ABOUT THE CREW
NELSON KIM
Writer/Director
Nelson’s short films have screened at Urbanworld, Anthology Film Archives, Palm Springs Shortfest, Asia Society, CAAMFest, and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. His feature screenplay CONFIDENCE MAN was a semi-finalist for the Netflix/Film Independent Find Your Voice Competition and a quarter-finalist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowship. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, he is also a film critic, journalist, and teacher. He writes articles and reviews for Hammer To Nail, Senses of Cinema, and other websites, and is an adjunct professor in the Film Division of Columbia University and the Communication and Media Studies department at Fordham University. Nelson received his MFA in Film from Columbia. SOMEONE ELSE is his first feature film. IMDB
GEOFFREY QUAN
Producer
Geoff's many credits include producer on Damon Maulucci and Keir Politz's DETONATOR (Cinequest 2013, Philadelphia 2013, Indie Memphis 2013) and Justin Tipping's KICKS (Tribeca 2016); line producer on Gillian Robespierre’s OBVIOUS CHILD (Sundance 2014, New Directors New Films 2014); co-producer on Zoe Cassavetes’ DAY OUT OF DAYS (LAFF 2015) and Vikram Gandhi’s BARRY (Venice 2016); and unit production manager on Noah Buschel’s GLASS CHIN (Tribeca 2014), Chris Messina’s ALEX OF VENICE (Tribeca 2014), and Helen Hunt’s RIDE (SF International 2015). Short films Geoff produced have been nominated for two Student Academy Awards and have screened internationally at over 50 festivals, including Sundance, Directors’ Fortnight, New Directors/New Films, Clermont-Ferrand, SXSW, and Tribeca. IMDB
BRANDON HARRIS
Producer
Brandon is a Contributing Editor for Filmmaker magazine. His writing has appeared in n+1, the New Yorker online, the Guardian, the New Republic, and the Daily Beast. REDLEGS, his debut feature film as a writer/director, played in several cities nationwide and was hailed by The New York Times as “a riveting portrait of young men in shock and in mourning” that “dives into shared grief with candor and a refreshing curiosity.” His producing credits include Moon Molson’s 2011 Sundance short CRAZY BEATS STRONG EVERY TIME. In 2011 he served as the Cincinnati Film Festival's Director of Programming and in 2016 as the Indie Memphis Film Festival's Festival programmer. His first book, MAKING RENT IN BED-STUY: A MEMOIR OF TRYING TO MAKE IT IN NEW YORK CITY, will be published by HarperCollins in 2017. A proud son of Cincinnati, Brandon lives in Brooklyn and teaches film at SUNY Purchase. IMDB
MING KAI LEUNG
Cinematographer
Kai’s feature debut as a DP, Anocha Suwichakornpong's MUNDANE HISTORY, premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the NETPAC Award at Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. His other feature credits include Wichanon Somumjarn’s IN APRIL THE FOLLOWING YEAR, THERE WAS A FIRE (Rotterdam, Belfort), Marie Jamora’s WHAT ISN’T THERE/ANG NAWAWALA (Cinemalaya, Slamdance, Hawaii), Matthew Watts’s MUTUAL FRIENDS (Seattle, Raindance), Shrihari Sathe’s 1000 RUPEE NOTE (Special Jury Award, International Film Festival of India, Goa), Sylvia Chang’s MURMUR OF THE HEARTS (Opening Night Film, 2015 Hong Kong International Film Festival), Johnny Ma’s OLD STONE (Berlin, Toronto), and Suwichakornpong's BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK (Locarno, Toronto, Busan, Viennale). Short films Kai has shot have screened at the New York, Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, and AFI Dallas Film Festivals. IMDB
JAMES BOXER
Production Designer
James was the production designer for Eliza Hittman’s acclaimed IT FELT LIKE LOVE, which premiered at Sundance in 2013. It went on to screen at the Rotterdam, Nashville, Maryland, Munich, New Zealand, Melbourne, Woodstock, London, and Athens film festivals, among many others, and was released theatrically in 2014. He was also the designer for Scott Cummings’ experimental short BUFFALO JUGGALOS, which screened at the Maryland Film Festival and BAMcinemaFEST and won the Grand Jury Award for Live Action Short at AFI Fest and the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking Award at Cinema Eye Honors. IMDB
BROOKE SEBOLD
Editor
Brooke’s directing and editing work can be seen on NBC, MSNBC, PBS, the Sundance Channel, Logo, Current TV, and Adult Swim. She co-directed, co-shot, and co-edited the 2007 documentary RED WITHOUT BLUE, which has received over 20 awards including the Audience Award at Slamdance and the Jury Award at Frameline. She directed and edited the short films AFTER THE SNOW (Special Jury Award, Florida Film Festival; Finalist for Best Short, Ashland Film Festival), BROTHERHOOD (Winner, CINE Golden Eagle Award; Finalist for Best Short, Ashland Independent Film Festival and USA Film Festival), and DOPPELGANGER (Special Jury Award, USA Film Festival). Brooke received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Columbia University's Film Program. IMDB
BEN RUBIN
Composer
Brooklyn-based Ben Rubin (aka Benny Cha Cha) is a Grammy-nominated producer, composer, mixer, and bassist. From performing at the Newport Jazz Festival with the Dred Scott Trio to producing remixes for Killah Priest and Karsh Kale, Ben has a wide breadth of experience. He has played and recorded with artists as diverse as Patti Smith, Courtney Love, Mary J. Blige, Marshall Crenshaw, Moby, Alan Cumming, Bill Frisell, and his own genre-bending band Mudville (winner of a 2008 Independent Music Award for Electronica Song of the Year). Ben has ranked high in the DownBeat Critics Poll’s “Rising Star” producer category five years running based on his work for the Smalls Live record label, where he has produced and mixed over 30 records with jazz greats including Larry Goldings, Louis Hayes, Tom Harrell, Peter Bernstein, Chris Potter, Nicholas Payton, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Roy Hargrove, Cyrille Aimeé, and many others. SOMEONE ELSE is his first feature score. IMDB
SIG DE MIGUEL AND STEPHEN VINCENT
Casting
Recent films Sig and Steve have cast include HELLO AGAIN, based on the Michael John LaChiusa musical and starring Audra McDonald; CARRIE PILBY, based on the best-selling novel and starring Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, and Gabriel Byrne; and NOVITIATE, starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo and Julianne Nicholson. Upcoming releases include THE INVITATION (picked as The Village Voice's #1 Must See film of 2016) and THE PREPPIE CONNECTION starring Thomas Mann (ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL). Past projects include RABBIT HOLE starring Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, and Dianne Wiest; WELCOME TO NEW YORK starring Gerard Depardieu and directed by Abel Ferrara; ENTERTAINMENT with John C. Reilly and Michael Cera; FOR ELLEN starring Paul Dano; GUN HILL ROAD starring Esai Morales; HOLY ROLLERS starring Jesse Eisenberg; ADAM starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne; and COLD IN JULY starring Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, and Don Johnson. IMDB IMDB
Writer/Director
Nelson’s short films have screened at Urbanworld, Anthology Film Archives, Palm Springs Shortfest, Asia Society, CAAMFest, and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. His feature screenplay CONFIDENCE MAN was a semi-finalist for the Netflix/Film Independent Find Your Voice Competition and a quarter-finalist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowship. In addition to his work as a filmmaker, he is also a film critic, journalist, and teacher. He writes articles and reviews for Hammer To Nail, Senses of Cinema, and other websites, and is an adjunct professor in the Film Division of Columbia University and the Communication and Media Studies department at Fordham University. Nelson received his MFA in Film from Columbia. SOMEONE ELSE is his first feature film. IMDB
GEOFFREY QUAN
Producer
Geoff's many credits include producer on Damon Maulucci and Keir Politz's DETONATOR (Cinequest 2013, Philadelphia 2013, Indie Memphis 2013) and Justin Tipping's KICKS (Tribeca 2016); line producer on Gillian Robespierre’s OBVIOUS CHILD (Sundance 2014, New Directors New Films 2014); co-producer on Zoe Cassavetes’ DAY OUT OF DAYS (LAFF 2015) and Vikram Gandhi’s BARRY (Venice 2016); and unit production manager on Noah Buschel’s GLASS CHIN (Tribeca 2014), Chris Messina’s ALEX OF VENICE (Tribeca 2014), and Helen Hunt’s RIDE (SF International 2015). Short films Geoff produced have been nominated for two Student Academy Awards and have screened internationally at over 50 festivals, including Sundance, Directors’ Fortnight, New Directors/New Films, Clermont-Ferrand, SXSW, and Tribeca. IMDB
BRANDON HARRIS
Producer
Brandon is a Contributing Editor for Filmmaker magazine. His writing has appeared in n+1, the New Yorker online, the Guardian, the New Republic, and the Daily Beast. REDLEGS, his debut feature film as a writer/director, played in several cities nationwide and was hailed by The New York Times as “a riveting portrait of young men in shock and in mourning” that “dives into shared grief with candor and a refreshing curiosity.” His producing credits include Moon Molson’s 2011 Sundance short CRAZY BEATS STRONG EVERY TIME. In 2011 he served as the Cincinnati Film Festival's Director of Programming and in 2016 as the Indie Memphis Film Festival's Festival programmer. His first book, MAKING RENT IN BED-STUY: A MEMOIR OF TRYING TO MAKE IT IN NEW YORK CITY, will be published by HarperCollins in 2017. A proud son of Cincinnati, Brandon lives in Brooklyn and teaches film at SUNY Purchase. IMDB
MING KAI LEUNG
Cinematographer
Kai’s feature debut as a DP, Anocha Suwichakornpong's MUNDANE HISTORY, premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the NETPAC Award at Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. His other feature credits include Wichanon Somumjarn’s IN APRIL THE FOLLOWING YEAR, THERE WAS A FIRE (Rotterdam, Belfort), Marie Jamora’s WHAT ISN’T THERE/ANG NAWAWALA (Cinemalaya, Slamdance, Hawaii), Matthew Watts’s MUTUAL FRIENDS (Seattle, Raindance), Shrihari Sathe’s 1000 RUPEE NOTE (Special Jury Award, International Film Festival of India, Goa), Sylvia Chang’s MURMUR OF THE HEARTS (Opening Night Film, 2015 Hong Kong International Film Festival), Johnny Ma’s OLD STONE (Berlin, Toronto), and Suwichakornpong's BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK (Locarno, Toronto, Busan, Viennale). Short films Kai has shot have screened at the New York, Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, and AFI Dallas Film Festivals. IMDB
JAMES BOXER
Production Designer
James was the production designer for Eliza Hittman’s acclaimed IT FELT LIKE LOVE, which premiered at Sundance in 2013. It went on to screen at the Rotterdam, Nashville, Maryland, Munich, New Zealand, Melbourne, Woodstock, London, and Athens film festivals, among many others, and was released theatrically in 2014. He was also the designer for Scott Cummings’ experimental short BUFFALO JUGGALOS, which screened at the Maryland Film Festival and BAMcinemaFEST and won the Grand Jury Award for Live Action Short at AFI Fest and the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking Award at Cinema Eye Honors. IMDB
BROOKE SEBOLD
Editor
Brooke’s directing and editing work can be seen on NBC, MSNBC, PBS, the Sundance Channel, Logo, Current TV, and Adult Swim. She co-directed, co-shot, and co-edited the 2007 documentary RED WITHOUT BLUE, which has received over 20 awards including the Audience Award at Slamdance and the Jury Award at Frameline. She directed and edited the short films AFTER THE SNOW (Special Jury Award, Florida Film Festival; Finalist for Best Short, Ashland Film Festival), BROTHERHOOD (Winner, CINE Golden Eagle Award; Finalist for Best Short, Ashland Independent Film Festival and USA Film Festival), and DOPPELGANGER (Special Jury Award, USA Film Festival). Brooke received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Columbia University's Film Program. IMDB
BEN RUBIN
Composer
Brooklyn-based Ben Rubin (aka Benny Cha Cha) is a Grammy-nominated producer, composer, mixer, and bassist. From performing at the Newport Jazz Festival with the Dred Scott Trio to producing remixes for Killah Priest and Karsh Kale, Ben has a wide breadth of experience. He has played and recorded with artists as diverse as Patti Smith, Courtney Love, Mary J. Blige, Marshall Crenshaw, Moby, Alan Cumming, Bill Frisell, and his own genre-bending band Mudville (winner of a 2008 Independent Music Award for Electronica Song of the Year). Ben has ranked high in the DownBeat Critics Poll’s “Rising Star” producer category five years running based on his work for the Smalls Live record label, where he has produced and mixed over 30 records with jazz greats including Larry Goldings, Louis Hayes, Tom Harrell, Peter Bernstein, Chris Potter, Nicholas Payton, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Roy Hargrove, Cyrille Aimeé, and many others. SOMEONE ELSE is his first feature score. IMDB
SIG DE MIGUEL AND STEPHEN VINCENT
Casting
Recent films Sig and Steve have cast include HELLO AGAIN, based on the Michael John LaChiusa musical and starring Audra McDonald; CARRIE PILBY, based on the best-selling novel and starring Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, and Gabriel Byrne; and NOVITIATE, starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo and Julianne Nicholson. Upcoming releases include THE INVITATION (picked as The Village Voice's #1 Must See film of 2016) and THE PREPPIE CONNECTION starring Thomas Mann (ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL). Past projects include RABBIT HOLE starring Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, and Dianne Wiest; WELCOME TO NEW YORK starring Gerard Depardieu and directed by Abel Ferrara; ENTERTAINMENT with John C. Reilly and Michael Cera; FOR ELLEN starring Paul Dano; GUN HILL ROAD starring Esai Morales; HOLY ROLLERS starring Jesse Eisenberg; ADAM starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne; and COLD IN JULY starring Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, and Don Johnson. IMDB IMDB