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LOUIS PAPPASWriter, Director
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1963, Louis Pappas began his career, on stage, with the Drexel Hill Players in 1973. Also an accomplished pianist, he studied classical piano at Settlement Music School. In 1979 he moved to South Florida where he attended Broward Community College furthering his music education and taking creative writing.
In 2004 he started Angry Pig Productions with the idea of using the camera to bring about social change. His first film, Off Ramps, a documentary dealing with the issue of the criminalization of the homeless, has had a successful run being selected in five festivals out of only seven submissions. The Halls Of Jacob is his second turn behind the camera. Louis is currently in pre-production for his next features, entitled Pot Shots and The Wound.
REED KALISHER
Writer, Producer
Reed Kalisher has been involved in the 'biz' for 42 years. Starting at 16, he served his first 'tour of duty' as a Stage Manager for the Lake George (NY) Summer Stock Theater. Since then, he has gone on to study the arts at Queens College, the New School. He studied acting at HB Studios in NYC and (more recently) with Michael Shurtleff.
This is Reed's first turn as a Producer. When asked how he managed to get 'so much for so little' he replied, "I just never had it in my head that anyone would or could say no." He has been busy interviewing doctors and child advocates for additional information that will go on the website and on the DVD.
"The job is done, but I am not." says Reed. "As long as there are children being abused, the job is never done."
Reed is in pre-production for the next two Angry Pig Productions, a comedy feature entitled Pot Shots and a thriller, The Wound.
ERIC VALDES
Writer, Sound Recordist, Editor, Camera
A Miami native, Eric was a musician and a writer before becoming a filmmaker. In high school he helped found the now-defunct rock band Crashing Tide, one of the longest-lived bands of the Miami scene. After winning an award from the South Florida Writers' Association for a Kafkaesque short story called No Pueden Salir, he decided to try his hand at filmmaking, shooting a faux PSA about the lethal dangers of shopping cart misuse. Amused, he studied film at the University of Miami School of Communications, where he graduated in 2004 with a concentration in screenwriting, but enough production classes to have had one in production as well.
In 2007, he co-wrote and directed an award-winning parody of 300 called Three Hundred Pounds. He is currently co-writing Pot Shots with Louis Pappas and serves as the Earth Plane webmaster for The Daily Torment, a state-run newspaper based in the Fifth Circle of Hell.
JUSTIN MARX
Director of Photography, Camera Operator
Born and raised in New York City, Justin began his career in the motion picture industry at the age of 7. A 20 pound VHS camera, a slew of LEGO's, and his cat PUFFY, served as his set, cast and crew. Ten years later he was hired by a production company and began his rise through the ranks doing nearly every job on a film set. He has worked on over a dozen feature films including the blockbuster Analyze This, over 300 Television commercials, and around 50 music videos. He is currently in post production on a Feature Film; Nemesis 305.
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