Named One of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent film, Mark Jackson was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He graduated with a degree in literature from the University of California and went on to pursue graduate studies in cinematography at Rome's Cinecitta' Studios. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Without is his first film.
Nicholas Ozeki was Born in Washington DC. He lived in Tokyo, Japan for part of his childhood before returning to the United States. He attended Amherst College in Massachusetts where he played college football and earned his B.A. in English with an emphasis in Film Studies. He then attended Chapman University where he earned his Masters in Fine arts in Film Production under the emphasis of directing. In his thesis year Nicholas won Best Picture, Best Direction, as well as the Chapman's touted Einstein Award for excellence in academics and filmmaking.
Born and raised in Scotland, Simon Arthur received an MFA from the Screen Academy of Scotland in Edinburgh. His short films Rebel Song and Silver Tongues won awards at film festivals across the country. The feature film Silver Tongues, an expansion of the short, is his feature film directorial debut.
Garfunkel and Oates probably aren’t what you expected when you first heard the band name. Instead of ’70s singer/songwriters, the duo are Los Angeles-based comedy-folk singers Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel) and Kate Micucci (Oates) who perform “Flight of the Conchords”-esque material to a growing fanbase. For their appearance on the Spirit Award stage, the pair went…
Everyone from Brett Ratner to Mel Gibson to Michael Fassbender’s penis was up to be mocked.
There were winners and there were losers, and then there were the musical performances. Both My Morning Jacket and Somali artist K’Naan took the stage during the show to spin tunes, entertaining the legion of stars in attendance as well as IFC viewers. Below, check out Kentucky rockers My Morning Jacket playing one of their…
“That that vision just was so realized and that it affects audiences the way it does is the big surprise to me and everybody else,” he said.
