Series Creator Robert Kalm
www.dotkalm.com

Robert Kalm most recently produced The Darkness of This Reading, the film debut of Obie winning playwright Richard Maxwell and his New York City Players. In 2003 he received an Emmy for producing Ground Zero: A Ceremony Without Words. It is his sixth Emmy nomination.

Robert was producer at large for four years for New York City Television under the Rudolph Giuliani administration. Previously he worked in New Line Cinemas' merchandising department promoting films like Jim Carrey's The Mask. Robert graduated from New York University in 1994 receiving a BFA in Film Production from the Tisch School of the Arts and a minor in General Business from the Stern School of Business. He divides his time between New York City and the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

hEADLESS FILM
www.headlessfilm.com

hEADLESS FILM is Robert Kalm's production company. The mission of hEADLESS is to foster a more artistic and therefore innovative and open-minded public for an increasingly diverse and challenging global civilization through the creation of media that explores and celebrates the human imagination and its practitioners, the artist, the scientist, the activist, the visionary individuals who overcome the status quo.

Director of Photography Mark Chamberlin

Mark Chamberlin has worked for all the major networks, filming on location with Mike Wallace for 60 Minutes, Barbara Walters for 20/20, and Bill Moyers for The World of Ideas. He recently focused on shooting in High-Definition as director of photography on Disney’s 50th anniversary feature presentation, Disneyland: Secrets, Stories & Magic, and Barbara Streisand’s recent tour for HBO.

For the past eight years, Mark has filmed special projects for Oprah Winfrey, including traveling with Ms. Winfrey to her childhood home in Mississippi, as well as segments for her daily show with Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, Bono, and Sting. His documentary work has taken him to Africa, the Middle East, Japan, and South America. Mark lives just north of New York City with his wife and two daughters.

Broadcast Designer Roland Le Breton
www.lebretondesign.com

As chief designer at New York City Television, Roland Le Breton is responsible for the look and feel of an entire station's identity. He has won five Emmys for that very effort. RLB studied filmmaking and aesthetics at the Sorbonne in Paris where he started a PhD program around interactive storytelling. He also taught filmmaking, computer graphics, and sound design as an adjunct professor there.

Before moving to the United States, RLB was co-owner of the successful Paris-based production company Ombres, designing, amongst other things, graphic packages for France's primetime network shows. Roland lives in Westchester County with his wife and two daughters.

Cinematographer Michael Schmelling www.michaelschmelling.com

Michael Schmelling is the cinematographer behind Richard Maxwell's The Darkness of This Reading. In 2004, he photographed the band Wilco exclusively for The Wilco Book, published by PictureBox, and received a Grammy for his work on the album cover for A Ghost Is Born. His photography has appeared in numerous publications including Harpers, Wired, Details, Spin, Vibe and The New York Times Magazine.

In addition to publishing several art monographs, Michael received an Obie for lighting design of the play Drummer Wanted. When Michael graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1995, he was awarded the Photography Department's Rosenberg Traveling Fellowship and spent a year documenting El Paso, Texas. Mike lives in New York's Chinatown.

Cinematographer Matthew Salacuse
www.salacuse.com

For further information on Matthew Salacuse, he asks that you visit his website.

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