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LYDIA MARTINELLI Director/Producer/Co-Writer
ANYA ADAMS Producer
SHANTA PAYNE Producer
CLINTON H. WALLACE Executive Producer
EMILE HARIS Director of Photography/Co-writer
HILLARY HANAK Lighting Director
JASON SOLOWSKY Music Composer
DAN L. BROCK Editor
JEFF SCOTT Stunt Coordinator

LYDIA MARTINELLI
Director/Producer/Co-writer

LYDIA MARTINELLI
not only works behind the camera as the film's director, she also produces and writes on an assortment of film projects.

MARTINELLI obtained her film education at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies for creative writing and UCLA's Entertainment Program for directing/filmmaking.

She entered the professional entertainment world while in New York when she was hired at Broadway Video (Saturday Night Live) and Cunningham Escott Slevin talent agency.

Returning to Los Angeles, she landed jobs at Creative Artists Agency and International Creative Management assisting top literary agents.

MARTINELLI founded Lane City Films in 2004. She directed and wrote CIELO DRIVE, an inaugural production for the company, which she co-executive produced with Clinton H. Wallace. Following this film, she continued directing and producing to get first-hand experience working on independent films.

She produced, wrote and directed the action suspense film LEVERAGE and produced, co-wrote and directed the suspense thriller entitled, WHISKEY NEAT. Producer credits include SHOW TUNES, THE PASSENGER, and martial arts film FRIEND’S BRIDGE, directed by the Kung Fu expert, Mr. Yim Chan Tong. Just recently, MARTINELLI executive produced RECIPE FOR ROMANCE, a television pilot with Studio Mio Productions & Lane City Entertainment.

ANYA ADAMS
Producer/1st Assistant Director

Formerly from the Non-Profit arena, ANYA ADAMS worked with the groundbreaking company Up With People for seven years before she made the jump to the motion picture industry. While working with Up With People based out of Denver, Colorado, ADAMS was able to travel to destinations around the world. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, ADAMS relocated to Los Angeles when she was accepted into the DGA trainee program. She has worked on numerous shows including: DAREDEVIL, BOOMTOWN, MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE, THE PRACTICE, and THE WEST WING. She is currently working on the hit television series CSI MIAMI. Adams crossed over into a key role of producer on the suspense thriller WHISKEY NEAT.

SHANTA PAYNE
Producer/Casting Director

SHANTA PAYNE hails from San Diego, California. Upon graduation from high school, PAYNE attended Howard University to study English Literature. Her goal was to become a broadcast journalist, however, a strong interest in the entertainment industry led her to take acting classes and TV/Film production courses. After a three-year stint in New York studying with The Harlem Theatre Company and performing in numerous plays, Payne returned to her home state. She appeared in plays and independent films, but her natural talents behind the scenes led her to filmmaking opportunities that paved the way to an influx of assignments. Casting, producing, directing and writing screenplays became the norm for the budding filmmaker. She wrote, directed and executive produced the docudrama BLUE MIDNIGHT, and a producer on WATERFALLS for Loverboy Entertainment

CLINTON H. WALLACE
Executive Producer

CLINTON H. WALLACE was educated at New York University, Univerdidad De Granada in Spain and Universite De Paris-IV Sorbonne. He is best known for his photography works on film sets and live events.

WALLACE crossed over to executive producing in 2004 with the documentary NAKED IN THE 21ST CENTURY and partnered with Lydia Martinelli on the production of CIELO DRIVE and WHISKEY NEAT. WALLACE is founder of Photomundo International. www.photomundo.com

EMILE HARIS
Director of Photography/Co-writer

EMILE HARIS is a native of Singapore. He moved to the United States and attended Long Beach State University graduating with a degree in creative writing and film. As a cinematographer, HARIS is visually driven to genres ranging from Horror, Thriller and Action. He puts great emphasis and energy in determining that the director's vision comes across in specific detail. As a cinematographer his credits include: FRIENDS BRIDGE, LEVERAGE, PERFECT RED and WHISKEY NEAT. HARIS also wrote and crossed over into the director’s chair in the short film MAVET.

HILLARY HANAK
Lighting Director

HILLARY HANAK studied Film and Video Production at the University of Pittsburgh in conjunction with Pittsburgh Filmmakers. During college, she got to work on films MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, starring Richard Gere, ROCK STAR and WONDER BOYS. Upon graduation she followed the golden road to Tinsel Town to broaden her horizons. Since then she has had the opportunity to work on films such as BLACK CADILLAC, and DYNAMITE. HANAK was Director of Photography for the second unit on OEDIPUS, an animated short made with real vegetables that won Best Cinematography. In her spare time she is an experimental photographer who has been in galleries all over the Los Angeles area.

DAN L. BROCK
Editor

DAN L. BROCK began his media career many years ago producing nuclear training films for the US Navy. He then took a turn and began teaching film editing and sound design at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Brock works on both sides of post-production as a film editor and sound designer. BROCK is currently working with Georgopoulos Design Associates producing original sound design elements for DVD authoring of main-stream titles from Disney, Universal and other major studios. He has edited many films. He is the co-founder CueTime Software, a film industry software company.

JASON SOLOWSKY
Music Composer

JASON SOLOWSKY is a gifted and versatile film composer. He has a degree in film scoring from Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA), and has also graduated from the USC Film Scoring Program (Los Angeles, CA). He has studied with some of the finest film composers in the world, such as Christopher Young, Elmer Bernstein, and David Raksin. SOLOWSKY is also an accomplished guitarist, pianist and singer. He was a back-up singer for Barbra Streisand at the 53rd annual prime-time Emmy awards show. Having scored numerous independent films, he has just finished scoring the 35mm feature film, SPLIT SECOND, which stars Azdine Melliti, Curtis Eames and Jeff Fahey (THE LAWNMOWER MAN, WYATT EARP, WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART). Currently, SOLOWSKY is scoring the family feature film, 110%: WHEN BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS ARE NOT ENOUGH, directed by Dan Golden, which stars Jesse Rodriguez and Thomas Kopache (CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, STIGMATA, STAR TREK: Generations). He is also scoring the Indian/American crossover feature film, THAT GAME OF CHESS, directed by Raja Bundela, which features the well-known Bollywood actor Alok Nath (GANDHI). In addition, SOLOWSKY is scoring the debut feature film by Le-Van Kiet, DUST OF LIFE, and the horror feature film by Michael Su, MY DEMON WITHIN. Another highlight of SOLOWSKY’S career was scoring THE LIFE IN A DAY, directed by actor/director Joseph Mazzello (JURASSIC PARK, SIMON BIRCH, THE RIVER WILD). www.jasonsolowsky.com


JEFF SCOTT
Stunt Coordinator

JEFF SCOTT pursued a career learning to fly Helicopters, Aerobatics Aircraft and Hot Air Balloons that came to an end when an air traffic control school in his area was shut down.

His stunt career began on TV series NASH BRIDGES and feature film COPY CAT. Scott combined stunts and special effects on the film THIS SPACE BETWEEN US starring Jeremy Sisto. He coordinated Penelope Cruz in WOMEN ON TOP, taught supermodel Donna Feldman how to walk underwater for a Miller Genuine Draft commercial and did the stunt coordinating for MAD TV’s feature film MOONPIE.

SCOTT performs fights, high-falls, speed driving and a variety of other high-risk stunts. SCOTT trained under weapons and effects specialist William ‘Bill’ Curtin to further his career as a special effects pyrotechnic in addition to stunt coordinating.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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