JODY LEE LIPES - Director, Cinematographer, Producer

Jody Lee Lipes, one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces 2009, wrote and co-directed the scripted adaptation of Jerome Robbins' ballet NY Export: Opus Jazz, winner of an Audience Award at South by Southwest 2010. Featuring a cast of New York City Ballet dancers, and photographed on 35mm, the film is currently airing on PBS.

Jody's first feature length documentary Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same, follows an emerging artist struggling to create his first solo show at a prominent gallery in New York City. Good Times Will Never Be The Same premiered at South by Southwest 2009, won a Special Jury Prize at the Sarasota Film Festival, played the Hot Docs film festival in Toronto, and will be released by Factory 25 June 29th 2010.

In addition to lensing his own projects, Jody has earned DP credits on South by Southwest 2010 Grand Jury Prize winner Tiny Furniture, Afterschool (Cannes '08), Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (Berlin '08), Only Good Things (Rotterdam '10), and the forthcoming narrative feature Two Gates of Sleep.

KYLE MARTIN - Producer

Kyle's first film as an independent producer was the short Blue Dress, winner of the Best Student Film Award at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, his first feature length documentary, premiered at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, was released theatrically by Plexi in the fall of 2008, and aired on the Sundance Channel in the spring of 2009. His follow up feature length documentary, Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same, premiered at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival, and is slated for release via Factory 25 in June 2010.

Kyle recently completed production on NY Export: Opus Jazz, the first feature film adaptation of a Jerome Robbins work since West Side Story. Opus Jazz won an audience award at South by Southwest 2010, and is currectly airing nationwide on PBS's Great Performances series. Kyle's second narrative feature, Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture, won the Grand Jury Prize at South by Southwest 2010.

Kyle is currently in development on several narrative and documentary feature films.

LANCE EDMANDS - Editor

Lance Edmands graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2005. His first narrative feature as editor, Tiny Furniture, won the Grand Jury Prize at South by Southwest 2010. Additional editing credits include Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, and Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same.

Lance is currently developing his first feature as writer/director, entitled Bluebird, which was included in the 2010 Sundance Screenwriters Lab.