second City for two years. You might find it interesting to know that she booked her first professional job because the Director was a huge X-files fan and thought she looked like Gillian Anderson aka Dana Scully and her second professional job she booked was as a Scully spoof named Mully. At some point she realized she since she was not married and did not have children that she wanted to take her skills to LA, so she packed up her Honda, two cats and her sister and to the west coast she went. 'Shadows and Light' is her first job in LA, you can see some of her LA other shorts on YouTube!  

 

 
 


Jennifer Tung

Producer/Actress (Jasmine)
 

A former Miss Chinatown USA, Jennifer has appeared in over thirty films and television shows, including Alias (recurring, opposite Quentin Tarantino), Charmed, and ER. She has had leading and featured roles in The President’s Man, and The President’s Man: A Line in the Sand with Chuck Norris, Cruel Game, and Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. She can be seen in the forthcoming films, Murder World, and The Intern.

 
 
 

 
 


Nancy Hendrickson

Writer/Producer/Director
 

Nancy Hendrickson, writer-director-producer, started her career as an actress, graduating with a BFA in drama from Carnegie-Mellon University and going on to appear in daytime dramas, off-off Broadway, commercials, regional theater and to star in the nationally released feature film Mother’s Day. She created the role of Nonnie for the premier production of Starters, a play by Obie-winner Jack Gelber that co-starred Alan Rosenberg and she acted under the direction of Norman Rene and John Pasquin. Nancy is a member of SAG, AFTRA and AEA.

In 1991 her writing career began when she was hired to pen fifty promotional spots for The Disney Channel. She has since been hired to write screenplays, most recently by producer Randy Greenberg (former VP at Universal and MGM) to adapt “The Irene Kassorla Story.” Her spec screenplays have won The Austin Film Festival and Carl Sautter Memorial Scriptwriting competitions. She has also been a finalist in the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Sundance Writers Lab and the Women in Film and Video competition, a semi-finalist (top 100 out of 4000) in the Academy’s Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowhip, the Fade In competition and the Chesterfield Film Company’s Writers Film Project.

Hendrickson’s directing credits include plays, staged readings and three short films. In 2006 she directed the premier of Solicitation, a full-length stage play at the New York Fringe Festival. In addition to Shadows and Light, Nancy has a fshort film in postproduction. Her first film, The Healing, starring Sam Gould, won a Gaia Award for Best Short Film at the 2007 Moondance Film Festival and was nominated for Best in Category at Damah International Film Festival. Tel Aviv Spirit Festival requested permission to screen it subtitled in Hebrew. She was a 2008 finalist in AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women.

For the past fifteen years, Nancy has been a frequent contributor to Creative Screenwriting magazine and a sometime contributor to MovieMaker magazine. She currently teaches screenwriting and directing at full time at The Los Angeles Film School and writes a bi-monthly column for The Scriptwriters Network newsletter, which can be accessed at scriptwritersnetwork.org.

 
 
 

 
 


Leah Anova
Cinematographer
 
Originally from Quezon City, Philippines, Leah grew up eating lumpia (eggrolls), playing under the sun, and running with her dogs. She studied at Trinity College and earned a BA in International Affairs, but quickly grew tired of the life of a wanna-be politician. Instead, she picked up a 35mm SLR camera... and was hooked. She went on to attend The American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory, where she studied and earned her MFA in Cinematography. Equally adept at shooting video and film, Leah has delivered directors' visions in music videos, shorts, documentaries, and features. She is known for her ability to think quickly on her feet, her strong sense of framing, her love of light, and her collaborative spirit.

For more information about Leah Anova, explore at www.leahanova.com. Or send an email at leahsroom@gmail.com.
 
 

 
 


Justin Wingate
Editor
 
Justin Wingate is the Post-Production Course Director at the Los Angeles Film School. He received his Associates of Applied Science in Radio and Television Broadcasting in 2003 from the International College of Broadcasting in Dayton Ohio. He soon found himself operating cameras for the WB network morning news show The Daily Buzz. After a two year stint as the Multi-media Coordinator for the Vineyard Church in Dayton Justin decided that film school was the next logical step towards his goal as film editor in Hollywood. He started at the Los Angeles Film School in January of 2006 and finished in December of that year with a concentration in Editing. Immediately after graduation Justin was hired by the school as Audio/Visual Tech Support and six months later was offered a teaching position in the Post-Production Department.

What excites Justin most about teaching Avid Media Composer, the Aesthetics of Editing, and Adobe After Effects are the moments when a student has a ?light bulb moment? and finally gets it. Even more exciting is the opportunity to perfect his craft along side the students.
 
 

 
 

Benjamin Brown
Composer & Sound Designer
 

Benjamin Brown is a man of many hats. His varied skills in sound include performing on soundtracks, recording and mixing film scores, sound design, sound effects, ADR and Foley recording, production sound, composing, music editing, MIDI programming, music producing, and film mixing. Benjamin continues to work with different composers, including Thomas Chase Jones and Steve Rucker, as a consultant and mixer, developing their studios, and adding the finishing touches to their music. His company, Oddio Works, is working on different projects, in music and post audio, with a growing staff. Past projects include Elegy with Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley, Impact Point for Sony Pictures, Scooby Doo and the Goblin King, Without a Paddle: Nature’s Calling, 2:13, and LEGO Batman webisodes.

 

 
Cast
(in order of appearance)
     
Nick
  COLIN STUART
Marie
  JENN WILSON
Jasmine
  JENNIFER TUNG

Restaurant Patron

 

 

  ROBERT RILEY
PAT OPP
DAVID NOVELLO
JENNIFER HARMON
NIKOLOZ KHOMASMURIDZE
 
Crew
     
1st Assistant Director
  May Nelson
2ndr Assistant Director
  MATT TAFF
Set Decorator
  MATT TAFF
Camera Operators

 

MATTHEW PEREZ
VINCE STEWART

1st Assistant Cameras
  MATTHEW PEREZ
VINCE STEWART
2nd Assistant Cameras
  DAN SKINNER
ISAIAH FORTAJADA
Loader
  JENNIE BOND
Gaffer
  CHRISTIAN HURLEY
Best Boy Electric
  RYAN CROSS  
Key Grip
  MIGUEL VALADEZ
Grip Electric Swing
  OMAR DELOS SANTOS 
Grip Electric Swing
  SCOTT ROSZEL 
Sound Mixer
  BENJAMIN BROWN 
Boom Operator
  BENJAMIN BROWN 
Script Supervisor
  CANDELARIA HERREMOPRA
Make-up
  JACKIE ADAMYAN
Production Assistants
  TIN ILAKOVAK
CLARENCE TESORO
JORDAN LITT
IRFAN S
YUVAL SOFFER
Re-recording Mixer
  BENJAMIN BROWN
Foley Editor
  JENIEL BRAUN 
Foley Artist
  JENIEL BRAUN 
Assistant Sound Editor
  JENIEL BRAUN 
Additional Photography 1st AC
  PHILIPP KÜNZLI
Additional Photography Electric
  BENJAMIN PELAEZ 
Still Photography
  IONA VASILE 
Nick’s Photographs by
  JUDITH ORR
LEAH ANOVA
   
Special Thanks to:
 
YUTA TSUNODA and CHAYA BRASSERIE
JOHN GRESCH and ARRI INC.
ILLUMINATION DYNAMICS
ARIEL LEVY
GINA TUCKER
TONY LEFKOWITZ
THE LOS ANGELES FILM SCHOOL
GAIL SANCHEZ and EASTMAN KODAK
ERIK AND CHERYL BAUER
DANIEL LOEWENTHAL
THOMAS CHASE JONES
DAVID NOVELLO and JENNIFER HARMON