Vanishing: A Love Story

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  Sandra Luckow

  

  Director

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  Sandra Luckow

  Director

  Sandra Luckow is a Mexican-American filmmaker who founded Ojeda Films, Inc. in 2000 to bring a bi-cultural voice to independent film. She is known for Sharp Edges, Belly Talkers (1996 Sundance US competition) the multiple award-winning, That Way... Read More

  Sandra Luckow is a Mexican-American filmmaker who founded Ojeda Films, Inc. in 2000 to bring a bi-cultural voice to independent film. She is known for Sharp Edges, Belly Talkers (1996 Sundance US competition) the multiple award-winning, That Way Madness Lies, and most recently Vanishing: A Love Story. Sandra has worked at Warner Bros., and Universal in casting, network and cable news programs and daytime dramas. She taught film production at Yale University, School of Art (22 years) as well as at Columbia University, Barnard College, Wesleyan University, and Sarah Lawrence College. Her pedagogy includes democratizing accessibility to modes of filmmaking by using smart phone technologies and teaching all aspects of production. She has traveled and worked internationally giving workshops, most notably with the US State Departments cultural exchange: Lines and Spaces. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America and holds an MFA from NYUs TIsch School of the Arts. She is also a professional ventriloquist working on a stage show entitled "Let Me Explain You." Show Less

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  Kat Vecchio

  

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  Kat Vecchio

  Producer

  Kat is a documentary producer, filmmaker and writer who endeavors to tell engaging, quirky, and insightful stories. Her first feature documentary, THIS IS HOW I ROLL, takes viewers through the hip-checking and emotional journey of the rise of modern... Read More

  Kat is a documentary producer, filmmaker and writer who endeavors to tell engaging, quirky, and insightful stories. Her first feature documentary, THIS IS HOW I ROLL, takes viewers through the hip-checking and emotional journey of the rise of modern men's roller derby. Her writing has appeared on Narratively, Atlas Obscura, and in Bandwagon, the journal of the Circus Historical Society. Before joining The Video Consortium she was the Chief Creative Officer at Fork Films and prior to that she was the Director of Grantmaking for Fork, where she developed, implemented and managed Fork Films' documentary film grants program. Show Less

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  Ann Collins

  Story Consultant

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  Ann Collins

  Story Consultant

  Ann has been working in documentary film for over twenty-five years. Her editing credits include the feature documentaries The Heart of the Matter, Belly Talkers, The Charcoal People, and Sound and Fury, all of which premiered at the Sundance Film

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  Ann has been working in documentary film for over twenty-five years. Her editing credits include the feature documentaries The Heart of the Matter, Belly Talkers, The Charcoal People, and Sound and Fury, all of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before receiving theatrical and television distribution. Sound and Fury was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.  She taught at the School of Visual Arts in both the Masters in Social Documentary and the Masters in Photography, Video and Related Media programs. She has guest lectured at NYU's film school and school of journalism. She has also served on the selection committee and jury of the Newport Film Festival. She has also worked extensively as a story consultant and consulting editor on numerous independent documentaries.

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  Quentin Chiappetta

  Composer

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  Quentin Chiappetta

  Composer

  I met Sandra when we were put together by a mutual friend to create some short promotional videos for the Morris Museum in New Jersey. I was thrilled and flattered when she reached out to collaborate on her new project Vanishing: A Love Story.  It

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  I met Sandra when we were put together by a mutual friend to create some short promotional videos for the Morris Museum in New Jersey. I was thrilled and flattered when she reached out to collaborate on her new project Vanishing: A Love Story.  It has been a pleasure to immerse myself in the emotional rollercoaster of building the soundtrack for this film.

  I have been creating original music and sound design for a broad range of projects for nearly 30 years. I have written original music for theater; scored, designed and mixed independent films, documentaries and TV shows; and created immersive soundscapes for museums. Most recently I created and installed the multi-channel soundscape that covers the entire Entertainment Nation permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of American History. I’m also the sound designer and mixer for Christian Marclay’s 24-hour masterpiece “The Clock”.

  One of my favorite things about the work I do is that it gives me the chance to collaborate with and become friends with brilliant, creative people. When a team like this is gathered together to make something, the result will invariably be much more than its parts.

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  Yasmin Mistry

  

  Animator

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  Yasmin Mistry

  Animator

  Yasmin Mistry is an Emmy-nominated animator and filmmaker. Her work has been displayed worldwide including showings at the United Nations and White House as well as at film festivals such as SXSW, Tribeca and DOC NYC. She is the recipient of grants... Read More

  Yasmin Mistry is an Emmy-nominated animator and filmmaker. Her work has been displayed worldwide including showings at the United Nations and White House as well as at film festivals such as SXSW, Tribeca and DOC NYC. She is the recipient of grants from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Jerome Foundation, Riverside Sharing Fund, Artists Volunteer Center, and Harnisch Foundation, in addition to being a two-time finalist for the ITVS Diversity Development Fund. Yasmin is also the founder of the Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project, which uses film and animation to give youth in foster care a platform through which to be heard. Her films have screened at over 140 film festivals and been nominated for more than 80 awards. When not creating media, Yasmin works as a programmer for the Anchorage International Film Festival, a screener for the Blackbird Film Festival, and a co-leader for the filmmaking collaborative Docshop. Show Less

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