Bios
Titus Welliver
Harley
The son of a fashion illustrator and landscape painter, Titus Welliver has become one of America’s most respected character actors. He has appeared in two dozen films, including Ben Affleck’s Argo, The Town, Gone, Baby, Gone, as well as Promised Land with Matt Damon and Frances McDormand, directed by Gus van Sant. On stage, Titus received critical praise for his role in Riff Raff, and recreated his role in the film version, Once in the Life, with Laurence Fishburn. He may be best known for his recurring television roles on Deadwood, Sons of Anarchy, Lost and The Good Wife. He can be seen as Harry Bosch in the new Amazon series, Bosch, which was just picked up for a third season.
Laurel Holloman
Linette
Laurel Holloman received kudos at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her first film, The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love. Since then, Laurel has played Janet McTeer’s gal pal in Tumbleweeds, Julianne Moore’s irascible sister in The Myth of Fingerprints, Mark Wahlberg’s high school sweetheart in Boogie Nights, and Jared Leto’s girlfriend in Prefontaine. Other film credits include Cherry, Committed, Loving Jezebel, Blossom Time and The First to Go. She is best known for her starring role in The L Word on Showtime.
Kat Smith
Writer-Director
Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon
The Clearing marks Kat's debut as a film director. Among her works for hire as screenwriter are the adaptation of Almodovar's Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! for Spring Creek/Warner Brothers, a biopic for Canal Plus and Jodie Foster, and the historical intrigue, The Lady’s Transgression for Universal. Her first spec sale, Into the Land of Nod, was purchased by Warner Brothers with Robin Wright attached to star. In television, she's worked with producers Tom Fontana, Bruce Paltrow, Jeffrey Lewis and Georgia Jeffries, among others, and has written movies for Starz/Encore and FX/Fox. Double Nickel Entertainment has optioned and is currently packaging her feature spec, Cloud 9, and she is working with Patricia Heaton's Four Boys Films on a new project. Kat studied with renowned acting teacher, William Esper, in New York. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in screenwriting, and an alum of the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women, as well as Film Independent’s Directors Lab.
She was honored as one of "25 New Faces to Watch" by Filmmaker magazine.
She was honored as one of "25 New Faces to Watch" by Filmmaker magazine.
Amy Ness
Producer
Photo: Stasia Droze
Amy began her film career as a script analyst for Francis Ford Coppola and his then-young Zoetrope Studios. She went on to assist cinematographer Gordon Willis on Stardust Memories, and director Milos Forman on Amadeus and Ragtime. She produced indie features Static and cult-favorite Repo Man, as well as numerous music videos, documentaries and commercials before location managing over 15 features, including Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Bugsy and Forrest Gump. She served as production manager on The Fast and the Furious, The General's Daughter, Multiplicity, Get Shorty and Men In Black. Amy produced a behind-the-scenes mockumentary of the The Truman Show, which her husband, Dennis Gassner, production designed.
Melanie Backer
Co-Producer
A Los Angeles native, Melanie served as a buyer liaison for the Independent Feature Film Market in New York and as East Coast Story Editor at New Line Cinema. In Los Angeles, Melanie was Vice President of Development for Glenn Gordon Caron's Picturemaker Productions, and Head of Production for Gartner-Block/Carter Productions for five years. As an independent producer, Melanie co-produced Pumpkin, The Amati Girls, Swimmers, and the short film, Women Without Implants, with writer/director/actress Anne DeSalvo. Most recently, she served as Executive Producer on About Fifty, starring Wendy Malick.
Pamela Jaeckle
Associate Producer
Photo: Stasia Droze
Pamela has served as Production Coordinator or Unit Manager on numerous films, including Desperado, Primal Fear, Before Night Falls, Miami Vice, Stop-Loss and Middle Men. In television, she has coordinated on both longforms and the 2012 ABC series, Perception.
Adam Kane
Cinematographer
Photo: Stasia Droze
The son of respected pianist/composer Artie Kane, Adam began his career shooting live sports coverage for the World Ski Races in Aspen, Colorado. While attending NYU film school, he photographed nine student films, two of which won Best Cinematography at the NYU Film Festival. While studying for his masters at the American Film Institute, Adam shot numerous music videos, television promos and his first independent feature, directed by Duncan McLachlan (The Jungle Book). Adam has won four Telly Awards for his commercial work and served as DP on over twenty feature films, a half dozen television movies and five TV series, including Grey's Anatomy and Heroes, which earned him ASC and Hugo award nominations. In 2009, he produced and directed the feature film, Formosa Betrayed, and is currently working on the series, Daredevil.
Mark Catalena
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James Wesley Stemple enjoys a prolific career composing music for film, television and other media, applying his natural diversity of style and attitude to suit each project's inherent uniqueness. James has recorded with world-class musicians all over the globe - in London, Rio de Janeiro, Sofia, Johannesburg, as well as numerous locations in the U.S. His first concert work "Sleeping Giant" won First Prize in a national media music competition and was awarded a premiere by the Denver Symphony Orchestra. He has been selected as a Sundance Composing Fellow, a Peer Judge for the Emmy Awards and Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival and has been featured in radio interviews, University lectures and articles and reviews in The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. He has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and has worked on over 20 films, scores of commercials and written hundreds of hours of music for television.
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