Recent independent film: Lucky Dog #1 (Dir: Mary Cybulski), The Missing Tree (Dir: Sun Zhou), Insidious, (Dir : Jerry Schram) Deafen City (Dir: Bruce Hwang Chen). Recent Theater: Design for Murder (Attic Ensemble), Love, Punky (Ars Nova). Training: SITI Company, Atlantic Theater Company.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio (and a long-suffering, diehard fan of all the Cleveland teams), Michael mostly grew up in Ithaca, New York, where he lingered enough to go to Cornell University. He now lives in Hell's Kitchen with Rebecca and two spoiled brats. Favorite roles through the years include Norman in The Norman Conquests, Lee in True West, Tom in The Glass Menagerie, Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, and now Will Sr. in "The Distance Between the Apple and the Tree" He co-runs, with Alan Dolderer, the Cranston & Spade Theatre Co., which recreates old-time radio shows (such as The Shadow; Richard Diamond, Singing Detective; Sam Spade; etc.) the first Saturday of each month for a live audience at Partners & Crime bookstore in Greenwich Village.
Chris Kaminstein is an actor, director, writer and sometimes dancer. In 2005 he collaborated with Benh Zeitlin to create The Terrible Parable of Leni Riefenstahl, a musical based on the life and times of the famous German filmmaker. This past year he appeared in The Memorandum at the Columbia University Graduate Department, and the soon to be released Ios, a dance film about tourists in Greece. He is currently working with choreographer and puppeteer Michael Bodel on The Sports Trilogy, a series of humouress pieces about sports created from improvisation.
Meng lives near Kampot, Cambodia where he goes to school and is studying English. He lives with his brother and parents. This is his first film.
Jessica Weinstein is a Brooklyn based, world-rambling artist and performer. As an actor and performer she is currently to be found touring internationally with Mabou Mines' Obie award-winning Dollhouse, and as in New York as the enormously tall and german Hilda in the Anonymous Ensemble's episodic cyber-rock-theater spectacle The Best and her own show, the Hilda Story Dance Party. As a stilt performer, she has been found in parts of the world from to Ghana to Mexico to New York City nightclubs. As an investigative interactor she is most likely to be found as Dufa of the infamous Doufas, searching for her soul mate Doofa. Jessica loves to learn new languages and it is rumored that she has more costumes than days of the year. She has also been collaborating artistically with Bajir Cannon longer than anyone else in all the world.
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Writer/Director Bajir was born in small-town Ohio and raised in a Sufi community outside Philadelphia. He grew up playing with the puppets and masks his parents and grandparents had made decades earlier. Bajir wrote and directed love/sad--an original play that played for an extended, sold-out run Off-Broadway in January 2003--earning rave reviews and featured in a broadcast for National Public Radio. He also built Movie-making programs for children in New York City and New Jersey. A writer, director, former Kindergarten teacher, and third-generation puppeteer, Bajir lives in Brooklyn.
Producer/Executive Producer and Founder of Brooklyn Abridged Films, LLC. Jacob has lived around the world, from Los Angeles to New York to Dubai. Since he moved to New York, Jacob has been working as a financial services consultant while simultaneously running his production company. Jacob and Bajir became friends while studying at Wesleyan University: this marks their first creative endeavor together.
Director of Photography, Sam Fleischner is a Brooklyn based artist and filmmaker who has shot films in Chile, Argentina, Cuba, Finland, Israel, and Cambodia. His work can be seen at his website: www.howfollowswhat.net.
Bridget Palardy currently produces video segments on music, fashion and culture for NYLON TV, a subsidiary of NYLON magazine. She recently worked as videographer and on-site producer for a documentary about British rock band The Horrors. She has directed several short films including The Sexes, based on the Dorothy Parker story, and Middletown B-Boys, a documentary following the Middletown, CT break-dancing scene. Bridget graduated from Wesleyan University, where she studied dance, film and history.
Sascha Stanton-Craven recently became a Brooklyn-based artist due to the dearth of film-related work in Northeastern Vermont. Sascha has written and directed a number of short films, edited and directed "Another Turn at the Wheel," an audio project focused on the oral history of the Independent Living Movement, and edited and co-directed "After the Fog," a documentary detailing veterans' war experiences and their post-war lives, which is currently being used in VA hospital Post Traumatic Stress Disorder therapy sessions. He serves as the Creative Director of Brooklyn Abridged Films.
Jonathan Leland is a web designer and webmaster for Cedar Heart Pictures. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005 and has worked on a number of websites, including Social Psychology Network and Fordham Law School. Despite visiting the production in Cambodia, his involvement with the film didn't begin until he returned to the United States. He lives in Brooklyn and works as the director of technology education for Tanda, a non-profit organization that gives material and educational support to AIDS orphans in South Africa. He longs for snowy mountains, and plans on returning to school soon for law and/or politics.
Contact us at info@cedarheartpictures.com.
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