JODY LEE LIPES - Director, Cinematographer, Producer
Before graduating from NYU film in 2004, Jody Lee Lipes
directed and shot dozens of short films, and received multiple
cinematography awards. Since, Lipes has lensed; Afterschool a
narrative feature which premiered internationally at Cannes '08
(un certain regard), and domestically at the New York Film Festival,
and Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell a feature
length documentary which premiered at the Berlinale '08 (panorama).
In addition to creating short documentaries for the New York Times,
Friends of the Highline, and Good Magazine, Lipes has shot and
directed multiple spots for Amex (Emmy for best 30 second spot
regional), AOL, Citibank and others. His music video resume
includes The Shins, El-P, and Sony Records artist Josh Ritter.
Jody is currently in pre-production as director/dp of Jerome Robbins' NY
Export: Opus Jazz the film, a feature length dance film collaboration
with New York City Ballet. Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be
The Same, selected for IFP's Spotlight on Docs 2008, is Lipes'
first feature length documentary.
KYLE MARTIN - Producer Kyle Martin has been active in the New York independent arts community since graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. He began as producer Amy Kaufman's assistant on Todd Haynes I'm Not There, Awake starring Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba, and the first season of the CW's Gossip Girl. He worked as a post-production supervisor and assistant editor on Brett Morgen's Sundance hit Chicago 10 and HDNet's Diggers, respectively. Blue Dress, a short film he produced, was the winner of the Best Student Film Award at the 2007 Hampton's International Film Festival. As a staff producer at Jay Walter Thompson, he has produced dozens of commercials, and he has also produced numerous music videos and his own short films and screenplays. Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, his first feature documentary, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and went on to play the Edinburgh Film Festival, Karlovy Vary and many more. It was released theatrically by Plexi in the fall of 2008.
LANCE EDMANDS - Editor Lance Edmands graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2005. His thesis film Vacationland was the recipient of the Warner Brothers Production Award as well as the Clive J. Davis Award for music in film. It went on to win faculty awards in directing and cinematography and was selected for dozens of international film festivals and the Student Academy Awards. Lance is a fellow of the Maine Arts Commission and recipient of the Jane Morisson Memorial Film Fund. His films have screened at the Director's Guild of America, the Canadian Film Centre and the IFP Market. Lance currently lives in Brooklyn and works as a commercial and documentary film editor. A graduate of The Edit Center, he has worked in post production for HBO, Focus Features and Killer Films. His commercial clients include Delta, Sony, American Express, Sharp, Siemens, and Adobe. He recently completed editing the feature documentary Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell which premiered at the 2008 Berlinale in the Panorama section.