Team
Shelter
The little film that could.. A pandemic. A wifi connection. A Zoom call. An iPhone video of an independent filmmaker’s cat from her hospital bed to a former Disney animator. A Dropbox account. How Shelter in Place’s Hollywood’s production quality was made on independent film roots..
The filmmaker
CLARE CHUN The independent filmmaker who also produced, acted, 1st AC-ed, production designed, gaffed, key gripped, cat wrangled and everything’ed this film.
The cinematographer
DAN MCCOMB is an Emmy-nominated Canadian-American filmmaker who makes documentary films for clients including the BBC, UW Medicine and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He has contributed to films by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney and Emmy-winning director Michael King. He has taught cinematography at Seattle Film Institute and is an FAA certified drone pilot.
The animator
JAZNO FRANCOEUR worked at a small company called Disney for 30 years and animated for small films that shaped our childhoods like Lion King, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Pocahantas, Tarzan, Aladdin and Lilo and Stitch and many more for the “Mouse House.” He also worked at a small production house that made a small film called “Star Wars.”
The vfx artist
ANOOP HERUR RAMAN “Hello, I'm Anoop! I'm a Real-Time VFX Artist at a cool little FX studio in Seattle, WA. I am passionate about RTVFX, Character and Technical Animation, Lighting, Rendering, Shader Development, Compositing and (Cinematic) VFX, as well as Layout and Camera Animation.”
The composer
LAWRENCE SCHWEDLER is a musician with twenty years of experience in the video game industry as a composer, sound designer, and audio director. He released his debut album, Crisis Journey, in 1984, followed by the EP Lady From Mars with his LA band, Midnight Fiction. In 1993 he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in classical guitar performance and electronic music from the University of California at Los Angeles. He was a founding member of the Modern Arts Guitar Quartet, an avant-garde chamber ensemble which toured the US, Europe, Mexico, and Canada. In 1999 he joined Nintendo Software Technology as audio director, where he produced music and sound for fifteen game titles and co-authored two patents, one for interactive real time music composition and another for interactive wave table sound generation. In 2012 he left Nintendo to direct two new degree programs in music, technology, and sound design at the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond. He lives in Sammamish, Washington with his wife, accompanied from time to time by their son and daughter.
The mix mASTERER
GREG DIXON works as Assistant Professor of Music and Sound Design at DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, WA, where he teaches courses in game audio, audio engineering, sound design, and music composition.
Greg holds a Ph.D. in composition with a specialization in computer music from the University of North Texas, where he worked at the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI).
Greg has worked extensively on interactive audio systems for video games, installations, concerts, and other forms of interactive media.
Greg currently works as a sound designer and composer for the collectible card game, Runestrike, by Making Fun Games and also helps to create interactive voice-driven soundscapes for popular children’s books with Novel Effect.
He has helped create hundreds of published recordings spanning many genres as a performer and technician; including extensive work as a recording, mix, and mastering engineer.
The COMPOSITOR AND THE COLORIST
CHRIS MOSIO’S career as a filmmaker began after graduating the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Since then, he has worked as a professional cinematographer for 30 years.
Mosio has worked on nearly two-dozen feature films, from small independent projects (like The Gamers: Dorkness Rising) to Hollywood studio productions (Akeelah and the Bee). He’s had the good fortune to work with such talents as Will Smith, Lily Tomlin, Angela Bassett, and Laurence Fishburne, as well as the supreme privilege of filming some the most extraordinary ordinary people all around the world — amputees in Haiti, flood victims in Bangladesh, and people whose lives have been indelibly touched by cancer, right here in Seattle.
Documentary films are an important aspect of Mosio’s filmmaking background, and perhaps the genre he loves most. Mosio received an Emmy Award for his cinematography on the documentary film The Cultivated Life.
marketing
KRISTOFFER VASSDAL has been making films since high school. He is a Seattle Film Institute grad and now an independent editor/filmmaker in Washington. His recent credits include “A Door is a Door” and “Fires were Started.” He is excited to be a part of an award winning film team for Shelter.
