Cast & Crew

Cast	Elizabeth Bond - Rosella Wu
	Ron Yuan - Danny Wu
	Camden Toy - Gus Davis
	Georja Umano - Silvia Nardone
Crew	Lior Chefetz	Anna Grywalski
	Ben Fast	Sung Rok Choi
	Andres Rodriguez Franco	Amy Raynolds
	Ian Dickinson	Phan "Xine" Linh
	Ian Christian Blanche	Mike Tounian
	John Alan Thompson	Brad Rubin
	Rob Connelly	Sharon H. Lee
	Jonathan Bernbaum	Juliana Hong
	Harrison Yurkiw	Amanda Tharp
		Austin Wintory
Stunt	Ron Yuan	Mike Wilson
Team	Tsuyoshi Abe	Sonny Sison
	Kerry Wong	Lauren Kim
Full Crew List

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Elizabeth Bond - Rosella Wu

Elizabeth Bond started her film and TV career with a supporting role in The Notebook, directed by Nick Cassavetes. Since then she has landed guest-starring roles in The Mentalist, CSI:Miami, Nip/Tuck, Journeyman, and Supernatural, as well as Bones, Everwood, and Gilmore Girls. Elizabeth plays the recurring character of Katie in The IT Chicks.

Elizabeth is a graduate of Brown University, where she double majored in Biology and Latin. She trains horses when she’s not acting. She is repped by Donald Spradlin at Essential Talent Management.

The official website of Elizabeth Bond

Ron Yuan - Danny Wu

Ron Yuan is filming a recurring role on FOX's "Prison Break" as Feng Huan, one of the new adversaries for the upcoming season. Yuan finished playing in Universal's "Fast and Furious" as a comical middleman named David Park alongside Vin Diesel and Paul Walker directed by Justin Lin. You will also see Yuan this season on ABC's Highly touted series "Pushing Daisies".

Yuan recently completed the feature "Blood and Bone". directed by Ben Ramsey (The Big Hit, Dragonball, Roses are Red), Ron stars with Michael Jai White, Eammon Walker, Nona Gaye and Julian Sands. Ron plays the collective and sarcastic right hand Teddy D.

In "The Girl From the Naked Eye", directed by David Ren, Yuan stars with Dominique Swain, Jason Yee and Gary Stretch as Simon, a loan sharking strip club owner with a conscience. Yuan also made a special guest appearance in "Cold Case" playing Shinji, a father who loses his son in World War II and is suspected of murder.

In the upcoming film "The Shanghai Hotel" Yuan stars opposite Hill Harper (CSI:NY), JD Williams (The Wire), Yaya Decosta (Take The Lead) Cheng Pei Pei (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Eugenia Yuan (Mail Order Bride) Yuan shines as Sharky, the film's dark and tragic antagonist. Directed by Jerry Davis, the story centers around current issues of human trafficking and forced prostitution in Brooklyn, NY.

Yuan recently appeared in 2 episodes of the hit series "24" as second in command of a unit that infiltrates CTU. Yuan also appeared in "From Mexico with Love" with Kuno Becker (Goal). You can hear Yuan's voice on Def Jam Icon, Spiderman 3, Indiana Jones IV and Speed Racer games.

Ron Yuan recurred as Medical Examiner Dr. Evan Zao in "CSI:NY" for Jerry Bruckheimer. Ron stars in the indie-feature "Baby" a raw and brutal depiction of street-life in the 1980's and 90's. Ron plays Tommy, a Triad gang-leader and streetwise mentor. Ron also recently appeared in Doug Ellin & Mark Wahlberg's "Entourage" for HBO as the hip charismatic director Chaing who comes to the US from HK to direct his first American endeavor. In Coalition Films "50 Pills" Ron is "The Seoul Man", a dangerous comical NYC druglord. Ron stars w/ Lou Taylor Pucci (Thumbsuckers, Empire Falls), Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars, Spartan), John Hensley (Nip Tuck), Michael Pena (Crash, World Trade Center) and many more rising stars.

The official website of Ron Yuan

Camden Toy - Gus Davis

Camden is an actor, writer and film editor. He was one of the founding members and Artistic Director of the Obie Award winning NADA in New York City. He has written and developed five different full length solo theater pieces that he performed across the country in such cities as Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and New York City. Camden's favorite theater roles include; Chillingworth in Tiny Mythic Theater Company's production of A, The Scarlet Letter and the role of the Ambassador in Target Margin Theater's production of Marguerite Duras' India Song.

He has acted in well over one hundred independent films, including; Vertical City, The Killers, My Chorus, Backgammon, Morning Glory, Irascible and The Works.

After moving to Los Angeles, Camden played one of the lead Gentlemen in Buffy The Vampire Slayer's ground breaking episode "Hush" in season four. He returned to the show in season seven to play the skin-eating demon Gnarl in episode three, "Same Time, Same Place", (doing all his own stunts and wire work), and the recurring role of the the all powerful Turok-Han (a.k.a. The Ubervamp). He also appeared in season five on Angel as The Prince of Lies. Camden is the only actor to have played four different villains on Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel. He was asked by the trading card company Inkworks to personally autograph a limited edition series of trading cards for Buffy's season seven, which are now being auctioned off on Ebay.

When not acting in film, television, radio or on stage, Camden continues to work as a film editor, editing many feature films, including; Third Coast Productions' The Sleep Eaters, Dreaming Dog Entertainment's Zen Noir, director Tony Zierra's USA The Movie, and recutting Robert Hall's Lightning Bug.

The official website of Camden Toy

Georja Umano - Silvia Nardone

Besides being the gansta Godmother in this film, Georja Umano was recently seen on the episodic "Easy Money", created by writers from the Sopranos, and has played Carmela Soprano in "Soprano's Last Supper" an improv dinner theater. But her mob connections are purely coincidental!

Of late she played Juanita, a Mexican nanny in “The Nanny Interviews” comedy web series, and Greta, a Southern white trashy role on another new media series "SecretFridays.tv," as well as Medusa on a Red Vines commercial, an ice skating judge on a Perdue spot and modeled in several print jobs including one as an Arabic business woman for Abu Dhabi Bank.

Her sketch comedy cable show "The Georja and Marcello Show," which she created, produced and starred in with her dog, ran for two years. She has performed stand up comedy in clubs across 16 states. She was first prize winner for improvisation on "Bobcat Goldwaithe's BigAss Show" on the f/x network. "Kaballah-Scary Jewish Stories" that she co-created with story theater techniques was nominated for Best Comedy Ensemble by LA Weekly.

The official website of Georja Umano

Crew

Lior Chefetz - Story Writer/Director

Lior Chefetz is an Israeli born filmmaker, living and working in Los Angeles. He holds a degree in graphic design and visual effects from Bezalel, Jerusalem - Israel's top academy of arts & design. Currently enrolls in his last year at University of Southern California's graduate film production program and specializes in directing and cinematography.

Lior's films screened in various film festivals around the world, and while at USC, he was awarded the Charles Lang Award and Thomas Bush Award for excellence in Cinematography, and won the Fotokem grant and the Panavision grant for his thesis script. Most recently, Lior was a finalist in the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker's Competition with his project "Presto!".

Currently Lior is in post-production on his 35mm thesis film, “The Godmother”, and developes a feature-length projects.

More info at www.liorfilm.com

Ben Fast - Screenplay

Ben Fast graduated with an MFA degree in Writing for Screen and Television from USC's School of Cinematic Arts in 2008. Ben is the 2008 winner the Zaki Gordon Award for Excellence in Screen Writing. While at USC Ben ran the "Conversations With..." Speaker Series, where he interviewed industry professionals like Julie Taymor and Mark Fergus.

Ben received his BA from Princeton University in 2006. As an undergrad he wrote and performed in over ten Triangle Club musical theater shows, was the artistic director of Quipfire (Princeton's improve group), and wrote/directed/produced two episodes of a sitcom called The Princeton Sprint. He's performed Stand Up Comedy at locations like the Gotham Comedy Club, and was the Princeton Class Day speaker in 2006, speaking after former President Bill Clinton.

Andres Rodriguez-Franco - Producer

Andres Rodriguez Franco is a native from Chiapas Mexico. Not happy with his life as an engineer, he searched for the meaningful path that he always dreamed of. Right before applying to the Peter Stark Program, he produced a feature film, “J-ok’el", that combined a unique mix of Mexican and American talent and crew.

Eager to learn the American expertise within the film industry, he was accepted in the Peter Stark Program and worked in a series of projects on the side. His credits range from thesis projects for the Production, Interactive Media and Stark Departments, to music videos and commercials. He is also experienced within the entertainment industry as result of working for A-list producers like Doug Wick (Gladiator) and for the Buena Vista Motion Picture Group at The Walt Disney Company; the latest where he served as story and dialogue editor. His directing debut, “A Love of Mime Own”, was awarded “The Peter Stark Filmmaker Award” for the best film of 2007.

Ian Dickinson - Producer

Ian, an Eagle Scout growing up in the Napa Valley, knew a lot more about wine and wilderness survival than film when he moved to Los Angeles in 2007. After graduating from Washington and Lee University with a degree in English and Geology, he First Assistant Directed the Anchange Productions film "Palo Alto", and then worked as a production assistant on the Lionsgate film "The Eye". After completing a novel about his grandfather, he recently finished producing the first short film he wrote, "Extra-Ordinary", and enjoyed his time working with Lior Chefetz producing "The Godmother." Ian tries to split his time between traveling to foreign countries, filmmaking, and writing in coffee shops.

Ian Christian Blanche - Producer

Ian Christian Blanche has always been fascinated by the power and potential of fiction. By the time he was in high school, he was creating illustrated chapbooks with titles like I Would Buy You an Electronic Rose Garden. As a lifelong fan of comic books, Ian felt privileged to coordinate a 3-unit class called "The Craft of Comics" for three years at UC Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in Art and Creative Writing.

He's currently an M.F.A. candidate at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he enjoys producing and directing films that offer a glimpse into lives less ordinary. Ian's favorite playground is the genre of magical realism.

John Alan Thompson - 1st Assistant Director

John credits his acute sense of color and light to being flung from the back of a speeding pick-up truck at the tender age of thirteen. When he regained consciousness, he knew he wanted to be a filmmaker.

He accepted his first film award at the age of eighteen from AFI. He went to film school, worked some crappy jobs, and went back to film school again.

Then John wrote and directed SONGBIRD. The short screened at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and gained a great deal of attention. Theatrical distribution was discussed with the Weinsteins and John signed on with Luber Roklin Entertainment and Endeavor.

Later that year, John won the Heineken Music Video Competition and was awarded the opportunity to direct a music video for international rock star Rocco Deluca, the leading artist under Kiefer Sutherland’s label Iron Works. Most recently, John was a finalist in the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Competition with his project THE REPORT.

John is developing several interesting projects and praying that he never has to deliver pizzas again.

John Thompson's official website

Rob Connelly - Director of Photography

Rob Connolly discovered a love for creating visual images through studying art and photography while growing up in rural Mt. Airy, North Carolina. His love and skill for visual storytelling was further developed while chronicling his travels throughout North and South America as well as Europe.

While attending North Carolina State University’s College of design, Rob honed his critical eye and artistic abilities through his studies of product design. This training has translated easily into the beginnings of a film career. While pursuing an MFA at the University of Southern California, Rob was awarded the Bush Memorial Award for cinematography and has twice been selected as a finalist for the Eastman/Kodak scholarship.

Recent films that Rob has worked on have won awards at the Shanghai International Film Festival, Aspen Filmfest, South By Southwest Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, and have screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, among many others.

Jonathan Bernbaum - Editor

Jonathan was born in Berkeley, CA on June 17th, 1982 at 2:52AM, nearly down to the minute the ten-year anniversary of the Watergate burglary. Because of this, he felt that he was pre-destined to a life of crime in the fields of either journalism or politics, before he found his true calling in the movies. He attended Brandeis University, where he graduated with Highest Honors in History and a minor in Film Studies. Since 2002, Jonathan has been editing film and video projects, both narrative, documentary, live performance, and music video. Recently, he interned in the editorial department at Pixar Animation Studios.

Always attracted to the unusual, Jonathan has edited and directed projects from such disparate genres as post-apocalyptic screwball comedy, obsessive-compulsive horror romance, and touching stalker-of-celebrity-impersonator drama… among several others. Currently in his last semester of the MFA program at USC, Jonathan is also completing two feature screenplays, and preparing to direct a short film about human taxidermy.

Austin Wintory - Composer

Starting from a childhood obsession with the music of Jerry Goldsmith, Austin Wintory's passion for composing has led to a career spanning over 200 productions, encompassing films and video games, TV shows, commercials, shorts, podcasts, video art installations, and audio books.

Austin has scored over twenty five feature films, most notably the 2009 Sundance hit GRACE, as well as the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winner CAPTAIN ABU RAED. His score for the former garnered many horror film genre accolades, including a nomination at the 2010 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards for 'Best Original Score,' and Vision in Sound's Top Ten Scores for 2009. The latter was listed by the LA Times as a contender for the 2009 Academy Awards for 'Best Original Score' and also won Austin the Hollywood Music Award for "Best New Composer." The combined success of those films, along with several others, prompted The Hollywood Reporter to list Austin as one of 15 composers "Primed to take their place on the A-list," as well as a nomination by the International Film Music Critics Association for "Breakout Composer of the Year."

In addition to feature films, Austin has a tremendous passion for the world of game scoring. His first major game score FLOW in 2006 earned Austin a British Academy Award nomination and triple nominations at the Game Audio Network Guild awards ("Innovative use of Audio," "Best Interactive Score" and winning for "Rookie of the Year."). Austin also maintains a busy schedule writing concert music and composing/producing albums. In addition to more traditional chamber and orchestral music, in 2010 he released a meditation album entitled "Sounds of Darkness" using never-before recorded sacred Aztec chants. 2010 also saw the launch of Allogamy (www.allogamy.blogspot.com), an ambitious blog in collaboration with photographer Andrew Berglund which posts a new photo with a new piece of music for every single day in the year.

Beyond composing, Austin is also a strong advocate for music in the schools, particularly in early education, and as such is a very active memeber on the Board of Directors for Education Through Music - Los Angeles (alongside composers John Debney, Christopher Young, Michael Giacchino, James Dooley and many other music, business and education professionals).

Harrison Yurkiw - Production Designer

Having travelled by road through; Western and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Morocco, the Caribbean, US and Canada, Harrison is inspired by the effects one has on an environment, but also how an environment may affect you. Consequently Harrison likes to approach design from the small details to the grand picture and back again. "I like to employ context and reason in my designs. If I can incorporate interesting design concepts with real-world functionality, and it applies to the relative character(s), then I feel like I have accomplished something worthwhile."

After graduating from Humber College with Honours in Media Studies Harrison attended Ryerson University, in Toronto, for Film Studies. It was here that he began to study as a Production Designer. Harrison has designed a number of competition/award winning commercials and shorts. He recently graduated from the Production Design program at the American Film Institute.

Brad Rubin- Art Director

Brad's traveling experiences and architecture background has shaped his passion for storytelling and design. Having worked as an Art department production assistant on United Artist's "Valkyrie", as well as a Storyboard/Sketch artist for commercials, and as an Art Director on various student film projects, Brad always enjoys the process and relationships he builds with each production.

Prior to Brad's work in film & television, he graduated with a Bachelor's of Architecture from Syracuse University and a Minor in Management Studies. He practiced architecture for 3 years in Boston in addition to his volunteer work that promoted design and architecture to children and the Boston area community. "A good set tells a story before a single word is spoken. Doing this on time and on budget is what makes each project a welcome challenge for me."

Sharon H. Lee - Set Decorator

Sharon Lee received her B.A. from UCLA's School of Arts and Architecture with a major in Art and a minor in Art History. Formerly a classically trained artist, Lee studied conceptual art with world-renowned artists including Catherine Opie, James Welling, Mary Kelly, Walead Beshty, Adrian Saxe, Derek Boshier and Eve Fowler at UCLA. She began working in the medium of large format photography, creating large scale prints of narrative scenes taking place in a fictional world nearing the cinematic process. For each scene, she designed an intricate set where the action was staged and photographed.

After working as the Associate Director at a Los Angeles art gallery, Lee has pursued her passion for set design since 2006. She has held titles of Production Designer and Art Director on various short films, web series, and music videos. She also works as an artist, art consultant, interior designer, and fashion photography art director. Lee is currently enrolled in the Architecture and Interior Design program at UCLA.

Sung Rok Choi - Sound Designer/Sound Mixer

Sung rok is a South Korea born filmmaker. After working as a sound designer in the Korean film industry, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue MFA in Film & Television production at USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Amy Raynolds - Production Sound/Sound Designer

Amy grew up in the Los Angeles are where she trained as an artistic gymnast at Gymnastics Olympica USA for 12 years under the direction of Fritz Reiter. She went on to earn a B.A. in Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Upon graduation, Amy was employed to videotape and edit informational videos for the New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy Consortium, the Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation, and the HOPE Foundation.

Her work in digital video production as a means to enhance communication in pediatric oncology trails was presented and published at the 37th Annual International Society of Pediatric Oncology Congress.

Amy is currently in her final year in the graduate M.F.A. Production program at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, emphasizing in sound design. Other films she has sound designed include Last Meal, which screened at the AFI Fest, and Silence, which screened at the Strasbourg Film Festival, and the Eerie Horror Festival.

Phan "Xine" Linh - Production Sound

Spending most of his childhood with outdoor screenings in Viet Nam, watching people react to things on the silver screen, Phan 'Xine' Linh knows the power of cinema. He co-founded 2 of the first and biggest Vietnamese movie fan-based websites, MoviesBoom and yXine when he was 19. After graduating from Ho Chi Minh city's University of Architecture, he worked as free-lancer architect and free-lancer film critic (with his well-known pen-name Phan Xine (pronounce: /fan-sin-ey/). Then, as 23, he become one of the youngest Managing editors for Vietnamese Movies and Theater magazine - one of the first high-class magazines in Vietnam. Phan Xine developed his managing skills as a PR manager for successful Vietnamese feature films, including international award-winning Bride of silence and Creative Jr. in Advertising Company Brandcare. In 2006, Phan Xine decided to quit his jobs to follow his long-time passion: film-making. He is the first person to win the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program for Film Production in Vietnam, and is now the first Vietnamese student to enroll in USC's School of Cinematic Arts program.

At USC, Phan Xine follows directing track while working on sound in several projects as boom operator and sound designer.

Mike Tounian - Special Effects Supervisor

Mike is a MFA production student at USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Lauren Mary Kim - Stunt Double

Lauren Mary Kim started her career off as a dancer. She danced for the NBA Sacramento King?s, NBA Golden State Warriors, and the NBA Los Angeles Lakers. Being on the 2001-2002 season of the Lakers she earned a championship playoff ring. Lauren has also danced for several recording artist including Montell Jordan, Raven Symone, Anastacia, Slick Rick, Bizmarkie, Doug E. Fresh, and several Asian recording artists.

Lauren is also a professional stunt woman and has appeared on several T.V. shows and movies including Transformers 2, Crank 2, Rush Hour 3, Star Trek,The Cursed, Fast and Furious 3, CSI NY, Dollhouse, Grey?s Anatomy, Numb3rs, Veronica Mars, House of the Dead 2 . She is now starting a career as an actor and has appeared in several T.V. shows including NBC?s Chuck, CSI Miami, Fox's Happy Hour, Reno 911, and Monk. Lauren still models part time and can be seen in print ads for Snickers Marathon Bar and Nike nationwide.

For more information on Lauren, please visit http://www.laurenmarykim.com